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Hey, man, let me tell you about something that's, like, [[Totally Radical|totally amazing]]...
While [[Alan Moore]] is mostly known nowadays for writing dark, serious stories set in [[Crapsack World
It all began at [[
Somewhat breaking the trend, a young Moore decided to write up a [[Totally Radical|Totally Amazing]] [[Black Comedy]] adventure [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/comics/2000adstrips/drandquinch/drandquinch01.shtml comic strip] about two teenage alien miscreants who steal a [[Time Travel|time machine]] and head out to a little planet way out in the boondocks that no one else in the galaxy would ever care about called "Earth," all in part of an elaborate revenge scheme on their college dean for [[Disproportionate Retribution|suspending them after he found stolen goods and laser guns in their locker]]. Originally intended to appear only once in the pages of ''[[
In what can best be described as "[[Rule of Funny]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[For the Evulz]]," ''D.R. & Quinch'' tells the [[Rule of Three|totally amazing]] story of one [[Magnificent Bastard|Waldo "D.R." Dobbs]] (the "D.R." stands for "Diminished Responsibility"), a skinny, lanky, teenage [[Delinquents|delinquent]] who boasts a genius IQ, enjoys acts of extreme violence and destruction, and looks like a cross between [[Gremlins|a gremlin]] [[X Meets Y|and]] [[Marvel Universe|a skrull]] with a [[Good Hair, Evil Hair|pompadour]], and Dobbs' best friend [[Dumb Muscle|Ernest Erroll Quinch]], a large, purple-skinned [[The Brute|brute]] who is [[The Quiet One|much, much quieter than Dobbs]] as he prefers writing to talking. Together, these two [[Comedic Sociopathy|deeply sociopathic]], [[Faux Affably Evil|evilly affable]], [[Omnicidal Maniac|omnicidal maniacs]] do as they please, and what pleases them usually involves death and destruction on a tremendous scale; it helps that, in their part of the Milky Way, [[Nuke
Along with their two occasional companions (and, presumably, only other friends in the galaxy, besides each other) Crazy Chryssie (D.R.'s equally violent girlfriend) and Pulger (a [[Shell
Unfortunately, the strip, [[Short Runners|did not last long]] at ''[[
Only five complete adventures were written by [[Alan Moore]] after D.R. & Quinch's first appearance, but despite there being such a small amount of material, the characters remain tremendously popular with the readers of ''[[
When you read ''[[Watchmen (
When you read ''
''S'right!''
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* [[Aliens Are Bastards]]: Just the eponymous main characters though.
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Even after Quinch shows Chrysoprasia what a real monster her boyfriend, Waldo, is really like, she just commits herself to being as evil as he is, transforming herself into "Crazy Chryssie" in the process, and insists that she's now more compatible with D.R. than ever.
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* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: The fate of {{spoiler|Earth, obviously}}.
* [[Evil Genius]]: Waldo "D.R." Dobbs. As his best bud puts it,
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* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Our starring duo in a nutshell.
* [[For the Evulz]]
* [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]]: Waldo's pompadour would rightfully categorize him with the other [[
* [[Great Escape]]: Pulger's master plan to escape from the penal stockade on Ghoyogia. The plan consists of {{spoiler|a bar of soap that was molded to look like a gun, half a pound of plastic explosive that was molded to look like a bar of soap, a hidden escape tunnel, and Pulger in drag. What's going to happen is Pulger will blow up the explosive, then after the guards come to investigate, they'll confuse Pulger in the dress for an actual woman and immediately fall in love with him at which time he'll brandish the "gun" and force the guards into the escape tunnel and hide them there and refuse to tell anyone where the guards went until they agree to let him go.}}
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* [[Historical
* [[Humans Are Morons]]: Plays a large role in "D.R. & Quinch Have Fun on Earth." When humans finally discover the alien life and society the title character's corner of the galaxy, they're given a civic reception at "The League of Disadvantaged Planets' Charity Hall" because everyone thinks they're "mindless lifeforms."
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Every single story is given a title along the lines of "D.R. & Quinch _______"
* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]]: The duo's charity project for [[Shell
* [[Insane Equals Violent]]: Pulger, [[Justified Trope|justified]] given his role as a [[Shell
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: Before being sent off to [[The Vietnam War|Ghoyogia]], D.R. isn't phased by his platoon-mates' fears about the planet ("Ghoyogia, where the saliva-trees digest you alive," "Ghoyogia, where even the terrible diseases have terrible diseases") until he learns that there aren't any expensive foreign restaurants there. He then describes this incident as his "first exposure to [[War Is Hell|the total insanity that is war]]."
