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* HeroesWantRedheads: Mina's a redhead. Also subverted with Paul Tallutto, leader of the First Reformed Church of the Antichrist. He likes redheads too.
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* BiTheWay: Eric Caldwell, though it's unclear as to whether or not he's playing a role.
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* LosAngeles: L.A. is the Casablanca for the Information Underground, where representatives of every conspiracy, cult, and secret society on the planet. The combination of mild weather, nice scenery, and attractive people with low self-esteem is a siren song to the secret masters of earth.


* GenreSavvy: Our Hero knows his pop culture. Perhaps too well.

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* NoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler: Eric Caldwell]] was shot twice in the chest with a .12 gauge, thrown through a plate glass window, run over and set on fire. The police were calling it suicide.



* StalkerWithACrush: One of the creepier yet mostly harmless examples of the trope, with [[spoiler: the clone family Brians.]]

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* StalkerWithACrush: One of the creepier yet mostly harmless examples of the trope, with [[spoiler: the clone family Brians.]]Brians]].


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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler: Eric Caldwell]] was shot twice in the chest with a .12 gauge, thrown through a plate glass window, run over and set on fire. The police were calling it suicide.
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''[[http://www.captainsupermarket.com/mr-blank.html Mr Blank]]'' is a comic neo-noir novel about a guy who does bizarre errands for every conspiracy, secret society, and mystery cult in existence. On one of his errands, someone tries to kill him. Everyone has a motive.

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''[[http://www.captainsupermarket.com/mr-blank.html Mr Blank]]'' is a comic neo-noir novel about a guy who does bizarre errands for every conspiracy, secret society, and mystery cult in existence. On one of his errands, someone tries to kill him. Everyone has a motive.motive and everyone is a suspect. From Satanists to Little Green Men, from the Russian Mob to the CIA, he's betraying everyone. In the funniest way possible. Followed by a [[Literature/GetBlank sequel]].
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* OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement: Tariq Suliman, notorious assassin, once killed a guy by stabbing him to death with a pillow.

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* OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement: Tariq Suliman, notorious assassin, once killed a guy by stabbing him to death with ''with a pillow.''
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* OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement: Tariq Suliman, notorious assassin, once killed a guy by stabbing him to death with a pillow.
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* BaldOfEvil: The Satanists deliberately invoke this trope, as they want to look as evil as possible. Vassily is also bald and evil, but on him it merely completes the image of him as a landbound cetacean in a shiny suit.
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* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Subverted for comedy. A mook attempts to invoke it on our hero, who sneers "You really think I'm going to fall for that?" And then the gun goes off.
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* BigBeautifulWoman: Mina Duplessis is a plus-sized model and described rather generously in several places.
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* AliensStealCattle: When going to the HQ of the Little Green Men, there is a herd of cattle on the premises. It doesn't really seem to serve much of a purpose.
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* KnuckleTattoos: The two mechanics with the Flock of Seagulls hairdos outside the Brotherhood of Sisterhood both have tattoos across their knuckles. One reads "GOOD FISH." The other is never revealed.
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* GroinAttack: Our Hero momentarily disables a Manchurian Candidate assassin with a kick to the groin. He calls it "crotch soccer."
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* LosAngeles: L.A. is the Casablanca for the Information Underground, where representatives of every conspiracy, cult, and secret society on the planet. The combination of mild weather, nice scenery, and attractive people with low self-esteem is a siren song to the secret masters of earth.
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* EldritchAbomination: Shub-Internet is the personification of the actual internet... and it's become a Cthulhoid deity that eats porn.
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* WakingUpElsewhere: Our hero is knocked unconscious (via the aforementioned Tap on the Head suffered in a Parking Garage) and wakes up tied to a chair in a bunker in San Pedro, where he's interrogated by a makeshift collection of weirdos about what's really going on.

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* WakingUpElsewhere: Our hero is knocked unconscious (via the aforementioned Tap on the Head suffered in a Parking Garage) and wakes up tied to a chair in a bunker in San Pedro, where he's interrogated by a makeshift collection of weirdos about what's really going on.on.
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* WaifFu: Oana Constantinescu, the bronze medalist in the women's gymnastics all-around in Sydney, is a practitioner. She's not really described as slender -- she's a solid block of muscle -- but it's repeatedly stated that she's roughly hobbit-sized.

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* WaifFu: Oana Constantinescu, the bronze medalist in the women's gymnastics all-around in Sydney, is a practitioner. She's not really described as slender -- she's a solid block of muscle -- but it's repeatedly stated that she's roughly hobbit-sized.hobbit-sized.
* WakingUpElsewhere: Our hero is knocked unconscious (via the aforementioned Tap on the Head suffered in a Parking Garage) and wakes up tied to a chair in a bunker in San Pedro, where he's interrogated by a makeshift collection of weirdos about what's really going on.
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* IHaveManyNames: Our hero has tons and tons of names, and they're all phony.


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* NakedOnArrival: Gehenna Tattoo is introduced without a stitch on. Of course, it is the middle of an orgy, so the mode of dress was appropriate.
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* TapOnTheHead: The hero is knocked unconscious for several hours, and he suffers no ill effects from it.
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-->''Every conspiracy needs a guy like me.''
-->''Problem is, they all have one. Me.''

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-->''Every -->''"Every conspiracy needs a guy like me.''
-->''Problem is, they all have one. Me.''
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''[[http://www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/mr-blank/ Mr Blank]]'' is a comic neo-noir novel about a guy who does bizarre errands for every conspiracy, secret society, and mystery cult in existence. On one of his errands, someone tries to kill him. Everyone has a motive.

