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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]].
** And a variant by other creators: [[Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters]].
* The ''[[X
* ''[[
* Fred Perry's comic ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'' features the Vaultron Force, which is a Leprechaun [[Voltron]]. The comic then added the Leprechaun Pirate Ninjas with the Gaollion, a [[Cool Ship]] that [[Transforming Mecha|transforms]] into a [[Humongous Mecha]].
** The TEAM are well-developed characters in their own rights, each with a unique hook. The "Ninja and/or Pirate Leprechauns" actually have a backstory. And a Captain McMorgan, and his assistant O'Mommah.
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** Marvel Zombies 4 has his own zombie + X record in it. In 3 issues we get {{spoiler|Zombie Werewolf, at least three Mad Zombies, [[Demonic Possession|Demonic Possessed Zombie]], Zombie Sea Monsters, Zombie Cloud, and three dead superheroes [[Fusion Dance|Fused in One Zombie]].}}
*** Sadly, while a version of Simon Garth (The Zombie!) appears, it's the main [[Marvel Universe]] version. So we never get to see ''Zombie Zombie''!
* Presumably{{verify}} this is the premise behind [https://web.archive.org/web/20080827172330/http://www.superdickery.com/other/256.html Space Western Comics], I've never read one but as the cover in this link involves Nazi fighting space cowboys, I can make an educated guess.
* ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'': Mina Murray, Alan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man and Mr Hyde team up to fight [[Fu Manchu]] (and later Moriarty) in an airship battle over London. And in the second series they fight Martians. Being Alan Moore, however, it's taken deadly seriously and ends up tragic.
** Also by Alan Moore is ''[[Top Ten]]'', which one could conclude is less serious, based on the presence of a [[Your Vampires Suck|vampire]] Mafia. And everything else in it.
* The ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' were born from this; the concept was, take the
** The cartoons had robot ninjas that doubled as [[Mecha
*** And Turtles in Time gave us these Robot Ninjas riding ''dinosaurs''.
** The original comic had an issue that transformed the turtles into ''ninja pirates'', complete with eyepatches and peg legs.
** The entire series accounts for this, Cartoons or otherwise, the series has had a Robot Scientist, a brain in a mech suit, Foot ''mystics'', a mutant Alligator, a Human/Alien agent called Bishop, I could go on.
* [[Requiem Chevalier Vampire]]. Heavy Metal Nazi Vampires fighting [[Mad Scientist]] Mummies, [[The Fundamentalist|Religious Fanatic]] Werewolves, [[Straw Feminist|Feminist]] [[Sky Pirate|Pirate]] Ghouls, Demons and Leprechauns.
* ''[[Hellboy (
* Doug TenNapel's ''[[Creature Tech]]'' is about a scientist who gets an [[Biological Mashup|alien symbiote permanently attached to his chest]], then he has to team up with a giant CIA-trained praying mantis and a troupe of rednecks in order to stop an undead [[Mad Scientist]] from turning cats into demons and using the [[Public Domain Artifact|Shroud of Turin]] to resurrect a [[Space Whale|Giant Space Eel]] in order to [[Apocalypse How|destroy California]]. The good guys win because of a timely vision of ''[[If Jesus, Then Aliens|Alien Jesus]]''.
* Referenced in ''[[Runaways (
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** And again with Molly's "Cowboy Werewoofs!"
* A recent issue of ''[[Green Lantern]]'' was described by a reader quoted in Wizard Magazine's letter column as being "Like sex and pizza rolled up in a burrito and served up by Mr. T!"
* Matt Fraction's ''The Annotated Mantooth'': Rex Mantooth is a [[James Bond|super spy]] talking [[Everything's Better
* Monsieur Mallah, a recurring nemesis of the ''[[
** And all still canon. As [[Super Dickery]] said, the only way to make it weirder is for said brain [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|to be Hitler's.]]
* Ben Dunn's ''[[Ninja High School]]'' STARTED as the adventures of a nerd who discovers that both an alien furry princess and the heir to a ninja family are required to marry him in order to receive their inheritances. Then it gets weird.
* There's also this character in [[Batman|Detective Comics]] who is a wealthy obsessed kung-fu ninja forensic escapologist, and that's even before we get into the belt, the cave, and the vehicles. (The time travel, the demons, the aliens, the witches, the mutants, etc. etc.) [[They Fight Crime|He fights crime]].
