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* DudeWheresMyRespect and DudeWheresMyReward: Leather seems disgusted that, while villains constantly make the Front Page of every newspaper around, heroes are lucky to get onto page four of the local press and struggle to pay off the bills.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect and DudeWheresMyReward: DudeWheresMyRespect[=/=]DudeWheresMyReward: Leather seems disgusted that, while villains constantly make the Front Page of every newspaper around, heroes are lucky to get onto page four of the local press and struggle to pay off the bills.
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* DarkMessiah: The Jack O'Knaves.
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* DarkMessiah: The Jack O'Knaves. Trey, and apparently the other [[EliteMooks Hearts]], are true believers who regard him as a great visionary.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Jack O'Knaves can be charming when he wants to be, but that just accentuates his murderous insanity.
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** A few of the bottom-tier villains such as Rook and Bandolier have not-so-elaborate versions, operating out of an abandoned underground parking garage (Rook) and a space beneath the maintenance bay of a used-car dealership (Bandolier).
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* DarkActionGirl: The eponymous Leather.
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* DarkActionGirl: The eponymous Leather. She used to be a heroic ActionGirl before her FaceHeelTurn.
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* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter: Leather explains that sometimes she gives a target "the full business" of supervillain ranting and destruction, and sometimes she does quiet and efficient thefts. The former maintains her [[VillainCred notoriety]], the latter pays the bills.
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* DatingCatwoman: Leather can't sleep with normal humans because she [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Does Not Know Her Own Strength]] and finds that supervillains make poor boyfriends. If it wasn't for this trope...
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* DatingCatwoman: Leather [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex can't sleep with normal humans humans]] because she [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Does Not Know Her Own Strength]] and finds that supervillains make poor boyfriends. If it wasn't for this trope...
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** The Hearts (including Trey) are highly trained assistants and performers. [[spoiler:They're also recruited to be fanatics, often with the Jack having a specific plan to kill them right from the start.]]
** The Clubs (including Cater) are thugs and cannon fodder, though more highly trained and better equipped than the Jack's average henches.
** The Clubs (including Cater) are thugs and cannon fodder, though more highly trained and better equipped than the Jack's average henches.
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* EliteMooks: The Jack O'Knaves has a number of these organized by playing card suit (from 2 to 10 -- the Jack doesn't use Aces or Face Cards unless he's working an angle).
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* EliteMooks: Used by most Villains at the third tier and above.
** Leather has two trained bagmen (specializing in collecting the loot from a theft) and a wheelman (who specializes in driving).
** The Jack O'Knaves has a number of these organized by playing card suit (from 2 to 10 -- the Jack doesn't use Aces or Face Cards unless he's working an angle).
** Leather has two trained bagmen (specializing in collecting the loot from a theft) and a wheelman (who specializes in driving).
** The Jack O'Knaves has a number of these organized by playing card suit (from 2 to 10 -- the Jack doesn't use Aces or Face Cards unless he's working an angle).
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* PersonalMook: The Jack O'Knave designates high level personal assistants (such as his butler Mister River, his accountant Madam Bank, and his chauffeur Nickel) as the Diamonds suit (from 2-10). Diamonds run his infrastructure. Many of them are coerced into service, often through an ExplosiveLeash.
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* PersonalMook: Certain specialized henches are used by various criminals.
** Leather employs a Steve -- a professional hench whose job is to stand off to the side of a job, watching for police or superheroes. If she or her other henches get caught, the Steve's job is to leave the area without being noticed, and then call a specialized service who will arrange for legal assistance, empty out Leather's lair, destroy any evidence they can, and so forth.
** The Jack O'Knave designates high level personal assistants (such as his butler Mister River, his accountant Madam Bank, and his chauffeur Nickel) as the Diamonds suit (from 2-10). Diamonds run his infrastructure. Many of them are coerced into service, often through an ExplosiveLeash.
** Leather employs a Steve -- a professional hench whose job is to stand off to the side of a job, watching for police or superheroes. If she or her other henches get caught, the Steve's job is to leave the area without being noticed, and then call a specialized service who will arrange for legal assistance, empty out Leather's lair, destroy any evidence they can, and so forth.
