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* CoincidentalBroadcast: The passengers in the train are watching what appears to be news about an alien invasion of New York City; the passengers argue about whether it's real or fiction, referencing the previous year's RealLife ''Radio/WarOfTheWorlds'' broadcast. And then the alien ship arrives for them.
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: The passengers in the train are watching what appears to be news about an alien invasion of New York City; the passengers argue about whether it's real or fiction, referencing the previous year's RealLife ''Radio/WarOfTheWorlds'' ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds1938'' broadcast. And then the alien ship arrives for them.
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* ShoutOut: The passengers in the train are watching what appears to be news about an alien invasion of New York City; the passengers argue about whether it's real or fiction, referencing the previous year's RealLife ''Radio/WarOfTheWorlds'' broadcast.
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* ShoutOut: The passengers in the train are watching what appears to be news about an alien invasion of New York City; the passengers argue about whether it's real or fiction, referencing the previous year's RealLife ''Radio/WarOfTheWorlds'' ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds1938'' broadcast.
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* HotScientist: The scientist's daughter is a good-looking woman with no difficulty apparently doing the chemistry involved in the explosives herself.
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* WeaponOfMassDistruction: The scientist regrets and is afraid of his invention. Two ounces of it is enough to blow up a car and a lot of road, and it went off from being impacted, not ignited.
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* WeaponOfMassDistruction: WeaponOfMassDestruction: The scientist regrets and is afraid of his invention. Two ounces of it is enough to blow up a car and a lot of road, and it went off from being impacted, not ignited.
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* BadassInDistress: The Torch is captured by the aliens and tied to a chair with his powers nullified.
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* ChainedToARailway: The bad guy ties the daughter to a track and then jumps in a handy locomotive to do the deep himself.
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* BuriedAlive: Attempted: Ritton dumps a load of sand on the Torch, thinking it would extinguish him. He has underestimated the Torch.
* ChainedToARailway: The bad guy ties the daughter to a track and then jumps in a handy locomotive to do thedeep deed himself.
* ChainedToARailway: The bad guy ties the daughter to a track and then jumps in a handy locomotive to do the
* DefiantCaptive: The daughter is captured, but continues to defy and insult her captors.
* HotScientist: The scientist's daughter is a good-looking woman with no difficulty apparently doing the chemistry involved in the explosives herself.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Downplayed, but present; Ritton is helping the alien invasion because everyone laughed at him when he told them about the Martians two years previously.
* MotiveRant: Ritton launches into a spiel about his motives as soon as the daughter is captured.
* MotiveRant: Ritton launches into a spiel about his motives as soon as the daughter is captured.
* OutsideRide: One of the aliens is riding on the outside of the car to grab the daughter and kidnap her without stopping.
* RunawayTrain: Ritton's train at the end, after he bails out, is on a collision course with another.
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* TrackTrouble: Twice:
** The train they're on in the beginning is derailed by aliens.
** Invoked: The Torch saves the day in the end by shoving a train off its tracks.
** The train they're on in the beginning is derailed by aliens.
** Invoked: The Torch saves the day in the end by shoving a train off its tracks.
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* TrackTrouble: Twice:
**The train they're on in the beginning is derailed by aliens.aliens.
* TrainEscape: Ritton tries to make hs escape on a train. Since he almost immediately ends up on a collision course with another train, this was poorly thought-out.
** Invoked: * VehicularKidnapping: The Torch saves aliens drive up in a car, with one hanging off the day in side, and snatch her away. It's not a very subtle version.
* WeaponizedCar: The aliens' car comes with a detachable, launchable false hood that slices through theend by shoving Torch's car.
* WeaponOfMassDistruction: The scientist regrets and is afraid of his invention. Two ounces of it is enough to blow up atrain car and a lot of road, and it went off its tracks.from being impacted, not ignited.
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* TrainEscape: Ritton tries to make hs escape on a train. Since he almost immediately ends up on a collision course with another train, this was poorly thought-out.
