History YMMV / Hitman1993

** Issues #35-36: [[ArchnemesisDad Tom Dawson]], father of [[NinetiesAntiHero Tommy Monaghan]], is a simple Irish businessman who made a name for himself via a series of land deals. Also a vicious [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]], Dawson was the frequent client of the local prostitute named Katie. The first time they met, Dawson informed her he knew her trick to shame her hypocritical clients who persecuted her: naming her children after them. Dawson warned her never to try that with him. When Katie became pregnant, and Dawson heard she was considering to name the baby ”Tommy,” he burned down her house with her [[WouldHurtAChild infant daughter and two young twin sons]] still inside. Katie was forced to leave her daughter Frances at an orphanage to save her life and fled to America where Dawson found her and butchered her with a knife. Assuming the baby died in the cold, Dawson went back to Ireland until 30 years later when Frances found Tommy and brought him to her old home. Dawson attempted to have Tommy killed and brutally murdered Frances the same way as he had her mother. When Tommy confronted Dawson, Dawson showed no remorse, snarling that Tommy had no right to call him his father and that he and Katie were nothing but gutter trash preying on “respectable men” like himself. After Tommy said that Katie had simply recognized Dawson as a bully and coward and stood up to him the one way she knew how, Dawson's only response was "to hell with her," finally prompting Tommy to shoot him.

** "Katie" two-parter (issues #35-36): [[ArchnemesisDad Tom Dawson]], father of [[NinetiesAntiHero Tommy Monaghan]], is a simple Irish businessman who made a name for himself via a series of land deals. Also a vicious [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]], Dawson was the frequent client of the local prostitute named Katie. The first time they met, Dawson informed her he knew her trick to shame her hypocritical clients who persecuted her: naming her children after them. Dawson warned her never to try that with him. When Katie became pregnant, and Dawson heard she was considering to name the baby ”Tommy,” he burned down her house with her [[WouldHurtAChild infant daughter and two young twin sons]] still inside. Katie was forced to leave her daughter Frances at an orphanage to save her life and fled to America where Dawson found her and butchered her with a knife. Assuming the baby died in the cold, Dawson went back to Ireland until 30 years later when Frances found Tommy and brought him to her old home. Dawson attempted to have Tommy killed and brutally murdered Frances the same way as he had her mother. When Tommy confronted Dawson, Dawson showed no remorse, snarling that Tommy had no right to call him his father and that he and Katie were nothing but gutter trash preying on “respectable men” like himself. After Tommy said that Katie had simply recognized Dawson as a bully and coward and stood up to him the one way she knew how, Dawson's only response was "to hell with her," finally prompting Tommy to shoot him.
** "Local Hero" & "Closing Time" arcs: Mr. Truman, an unassuming, mild-mannered little CIA agent who is out to destroy metahumans (if he can't control them), makes his career on blackmail and murder, but it's not until the final arc where he shows the darkness inside himself. Truman has human beings injected with a special metahuman formula to create a personal army of metahumans but while the formula works, it [[MindRape steals the minds from its subjects]]. Tommy becomes aware of this when he rescues a young woman who had been a witness Truman had tried to silence by unleashing one of the monsters on her without care for collateral damage. When he realizes the creatures still [[AndIMustScream retain their human minds and are locked in a corner of their heads]], incapable of stopping their actions, Truman orders them to be set loose on one another with the resulting carnage filmed [[ForTheEvulz for his amusement]].

* ValuesDissonance: The entire character of Bueno Excellente dates this to a time when men getting raped was seen as comedy gold. These days, so much as ''suggesting'' such a character would cost you your career.

%%* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Oh, so many.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: ''Of Thee I Sing'', the issue guest-starring Franchise/{{Superman}}. That's right, the issue guest-starring Superman, written by ''Garth Ennis'', the patron saint of mocking superheroes, gives the ol' Man of Steel the biggest amount of respect Ennis has ever given a superhero. This is the same series that featured both [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]] and Lobo as victims of BlackComedyRape. WOW.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Oh, so many.

** Giving Tommy a half-sibling gave him some interesting potential family roots that could have been resisted from time to time, but she's just killed.