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''[[http://www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/mr-blank/ captainsupermarket.com/mr-blank.html Mr Blank]]'' is a comic neo-noir novel about a guy who does bizarre errands for every conspiracy, secret society, and mystery cult in existence. On one of his errands, someone tries to kill him. Everyone has a motive.
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* GenreBusting: It's a comedy noir with elements of a conspiracy thriller, a little horror, some science fiction, and urban fantasy thrown in.

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''Mr Blank'' is a comic neo-noir novel about a guy who does bizarre errands for every conspiracy, secret society, and mystery cult in existence. On one of his errands, someone tries to kill him. Everyone has a motive.

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-->''Every conspiracy needs a guy like me.''
-->''Problem is, they all have one. Me.''

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''[[http://www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/mr-blank/ Mr Blank]]''
is a comic neo-noir novel about a guy who does bizarre errands for every conspiracy, secret society, and mystery cult in existence. On one of his errands, someone tries to kill him. Everyone has a motive.



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!! This title Mr Blank provides examples of:



* BiTheWay: Eric Caldwell, though it's unclear as to whether or not he's playing a role.



* FunWithAcronyms: The feminist ur-conspiracy V.E.N.U.S. Our Hero explains that he's too much of a gentleman to reveal what that actually stands for.



* ManlyGay: Burt Shaw is an old-school spy (who resembles Statler from ''The Muppets''). He's also gay.



* NoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler: Eric Caldwell]] was shot twice in the chest with a .12 gauge, thrown through a plate glass window, run over and set on fire. The police were calling it suicide.



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----* ParkingGarage: A large shootout takes place in a parking garage, capped off by an alien abduction.
* PsychoForHire: Tariq Suliman, the capital A-Assassin works for hire, and he's not really stable.
* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler: Brady turns out to be Ingrid Brady. The mustache is a fake.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: One of the creepier yet mostly harmless examples of the trope, with [[spoiler: the clone family Brians.]]
* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler: Brady]] dresses like a man.
* WaifFu: Oana Constantinescu, the bronze medalist in the women's gymnastics all-around in Sydney, is a practitioner. She's not really described as slender -- she's a solid block of muscle -- but it's repeatedly stated that she's roughly hobbit-sized.
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* Chupacabra: Used by the Little Green Men (they're actually Greys, but the name stuck) as security, the chupacabras are vicious little blood-drinking monsters whose hisses make people drowsy. They're easily confused but nasty in groups.

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* Chupacabra: {{Chupacabra}}: Used by the Little Green Men (they're actually Greys, but the name stuck) as security, the chupacabras are vicious little blood-drinking monsters whose hisses make people drowsy. They're easily confused but nasty in groups.
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* AlienAbduction: [[spoiler: Mina]] is abducted, forcing a daring (and somewhat insane) rescue plan.
* Chupacabra: Used by the Little Green Men (they're actually Greys, but the name stuck) as security, the chupacabras are vicious little blood-drinking monsters whose hisses make people drowsy. They're easily confused but nasty in groups.
* ConspiracyKitchenSink: The main character works for every last shadow group there is. Pretty much a textbook case of this trope.


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* FatBastard: Vassily the Whale, the local head of the Russian Mob, is described as looking exactly like a beluga whale someone put in a suit and taught to talk like a Bond villain.


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* FlyingSaucer: A UFO shows up [[spoiler: to abduct Mina after the parking garage shootout.]]


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* HollywoodSatanism: Lampshaded with the First Reformed Church of the Antichrist who are not only evil, they'd proudly put it on business cards if they thought it would help them.


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* ManchurianAgent: They're actually referred to as Manchurian Candidates by the hero (and he's a fan of the original -- not so much the remake). This includes Raul Diaz as well as any number of others.
* TheMenInBlack: Victor Charlie definitely qualifies.
* TheNapoleon: Paul Tallutto, of the First Reformed Church of the Antichrist, is a primordial dwarf and is pretty aggressive with everyone he meets. Or at least their knees.
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* GenreSavvy: Our Hero knows his pop culture. Perhaps too well.

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Mr Blank is a comic neo-noir novel about a guy who does bizarre errands for every conspiracy, secret society, and mystery cult in existence. On one of his errands, someone tries to kill him. Everyone has a motive.

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Mr Blank ''Mr Blank'' is a comic neo-noir novel about a guy who does bizarre errands for every conspiracy, secret society, and mystery cult in existence. On one of his errands, someone tries to kill him. Everyone has a motive.
motive.



* FemmeFatale: Subverted with Mina (and lampshaded by Our Hero.)

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* FemmeFatale: Subverted with Mina (and lampshaded by Our Hero.)Hero).



* TheMafiya: The Kosher Nostra, and their monstrous leader, Vassily the Whale definitely qualify.
* NoNameGiven: Our Hero never reveals his real name.

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* TheMafiya: The Kosher Nostra, and their monstrous leader, Vassily the Whale Whale, definitely qualify.
* NoNameGiven: Our Hero never reveals his real name.name.
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Mr Blank is a comic neo-noir novel about a guy who does bizarre errands for every conspiracy, secret society, and mystery cult in existence. On one of his errands, someone tries to kill him. Everyone has a motive.

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!! This title provides examples of:
* FantasticNoir: Conspiracies, cryptids, aliens, and a few garden-variety unkillable mobsters.
* FemmeFatale: Subverted with Mina (and lampshaded by Our Hero.)
* FirstPersonSmartass: Our Hero never met a quip, insult, or pop culture riff he didn't like.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Mina's a redhead. Also subverted with Paul Tallutto, leader of the First Reformed Church of the Antichrist. He likes redheads too.
* TheMafiya: The Kosher Nostra, and their monstrous leader, Vassily the Whale definitely qualify.
* NoNameGiven: Our Hero never reveals his real name.

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