** The Jack O'Knave designates high level personal assistants (such as his butler Mister River, his accountant Madam Bank, and his chauffeur Nickel) as the Diamonds suit (from 2-10). Diamonds run his infrastructure. Many of them are coerced into service, often through an ExplosiveLeash.
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* PersonalMooks: The Jack O'Knave designates high level personal assistants (such as his butler Mister River, his accountant Madam Bank, and his chauffeur Nickel) as the Diamonds suit (from 2-10). Diamonds run his infrastructure. Many of them are coerced into service, often through an ExplosiveLeash.
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* PersonalMooks: PersonalMook: The Jack O'Knave designates high level personal assistants (such as his butler Mister River, his accountant Madam Bank, and his chauffeur Nickel) as the Diamonds suit (from 2-10). Diamonds run his infrastructure. Many of them are coerced into service, often through an ExplosiveLeash.
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** The union makes certain its members are well compensated. That isn't the same as protecting them. [[spoiler:They don't care if the Jack O'Knaves kidnaps an accountant or butler and [[ExplosiveLeash implants a bomb in their head]] so long as he pays them their contracted rates.]]
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** The Nightwatch is a [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batmanesque Expy]] in ''Interviewing Trey.''
* TheCowl: The Nightwatch and Darkhood.
* DarkMessiah: The Jack O'Knaves.
*** In ''Interviewing Trey'' [[spoiler:the Buzzard asserts a number of inverted motivations, in particular the idea that heroes attract villains and danger -- using himself as the primary example.]]
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The Jack O'Knaves has a number of ''Dispater's Pit'' casinos worldwide -- including literal inverted skyscraper-sized hotels that go down twenty floors or more.
* EliteMooks: The Jack O'Knaves has a number of these organized by playing card suit (from 2 to 10 -- the Jack doesn't use Aces or Face Cards unless he's working an angle).
** The Hearts (including Trey) are highly trained assistants and performers. [[spoiler:They're also recruited to be fanatics, often with the Jack having a specific plan to kill them right from the start.]]
** The Clubs (including Cater) are thugs and cannon fodder, though more highly trained and better equipped than the Jack's average henches.
* EliteMooks: The Jack O'Knaves has a number of these organized by playing card suit (from 2 to 10 -- the Jack doesn't use Aces or Face Cards unless he's working an angle).
** The Hearts (including Trey) are highly trained assistants and performers. [[spoiler:They're also recruited to be fanatics, often with the Jack having a specific plan to kill them right from the start.]]
** The Clubs (including Cater) are thugs and cannon fodder, though more highly trained and better equipped than the Jack's average henches.
** Also invoked by Beguile and Lady Violet.
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* GoodNeedsEvil: Asserted by Leather. [[spoiler:Denied by Darkhood.]]
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* GoodNeedsEvil: Asserted by Leather. [[spoiler:Denied by Darkhood.]] [[spoiler:Inverted by the Buzzard.]]
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** In ''Interviewing Trey,'' a number of henches applying to work for the Jack O'Knaves are rejected on this basis -- of course, they're looking to replace a Las Vegas style magician's assistant [[spoiler: after the Jack O'Knaves killed the last one for stepping on his lines.]]
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Beguile is the paranormally beautiful daughter of the evil Doctor Guile.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Beguile is the paranormally beautiful daughter of the evil Doctor Guile.
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* PersonalMooks: The Jack O'Knave designates high level personal assistants (such as his butler Mister River, his accountant Madam Bank, and his chauffeur Nickel) as the Diamonds suit (from 2-10). Diamonds run his infrastructure. Many of them are coerced into service, often through an ExplosiveLeash.
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* SuperpoweredMooks: The Jack O'Knaves arranges for a number of his henches to gain powers -- organized (from 2-10) as Spades from playing cards. This includes Sawbuck.
