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''Halt Evil Doer!'' is now available for order from Paizo.com.
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* [[Anti
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: Pulp era magician hero the Amazing Weiss -- better known to mundane history as Harry Houdini.
* [[Big Bad]]: Iron Khan, Death Mask III, General Venom, and Orkus.
* [[The Cape]]: Divinos
* [[Casting a Shadow]]: The Ink Spot legacy.
* [[Corrupt Church]]: The Church of Humanity, a fake made-up religion created by a anti superhuman bigot which states that [[Differently
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Kenneth Kane, the secret identity of Death Mask III.
* [[The Cowl]]: Black Wing II (also a [[Badass Bookworm]])
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* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Darkness Before Time, Orkus.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Stain, who's Venom to Splotch's [[Spider Man]]. He also has his own Carnage-like Even Eviler Counterpart, Bloodstain.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: As with the Marvel universe, there is a great deal of mistrust against mutants (called [[Differently
* [[The Fair Folk]]: Who's leader, ironically, is a [[Genre Savvy]] ''human'', the Dark Undermaster.
* [[Great Gazoo]]: Mister Hoppy.
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* [[Nineties Anti Hero]]: Deconstructed with the Psychotic Seven [[Insistent Terminology|(though they call themselves the Justicars)]]-by the time the game's "main" time period rolls around, they've been classified as a supervillain group after their thirst for justice at any price lead them to attempt an armed takeover of the US.
* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Averted. Most of the scientists in the setting have areas of special concern. Red King=Genetics, General Venom=Robotics, etc.
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Subverted with the House of Serpents-they ''are'' a terrorist organization with superpowered members, but when it comes down to it, they're not even the most evil of the [[Anti
* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: Deconstructed with General Venom and the House of Serpents; They honestly love America, which is why they plan to overthrow the government-they think it's long since mutated into a form that the Founding Fathers would be disgusted with.
* [[Public Domain Character]]: [[Dracula]] is a major villain. Dame Michelle Holmes of the Foundation for World Harmony (the SHIELD/Checkmate organisation) is a descendent of [[Sherlock Holmes]], whereas the Death Masks (and Black Wing II) are descended from James Moriarty. Death Mask's equivalent of Latveria is the original [[Ruritania]] from ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda]]''.
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* [[Space Station]]: Divinos has one.
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Death's Head
* [[Vampire Monarch]]: Dracula is the leader of the Vampire Nation. He's also the first vampire, even though there were vampires long before he died; it's a bit [[Timey
* [[Western Terrorists]]: The House of Serpents is actually a fairly realistic version-they're a lot like a widespread, advanced, and well-funded right-wing militia.
* [[Word of God]]: On the Atomic Think Tank forums.
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