* [[The Judge]]: Thorkwung.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: D.R. and Quinch.
* [[Killed Mid
* [[List of Transgressions]]: "D.R & Quinch Go Straight'' begins with Judge Thorkwung reading all the criminal charges the two [[Villain Protagonist|Villain Protagonists]] are being accused of.
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* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: While D.R. was romantically involved with Chrysoprasia {{spoiler|before she snapped}}, he was much less willing to commit acts of violence.
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Chrysoprasia's reaction upon finding out what the ''[[Omnicidal Maniac|real]]'' Waldo Dobbs is actually like, and thus {{spoiler|inspiring her transformation into Crazy Chryssie}}.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: [[Alan Moore]] actually provides an [[In
* [[Mumbling Brando]]: There's a Marlon Brando caricature in "D.R. & Quinch Go to Hollywood." The fact that he's [[The Unintelligible]] isn't really much of a surprise.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Subverted for as far as legal rights can go. The story "D.R. & Quinch Go to Hollywood" consists of several alien characters who look like caricatures of various Hollywood legends; the main one, based on Marlon Brando, is always called "Marlon."
* [[Noodle Incident]]: The beginning of "D.R. & Quinch Get Drafted!" This is immediately [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]].
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* [[Nuke
* [[Pen Name]]: For the first strip, [[Alan Moore]] gave the writing credit to one of his main characters, "E.E. Quinch."
* [[The Quiet One]]: Quinch. ''S'right!''
* [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche]]: "D.R. & Quinch Go to Hollywood" Because the characters {{spoiler|indirectly destroyed Earth}} before, the Hollywood they end up going to is actually a planet ''named'' "Hollywood" where the principal economy of the entire planet is the entertainment industry, and every resident alien is a caricature of a legendary Hollywood personality.
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: Many of the descriptions whichever character is narrating the story gives for things. For example,
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** The {{spoiler|eventual, easily foreseeable, violent climax at Massacre House}} becomes known as {{spoiler|"The Massacre House Massacre"}} in the media.
* [[Shell
** ''Everyone'' admitted to Massacre House counts, really.
* [[Short Runners]]: Only six adventures were written by [[Alan Moore]] in the span of two years.
* [[Shout
* [[Spin
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Seeing how, Waldo Dobbs, has a a 280 I.Q., it doesn't come as much of a surprise that he says an occasional "sophisticated" word here and there mixed in with his more usual lexicon that's based around more [[Totally Radical]] words (i.e. Asking for [[The Judge|The Judge's]] '''appellation''', rather than his '''name''').
** His recitations of Shakespeare sound like something translated into a foreign language through Babblefish and then back into English.
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* [[Standing Between the Enemies]]: When the entire gang caught between the enemy Ghoyogian Army and their own Space Marines platoon {{spoiler|with whom they're in trouble for creating a friendly fire incident with a tactical nuke}}. Waldo attempts one plea for sanity by stepping up to "cry out at the horror and injustice of war..." It doesn't work.
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: The ending narration to "D.R. & Quinch Get Back to Nature."
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Pretty much everyone who isn't D.R. or Quinch, [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[Totally Radical]]: Both title characters are likely to describe just about anything with a two-word phrase based on an adverb such as, "totally," "incredibly," "unbelievably," or "extremely" compounded with an adjective like, "amazing," "awesome," "incredible," "unbelievable," "extreme," or "stupid."
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* [[Villain Protagonist]]: And not just one, either.
* [[Weapon for Intimidation]]: Pulger once carved a (fake) phaser rifle out of a bar of soap as part of a prison escape attempt. When in traveling the tunnels burrowed out by a species known only as the "Snufflegruffs". When one of them shows up and turns out to be incredibly dangerous, Pulger makes [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bDUK5U-yua8/SvnbQFsZE1I/AAAAAAAAAEw/k1SUQC6-drE/s1600-h/D.R.+%26+Quinch+-+Fleetway+Definitive+Edition+-+048.jpg his best attempt at this.]
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'''Pulger:''' Yeah, [[Comically Missing the Point|but]] ''[[Comically Missing the Point|he]]'' [[Comically Missing the Point|doesn't know that!]] }}
** And then he does it yet again with [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bDUK5U-yua8/SvneeYxjzAI/AAAAAAAAAFo/kbE6rtogzr0/s1600-h/D.R.+%26+Quinch+-+Fleetway+Definitive+Edition+-+051.jpg what's left of the soap gun] in the following installment.
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