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A [[Legion of Doom|team of supervillains]] in [[The DCU]], there have been several incarnations of the '''Secret Six''', with the current team created by [[Gail Simone]] and Dale Eaglesham. This incarnation is made up primarily of villains who are cooperating for personal and commercial reasons, working as a team to commit crimes and perform services for an exorbitant fee.
This version of the Six first turned up in ''Villains United'' #1 (July, 2005), fighting against the Society of Supervillains. After all, just because they are all evil [[Evil Is One Big Happy Family|does not mean they get along.]] They had a mini-series (''Six Degrees of Devastation'') before finally getting their own monthly title. [http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/showthread.php?208178-Okay-About-Secret-Six The series was cancelled] as a part of the ''[[New 52]]'' relaunch and replaced by a reboot of the [[Suicide Squad]] featuring a few key members, such as Deadshot and King Shark.
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* [[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 "Unhinged" arc, especially the part where Deadshot keeps casually ribbing Catman about his love-life while a thug levels a gun at his head, highlights the humor that is inserted into theoretically life-or-death situations.
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* [[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", which chronologically takes place before the previous story and is pretty much just 22 pages of the Six kicking ass.
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Green Arrow thanks Catman for the heads-up on the Society's plan. Catman decks Green Arrow for pushing the villains by brainwashing villains who learn too much to the point where something like the Society is even possible.
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Scandal, Parademon, Jeanette, Deadshot (sometimes) and definitely Ragdoll. We can add Black Alice to the list, being the first known person to find Ragdoll hot (well, in-universe, anyway).
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Scandal's new girlfriend Liana is a big [[Shout-Out]] to [[Name's the Same|Liana Kerzner]] - both are [[Hello, Nurse!|gorgeous]] [[Heroes Want Redheads|red-headed]] [[
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: The team currently has ''eight'' members, and [[It Makes Sense in Context|when they are filming a commercial]] [[Lampshade Hanging|it is pointed out that their name does not make any sense anymore]].
* [[Not So Harmless]]:
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** Catman bit out the eyes of the man who kidnapped his son.
** Ragdoll disabled an opponent's power armor and then started chomping into his unprotected face.
** An unarmed Scandal once bit off an alien's
* [[Odd Friendship]]:
** Ragdoll and the Parademon.
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