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A character from [[The DCU]], created by comic book writer/artist Keith Giffen, '''Ambush Bug''' is the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] secret identity of Irwin Schwab, a man raised solely on TV who one day discovered a green teleportation suit that was sent within a capsule from a doomed planet ([[Unreliable Narrator|or so he claims]].) He has starred in several critically acclaimed mini-series, though he is pretty much [[Canon
Ambush Bug first appeared in ''"DC Comics Presents''" #52 (December, 1982). Originally he appeared as a minor foe of [[Superman]], before deciding to become a superhero himself, though Ambush Bug proves himself utterly incompetent at the job. As time went on, his appearances became increasingly in-jokey, [[Fourth Wall]]
The closest [[Marvel Comics]] equivalent would likely be [[Deadpool]], with a dash of [[Squirrel Girl]] thrown in, though Ambush appeared before either of them.
He has appeared in the animated TV series ''[[Batman: The Brave and the Bold]]'', where he knows he's a character in a TV show. He also appears in ''[[DC Universe Online]]'', where he knows he's a character in a video game.
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* [[Amusing Alien]]
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Argh! Yle! the living sock. Yes, his archenemy is a sock.
* [[Attack of the
* [[Berserk Button]]: He doesn't take too kindly to anyone who threatens TV sets.
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'''Ambush Bug''' ([[Freaky Friday Flip|in Superman's body]]): Destroy TV sets?!! You '''''ANIMAL!!''''' }}
* [[Beware the Silly Ones]]: So you think the weak idiot in the bright green suit can't do squat, do ya? Lemme tell you this - combine [[Motor Mouth]] with [[Teleport Spam]], [[Confusion Fu]] and the occasional dash of genre savviness and you got a damn powerful enemy on your hands, buster.
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*** Even more so, he {{spoiler|supposedly comes OUT of the game to interact directly with the players instead of their characters - the back cover was a mask to cut out and assemble to put on for that particular scene}}.
** In [[DC Universe Online]], Ambush Bug can be found in the Watchtower (for heroes) or the Hall of Doom (for villains). His first line is "Hey, look who's in your video game!"
** Ambush Bug stars in the [[Grand Finale]] to ''[[Batman:
* [[Clingy Costume]]: The zipper is stuck.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Companion Cube]]: Cheeks the Toy Wonder, a Big Boy doll Ambush Bug adopted as his sidekick.
** Note that Cheeks isn't alive or even animated (except when he briefly became undead), Ambush Bug just ''thinks'' so. He also wears a costume reminiscent of [[El Chapulin Colorado]]'s.
* [[Determinator]]: Goes against [[Reality Warper|Bat-Mite]] and endures a round of being beat down by [[Batman]] and [[
* [[End of Series Awareness]]: Ambush Bug throws an after-party at the end of his first miniseries.
** He also convinces Batman to ensure [[Batman:
** He convinced the villain in the [[
* [[Exiled From Continuity]]: Some of his more blatantly fourth-wall-breaking exploits are specifically not canon.
** At the end of the ''Son of Ambush Bug'' miniseries AB himself is put on trial and Exiled From Continuity.
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* [[Gag Series]]
* [[Gender Bender]]: When he appeared in an issue of [[Supergirl]]'s comic, he mistook her for a Gender Bent [[Superman]].
** During his latest{{when}} miniseries, he also found his own gender-bent [[Yandere|alternate]].
* [[Genre Savvy]]
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: He started off as a supervillain and decided to become a superhero.
* [[Medium Awareness]]
** He has an uncanny ability to see through Clark Kent's disguise, and even remarks how no one should be fooled by it. Superman was not pleased. Supergirl took it with more grace when 'Bush revealed he knew who she was, [[Awesomeness By Analysis|merely by observing her in both her identities]].
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* [[No Fourth Wall]]
* [[Post Modernism]]
* [[Rage Against the Author]]: Giffen/Bug isn't above lampshading [[DC Comics]]' faults (or his own).
** Dan DiDio is one of his mortal archenemies. When fighting against Bug, he's an idiot intent on destroying the damn green pest.
*** Before that, there was editor Julius Schwartz.
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* [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]: He's probably glued himself to the farthest end of the silly side of the scale.
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: Parodied with a sequence where Ambush goes shopping and cannot find a fridge without the body of an ex-girlfriend in it. He settles for a mini-fridge with a pygmy corpse inside.
* [[Super-Hero Origin]]: Parodies [[Superman]]'s. The greatest [[The Dandy|dandy]] in an alien world, Brum-El, discovers his planet is going to be hit by a swarm of meteorites which will kill all life against [[Ignored Expert|the belief of all experts]], and creates a rocket... to save his wardrobe. And then it turns out the meteorites ''really'' were harmless, leaving the man naked and humiliated. And then a [[Spider
* [[Super Zeroes]]: He's definitely one.
* [[Teleport Spam]]: Part of the reason of why he's a great fighter when dueling against serious enemies. Superman has learned to loathe this.
* [[Thought Caption]]: Ambush can see 'em.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Un Installment]]: ''Ambush Bug: Year None'' has an issue number 7, but no number 6. The joke being that there was a huge delay with the release of the next issue after issue 5... so it was numbered 7 to mock the delay ("Issue 6 is ''never'' coming out!")
* [[What Did I Do Last Night?]]: In ''Ambush Bug: Year None'', he wakes up and finds he got married to Dumb Bunny of the Inferior Five.
** And then he tries to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|have his marriage]] [[One More Day|
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