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That is until a failed assassination attempt sent Lynch into a coma, and the cover story became, for all intent and purposes, reality. Carver then has to find his own way out while doing more and more questionable things to maintain his cover.
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Not to be confused with the [[Woody Allen]] film.
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Supervillains often get groupies who are “young girls who need to be close to bad for a few hours at a time.”
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: Mostly made up of [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Corrupt Corporate Executives.]] In TAO’s Backstory, he tracks them down and, disappointed with their venality, completely screws them over by becoming a [[Treacherous Advisor]].
* [[A Party - Also Known
* [[Bad Boss]]: Lynch and TAO
* [[Bad Guy Bar]]: The [[Signs of Disrepair|Tird Street Arms]] and the Alter Ego, with such trappings as Hero-faced dartboards, masked strippers and portraits of “Old-School” villains like ''Dr. Mind'', ''The Undertaker'' and ''Hugo Lark'' on the walls.
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** There sort of is, but you have to convince her it’s a totally reprehensible thing to do.
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Veronica St James and Miss Misery. In that order, actually.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Holden rescues {{spoiler|Grifter at the end of Point Blank}}.
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: Borders on [[Evil Versus Evil]]:
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'''Carver''': ''What kind of black ops do you think I did for I.O.? Destabilizing governments, killing innocent people and lots of stuff you really don't want to know about.''
'''Veronica''': ''That's not the same. With I.O. there's a greater purpose...''
'''Carver''': ''Is there? Or is it just covert imperialism? Dead children are still dead children at the end of the day, Veronica... they don't care about the reasons behind it.'' }}
* [[Blessed
* [[Bullet Holes and Revelations]]
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Tao’s organization.
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* [[Continuity Nod]]: To the Wildstorm universe and more specifically [[Alan Moore|Moore’s]] run on [[Wild CATS]].
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Impressively so, even by [[Wildstorm]] standards.
* [[Deep
* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: Averted. Hero and villain costumes look exactly the same. A nice bit of [[Fridge Brilliance]] illustrating the [[Black and Gray Morality]] of the book.
* [[Fag Hag]]: There is a supervillain named Faghag who [[Vampiric Draining|feeds on the life force of gay men.]] She got this power after being [[Crowning Moment of Funny|bitten by a radioactive gay Peter Parker]].
* [[Fake Defector]]: Holden’s father.
* [[Fantastic Noir]]: More obvious in Point Blank, but there are definite shades of it throughout.
* [[Flying Car]]:
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* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Especially in volume 2.
* [[Good Guy Bar]]: “The Domino” (formerly called Clark’s and run by an elderly [[Superman]] expy until they had to change their name “for legal reasons.”) Mostly filled with [[Super Zeroes]] and [[Nineties Anti
* [[Government Agency of Fiction]]: I.O. whether it stands for International Operations or Internal Operations. "Makes the CIA look like the IRS".
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Used throughout the series. Holden and Grifter in particular like this trope.
* [[How We Got Here]]: Point Blank opens with Grifter about to be shot.
* [[Humanshifting]]: There’s a shapeshifter in season 2
* [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten]]: Turned on its head. The mission to get Tao is so important, Holden will do anything and everything to keep his cover, including mass murder. A lot of his character arc revolves around him reconciling how he deals with eating so many kittens and can still be considered a "good guy."
* [[It Got Worse]]: Many times, notably for Carver when Lynch, the only one who knew he was really an undercover agent, was shot and put in a coma.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Part of Lynch and TAO’s power sets.
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* [[The Mentor]]: Lynch to Carver, although Holden would deny it.
* [[MacGuffin]]: TAO often sends his people on missions for meaningless things just to [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten|test their loyalty]]/[[It Amused Me|fuck with them]].
* [[Mind Manipulation]]: Steeleye, TAO and Lynch
* [[The Mole]]: Happens a lot in both organizations.
* Mooks / [[Faceless Goons]]: Metric fucktons of ‘em.
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* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Grifter walking in on Kenesha A.K.A. [[Wild CATS|Savant]] having sex with a supervillain in a parking garage. He assumes the villain is raping her and is disappointed to find out that his [[Destination Defenestration|“heroic rescue”]] was a mistake.
* [[Powered Armor]]
* [[Powered
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Almost a requirement to work for TAO.
* [[Ray Gun]]
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* [[Smug Super]]
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]:
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* [[Spy Catsuit]]: Shows up from time to time, particularly when someone has to scale a building.
* [[Superman Stays Out of Gotham]]: The events are [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] as being beneath the notice of the more public superhuman teams like [[The Authority]].
* [[Superpowered Mooks]]: Many henchmen on both sides are described as having “low level cybernetic enhancements” that [[Informed Ability|serve no purpose but to spark]] when the characters are hit.
* [[Super
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]
* [[This Page Will Self
* [[Title Drop]]: The [[Vanity License Plate]] on Lynch’s [[Flying Car]] reads “[[SLEEPER 1]]”. The dialogue hilariously lampshades this, to boot.
* [[Trunk Shot]]
* [[The Unfettered]]: Lots of characters like to think they are. An ongoing theme of the series is how this is largely an illusion.
* [[
* [[Van in Black]]
* [[X Meets Y]]: Commonly described as [[The Departed]] with superpowers.
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