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* [[And the Adventure Continues]]
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Count Orlando Smythe in "The Balloonatic"
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: Willie can supply a quotation from the Book of Psalms to fit any situation. He once spent a year in an Indian prison with nothing to read except a psalter and so he has all of the psalms memorised.
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: The strip's first artist, Jim Holdaway, died suddenly in 1970.
* [[Bad Habits]]: 'Father' Lamont in "Milord", who poses as a priest in order to abduct girls for a porn and snuff film ring.
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* [[Ironic Nickname]]: Her mentor started calling her "Modesty" as a joke.
* [[Knife Nut]]: Willie Garvin
* [[Knife
* [[Lady of War]]: Modesty
* [[Latex Perfection]]: In "Butch Cassidy Rides Again", the gang uses latex masks to make themselves appear identical to the Hole-In-The-Wall Gang.
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* [[New Old Flame]]: Many stories start with the return of an ex-lover of either Modesty or Willie.
* [[New Old West]]: "Butch Cassidy Rides Again"
* [[Open
** In "Million Dollar Game", a vet is shot in the thigh in a position he cannot reach. He talks Modesty through the procedure for removing the bullet.
** In "Dossier on Pluto" another vet, via telephone, has Modesty relay instructions to a scientist on how to remove a bullet from a dolphin.
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* [[Ruthless Foreign Gangsters]]: "Take-Over"
* [[Scarecrow Solution]]: Modesty stages a fake alien visitation in "The Moonman".
* [[Scooby
* [[Show Some Leg]]: at least [[Once an Episode]] and not confined to Modesty, either.
* [[Silver Bullet]]: The villagers use one to slay what they think is the vampire in "The Vampire of Malvescu".
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** Modesty is often asked this when she uses non-lethal methods to defeat enemies, such as in the story "Idaho George". She usually replies that she didn't find it necessary (or in the case of "Idaho George" that it felt better to beat the tar out of the men who beat her up and tried to drown her rather than just shoot them). There are also several occasions in which Willie and Modesty criticize each other for choosing not to use deadly force when not killing was seen as the riskier option.
* [[Western Terrorists]]: "The Vampire of Malvescu" featured Europe's Fist, a terrorist group dedicated to striking back by committing an retaliatory act of terrorism for every act of Middle Eastern terrorism committed against Europe.
* [[William Telling]]: Part of Willie's [[Knife
* [[Wretched Hive]]: Calia, the 'Republic of Desperados', in "The Jericho Caper"
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: In "The Head Girls", Gabriel kills Southern when the latter stops being of use to him. According to Willie, this is not the first time Gabriel has made use of this trope.
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