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* [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]].
** And a variant by other creators: [[Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters]].
* The ''[[X -Men]]'' villain Spiral, a [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous|six-armed]] [[Cyborg]] [[Evil Sorcerer|Evil Sorceress]] [[Mad Scientist]] [[Refugee From TV Land]].
* ''[[The Goon (Comic Book)|The Goon]]'' is about a mob enforcer who fights the [[Zombie Apocalypse]]. And that ridiculously brief description leaves out the vampires, gunslinger cannibals, nymphomaniac fish, [[Humongous Mecha]] with scuba helmets for heads, evil geniuses made of gold, spider gamblers, [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]], and giant zombie monkeys.
* 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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** 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 4 hottest things in comics at the time (Teen heroes, mutants, ninja, and funny animals) and mash them all together with an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Daredevil]]'' (the Foot Ninja are a parody of [[Daredevil]]'s frequent foes, the Hand). And yes, ninja were hot back in the '80s. Ninja are ''always'' hot.
** The cartoons had robot ninjas that doubled as [[Mecha -Mooks]].
*** 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.
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* The American quasi-graphic-novel series ''[[Samurai Cat]]'' (not to be confused with the ''[[Samurai Pizza Cats]]'' [[Anime]] series) not only parodied everything under the sun, it mixed and matched them: as a result, Tomokato ends up facing gangster Trolls [[Gatling Good|armed with rotary cannons]], Darth Shatner, a division of S.S. Tyrannosaurs, Mongols armed with nuclear weapons, and the Stalinwolf. And that was ''Before'' going to Hell.
* [[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 (Comic Bookcomics)|Hellboy]]''. A demonic [[Badass Longcoat]] paranormal investigator with a [[Hand Cannon]], who is friends with a fishman, a pyrokinetic chick, a man made of ectoplasm, and a man made of clay. They fight [[Those Wacky Nazis]], [[The Legions of Hell]], and [[The Fair Folk]]. And one time, they fought a monkey with a gun.
* 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 (Comic Book)|Runaways]]'':
{{quote| '''Karolina:''' What kind of bad guys are ''your'' parents, Topher? Androids? Demons? ''[[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|Android demons]]''?}}
** 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 Withwith Monkeys|ape]] who, with his [[Fan Service|fanservicey]] assistant Honey Hamptonwick, fights robot ninjas, bloodthirsty mallard ducks, lesbian commandos, Hitler, and a [[Humongous Mecha]] named "World's Greatest Grandpa."
* Monsieur Mallah, a recurring nemesis of the ''[[Doom Patrol (Comic Book)|Doom Patrol]]'', is a "[[Evil Genius|superintelligent]] [[More Dakka|machine-gun-toting]] [[Dirty Communists|communist revolutionary]] [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys|gorilla]] [[Deadly Doctor|surgeon]] [[Manly Gay|in love with a (male)]] [[Brain In Aa Jar]]", according to his entry on the [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys]] page.
** 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.
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* 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.
* [http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=35%3Apropaganda-index&id=904%3A45-smash-pages-of-god-hitler-crucified-my-son&Itemid=24 This thing.]
* ''[[Agents of Atlas (Comic Book)|Agents of Atlas]]''. A rejuvenated super-spy, a [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys|talking gorilla]], a killer robot, a goddess, a spaceman, and an Atlantean queen. [[They Fight Crime]].
** 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]]''.
* ''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 Aa Can]] and taking over the world, with help from a monkey with a gun and a two old women, one of whom is a cannibal and the other is a werewolf. The TV version features the voices of Paul Giamatti, Patton Oswalt, David Hyde Pierce, and Molly Shannon.
* Yorick in [[Y the Last Man|Y: The Last Man]] encounters spies, ninjas, pirates, cowboys, soldiers and robots, as he lampshades at the end of the series.
* ''[[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] and [[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]] Versus Vampires and Werewolves''. With [[Etrigan]] the Demon and [[Green Arrow]].
* [http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=35%3Apropaganda-index&id=918%3Athe-gi-robot-and-the-dinosaur&Itemid=24 The GI Robot and the Dinosaur.] Yeah.
** 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.
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* [[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. [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 Onon a Plane|snakes on planes.]]
* A lot of superhero team books try for this. For example, [[Batman and Thethe Outsiders|the Outsiders]] consisted of [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|Geo]][[Dishing Out Dirt|Force,]] [[Elemental Embodiment|Metamorpho,]] [[Katanas Are Better|Katana,]] [[Shock and Awe|Black Lightning,]] [[Heroic Sociopath|Halo,]] and [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampires|Looker.]] A team of crimefighters assembled by [[Batman|the Goddamn Batman]] to act as a sort of black ops JLA.
* [[The Hood]], current 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 (Comic Book)|Mikaal Tomas]], two [[Human Aliens]], the latter of which is is gay, and finally Congorilla, an explorer whose mind is trapped in the body of a [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys|gorilla]].
* 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]].
* [[Ghost Rider (Comic Book)|Ghost Rider]] has the various former Spirits of Vengeance punishing the wicked throughout the ages, from WWI ace pilot Ghost Flyer to a WWII tank crew to Ghost Rider Chuck Norris (well, a parody of ''Lone Wolf McQuade'', who was played by Norris.) Also Penance Fist, the hard-drinking country music aficionado redneck Ghost Rider. And the Undead G-Man and Knuckles O'Shaugnessy, the Prohibition-era Riders who combine the Untouchables with the Goon. And Hell Driver and Devil Rig, the muscle car and semi truck driving pair chasing down corrupt vampire sherriffs in the 70s. [[Crazy Awesome|Without exaggeration, the extended sequence that introduced them all is one of the coolest things you will ever see]]. Really, the typical [[Badass Biker]] [[Like a Badass Out of Hell|from Hell]] we're so accustomed to seems like the least [[Crazy Awesome]] of the bunch.
** 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 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 Onon the Tin]], but not really. He is actually a Badass with Multiple Identity Disorder. {{spoiler|Another character is the same, except for being a Pirate Gladiator Oceanographer.}}
* 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.
* [http://www.lileks.com/institute/funny/10/179.html This comic book cover.] [[Dual-Wielding]] [[Semper Fi|Marines]] on [[Hula and Luaus|surfboards]]!
* An issue of the current ''[[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 Withwith Monkeys|gorilla]] fighting [[Evil Sorcerer|magic-using]] [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]] in space, after Earth was rendered uninhabitable due to [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombies]] and [[AI Is a Crapshoot|killer robots]]. But that simple description doesn't capture the sheer dementedness of the story, which [[Genre Shift|shifts genre]] violently every time the narrator remembers a really cool bit he forgot to mention previously.
* Captain Raptor. It's [[Flash Gordon (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|Flash Gordon]] as a velociraptor flying through space fighting cybernetic dinosaurian [[Space Pirates]] and huge [[Space Whale|space tylosaurs]].
* 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 -Man|Spidey]] and the [[Fantastic Four|FF]] run into zombie pirates. Spidey, who is ''obviously'' [[One of Us]], can barely contain his joy. [http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/6/61810/1793078-asm_659_12.jpg He practically squees.]
 
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