History TakeThat / ComicBooks

** In an early issue (created and written by ex-Marvel artist Erik Larsen), Officer Dragon is [[LetsYouAndHimFight randomly attacked by superhero Bedrock]], who at the end of the issue explains that it was a test to see if he was tough enough to join the team ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}.

** The core of ''ComicBook/YoungbloodJudgmentDay'' is a rejection of the gritty, "extreme" heroics of ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'', emphasized when the previous adventures of Youngblood were described by Shaft as "heroes motivated only by money or psychopathology stalked a paranoid, apocalyptic landscape of post-nuclear mutants and bazooka-wielding cyborgs". The climax of the story reveals [[spoiler:that the entire original series was basically a childish SelfInsertFic written by Sentinel]].

* The first issue of Creator/MarkMillar's ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}: Bloodsport'' has two members of the titular superhero team receiving oral sex from gay {{cosplay}}ers dressed as [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]].

** And [[http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8980763&publicUserId=5811079 this comic he released on the new Hsu and Chan blog]]

* ''ComicBook/TheSavageDragon'':

** Another issue had ComicBook/LexLuthor and ComicBook/NormanOsborn discussing Dragon's constantly coming back to life, while they are served coffee by none other than ComicBook/GwenStacy. Larsen doesn't like Comic Book Deaths.

** Billy Eliot is one big TakeThat against Grant Morrison and the resident ButtMonkey. His M.O. is to [[KudzuPlot create as much complicate and complex stories as he can, to the point that they fall under their own weight and become an unreadable mess]], other people think he's a total JerkAss, Supreme's villains consider his presence an act of cruel and unusual punishment, the equivalent of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes hates him (especially after he accidentally joined their LegionOfDoom) and the only person who likes him is a CaptainErsatz of ComicBook/TheJoker.

* The first issue of Creator/MarkMillar's ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}: Bloodsport'' has two members of the titular superhero team receiving oral sex from gay {{cosplay}}ers dressed as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}.

* Creator/MarvelComics promoted their ''ComicBook/HeroicAge'' event and new ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' titles by teasers with members of each team, their quote and words “I'm an Avenger/a New Avenger/a Secret Avenger/in Avengers Academy”. Creator/{{Image|Comics}} released their own teasers for an ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' spinoff miniseries with members of the new Guardians of the Globe roster, looking pretty similar to Marvel's – when the first one, with Invincible himself saying “I never really been much of a team player” was released, people thought Image's just stealing the idea. When the second, with ComicBook/{{Spawn}} saying “Todd lost a bet so he's loaning me out for this” came out, some realized something is wrong. Next ones? A DeliberatelyMonochrome [[ComicBook/TheWalkingDead Rick Grimes]] (“It makes no logical story sense for me to be here, but I suppose it will help sales.”), UsefulNotes/BarackObama (“I'm not as popular as I used to be. How much is Amazing Spider-Man 583 going for on eBay?”) and [[CaptainErsatz Gary Potter, a kid looking suspiciously similar to]] Literature/HarryPotter (“Okay, now this is getting [[{{Understatement}} a little ridiculous]]... and slightly illegal.”). Obviously, Image was just making fun at Marvel's policy on who is and who isn't in which team. However, they later had to really rip the idea and release teasers with the real members in the same format (except with their names placed beside the quotes), because people thought they're really going to put those {{Joke Character}}s into one team.

* ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'', as a work of satire, frequently features this:

'''Bedrock:''' It happens in [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel Comics]] all the time!

** An earlier prog featured Tharg encountering a young Earthlet who was a fan of [[Creator/MarvelComics Wonder Comics]], as shown by his "Here Comes the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bulk]]" t-shirt. Other Wonder Comics characters apparently include [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica a hero in a cowl with little wings and a letter on the front]] and [[Franchise/SpiderMan a hero in a full-face mask with a spider motif]]. Inevitably, it turns out Wonder Comics have left the boy totally unprepared for the true Thrill Power of ''2000 AD''.

* Creator/GarthEnnis has also been known to viciously parody the concept of TheCape. Ironically, he's clearly fond of Franchise/{{Superman}}; when Superman appeared in an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Hitman|1993}}'', the character was treated with complete respect, and a later issue had the AntiHero main character remark that Superman was the only superhero he had any time for.

* In the ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW'', the Battle Nexus is run by a sadist, Councillor Nieli, who likes to watch people mercilessly do battle with each other. His name appears to be derived from the showrunner of the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 cartoon]], Ciro Nieli.

* In ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' Season 8, Buffy mocks the BigBad, Twilight, saying that he's an idiot for naming himself after a [[Literature/{{Twilight}} lame book series]].

* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'': "[You read] Probably just comic books, or maybe [[{{Literature/Twilight}} that silly series with the vampire pony]]."

** A1 Comics, the soulless corporation that ripped off struggling trashzine artist Kenny Who? were directly based on Cam Kennedy's experiences with American comic book companies.

* In the mid-1990s, an environmental activist known as Swampy became well-known in the UK when he took part in a protest to stop the construction of an extension to the A30 motorway. ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' went on to feature a plot about an "eco-warrior" named Spawny, who protests the construction of a spaceport in the same way as the real-life Swampy (by digging underground tunnels.) What happens? The construction workers bury him alive under the concrete and carry on anyway ...

'''Spike:''' No one does.[[note]]Angel ([[NamesTheSame of the X-Men]]) had sex with his then-girlfriend, Husk, in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #440, in the air, while his mom watched. [[{{Squick}} And now you know!]][[/note]]

** There was a Tenth Doctor story in which evil, bloodthirsty, warrior-race aliens abduct the long-running recurring character Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and his former underling Mike Yates. Only the aliens accidentally abduct the wrong Mike Yates, who is a nasty, ludicrous little man and a politician in a tiny extreme-right-wing party, and ends up siding with the aliens. In real life, Richard Franklin, the actor who played the "real" Yates on TV, had spent the 1990s and 2000s unsuccessfully standing in elections for a succession of increasingly small and extreme right-wing parties.

** An earlier prog featured Tharg encountering a young Earthlet who was a fan of [[Creator/MarvelComics Wonder Comics]], as shown by his "Here Comes the [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Bulk]]" t-shirt. Other Wonder Comics characters apparently include [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica a hero in a cowl with little wings and a letter on the front]] and [[Franchise/SpiderMan a hero in a full-face mask with a spider motif]]. Inevitably, it turns out Wonder Comics have left the boy totally unprepared for the true Thrill Power of ''2000 AD''.

** In the pages of Marvel Comic's ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'', Bruce Banner, who was walking around big and green and smart, was in a quandary. His friend was dying of AIDS and wanted a Hulk-blood transfusion in order to get Hulk-healing powers. Bruce, afraid of Hulk 2.0 smashing up crap[[note]]and Banner had good reason to be worried about this; aside from the fact that giving a transfusion of his gamma-contaminated blood is what turned his cousin into ''ComicBook/SheHulk'', there was also a guy who tried to take a Hulk-blood transfusion to cure his cancer... and turned into a mindless BlobMonster[[/note]], declined. The same plot happened in Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon, but the Dragon said yes, saying, paraphrased, only an idiot would say no to the possibility. The friend who received Dragon's blood then exploded. So...um. [[InvertedTrope Yeah]].

* The various ''Transformers'' comics over the years have tended to have a character named Cy-Kill show up, only to be killed immediately--often by Megatron. Why is this a {{take that}}? Because Cy-Kill is the BigBad from ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots''. Fans eventually got ''really'' sick of this "gag" being done to death, and even Wiki/TFWikiDotNet complains about it.

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* TakeThat/TheDCU
* TakeThat/MarvelUniverse

* One of the covers for the 2017 reboot of ''Fighting American'' takes a shot at [[ComicBook/NickSpencersCaptainAmerica Nick Spencer's controversial]] ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' run, proclaiming "[[ComicBook/SecretEmpire No secrets. No empires.]] Just an All-American hero."

** Billy Eliot is one big TakeThat against Grant Morrison and the resident ButtMonkey. His M.O. is to [[KudzuPlot create as much complicate and complex stories as he can, to the point that they fall under their own weight and become an unreadable mess]], other people think he's a total JerkAss, Supreme's villains consider his presence an act of cruel and unusual punishment, the equivalent of the ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} hates him (especially after he accidentally joined their LegionOfDoom) and the only person who likes him is a CaptainErsatz of ComicBook/TheJoker.

** In the pages of Marvel Comic's ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'', Bruce Banner, who was walking around big and green and smart, was in a quandary. His friend was dying of AIDS and wanted a Hulk-blood transfusion in order to get Hulk-healing powers. Bruce, afraid of Hulk 2.0 smashing up crap (with good reason, since a gamma-contaminated transfusion from him had already been the origin of She-Hulk), declined. The same plot happened in Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon, but the Dragon said yes, saying, paraphrased, only an idiot would say no to the possibility. The friend who received Dragon's blood then exploded. So...um. [[InvertedTrope Yeah]].