** "Katie" two-parter (March-April 1999): [[ArchnemesisDad Tom Dawson]], father of [[NinetiesAntiHero Tommy Monaghan]], is a simple Irish businessman who made a name for himself via a series of land deals. Also a vicious [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]], Dawson was the frequent client of the local prostitute named Katie. The first time they met, Dawson informed her he knew her trick to shame her hypocritical clients who persecuted her: naming her children after them. Dawson warned her never to try that with him. When Katie became pregnant, and Dawson heard she was considering to name the baby ”Tommy,” he burned down her house with her [[WouldHurtAChild infant daughter and two young twin sons]] still inside. Katie was forced to leave her daughter Frances at an orphanage to save her life and fled to America where Dawson found her and butchered her with a knife. Assuming the baby died in the cold, Dawson went back to Ireland until 30 years later when Frances found Tommy and brought him to her old home. Dawson attempted to have Tommy killed and brutally murdered Frances the same way as he had her mother. When Tommy confronted Dawson, Dawson showed no remorse, snarling that Tommy had no right to call him his father and that he and Katie were nothing but gutter trash preying on “respectable men” like himself. After Tommy said that Katie had simply recognized Dawson as a bully and coward and stood up to him the one way she knew how, Dawson's only response was "to hell with her," finally prompting Tommy to shoot him.

* MemeticMolestor: Bueno Excellente, to the point where the infamous image of him licking his lips while saying "Bueno..." became a meme in its own right.

** Giving Tommy a half-sibling gave him some interesting potential family roots that could have been resisted from time to time, but she's just StuffedIntoTheFridge.

* AnticlimaxBoss: [[spoiler: Marc Navarone, who is presented as an incredibly dangerous assassin, maybe on the same level as Ringo. But when he gets the drop on Monaghan, he forgets to take the safety off on his gun. Monaghan theorizes that he's never actually pointed a gun at someone before, and simply shoots him.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Dogwelder! He (and, to a lesser extent, Section Eight as a whole) are surprisingly big in [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Japan]].

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: ''Of Thee I Sing'', the issue guest-starring Franchise/{{Superman}}. That's right, the issue guest-starring Superman, written by ''Garth Ennis'', the patron saint of mocking superheroes, gives the ol' Man of Steel the biggest amount of respect Ennis has ever given a superhero. This is the same series that featured both [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]] and Lobo as victims of RapeAsComedy. WOW.

* CrazyAwesome: The whole series!

** "Katie" 2-parter: [[ArchnemesisDad Tom Dawson]], father of [[NinetiesAntiHero Tommy Monaghan]], is a simple Irish businessman who made a name for himself via a series of land deals. Also a vicious [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]], Dawson was the frequent client of the local prostitute named Katie. The first time they met, Dawson informed her he knew her trick to shame her hypocritical clients who persecuted her: naming her children after them. Dawson warned her never to try that with him. When Katie became pregnant, and Dawson heard she was considering to name the baby ”Tommy,” he burned down her house with her [[WouldHurtAChild infant daughter and two young twin sons]] still inside. Katie was forced to leave her daughter Frances at an orphanage to save her life and fled to America where Dawson found her and butchered her with a knife. Assuming the baby died in the cold, Dawson went back to Ireland until 30 years later when Frances found Tommy and brought him to her old home. Dawson attempted to have Tommy killed and brutally murdered Frances the same way as he had her mother. When Tommy confronted Dawson, Dawson showed no remorse, snarling that Tommy had no right to call him his father and that he and Katie were nothing but gutter trash preying on “respectable men” like himself. After Tommy said that Katie had simply recognized Dawson as a bully and coward and stood up to him the one way she knew how, Dawson's only response was "to hell with her," finally prompting Tommy to shoot him.