* WeaponizedCar: The aliens' car comes with a detachable, launchable false hood that slices through the
* WeaponOfMassDistruction: The scientist regrets and is afraid of his invention. Two ounces of it is enough to blow up a
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* RidiculouslyPotentExplosive: The super-TNT blows up a room with just a pinpoint amount.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The Venusians speak English (without any explanation).
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The Venusians Martians speak English (without any explanation).
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* HumanAliens: The Venusians don't seem any different from humans, except that they keep their suits on (presumably for atmosphere).
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* HumanAliens: The Venusians Martians don't seem any different from humans, except that they keep their suits on (presumably for atmosphere).
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* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Venusians came to Earth because the scientist had created a better version of TNT and their explosives technology is lacking.
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* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Venusians Martians came to Earth because the scientist had created a better version of TNT and their explosives technology is lacking.
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* BigStupidDoodooHead: The fiercest insult the scientist's adult daughter can come up with is
-->'''Diane:''' Even if I had the formula, you'd never get it, Mr. Ritton - or should I say, Mr. Rat!!
-->'''Diane:''' Even if I had the formula, you'd never get it, Mr. Ritton - or should I say, Mr. Rat!!
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* FingerSnapLighter: The Torch light's the bad guy's cigar to show him who he is (although it looks more like a gun than a lighter).
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* MacGuffin: The scientist's new and improved TNT formula is being hunted by aliens.
* OutOfTheInferno: The Torch calmly carries a baby through the flames from the burning train.
* PlayingWithFire: Fire is the Torch's main ability.
* ThePromise: Upon taking up the MacGuffin:
-->'''The Torch:''' You can be sure of one thing, Carson, I promise that this formula shall never get into the wrong hands!
* OutOfTheInferno: The Torch calmly carries a baby through the flames from the burning train.
* PlayingWithFire: Fire is the Torch's main ability.
* ThePromise: Upon taking up the MacGuffin:
-->'''The Torch:''' You can be sure of one thing, Carson, I promise that this formula shall never get into the wrong hands!
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* SuperStrength: The Torch catches a hurtling boulder, and lifts a steel beam. (And melts them both.)
* ThinkNothingOfIt: The Torch tell's the mother of the baby, trying to express her gratitude:
-->'''The Torch:''' It isn't necessary ma'am.
* ThinkNothingOfIt: The Torch tell's the mother of the baby, trying to express her gratitude:
-->'''The Torch:''' It isn't necessary ma'am.
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* WreathedInFlame: The Torch, as usual, is aflame.
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* WreathedInFlame: WreathedInFlames: The Torch, as usual, is aflame.
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* The ArtisticLicensePhysics is especially egregious in this issue: the Torch's flame aura is so hot that bullets melt before they get to him, but he can carry a piece of regular fabric in his flaming hand, he melts a steel beam off of the scientist's legs without harming him...
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* The ArtisticLicensePhysics is especially egregious in this issue: the Torch's flame aura is so hot that bullets melt before they get to him, but he can carry a piece of regular fabric in his flaming hand, he melts a steel beam off of the scientist's legs without harming him...him, he sublimates away the collapsing roof of the train...
* {{Fireballs}}: Not only does he point-shoot them and throw them, he also kicks them out.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: The Torch beats up the aliens handily.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: The Torch beats up the aliens handily.
* LightningGun: The broadcast's aliens are destroying the city with "planes spurting electricity"; the real aliens use the same.
* PursuedProtagonist: As soon as he takes up the formula, the aliens are after the Torch now.
* PursuedProtagonist: As soon as he takes up the formula, the aliens are after the Torch now.
** The Torch tells them it's surely just a televised version of "Lawson Bell's" famous broadcast.
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** Invoked: The Torch saves the day in the end by shoving a train off its tracks.
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** Invoked: The Torch saves the day in the end by shoving a train off its tracks.tracks.
