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''[http://www.evil-comic.com/ Evil Inc.]'' is a superhero [[Web Comic]] created by Brad Guigar. [[Spiritual Sequel|Somewhat of a continuation]] of Guigar's previous strip, ''[[Greystone Inn]]'', it revolves around the titular company which is run, staffed and provides entirely legitimate services for supervillains. Its CEO is Evil Atom, a once powerful and feared supervillain who is now somewhat past his prime.

* [[Art Shift]]: The adults in the flashback to Captain Heroic's School Days are drawn in a highly realistic style. Cap...not so much.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: The alternate Captain Heroic claims he's this.

'''Miss Match:''' And '''I''' prefer "extra-legal capital liberator", but the cops just laugh. }}

* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Memo}}.

* [[Bad Guy Bar]]: Beelze Pub.

* [[Bad Santa]]: Evil Atom decides to recruit [[Santa Claus]], reasoning that he shows all the signs of being a classic villain. {{spoiler|Santa surprisingly accepts - and promptly gets carted off by [[The Men in Black|the Feds]].}}

'''Evil Atom:''' Then he is a ''deer-and-present danger''. }}

* [[Basement Dweller]]: Grand Gamer

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Miss Match makes a wish, using an [[Artifact of Doom]], to give her fellow villains [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] after they find out about her marriage. {{spoiler|Too bad Cap was masquerading as Dark Hood at the time...}}

* [[Before I Change My Mind]]

'''Captain Heroic:''' Start running before I find a [[Burn It With Fire|magnifying glass]]. }}

* [[Biological Mashup]]: Dr. Muskiday is essentially a humanoid fly, his condition the result of a teleporter accident. He inverts [[The Fly|the usual]] order of things though, in that the original Dr. Muskiday was the ''fly''. {{spoiler|The human was a janitor who mistook Muskiday's teleporter experiment for a trash can.}}

* [[Code Name]]: But of course.

* [[Comes Great Responsibility]]: Said word-for-word by Captain Heroic as he and Miss Match debate {{spoiler|how to use Grand Gamer's wish}}.

'''Captain Heroic:''' No, I'm responsible to ''everybody''. }}

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Actually, since everyone in the corporation is a villain (for the most part), it's more of a corrupt ''corporation''.

* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Captain Heroic and Miss Match aren't just dating, they're ''married''.

** Later, Lightning Lady and Elastic Man have a fling, but worry [[The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life|what others will think]]...

'''Elastic Man:''' Yeah...[[It's Been Done|it could never work]]. }}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: ''Everybody''.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Did You Just Polymorph Cthulhu?]]: During his match against Captain Heroic during Grand Gamer's tournament, Evil Atom wears down Cap {{spoiler|1=by using his mastery over atoms (= matter) to ''change Grand Gamer, a [[Cosmic Being]], into a duplicate of himself!''}}.

* [[Disembodied Eyebrows]]: Evil Atom gets these when Captain Heroic interrupts his fight with {{spoiler|Miss Match}}.

* [[Lava Adds Awesome]]: the fight between Captain Heroic and {{spoiler|Wingman}}. Cap has no problem with having ''bathed in lava'' to retrieve his {{spoiler|Commander USA secret decoder ring, which he then uses to ''knock Wingman out''.}}

* [[Evil, Inc.]]: A-durr.

* [[Expy]]: [[Word of God]] confessed that Memo ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a sentient memo]] that communicates via writing) is an Expy of ''Greystone Inn's'' Narrator.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Phenomenal Lass. {{spoiler|And, later, Elastic Man.}} Among others:

* [[Faceless Eye]]: Oculore

* [[Fake Boobs]]: While Desdemona is [http://evil-comic.com/archive/20090401.html all natural], it's implied Lightning Lady [http://evil-comic.com/archive/20080703.html is not].

* [[Fan Boy]]: Don Luke Piccardo. [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Guess what he's obsessed with]].

* [[Five-Bad Band]]:

** [[Big Bad]]: Evil Atom

* [[Groin Kick]]: Miss Match delivers one to {{spoiler|the alternate Captain Heroic}}.

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Iron Dragon.

'''Iron Dragon:''' I never wore a skirt a day in my life...except that once. And that was with someone I loved...and her girlfriend. }}

* [[Hero Insurance]]: One of the services Evil Inc. provides is "Battlefield Location and Booking" which seeks out abandoned locations for villains and heroes to battle to avoid lawsuits from any property damage and casualties.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Captain Heroic and Wingman; Haynus and Muskiday.

* [[Hollywood CB]]: Muskiday [[Large Ham|hams it up]] with CB lingo when he steals {{spoiler|Project X}} from storage in a truck. The real truckers on the frequency are not impressed.

* [[Horny Devil]]: Desdemona.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Miss Match. ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|Literally]].)

** LL's alternate-universe self "utilises a special [[Phlebotinum|Nth-metal]] underwire".

* [[Improv Fu]]: Muskiday and Haynus ad-lib the latter having a "force field" to explain their "capturing" the alternate Miss Match to Up'n Atom. Only a ''very'' short time later, Haynus shows off a working force-field generator...

