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** Dick Locher's strips completely averted this, oddly enough, though presumably as a famed political cartoonist Locher had another outlet for that sort of thing.

* [[Complete Monster]]: Quite a few of the villains.

* [[~~Creators~~ Pet]]: Moon Maid

* [[Creator's Pet]]: Moon Maid

* [[Dork Age]]: Arguably from the start of the "Space Era" in the 1960s until Max Allan Collins took over as writer, and ''definitely'' Dick Locher's era as writer.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: The Blank; though he only appeared in one story, he's largely one of the more memorable villains Tracy fought.

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* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: The Blank's real face.

** Also the general freakish nature of most of Tracy's rogue gallery.

** The Brow had a [[Cold Blooded Torture]] device consisting of a small mechanical iron maiden that closed around the victim's leg. {{spoiler|Eventually the villain gets caught in it ''by the head.'' He has no choice but to ''tear'' his bleeding head out of it before it can close on him completely.}}

** The Brow had a [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] device consisting of a small mechanical iron maiden that closed around the victim's leg. {{spoiler|Eventually the villain gets caught in it ''by the head.'' He has no choice but to ''tear'' his bleeding head out of it before it can close on him completely.}}

* [[So Bad ~~Its~~ 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.

* [[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.