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Not to be confused with the [[Woody Allen]] film.
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=== Tropes used ===
 
* [[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.”
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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]]:
{{quote| '''Veronica''': ''He's a terrorist, Holden. He's destabilized governments across the globe. He's killed innocent people, and God knows what he's done that we don't know about.''<br />
'''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.''<br />
'''Veronica''': ''That's not the same. With I.O. there's a greater purpose...''<br />
'''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 with Suck]]: Miss Misery and Holden Carver
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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]]:
{{quote| '''Holden''': ''“I hate flying cars. I really do. They’re so super-spy.”''}}
* [[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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* [[Smug Super]]
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]:
{{quote| ''“There was a hierarchy. TAO, of course, was at the top of the pyramid, and just under him were the Prodigals – his three closest agents. If anyone knew TAO’s motives, it was probably them. Beneath the Prodigals were the Torpedoes. Which is what I was, sort of a lieutenant in the organization. There were maybe 30 of us. In between missions we did as we pleased, answering only to the four people above us. Under the torpedoes were the Blackguards – Our soldiers. These guys[[[[Mooks]] followed orders and kept the peace among the rank and file.}} [[Elite Mooks|Higher level Blackguards, like the ones that caught me and Genocide red-handed, reported directly to TAO.]] And below them was [[Punch Clock Villain|everyone else]] – the Quislings. These guys were small-time post human crooks, some working just the odd mission here or there, and some eventually [[Klingon Promotion|moving up the chain]].” '' }}
* [[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.
* [[Unrealistic Black HoleHoles Suck]]: A suitcase black-hole bomb.
* [[Van in Black]]
* [[X Meets Y]]: Commonly described as [[The Departed]] with superpowers.
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[[Category:Sleeper]]
[[Category:Comic BookBooks]]
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