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  • Jerkass Woobie:
    • Firefly. He's an indiscriminately murderous serial arsonist who's killed a lot of people and something of an asshole in general, but he had a horrifically abusive childhood, and he's subject to a lot of suffering over the course of the fic, including being Mind Raped multiple times, betrayed by his best friend Killer Moth, being nearly killed multiple times, and struggling with his own fear of intimacy.
    • Killer Moth. He's a manipulative, toxic asshole, but he's such a failure that it's hard not to pity him.
  • Moral Event Horizon:
    • Ratcatcher crosses it when he reveals he's been having his rats eat homeless children alive and gleefully boasts about it.
    • Killer Moth gleefully reveals to Sarah he's been manipulating Firefly throughout their partnership and actively exacerbating his mental health issues to make sure he doesn't abandon him. He bluntly admits that it makes him a shitty person, but that he doesn't care.
    • Firefly crosses it when he, under Black Mask's orders, goes on a killing spree and begins burning as many buildings to the ground as he can, causing massive casualties.
    • Two-Face crosses it when he slaughters all of Anarky's followers as part of his plan to kill Black Mask and then smugly mocks him about it.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • Ratcatcher having his rats eat a bunch of drunk assholes alive.
    • The Taped Interview Sessions arc is filled with it.
      • Ratcatcher's chapter is pretty horrific. He reveals he let his rats feed on him soon after he developed his powers and shows off his scars to Sarah, and he then casually reveals he feeds homeless children to his rats.
      • Killer Moth reveals to Sarah that he's been manipulating Firefly throughout their partnership, and casually boasts that he's responsible for a lot of Firefly's crimes. He caps it off by revealing he has no intention of letting Sarah's relationship with Firefly continue, since he refuses to let Firefly abandon him regardless of the consequences to his mental health.
      • Anarky's chapter is less horrific overall, but it does reveal he's killed a lot of people during his terrorist attacks.
  • One-Scene Wonder: The Creeper. He only shows up for one chapter, where he effortlessly beats the crap out of the C-listers while wisecracking the whole time before letting Polka-Dot Man go with a gift he had stolen for Cedric.

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