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** Collins once said that, since he's the main character, you know Tracy will make it out alive, but you could never be sure about ''anybody else.'' He believed this was essential for a credible sense of drama.
* [[As Himself]] - Jim Doherty, a Chicago policeman who serves as the main technical advisor to ''Dick Tracy'', makes appearances in the comic itself from time to time.
* [[Ascended Fanon]] - Staton & Curtis launched a ''Dick Tracy'' tribute website prior to Tribune Media Services hiring them as the strip's creative team. Included in the website were several (at the time) fan-fiction storylines... almost all of which were adapted into the comic itself.
* [[Author Existence Failure]] - Three times. Rick Fletcher, who replaced Chester Gould as artist, died in 1983, and writer Mike Kilian died in 2005. Probably the most tragic instance came in 1986 with the premature death of John Locher, who was in the process of taking over the strip's art duties from his father.
* [[Author Filibuster]] - Gould's rants about the restrictions of due process
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** A tree surgeon, after committing murder, hides the body inside a tree trunk that had been split by weather. The tree heals around it and the body goes undiscovered until the tree is cut down, decades later, when the murderer is an old man.
* [[Death Trap]] - Only Tracy often needed rescue to fully escape them.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] - "Broadway" Bates '''does''' look an awful lot like The Penguin.<ref>To be fair, "Broadway" debuted in 1932, nine years before The Penguin's first appearance. Plus "Broadway" only appeared in one ''Dick Tracy'' storyline up to that point, so the similarities are likely coincidental.</ref> So Staton & Curtis reintroduced "Broadway" as someone who moved back into Tracy's city after living with his brother Oswald... because Oswald, also into organized crime, has had to contend with [[Batman|a costumed vigilante]] intent on apprehending him, and then discovering two costumed vigilantes in Tracy's city. The last strip in "Broadway's" storyline did feature Oswald in sillouette form... clutching... a very distinctive umbrella. Oh, and The Penguin's actual first name? {{spoiler|Oswald.}}
* [[Executive Meddling]] - Tribune Media Service's 1991 firing of lead writer Max Allen Collins, ostensibly because of his salary, would count as such.
* [[Expanded Universe]] - Almost bordering on "Tommy Westphal Universe" levels. ''Dick Tracy's'' universe is now connected to multiple other comic strips thanks to in-canon cameos and storylines. The extended crossover arc with ''[[Little Orphan Annie]]'' is especially notable because it effectively merged ''that'' strip's entire universe and canon into ''Dick Tracy's''.
* [[Everyone Knows Morse]] - Tracy escapes from Flattop by tapping out Morse code with his foot to communicate with the WAC-in-training living in the apartment below.
* [[The Faceless]] - Spots
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* [[Femme Fatale]] - Sleet
* [[Fiction 500]] - Diet Smith
* [[Forgotten Phlebotinum]] - Most of the Moon Period technology was never mentioned again after Moon Maid's death. Later explained (when the Moon Period was brought back into canon by Staton & Curtis) as intentional; Diet Smith had the technology and the moon colony - save for one last Moon Coupe - completely destroyed.
* [[Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind]]
* [[Gadget Watches]]
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* [[Worthy Opponent]] - I think Big Boy Caprice admits this much of Tracy at the end of the NES game.
* [[Would Hit a Girl]] - well, Dick would hit a homicidal female as large as himself, anyway.
* [[Write What You Know]] - Current head writer Mike Curtis and technical advisor/"Crimestoppers/Tracy's Hall of Fame" scribe Sgt. Jim Doherty are the first two people involved with Dick Tracy to have actual law enforcement experience.
* [[Writing by the Seat of Your Pants]]: Standard writing style of Chester Gould, although he did write himself into a corner at least once.
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