[[AC: Creator/DCComics]]
* [[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsActionComics Grant Morrison's run]] on ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' featured an issue about a [[TheMultiverse Multiverse]] version of Superman who started off as a creation of a group of young comic creators, only to end up being co-opted by a big corporation who screwed over the writers. The story has some pretty obvious similarities to that of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, who created Superman and whose relatives are involved in a bitter legal dispute with DC Comics over the profits gained from the character. It is also briefly mentioned that the corporation had tried to make their Superman more appealing to a modern audience by making him DarkerAndEdgier, which has been a common complaint about the ComicBook/{{New 52}} Superman and the ''Film/ManOfSteel'' movie. Morrison briefly mentions a LighterAndSofter version of Superman from another Earth called "Optiman" who failed to stop the rampaging antihero version mentioned above. As Morrison was making fun of the DarkerAndEdgier stance towards Superman, he was also mocking the idea that a "cutesy-pie" Superman is the only alternative to a darker Superman.
* An early example of DC and Marvel taking shots at one another occurred in a ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes story from ''Adventure Comics'' #350 back in 1966. After transforming into a giant spider in order to web up a monster, Chameleon Boy had this to say:
-->'''Chameleon Boy''': [[BreakingTheFourthWall In case a certain]] [[Franchise/SpiderMan web-headed character]] thinks I'm stealing his thunder, I'd like to remind him that ''I'' was changing to all sorts of weird shapes long before he walked up his first wall!
* ComicBook/AnimalMan thinks to himself while experimenting with the abilities of a spider: "Of course I wouldn't want ''only'' spider powers... that'd make me a [[Franchise/SpiderMan third-rate super-hero]]."
* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'':
** Creator/MarkMillar's first arc took this to a ridiculous extreme by fighting (and utterly destroying) satirical versions of the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the X-Men and the main villain being Creator/JackKirby; he's specifically described as "the guy who would've created all your favorite comic books" if he hadn't been hired by the US government. The series has a ''lot'' of AuthorAppeal, and [[{{Anvilicious}} they're not subtle about it either]]. The authors explained this was a deliberate poke at traditional superheroes who they felt embodied and maintained the status quo. He even takes shots at Charles Atlas bodybuilding ads. Also;
--->'''[[LawyerFriendlyCameo Legally-distinct-parody]]-of [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]]:''' Comics are for retards.\\\
'''Hawksmoor:''' (''to UsefulNotes/BillClinton'') We're not some comic book super-team who participate in pointless fights with pointless super-criminals every month to preserve the status quo.
** Speaking of Clinton, Millar hated him, and so his run on the series and the Jenny Sparks mini-series had several jabs against him. One of the issues of the mini-series even goes so far as to implicitly compare Clinton to UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.
** The comic itself later received a Take That in the form of the "ComicBook/WhatsSoFunnyAboutTruthJusticeAndTheAmericanWay" story arc of ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'', which was adapted into the DirectToVideo animated feature ''WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite''.
*** Ironically, despite the creator of "What's So Funny" intending for "The Elite" to basically be a one/two-shot deal, a second version of the Elite appeared... and turned out to be pulling a BatmanGambit to pretend to be the second coming of the original Elite in order to make humanity pull together for one major effort needed to waive off GaiasVengeance... a smackdown that Gaea herself was planning to dish out. They subsequently became the short-lived ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueElite'', in essence the black ops branch of the Franchise/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} family.
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' even had an episode that showed what would happen if the titular heroes, which ComicBook/TheAuthority is patterned loosely after, were to suddenly decide that [[KnightTemplar they knew better than everyone else]]. It's not clear if it was a deliberate TakeThat or just exploring the concept of the League becoming evil, but it's often regarded as one of the show's best-written episodes.
** Also in the series, during Creator/WarrenEllis' last story, is the Authority attempting to ''kill God''. Ellis is a staunch atheist.
* Phil Noto's unused cover for ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2009}}'' #3 shows Stephanie Brown looking over concepts for potential Batgirl costumes. As an in-joke, the Batgirl design sported by Creator/AliciaSilverstone in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' can be seen crossed out with the words "definitely not" scrawled over it.
* In Creator/GailSimone's ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2011}}'' run, the Ventriloquist enters a talent show that's a clear parody of ''Series/AmericanIdol''. The villainess proceeds to violently kill the obvious Simon Cowell [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed clone]], and leaves the Music/PaulaAbdul wannabe BoundAndGagged between two rotting corpses. Only the Randy Jackson analogue escapes unscathed.
* ''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Batman Incorporated]]'' features tons of take thats against DC Comics for the DC Universe reboot as far as Morrison openly ignoring the reboot and outright referring to things (the existence of the Outsiders, the opening arc of Morrison's ''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA JLA]]'' run and references to the original Justice League International era JLA, which Metamorpho was a member of, Batwing's original origin, Talia being part of the Secret Society of Super-Villains and the reveal that Talia was part of Alexander Luthor's scheme to bring back the Multiverse, Jason Todd and his partnership with Scarlet, and the entire Final Crisis/Black Glove storyline) that DC explicitly erased from canon.
* The {{Elseworld}}s comic ''ComicBook/BatmanWhiteKnight'' reveals that the original Creator/PaulDini / Creator/BruceTimm version of ComicBook/HarleyQuinn and the DarkerAndEdgier / HotterAndSexier ComicBook/{{New 52}} Harley are two separate people, with the former having been replaced after she abandoned the Joker when he [[MoralEventHorizon crossed the line by killing Jason Todd]]. When the original Harley returns, she kicks her replacement in the face and then insults her {{Stripperiffic}} outfit. It may also double as a TakeThatAudience aimed at the fans who think the Joker is sexy and wish to live vicariously through Harley:
-->'''Original Harley:''' Get it straight, sister. You love Joker. I love Jack. You loved his flaws. I loved him ''despite'' his flaws.
* An issue of ''ComicBook/BloodSyndicate'' had the titular team of antiheroes transformed into parodies of the ComicBook/XMen franchise. In addition to [[{{Wangst}} CONSTANTLY talking about how they had to defend a world that hated and feared them]], they had redesigned outfits with a [[NinetiesAntiHero LOT of pouches]] and names with "[[XtremeKoolLetterz cool]]" misspellings like "Kwiklash", "Brique" and "Retenshyn".
* ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold'' #74 had a scene of Batman swinging from a flagpole and claiming ''he'' did it first.
-->'''Batman''': Here's one I did before anybody, including [[Franchise/SpiderMan a certain web-spinning Peter-come-lately]]!
* The title for the first issue in the ''[[ComicBook/{{Convergence}} Convergence: Titans]]'' is "[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice Try For Justice]]", and its plot seems to aim to [[EarnYourHappyEnding fix]] problems that occurred in the series.
* ''DC Universe: Rebirth'' #1, the kickoff for the ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' event, takes a dig a comic writers who do unironic DarkerAndEdgier superheroes by revealing that Dr. Manhattan of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is the cause of the New 52, essentially saying "If you're using ''Watchmen'' as a guide to writing mainstream superhero comics, you've missed the point entirely". The basic premise could be seen as a Take That at the ComicBook/{{New 52}} as a whole, with Wally West talking about how the new continuity robbed its heroes of their history and legacy. This view was enforced by Creator/GeoffJohns, the writer of the ''Rebirth'' one-shot, giving an interview where he claimed that the New 52 rendered certain characters unrecognizable.[[note]]Such as Wally himself, to the point that the New 52 version was retconned to be a different person with the same name.[[/note]] [[spoiler: And of course the revelation of the issue is that the New 52 is a perversion of the previous continuity created by a madman with the power of a god.]]
* Creator/HannaBarbera wanted to use ComicBook/BlackLightning in ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' but when they realized it would cost extra as they would have to pay his creator Tony Isabella as well, they created his {{Expy}} Black Vulcan instead. In response, the last issue of Isabella's ''Black Lightning'' series has the titular character fight an EvilKnockoff of himself created by a villainess named Barbara Hannah.
* Creator/GrantMorrison's mini-series ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'' begins with ComicBook/PlasticMan doing a TakeThat at DC's other stretchable superhero ComicBook/ElongatedMan: "I could never figure out why the League kept choosing Elongated Man over me. Don't get me wrong, nice guy, nice wife, but hey! Someone left the stable door open and his charisma just bolted I guess!"
** In Alex Ross's ''ComicBook/{{Justice}}'', Plastic Man is portrayed as a complete jerk, especially to Ralph (Elongated Man)'s face. Ralph comes off as the bigger man when he doesn't retaliate.
** An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' features a similar jab, with Plastic Man dismissing Elongated Man as a "D-list doppleganger".
** There was the episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' that had Elongated Man whining about how Plastic Man is more popular than him despite the fact that he is a far more competent hero than Plas.
* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' contains a numbers of jabs at past DC stuff that was received poorly including ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' with Earth -1's Superman beating Batman and even mocking the idea of a Kryptonite spear and even the idea since ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns'' that Bruce could beat Clark[[note]]Creator/ScottSnyder went further and mocked the "Martha" scene on Twitter[[/note]] and depicted the much-reviled [[DorkAge Superman Blue, mohawk Riddler]] from the start of the ComicBook/New52 and the cyborgs of ''ComicBook/TheNew52FuturesEnd'' as residents of the Dark Multiverse.
* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'', sequel event of the above, provides ''many'' Take Thats towards Creator/DanDiDio, DC's much-hated former editor and co-publisher from 2002-2020, who was let go from the company during ''Death Metal'''s development. Perpetua and the Batman-Who-Laughs are portrayed as having maliciously darkened the DC multiverse (Dan [=DiDio=] was known for forcing writers to make the DCU DarkerAndEdgier), leading to their dialogue quoting and paraphrasing [=DiDio=]'s comments, and having Wonder Woman and others comment negatively about the malicious forces that ruined the multiverse. [=DiDio=]'s personal CreatorsPest, Comicbook/WallyWest, is one of the main characters of the event, which sees him get some much needed support, being absolved of the crimes [=DiDio=] had him commit, and end with him once again becoming The Flash, which also has him refute the Batman-Who-Laughs as he quotes [=DiDio=]'s apparent claim "[[CriticalResearchFailure A Flash dies in every Crisis]]" that was used to justify Wally's mistreatment. The event ends with a lead in to ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'', which sees the return of characters and continuity that [=DiDio=] tried to erase as well as a return to LighterAndSofter storytelling, which is portrayed ''in-universe'' as an end to a DorkAge.
* ''ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}'':
** There's a scene in ''ComicBook/TheLazarusContract'' where a H.I.V.E. scientist says that physicists being able to film an electron leaving an atom almost makes up for Creator/JJAbrams' ''Film/StarTrek2009'' reboot.
** Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}} has stated that he dislikes the whimsical tone many modern superheroine books have, specifically singling out practices like having characters take selfies during battle. One of the things Deathstroke tells the members of Defiance, his new team of teen superheroes, is "We don't pose for selfies."
* ''ComicBook/DetectiveComics'':
** In a backup story for issue #545, a bystander calls ComicBook/GreenArrow "ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}" dismissively. In the following panels Ollie thinks to himself how, while he can't place the name, something about it really irks him.
** In issue #938 from the ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' renumbering, Spoiler gets in a dig at Red Robin's costume from Creator/ScottLobdell's New 52 ''Teen Titans'' run.
--->'''Spoiler:''' You want me to make fun of your last costume again, with the showgirl wings?\\
'''Red Robin:''' No.\\
'''Spoiler:''' Then keep moving.
* ''[[ComicBook/DialHForHero Dial H]]'' took on none other than Creator/AlanMoore for the racial implications of his (professedly anti-racist) use of a Golliwog character in ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''.
* ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis: Rogues' Revenge'' has this thinly-veiled meta-commentary on Marc Guggenheim's run on Franchise/TheFlash and its misuse of [[FriendlyEnemy the Rogues]], as well as the quality issues of certain big events such as ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'' and ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis''.
-->'''Heat Wave:''' This isn't for Kid Flash. \\
