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* [[Alternate Universe]]: As if time manipulation by a cartoon bat wasn't enough! {{spoiler|There used to be many, but now there's just one.}}
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]
* [[Anti -Hero]] - {{spoiler|Lee Harvey Oswald}}
* [[Art Shift]] - from Kevin's [[Funny Animal]] comic to the "real" manga.
* [[Ascended Extra]] - Diane and Tony Goodman, the black bride and the white groom, get not only fleshed out later on, but become important characters later in the series, {{spoiler|and specially their son Kevin.}}
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* [[CIA Evil FBI Good]] - Inverted, Captain Finney works for GHQ (The Military) and Agent Smith works for the CIA.
* [[Companion Cube]] - The taxi driver (Mr. Momochi) 's Billy Bat toy, who's his "navigator". {{spoiler|Subverted when Billy talks back, and also knows the future - er, ''present''.}}
* [[The Conspiracy]] - Everywhere. With a heavy dose of [[Mind Screw|Mind Screws]] and [[Historical in In-Joke|Historical In Jokes]].
* [[Could Have Avoided This Plot]] - {{spoiler|What the Bat seems to be saying when he lists all the wars and man-made disasters that will happen if Kanbei doesn't deliver the scroll.}}
* [[Cowardly Lion]] - Kanbei.
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* [[Historical Fiction]] - Sort of.
* [[Historical Hero Upgrade]] - {{spoiler|Lee Harvey Oswald.}}
* [[Historical in In-Joke]] - This may as well be called ''Historical In Joke - The Series''. So far, the Bat has either had influence on, or predicted {{spoiler|Jesus, Judas, and the foundation of Christianity, the fall of Iga and the rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate}}, and {{spoiler|the civil rights movement, MLK, the Lunar Landing, the JFK Assassination, the Warren Commission, the RFK Assassination, and Marilyn Monroe's relationship to both men}}. At one point, it predicted {{spoiler|Obama's Presidency as well.}}
** Don't forget when talking to Kanbei the Bat starts talking about {{spoiler|Napoleon, the Sarajevo Incident, Hitler, Stalin, the World Wars in general, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Shimoyama Incident, and 9/11}}. The Bat sure gets around.
** Kevin {{spoiler|does some sightseeing by the Grassy Knoll, and other suspected sniper spots on the eve of the JFK Assasination}}.
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* [[Insistent Terminology]]
{{quote| ''' {{spoiler|Lee Harvey Oswald}}''': I'm not a [[Dirty Communists|communist]]! I'm just a Marxist!}}
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]
* [[It Will Never Catch On]] - "Who's gonna read a comic that isn't for kids?"
* [[I Will Definitely Protect You]] - {{spoiler|Lee Harvey Oswald to Jackie Momochi}}.
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* [[Jesus Taboo]] - Averted. {{spoiler|Jesus is (or could be) an actual character in one of the flashbacks, along with Judas.}}
* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]] - After spending some time with Kevin, the story suddenly starts wildly moving through many different time periods to show all the people the bat image has influenced.
* [[Lawyer -Friendly Cameo]] - Kevin works for [[Marvel Comics|Marble Comics]] and by [[The Fifties]] Billy has his own theme park in Florida.
* [[MacGuffin]] - The Ninja Scroll (no, not that [[Ninja Scroll|one]]). -
* [[Man Behind the Man]] - {{spoiler|Or in front of the man: Chuck Culkin, Kevin's [[Woody Allen]]-looking assistant who took over ''Billy Bat'' after Kev went to Japan, is "played" in public and in business by a [[Walt Disney]]-lookalike.}}
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* [[Time Machine]] - {{spoiler|Fake!Chuck Culkin is able to figure out that the scroll is this, sorta, thanks to the real Chuck Culkin explaining the basics of Einstein's Theory of Relativity and [[Time Travel]].}}
* [[Time Skip]] - From the late forties to the early fifties to Biblical times to the Warring States Era to the sixties, to JFK's assassination to 10 months later.
* [[Timey -Wimey Ball]] - {{spoiler|A bat doodle beats the astronauts to the moon(?), and it seems [[Jesus]] is affected too.}}
* [[Town With a Dark Secret]] - See Homage.
* [[Trickster]] - The Bat, probably. Wasn't there two of them?
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* [[Visual Effects of Awesome]]: The "Gazura" movie is so amazing even {{spoiler|the US government}} is impressed.
* [[We Can Rule Together]] - {{spoiler|What the Bat seems to be selling ("Hey - want to rule the world, or become a superhero?")}}
* [[Yank the DogsDog's Chain]] - {{spoiler|To ''Lee Harvey Oswald'', when he realizes that he was set up by a government conspiracy, and that he will go down in infamy in history.}}
* [[Your Days Are Numbered]] - {{spoiler|Kevin and Lee Harvey Oswald, according to the Bat. Apparently, he lied about Kevin, but was right about Oswald.}}
** {{spoiler|Zofuu-sensei}}.
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