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Line 16: * [[So Bad It's Good]]: The Moon Period stories can actually be a lot of fun if you enjoy the very pulpiest of pulp science fiction. They're utterly ridiculous and out of place, but they're fun for ''exactly those reasons.'' And Gould's artwork during this period is ''gorgeous,'' arguably the best he ever did; he very clearly enjoyed getting to draw stuff so radically different from the normal restrictions of the strip's genre. * [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Groovy Grove, Tracy's hippie sidekick, gradually became a much more serious and heroic character once Max Allan Collins took over the writing. It didn't prevent him from being killed, mind you, but he did at least get into a relationship with Lizz in the months prior to his death. ~~----~~ ~~=== YMMVs in [[Dick Tracy (Film)\|The Movie]]: ===~~ * [[Ham and Cheese]]: [[Dustin Hoffman]] only played Mumbles because Warren Beatty dared him to. * [[Jerk Sue]]: There's no denying his honesty and courage, but Dick Tracy can be quite arrogant and brutal in his treatment of suspects - particularly when he waives their constitutional rights out of sheer spite. * [[Nightmare Fuel]]: the general freakish nature of most of Tracy's rogue gallery, where with the exception of the Breathless Mahoney (who {{spoiler\|designed the Blank costume/persona to wear so that she could go around killing people without anyone suspecting her}}), the costume designers went overboard to portray all of Tracy's villains as the grotesque looking freaks they were in the comics. Even Big Boy Caprice. So many of the gangsters (Pruneface, Influence, and Steve the Tramp, to name just three) are so unbelievably ugly (courtesy of some truly pull-out-all-the-stops movie makeup) that the average 6- or 7-year-old's reaction is less likely to be "Hee-hee, they're funny-looking" to "Mommy, make the scary people go away...." A surprisingly high body count for a PG-rated film, with seven men being killed in the first 10 minutes alone. Lips Manlis pathetically begging for his life as cement slowly covers him. Big Boy Caprice's lethal temper and chronic fondness for [[Kick the Dog\|Kicking The Dog]]. The Blank's [[Evil Sounds Deep\|inhuman - even reptilian - hiss of a voice]]. The final gun battle on the street, with {{spoiler\|Influence}} and {{spoiler\|Flattop}} shown getting shot in disturbing close-ups. ( {{spoiler\|Flattop's}} spasmodic death throes, his tommy gun firing wildly as his fingers lock on the trigger in a death grip, is virtually guaranteed to be the stuff of nightmares.) ---- Line 40 ⟶ 28: [[Category:Dick Tracy]] [[Category:YMMV]] [[Category:Multiple Works Need Separate Pages]]

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