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** 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.
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** 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 car. There are two problems with this...
*** Number 1: The legal doctrine at play here is the "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree" which states that evidence gained illegally is inadmissible if it was gained (even indirectly) through means that violate the suspect's rights. The "tree" of the investigation is tainted, therefore its "fruit" is no good. However, this only counts if the suspect's rights were violated ''by law enforcement officials.'' Regardless of whether The Tick and Arthur were in the right or not, they are not police officers or detectives and so their actions don't count for the purposes of the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.
*** Number 2: The Tick and Arthur never "searched"his car. Destroyo's the car anyway. Destroy'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 constitute 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.search.
*** Number 1: The legal doctrine at play here is the "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree" which states that evidence gained illegally is inadmissible if it was gained (even indirectly) through means that violate the suspect's rights. The "tree" of the investigation is tainted, therefore its "fruit" is no good. However, this only counts if the suspect's rights were violated ''by law enforcement officials.'' Regardless of whether The Tick and Arthur were in the right or not, they are not police officers or detectives and so their actions don't count for the purposes of the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.
*** Number 2: The Tick and Arthur never "searched"
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* FamedInStory: Metcalf, a former coworker of Arthur's, is infamous in the superhero and criminal communities for being injured so badly in his vigilante career that he now needs to be strapped to a hospital machine to regulate his bowel movements. Arthur is deathly afraid of winding up like him if he continues with his adventures, but a conversation with Metcalf himself, who is accepting of his condition and plans to resume being a hero once he recovers, cures Arthur of this fear.
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* WisdomFromTheGutter: Batmanuel is a coward, a cad, and a sorry excuse for a superhero, but he's the most stable and sane member of the quartet and is often the voice of reason when one of the others gets too manic.
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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 [[note]]substitute characters for American Maid and Die Fledermaus, who were absent due to licensing and rights issues[[/note]], and get into all manner of high action battles with evildoers...
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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 [[note]]substitute Batmanuel,[[note]]substitute characters for American Maid and Die Fledermaus, who were absent due to licensing and rights issues[[/note]], issues[[/note]] and get into all manner of high action battles with evildoers...
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* AdaptationalIntelligence: Between lengthy conversations with clogged toilets and not understanding the concept of death, this is the Tick at his absolute dumbest. This is likely because of the show's differing format. His gung-ho heroic personality doesn't have an outlet, so his smarts are dialled down to better bounce off of for comedic purposes.
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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}}'' 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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Ticks don't have antennae.
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** The Tick, at least in name. He doesn't actually have any tick-like traits or abilities, except for his antennae.
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** The Tick, at least in name. He doesn't actually have any tick-like traits or abilities, except for his antennae.abilities.
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* CityWithNoName The Tick fights crime in a city named The City.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The Tick fights crime in a city named The City.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: No big time heroics are ever shown on screen, beyond the fights with The Red Scare and The Terror. Shown best in "The Tick vs. Justice" where the Tick and Destroyo are about to fight in the courtroom, only for it to cut to the group in their usual spot the next day.
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* NoodleIncident: "The Lesson of Medkaph". The man quit his job, bought a jetpack and tried to become a super hero. Exactly what happened is a mystery, but he now needs a machine to pass his bowels.
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* NoodleIncident: "The Lesson of Medkaph".Metcalf". The man quit his job, bought a jetpack and tried to become a super hero. Exactly what happened is a mystery, but he now needs a machine to pass his bowels.
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* MixedMetaphor: The Tick often engaged in these, which often led to {{Metaphorgotten}} as the Tick would ramble nonsensically from one broken metaphor to another.
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* MixedMetaphor: The Tick often engaged engages in these, which often led leads to {{Metaphorgotten}} as the Tick would ramble rambles nonsensically from one broken metaphor to another.
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* MixedMetaphor: The Tick often engaged in these, which often led to [[{{Metaphorgotten}}]] as the Tick would ramble nonsensically from one broken metaphor to another.
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* MixedMetaphor: The Tick often engaged in these, which often led to [[{{Metaphorgotten}}]] {{Metaphorgotten}} as the Tick would ramble nonsensically from one broken metaphor to another.
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* MixedMetaphor: The Tick often engaged in these, which often led to [[Metaphorgotten]].
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* MixedMetaphor: The Tick often engaged in these, which often led to [[Metaphorgotten]].[[{{Metaphorgotten}}]] as the Tick would ramble nonsensically from one broken metaphor to another.
-->"I'm starting to like the cut of this man's jibberish."
-->"I'm starting to like the cut of this man's jibberish."
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* MixedMetaphors: The Tick often engaged in these, which often led to [[Metaforgotten]].
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* MixedMetaphors: The Tick often engaged in these, which often led to [[Metaforgotten]].
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* PrivateEyeMonologue: The Tick is fond of this sort of narration, only he does it out loud instead of in a voiceover, and it's typically nonsensical. Arthur even comments about it at one point. "What are you talking about? And who are you talking to?"
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* NoodleIncident: "The Lesson of Medkaph". The man quit his job, bought a jetpack and tried to become a super hero. Exactly what happened is a mystery, but he now needs a machine to pass his bowels.
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* 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''.
** 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.
** 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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* IdiotHero: The Tick, big time.
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* IdiotHero: The Tick, big time.even more than he was in the cartoon. For one, he doesn't even know what his name is or where he's from.