'''Weather Wizard:''' This isn't [[spoiler:for my son]]. \\
'''Captain Cold:''' No. This is for one [[SymbolSwearing $%@#$@]]-up year.
* A precursor to Superboy-Prime appears in Franchise/TheFlash storyline "Return of Barry Allen," Creator/MarkWaid's response to fans asking him to bring back Barry. He brings back Barry all right--except it's really [[spoiler:the young Eobard Thawne, future Professor Zoom]], retconned into a fanboy so obsessive he gets plastic surgery to look exactly like Barry Allen. When various psychological shocks [[spoiler:such as discovering he goes on to be a villain and be killed by his former idol]] leave him convincing himself he ''is'' Barry, he is furious to discover that people grew to think of Wally West as the Flash in the years after Barry died, and he eventually leaves Wally in a deathtrap for "stealing his name."
* Issue #2 of ''[[ComicBook/TheGreenLantern Green Lantern: Blackstars]]'' features another series of meta-jabs from Creator/GrantMorrison, with the Superman of the altered timeline essentially roasting the state of the modern DC Universe. These observations include the way Batman's villains have abandoned clever, entertaining crimes in favor of repeated attempts to attack him on a personal level (referencing the City of Bane storyline from Creator/TomKing's ''ComicBook/{{Batman|Rebirth}}'' run, as well as the various other times this plot point has been rehashed in recent years), Wonder Woman having become a sword-swinging BloodKnight who favors violence and aggression over love and compassion (a dig at the ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' reboot of the character, especially as she was characterized by Creator/GeoffJohns), the Justice League's encounters with beings from "The Depressoverse" (an allusion to the Dark Multiverse from Creator/ScottSnyder's various books, such as ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' and ''ComicBook/{{Justice League|2018}}''), an "odd effect" Superman has begun noticing in his own dialogue (a gag about Creator/BrianMichaelBendis' trademark use of MametSpeak in his ''[[ComicBook/BrianMichaelBendisSuperman Superman]]'' run), and an admission that the heroes of the DC Universe have been "struggling to change with the times" (a nod to DC's repeated attempts to revamp and reimagine its heroes to appeal to modern audiences, usually with mixed results). Being a good sport, Morrison also threw in a line about [[LegacyCharacter the number of times Batman has been replaced]], a slam on their own ''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Batman and Robin]]'' run.
* Buck Wild from ''ComicBook/{{Icon}}'' was both a TakeThat and an AffectionateParody of the early superheroes of the {{Blaxploitation}} years. ComicBook/BlackLightning, ComicBook/TheFalcon, Black Goliath, and ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}} are all explicitly parodied, and Icon states that Buck's antics were often highly embarrassing. However, he also says that despite being a [[CaptainEthnic caricature]], Buck is deserving of respect, since he paved the way for the less-offensive black superheroes of today.
* As a parody comic, ''The Inferior Five'' had a few moments of this:
** Issue #7 had a scene where the real Thor from Norse mythology was mortified after the Five shaved his trademark beard and dyed his red hair blond, causing him to resemble his [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Marvel counterpart]]. The same issue also had an appearance from a parody of [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor the Sub-Mariner]] called "Nabob the Sub-Moron", complete with a mangling of Namor's patented "Imperius Rex!" BattleCry.
--->'''Nabob:''' ''Tyrannosaurus rex''! Hmm... That doesn't sound right! ''Theatre/OedipusRex''? Creator/RexHarrison?
** Issue #10 brough back Nabob and introduced "[[ComicBook/SpiderMan Cobweb Kid]]" and "[[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Kookie Quartet]]," all of whom ended up thoroughly humiliated by the end of the story.
* One issue of ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' has been seen as a major Take That towards the changes done to Superman. The issue, showing a young man who wishes for the Superman of old, where he'd help kids and shame criminals into giving up, could be taken as a Take That towards ''Film/ManOfSteel'', ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' or how the prequel comic has gone on.
* The trade paperback collection for the DC event ''ComicBook/{{Invasion}}'' had the tagline "Secret No More!", a jab at Marvel's ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion''. [[labelnote:*]]Both storylines were alien invasion stories, but while ''Secret Invasion'' dropped the ball on any long-term effects, ''Invasion!'' didn't, the biggest one being the revelation of the meta-gene.[[/labelnote]]
* In the ''[[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]] / [[ComicBook/TheMask Mask]]'' crossover, the Joker briefly transforms into a new futuristic form he dubs "[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Joker Beyond]]", which he quickly dismisses as being "a little too Saturday morning".
* Some fans have speculated that the ''ComicBook/{{Justice}}'' miniseries was either a TakeThat or at least a "measured response" to the ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'' miniseries.
* James Robinson's final issue of the 2006-2011 ''Justice League'' series has a number of potshots directed at the ComicBook/{{New 52}} reboot that resulted in the title's cancellation, including the favoritism shown towards [[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Batwing]] over a number of already-established African-based heroes, Dick Grayson's return to the Nightwing identity and Donna Troy's apparent lack of appearance in the reboot. It also took shots at the ''Justice League'' fans who criticized Robinson's run, with Grayson stating that he didn't care whether or not his iteration of the League would be remembered fondly by the public, and that he and his team did their best despite what the detractors said. How subtle.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'':
** The New 52 volume seemingly got in a dig at ComicBook/BlueBeetle Jaime Reyes (who some JLI fans don't like) when the people recruiting the new JLI reacted negatively when Jaime was suggested as a potential member of the team, arguing he was too inexperienced. In the final issue of the series, Jaime ''did'' join the team, which caused Guy Gardner to quit on the spot when Jaime asked if [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Superman and Wonder Woman]] were also part of the group.
** The original ''Justice League International'' volume from the 80s took a lighthearted jab at ComicBook/TheAvengers in its eleventh issue. After ComicBook/CaptainAtom yells out "[[AvengersAssemble Justice League assemble]]!" during a fight, a bemused ComicBook/MartianManhunter says the Justice League doesn't need a BattleCry. Captain Atom then gets snapped at again when he refers to the team as "The Mighty Justice League" (a play on "The Mighty Avengers") a short time later.
* ''Justice League Quarterly'' #16 was a series of in-universe comic books featuring General Glory, DC's then-current CaptainErsatz Captain America. For the most part these were {{Affectionate Parod|y}}ies of fifties monster comics (as "General Glory's Really Scary Stories", a parody of ''Captain America's Weird Tales''), Silver Age superheroes (and more SelfDeprecation on DC's Silver Age than Cap's return at Marvel) and even ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' (as "Return on a Dark Night"). The final story, however, is "The Power ... And The Platitude!" by Indulgence Comics in which the "Wildbloods" free an insane General Glory and Ernie from suspended animation in a vicious parody of Creator/ImageComics in general and ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'' freeing John Prophet in particular. In the [[FramingDevice Framing Story]], the real Glory calls it "downright pointless", and the guy he's showing the comics to says "General Glory should ''stand'' for something. He shouldn't be involved in meaningless violence for its own sake."
* Subversion: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20091123073045/http://www.4thletter.net/2009/11/okay-now-im-getting-mad/ this page]] from ''[[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]]'' created some backlash, because it was seen as a TakeThatCritics against everybody who criticized oversexualised costumes for superheroines, but [[https://web.archive.org/web/20091203212140/http://www.4thletter.net/2009/11/boobgate-nine-days-later/ this response from Jen Van Meter]] explains it was never intended to be take that.
** [[https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_medium/3/31666/823367-jsa3.jpg The cover]] for ''[[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA Classified]]'' #3 took a shot at the industry's over-dependence on big events in the 2000s as ComicBook/PowerGirl and ComicBook/{{Huntress}} couldn't remember which event they were in at the time.
--->'''Power Girl''': So is this a Villians United thing or an OMAC thing?
* Creator/MarkWaid's ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' series is essentially a middle finger to the 90's [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks era of comics]]. The irresponsible hero Magog (who causes the death of thousands of civilians) is an obvious parody of the X-Men character ComicBook/{{Cable}}, a popular character during that time period. Additionally, many of the DC heroes introduced in the 90's such as Kyle Rayner (who the artist Alex Ross has gone on record as saying he hates), Bart Allen (who was co-created by Waid) and Tim Drake were completely ignored, while others like Kon-El appeared in the background as part of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the comic. Amusingly, Ross also designed Magog as a jab at the notorious Creator/RobLiefeld, by modeling Magog after two characters that he designed: Cable and ComicBook/{{Shatterstar}}. Magog resembles Cable with a version of Shatterstar's helmet. Ironically, since Waid wrote Magog as a three dimensional character who was an apologetic WellIntentionedExtremist who learned from his mistake, he ended up being a favorite character of the creators.
* Back during the 90s, fans had clamored for Franchise/{{Batman}} to be DarkerAndEdgier akin to ComicBook/ThePunisher. To that end, they used ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'' to phase Bruce Wayne out in favor of AntiHeroSubstitute [[ComicBook/{{Azrael}} Jean-Paul Valley]], who proceeds to tear through villainy in a Punisher-like style, yet never coming close to taking a life before, finally, culminating with him finally taking a life and Bruce Wayne coming back to kick his ass and take back his name. Interesting, he's told by four different people, including Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/TheJoker that he's not the real Batman. At one point, Commissioner Gordon asks Robin when the ''real'' Batman will be returning, referring to [=AzBats=] as "that punk" in Batman's costume.
* A bunch of defectors from Marvel (Byrne included), snuck in an epic TakeThat into the DC series ''ComicBook/{{Legends}}'', where [[Franchise/GreenLantern Guy Gardner]] beat the crap out of Sunspot, a transparent {{Expy}} of Marvel's Star Brand (the over-hyped headlining book of Marvel's ''[[ComicBook/TheNewUniverse New Universe]]'' which spectacularly failed to take off and bore a suspicious resemblance to Marvel Editor Creator/JimShooter). Guy doesn't even break a sweat, and Sunspot ends the fight by shooting himself in the foot while ranting about why the New Universes he tries to create keep exploding. Viewable [[http://daveslongbox.blogspot.com/2006/10/guy-gardner-vs-jim-shooter.html here]].
* ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'':
** The most distinguishing feature of Earth-8, based on Creator/MarvelComics, on the interactive map is that its heroes "fight with each other as much as they fight the bad guys". Notably, the Behemoth (its version of the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk) [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/7/73/David_Dibble_%28Earth_8%29.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/350?cb=20141228205445 transforms into a raging, giant, blue baby]] instead of a jade titan when aggravated.
** The Gentry appear to be manifestations of the stagnation found in mainstream comics. Intellectron, a one-eyed bat-winged creature, in particular is seen as a parody of Creator/DCComics, representing the company's obsession with Franchise/{{Batman}}, a singular vision, and lack of depth perception.
** In ''Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors of the Counter-World #1'', Abin Sur's fight with Count Sinestro and Parallax, as well as [[spoiler: Abin Sur beating both of them on his own]], may be criticism at DC dragging out the emotional entity concept in ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' and how Parallax has become a diminished threat in recent stories. As well, the use of Parallax [[spoiler:to power the Transmatter Engine for Doc Fate]] can be a reference to how Parallax himself has been used as a tool rather than an actual villain in his own right in his stories since the advent of the ComicBook/{{New 52}}.
** Earth-41's Nimrod Squad is a blatant shot at ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}''.
** ''Thunderworld #1'' feels like a huge shot at how DC has handled the Marvel Family in the last few years, due to the fact that the Billy, Mary, Freddy, and Wizard of Earth-5 are much more wholesome and well-adjusted compared to their main Earth counterparts. There's also the fact that Sivana, who is still a CardCarryingVillain, is disturbed by an AxCrazy counterpart who makes very unsavory comments about what he did to his world's Marvel Family. Said villain feels sadly similar to the villains who've become common in Earth-0's universe.\\
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''Thunderworld #1'' also comes off as a TakeThat to the New 52 as a whole, seeing how its lack of DarkerAndEdgier elements seems to be what allowed it to repel the Gentry's invasion in the first place. It goes to show that you don't need hyper-realism and grim elements to create a good story, and that the optimism and fun of Pre-New 52 DC still has a place in comics. And, given how well-received ''Thunderworld'' has been, it's something that hasn't been lost on the general comic-book readership either. Captain Marvel even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s how silly the darker and edgier stories are when it comes down to it, and asks just what's wrong with a happy ending.
