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* [[Magitek]]: The Backup story for Volume 1 Issue 3 is about Jack Parsons, who builds a rocket as part of a scheme to become a god. Robo blows it up midflight because it would have crashed into a city. No consideration was given to whether or not the magic would have worked.
** Edison's plan hinged on a mystical crystal skull of Atlantean origin and Von Reichenbach's since-debunked [[wikipedia:Odic force|Odic force]].
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Dr. Shinka<ref>
* [[Memetic Badass]]: Jenkins is an [[In-Universe]] example.
{{quote|"Jenkins doesn't sleep. He ''holds back.''"}}
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* [[The End - or Is It?|Or Is It?]]: The last panel of ''The Ghost Of Station X'', Volume 5.
* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]:
** [[Cyborg
** [[Eldritch Abomination]]: [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]], Charles Fort, and Nikola Tesla fought one at Tunguska. It exists outside the Universe and is the [[Big Bad]] of volume 3, {{spoiler|at one point coming out of HP Lovecraft's head}}. We mean that last part [[Just for Pun|literally]].
** [[Giant Enemy Crab]]
** [[Kaiju]]
** [[Mummy|Mummies]]: They are [[Clockwork Creature
** [[Our Ghosts Are Different|Our Consciousnesses Projected via Odic Perturbations Are Different]]
** [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: These vampires are savage bloodsuckers from another dimension.
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* [[Sentai]]: Parodied in Volume 4, Issue 2 with Science Team Super Five, A team of Japanese Action Scientists who haven't fought monsters in decades and are supporting their technology through furious patent development.
* [[Ship Tease]]: {{spoiler|'''Every single time''' Robo and Helen share a scene.}}
* [[Shooting Superman]]: Robo is immune to small arms fire, and this has been demonstrated repeatedly over his 80+ year career in Action Science. Still doesn't stop [[Mook
** Played with at one point: [[Badass Normal|Otto Skorzeny]] shoots Robo with his gun at one point, and it seems like it had no effect. Only then do we notice that Robo is, in fact, disabled, by virtue of a special bullet. It doesn't stop there, however, since Skorzeny ''also'' planned to [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|drop a trainload of heavy ordnance]] on top of him, for good measure.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Definitely a good series for fans of this trope:
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** The Sparrow mentions the [[Wolfenstein (2009 video game)|OSA]] and The [[Return to Castle Wolfenstein|SS Special Projects Division]] at one point.
** "[[Back to the Future (film)|Should an intense young man or a wild-eyed gentleman ever approach you and mention the word 'Tunguska', I want you to shoot them.]]"
** "Nice shootin', Tex!", Total Protonic Reversal, the jumpsuits worn when trying to capture and study the "ghost", among
** The [[Humongous Mecha]] [[Super Sentai|Science Team Super Five]] brings out to fight a [[Kaiju|raging monster]] must function with cords attached and is only used to aim and fire a [[BFG|very large gun.]] This rather resembles the fight against the fifth angel in [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]].
** The Telluric Interchanger that Emma presents at the National 4th Grade Science Fair is more than a little bit similar (read: identical) to the [[Back to the Future (film)|Flux Capacitor]].
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