Line #12 ComicBook/Sink


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2	'''''Sink''''' is a horror comic written by John Lees (''ComicBook/AndThenEmilyWasGone'') and illustrated by Alex Cormack.
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4	The series follows the residents of Sinkhill, a 'forgotten East End district of a warped funhouse mirror vision of Glasgow, Scotland'; a place where crooks, deviants and killers as well as the ordinary folk unfortunate enough to live among them reside.
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6	!!''Sink'' contains examples of:
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8	* AllJustADream: #2 has Sharon hired to dispose of a dead body only to discover that the victim is still alive. She gives him her savings so that he can leave Sink and start a new life. Then it's revealed that he was DeadAllAlong and that she only imagined him being alive before proceeding to dispose of his corpse.
9	* AnimalMotifs: Mr. Dig wears a fox mask.
10	* AffablyEvil: Si [=McKirdie=] runs most of the organized crime in Sinkhill but can be fairly charming and easygoing as long as you're on his good side.
11	* AntiHero: Mr. Dig is a brutal vigilante who enjoys torturing criminals and beating them to death with his shovel.
12	* BadassNormal: Mr. Dig is just a guy with a shovel [[spoiler:who happens to be a Peshmerga veteran]].
13	* BaddieFlattery: Emma's not afraid to talk frankly to Si [=McKirdie=], calling him out on the hypocrisy of making money off dogfights while claiming to like dogs. He genuinely admires this, noting that she's tough as nails, and tells her not to let the world change her.
14	* BaldOfEvil: Si [=McKirdie=], the kingpin of Sinkhill.
15	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: {{Averted\|Trope}} with Charlotte in #6; the clowns give her a GlasgowGrin as well as a clown nose that is forced onto her with needles on the inside.
16	* CleanupCrew: Sharon is a cleaner in Sinkhill hired by people to get rid of bodies.
17	* {{Clownification}}: Those caught by the gang of [[MonsterClown Monster Clowns]] are given [[GlasgowGrin Glasgow Grins]], have red noses attached to their faces via spikes on the inside, and are sprayed with some sort of insanity-inducing gas, after which they are inducted into the group.
18	* DeathGlare: If Si [=McKirdie=] takes off his sunglasses, it's too late for you.
19	* TheDreaded: "Rab" Kilcolm was this back in the day, and when people recognize Florence for who she used to be, it comes back in full force.
20	* DrivenToMadness: The clowns spray some sort of gas on their victims to drive them insane and induct them into their group. One woman manages to escape this ritual [[spoiler:but is implied to have been driven insane from the experience nonetheless]].
21	* FacialHorror: The clowns have hideous {{Glasgow Grin}}s as well as red noses that are attached to their faces via spikes on the inside.
22	* ForcedToWatch: As a lesson about the cost of change and what it means to ask someone like [=McKirdie=] for help, the crime lord forces Emma to watch as a number of fighting dogs tear apart the guy running dogfights in Sinkhill.
23	* GangOfHats: Members of the "Dickheads" gang wear stretched-out condoms on their head. They're apparently supposed to keep them on 24/7 as well.
24	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Mr. Dig admonishes a kid who wants to be a vigilante like him by telling him that killing changes a person and spoils them inside.
25	* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:At the end of issue #4, Craig reflects on how his harrowing experience has made him a braver person, with nothing to fear anymore... [[SuddenDownerEnding and then an extremely familiar blue van appears behind him]].]]
26	* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Part of the initiation process to rise up in [=McKirdie=]'s gangs is to commit an awful act or crime.
27	* IGaveMyWord: Si [=McKirdie=] agrees to help Emma look for her dog at his fighting ring; when it turns out that the pup is already dead, he shuts down the dogfighting racket in Sinkhill, period, and has the guy running the ring killed when he protests.
28	* MadeOfIron: In his debut, Mr. Dig takes a knife to the back and keeps on going. The hits keep comin' in later issues, as well.
29	* MonsterClown: A blue van filled with psychotic clowns drives around at night. Those unfortunate enough to be caught by them are mutilated, driven insane and turned into clowns as well.
30	* MurderDotCom: Graphite Green is presented as an experimental rent-free luxury apartment complex in Sinkhill. In reality it's a false front for an elite televised competition for four killers to kill the most people.
31	* PaintTheTownRed: It's very common for entire rooms to be covered in blood after people are killed.
32	* PetTheDog: A literal example with [=McKirdie=]. After a young girl's dog is killed for 'bait' as part of a dog-fighting ring, he breaks up the operation and gives her an abused fighting dog to look after.
33	* ShovelStrike: Mr. Dig's weapon of choice is a shovel.
34	* SuddenDownerEnding: #7 is mostly played as a screwball comedy up until the ending, when [[spoiler:the protagonist comes across an abandoned bus functioning as a death trap set up by a serial killer]].
35	* ThatManIsDead: ''Florence'' Kilcolm feels this way about "Rab" Kilcolm, having chosen to leave her violent life as the wrong gender behind her. [[spoiler:She briefly picks the "violent life" part back up to avenge an old friend.]]
36	* VigilanteMan: Mr. Dig is a fox-masked vigilante who dishes out his own brand of justice on those unfortunate to cross him.
37	* WhamEpisode: The Graphite Green saga is the series' first two-parter and features Mr. Dig going up against four professional killers.
38	* WretchedHive: The titular Sinkhill is this on its good days.
39	* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Not after [[spoiler:stapling your GlasgowGrin shut, tearing most of your nose off, and killing several of the people who did it to you]].

Context ComicBook / Sink