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* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Lots of mooks use fireman or battle axes, and a gigantic mook in Aggregation has an equally gigantic axe, for all the good it did him.
** There's also the battleaxe that Hank uses near the end of Antipathy.
* [[Anti
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Several times, even! The only main character not to die at least once is {{spoiler|Sanford}}. The l33t-crew-employed civilians, such as the hot-dog vendor, are also pretty safe most of the time.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In Antipathy, Hank is apparently wanted for {{spoiler|distorting reality, felony evasion, public urination and crime.}}
** Sanford is wanted for murder, telling lies, torturing, kidnapping, conspiring, arson - and for being ugly.
** Deimos is wanted for murder, lying, thievery, conspiring, [[Heel Face Turn|betraying the cause]], and for being a smoker.
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** Zombies go from [[Palette Swap|green-skinned mooks]] to darker green mooks with gaping, bloody mouths full of teeth.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Remember those two [[Red Shirts]] who gave Hank a sword in Depredation? No? Well, they have about five seconds of screentime {{spoiler|before being crushed under a building.}} Yeah, well, they take center stage for Aggregation and a lot of the newer Madness Combat shorts focus [[Interquel|what they were doing between Madness and 6 and 7]].
** Tricky the Clown too, who started as [[One
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Several of the big-ticket weapons in ''Madness Interactive'', the first video game spinoff. For example, the rocket launcher is quite impressive... but it only has four shots, it blows the victim's weapon off of the screen (so you can't grab it when you run out of rockets), and it's an area-of-effect weapon, so you could kill yourself with it.
** The same could be said for the M203 grenade launcher in ''Madness: Project Nexus''; the game even lets you know that you can damage yourself with it by saying in the description that the grenades have no safety feature. It's also the only weapon that has friendly fire, which doesn't bode well when you have a squad of six teammates in Arena mode.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Pretty much everyone, but Tricky takes the cake.
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Hank has died 7 times over, Tricky has a grand total of 6 deaths to his name, and Jebus has gone out 4 times. And that's not even taking the countless Zombie Mooks present in the series...
* [[Back
* [[Bad Boss]]: The Auditor.
* [[Badass]]: Hank, Jebus, Sanford and Deimos, Tricky, and the Auditor. Pretty much all the main characters.
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* [[Flash Step]]: Tricky.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: ''[[Bunnykill]]'', ''Maximum Ninja'', and ''Xionic Madness'', among others. Madness Combat itself is a descendant of stick figure fighting animations (Xiao Xiao, namely).
* [[Funny Background Event]]: In the rave room in ''Apothesis'', one mook whom Hank missed sees the slaughter before him, and decides to [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|sit back and enjoy a smoke.]] At least until he gets crushed by a door.
* [[Giant Mook]]: Mag Agents. All featuring equally giant weapons, and they fare no better than their tinier co-workers.
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: Jesus in the first episode, and the first MAG Agent shows up with no explanation. We do get one later (the Auditor's been growing them). In addition, whatever Tricky/The Auditor was... growing and deploys against Hank and Sanford prematurely in the ninth episode.
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* [[The Hero]]: Just as the villains are constantly changing, [[Breakout Character|Jebus]] and [[Ascended Extra|Sanford]] have also had a whack at the role of the protagonist between Hank's deaths.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Kind of. {{spoiler|Deimos dies reviving Hank in Aggregation, and his corpse is booby-trapped shortly after to destroy the possessed MAG agents who killed him.}}
* [[High
* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Hank has suffered a couple of these; Tricky {{spoiler|has repeatedly stabbed Hank with the signpost that originally killed him}}, and Jebus {{spoiler|finished Hank off with the infamous [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice|stab, lift, and headshot]] from ''Apotheosis''}}.
** {{spoiler|As of Abrogation, this has happened to the Auditor. Remember kids, [[Monster Clown|Monster Clowns]] are NOT part of a healthy diet!}}
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* [[I Will Fight Some More Forever]]: The heroes never stop trying to damage the Auditor, even after it's made very clear he can become intangible, though it's justified by the fact that when he becomes intangible he must either drop his weapon, teleport to safety, or both.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Especially when they have [[Bilingual Bonus|Thai inscriptions]] on the flat of the blade.
* [[Kill
* [[Kung Fu Jesus]]: Jebus, obviously.
* [[Laser Sight]]: Against Hank sometimes. Used in a [[Eye Beams|more literal sense]] by Jebus.
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*** Shot in the gut in the beginning of 6.5 (by a revolver, which in this universe [[Revolvers Are Just Better|are usually instant kills]])
*** Stabbed in the gut, then shot in the hand in 9
*** Then gets beaten around by the the Auditor at the end of 9 and during 10, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|with a small knife wound to the backhand for good measure]]. This guys taken almost as much of a beating as Hank, but with none of the revivals (though with a sizable healing period after episode 6.5).
* [[Made of Plasticine]]: Heads are ripped off easily, and bodies are torn apart without much trouble.
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Apparently, the Auditor is the one orchestrating things, given that he had his own Improbability Drive, was able to upgrade his soldiers, create Mag Agents, and infect Jesus.
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* [[Oh Crap]]: What appears to be ''reality itself'' in response to {{spoiler|The Auditor accidentally absorbing Tricky.}}
{{quote| '''"[OH GOD NO]"'''}}
* [[One
* [[One
** {{spoiler|[[Clipped
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Actually, they're exactly the same as the regular mooks. [[Conservation of Ninjitsu|They're nowhere near as strong though.]]
* [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]]: With the destruction of the Improbability Drives, it seems that reality itself has been suffering from this. [[It Got Worse]] by the tenth episode.
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* [[Pistol Whipping]]: When empty, guns are frequently used as melee weapons.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: As demonstrated by the first two OBSV agents.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]/[[Anti
* [[Rated M for Manly]]
* [[Raymanian Limbs]]: Floating hands are omnipresent in this series.
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* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The only way this series can get away with the body count.
* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]] - Jesus had an S&W500, and Sanford has a Ruger GP-101
* [[Rock
* [[Running Gag]] - [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking|Smokers]] getting [[Author Appeal|killed.]]
* [[Serious Business]] - People get killed over a boombox in Madness Combat 1.
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: Incident: 100A
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The grunts in Incident:011A try to stop [[Giant Mook|Mag-Agent: Torture]] by hitting him with nightsticks.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Hank gets a lot better at fighting over time.
* [[Too Spicy for Yog
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Jebus has his longsword with "316" in binary on it and a S&W500 Revolver. The Auditor has his twin blades and (arguably) is the only character to utilize heavy weapons (Rocket launcher, minigun). Tricky also likes to use traffic sign with exclamation mark on it. Sanford seems to be fond of his hook and .357 Ruger. In several episodes Hank uses a piece of piano wire to dispatch mooks and Agents. Everyone uses different weapons throughout the series.
** {{spoiler|In Abrogation, Hank seems to have become more fond of [[Good Old Fisticuffs]], courtesy of an organic [[Power Fist]] as a result of his resurrection}}.
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