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The fourteen-part story is finished and can be found [[http://banter-latte.com/portfolio/interviewing-leather here]]. The sequel, ''Interviewing Trey'', began updating weekly on May 31st, 2013 -- and stopped mid-story on August 30th of the same year as the author battled medical issues -- can be found [[http://banter-latte.com/portfolio/interviewing-trey here]]. It started back up on May 24, 2017.
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* PostClimaxConfrontation: Todd's conversation with Kyle in [[http://banter-latte.annotations.com/2007/10/02/interviewing-leather-part-fourteen/ Part 14.]]
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* PostClimaxConfrontation: Todd's conversation with Kyle in [[http://banter-latte.annotations.com/2007/10/02/interviewing-leather-part-fourteen/ Part 14.]]
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* StealthHiBye: Jack O'Knaves pulls this after talking with Todd. As a stage magician, he naturally has a good disappearing act.
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* RoguesGallery: Discussed as a concept. Leather is very much a roving professional, very much a lifestyle for the hell of it. (Neatly matching up with her name, as it happens.) But there are also villains who fixate on one hero. Worse yet, they're regarded as a good deal less sane, and a LOT more dangerous.
** ''Interviewing Trey'' establishes that such villains are also sometimes seen as more pathetic, especially in the lower tiers.
** ''Interviewing Trey'' establishes that such villains are also sometimes seen as more pathetic, especially in the lower tiers.
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* RoguesGallery: Discussed as a concept. Leather is very much a roving professional, very much a lifestyle for the hell of it. (Neatly matching up with her name, as it happens.) But there are also villains who fixate on one hero. Worse yet, they're regarded as a good deal less sane, and a LOT more dangerous. \n** ''Interviewing Trey'' establishes that such villains are also sometimes seen as more pathetic, especially in the lower tiers.tiers.
* RunningGag: In ''Interviewing Trey'', Jack O'Knaves has two:
** Cracking jokes about Chapman's environmental consciousness.
** Misstating Leather's name.
* RunningGag: In ''Interviewing Trey'', Jack O'Knaves has two:
** Cracking jokes about Chapman's environmental consciousness.
** Misstating Leather's name.
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''InterviewingLeather'' is a WebOriginal short story by Eric Burns-White of {{Websnark}} (and formerly of {{Superguy}}) about a music journalist named Todd Chapman sent to interview the supervillainess Leather for a rock and roll magazine. {{Deconstruction}} of ComicBookTropes ensues.
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''InterviewingLeather'' is a WebOriginal short story by Eric Burns-White of {{Websnark}} (and formerly of {{Superguy}}) Creator/EricBurnsWhite about a music journalist named Todd Chapman sent to interview the supervillainess Leather for a rock and roll magazine. {{Deconstruction}} of ComicBookTropes ensues.
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* BadassNormal: The superhero Darkhood is pretty much an amalgamation of {{Batman}} and Green Arrow.
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* DarkActionGirl: The titular Leather.
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* DarkActionGirl: The titular eponymous Leather.
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** Some of the parts [[spoiler:that don't relate to those motivations still make for a good deconstruction of the rest of the genre.]]
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Leather reveal that SuperStrength is a BlessedWithSuck superpower since you constantly has to be careful not to break stuff.
** Some of the parts [[spoiler:that don't relate to those motivations still make for a good deconstruction of the rest of the genre.]]
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Leather reveal that SuperStrength is a BlessedWithSuck superpower since you constantly has to be careful not to break stuff.
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-->'''[[spoiler:Darkhood]]''': ''[[spoiler:We don?t don't need villains to be heroes... but some villains ? villains? like her? They need us '''to''' need them.]]''
** Some of the parts [[spoiler:that don't relate to those motivations still make for a good deconstruction of the rest of thegenre.]]
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* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Leatherreveal reveals that SuperStrength is a BlessedWithSuck superpower since you constantly has have to be careful not to break stuff.
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* RoguesGallery: Discussed as a concept. Leather is very much a roving professional, very much a lifestyle for the hell of it. (Neatly matching up with her name, as it happens.) But there are also villains who fixate on one hero. Worse yet, they're regarded as a good deal less sane, and a LOT more dangerous. Also has a habit of being A-list publicity machines...
