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Evil Inc.

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Evil Inc. is a superhero Web Comic created by Brad Guigar. 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.

You can do more evil if you do it legally.

The main character of the strip was initially Lightning Lady, the Ensemble Darkhorse of Greystone Inn who at the beginning of the strip takes a job at Evil Inc. as a secretary- Later on, the strip gradually changed focus towards Captain Heroic, the number one hero in the unnamed city the strip is set in, and Miss Match, another Evil Inc. employee (though Lightning Lady still appears regularly in Saturday comics). A while into the strip (a point which Guigar has once called the "official" launch of Evil Inc.) it's revealed that the two are married and have a son, Oscar. Their opposite moral alignments has caused some conflict but they appear to be Happily Married.

Though the strip is mostly gag-a-day, there have been several story arcs as well

Tropes used in Evil Inc. include:


  • 555: Samantha's phone number
  • All There in the Manual: Inverted. "Bio cards" with information about cast members, including background and powers, occasionally run as a day's strip.
  • Art Evolution: In later strips some characters' faces become more realistic, starting with the women but then expanding to most characters.
  • Artifact of Doom: The Ruby of Ragnoor.
  • 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: So you're a villain?
Alt Cap: I prefer "anti-hero".
Miss Match: And I prefer "extra-legal capital liberator", but the cops just laugh.

Lightning Lady: And if he says no?
Evil Atom: Then he is a deer-and-present danger.

Captain Heroic: Muskiday?
Dr. Muskiday: Yes?
Captain Heroic: Start running before I find a magnifying glass.

  • Biological Mashup: Dr. Muskiday is essentially a humanoid fly, his condition the result of a teleporter accident. He inverts the usual order of things though, in that the original Dr. Muskiday was the fly. The human was a janitor who mistook Muskiday's teleporter experiment for a trash can.
  • Bland-Name Product: "U-Tug"
  • Brain Bleach: Both Captain Heroic and Miss Match get chills from the Unfortunate Implications of the thought of Commander Heroic "appealing" to Flame. Little do they know...
  • Brain In a Jar: Dr. Haynus is one of these - given mobility through being mounted atop the head of the family dog.
  • Brought Down to Normal: Captain Heroic. He recovers.
  • Canon Welding: Pretty much every character from Greystone Inn (with one exception, see Expy) has showed up in the strip at one point or another.
  • Cat Fight: When two groups of heroes come to blows over whether or not to destroy Evil, Inc, both sides are brought to a grinning standstill by Blonde Bombshell and Amazing Amazon squaring off in mid-flight.
  • Chekhov's Gun: Project X. Later returns to become a Chekhov's Boomerang.
  • Clothing Damage: Miss Match decides to sober up Desdemona by setting her on fire, as she's a demon and won't burn, but the alcohol will. It works, but they forgot her uniform wasn't fireproof...
  • Code Name: But of course.
  • Comes Great Responsibility: Said word-for-word by Captain Heroic as he and Miss Match debate how to use Grand Gamer's wish.

Miss Match: If you have the power of a god, you're not responsible to anybody.
Captain Heroic: No, I'm responsible to everybody.

Lightning Lady: Besides, who ever heard of a super-villain getting into a relationship with a hero?
Elastic Man: Yeah...it could never work.

Cap: As soon as your eyebrows land back on your head, I'll explain...

  • Lava Adds Awesome: the fight between Captain Heroic and Wingman. Cap has no problem with having bathed in lava to retrieve his Commander USA secret decoder ring, which he then uses to knock Wingman out.
  • Evil, Inc.: A-durr.
  • Evil Pays Better: The reason Captain Heroic rejects the idea of using Grand Gamer's wish to turn Miss Match into a hero.
  • Expy: Word of God confessed that Memo (a sentient memo that communicates via writing) is an Expy of Greystone Inn's Narrator.
  • Face Heel Turn: Phenomenal Lass. And, later, Elastic Man. Among others:

Evil Atom: You're not the first hero to ask for this, you know. We've had a revolving door installed for Mystique alone.

Don Luke: (discussing his choice of toy train) Number One? N-gauge.

Lightning Lady: You chase everything in a skirt!
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 hams it up with CB lingo when he steals Project X from storage in a truck. The real truckers on the frequency are not impressed.

Trucker: Did he really just say "lot lizard"?

  • Horny Devil: Desdemona.
  • Hot Mom: Miss Match. (Literally.)
  • Impossibly Low Neckline: Lightning Lady and Desdemona most prominently.
    • LL's alternate-universe self "utilises a special 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...

Haynus: While you were picking up Project X, I got creative...
Muskiday: You sly dog.

"Human Flame...fired. Micro-Lad...down-sized. Executioner...axed. Undertaker...deep-sixed..."

Alternate Miss Match: I bet Spider Woman never had this problem...

Barack Obama: You can't set all of those villains loose on America!
Evil Atom: Yes. We. Can.

Evil Atom: Try not to look like a credit-card lobbyist.
Desdemona: Believe me, there's nothing plastic about me

Muskiday: Lightning Lady! I didn't expect you to interfere with my plans! Actually... I did.

Lightning Lady: You'd be surprised how many disgusting uses there are for "Plastic Man".

  • 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 Power Mood Ring.

Muskiday: In righteous day or boogie night, no jive or funk escapes my sight...

    • Actual Rings of Power gave Commander Heroic and Ms. Amazing their powers. They double as their wedding rings.
  • Saving Christmas: Spoofed several ways. Lightning Lady has to do this after Santa 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.
  • Secret Relationship: Captain Heroic and Miss Match. Evil Atom is NOT happy when he finds out.
  • 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 after he learns about Cap's wife and son.

Evil Atom: If he's not invulnerable, neither are you...

Alternate Miss Match: ...seems like overkill to use an entire hanger...

Captain Heroic: Is there any place I can touch you that won't be inappropriate?
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 pointed out the obvious.
  • Superpowerful Genetics: Captain Heroic and Miss Match are both Type 1s. Oscar appears to be a type 5 (so far).
    • Cap is, apparently, actually a Type 3, given that 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.

Muskiday: I'll add it to my long list of accomplice-ments.

  • 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.

Muskiday: It. Was. A. Back. Massager!

Miss Match: We've got to be the only people on Earth trying to cast spirits out of a demon.

  • 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 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.
  • Villainesses Want Heroes: Miss Match and Captain Heroic, Lightning Lady and Elastic Man...
  • Villainous BSOD: Evil Atom's reaction to Captain Heroic's Badass Bluff that his his wish to Grand Gamer was "anything that happens to my family will happen to yours".
    • This becomes Paranoia Fuel for Atom later, when his wife's modeling a new slip for him starts him wondering just how far "anything that happens" goes.
  • Vomit Discretion Shot: After biting into a doughnut containing a shrunken, spying Muskiday, Desdemona rushes off-panel with a very green face.
  • Wreathed in Flames: Miss Match, especially her alternate.
  • Writing Around Trademarks: Grand Gamer's teleport sound.

Captain Heroic: 'Bomf'?
Grand Gamer: I'm pretty sure 'Bamf' was copyrighted.

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