--->'''Captain Marvel Junior:''' ''[=S.O.S.=]''... They cancelled that book.\\
'''Captain Marvel:''' No wonder. What happened to happy endings? "I'll get out and destroy everything..." HA! I don't know about you. But, that sounds to me, like tomorrow's big adventure! ''(crumples up the Gentry's cursed comic-book, chucks it into the trash, and flies off with Mary and Junior to their next big adventure with smiles on their faces)''
** Not to mention that when Sivana takes over the Rock of Eternity, and starts plundering the magic from it, he redecorates it to look like a corporate office, complete with cubicles and potted plants. Possibly a comment on how the comics industry has now become one big corporation.
** ''Pax Americana #1'' is a not too subtle one to Creator/AlanMoore, and how he deconstructed superheroes in a cold mechanical way through the visuals and narrative of ''{{ComicBook/Watchmen}}''.
--->'''Captain Atom:''' I had to take a closer look... I thought the pieces would explain the whole. But... It's hard to love the pieces like... like.. I thought I could locate the source of these feelings doctor. Then I realized... [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What have I done?]] I just killed Butch. My faithful little dog.
** As well as Moore's later attempts at [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructing]] the genre through his later work ''{{ComicBook/Supreme}}'', and giving a reason as to why Alan Moore or any writer who did {{Deconstruction}} stories can never return to anything upbeat ''and'' meaningful.
--->'''Captain Atom:''' Except... what if Butch is alive as well as dead? Why not? ''[another dog similar visually to Butch appears next to the body of the dead dog]'' Hm. Not the same.
** And when discussing the book (which was drawn by Frank Quitely) in an interview, Morrison said it beats the hell out of [[ComicBook/JupitersLegacy that series]] Frank is doing with Creator/MarkMillar at Image.
** The book "The Just" is a look at the comic book industry's place in the larger pop culture consciousness, in particular to Hollywood and blockbuster movies. In this world, peace has been achieved for years and the children of heroes are superficial mock-ups of their parents, much the same way that some fans argue that movie and TV adaptations lack the depth and heart of the source material. Heroes don't have any ''real'' fights anymore, but engage in highly-publicized re-enactments for the populace. They even knock the fans who only vaguely go into comics because it's a popular thing due to films with no deeper appreciation.
--->'''Damian:''' When did Hipsters get into superhero books?
** "The Just" also contains a [[TakeThatMe slam on Grant Morrison's own tendency toward metatextual stories.]] Upon hearing the plot of the comic, a deeply-annoyed Damian Wayne remarks, "So basically they found some post-postmodern way to make superheroes seem interesting. That's never going to happen."
* In ''ComicBook/NewGods'', Creator/JackKirby left some careful hints that the series was a StealthSequel to ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'', taking place long after Asgard was destroyed during [[{{Gotterdammerung}} Ragnarok]]. In one issue, a character finds Thor's helmet in the ruins of Asgard, and remarks that the Asgardians ([[LawyerFriendlyCameo who are not explicitly named as such]]) must've destroyed themselves because they were stupid savages obsessed with combat. Note that Kirby left Marvel on ''very'' bad terms with Creator/StanLee and the company in general...
** The "bad terms" became extremely obvious with the creation of the low-level villain Funky Flashman in ''ComicBook/MisterMiracle'', who was recognised by just about everyone at the time as a malicious caricature of Lee. (And his sycophantic servant Houseroy as a caricature of then Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas.)
* Around the early [[TheNewTens New Tens]], there was a prolific message board poster known as Herald, who would often complain about DC's current editorial practices. Creator/DanDidio eventually wrote Herald into ''[[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders The Outsiders]]'' as an annoying and effeminate fanboy with the real name "[[PunnyName Harold Winer]]," and then proceeded to have him get humiliated by Looker and roughed up by her security detail.
* While writing her ''ComicBook/PoisonIvy'' mini-series, Amy Chu included a scene where Ivy kills a sleazy coworker who tries to blackmail her into having sex with him. This was a dig at the issue's editor, Eddie Berganza, who had developed a reputation for sexually harassing his female coworkers and employees.
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', being a Neil Gaiman series, inevitably takes a jab at Freud. In Volume 2, when Rose and Morpheus are flying together through the Dreaming:
-->'''Rose:''' Do you know what Freud said about dreams of flying? It means you're really dreaming about having sex.\\
'''Morpheus:''' Indeed? Tell me, then, [[FauxSymbolism what does it mean when you dream about having sex]]?
* ''ComicBook/SecretOrigins'' v2 #19 recounts how the Guardian got his trademark shield from a costume shop. While in the shop, he sees a replica of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's triangular shield, and decides to see which one is tougher by banging both shields together. Cap's shield is easily wrecked, while the Guardian's remains pristine and undamaged.
* Robinson's ''ComicBook/{{Starman}}'' run had the members of the [[WestCoastTeam Justice League Europe]] violently killed by the Mist. A later issue had other villains mocking the Mist and claiming that killing the JLE didn't give her any credibility [[CListFodder since they were all obscure D-listers anyway]].
** A flashback issue starring Will Payton, the previous Starman, begins with Will having an inner monologue about why nobody seems to like him and climaxes with a bad guy giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how he has "no edge" in a very obvious case of WriterOnBoard. For context, Will Payton was very much TheCape but was created right at the beginning of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks, and never really caught on.
* While writing the ''[[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse Star Trek]]'' comic for DC, Creator/PeterDavid had to put up with a lot of ExecutiveMeddling from a Paramount employee named Richard Arnold. Among other things, Arnold reneged on certain promises (such as allowing David to use characters from ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' and then changing his mind), and made David get rid of a character named R.J. Blaise. As soon as Arnold was fired, David brought back R.J. and did a story about a warlord named Darrich from the planet Landor ("Darrich" and "Landor" being anagrams of "Richard" and "Arnold"). R.J. revealed that Darrich was difficult to deal with and had a habit of reneging on promises he'd already made, and that she had humiliatingly forced him to sign a peace treaty at gunpoint.
* An issue of ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' mocked the much-maligned ''Justice League: The Rise of Arsenal'' mini-series. The original mini featured a widely-mocked scene where a doped up Arsenal hallucinates that a dead cat is his daughter Lian. An issue of ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'' featured a Bizzaro version of Arsenal... whose gimmick was a quiver full of dead cats which he used as projectile weapons.
* In an issue of the New 52 ''Superman'' series, Cat Grant mocks the Daily Planet by claiming that unlike the Planet, the blog she and Clark run isn't held hostage by the whims of lawyers and corporate overlords. This is of course in reference to Marvel being controlled by Creator/{{Disney}}, which is itself somewhat [[HypocriticalHumor hypocritical]], since DC has technically been owned by a large corporation since the late 1960's.
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'':
** At the height of the popularity of the ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'' franchise, there was a ''Teen Titans'' issue where ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} bluntly stated that zombies were lame.
** The first issue of the ComicBook/{{New 52}} ''Teen Titans'' series opens with [[Franchise/TheFlash Kid Flash]] accidentally burning down [[ComicBook/XMen a mansion in Westchester]]. This was of course written by Creator/ScottLobdell, a writer who had a lengthy tenure on Marvel's X-books before jumping ship and moving to DC.
** The New 52 ''Teen Titans'' later ended up on the other end of a TakeThat in the ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' relaunch of the title. Turns out Damian has the same opinion of Red Robin's Teen Titans that a lot of the fans did, saying that they epitomized everything wrong with modern teen heroes, and didn't deserve to call themselves a team.
--->'''Damian Wayne:''' Despite his best efforts, over the past few years the Teen Titans have been losers, criminals...a '''''joke'''''.
* The ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo'' comic edition "Stupid Cupid" took a massive, though lighthearted, shot at the [[{{Shipping}} shipping community]], with Raven mentioning that shipping is rather pointless.
* ''ComicBook/TinyTitans'' #4 has a montage of ComicBook/{{Robin}} trying on new costumes given to him by his friends. At one point he puts on the rubber Robin costume from ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' and immediately rejects it for being "too snug". He then quips [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall about how it looks like something out of a movie]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': ComicBook/TheQuestion sez [[https://web.archive.org/web/20090310022854/http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=4448 Rorschach sucks]]. [[MisaimedFandom There's a good chance Alan Moore would agree.]]
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The villain Dr. Psycho was drawn to look like a caricature of Goebbels.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': Tsaritsa temporarily takes on the appearance Diana sported in the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 late-60s]] when she lost her powers and learned martial arts to become a spy. Diana simply responds with a punch and that she would never act like that.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanOdyssey'' takes a jab at Diana's romantic entanglement with Tom Tresser (Nemesis) whom she was dating for most of ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'' as the character named Nemesis in this volume is the BigBad.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'':
** There's a jab at the violently misandrist [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 New 52 Amazons]], with Diana noting how they're all wrong.
** Diana saying that she was only with Superman because it was "easy", which is a common criticism of the New 52 relationship: they're two super strong attractive people, so of course they'd be together! The romantic aspect of their former relationship is later retconned out entirely.
* A running joke throughout ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' was that ComicBook/{{Impulse}} really, really, REALLY hated Music/{{Hanson}}, a BoyBand that was popular during the period the comic was published.
* When Creator/DwayneMcDuffie recycled the old, tossed out idea of superhero Black Power, who has access to his powers in [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] style -- transformation after saying certain word -- and from white man turns into black one, he made his white form look like ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' writer Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, and his black form very similar to ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}, Bendis' favorite character. This may have been more of a ShoutOut though.
* Prior to [=McDuffie=]'s death, he had been in some very publicized disputes with Creator/DanDiDio and DC editorial over the ExecutiveMeddling his ''Justice League of America'' run and his ''Milestone Forever'' mini-series received. After he died, a one-shot tribute comic was published, and it contained a metafictional story where ComicBook/{{Static}} and Rocket discuss their creator's passing, and both state that now that he is dead, the same people who bullied Dwayne and made his job difficult would try to cash in and pretend that he was important to them.
* A common running joke over at DC has been to mock the [[NinetiesAntiHero EEEEEXTREMEEE heroes]] who spun out of ''Bloodlines'' crossover from the [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks 90's]]. For instance, the ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]/ComicBook/{{Hitman|1993}}''[[note]]Hitman himself being a product of the crossover, yet far more successful than any of the other debuts[[/note]] crossover had Franchise/TheFlash claim that the Bloodlines heroes were a bunch of buffoons who nobody else in the superhero community wanted to team-up with. He then chalked up their [[CListFodder infamously high mortality rate]] to a general lack of competence on their part. This happened as early as the months after the storyline ended. During the ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'' storyline, Jean-Paul Valley encounters two of them in the main titles. He tells one of them to get out of Gotham or he's going to get killed and the other quickly leaves town after his adventure with them is over. Many of them end up getting killed by Superboy-Prime later on down the line.
* The number of times that Creator/DCComics and Creator/MarvelComics superheroes have beaten on an AlternateCompanyEquivalent of their rival's characters are too numerous to count. It's been a tradition for the two companies to do light-hearted jabs at each other for over fifty years. Unfortunately, writers today [[ArmedWithCanon tend to forget that]].
* [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/115337-Robama-Wants-You-to-Buy-American This ad,]] funded by DC, is already a petty jab at {{Manga}}, but takes it a few steps further by saying "[[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Robama]] (who is just ComicBook/{{Cyborg}}) [[UnfortunateImplications wants you to buy American!]]" The [[PatrioticFervor overly patriotic tone]] doesn't help.