* IdiotSavant: The Tick was always a ditz, but in this series his ditzy traits are played up so much that he seems barely capable of functioning in society. Notably, he doesn't even know his own real name or where he's from, he can't recognize other superheroes when they're out of costume (the other characters might have trouble at first, but The Tick never picks up on it even when it's explained to him), and at first doesn't even know what death is. When it comes to heroics, however, he's a genius: he's an expert fighter and shows a decent amount of philosophical thought. Notably, when he did discover that everyone (even potatoes) can die, he spent about 30 seconds thinking about it before giving Arthur a motivating speech that ''actually makes sense.''
* IdiotSavant: The Tick was always a ditz, but in this series his ditzy traits are played up so much that he seems barely capable of functioning in society. Notably, he doesn't even know his own real name or where he's from, he can't recognize other superheroes when they're out of costume (the other characters might have trouble at first, but The Tick never picks up on it even when it's explained to him), and at first doesn't even know what death is. When it comes to heroics, however, he's a genius: he's an expert fighter and shows a decent amount of philosophical thought. Notably, when he did discover that everyone (even potatoes) can die, he spent about 30 seconds thinking about it before giving Arthur a motivating speech that ''actually makes sense.''
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** 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. In other words, Captain Liberty totally could have reported it, and added even ''more'' charges to the list of Destroyo's offenses, and there would have been nothing Destroyo could do about it.
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** 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. (It was implied he knew she would find out anyway and so decided to say it in such a way that she wouldn't be allowed to tell anyone.) 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. In other words, Captain Liberty totally could have reported it, and added even ''more'' charges to the list of Destroyo's offenses, and there would have been nothing Destroyo could do about it.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: Compared to a cartoon where you can draw whatever you want, special effects and superpowered battles are much harder to pull off in live-action, especially for a show with a budget as low as this show's budget was. As a result the show spends more time focusing on their characters' daily lives, with the villains and battles mostly relegated to happening off-screen.
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* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Captain Liberty laments at one point that it's hard to find a boyfriend because other heroes are all jerkasses and normals are afraid that "we're going to zap them with a ray and shrink their johnson." Her boyfriend in that same episode also ends up leaving her when he discovers she's a superhero. Of course, considering [[OutWithABang what she did to The Immortal]], they might have a point.
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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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* {{Prophetic Name|s}}: ThePerryMasonMethod: Inverted in "The Tick Versus Justice." Destroyo, acting as his own attorney, asks witness Arthur a loaded question, which Arthur answers in such a way as to provoke a VillainousBreakdown in Destroyo.
* PropheticNames: 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.
* PropheticNames: 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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* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: An especially creative one, courtesy of The Terror:
-->''"I'll fold ya up in my wallet and spend ya on a whore!"''
-->''"I'll fold ya up in my wallet and spend ya on a whore!"''
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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.
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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.crime.
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* {{Short Runner|s}}: Only six episodes.
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* {{Short Runner|s}}: Only six episodes.episodes aired of nine produced.
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** TheTick, at least in name. He doesn't actually have any tick-like traits or abilities, except for his antennae.
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* EverythingsBetterWithCows: The [[TakeOurWordForIt off-screen]] [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever fifty-foot]] [[KillItWithFire fire-lactating]] bovine known as Apocalypse Cow.
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* EverythingsBetterWithCows: The [[TakeOurWordForIt off-screen]] [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever fifty-foot]] [[KillItWithFire fire-lactating]] bovine known as Apocalypse Cow.
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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Arthur when he gets into trouble, making The Tick think it's a DistressedDamsel.
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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Arthur when he gets into trouble, making The Tick think it's a DistressedDamsel.DamselInDistress.
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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. In other words, Captain Liberty totally could have reported it, and added even ''more'' charges to the list of Destroyo's offenses, and there would have been nothing Destroyo could do about it.
** 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.
** 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. In other words, Captain Liberty totally could have reported it, and added even ''more'' charges to the list of Destroyo's offenses, and there would have been nothing Destroyo could do about it.
** 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.
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* HollywoodLaw: In "The Tick vs. Justice" a few of Destroyo's {{Courtroom Antic}}s, blatantly attempting to get himself OffOnATechnicality, 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. In other words, Captain Liberty totally could have reported it, and added even ''more'' charges to the list of Destroyo's offenses, and there would have been nothing Destroyo could do about it.
** 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.
** Third, although not actually something Destroyo did, the way the group finally get him convicted, [[spoiler:by baiting him into attacking Arthur in the middle of the courtroom, thereby showing the court his true colors]]. In reality that would likely have resulted in an immediate mistrial and everyone involved would have been arrested on the spot.
** 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. In other words, Captain Liberty totally could have reported it, and added even ''more'' charges to the list of Destroyo's offenses, and there would have been nothing Destroyo could do about it.
** 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.
** Third, although not actually something Destroyo did, the way the group finally get him convicted, [[spoiler:by baiting him into attacking Arthur in the middle of the courtroom, thereby showing the court his true colors]]. In reality that would likely have resulted in an immediate mistrial and everyone involved would have been arrested on the spot.
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** 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. In other words, Captain Liberty totally could have reported it, and added even ''more'' charges to the list of Destroyo's offenses, and there would have been nothing Destroyo could do about it.