* Once on the [[City of Heroes]] forums, a comic writer was trying to come to grips with the realization a character in the comic he was writing was an alien lizard wizard ghost nazi. Among other things.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120521033834/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=35
* ''[[
** Don't forget the Chi-zilla kung fu master son of a supervillain.
** And among their opponents? Magical ninja robots, cybernetically enhanced genetically altered sea monsters, and a horde led by a centuries-old sorcerer and faux-communist.
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* The [[Bronze Age]] [[Superman]] villain Terra Man. In the Old West, a boy was kidnapped by aliens. He escaped them and became a feared criminal in their civilization, using their technology. When he finally returned to Earth, he found that a hundred years had passed while he'd been flying around space at relativistic speeds. He took offense that Earth's greatest hero was an alien, so he dedicated himself to making Superman's life miserable. Yet he still dressed and behaved like someone from the Old West even while using alien technology, so he was a space cowboy. Oh, and he rode a winged alien horse named Nova.
* Zombie Robot Gustave Eiffel from ''[[The Umbrella Academy]]''.
* ''[[The Amazing Screw-On Head]]'' is about a robot who can attach his head to one of many bodies, thus gaining all their powers. Abraham Lincoln sends him and his [[Battle Butler]] and their immortal dog to stop an [[Ambiguously Gay]] Emperor Zombie from unleashing the [[Sealed Evil in
* Yorick in ''[[
* ''[[
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080925092827/http://superdickery.com/index.php?
** To wit: G.I. Robot (rill name: J.A.K.E. 2) was but one of the many, ''many'' attempts by American forces to capture Dinosaur Island, which was of incredible strategic value in the Pacific Theatre. Other attempts involved the Creature Commandos, the Suicide Squad, and recruiting three brothers from the circus to be paratroopers. As far as can be seen, Dinosaur Island was never captured by either side.
* [[Jack Kirby]]'s Eternals are [[Immortality|immortal]] [[Physical God]] [[Flying Brick]] [[Telepathic Spacemen]] with [[Eye Beam
* ''[[Nextwave]]''
** In the penultimate issue of their series, the squad battled their way through a series of splash pages full of naked ninjas, s&m Iron Man babies, space pirates and hamburger shooting Bruce Campbell Elvis MODOKs. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141214110247/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/Nextwave%209.JPG It is exactly as awesome as it sounds.]
** This leaves out another splash panel that involves them fighting ''literal'' [[Snakes
* A lot of superhero team books try for this. For example, [[Batman and
* [[The Hood]], current{{when}} villain in ''New Avengers'' is a Demonic Possessed Magician Crimelord With A Hard Past, that orders an army of supervillains.
* One of the villains in ''[[Major Bummer]]'' is [[wikipedia:Tyrannosaurus Reich|Tyrannosaurus Reich,]] a Nazi dinosaur.
* The new spin-off from the [[Justice League of America]], ''Cry For Justice'', has a team made up of [[Green Lantern]], a pilot with [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]], [[Green Arrow]], a modern day [[Robin Hood]], Ray Palmer, a scientist who has the ability to shrink himself at will, and who just came back from an [[Alternate Universe]], the former [[Captain Marvel]] Jr., a boy powered by the power of the gods, [[Batwoman]], a kick-ass lesbian ninja, [[Supergirl]] and [[Starman (
* The Mandarin, one part Mad Scientist, one part Evil Kung Fu Grandmaster! Oh, and he wears the pimp-bling of alien space-dragons!
** Also, he's the descendant of Genghis Kahn.
* A decade before Marvel Zombies, an issue of [[For Want of a Nail|What If]] gave us Wolverine, Lord of the Vampires. Who also turned Juggernaut into a vampire. The only thing that could stop him? [[The Punisher]], [[Doctor Strange|Sorcerer Supreme]].
* [[
** And that's just the American riders. The Russian ushanka-sporting rider on his demon bear, the Haitian voodoo priest riding a rhino, the undersea Rider on his spectral shark...
** ''Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears'' featured not only an ex-slave transformed into the Spirit of Vengeance, but the proto-KKK members that he kills partway through the series later come back as Confederate sympathizing zombie cowboys; two of them come back in one body, and also happened to be lovers, making them a gay two-headed zombie racist cowboy.
