Line #27 ComicBook/LowLife


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3	''Low Life'' is a spinoff from ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''. Focusing on the [[DeepCoverAgent Wally Squad]] in a particular area in the city known as the [[WretchedHive Low Life]], on two judges in particular, [[ActionGirl Aimee Nixon]] and [[CloudCuckooLander Dirty Frank]] and the various cases they have to deal with.
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6	!!''Low Life'' provides examples of:
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8	* AlliterativeTitle
9	* AnyoneCanDie: Really, only Dirty Frank is anyway safe from this. [[spoiler: Well, until "The Small House".]]
10	* AnArmAndALeg: Nixon ''voluntarily'' had her left arm removed and replaced with a [[ArtificialLimbs robotic arm]] to blend in better. [[spoiler: She later loses the other one.]]
11	* AntiHero: Aimee Nixon. [[spoiler: [[FaceHeelTurn At first]].]]
12	* BondOneLiner: When Overdrive asks Frank what he has that Enormo doesn't, a judge shoots Overdrive [[BoomHeadshot in the head]]. Frank replies, "Justice."
13	* BottomlessBladder: Thanks to nerves, Dirty Frank once urinated non-stop throughout a ''twenty three minute'' guitar solo.
14	* BrainyBaby: One company claims to create these, in suspicious circumstances. [[spoiler: Turns out, they were transferring the minds of elderly criminals into the bodies of babies to give them a second shot at life.]] To a lesser extent, there's also Judge Eric "Mortal" Coil, a judge whose body was de-aged to that of an infant.
15	* BreakoutCharacter: While Aimee Nixon started out as the protagonist, [[EnsembleDarkhorse Dirty Frank]] took over once it was realised how well fans took to him.
16	* CanonWelding: ''Saudade'' establishes that Frank has worked with ComicBook/JudgeDredd before and recommends Jack Point from ''ComicBook/TheSimpingDetective'' as a WildCard in Judge Smiley's plan, which means they've been colleagues for a while.
17	* CelebrityResemblance: Aimee Nixon was drawn to resemble Music/CourtneyLove with a broken nose. Dirty Frank, on the other hand, was designed as Creator/AlanMoore with an eyepatch.
18	* CloudCuckooLander: Dirty Frank has spent so long undercover that he's suffering some major SanitySlippage. It's stated that the law is the only thing keeping him from a rubber room.
19	* {{Crossover}}: ''Saudade'', which is part of the [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd: Trifecta'' arc.]]
20	** [[spoiler: Nixon turns up in ''Titan'' as Sinfield's [[TheDragon Dragon]].]]
21	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Frank. In. Drokking. Spades.]]
22	* DirtyCop: Most of the judges in the Low Life, apart from Frank. [[spoiler: Yes, that does include Nixon.]]
23	* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The Big Man, the unseen crimelord running the Low Life's underworld is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler: Aimee Nixon.]]
24	* DoNotCallMePaul: Enormo Overdrive doesn't like to be reminded that his real name is [[spoiler: Barry Penge]].
25	* DumbMuscle: Cameron.
26	* EyepatchOfPower: Frank. He lost the eye on a botched mission deep in Sov territory.
27	* FaceHeelTurn:
28	** [[spoiler: Thora, Cameron and Aimee.]]
29	** In the first story, ''Paranoia'', [[spoiler: Link]] turns out to be the one setting Aimee up under orders from [[spoiler: Farnsworth]].
30	* TheFaceless: The Big Man, the unseen crime lord at the top of the Low Life. This seems to be a common trope in Wally Squad spinoffs, as The Boss from ''ComicBook/TheSimpingDetective'' plays a very similar role. [[spoiler: Eventually subverted when The Big Man turns out to be Aimee Nixon.]]
31	* GratuitousGerman: Frank tends to lapse into this at times.
32	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: A risk which all Wally Squad judges face. Link turns out to be working for [[spoiler: Farnsworth]], Thora is dirty [[spoiler: Nixon becomes the BigBad]]. Dirty Frank is the only one this trope doesn't apply to.
33	* JusticeByOtherLegalMeans: Nixon can't prove that Tyrone Appleby of [[FatCamp Lo-Cal]] is guilty of brainwashing and murdering rich fatties to take all their money. [[HoneyTrap She collars him for soliciting a prostitute]] ([[DirtyHarriet herself]]) instead.
34	* TheLastDJ: Frank, of all people. In spite of his [[CloudCuckooLander nature]], he's the one truly virtuous character in the strip and it's revealed that the law is the only thing keeping him from further SanitySlippage.
35	* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler: It turns out that Frank was reprogrammed by [[TheChessmaster Smiley]] to activate upon receiving a specific code phrase and placed out of the way into Wally Squad until he was needed.]]
36	* ThePigPen: [[MeaningfulName Dirty Frank]]. [[spoiler: It takes on a double meaning when we discover in Frank's backstory that he was part of a strike team on a mission in Sov territory that went badly wrong, where the mission did not go cleanly.]]
37	* ScoobyDooHoax: "He's Making a List..." has a creature called Mr. Claws who punishes orphans by kidnapping them to teach them a lesson, who turns out to be a toy store owner who was sick of juves smashing up his business. Frank lampshades the whole thing.
38	-->'''Dirty Frank:''' If he's a fairground owner who laments the intervention of meddling kids, Dirty Frank is quitting.
39	* SharkMan: Enormo Overdrive, who has his DNA bonded with a Great White. ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
40	* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Aimee's stories tend towards grittier and more serious, while Frank, in keeping with his {{CloudcuckooLander}} nature, gets all the ridiculous cases.
41	* ThirdPersonPerson: Dirty Frank. Lampshaded.
42	* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Judge Farnsworth]] starts killing off the mob in the Low Life and taking all their assets to fund a redevelopment of the sector.[[spoiler: Aimee kills him because she feels she needs the Low Life.]]
43	* WordSaladLyrics: During ''Rock And A Hard Place'', the singer of Kill Kill Kill Kill spends an entire week coming up with the line "Luna One Woman! You're all made of cheese" just to rhyme with "please". When he is arrested at the end of the story, he asks his guitarist if there are any words that rhyme with "gorgonzola".
44	* YoungerThanTheyLook: Thora takes on the appearance of an old woman, even though she is a few months younger than Nixon.

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