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[[File:100Bullets.jpg|frame|The first trade paperback of 100 Bullets]]
{{quote|''"I wrote about America. About power and corruption, loyalty and betrayal, and the ties that make them family. Friends and enemies. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, brothers. I wrote about moral choices and their costs - whether you make them or not. And about how not making a choice is a choice."''|'''Brian Azzarello's introduction in the final trade paperback.'''}}
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* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: The Trust were the real {{spoiler|founders of the United States.}}
* [[Alternate History]]: In ''100 Bullets'', Graves is partly responsible for {{spoiler|the assassination of John F. Kennedy after he gave Joe Dimaggio a chance to avenge the death of Marilyn Monroe.}}
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* [[The Chessmaster]]: Graves never leaves anything unaccounted for, same for Augustus Medici.
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Cole Burns, Wiley Times, Victor Ray and Benito Medici (except to Megan, who loves to play with his obvious lust for her).
* [[Click. "Hello."]]
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Frequently. It even becomes a plot point in one book -- when Dizzy and Wylie run into a pair of contract killers in New Orleans, the killers are able to figure out who Wylie is because they hear him yell "Fuck!" and recognize his voice from when he said it before in the dark. Annoyed, Dizzy says [[Lampshade Hanging|"You might want to expand your 'freaking out' vocabulary!"]]
* [[Code Name]]: All of The Minutemen have nicknames referring to their personalities. Cole is known as The Wolf, likely for his predatory smile and alpha male personality. Lono is The Dog, because he's a big, dangerous attack dog who needs a strong hand on a short leash. Jack is The Monster -- the biggest, most dangerous of all of them. Milo is The Bastard for his abrasive and obstinate personality. Victor Ray is The Rain, as he falls on the just and unjust unquestioningly at Graves' order. Remi is The Saint, likely for irony. Wiley is The Point Man, because he was a leader among his peers, and because every shot he fires has a point -- a killing headshot. Loop is The Boy for his youth and newness to the job. Dizzy is The Girl for the same reasons.
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* Both [[Fan Service]] and [[Fetish Fuel]].
* [[The Fettered]]: Agent Graves. He has a very strict moral code based on personal ethics, and he made sure that all the Minutemen he had a part in creating had a similarly rigid code of honor. Even Lono, [[Complete Monster]] that he is, [[Even Evil Has Standards|has a thing he won't do.]]
* [[Funetik Aksent]]: Used quite effectively to show accents of the Urban, Southern and Louisiana variety.
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Megan Dietrich and Echo Memoria.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Where to start? Besides Graves and Augustus, some of the Minutemen have plans of their own, as do the smaller families within The Trust.
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* [[Hufflepuff House]]: With thirteen houses in the trust, it's only natural that some get less page time than others. {{spoiler|One house head, Constance Von Hagen, went unnamed until the issue in which she died, and even then it was only her first name. Her surname was up to speculation until [[Word of God]] confirmed it.}}
* [[Human Shield]]: Victor Ray doesn't shy away from using them even if it's a body of a dying partner.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: With one exception, the title of each of the collections is based around its number. Book two is "Split Second Chance", while book ten is "Decayed" -- sounds like decade. Some titles don't actually contain the numerical pun, but instead are cleverly part of a phrase that would usually include that number, such as "Samurai," the seventh book, after ''[[Seven Samurai]]''; "The Hard Way," the eighth, after a dice roll in the game of craps that involves rolling an eight; and the twelfth book, "Dirty," after ''[[The Dirty Dozen]]''. Book eleven is titled, "Once Upon a Crime," which at first doesn't make sense -- unless you know Spanish. The title of the thirteenth and final book, "Wilt", is a two-in-one; Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain not only has 13 as his jersey number, but is famous for having scored 100 points in a single game. The only book to break this tradition is "Hang Up on the Hang Low" (it would otherwise have been title "The Charm", as in "Third time's the-"), which was named after a Story Arc contained in the book; the story in question had won an Eisner Award.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Best exemplified by Wylie Times, "The Point Man"; every shot he fires has a destination and will hit its mark.
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Branch - He goes out of his way to find out about Graves and his bullets and is forced to flee to France after getting his hand broken by Lono.
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* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Mr. Shepherd to Dizzy.
* [[Offhand Backhand]]: Lono walks out a door and casually kills a guy who is waiting for him with a gun. Lono simply crushes his trachea with one blow.
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: Wylie's shoot-out with Mikhail "Coochie" Kuchenko and his gang in the desert.
* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Cole Burns was shot in the arm but it did not faze him. Later he fished the bullet out in the shower.
* [[Passing the Torch]]: {{spoiler|Shepherd to Lono.}}
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* [[Shout-Out]]: The Minutemen are a gang of seven badass career criminals dressed in identical black suits and ties, who disband suddenly when they're involved in a crime gone wrong. [[Reservoir Dogs|Sounds familiar.]]
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Lono and Remi Rome.
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Many characters look cool smoking, especially Shepherd.
* [[Suicide by Cop]]: {{spoiler|Milo, after not liking his Minuteman era memories purposely provokes a fight with Lono who shoots him dead.}})
* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Agent Graves is often seen eating pies, cakes, sweet drinks and popcorn while plotting.
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* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: {{spoiler|various members of The Trust.}} {{spoiler|Graves in the second to last issue.}}
* [[Vigilante Man]]: Victor Ray kills criminals in his spare time to balance out the awful things he does on Graves' behalf.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Not an example of ''the'' villain, but {{spoiler|Lono loses much of his cocky attitude and smug demeanor after being run off the Medici premises by Benito of all people. He later starts ranting at his fellow Minutemen, screaming at them to just shoot each other and get out of his way. Then he is possibly killed by something he survived easily earlier in the comic.}}
* [[Who Shot JFK?]]: Dealt with in one issue that also partially introduces Milo. Whilst ''Joe [[Di Maggio]]'' is stated to be [[The Man On The Grassy Knoll]], he is not directly stated to be Kennedy's killer. Instead, Graves suggests he could have fired the killing shot, but there were also other people operating for reasons separate to [[Di Maggio]]'s that were in Dallas that day. Graves also adds that whether [[Di Maggio]] made the kill is beside the point, given he still got what he wanted, in the end.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: The Trust no longer need The Minutemen during such a peaceful era and decide and try to kill them off. This ends... badly.
* [[You Got Spunk]]: Lono shows a more twisted variation of this trope after a woman spits in his face.
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