Trope Namers/Comic Books

Similar to Japanese comics, there are some ideas that get ingrained in the viewer's consciousness after seeing them in American and European comics. Here are some of the Trope Namers from those media. Newspaper Comics have their own set of famous tropes.


 * Archie Comics
 * Betty and Veronica


 * Astro City
 * Samaritan Syndrome


 * The Atom
 * Stupid Jetpack Hitler (from The All-New Atom)


 * The Avengers
 * Avengers Assemble
 * Winds of Destiny Change (from the 90's cartoon: United they stand.)


 * Batman
 * Bat Deduction (the TV show was most well known for this, however)
 * Bat Family Crossover
 * Batman Cold Open
 * Batman Gambit
 * Bat Signal
 * Bruce Wayne Held Hostage
 * The Commissioner Gordon
 * Dating Catwoman
 * Joker Immunity
 * Joker Jury
 * Mad Love
 * Superman Stays Out of Gotham
 * Two-Faced
 * Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?
 * Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?


 * Blue Devil
 * Weirdness Magnet


 * Captain America (comics)
 * Super Soldier


 * Cerebus the Aardvark
 * Cerebus Ending, former name for Sudden Downer Ending
 * Cerebus Retcon
 * Cerebus Rollercoaster
 * Cerebus Syndrome
 * Knight of Cerebus
 * Reverse Cerebus Syndrome


 * Chick Tracts
 * Author Tract


 * Conan the Barbarian
 * The Red Sonja


 * Crisis on Infinite Earths
 * Crisis Crossover
 * Red Skies Crossover


 * Dick Tracy
 * The Blank


 * Disney Comics
 * Number One Dime


 * Fantastic Four
 * Actually a Doombot
 * Reed Richards Is Useless
 * Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome
 * The Watcher


 * The Flash
 * Japanese Ranguage


 * Green Lantern
 * Green Lantern Ring
 * Stuffed Into the Fridge


 * Hellblazer
 * Trenchcoat Brigade


 * The Incredible Hulk
 * Hulk Speak
 * Hulking Out
 * You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry


 * Mad Magazine
 * Spy-Versus-Spy
 * Scry vs. Scry


 * Nikolai Dante
 * Army of Thieves and Whores


 * Runaways
 * Try Not to Die


 * The Sandman
 * When Is Purple?


 * Sgt. Rock
 * Sergeant Rock


 * Shazam
 * I Am Not Shazam


 * Sin City
 * Delusions of Eloquence


 * Spider-Man
 * Comes Great Responsibility
 * I Let Gwen Stacy Die
 * My Significance Sense Is Tingling
 * Spider Sense
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity


 * Superman
 * And That's Terrible
 * Bizarro Universe
 * Boxing Lessons for Superman
 * Clark Kenting
 * Clothes Make the Superman
 * Cut Lex Luthor a Check
 * In a Single Bound
 * Kryptonite Factor
 * Kryptonite Ring
 * President Evil
 * Shooting Superman
 * Super Dickery
 * Everything's Better with Monkeys (from the Superdickery.com site, which was named for Superman)
 * Superhero (he was the first one, after all)
 * Superman Stays Out of Gotham
 * Up, Up, and Away


 * What If?
 * What If


 * X-Men
 * Black Bug Room
 * Danger Room Cold Open
 * Fastball Special
 * The Juggernaut
 * Super Registration Act
 * Wolverine Claws
 * Wolverine Publicity