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* The [[Fantastic Four]], themselves turned into rubber, fire, a rock monster, and transparent respectively by a rocket flight, have a group of enemies called Salem's Seven; children of an evil sorcerer, they have respectively transmuted themselves into hybrids of human and: a lion, an antelope, a thornbush, a poisonous snake, a water cannon, a vacuum pump, and dizziness. They are the grandchildren of the FF's ''babysitter'' (She's a witch, and their kid whom she babysits is a [[Reality Warper]]). Their other enemies include aliens, a [[Mad Scientist]] who was a former friend, a puppeteer who uses radioactive clay for [[Mind Control]] and is the father of the Thing's girlfriend, and a half-naked prince and former superhero who lives underwater and has wings on his feet and keeps summoning ''walking land whales'' to smash New York.
* In ''[[Immortal Iron Fist]]'', Fat Cobra's illustrious life has involved joining a team of kung fu commandos to take down Hitler's secret death squad of SS ninjas and the notorious Herr Samurai, fighting cosmonaut werewolves on the moon with Nick Fury, being one of the pioneers of the NFL before being kicked out for beating up protesters from the KKK, teaching kung fu to Elvis while having an afro, and being a champion fighter in the underground combat leagues of Atlantis. Also getting obscene body tattoos and having lots and lots of sex in spite of his grotesque rotundity.
* [[
* The comic ''Xenozoic''. That it's alternatively (and better) known as ''Cadillacs and Dinosaurs'' should tell you all you need to know.
* ''[[Nick Fury]]'s Howling Commandos'' are a [[Monster Mash]] special forces team that has at one point or another included practically every monster in Marvel's publishing history; The team the miniseries revolves around includes Warwolf, N'Kantu the Living Mummy, a clone of the original Frankenstein's Monster (this is remarked on as making absolutely zero sense), the half-vampire half-werewolf debutante Vampire By Night, the mysterious and slow-witted zombie John Doe, swamp monster the Glob, Gorilla Man, and Brother Voodoo. Marvel's resident gillman, Manphibian was absent. This is being rectified in the Frankencastle arc of ''[[The Punisher]]'', where a [[Frankenstein's Monster]] Punisher teams up with N'Kantu, Manphibian, Werewolf by Night, and Morbius to be cool.
* ''Cowboy Ninja Viking'' seems to be [[Exactly What It Says
* The sequel comic book series of ''[[The Incredibles]]'' has a robotic Tyrannosaurus rex with a tophat and a monocle as a prominent member of the [[Legion of Doom|Confederacy of Crime]].
* The [[Marvel Universe]] minor supervillain Swarm tends to fit here. A Nazi scientist [[I Love Nuclear Power|irradiated a beehive]], was [[Family-Unfriendly Death|eaten alive by the bees]], and somehow [[Bee-Bee Gun|his consciousness survived]] as the [[Hive Queen]]. In more fitting terms, Swarm is an evil hive of telepathic bees with Nazi sympathies. It's been pointed out before that Nazi supervillains have been done, evil bees have been done, people ''made'' out of evil bees have been done - but somehow, ''a Nazi made of bees'' is more awesome than it has any right to be.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111115223905/http://www.lileks.com/institute/funny/10/179.html This comic book cover
* An issue of the current{{when}} ''[[House of Mystery]]'' series featured one character's gloriously deranged idea for a screenplay, about a [[Pirate]]-[[Ninja]]-[[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]] [[Everything's Better
* Captain Raptor. It's [[Flash Gordon (
* It could be reasonably argued that this trope is the reason the [[Amalgam Universe]] exists. DarkClaw, for example, is a Canadian-millionaire-bat-wolverine-mutant with a [[Healing Factor]], adamantium claws, and sonar powers.
* [[Elf Quest]] doesn't keep much noise about it, but deep down it's actually a comic about [[Our Elves Are Better|elf]] {{spoiler|''aliens''}}. There's a whole story arc where the point is to find out whether elf {{spoiler|aliens}} can beat [[All Trolls Are Different|troll]] {{spoiler|aliens}}. Oh, ''and'' they're [[Noble Savage|noble savages]] with [[Bond Creatures|bond]] [[Big Badass Wolf|wolves]] too.
* At one point in the Future Foundation story, [[Spider
* Syzygy Darklock from ''[[Dreadstar]]'' is a priest-sorcerer-cyborg-{{spoiler|zombie}}.
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