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* [[Abusive Parents]]:

** Scandal's father is Vandal Savage, an immortal cannibal conqueror who tried to have her raped by a sexually depraved midget. The clawed weapons she wields were given to her by him in order to continuously remind her of her dead mother, who Vandal threatened to murder if she failed his physical gauntlet. When she was ''ten''. Lampshaded by Catman when, while fighting Vandal Savage, he notes to Scandal that he is amazed that her father is an even bigger bastard than his father.

** Deadshot's mother manipulated his brother into attempting to murder their father, who apparently deserved it.

** Amanda Waller wants to police the world and take down bad guys, it is just that her methods of doing so vary from Morally Grey to Morally Black-As-Night territory.

* [[Lamarck Was Right]]: Scandal is tough to kill, attributing that to her father's side of the family. Considering her father, Vandal Savage, has been around since the dawn of mankind it is not surprising.

** 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 noticably 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."

** 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.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Jeanette.

* [[A Real Man Is a Killer]]: Catman's father was a firm believe of this philosophy, and once had Blake shoot a tied up lion cub in order to man him up.

* [[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.}}

* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]

* [[Then Let Me Be Evil]]: Bane embraces villainy again after discovering he was damned.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]:

** After the [[Those Wacky Nazis|Zyklon-B Boys]] manage to survive an [[Mugging the Monster|encounter with Deadshot and Catman]], having been viciously beaten and then ''lectured'', they decide to '''deliberately''' antagonize Deadshot in order to exact revenge. The thug who was following Deadshot is discovered and Deadshot, having promised not to kill anybody that night (he was on a date), rips out his eye, having already ripped out his other eye when the two first met. Now completely blind, the thug ''still'' persists in his plan for revenge, and the rest of the gang gathers in force. By now they have been beaten and mutilated on two separate occasions, so they are simply asking for a Darwin Award: after Deadshot beats them again, his ''date'' kills the lot of them, explaining that ''she'' did not make any promises for that night.

** Dwarfstar also qualifies after {{spoiler|he puts out a hit on Giganta's boyfriend; when she finds out, the results are ''not'' pretty.}}

*** Randall, being a bigot and misogynist was already obviously a total moron. He earns his Darwin Award when, faced by a team of costumed SUPERVILLAINS he decides to threaten them. With a normal gun. After going into a tirade insulting them and a friend of theirs. Needless to say it doesn't end well for the little dumb-ass and he ends up getting a lovely bit of [[Eye Scream]] courtesey of Scandal's blades