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* In ''ComicBook/AllNewWolverine'' issue 12, [[ComicBook/{{X 23}} Wolverine]] delivers one to Marvel's recent string of GoodVersusGood conflicts (''ComicBook/CivilWar'', ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', ''ComicBook/{{Axis}}'', and now ''ComicBook/CivilWarII''), with many readers finding her KirkSummation mirroring their own thoughts on such events.
-->'''Laura:''' But the world will watch hero fight hero, and people will get just a little more disillusioned, a little less trusting, a little more cynical.
* Ever since Creator/BrianMichaelBendis got his hands on ComicBook/{{X 23}}, his ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'' started taking jabs at the last comic she was in, ''ComicBook/AvengersArena''. First Jean Grey reads from Laura's mind what happened to her and says "it's awful". Then a member of [[FantasticRacism Purrifers]] decides to show that EvenEvilHasStandards by calling Arcade's game "popcorn for morons".
* ComicBook/{{Ares}}, God of war comments on how much he hated ''Film/{{Troy}}'', after explaining that he ''fought in the actual battle alongside Achilles.'' [[note]]He actually fought alongside the Trojans in the real thing, but considering that Achilles also remembers fighting alongside him, he probably fought for the other team in the Marvel Universe.[[/note]] He also has once took a jab at Spartans, saying they never failed to annoy him and that he favored Athens. Spartans having a statue of him in chains, and their kids claiming to be Hercules' descendants may have something to do with it.
* During Creator/RogerStern's run on ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', a construction worker asked why heroes don't use phone booths to change or shout "UpUpAndAway" anymore. ComicBook/SheHulk coyly responded by saying [[Franchise/{{Superman}} such things]] went out of style in TheSixties. The same run had an issue where ComicBook/MonicaRambeau, while reading mail from various politicians requesting that the Avengers relocate to their city, stated "Detroit? They've gotta be kidding!" This was a dig at the [[DorkAge reviled]] Detroit-era ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' that was still being published at the time.
* In Creator/JasonAaron's ''Avengers'', the US government superteam is a version of the ComicBook/SquadronSupreme. Nighthawk suspects that the other members of the team (but not himself, obviously) are having their personalities manipulated, noting that the romantic relationship between Hyperion and Power Princess (the SupermanSubstitute and WonderWomanWannabe) feels forced and artifical. This reflects common criticism of the actual Clark/Diana relationship in the ''ComicBook/New52'', which DC had already realized wasn't working and retconned away. This is taken further in the Free Comic Book Day Special, where Iron Man criticizes Washington D.C. (the city the Squadron operates out of) in such a blatant manner that any pretense the book ''isn't'' making fun of DC Comics completely vanishes.
-->'''Iron Man:''' No matter the regime, they've always had people there who do great work. It's in all of our best interests that they do great work. But it's always seemed to me they spend too much time worried about us, and annoyed we spend so little time worried about them.
* The first page of ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'' #34 features Hazmat and Mettle complaining about how the [[ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen battle between the X-Men and the Avengers]] [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall has been dragging on way too long]].
* The final issue of ''[[ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen AvX Versus]]'' had two strips that mocked the entire premise. One had ComicBook/SquirrelGirl and Pixie find figurines of the two teams and play with them, only for ComicBook/TheThing to walk in and take them away, mentioning that they were Puppet Master's dolls.
* ''Marvel: NOW What?!'' Is a big TakeThat to the ComicBook/MarvelNow relaunch, but particularly scathing is ComicBook/TheWatcher going through exposure therapy to cure him of his addiction to [[AlienNonInterferenceClause meddling with events]]. As another watcher bars him from interfering we see many things which the Watcher desperately tries to stop from happening: ComicBook/SpiderMan [[ComicBook/CivilWar revealing his identity to the world]], ComicBook/ScarletWitch [[ComicBook/HouseOfM saying "No more mutants"]], Creator/RobLiefeld's [[OffModel drawing of]] ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, a clapperboard for the ComicBook/NickFury movie with Creator/DavidHasselhoff, [[ReplacementScrappy H.E.R.B.I.E.]], ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s bestial redesign from the late [[UsefulNotes/TheNineties 90's]], and more divisively, ComicBook/JeanGrey returning as The Phoenix and the introduction of the ComicBook/ScarletSpider.
* ''ComicBook/TheAwesomeSlapstick'' is built on {{Shout Out}}s and {{Take That}}s, having things like "[[ComicBook/ThePunisher The Overkiller]], mutant murderizer" and "[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Skulker-Arounder]], dark, gritty, realistic avenger of evil".
* Comics from ''A+X'' series (about team-ups between members of Avengers and X-Men) had ComicBook/WonderMan and ComicBook/{{Beast|MarvelComics}} pointing how horribly out of character other's recent actions, that all happened under writing of Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, are.
* ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'':
** In issue #17, Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}} took a dig at Steve Englehart's controversial {{retcon}} of ComicBook/TheFalcon's origin, which established that the character [[UnfortunateImplications had been a pimp prior to becoming a superhero]]. Specifically, he pointed out the implausibility of this revelation:
--->'''Everett Ross:''' "Snap" Wilson was a racketeer (pronounced "pimp") turned social worker. We'll pretend not to know [[PlotHole a felony record would disqualify him from that job]].
** In issue #29, Ross says that if he had Klaw's sonic abilities, he'd use use them to make Music/{{Eminem}} shut up.
** An issue of the Reginald Hudlin run has a team-up with ComicBook/ShangChi, and features some digs at [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]], Marvel's other big martial arts superhero. It's implied that Shang-Chi is the better fighter of the two, and that Iron Fist is so insecure about this that he never even mentions Shang to his friends.
* One of the first issues of Creator/PeterDavid's ''ComicBook/CaptainMarVell'' (not [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} that other guy]]) started with this dialogue:
-->'''Guy:''' I have here an entire box of ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}} [[Creator/RobLiefeld #1]]'' special collector's editions. How much'll you give me?\\
'''Marlo:''' A dollar.\\
'''Guy:''' A dollar a copy?! But they retail for $2.50 apiece! I bought this five years ago as a college investment!\\
'''Marlo:''' Not a dollar a copy. A dollar for the whole box. And frankly, [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks it's guys like you who ruined the fun of comic reading for everybody else]].
* ''[[ComicBook/NickSpencersCaptainAmerica Captain America: Sam Wilson]]'' had a gang of [[StrawmanU parody student leftists]] who wanted to murder anyone who they considered sexist or racist, who called themselves the "Bombshells." This appeared to be a slap at ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', a DC {{Elseworld}} series featuring a WorldOfActionGirls and CastFullOfGay that was popular with the kind of politically active female superhero fan who the ''Captain America'' comic was caricaturing.
* In the ComicBook/{{Carnage}} 5-part series that ran from 2010 to 2011, one of the main characters, who brings Cletus Kasady and the Carnage symbiote back to Earth, and subsequently uses both for experimentation, is named Michael Hall. Now maybe it's a coincidence, but actor Creator/MichaelCHall does play a red-haired serial killer on ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' and Cletus Kasady is a serial killer with short red hair. The series ended with Cletus taking Hall hostage to torture him for personal amusement.
* In the second issue of ''ComicBook/DamageControl'', comptroller Albert Cleary confronts ComicBook/DoctorDoom regarding an outstanding bill. Doom agrees to pay the bill, stating "Doom always pays his debts," and even fires his majordomo for refusing to pay Damage Control in the first place. [[WordOfGod According to writer Dwayne McDuffie]], this was a direct Take That against a classic story from ''[[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Hero for Hire]]'' when Doom hired Luke Cage for a job and left town without paying him, and Luke had to follow Doom all the way to Latveria to get paid. [=McDuffie=] didn't think that Doom's refusal to pay Cage went against his more common "Doom's word is his bond" treatment.
* When Matt Murdock needs to make everyone forget he's been publicly outed as ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} ([[RecycledScript ...again]]), he goes to ComicBook/DoctorStrange, and Stephen point blank says he can't help. Then Damien Hellstorm offers to contact ComicBook/{{Mephisto}}, but Matt decides he's not ''that'' desperate. These are, of course, jabs at Spider-Man's DealWithTheDevil in ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' and the resulting retcon in ''ComicBook/OneMomentInTime''.
** Speaking of, one issue of the 2019 ''Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man'' run had the webhead run to Strange begging to help heal up a kid he accidentally broke his arm. While he's there, he admits that he also wants him to [[spoiler:save his Aunt May, who has been diagnosed with cancer]]. Strange calmly tells Spidey that there are things he just can't do and to spend what time they have left together just in case. Strange does mention summoning a demon, but both agree that that's a really bad idea.
* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}/GLI Summer Special'' has a ComicBook/SquirrelGirl subplot, which is a massive jab at the trend of making all comics DarkerAndEdgier. It starts with her outright saying she misses times comics worlds were "places to escape to, not from", then she goes to convince [[ComicBook/NewWarriors Speedball]] to stop being [[ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} Penance]], which ends with him smashing his head against the wall and yelling he's deep now.
* In ''ComicBook/DeadpoolVsThePunisher'' #5, Deadpool decides to stop the fight [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice after mistakenly coming to believe the Punisher's mom is named Martha]].
-->'''Deadpool:''' People whose mothers have the same name shouldn't fight.
* In ''Despicable Deadpool'' #298, Deadpool sarcastically tells ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}} and a wheelchair-bound man that they should make a play for the cancelled ''Series/{{Inhumans}}'' TV show's time slot.
* In ''[[ComicBook/TheDefenders Fearless Defenders]]'', the team meets Warrior Woman, the queen of the Amazons. ComicBook/{{Valkyrie|Marvel Comics}} immediately launches into a tirade about [[Franchise/WonderWoman how badly Amazons suck and how they're nothing but pathetic Norse wannabes]].
* An issue of ''ComicBook/TomDeFalcosFantasticFour'' had ComicBook/AntMan watching an episode of the maligned [[WesternAnimation/FantasticFour 90's Fantastic Four cartoon]] and then proclaiming it to be awful. Editorial was not pleased.
* The ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'' mini-series has a TakeThat at ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'' when Monkey Joe's remains are examined, revealing a footprint that says -eebok.
* Tom Brevoort mentioned that ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} and ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}}'' was "Guaranteed to have 100% less heroin use and impotence than [[ComicBook/GreenArrow the average comic starring an archer]]".
* Brian Bendis wrote a few take thats towards ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'', not only having Franchise/SpiderMan reveal his secret identity to the ComicBook/NewAvengers as soon as he could and having ComicBook/SpiderWoman, who never has any [[NoFourthWall fourth wall breaking moments]], asking if Peter wasn't married.
* During the nineties period, somebody gave the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk a fin to wear on his head that resembled ComicBook/TheSavageDragon's. Hulk pointed out that despite this "ingenious disguise" everyone who saw him would think, "Hey there goes Hulk with a fin on his head."
** There was also the ongoing feud between Creator/PeterDavid and Erik Larsen. In the 90's, Larsen wrote a Sinister Six story where ComicBook/DoctorOctopus ''beat the fuck'' out of the Hulk without even trying, which pissed off David. David responded by writing a story where the Hulk subjected Doc Ock to a CurbStompBattle and effortlessly humiliated him without even trying. Hulk then explained that last time they fought, [[WorfHadTheFlu he only lost because he was holding back.]] The issue also mocked Larsen and the other Marvel creators who left to form Creator/ImageComics.
--->'''Hulk:''' Last time we met, Doctor, I feel I was robbed. Petty ''larceny'', as it were.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' arc "Love & War" was more or less a massive Take That at DC's ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack''. And by that, we mean it was completely awesome.
* ''ComicBook/IronMan'':
** One issue featured Jarvis resigning. His letter of resignation is actually the same letter Dave Cockrum wrote when resigning from Marvel. In case people didn't get it, the writer explicitly mentioned this three issues later.
** Writer David Michelinie started writing ''Iron Man'' after resigning from DC when he found out that Rich Buckler, his artist on ''Star Hunters'', had stolen a starship design from the cartoon ''WesternAnimation/SpaceSentinels''. Michelinie wound up doing a storyline featuring a crooked ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} agent named Buck Richlen, who, when arrested, tried to blame the whole thing on his assistants (much like Buckler did when his plagiarism was discovered).
* ''101 ways to end ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' is dedicated mostly to SelfDeprecation, but it has its moments: First [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sanderson Peter Sanderson]] spends the entirety of his part in the story detailing the {{Continuity Snarl}}s brought about by the Clone Saga, then Creator/TomDeFalco threatens the Marvel writing staff with being sent to a PlaceWorseThanDeath: [[DoubleEntendre DC!]] Finally, there's a dig at the (shockingly similar) {{Kudzu Plot}}s that have happened with the ComicBook/XMen:
--> '''Peter:''' ''Whew!'' Thank god! I thought Traveller was gonna say he was an [[ComicBook/{{Cable}} alternate future version of my unborn mutant child]], or something REALLY demented!
* The ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' line of comics, featuring traditional Marvel heroes with stories aimed at a younger audience, has been known to take what can only be seen as deliberate snubs at the main line of Marvel Comics. Sadly, it is because of this that ExecutiveMeddling got involved and canceled the comic.
** During the height of ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk,'' where almost all of Marvel's superheroes were defeated by the Hulk, ''Marvel Adventures'' released an issue where the Avengers, including Bruce Banner and Iron Man, need to go into space. After considering the dangers of turning into the Hulk and killing the crew by accident Banner tells them that they have permission to eject him into space if he becomes a danger. Iron Man and the Avengers share a good-hearted laugh and Tony smiles at Banner and says, "Don't be silly. We'd ''never'' shoot the Hulk into space." Wolverine then shot Hulk into space...
** Lately in the main line continuity, Tigra has been repeatedly crapped on by writer Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, who writes the two Avengers titles. ''Marvel Adventures: Avengers'' had Tigra join the team.
** Henry Pym and Janet van Dyne, one of the main continuity writers' favorite pairings to screw over, are a happy, if sometimes awkward couple, much closer to what they were before TrueArtIsAngsty set in the original comics. This even gets a lampshading, with Spider-Man kidding that "it would never work" when they first hook up.
** Doc Samson's notes on Spider-Man during psychoanalysis: [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay "...Needs a wife."]]
** In issue #35 of ''Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man'', Venom offers to help Spidey and become his sidekick, proclaiming that they'll be known as ComicBook/VenomLethalProtector! Spider-Man calls it the dumbest idea ever. (Though he technically was reacting to sidekick idea.)
** During a brief team-up, Wolverine asks Alex Power of ComicBook/PowerPack if he's ever considered "movin' up to the big leagues". Alex replies that he has once or twice, but "it turns out I'm pretty happy with the team I'm on." This is likely a reference to the change the character underwent in the '90s when he ''stole his siblings' powers'' not once but ''twice'' so he could fight without his siblings as one of the New Warriors.
** ''The Avengers'' poked fun at the infamous ''Film/{{Captain America|1990}}'' direct to video movie (where Cap wore rubber ears on his mask) by having ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} sarcastically ask him "Are those ears real?!"
* One of the supporting characters in Creator/MarkMillar's ''ComicBook/Marvel1985'' is an obnoxious {{Hipster}} who keeps talking about how stupid people who like superhero comics are, and how the only ''good'' comics are indie fare like ''ComicBook/{{Cerebus|TheAardvark}}'' and ''ComicBook/LoveAndRockets''. Accordingly, you can imagine how humiliated he is when ComicBook/IronMan saves his ass near the end of the book.
