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* [[During the War]]
* [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke]]
* [["Growing Muscles" Sequence]] as some superheroes "pump ions" to gain bulk
* [[Gorn]]
* [[Hollywood California]]: Subverted, mainly because after Twenty Minutes into the Future, San Francisco has been hit by a huge earthquake which largely destroyed the city, leaving miles of it still in ruins years afterward.
* [[Legacy Character]]: The American Spirit has [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]], modern, and outer space incarnations that have all run afoul of Marshall Law
* [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche]]: Marshall Law combines attributes of all three.
* [[Nineties Anti -Hero]]: Marshal Law himself, and in [[The Eighties]] no less. Wearing full bondage gear and with a <s> barbed wire tattoo</s> actual barbed wire along his arm...
** Also the Secret Tribunal, which is a parody of the X-Men.
* [[Once an Episode]]: At least once an issue, Marshal Law says his catchphrase
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* [[Super Serum]] (and its counterpart, [[Psycho Serum]]): Hyperman, a parody of Hourman, who used pills to get his powers, snuffs a mysterious powder and injects a dodgy liquid into his arm to get his.
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Played with by Private Eye, a Batman expy. He absolutely forbids killing his enemies. He states he will "main, mutiliate, electrocute, gas, or burn them." But he'll ''never'' kill them.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: A recent gravestone says it's 2020, and America is [[The Great Politics Mess -Up|still fighting off the Soviet Threat]], nearly 30 years after it ended in [[Real Life]].
* [[Unbuilt Trope]]: Of the [[Nineties Anti -Hero]] and the [[Deconstruction]] of superheroes that would be common in comics in the late 1980s-1990s. It's worth noting that while the series takes a dim look at super "heroes", anti-heroes of Marshal Law's ilk don't exactly escape condemnation either.
 
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