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* RoguesGallery: Discussed as a concept. Leather is very much a roving professional, very much a lifestyle for the hell of it. (Neatly matching up with her name, as it happens.) But there are also villains who fixate on one hero. Worse yet, they're regarded as a good deal less sane, and a LOT more dangerous. Also has a habit of being A-list publicity machines...
** ''Interviewing Trey'' establishes that such villains are also sometimes seen as more pathetic, especially in the lower tiers.
** ''Interviewing Trey'' establishes that such villains are also sometimes seen as more pathetic, especially in the lower tiers.
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** In ''Trey'', Mr. River mentions that Jack O'Knaves uses these to prevent those he brings into his bases unwillingly (including Mr. River himself) from escaping. [[spoiler:Shortly thereafter, Todd discovers that he himself has been given one]].
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** In ''Trey'', Mr. River mentions that Jack O'Knaves uses these will implant explosives in people like himself who would otherwise want to prevent those he brings into his bases unwillingly (including Mr. River himself) from escaping.escape Jack's service. [[spoiler:Shortly thereafter, Todd discovers that he himself has been given one]].
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* ExplosiveLeash:
** Leather attaches one of these to Todd's neck on a couple occasions to keep him from running to the police. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that it's actually a fake, with Silly Putty instead of explosives]].
** In ''Trey'', Mr. River mentions that Jack O'Knaves uses these to prevent those he brings into his bases unwillingly (including Mr. River himself) from escaping. [[spoiler:Shortly thereafter, Todd discovers that he himself has been given one]].
** Leather attaches one of these to Todd's neck on a couple occasions to keep him from running to the police. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that it's actually a fake, with Silly Putty instead of explosives]].
** In ''Trey'', Mr. River mentions that Jack O'Knaves uses these to prevent those he brings into his bases unwillingly (including Mr. River himself) from escaping. [[spoiler:Shortly thereafter, Todd discovers that he himself has been given one]].
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* YouFightLikeACow: Both Leather and Dynamo Girl crack wise while out on the job.
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* PostClimaxConfrontation: See "CrowningMomentOfAwesome".
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* NervesOfSteel: Todd pretty much never stops asking interview questions, even in situations so frightening [[BringMyBrownPants as to demand a change of underpants afterwards]].
* PostClimaxConfrontation:See "CrowningMomentOfAwesome".Todd's conversation with Kyle in [[http://banter-latte.annotations.com/2007/10/02/interviewing-leather-part-fourteen/ Part 14.]]
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''InterviewingLeather'' is a WebOriginal short story by Eric Burns-White of {{Websnark}} (and formerly of {{Superguy}}) about a guy music journalist named Todd interviewing Chapman sent to interview the supervillainess Leather for a rock and roll magazine. {{Deconstruction}} of ComicBookTropes ensues.
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* WeirdTradeUnion: Leather's henchmen are unionized.
** So are the outlaw teamsters who pack up, transport, and unpack all that cumbersome equipment you find in those constantly-being-relocated supervillain lairs. Yes. The supervillains have their own ''moving company''. As well as their corporate affiliate, a temp agency for forensic technicians who specialize in ''removing'' evidence from crime scenes.
** So are the outlaw teamsters who pack up, transport, and unpack all that cumbersome equipment you find in those constantly-being-relocated supervillain lairs. Yes. The supervillains have their own ''moving company''. As well as their corporate affiliate, a temp agency for forensic technicians who specialize in ''removing'' evidence from crime scenes.
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* WeirdTradeUnion: Leather's henchmen are unionized.
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''InterviewingLeather'' is a WebOriginal short story by Eric Burns-White of {{Websnark}} (and formerly of {{Superguy}}) about a guy named Todd interviewing the supervillainess Leather for a rock and roll magazine. {{Deconstruction}} of ComicBookTropes ensues.
The fourteen-part story is finished and can be found [[http://banter-latte.annotations.com/tag/interviewing-leather/page/2/ here]].