'''Muskiday:''' [[Incredibly Lame Pun|You sly dog.]] }}

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] / [[Just for Pun]]: The entire strip ''runs'' on these tropes.

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: Guess how Iron Dragon got his villain name.

* [[Instant Costume Change]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]]. The alternate Miss Match ducks into an alleyway to change into her super-costume...and has to change like a perfectly normal person (giving a nice [[Sideboob]] shot), which starts drawing a crowd (including [[Rule of Funny|the villain she's trying to thwart]]). She winds up finishing her costume change on a rooftop.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: When Evil, Inc. is in [[Washington DC]] seeking a bailout.

'''Evil Atom:''' '''''Yes. We. Can.''''' }}

** "Hey! Y'know what? Your head kinda looks like a helium atom!"

* [[Klingon Promotion]]: Dr. Haynus takes this route {{spoiler|to become Commander Heroic's arch-nemesis}}.

* [[Lampshaded Double Entendre]]:

'''Desdemona:''' Believe me, there's ''nothing'' [[Fake Boobs|plastic]] about me }}

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|The ''Ruby of Ragnoor'' storyline is all about this - and, specifically, its effect on Cap after Miss Match inadvertently wishes away his memory of their marriage.}}

* [[Power Nullifier]]: Project X, aka [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the Null Gun]]. {{spoiler|And Oculore's power removal bomb derived from it.}}

** Dr. Muskiday built a set of power-draining cuffs for use on Lighting Lady. They come in handy during a heist, but were built with [[Casual Kink|recreational]] [[Brain Bleach|applications]] in mind.

* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: The reason production of the Super-Power Drainer was discontinued.

* [[Psychic Powers]]: Psy-Chick.

* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: Part of Miss Match's strategy for defeating Elastic Man (along with some whispering...)

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Miss Match. (More orange-ish, really, but it fits with the "flame".) Originally seen only in close-ups when angry but later (with [[Art Evolution]]) consistently.

* [[Ring of Power]]: Dr. Muskiday invents a power ring that, instead of being powered by a user's emotion, changes to ''fit'' the user's emotions...a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Power Mood Ring]].

** ''Actual'' Rings of Power gave {{spoiler|Commander Heroic and Ms. Amazing their powers. They double as [[With This Ring|their wedding rings]].}}

* [[Saving Christmas]]: Spoofed several ways. Lightning Lady has to do this after Santa {{spoiler|gets arrested}}, and after she says she's saving Christmas, she has to take a number in a line of all the other fictional characters who have done so.

* [[Sexy Secretary]]: Lightning Lady; later, Desdemona. LL continues as Sexy Tech Support in the Saturday strips.

* [[Shame If Something Happened]]: Evil Atom tries to use this against Captain Heroic {{spoiler|after he learns about Cap's wife and son}}.

* [[Shape Shifter]]: Elastic Man.

* [[Shapeshifter Default Form]]: Elastic man has two, his [http://evil-comic.com/archive/20110217.html standard form and his true form]

* [[The Starscream]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Haynus.}}

* [[Stripperiffic]]: The alternate Miss Match wears a somewhat...skimpier outfit than the prime unvierse's.

** Also [[Lampshaded]] by Lightning Lady:

'''Lightning Lady:''' If there ''is'', I need to find a new tailor! }}

*** Ironically, LL's initial reaction to Desdemona was negative on account of her outfit. A bemused Keagan [[Hypocrite|pointed out the obvious]].

** Cap is, apparently, {{spoiler|actually a Type 3}}, given that {{spoiler|Commander Heroic and Ms. Amazing got their powers from an ancient Egyptian artifact.}}

* [[Taking You with Me]]: When they team up to bury a villain Dr. Haynus poisoned, Haynus threatens Muskiday with this if he gets caught. Muskiday isn't very impressed.

* [[Talking with Signs]]: There exists a sentient piece of paper who can only communicate this way. He used to be a narration box in the strip.

* [[Thinking Up Portals]]: Desdemona can generate portals to travel through.

* [[This Is Sparta]] - Dr. Muskiday doesn't like it when Dr. Haynus reminds him of how he recycles sci-fi props to contain his inventions.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Muskiday and Haynus.

* [[To Hell and Back]]: Iron Dragon does this to save Desdemona from an [[Arranged Marriage]]. {{spoiler|Her father [[The Devil|runs the place]], after all.}}

* [[Twin Threesome Fantasy]]: Captain Heroic's initial reaction when he learns the true identity of the alternate Miss Match.

* [[Umbrella Drink]]: Desdemona is quite fond of daiquris.

* [[Vehicular Sabotage]]: Evil Atom's car is (presumably) disabled by Lightning Lady when she thinks he's replacing her. When she learns she's being ''promoted'', she [http://www.evil-comic.com/archive/20071026.html advises him to take a cab].

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Surprisingly averted, considering the comic's setting. The comic doesn't seem to have a focus on any one protagonist, instead focusing on the politics in and surrounding the corporation.

* [[Wreathed in Flames]]: Miss Match, especially her alternate.

* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: Grand Gamer's teleport sound.

'''Grand Gamer:''' I'm pretty sure 'Bamf' was copyrighted. }}

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Phenomenal Lass