* WreathedInFlame: The Torch, as usual, is aflame.
* WreathedInFlame: The Torch, as usual, is aflame.
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* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMaguffin: The scientist knew he was dying and pushed the Torch to take his formula to his daughter.
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* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMaguffin: ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacguffin: The scientist knew he was dying and pushed the Torch to take his formula to his daughter.
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ComicBook/HumanTorch1939 is on a train that is attacked by aliens looking for one of the passengers' secret explosives formula.
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!!Tropes appearing in this story include:
* AlienInvasion: Downplayed; it's just one ship coming for one person.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The Venusians speak English (without any explanation).
* The ArtisticLicensePhysics is especially egregious in this issue: the Torch's flame aura is so hot that bullets melt before they get to him, but he can carry a piece of regular fabric in his flaming hand, he melts a steel beam off of the scientist's legs without harming him...
* ChainedToARailway: The bad guy ties the daughter to a track and then jumps in a handy locomotive to do the deep himself.
* CoincidentalBroadcast: The passengers in the train are watching what appears to be news about an alien invasion of New York City; the passengers argue about whether it's real or fiction, referencing the previous year's RealLife ''Radio/WarOfTheWorlds'' broadcast. And then the alien ship arrives for them.
** Subverted in that it turned out the Torch was right and the broadcast was in fact fiction.
* EnhancedInterrogationTechniques: The aforementioned ChainedToARailway bit was an attempt to get her to talk.
* HumanAliens: The Venusians don't seem any different from humans, except that they keep their suits on (presumably for atmosphere).
* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMaguffin: The scientist knew he was dying and pushed the Torch to take his formula to his daughter.
* InASingleBound: The Torch leaps to the top of a mountain.
* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Venusians came to Earth because the scientist had created a better version of TNT and their explosives technology is lacking.
* ShoutOut: The passengers in the train are watching what appears to be news about an alien invasion of New York City; the passengers argue about whether it's real or fiction, referencing the previous year's RealLife ''Radio/WarOfTheWorlds'' broadcast.
* TrackTrouble: Twice:
** The train they're on in the beginning is derailed by aliens.
** Invoked: The Torch saves the day in the end by shoving a train off its tracks.
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!!Tropes appearing in this story include:
* AlienInvasion: Downplayed; it's just one ship coming for one person.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The Venusians speak English (without any explanation).
* The ArtisticLicensePhysics is especially egregious in this issue: the Torch's flame aura is so hot that bullets melt before they get to him, but he can carry a piece of regular fabric in his flaming hand, he melts a steel beam off of the scientist's legs without harming him...
* ChainedToARailway: The bad guy ties the daughter to a track and then jumps in a handy locomotive to do the deep himself.
* CoincidentalBroadcast: The passengers in the train are watching what appears to be news about an alien invasion of New York City; the passengers argue about whether it's real or fiction, referencing the previous year's RealLife ''Radio/WarOfTheWorlds'' broadcast. And then the alien ship arrives for them.
** Subverted in that it turned out the Torch was right and the broadcast was in fact fiction.
* EnhancedInterrogationTechniques: The aforementioned ChainedToARailway bit was an attempt to get her to talk.
* HumanAliens: The Venusians don't seem any different from humans, except that they keep their suits on (presumably for atmosphere).
* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMaguffin: The scientist knew he was dying and pushed the Torch to take his formula to his daughter.
* InASingleBound: The Torch leaps to the top of a mountain.
* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Venusians came to Earth because the scientist had created a better version of TNT and their explosives technology is lacking.
* ShoutOut: The passengers in the train are watching what appears to be news about an alien invasion of New York City; the passengers argue about whether it's real or fiction, referencing the previous year's RealLife ''Radio/WarOfTheWorlds'' broadcast.
* TrackTrouble: Twice:
** The train they're on in the beginning is derailed by aliens.
** Invoked: The Torch saves the day in the end by shoving a train off its tracks.
