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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: In "The Tick vs. Justice" a few of Destroyo's antics would never fly in a real court.
** First, Destroyo confesses to killing witnesses in front of Captain Liberty (and implies he intends to kill The Tick and Arthur too), but since he's acting as his own attorney and he was talking to himself, the confession was privileged communication and therefore could not be used against him. However, in the lawsuit ''Clark v. The United States'' it was determined that if attorney-client communication is used to commit fraud or further a crime then it is ''not'' subject to attorney-client privilege law.
** Second, he has all of the evidence against him ruled inadmissible on the grounds that The Tick and Arthur didn't have a warrant when they searched his car... except that they never "searched" his car. Destroyo's trunk popped open in the accident, and they happened to see [[NoodleImplements ransom notes, nuclear weapons, and very strong rope]] in there. Seeing things that are in plain sight does not legally count as a search. Even if it did, the need for a warrant is waived in the case of clear and present danger, which was clearly present here.
* BookEnds: The final episode's storyline follows immediately after the first episode and wraps up a lot of its plot threads. Further, they both contain a number of similar plot elements.
** Both episodes see someone attempting, unsuccessfully, to use a coffee vending machine and being saved by The Tick. In the first episode The Tick "saves" a citizen by bashing the out-of-order machine until it works. In the final episode the person who tries to use the machine, [[spoiler:Batmanuel]], is waylaid by The Terror before he can get his coffee and has to be rescued.
** Both episodes include Arthur [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming like a little girl]] when attacked by villains.
** Both episodes involve Metcalf, a man from Arthur's old job who became a superhero and who now needs a machine to poop. He is mentioned repeatedly in the first episode and actually appears in person during the final episode. (These two episodes are also the only times he is even so much as mentioned in the show.)
** Both episodes include an actual, on-screen superhero vs. supervillain battle, against The Red Scare in the first episode and against The Terror in the last episode. (These are also the only two on-screen battles in the series.)
** Both episodes feature the four main characters (Tick, Arthur, Batmanuel, and Captain Liberty) on a rooftop together. While the four spend a lot of time together and rooftops also play a large role throughout the series these two episodes are the only ones that feature all four together on a rooftop.
** First, Destroyo confesses to killing witnesses in front of Captain Liberty (and implies he intends to kill The Tick and Arthur too), but since he's acting as his own attorney and he was talking to himself, the confession was privileged communication and therefore could not be used against him. However, in the lawsuit ''Clark v. The United States'' it was determined that if attorney-client communication is used to commit fraud or further a crime then it is ''not'' subject to attorney-client privilege law.
** Second, he has all of the evidence against him ruled inadmissible on the grounds that The Tick and Arthur didn't have a warrant when they searched his car... except that they never "searched" his car. Destroyo's trunk popped open in the accident, and they happened to see [[NoodleImplements ransom notes, nuclear weapons, and very strong rope]] in there. Seeing things that are in plain sight does not legally count as a search. Even if it did, the need for a warrant is waived in the case of clear and present danger, which was clearly present here.
* BookEnds: The final episode's storyline follows immediately after the first episode and wraps up a lot of its plot threads. Further, they both contain a number of similar plot elements.
** Both episodes see someone attempting, unsuccessfully, to use a coffee vending machine and being saved by The Tick. In the first episode The Tick "saves" a citizen by bashing the out-of-order machine until it works. In the final episode the person who tries to use the machine, [[spoiler:Batmanuel]], is waylaid by The Terror before he can get his coffee and has to be rescued.
** Both episodes include Arthur [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming like a little girl]] when attacked by villains.
** Both episodes involve Metcalf, a man from Arthur's old job who became a superhero and who now needs a machine to poop. He is mentioned repeatedly in the first episode and actually appears in person during the final episode. (These two episodes are also the only times he is even so much as mentioned in the show.)
** Both episodes include an actual, on-screen superhero vs. supervillain battle, against The Red Scare in the first episode and against The Terror in the last episode. (These are also the only two on-screen battles in the series.)
