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John Smith, salt-of-the-Earth builder and decorator of Castleford, Yorkshire, is really Jack Staff, Britain's greatest hero. Since [[World War II]], he's been defeating threats to the people of the islands, mostly by hitting them with a stick until they give up.

 

Much of the popularity of the series comes, however, from the range of weirdos surrounding Jack, including '''BECKY BURDOCK, VAMPIRE REPORTER''', the government Weird Shit Investigator Agency known only as Q, Inspector Maveryk, and Tom-Tom the Robot Man.

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* [[Bandaged Face]]: "Mr Green"

* [[Clock Roaches]]: The Time Leech

* [[Demonic Possession]]

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Chinard is very upset that his wannabe gratuitously shot and killed someone.

* [[Evil Twin]]: The {{spoiler|evil vampire Albert Bramble who survives the collapse of the [[Mirror Universe]] reality}}.

* [[Expy]]: Bramble and Son, Vampire Hunters are Expies of [[Steptoe and Son]].

* [[Mister Big]]: Brain Head or "Hässlicher Kleiner Mann".

* [[Mugging the Monster]]: The Claw in the jewellers' shop, with a twist (he ends up robbing the place himself and using the dumb robber as a patsy). Played straighter when a hoodie tries to mug the harmless old Mr. Chinard.

* [[My Little Panzer]]: General Tubbs's toys.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: John/Jack looks in his 30s at most, but has been fighting crime since the 1940s. (The strip can't begin earlier than 1991, given the registration plate on John's truck in the very first panel.)

* [[Oop North]]

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]

* [[Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo]]: Subverted. Both glasses were poisoned and it was the antidote that was ostentatiously added to one.

* [[Power Armour]]: {{spoiler|Tom-Tom the Robot Man}}, the second Molachi, and less overtly Chinard's costume.

* [[Psycho Electro]]: Shock.

* [[Public Domain Character]]: Grist introduced an aging and semi-retired version of 1960s British comic supervillain the Spider to the second arc, in the belief that either he was out of copyright or nobody would care. The copyright owners did notice, but fortunately they liked what Grist had done with the character and allowed him to carry on using the Spider, as long as he was identified in future only by the civilian name Grist had given him, "Alfred Chinard".

* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: {{spoiler|Tom-Tom the Robot Man}}

* [[School for Scheming]]

* [[Simple Staff]]

* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]

* [[Unrobotic Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Tom-Tom the Robot Man}}

* [[Vagueness Is Coming]]: The long-running Red Vs Green plot. Still not explained.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Kapitan Krieg

 

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