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* AffablyEvil: Leather is generally pretty friendly.
* BadassNormal: The superhero Darkhood is pretty much an amalgamation of {{Batman}} and Green Arrow.
* TheCape: Leather refer to these as "old school" heroes.
* CaptainErsatz: Many people are mentioned who are very close to "real" comic book characters.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Mocked. Leather considers being a costumed criminal a lifestyle choice. If Leonardo Lucas wants to play with giant robots, so what?
* DarkActionGirl: The titular Leather.
* DatingCatwoman: Leather can't sleep with normal humans because she [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Does Not Know Her Own Strength]] and finds that supervillains make poor boyfriends. If it wasn't for this trope...
* {{Deconstruction}}: Leather has a lot of things to say about ComicBookTropes, especially those concerning Superheroes. [[spoiler:Inverted in the last two chapters when the SuperHero Darkhood refutes pretty much everything she says, making the story a {{Deconstruction}} of ''supervillain'' motivations.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Darkhood]]''': ''[[spoiler:We don?t need villains to be heroes... but some villains ? like her? They need us '''to''' need them.]]''
** Some of the parts [[spoiler:that don't relate to those motivations still make for a good deconstruction of the rest of the genre.]]
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Leather reveal that SuperStrength is a BlessedWithSuck superpower since you constantly has to be careful not to break stuff.
* DudeWheresMyRespect and DudeWheresMyReward: Leather seems disgusted that, while villains constantly make the Front Page of every newspaper around, heroes are lucky to get onto page four of the local press and struggle to pay off the bills.
* EvilIsSexy: Invoked by Leather in her EvilCostumeSwitch.
* FaceHeelTurn: Leather in the BackStory. Included an EvilCostumeSwitch.
* GoodNeedsEvil: Asserted by Leather. [[spoiler:Denied by Darkhood.]]
* MostCommonSuperPower: Mocked. Leather, a B-cup, claims that anything below a C-cup is referred to as "SideKick physique" in SuperHero circles.
* PostClimaxConfrontation: See "CrowningMomentOfAwesome".
* RedemptionEqualsSex: Mocked. Leather regards this trope as sexist and insulting and has nasty things to say about wielders of ''redemptive genitalia''.
* RoguesGallery: Discussed as a concept. Leather is very much a roving professional, very much a lifestyle for the hell of it. (Neatly matching up with her name, as it happens.) But there are also villains who fixate on one hero. Worse yet, they're regarded as a good deal less sane, and a LOT more dangerous. Also has a habit of being A-list publicity machines...
* SecretIdentityIdentity: Mild version. Leather thinks of herself as Leather and has discarded her old civilian identity.
* {{Soaperizing}}
* StartOfDarkness: Leather explains hers in detail.
* SuperReflexes: Leather has this ability.
* SuperRegistrationAct: The distinction between superheroes who work with the police and vigilante freelancers is noted
-->"Some heroes have sanction ? they work with the police, they follow procedures, they file reports. Freelancers were vigilantes. Depending on the city, the cops might turn a blind eye to them, but technically they were breaking the law."
* TakingTheBullet: Leather in the BackStory.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Leather makes it clear that she is a thief, not a killer.
* TrickArrow: BadassNormal Darkhood have a lot of these, including net arrows, electric arrows and gas-bomb arrows. Partially subverted, since he also use ''pointy'' arrows. Y'know, the kind that makes people bleed. [[ThouShaltNotKill He still doesn't use them to kill people, though]].
* WeirdTradeUnion: Leather's henchmen are unionized.
** So are the outlaw teamsters who pack up, transport, and unpack all that cumbersome equipment you find in those constantly-being-relocated supervillain lairs. Yes. The supervillains have their own ''moving company''. As well as their corporate affiliate, a temp agency for forensic technicians who specialize in ''removing'' evidence from crime scenes.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When she stopped one robber, Leather thought for a few moments, then took the money, paid off her bills, and decided on a life of villainy rather than virtue.
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The fourteen-part story is finished and can be found [[http://banter-latte.annotations.com/tag/interviewing-leather/page/2/ here]].