** Both episodes feature the four main characters (Tick, Arthur, Batmanuel, and Captain Liberty) on a rooftop together. While the four spend a lot of time together and rooftops also play a large role throughout the series these two episodes are the only ones that feature all four together on a rooftop.
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** Notably, The Tick is also the only person in the entire show to realize that Arthur is a moth (not a bunny) without having to be told.
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* {{Prophetic Name|s}}: A woman claiming to be the Tick's wife says his real name is "Ted Glick". Drop the "ed Gl" and you're left with Tick. {{Subverted|Trope}}, though, when it's revealed that's not his real name.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: While the bizarre level of superheroes and giant monsters of the Tick universe (such as a 50- foot Apocalypse Cow) apparently still occur, we never get to see anything more than the aftermath
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* TakeOurWordForIt: While the bizarre level of superheroes and giant monsters of the Tick universe (such as a 50- foot Apocalypse Cow) apparently still occur, we never get to see anything more than the aftermathaftermath.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Batmanuel.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Batmanuel.
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* WhatIsThisFeeling: In "The Tick vs. Justice", he has his first headache, due to the frustration of Destroyo's impeding discharge despite obvious evidence of his guilt.
-->'''The Tick:''' What is this awful pounding in my head! If feels like my head is having a baby!\\
'''Arthur:''' It's called a headache.\\
'''The Tick:''' Its got a name now!?
-->'''The Tick:''' What is this awful pounding in my head! If feels like my head is having a baby!\\
'''Arthur:''' It's called a headache.\\
'''The Tick:''' Its got a name now!?
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** Arther's superhero identity is modeled after a moth, though his white suit and ear-like antennae lead many people to confuse him for a rabbit.
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** Batmanuel is based off of a bat.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Authur to a degree: he seemed a very good accountant if you looked past the "dressed as a moth" thing
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** Batmanuel is based off of a bat.
bat, obviously.
* BunnyEarsLawyer:Authur to Arthur. He was quite a degree: he seemed a very good competent accountant if you looked past aside from the "dressed as a moth" thingthing. It was almost a literal use of the trope, as his suit is often mistaken for a rabbit.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "Arthur, Interrupted" early on have the characters discussing how Arthur should "come out" as a superhero.
** Also, in "Couples" superhero duos are equated to marriage and the main plotline is an extended metaphor about sidekicks being wives.
* EverythingsBetterWithCows: The [[TakeOurWordForIt off-screen]] fifty-foot fire-lactating bovine known as Apocalypse Cow.
** Also, in "Couples" superhero duos are equated to marriage and the main plotline is an extended metaphor about sidekicks being wives.
* EverythingsBetterWithCows: The [[TakeOurWordForIt off-screen]] fifty-foot fire-lactating bovine known as Apocalypse Cow.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** The episode "Arthur,Interrupted" early on have the characters discussing how Interrupted," compares superherodom to homosexuality. Arthur is told by his fellow heroes that he should "come out" to his family, that being "closeted" is a bad thing (both are terms commonly used in regards to homosexuality). After he does he's taken away to be "cured" (attempting to "cure" homosexuality is a controversial yet common thing in America and many other parts of the world). He's sent to an insane asylum where he discovers that the creepy, effeminate psychiatrist secretly has a superhero fetish (a reference to how many anti-gay crusaders are eventually outed as a superhero.
having gay tendencies).
**Also, in The episode "Couples" superhero duos are equated to marriage and spends its runtime comparing the main plotline is an extended metaphor about superhero[=/=]sidekick dynamic to a marriage, with sidekicks being wives.
portrayed as the wives. It comments on domineering relationships and spousal abuse in the process.
* EverythingsBetterWithCows: The [[TakeOurWordForIt off-screen]]fifty-foot fire-lactating [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever fifty-foot]] [[KillItWithFire fire-lactating]] bovine known as Apocalypse Cow.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Sure Destroyo tried to nuke The City, but Batmanuel had the right of way, and he should not get higher car insurance because of it.