* ''ComicBook/{{Marville}}'' was a diss towards ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' and the Franchise/{{Superman}} mythos, as well as comic book culture in general. At least before it went from bad to ''bizarrely bad''.
* During the fight with [[RealityWarper Cosmic Cube-enhanced Absorbing Man]] in Dan Slott's ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'', [[ComicBook/DarkAvengers Ms. Marvel]] was hit by him, which had an effect of turning her back into Moonstone. Her comment:
-->'''Moonstone:''' I'm Moonstone again? I've been [[ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis "reality-punched"]]? That's the stupidest [[SymbolSwearing @#%*]] thing I've ever heard of.
* Similarly, there's a ''ComicBook/MiniMarvels'' strip where ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} adopts his costume from ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersUnitedTheyStand'', only for his friends to repeatedly tell him how stupid he now looks.
** Similarly, jabs were taken at about the concept of ComicBook/TheSentry, with both Wolverine and Deadpool not remembering him (the former telling him to shut up after Sentry says he wasn't tied to Weapon X and the latter saying [[ButForMeItWasTuesday he can't remember everyone he beat up]].)
** The second issue of Creator/KurtBusiek's ''Avengers'' run has a similar gag, where Hawkeye mocks the brown costume he wore during the maligned ''ComicBook/HeroesReborn'' reboot.
* ''[[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Ms. Marvel]]'':
** The very first issue of the original series featured a bystander claiming the titular heroine made "Lynda Carter look like [[DamselInDistress Olive Oyl]]!" For those who don't get the joke, Creator/LyndaCarter was the actress who played DC's Franchise/WonderWoman in her popular [[Series/WonderWoman1975 live-action show]].
** Issue #4 of the 2006 run by Brian Reed had Carol's publicist book her a hotel room under the alias "[[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Linda Danvers]]," saying "nobody would be interested in that name."
* In ''ComicBook/{{Nova}}'', Ego the Living Planet was lobotomized and turned into the base of Nova Corps. [[ComicBook/TheThing Ben Grimm]] said that it's good he's not a member, because nobody would be stupid enough to recruit a planet to the [[Franchise/GreenLantern Corps]].
** Nova's third volume includes a jab at superhero movies from the 80s and 90s in which Nova, who is trying to become a more publicly known hero, discusses a movie deal with executives from Marvel Comics who bring up such "classics" as the 1980s ''Captain America'' movies, [[Film/TheFantasticFour the 1990s Fantastic 4 movie]], [[Film/ThePunisher1989 the first Punisher movie]], and ''Film/HowardTheDuck''.
** In the second issue of Vol. 7, the ComicBook/{{Champions|2016}} try to get Richard up to speed on what happened in the Marvel Universe while he was dead. He expresses surprise at a lot of the changes (such as there now being a new [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]] and [[ComicBook/MilesMorales Spider-Man]]), but doesn't really take the news negatively. Then he finds out that [[ComicBook/AllNewXMen the original five X-Men have been brought to the present]] and that ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} [[ComicBook/DeathOfX has died after becoming a villain and declaring war on the Inhumans]]. His only response to that little tidbit?
--->'''Richard Rider:''' I hate everything about that sentence.
* ''ComicBook/ThePulse'', the sequel / SpiritualSuccessor to ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}'', opens with the murder of a reporter named Terri Kidder. Kidder's name is a combination of Creator/TeriHatcher and Creator/MargotKidder, two actresses best known for portraying Creator/DCComics' ComicBook/LoisLane.
* Creator/MarkWaid's work on a ''ComicBook/ThePunisher / ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' crossover included a speech by Daredevil that was widely interpreted as an attack on writers who think that "superheros should never have happy lives" [[note]]It's highly possible it's a major jab at Dan [=DiDio's=] TrueArtIsAngsty mandate over at DC, something that has turned off many fans there.[[/note]]:
-->'''Rachel:''' You know what gives me strength? My ''loss''. We're alike that way, I imagine. Admit it: ''nobody'' who's a stranger to that particular pain could ''ever'' be as driven as us.\\
'''Matt:''' ''Never...'' *throws one of his sticks at a wall so hard behind her [[SwordPlant it plants in it*]] [[{{Beat}} ...]] Don't you ''ever'' say that to me again. That is a ''repellent'' statement. It is a ''vomitous insult'' to every cop -- every ''fireman'' -- every soldier ''alive'' who steps up to fight for those who can't! ''I am sorry'' for your ''loss''! But if you ''genuinely believe'' that only the ''death'' of a ''loved one'' can motivate a human being to take up a ''cause''... then get your ''pathetic, cynical ass'' out of my ''way'' so I can ''do my job''!
* ComicBook/ThePunisher and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} occasionally traded jabs. Creator/GarthEnnis repeatedly wrote Punisher issues where Frank dealt Wolverine horrible injuries. Wolverine's writers responded by writing an issue where Logan defeats Frank and then implies that Frank is gay. Ennis responded by writing a Punisher comic where Frank shoots Logan in half with a rocket. It goes on like this.
** In another story, ComicBook/MisterFantastic mentions how he's almost never wrong. When ComicBook/NickFury asks him why he's ''almost'' never wrong, Mr. Fantastic replies by saying he thought ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' would be a better show.
** A ''Punisher'' issue from Nathan Edmonson's run had a scene where three of the actors from the ''[[Film/FantasticFour2015 Fantastic Four]]'' reboot (Creator/MilesTeller, Creator/KateMara, and Creator/JamieBell) were apparently killed in an explosion. Ironically, the most controversial member of the cast, Creator/MichaelBJordan, was spared (due to being late to the meeting the others were attending). They also mention that "Trang" is making the sequel, a play on the movie's director Josh Trank. Marvel was insistent this wasn't intentional, but few believed it.
** In ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX, these were ''very'' common.
*** Ennis really, ''really'' '''''hates''''' the IRA. And he wants you to hate them too. ''Kitchen Irish'' is basically one [[AuthorTract long tract]] of Ennis venting out his hatred of the IRA by having characters talk about how stupid and cowardly the group really is, as well as bashing Irish-Americans (who he derisively refers to as "narrow backs") who unquestionably support the IRA without knowing all the facts behind the Troubles.
*** Around the time that real world police officers pepper spayed a pair of college students. Writer Jason Aaron, had Nick Fury verbally lash out at a pair of NYPD officers, cathartically venting out his outrage over the incident.
---->'''Nick Fury:''' He was still out there... every ''night''... doing for free what you guys get ''paid'' to do. Waging a fucking ''war'', all on his goddamn lonesome, taking on the absolute ''worst'' this city had to offer... While you shitbirds were busy ass-raping immigrants and [[RippedFromTheHeadlines pepper spraying college girls]] and calling it fucking police work, whining all the while about overtime and your goddamn pension like a bunch of fucking candy-ass pogues.
* The first issue of ''ComicBook/{{Quasar}}'' featured a pretty blatant CaptainErsatz of [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] as a test pilot who ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} assigned to wear the Cosmic Bracelets. The poor guy ended up being vaporized as soon as he put the damn things on, allowing the title character to use them instead. Another issue featured a LawyerFriendlyCameo from Franchise/TheFlash, who had died in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' just a few years earlier. Marvel [[WritingAroundTrademarks got around trademark issues]] by claiming he couldn't remember his name, but thought it was something like "Buried Alien" (a [[PunnyName play on "Barry Allen"]]). Buried Alien showed up in a later issue, where he stated he had no desire to return to his old universe since his comrades [[DorkAge had all become]] [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks dark]] [[NinetiesAntiHero perversions]] of their former selves.
-->'''The Runner:''' Well, Buried, how does it feel to be [[PhraseCatcher the fastest man alive]]?\\
'''"Buried":''' It feels... right.
* The first issue of ''ComicBook/NickSpencersSpiderMan'' is one massive jab at ''ComicBook/DanSlottSpiderMan'', particularly everything after ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' when Peter admits he should ''never'' have had taken ''anything'' Otto had built up while he was running around in his body (he even admits that the subject that Otto did his thesis on that Peter got caught "plagiarizing" with was something he knew about), thus he wasn't taking responsibility for the great power he had that he never should have had in the first place. He later comes crawling back to Mary Jane, admits how stupid he's been and that he needs her, bringing the two together again for the first time since ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'', something Slott constantly teased, but never did.
** Speaking of ''OMD'', the issue also takes a jab at it with a woman mentioning a story about a student at ESU selling his soul to Mephisto for a passing grade, calling it "the saddest story of all".
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMansTangledWeb'' #13 has the Vulture thinking of getting some armor like ComicBook/TheFalcon. Kraven and Green Goblin criticize the idea, with Goblin in particular commenting that 'armor is a little much' and he's not a fan of it, in a possible jab at his look in the [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Sam Raimi trilogy]]. Ironically enough, [[Film/SpiderManHomecoming the movie Vulture]] himself would wear a suit of armor much like Sam Raimi's Green Goblin did.
* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'':
** At the time Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger was elected Governor of California, a few comic took jabs at him. An issue of ''Runaways'' called him "musclebound mullox", who was only elected thanks to dark magic and implied he was in [[BigBad The Pride's]] pocket. And when ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' visited Earth-616, they read about his election in newspaper and immediately decided this Earth is another CrapsackWorld.
** Creator/JossWhedon ''hates'' ComicBook/ThePunisher, and has said he considers him to be nothing more than a mass-murdering fascist. It should come as no surprise that while writing ''Runaways'', Whedon intentionally depicted the Punisher in a ''very'' unflattering manner, including a scene where Frank casually admitted to [[WouldHurtAChild having shot underage criminals in the past]]. Whedon then had the Punisher dispatched in a humiliating manner by [[SuperStrongChild 11-year-old]] Molly Hayes, who took him out with a single punch.
* During ''ComicBook/XMenSecondComing'', while confronted by one of the Nimrod Sentinels, Fantomex quips "[[Film/{{Watchmen}} I'm not trapped in here with you... You're trapped in here with me]]." He then starts shooting while saying "Ha ha. That film was stupid."
* A caption in ''ComicBook/SecretAvengers'' vol. 3 #5 refers to ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} as "Sort of like [[ComicBook/GreenArrow that green guy]] [[Series/{{Arrow}} on TV]], but more fun." Along those same lines, there's an episode of Marvel's official web-series, ''Marvel Super Heroes: What The--?!'', where Hawkeye asks Santa (actually ComicBook/{{Thanos}} [[MuggedForDisguise in disguise]]) for numerous {{Trick Arrow}}s, but immediately dismisses the idea of a boxing glove arrow (Green Arrow's trademark weapon) as too stupid.
* Dan Slott's last issue of ComicBook/SheHulk dealt with alternate universe doppelgangers of Marvel characters from "Earth A" being responsible for various OutOfCharacter moments. Ostensibly, the dialogue is Jen getting angry at the duplicates for committing identity theft, but it was also Slott's [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall response]] to continuity errors that could easily be avoided if writers stopped ignoring character history and editors paid more attention.
-->'''ComicBook/SheHulk:''' So if you ever see a hero acting completely out of character, assume it's just some jerk who couldn't be bothered to read their [[ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse handbook]] and the A-Hole[[labelnote:*]]Dimensional portal to Earth-A[[/labelnote]] that let them through.
* ComicBook/SpiderGirl's creator Tom [=DeFalco=] does it from time to time in his [=MC2=]-continuity comics. For example:
-->'''Silikong:''' This is where I make the donuts. Or, more appropriately, my unstoppable crystal warriors.\\
'''Ion Man:''' You make those guys?\\
'''Silikong:''' Did you think we were some kind of ComicBook/SecretInvasion from another planet? Don't be ridiculous.
* In a ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' comic, featuring a cameo by Creator/StephenColbert, Creator/JoeQuesada is on his "On Notice" list.
* Almost every ''Spider-Man'' writer since 1996 thinks making at least one joke about ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' (sometimes really funny, [[SturgeonsLaw more often not]]) to be his holy duty.
* ''Spider-Man'' [[https://www.cbr.com/meta-messages-spider-man-makes-fun-of-superman-vs-muhammad-ali/ had one]] at the expense of DC for the time they took to release Franchise/{{Superman}} vs. UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli.
* Spider-Man found himself up against the Hobgoblin not so long ago, and was at a disadvantage due to the villain's mind-scrambling laughter attack. Spidey's salvation came when a co-worker played "Bad Romance" by Music/LadyGaga from her phone over the lab's speakers, cancelling out the laughter's vibration. Spider-Man responded with:
-->'''Spider-Man:''' Did I just get saved by Lady Gaga? Actually, can we go back to the ear-piercing laughing?
* ''ComicBook/SpiderManDeadpool'' #6 shows a [[http://media.comicbook.com/2016/06/cmjkkgbwiaqnlfg-188077.jpg poster]] for a movie called ''[[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice Nighthawk v. Hyperion: Yawn of Boredom]]'', which has the tagline "You won't believe their mothers share a first name."
-->'''Deadpool:''' Ugh, none of that made sense. Why were they fighting one minute, [[EasilyForgiven then best friends the next]]?\\
'''Spider-Man:''' And don't worry about scenes [[SequelHook that set up the next eight movies]] -- just make this one satisfying!
** They then take a jab at ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' and ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' by Spidey saying they'll keep rebooting the same idea over and over til they get the characters ''right'' (especially with the former's version of Deadpool.)
* During ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'', there was one story where ComicBook/SpiderGirl is trying to be consoled by an alternate universe Uncle Ben after [[spoiler:the Inheritors kidnapped her brother]], the culmination of a TraumaCongaLine for her. Despite this, Mayday calls out Ben's hypocrisy and declares that there's probably a universe where she woke up that morning everything went to hell and just had her wheatcakes breakfast with her parents and brother, a jab at Dan Slott, who ended up taking a crap over May's happy ending just so she can participate in the storyline.