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!!Examples:
* AffablyEvil: Leather is generally pretty friendly.
* BadassNormal: The superhero Darkhood is pretty much an amalgamation of {{Batman}} and Green Arrow.
* TheCape: Leather refer to these as "old school" heroes.
* CaptainErsatz: Many people are mentioned who are very close to "real" comic book characters.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Mocked. Leather considers being a costumed criminal a lifestyle choice. If Leonardo Lucas wants to play with giant robots, so what?
* DarkActionGirl: The titular Leather.
* DatingCatwoman: Leather can't sleep with normal humans because she [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Does Not Know Her Own Strength]] and finds that supervillains make poor boyfriends. If it wasn't for this trope...
* {{Deconstruction}}: Leather has a lot of things to say about ComicBookTropes, especially those concerning Superheroes. [[spoiler:Inverted in the last two chapters when the SuperHero Darkhood refutes pretty much everything she says, making the story a {{Deconstruction}} of ''supervillain'' motivations.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Darkhood]]''': ''[[spoiler:We don?t need villains to be heroes... but some villains ? like her? They need us '''to''' need them.]]''
** Some of the parts [[spoiler:that don't relate to those motivations still make for a good deconstruction of the rest of the genre.]]
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Leather reveal that SuperStrength is a BlessedWithSuck superpower since you constantly has to be careful not to break stuff.
* DudeWheresMyRespect and DudeWheresMyReward: Leather seems disgusted that, while villains constantly make the Front Page of every newspaper around, heroes are lucky to get onto page four of the local press and struggle to pay off the bills.
* EvilIsSexy: Invoked by Leather in her EvilCostumeSwitch.
* FaceHeelTurn: Leather in the BackStory. Included an EvilCostumeSwitch.
* GoodNeedsEvil: Asserted by Leather. [[spoiler:Denied by Darkhood.]]
* MostCommonSuperPower: Mocked. Leather, a B-cup, claims that anything below a C-cup is referred to as "SideKick physique" in SuperHero circles.
* PostClimaxConfrontation: See "CrowningMomentOfAwesome".
* RedemptionEqualsSex: Mocked. Leather regards this trope as sexist and insulting and has nasty things to say about wielders of ''redemptive genitalia''.
* RoguesGallery: Discussed as a concept. Leather is very much a roving professional, very much a lifestyle for the hell of it. (Neatly matching up with her name, as it happens.) But there are also villains who fixate on one hero. Worse yet, they're regarded as a good deal less sane, and a LOT more dangerous. Also has a habit of being A-list publicity machines...
* SecretIdentityIdentity: Mild version. Leather thinks of herself as Leather and has discarded her old civilian identity.
* {{Soaperizing}}
* StartOfDarkness: Leather explains hers in detail.
* SuperReflexes: Leather has this ability.
* SuperRegistrationAct: The distinction between superheroes who work with the police and vigilante freelancers is noted
-->"Some heroes have sanction ? they work with the police, they follow procedures, they file reports. Freelancers were vigilantes. Depending on the city, the cops might turn a blind eye to them, but technically they were breaking the law."
* TakingTheBullet: Leather in the BackStory.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Leather makes it clear that she is a thief, not a killer.
* TrickArrow: BadassNormal Darkhood have a lot of these, including net arrows, electric arrows and gas-bomb arrows. Partially subverted, since he also use ''pointy'' arrows. Y'know, the kind that makes people bleed. [[ThouShaltNotKill He still doesn't use them to kill people, though]].
* WeirdTradeUnion: Leather's henchmen are unionized.
** So are the outlaw teamsters who pack up, transport, and unpack all that cumbersome equipment you find in those constantly-being-relocated supervillain lairs. Yes. The supervillains have their own ''moving company''. As well as their corporate affiliate, a temp agency for forensic technicians who specialize in ''removing'' evidence from crime scenes.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When she stopped one robber, Leather thought for a few moments, then took the money, paid off her bills, and decided on a life of villainy rather than virtue.
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