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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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* [[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-Hero|90s antiheroes]].
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* [[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-Hero Origin|Origin Story]]:In-universe villains use it to kill time between missions, and it’s the done thing to tell your origin story in third-person.
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* [[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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