** [[ArchnemesisDad Tom Dawson]], father of [[TheHero Tommy Monaghan]], is a simple Irish businessman who made a name for himself via a series of land deals. Also a vicious [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]], Dawson was the frequent client of the local prostitute named Katie. The first time they met, Dawson informed her he knew her trick to shame her hypocritical clients who persecuted her: naming her children after them. Dawson warned her never to try that with him. When Katie became pregnant, and Dawson heard she was considering to name the baby ”Tommy,” he burned down her house with her [[WouldHurtAChild infant daughter and two young twin sons]] still inside. Katie was forced to leave her daughter Frances at an orphanage to save her life and fled to America where Dawson found her and butchered her with a knife. Assuming the baby died in the cold, Dawson went back to Ireland until 30 years later when Frances found Tommy and brought him to her old home. Dawson attempted to have Tommy killed and brutally murdered Frances the same way as he had her mother. When Tommy confronted Dawson, Dawson showed no remorse, snarling that Tommy had no right to call him his father and that he and Katie were nothing but gutter trash preying on “respectable men” like himself. After Tommy said that Katie had simply recognized Dawson as a bully and coward and stood up to him the one way she knew how, Dawson's only response was "to hell with her," finally prompting Tommy to shoot him.
** Mr. Truman, an unassuming, mild-mannered little CIA agent who is out to destroy metahumans (if he can't control them), makes his career on blackmail and murder, but it's not until the final arc where he shows the darkness inside himself. Truman has human beings injected with a special metahuman formula to create a personal army of metahumans but while the formula works, it [[MindRape steals the minds from its subjects]]. Tommy becomes aware of this when he rescues a young woman who had been a witness Truman had tried to silence by unleashing one of the monsters on her without care for collateral damage. When he realizes the creatures still [[AndIMustScream retain their human minds and are locked in a corner of their heads]], incapable of stopping their actions, Truman orders them to be set loose on one another with the resulting carnage filmed [[ForTheEvulz for his amusement]].

* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Sean's death.]]

** The final words of the series, as [[spoiler:all the friends that Tommy and Nat have lost over the series greet them at Noonan's Bar in a DyingDream]].

%% * TheWoobie: Hacken becomes this towards the end of the series.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Several. Let's list a few examples.
** Tommy upchucks his Indian dinner on Franchise/{{Batman}}.
** Anytime Nat The Hat is behind the wheel, expect some epic CarFu.
** Tommy vs. Gun-Demons. Tommy wins.
** The final shootout. Also a serious case of ManlyTears.
** Tommy, with every member of the Irish Cauldron neighborhood, stomping on a Ricean vampire coven. {{Take That}}! Also a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.

** Mr. Truman, an unassuming, mild-mannered little CIA agent who is out to destroy metahumans (if he can't control them), makes his career on blackmail and murder, but it's not until the final arc where he shows the darkness inside himself. Truman has human beings injected with a special metahuman formula to create a personal army of metahumans but while the formula works, it [[MindRape steals the minds from its subjects]]. Tommy becomes aware of this when he rescues a young woman who had been a witness Truman had tried to silence by unleashing one of the monsters on her without care for collateral damage. When he realizes the creatures still [[AndIMustScream retain their human minds and are locked in a corner of their heads]], incapable of stopping their actions, Truman orders them to be set loose on one another with the resulting carnage filmed [[ForTheEvulz for his amusement]]. Even worse, it's heavily implied that the reason Truman is so obsessed with controlling and/or killing metahumans is [[DrivenByEnvy because he can't be one himself]]. When Truman offers Tommy the job of killing superheroes at the governments behest, Tommy guesses that Truman is angry that he's just an ordinary man, no matter what kind of authority he has, and can't stand that someone like Superman exists if he can't be better than him. It's all but stated that Tommy is correct.

* ValuesDissonance: A hero whose superpower is ''raping'' people? Uhhh....
* TheWoobie: Hacken becomes this towards the end of the series.

** Thorn and Skull, a pair of superhuman mercenaries hired by a dictator in Africa that Tommy and the rest of his military brigade battles. The two engage in near-constant atrocities against civilians, including ''murdering infants'' with zero regret.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: ''Of Thee I Sing'', the issue guest-starring Franchise/{{Superman}}. That's right, the issue guest-starring Superman, written by ''Garth Ennis'', the patron saint of mocking superheroes, gives the ol' Man of Steel the biggest amount of respect Ennis has ever given a superhero. This is the same series that featured both [[GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]] and Lobo as victims of RapeAsComedy. WOW.

