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* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: At the end of Catman's story arc, {{spoiler|his son is still alive and has been adopted to a loving family and his kidnappers have all been killed, but Catman is unlikely to ever see him again and he tells Jade that their son is dead to keep her from looking for him}}.
* [[Black and Grey Morality]]/ [[Evil Versus Evil]]: The Six may not be saints, but the people they have fought have included a Society of Villains set out to mind rape superheroes and conquer the world, a sociopathic immortal cannibal, a sadistic poison obsessed assassin, a midget misogynist rapist, and the Nightmare Fuel incarnate Junior. The Six are bad, their foes are ''worse''.
* [[Black Comedy]]: Violence and killing is often played for laughs in this book. The whole sequence with Deadshot and Catman shopping for ice cream at the beginning of the
* [[BLAM Episode]]: Issue #24 randomly diverges from the main Six continuity to deliver a one shot [[Elseworlds]] tale that casts the Six and some of their opponents as heroes and villains in a wild west setting. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|It is a very well done, well written and entertaining example of a BLAM though.]]
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: Most, if not all of Ragdoll's dialog.
* [[Breather Episode]]: Immediately after the extremely dark "Cats in the Cradle" storyline, we get the stand-alone issue "Predators
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: Heavily implied to have gone on between the second Ragdoll and his sister Alex {{spoiler|aka Junior}}. And that is the LEAST disturbing thing about the family. Ragdoll's home life was sort of like "I love Mallory" from ''[[Natural Born Killers]]''. Only with a less caring father.
* [[The Cameo]]: Issue #7 of the ongoing series features an extremely gratuitous (but awesome) appearance from the [[Birds of Prey]], a team that Gail Simone famously wrote before the Secret Six. Inexplicably, the roster shown there did not at all match the one used by then-current writer Tony Bedard, swapping out Manhunter, Misfit and Infinity for Grace Choi.
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* [[Downer Ending]]: Issue #24 is a non-continuity [[Elseworld]] story that has characters from the Six in a Wild West setting. They face off against a gang of thugs and crooks led by a Wild West version of Junior. Expecting them to win? [[Kill'Em All|They are not that lucky.]]
** {{spoiler|The ending of the series is also this. Bane led the team into an unwinnable situation so he could 'rid himself of responsibilities for others' and everyone else on the team gets captured by heroes, with the text indicating that many of them have broken bones at best. [[Your Mileage May Vary|Luckily, the entire DCU rebooted after this issue]]}}.
* [[Duct Tape for Everything]]: Scandal uses duct tape to tie up and gag Pistolera after she tries to assassinate Knockout. Giganta later
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Scandal's father is Vandal Savage, the first murderer. Catman's father was a big game hunter who was a complete and utter bastard to everything and everyone around him. Ragdoll's father was an abusive cult leader. Jeanette was raised in the household of mass murderer Countess Erszebet Bathory. Bane spent his childhood in one of the hardest prisons in the world. Deadshot's parents hated each other so much, his mother hired his brother to kill his father - and Deadshot accidentally killed his brother trying to stop him. Black Alice's mother died of a drug overdose, and she brought her back as a zombie. The Six give a whole new meaning to the word "dysfunctional".
* [[Elseworlds]]: Issue #24 is a non-continuity story that has characters from the Six in a Wild West setting. They face off against a gang of thugs and crooks led by a Wild West version of Junior. Expecting them to win? [[Downer Ending|They are not that lucky.]]
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* [[Implacable Man]]:
** Scandal has a healing factor and determination spawned by her immortal father Vandal Savage; she does not stop until she ''wants'' to stop.
** Catman's
* [[In Name Only]]: The current Secret Six has nothing in common with the ''original'' Secret Six from the [[Silver Age]] except for the number of members and a mysterious leader called "Mockingbird". However, it has surpassed the original in pretty much every way.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: "Let it sink in or you'll never get through this."
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* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]:
** When Deadshot is {{spoiler|puking after being poisoned by Cheshire}}, he narrates to himself, going on randomly about angels... and then asks the person helping him if he said that stuff about angels aloud. He is assured that he did not, and remarks that he worried about narrating out loud.
** Ragdoll does this in a few issues as well, most noticeably in issue #29, a crossover with the Lex Luthor ''Action Comics'' storyline where he spends the issue talking directly to the reader. He even begins his narration by referring to things that happened in "that other book".
* [[Les Yay]]: Between Scandal and [[Bi the Way|Jeanette]]. [[Gail Simone]] has mentioned on her Tumblr that Scandal and Jeanette hooked up once and they are just not compatible, but still very good friends.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: More like {{spoiler|"Ragdoll, I am your sister"}}, but still. Well, ''he'' knew it, the readers (and everyone else) did not.
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* [[Our Banshees Are Louder]]: Jeanette. She was betrayed and her husband had her decapitated. The execution was botched, and she 'found the banshee' as she waited to die. As a banshee, she is immortal, super-strong, has a sense for death and possesses a scream that can ''seriously'' screw up those who hear it.
* [[Papa Wolf]]:
** Hurting Scandal is the only thing that will make Bane even ''consider'' resorting to his venom again {{spoiler|and he does at the end of the
** Catman when his son is kidnapped. The other members of the Six recognize that, after what he did to get revenge, he might be too far gone even for them.
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Liana Kerzner.
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* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Cheshire attempts to enact this after she and Catman fight in the second mini and ''earnestly'' offers to make love right in the middle of the battlefield. Catman is understandably freaked out, is horrified to find that he is actually considering it, and pointedly turns her down.
* [[Speech Bubbles]]: Ragdoll has a pretty, cursive font for his bubbles, while everyone else has more normal speech.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To the [[Suicide Squad]]. They share a member (Deadshot) and a similar theme of bad guys acting as (sort of) good guys. The connection was
* [[Squick]]: In universe, Catman finds the fact that Jeanette is technically dead and sleeping with Deadshot to be highly squick-y. Deadshot, naturally, is not that bothered by it (and who can blame him?).
* [[Take That]]: The controversial ''Titans'' tie-in to ''[[Brightest Day]]'' involved the villain Dwarfstar hiring Deathstroke to kill Ryan Choi, a character Gail Simone co-created with [[Grant Morrison]], and whom she wrote almost all the adventures of. As payback, Gail wrote a scene in issue #28 {{spoiler|where Giganta hospitalized Dwarfstar by way of torture}}.
* [[Taking You with Me]]: Parademon detonates his collection of Mother Boxes at the end of ''Villains United''. In a tragic twist, while many, if not all their attackers survive, he perishes.
* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]
* [[Then Let Me Be Evil]]: Bane embraces villainy again after discovering he was damned.
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