* ComicBook/SquirrelGirl is one huge TakeThat against the people who dismiss any whimsical event in comics as non-canon. This moment from ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'' says it all:
-->''"Maybe it's just me, but I'm not crazy about super hero stories where everything's all dark and moody. Personally, I like the ones where good guys fight giant apes on the moon and stuff. Remember those? I do. That was back when comic book worlds were places you wanted to escape ''to''... not ''from''."''
* When Creator/JohnByrne took over ''Star Brand'' back in the '80s, he proceeded to launch one TakeThat after another at the departing figure of ousted Creator/MarvelComics editor-in-chief Creator/JimShooter. ''Star Brand'' was one of the Shooter-initiated "[[ComicBook/TheNewUniverse New Universe]]" titles, and was the one that Shooter himself wrote personally. Byrne not only took ''ad hominem'' shots at Shooter personally, but had exposition characters [[LampshadeHanging hang some]] on how implausible the events of Shooter's run was, and how [[IdiotBall stupid]] the hero had been. Early on in Byrne's run, the hero's girlfriend got StuffedInTheFridge; the hero later broke down and passed the titular Brand onto some other poor schmuck, ''destroying Pittsburgh in the process". Not coincidentally, the book's original hero [[AuthorAvatar bore a physical resemblance to Shooter]].
** The Author Avatar of Byrne died horrifically in the Pittburgh explosion. So did about ten thousand comic book con-goers. Such is life. Pretend life.
* [[ComicBook/StarWarsPoeDameron Star Wars Poe Dameron 11]] takes a shot at Captain Phasma for her overall lack of presence in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', parroting fan criticisms about how the character did very little in the film:
--> '''Agent Terex:''' You really are a First Order commander through and through, Phasma. You threaten, and whine, and wail, but you never ''do'' anything.
* Another ''Star Wars'' comic, "The Emperor's Court", has Emperor Palpatine raging about the Special Editions, and the artificial unavailability of the originals in which Han Solo shot first, when pronouncing sentence.
-->'''Palpatine''': Captain Solo, I've got a ''bad feeling'' about this. You expect this court to believe that the Rodian fired upon you from a ''mere meter away'' and somehow managed to ''miss''? What was he, a ''Stormtrooper''? However, I feel it is ''completely'' within the nefarious character of a smuggler, such as yourself, to talk with your trigger finger. What kind of space pirate would wait for a bounty hunter, whose weapon is drawn and is threatening to kill you, to fire ''first''? And you have the audacity to come into ''my courtroom'' and try to pull some shenanigans with this ''blatantly'' doctored evidence. What kind of fool do you take this court for? ''No one'' should have the power to rewrite history! (Well... except ''me'', that is...)
* ''ComicBook/SuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'': Following being double-crossed by Boomerang and escaping the Owl, the three remaining members of the Sinister Six go over their options. Speed Demon suggests getting another member and calling themselves the [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Frightful Four]]. Beetle rejects the idea, saying "That's just a name for guys who had their widdle feewings hurt by Reed Richards."
* In ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' #3, J. Jonah Jameson creates a huge ''[[BatSignal "spider-signal."]]''
--> '''Spider-Man (then ''ComicBook/DoctorOctopus'') :''' A giant beacon in the sky, announcing to all my enemies where they can find me. Only an idiot would put that into effect.
* During the 90's, [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] started wearing a new costume after becoming part of a team known as the Godpack. Creator/WarrenEllis (like many people) thought the new look was stupid, so one of the first things he did when he started writing the book was have Thor stop wearing a costume altogether (instead opting for a shirtless look).
-->'''Enchantress''': I thought it a mild improvement over rags and steel leggings.
* This one line by Ultimate ComicBook/CaptainAmerica: ''"[[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys Surrender? SURRENDER?! You think this letter on my forehead stands for France?]]"'' This led to a more subtle take that by Ed Brubaker in the pages of 616-verse Captain America, where Cap reflects on his time fighting with the French Resistance and chides the folks who dismiss the French as "cowards." To which another shout out was made in the pages of ComicBook/{{Nextwave}} -- When ComicBook/ElsaBloodstone is assaulted by a Captain America-imitation, and he claims she is just a victim, she blows him ten ways to Sunday, then points at the Euro-symbol on her T-shirt, and exclaims: "''Victim''? You think this letter on my chest stands for ''America?!''"
* The ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version of the ComicBook/IronMan story arc ''Armor Wars'' has Iron Man mixing it up with other power armored soldiers [[Franchise/{{Halo}} who bear a striking resemblance to a certain Master Chief]]. Iron Man then proceeds to casually blow them out of the sky. [[WordOfGod The writer, Warren Ellis]] stated online that [[StealthParody he used the story as an excuse to have a little fun and throw in as many jokes as possible]] (including one about Tony Stark using his computers to browse 4Chan).
* After Creator/MarkMillar left Ultimate Comics, a continuation of his title ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'' was given to Creator/JephLoeb, who created the terrible ''Ultimates 3'' and the even worse ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}''. After that Millar returned to writing comics in the UltimateUniverse. The ''very first page'' of his ''[[ComicBook/TheUltimates Ultimate Avengers]]'' starts with ComicBook/NickFury looking at the mess caused by Ultimatum and saying "What the [[SymbolSwearing #$%^&]]? I leave for ten minutes and everything goes to hell." He gives another one towards Loeb (and possibly towards mainstream Marvel) in issue four of ''Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates''. Tony Stark gives ten million dollars to charity in exchange for Thor promising to talk like a normal person again. He started using the whole "Faux Shakespearean" thing during Loeb's run.
* An issue of ''Ultimate Comics: Avengers 3'' features a dream sequence where ComicBook/{{Blade}} ''kills [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]]'' in front of Bella Swan while quipping about how nauseating he finds the two of them:
-->'''Blade''': God, I '''hate''' you people. I've hated you since your first damn '''trailer.'''
* During ''Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates'', Millar both took a jab and phased out of continuity Orson Scott Card's ''Ultimate Iron Man'' mini-series in which as part of Tony Stark's origin, his flesh was mutated into neural tissue while in womb due to an accident, and also gained regenerative abilities. In ''Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates'' #2, the ''Ultimate Iron Man'' version of Iron Man is presented as a cartoon being watched by Nick Fury.
-->'''Nick Fury''': I'm loving Tony's weird new powers. The ability to regrow arms and legs? That's '''awesome,''' man. Was this for an '''action figure line?'''
* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'':
** Creator/BrianMichaelBendis ''really'' likes to dress up female lunatics in the costumes of whatever super-heroine is making Crisis Crossover trouble for the Marvel Universe today and drag them by police officers screaming their new catch-phrase. It's mostly SelfDeprecation as the series had a girl dressed as ComicBook/ScarletWitch screaming [[ComicBook/HouseOfM "I'M NOT CRAZY! I'M NOT!"]] and one dressed as Spider-Woman yelling [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion "EMBRACE CHANGE! EMBRACE CHANGE!"]] and Creator/BrianMichaelBendis writes both USM and the cross-overs involved. However, one exception was the guy in the Speedball costume yelling [[ComicBook/CivilWar "NOT LIKE THIS! NOT LIKE THIS!"]] The actual Ultimate versions of Wanda and Jessica look completely different, so we know it wasn't meant to be them. Another issue had an obese prostitute dressed like ComicBook/PowerGirl being dragged into the station. Make of that what you will. When the book was relaunched as ''Spider-Man'', the joke continued:
--->'''Prostitute:''' What does [[ComicBook/DCRebirth Rebirth]] even mean? How can you be rebirthed?!
** Issue #15 has a scene where J. Jonah Jameson claims that Ben Urich's theory about ComicBook/DoctorOctopus "has more holes in it than a Creator/MichaelBay movie."
* ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers Annual'' had Mojo being told by his producers that modern audiences prefer stories that, instead of having "structured character arcs" and "something to say" are "[[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible artsy and indecipherable]]", "[[TheChrisCarterEffect spinning an endless web of strange mysteries]]" that keeps the "feeble-minded viewers lost and guessing" and will get critical praise because "[[TakeThatCritics reviewers won't want to admit not understand it, even when there is nothing to understand]]". For many it appears to be jab at both ''Avengers'' [[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers books written at the time by Jonathan Hickman]] and [[TakeThatAudience fans who preferred them to]] ''Uncanny Avengers''.
** ''Uncanny Avengers'' itself received an epic diss in an issue of ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'', where the team discussed Havok's now infamous speech where he claimed that using words like "mutant" was divisive, and that society would be much better off without labels. ComicBook/KittyPryde stated that her Jewish ethnicity is something she's proud of, and that it's the fault of racists, not minorities, if ignorant people can't handle marginalized groups taking pride in their heritage.
** And to make it a full circle, ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'' received a diss in one of Hickman's series, ''ComicBook/NewAvengers''. During his WhatTheHellHero rant, Beast from the past tells his older counterpart exactly how stupid and petty it was to bring past versions of original five X-Men to the present (in other words, the entire premise of ''All-New X-Men'') just to spite ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}.
* In issue #11 of ''Uncanny X-Men'', it transpires that ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} don't have a base in Michigan.
-->"Why not?"\\
''(beat)''\\
"Because it's ''Michigan'', ma'am."
** ''Uncanny Avengers'' also has another scene where ComicBook/{{Rogue}} and [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]] have a short conversation after the latter returns from outer space.
--->'''Hank Pym:''' I'm grateful that intelligent apes haven't taken over since I've been off in space.\\
'''Rogue:''' Well, don't celebrate prematurely -- you haven't caught up on [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump the presidential election]] yet.
** ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #168 features a somewhat obscure (to modern readers at least) one: Kitty Pryde's bedroom has a poster that reads "The Legion eats quiche," which is both a shot at DC's ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' and a reference to the title of the popular 80s book ''Real Men Don't Eat Quiche''.
* In ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen Annual'' #1, a bad guy relates a story about how he was about to kill someone, [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice only to freeze up upon learning that both their moms were named "Martha."]] Domino then kills the bad guy in question.
* Marvel's ''Wha... Huh?'' features take thats against DC and people complaining about comics on the Internet.
** DC was hit with an ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'' parody with Impossible Man turning evil and murdering [[StuffedIntoTheFridge Aunt Petunia]] for [[CListFodder being a character without a movie deal]] and then being killed by Identity Girl -- "a new character you've never heard of that's just watered down version of a bunch of characters you have heard of." It was also featuring ''What if DC would let us do Franchise/{{Batman}}[=/=]ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' by Brian Bendis and David Mack, which was a picture of frozen Hell.
** There was also "What if Internet existed in" segment, showing posts which would be written if Internet was around in TheSixties, TheSeventies and TheEighties. Here's few of them:
--->Who the hell does Creator/JackKirby think he is? Why can't he let someone else drawn a damn comics book? Who died and made him king?\\
The new ''ComicBook/XMen'' [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks team sucks!]] Why are they coming up with "great" new characters like Storm (white-haired black woman -- give me a break) and Colossus (like Thing but Russian) when we all know they're all going to fail. The only cool one was Thunderbird, so of course they killed him off! It's an insult to the fans of real ''X-Men'', Creator/StanLee's ''X-Men'', that we're forced to endure those pretenders!\\
All of sudden Matt Murdock is a ninja?? You gotta be kidding me?! Bring back Gene Colan and stop giving your books to these crazy people who clearly have never read a comics book before.
* After Creator/JMichaelStraczynski got in an argument with Marvel editor Steve Wacker, Creator/MarkWaid posted on the web a long rant in which he called JMS on his behavior, which he concluded by saying he needs to take a walk. [[ComicBook/SupermanGrounded A long, boring, pointless walk across America.]] [[EscalatingPunchline That he won't finish.]]
* An issue of ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}: First Class'' has a scene where Logan accosts a movie bootlegger and goes off on an AuthorFilibuster about [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil how pirates are impatient jerks who ruin films that many people have worked hard on]]. Not coincidentally, ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' came out that same year and had been the subject of a very high profile piracy case.
* In ''another'' Creator/PeterDavid example, an issue of the first volume of ''ComicBook/XFactor'' had someone telling Strong Guy his name sounded stupid. Strong Guy then retorted by asking how it sounded any stupider than something like oh, let's say, "[[LawyerFriendlyCameo Super Man]]".
* Also, after Liefeld complained about how Peter David revealed that Shatterstar is bisexual in ''ComicBook/XFactor'' because it was against [[SmallNameBigEgo his vision]] and that he was supposed to be like a Spartan warrior and Creator/RussellCrowe in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', David promised he would add dialogue to that effect in the new issue. Which, he did:
-->'''Guido:''' Tell me, Shatterstar, do you like... gladiator movies?\\
'''Shatterstar:''' Apparently.\\
'''Guido:''' Figures.
** In the middle of ''ComicBook/XFactor'' #200, Jamie Madrox is narrating:
--->Everybody else was filled with questions: Where had I been? How did I come back? Did I know about Rictor and Shatterstar?\\
That last one, I don't get. Did anyone '''not''' know about Rictor and Shatterstar?
*** Evidently Liefeld was the only one who didn't see it coming.
** Sometimes other characters mention how Shatterstar's original costume, which was designed by Liefeld, was... kinda gay.
* In Kyle Higgins' ''The Winter Soldier'', Bucky is suggesting new names for RJ. Bucky suggests the name 'Ric' to replace the 'R', and RJ gives Bucky a look like he'd just made the stupidest comment ever and asks how nobody has killed him yet. This issue came out around the time Nightwing was going through a very disliked story arc where he was going by 'Ric Grayson' rather than Dick Grayson, and Kyle Higgins' had previously written ''Nightwing'' in a run that was filled with ExecutiveMeddling and that was cut short, so it's pretty obvious he was taking a jab at DC.
* An issue of ComicBook/XMen features a guy reading a newspaper that says, "Cruz Swipes Again". This was made by Joe Madureira who had accused fellow artist Roger Cruz of swiping (making pages nearly identical to that of) his material.
* The ''ComicBook/XMenBlack'' VillainEpisode ''Mojo'' one-shot, written by Scott Aukerman, delivered a Take That to the Comicsgate movement in comics by putting completely unaltered Comicsgate slogans in Mojo's mouth, and even having him suddenly start affecting a fedora hat, associated at the time in US pop culture with pick-up artists and anti-feminist activists.
* Marvel marketed its ''Young Allies'' revival by mentioning the complaints about the decline in quality over in DC's ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' series.

