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* [[Mirror Universe]]: "Terra Occulta", an AU in which evil versions of the Planetary central characters are the villains, and versions of the JLA are plotting to bring them down.
* [[Mysterious Employer]]: The Fourth Man
* [[Nonhumans Lack Attributes]]: Unfortunately averted. The [[Green Lantern]] [[Expy]] who falls on Earth naked has a disturbing [[Brain Bleach|mangina]].▼
* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: Lampshaded.
{{quote|'''Elijah:''' He's getting away!
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'''The Drummer:''' I didn't ''mean'' it, you evil old geezer. }}
* [[No Poverty]]: The home of Jakita's mother.
▲* [[Nonhumans Lack Attributes]]: Unfortunately averted. The [[Green Lantern]] [[Expy]] who falls on Earth naked has a disturbing [[Brain Bleach|mangina]].
* [[Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be]]: Subverted in "To Be In England, In The Summertime"; the [[Affectionate Parody]] funeral for the [[Hellblazer|John Constantine]] [[Expy]] and the reverent reminisce of the 1980s and 1990s Vertigo Comics (and the political subtexts of them) is undercut when Snow points out that, being relics of a particular time divorced of their cultural and political contexts, they can't help but look a bit ridiculous. Although she passionately defends and supports them, Jakita is forced to concede he has a point.
* [[Papa Bear]]: Elijah, eventually.
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{{quote|Ambrose Chase: You're the Fourth Man? But you're-
The Fourth Man: Yes, I noticed that, too. }}
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* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: Deconstructed; the Four are the evil Mirror Universe equivalent of the Fantastic Four, and they want to hoard all their glories and advances for themselves. As William Leather tells Elijah, "We are adventurers, my crewmates and I, on the human adventure. And you all can't come along."
** {{spoiler|By the end of the series, Elijah finally gets to avert this. He takes back Dowling's database and uses it to makes the world a better place.}}
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Even though this is a cynical, yet nostalgic exploration of fiction of the last century, it still operates on the [[Rule of Cool]]. Like how about ghost cops that go [[Guns Akimbo]]? Chainsaw bullets? Jakita playing Soccer with the head of a giant ant as a ball? A Tarzan expy punching out a giant cyborg snake? An all-out brawl between {{spoiler|Doc Brass's pulp fiction era heroes and expies of the Justice League}}? The gang going head to head with {{spoiler|several incarnations of Batman}}? Let's face it. This series is awesome.
* [[Slow Electricity]]: Saves the Drummer's life in the "Little Drummer Boy" issue, as a guard triggers a fail-safe that causes explosions to destroy all the valuable assets in the facility the Planetary field team are raiding -- one at a time instead of simultaneously, giving Jakita time to separate the Drummer from the explosive that was attached to him.▼
* [[Sharp-Dressed Man]]: Elijah Snow and John Stone are standouts in this regard.
* [[Shrunken Organ]]: In one issue, a giant man is seen in one panel, dying from his sudden artificial growth. His autopsy reveals "a normal-sized brain hanging in a web of nerve tissues like cables in a skull several feet across."
▲* [[Slow Electricity]]: Saves the Drummer's life in the "Little Drummer Boy" issue, as a guard triggers a fail-safe that causes explosions to destroy all the valuable assets in the facility the Planetary field team are raiding -- one at a time instead of simultaneously, giving Jakita time to separate the Drummer from the explosive that was attached to him.
* [[Spy Catsuit]]: While Jakita Wagner is not a spy, it is ''definitely'' a catsuit.
* {{spoiler|[[Stable Time Loop]]}}: How the final issue basically ends, albeit with a twist.
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