** Mr. Truman, an unassuming, mild-mannered little CIA agent who is out to destroy metahumans (if he can't control them), makes his career on blackmail and murder, but it's not until the final arc where he shows the darkness inside himself. Truman has human beings injected with a special metahuman formula to create a personal army of metahumans but while the formula works, it [[MindRape steals the minds from its subjects]]. Tommy becomes aware of this when he rescues a young woman who had been a witness Truman had tried to silence by unleashing one of the monsters on her without care for collateral damage. When he realizes the creatures still [[AndIMustScream retain their human minds and are locked in a corner of their heads]], incapable of stopping their actions, Truman orders them to be set loose on one another with the resulting carnage filmed [[ForTheEvulz for his amusement]].

* {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}: Several. Let's list a few examples.
** Tommy upchucks his Indian dinner on Franchise/{{Batman}}.
** Anytime Nat The Hat is behind the wheel, expect some epic {{Car Fu}}.
** Tommy vs. Gun-Demons. Tommy wins.
** The final shootout. Also a serious case of {{Manly Tears}}.
** Tommy, with every member of the Irish Cauldron neighborhood, stomping on a Ricean vampire coven. {{Take That}}! Also a {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}.
* {{Crowning Moment of Funny}}: Oh, so many.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: ''Of Thee I Sing'', the issue guest-starring {{Superman}}. That's right, the issue guest-starring Superman, written by ''Garth Ennis'', the patron saint of mocking superheroes, gives the ol' Man of Steel the biggest amount of respect Ennis has ever given a superhero. This is the same series that featured both [[GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]] and Lobo as victims of RapeAsComedy. WOW.
* {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}: Dogwelder! He (and, to a lesser extent, Section Eight as a whole) are surprisingly big in [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Japan]].

* {{TearJerker}}: [[spoiler:Sean's death.]]

* TheWoobie: Hacken becomes this towards the end of the series.

** [[ArchnemesisDad Tom Dawson]], father of [[TheHero Tommy Monaghan]], is a simple Irish businessman who made a name for himself via a series of land deals. Also a vicious [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]], Dawson frequented a prostitute named Katie, who he threatened into never naming any of her children after him, as she had previous Johns who had mistreated her. When Katie became pregnant and Dawson heard that she was considering the name "Tommy," he [[DisproportionateRetribution burned down her house]] with her [[WouldHurtAChild infant daughter and young twin sons]] still inside. Forced to leave her surviving daughter Frances at an orphanage to protect her, Katie fled to America, where Dawson found and butchered her with a knife, abandoning their son to die in the cold afterward. When Frances brings Tommy to her old home, Dawson attempts to have Tommy killed and murders Frances in the same he killed Katie. When Tommy confronts him, Dawson snarls that Tommy has no right to call him father before dismissing him and Katie as nothing but gutter trash preying on "respectable men" like himself. After Tommy asserts that Katie had recognized Dawson as a [[TheBully bully]] and a [[DirtyCoward coward]] and stood up to him the only way she knew how, Dawson's only response is "to hell with her," which finally spurs Tommy into shooting him.
** Mr. Truman, an unassuming, mild-mannered {{CIA}} agent who is out to destroy metahumans (if he can't control them) makes his career on blackmail and murder, but it's not until the final arc that the extent of his depravity is revealed. Truman has human beings injected with a SuperSerum to create a personal army of metahumans, but while the formula works, it [[MindRape warps]] the minds of its subjects. Tommy becomes aware of this when he rescues a young woman who had been a witness that Truman had tried to silence by unleashing one of the monsters on her without care for collateral damage. When he realizes that the creatures have retained their human minds and are [[AndIMustScream locked]] in their own heads, with no control over their actions, Truman orders that they be set loose on one another with the resulting carnage filmed [[ForTheEvulz for his amusement]].