* MythologyGag: Batmanuel is referred to as Die Fliedermaus by Destroyo in "The Tick vs The Trial".
* OutWithABang: Captain Liberty sleeps with The Immortal, which somehow gives him a heart attack and kills him. This was a guy who once fought a man made out of black holes!
* {{Prophetic Name|s}}: A woman claiming to be the Tick's wife says his real name is "Ted Glick".
* MythologyGag: Batmanuel is referred to as Die Fliedermaus by Destroyo in "The Tick vs The Trial".
* OutWithABang: Captain Liberty sleeps with The Immortal, which somehow gives him a heart attack and kills him. This was a guy who once fought a man made out of black holes!
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Sure Destroyo tried to nuke The City, but In the episode "The Tick vs. Justice", a car accident between Batmanuel had and a supervillain named Destroyo reveals the right villain's trunk is full of way, [[NoodleImplements ransom letters, nuclear weapons, and he should not get higher car very strong rope]]. Despite an obvious threat to national security Batmanuel spends the entire episode worried about his insurance because of it.
premiums, even turning his statement to the court into a plea for them to lower his deductible.
* MythologyGag: Batmanuel is referred to asDie Fliedermaus "Little Fledermaus" by Destroyo in "The Tick vs The Trial".
Justice," a reference to the character that Batmanuel is based off of: Die Fledermaus.
* OutWithABang: Captain Liberty sleeps with TheImmortal, which Immortal and somehow gives him a heart attack and kills him. him in the process. This was a guy who once fought a man made entirely out of black holes!
* {{Prophetic Name|s}}: A woman claiming to be the Tick's wife says his real name is "Ted Glick". Drop the "ed Gl" and you're left with Tick.
* MythologyGag: Batmanuel is referred to as
* OutWithABang: Captain Liberty sleeps with The
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: The Tick... even if he doesn't actually suck blood. Also, Arthur is a moth not a bunny, and Batmanuel.
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** TheTick, at least in name. He doesn't actuallysuck blood. Also, Arthur have any tick-like traits or abilities, except for his antennae.
** Arther's superhero identity is modeled after amoth not a bunny, moth, though his white suit and Batmanuel.ear-like antennae lead many people to confuse him for a rabbit.
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* CaptainPatriotic: Captain Liberty is a spoof of this.
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* CleavageWindow - Captain Liberty's outfit has a star-shaped window. Destroyo remarks on it in his HannibalLecture.
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* CaptainPatriotic: Captain Liberty is a spoof of this.
this. She doesn't seem to be all that patriotic and isn't even that great of a hero, but she does work directly for the U.S. government, unlike most other heroes.
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ClarkKenting: At various times the heroes take off the uniforms resulting in confusion when their fellow heroes don't immediately recognize them. {{Parodied| Trope}} with The Champion who, like the TropeNamer, disguises himself with nothing more than a pair of glasses - despite how flimsy the disguise is no one notices until it's pointed out at the end of the episode. The Tick himself never quite manages to figure it out, still believing that The Champion and lawyer Steve Filbert are different people, even after witnessing his "transformation" first hand.
*CleavageWindow - CleavageWindow: Captain Liberty's outfit has a star-shaped window. Destroyo remarks on it in his HannibalLecture.HannibalLecture.
--> '''Destroyo''': With the stars in your eyes and your star full of breasts...
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--> '''Destroyo''': With the stars in your eyes and your star full of breasts...
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* {{Expy}} - Since the live action version couldn't get all the rights to characters from the animated version, Die Fledermaus became Bat-Manuel and American Maid became Captain Liberty.
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* HannibalLecture: {{Parodied| Trope}} with Destroyo. Trying it on Captain Liberty just made her not able to shut up about insecure she was.
* IAmNotWeasel: Arthur's moth costume is confused for a rabbit.
