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** Penny sings, "So keep your head up Billy buddy" to Dr. Horrible in Act II. Later, when Dr. Horrible gate-crashes the Captain Hammer statue unveiling at the end of Act III, he pep-talks himself into killing Hammer, singing, "head up Billy buddy," thus cluing in Penny that her friend Billy is the villain.
** Act I starts with Dr. Horrible displaying a comically bad evil laugh. He's working with a voice coach. Fast forward to Act III, where he's able to deliver a classic, intimidating evil laugh as he freezes Captain Hammer.
* [[Character Blog]]: As the title states, Dr. Horrible operates a blog in which he talks of his life as a supervillain. Unfortunately Captain Hammer watches the
* [[Chest Insignia]]: Captain Hammer has one of these. It's a... well, take a guess. Nevertheless it's not a cool iconic design of a warhammer, or a jackhammer, or a sledgehammer, but a photograph of a garden-variety claw hammer, likely from Sears.
* [[Child Prodigy]]: In his prequel comic, it's established that Dr. Horrible was skipped at least three grades in school when he was 8, and is still considered smart relative to his classmates.
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* [[Fun with Subtitles]]: The "Wiccan" subtitles on the DVD.
* [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot]]: Parodied in the opening scenes.
* [[Freeze Ray]]: Although in this case, Billy's Freeze Ray isn't a [[Freeze Ray]]
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* [[Freudian Couch]]: Captain Hammer ends up lying on one of these, sobbing and talking to a psychiatrist after being physically injured for the first time in his life.
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* [[Incoming Ham]]: Captain Hammer is [[Milking the Giant Cow]] in his very first scene.
* [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog]]: "Oh goodness, look at my wrist, I gotta go."
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Played straight in Act I and Act II. [[Double Subverted]] in Act
* [[The Ingenue]]: Penny comprises this trope distilled. There are hints she is not as naive as she seems to be on first glance, though. She certainly has experienced sorrow and rejection in her life, but unlike Billy, she did not let this get her down, she kept her optimism intact.
* [[Innocent Bystander]]: Penny gets dragged into the rivalries between Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer. In the first Act she is nearly run over by the out-of-control van, {{spoiler|and in the last Act she pays for it with her life.}}
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* [[Product Placement]]: Dr. Horrible uses a remote program on his iPhone for nefarious purposes. Guess who's sponsoring the episode downloads. It was actually [[Nathan Fillion]]'s personal iPhone, so this is more a coincidence than anything else. For some reason, for "Bad Horse Chorus (Reprise)", Horrible has a flip-phone, instead of an iPhone.
** Probably to prevent triggering any remote-operated rayguns or vans while relaying instructions to Moist. Or maybe he just uses the iPhone as Billy in case his number is ever traced.
* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]: From whichever angle you look at
* [[Protagonist Journey to Villain]]: Dr. Horrible is the protagonist, and he turns evil over the course of the plot.
* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: Dr. Horrible, at the end of Act II as he starts singing "Brand New Day."
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** Captain Hammer also claims to own several Hammer-themed items, including the Hammer-Cycle and the Hamjet, although we never see them.
* [[Trampled Underfoot]]: The "Brand New Day" [[Imagine Spot]] ends with Dr. Horrible about to do this to Captain Hammer.
* [[Triumphant Reprise]]: Played straight and subverted simultaneously in the finale: in the instrumental bridge of "Everything You Ever", reprises of "Brand New Day" and "Dr. Horrible's Theme" are both
* [[Truth in Television]]: Captain Hammer's obsessed fans. ''Admit it.''
{{quote|'''Groupie number 2:''' "This is his hair."}}
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