** Mr. Truman, an unassuming, mild-mannered CIA agent who is out to destroy metahumans (if he can't control them) makes his career on blackmail and murder, but it's not until the final arc that the extent of his depravity is revealed. Truman has human beings injected with a SuperSerum to create a personal army of metahumans, but while the formula works, it [[MindRape warps]] the minds of its subjects. Tommy becomes aware of this when he rescues a young woman who had been a witness that Truman had tried to silence by unleashing one of the monsters on her without care for collateral damage. When he realizes that the creatures have retained their human minds and are [[AndIMustScream locked]] in their own heads, with no control over their actions, Truman orders that they be set loose on one another with the resulting carnage filmed [[ForTheEvulz for his amusement]].

** The final words of the series, as [[spoiler:all the friends that Tommy and Nat have lost over the series greet them at Noonan's Bar]].

** [[ArchnemesisDad Tom Dawson]], father of [[TheHero Tommy Monaghan]], is a simple Irish businessman who made a name for himself via a series of land deals. Also a vicious [[ItsAllAboutMe egomaniac]], Dawson was the frequent client of the local prostitute named Katie. The first time they met, Dawson informed her he knew her trick to shame her hypocritical clients who persecuted her: naming her children after them. Dawson warned her never to try that with him. When Katie became pregnant, and Dawson heard she was considering to name the baby 'Tommy,” he [[DisproportionateRetribution burned down her house]] with her [[WouldHurtAChild infant daughter and two young twin sons]] still inside. Katie was forced to leave her daughter Frances at an orphanage to save her life and fled to America where Dawson found her and butchered her with a knife. Assuming the baby died in the cold, Dawson went back to Ireland until 30 years later when Frances found Tommy and brought him to her old home. Dawson attempted to have Tommy killed and brutally murdered Frances the same way as he had her mother. When Tommy confronted Dawson, Dawson showed no remorse, snarling that Tommy had no right to call him his father and that he and Katie were nothing but gutter trash preying on “respectable men” like himself. After Tommy said that Katie had simply recognized Dawson as a [[TheBully bully]] and [[DirtyCoward coward]] and stood up to him the one way she knew how, Dawson's only response was "to hell with her," finally prompting Tommy to shoot him.
** Mr. Truman, an unassuming, mild-mannered little CIA agent who is out to destroy metahumans (if he can't control them), makes his career on blackmail and murder, but it's not until the final arc where he shows the darkness inside himself. Truman has human beings injected with a special metahuman formula to create a personal army of metahumans but while the formula works, it [[MindRape steals the minds from its subjects]]. Tommy becomes aware of this when he rescues a young woman who had been a witness Truman had tried to silence by unleashing one of the monsters on her without care for collateral damage. When he realizes the creatures still [[AndIMustScream retain their human minds and are locked in a corner of their heads]], incapable of stopping their actions, Truman orders them to be set loose on one another with the resulting carnage filmed [[ForTheEvulz for his amusement]].

** Tommy, with every member of the Irish Cauldron neighbourhood, stomp on a Ricean vampire coven. {{Take That}}! Also a {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: ''Of Thee I Sing'', the issue guest-starring {{Superman}}. That's right, the issue guest-starring Superman, written by ''Garth Ennis'', the saint patron of mocking superheroes, gives the ol' Man Of Steel the biggest amount of respect Ennis has ever gave a superhero. This is the same comic series that featured both [[GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]] and Lobo were victims of RapeAsComedy. WOW.
* {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}: Dogwelder!

** Also [[spoiler:Frances, Tommy's sister. Tommy barely gets to know her before she dies the way their mother did, and all he can do is kill his bastard father for it.]]
** Also the end of ''Superguy'' where [[spoiler:Sixpack, the ultimate joke drunk superhero of the comic voluntary and bravely sacrifices himself to a group of unstoppable demons called "The Angled Ones" to save the Cauldron from said demons destruction.]] When asked why he would do such a thing, Sixpack simply says, tears in his eyes "Cause that's what superheroes do." :Sniff, sniff: [[spoiler:It's also hinted at the end of the arc that after all that, Sixpack was brought back to life, now sober and a proud AA member under his real name "Sidney Speck".]]
** The final words of the series, as [[spoiler: all the friends Tommy and Nat have lost over the series greet them at Noonan's bar]].