* IdiotHero: The Tick himself
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* HannibalLecture: {{Parodied| Trope}} and played straight with Destroyo. Trying In his first use of this he's able to ([[InterruptedSuicide almost]]) talk a cop into shooting himself. When he tries it on Captain Liberty just made her not able to shut up about insecure Liberty, however, she was.
[[ExploitedTrope takes advantage of it]] for free psychotherapy. She later lists "good with dating problems" as one of Destroyo's two good traits (the other being a "way with words").
* IAmNotWeasel: Arthur'smoth moth-themed costume is constantly confused for a rabbit.
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* InsultBackfire:
-->'''Arthur:''' You're all a bunch of self-centered, egotistical, sexually frustrated kindergarteners. No offense intended.\\
'''The Tick:''' None comprehended.
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* RedScare: The name of a robot built by the Russians in the 1970s to assassinate Jimmy Carter. A group of Russians decide to get revenge on the U.S. Postal system instead by assassinating the Postmaster General, but the robot has accidentally been activated before they could reprogram it. Now the Red Scare is after Jimmy Carter, who [[ContrivedCoincidence happens to be visiting The City on the same night]].
-->'''The Tick:''' [[LampshadeHanging What are the odds!]]
-->'''The Tick:''' [[LampshadeHanging What are the odds!]]
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The Tick fights crime in a city named The City.
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* SecondEpisodeMorning: Coupled with FlashbackEpisode, while celebrating their one-year anniversary as partners, Arthur tells them about how he assumed everything that happened in the first episode was a dream until he hears the Tick in his living room.
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* HannibalLecture: {{Parodied| Trope}} with Destroyo in the live action series. Trying it on Captain Liberty just made her not able to shut up about insecure she was.
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... which all occur offscreen due to budget trouble. Most of the shows deal with their downtime, being described as "''Series/{{Seinfeld}'' in tights". Much of the animated show's style and wit was retained, along with different humor and comedic deconstrunctions. It was canceled before it could run a whole season. ''Where's the siege?!'' (Probably didn't help anything that the last Episode, ''The Terror'' was scheduled to run on 9/11/2001.) Watch it legally [[http://www.crackle.com/c/The_Tick here]].
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... which all occur offscreen due to budget trouble. Most of the shows deal with their downtime, being described as "''Series/{{Seinfeld}'' "''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' in tights". Much of the animated show's style and wit was retained, along with different humor and comedic deconstrunctions. It was canceled before it could run a whole season. ''Where's the siege?!'' (Probably didn't help anything that the last Episode, ''The Terror'' was scheduled to run on 9/11/2001.) Watch it legally [[http://www.crackle.com/c/The_Tick here]].
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''The life of a superhero is a lonely one, filled with hardship and danger. The few who answer the call must leave comfort, safety, and often sanity behind. But someone's gotta stand the heat and stay in the kitchen. Someone's gotta don the oven mitts of all that's right and strangle the red-hot throat of all that's wrong. This is that someone's story.''
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-->-- '''The Tick'''
A 2001 live action version of surreal cartoon superhero ''WesternAnimation/TheTick''.
Fed up of having a big blue spandex- clad lunatic weirding out his customers, a bus centre manager ships The Tick to The City. Meanwhile, mild mannered accountant Arthur gets fired from his job for showing up to work in a winged bunny suit (OK, moth suit) and deciding he wants to fight crime. They team up with Captain Liberty and Batmanuel [[hottip:*:substitute characters for American Maid and Die Fliedermaus, who were absent due to licensing and rights issues]], and get into all manner of high action battles with evildoers...
... which all occur offscreen due to budget trouble. Most of the shows deal with their downtime, being described as "''Series/{{Seinfeld}'' in tights". Much of the animated show's style and wit was retained, along with different humor and comedic deconstrunctions. It was canceled before it could run a whole season. ''Where's the siege?!'' (Probably didn't help anything that the last Episode, ''The Terror'' was scheduled to run on 9/11/2001.) Watch it legally [[http://www.crackle.com/c/The_Tick here]].