* ''Marvel: NOW What?!'' Is a big TakeThat to the ComicBook/MarvelNow relaunch, but particularly scathing is ComicBook/TheWatcher going through exposure therapy to cure him of his addiction to [[AlienNonInterferenceClause meddling with events]]. As another watcher bars him from interfering we see many things which the Watcher desperately tries to stop from happening: ComicBook/SpiderMan [[ComicBook/CivilWar revealing his identity to the world]], ComicBook/ScarletWitch [[ComicBook/HouseOfM saying "No more mutants"]], Creator/RobLiefeld's [[OffModel drawing of]] ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, a clapperboard for the ComicBook/NickFury movie with Creator/DavidHasselhoff, [[ReplacementScrappy H.E.R.B.I.E.]], Franchise/{{Wolverine}}'s bestial redesign from the late [[UsefulNotes/TheNineties 90's]], and more divisively, ComicBook/JeanGrey returning as The Phoenix and the introduction of the ComicBook/ScarletSpider.

** ''The Avengers'' poked fun at the infamous ''Film/{{Captain America|1990}}'' direct to video movie (where Cap wore rubber ears on his mask) by having Franchise/{{Wolverine}} sarcastically ask him "Are those ears real?!"

* ComicBook/ThePunisher and Franchise/{{Wolverine}} occasionally traded jabs. Creator/GarthEnnis repeatedly wrote Punisher issues where Frank dealt Wolverine horrible injuries. Wolverine's writers responded by writing an issue where Logan defeats Frank and then implies that Frank is gay. Ennis responded by writing a Punisher comic where Frank shoots Logan in half with a rocket. It goes on like this.

* An issue of ''Franchise/{{Wolverine}}: First Class'' has a scene where Logan accosts a movie bootlegger and goes off on an AuthorFilibuster about [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil how pirates are impatient jerks who ruin films that many people have worked hard on]]. Not coincidentally, ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' came out that same year and had been the subject of a very high profile piracy case.

* At one point in ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'', Christine Spar as Grendel fights a dumb and obnoxious mook who has a set of [[WolverineClaws blades attached to his hand]] similar to those of a certain famous [[Franchise/{{Wolverine}} Marvel character]]. Christine muses to herself that it's a stupid weapon with no reach, and chops his hand off.

* The first issue of Creator/MarkMillar's ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}: Bloodsport'' has two members of the titular superhero team receiving oral sex from gay {{cosplay}}ers dressed as Franchise/{{Wolverine}} and ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}.