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!!This series provided examples of:
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: The Tick... even if he doesn't actually suck blood. Also, Arthur is a moth not a bunny, and Batmanuel.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Authur to a degree: he seemed a very good accountant if you looked past the "dressed as a moth" thing
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* CleavageWindow - Captain Liberty's outfit in the live action show has a star-shaped window. Destroyo remarks on it in his HannibalLecture.
* TheDitz: The Tick.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "Arthur, Interrupted" early on have the characters discussing how Arthur should "come out" as a superhero.
* GeniusDitz: The Tick may be very, very ditzy in just about everything, but he has shown a certain level of philosophical thought in some cases. Especially so in the second episode, where he learns that everyone (even potatoes) can die, and after thinking about it for about a minute, gives Arthur a motivating speech that ''actually makes sense''.
* IAmNotWeasel: Arthur's moth costume is confused for a rabbit rabbit.
* IdiotHero: The Tick himself
* ItsAllAboutMe: Sure Destroyo tried to nuke The City, but Batmanuel had the right of way, and he should not get higher car insurance because of it.
* OutWithABang: Captain Liberty sleeps with The Immortal, which somehow gives him a heart attack and kills him. This was a guy who once fought a man made out of black holes!
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Arthur when he gets into trouble, making The Tick think it's a DistressedDamsel.
* SuperHero: All of the main cast
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The Tick fights crime in a city named The City.
-->-- '''The Tick'''
A 2001 live action version of surreal cartoon superhero ''WesternAnimation/TheTick''.
Fed up of having a big blue spandex- clad lunatic weirding out his customers, a bus centre manager ships The Tick to The City. Meanwhile, mild mannered accountant Arthur gets fired from his job for showing up to work in a winged bunny suit (OK, moth suit) and deciding he wants to fight crime. They team up with Captain Liberty and Batmanuel [[hottip:*:substitute characters for American Maid and Die Fliedermaus, who were absent due to licensing and rights issues]], and get into all manner of high action battles with evildoers...
... which all occur offscreen due to budget trouble. Most of the shows deal with their downtime, being described as "''Series/{{Seinfeld}'' in tights". Much of the animated show's style and wit was retained, along with different humor and comedic deconstrunctions. It was canceled before it could run a whole season. ''Where's the siege?!'' (Probably didn't help anything that the last Episode, ''The Terror'' was scheduled to run on 9/11/2001.) Watch it legally [[http://www.crackle.com/c/The_Tick here]].
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!!This series provided examples of:
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: The Tick... even if he doesn't actually suck blood. Also, Arthur is a moth not a bunny, and Batmanuel.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Authur to a degree: he seemed a very good accountant if you looked past the "dressed as a moth" thing
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* CleavageWindow - Captain Liberty's outfit in the live action show has a star-shaped window. Destroyo remarks on it in his HannibalLecture.
* TheDitz: The Tick.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "Arthur, Interrupted" early on have the characters discussing how Arthur should "come out" as a superhero.
* GeniusDitz: The Tick may be very, very ditzy in just about everything, but he has shown a certain level of philosophical thought in some cases. Especially so in the second episode, where he learns that everyone (even potatoes) can die, and after thinking about it for about a minute, gives Arthur a motivating speech that ''actually makes sense''.
* IAmNotWeasel: Arthur's moth costume is confused for a rabbit rabbit.
* IdiotHero: The Tick himself
* ItsAllAboutMe: Sure Destroyo tried to nuke The City, but Batmanuel had the right of way, and he should not get higher car insurance because of it.
* OutWithABang: Captain Liberty sleeps with The Immortal, which somehow gives him a heart attack and kills him. This was a guy who once fought a man made out of black holes!
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Arthur when he gets into trouble, making The Tick think it's a DistressedDamsel.
* SuperHero: All of the main cast
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The Tick fights crime in a city named The City.
