Hack Slash: Difference between revisions

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: The black flowers that show up occasionally.

* [[Angst]]: Cassie has issues.

* [[Art Shift]]: Issues six and twenty-eight are set in Haverhill, a town inspired by [[Archie Comics]]. The art shifts into an Archie-like style to represent this.

** However, at the end of twenty-eight, the art shifts back into a more realistic style to represent Haverhill coming down with [[Cerebus Syndrome]].

* [[Author Appeal]]: According to the extras in the first trade paperback collection, Cassie was based on a Suicide Girl model Tim Seeley met at the con. He was too shy to ask her out.

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Badass Adorable]]: Cassie, [[Depending On the Artist|sometimes]] more than others. [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xeOzo0Axgj0/TLZXqDW976I/AAAAAAAAA7Q/guliKOHxfL8/s1600/img-dm_cassie_hack.jpg Example].

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Vlad wears a trench coat.

* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Doctor White, Mary Shelley Lovecraft, Alan Knight, Cat Curio...

* [[Clothing Damage]]: ''Sons of Man''.

{{quote| '''Cassie:''' "Goddamn cocksucking motherfucking Christ in a tree!"}}

** Justified on her part, {{spoiler|given that this was the foot that had recently had two toes cut off by a slasher}}

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]

* [[The Comically Serious]]: Vlad. Spending twenty years living in a basement can do that to a guy.

* [[Cult]]: The Society of the Black Lamp.

* [[Country Matters]]: Uttered by a particularly nasty bully in one of Cassie's childhood flashbacks.

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]

* [[Danger Takes a Backseat]]

* [[Development Hell]]: The film adaptation is proceeding... just very, ''very'' slowly.

* [[Diagonal Cut]]

* [[Die Hard On an X]]: ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'' was [[Word of God|an admitted]] inspiration for ''Slice Hard''.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Cassie and Chucky formed a shaky partnership in the ''Child's Play'' crossover, in order to take Laura Lochs down.

* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Ashley Guthrie, and the feral, slasher children from ''Little Children''.

* [[Evil Chef]]: Delilah Hack and Hibachi Devil (presumably).

* [[Evil Cripple]]: Courtney in ''Hatchet/Slash''.

* [[Evil Gloating]]

* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]

* [[Fetus Terrible]]: Sort of. Don't ask.

* [[Final Girl]]: The basic idea for the series came when Tim Seeley, stuck at home one Halloween due to sickness, watched a few horror film marathons and thought, "What if a final girl, after killing the slasher that was after her, went on to hunt down and kill other ones?"

* [[Fingore]]: Well, Toegore actually.

* [[Fish People]]: ''Something's Fishy'', also [[Body Horror]].

* [[The Hunter]]

* [[Hurting Hero]]

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: The first asylum inmate Evil Ernie kills to "impress" Cassie says he was institutionalized because he ate people, claiming doing so let him "see God".

* [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]]

** ... Which is actually being brought up, starting with issue five of Volume 2.

* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: Most notably with ''[[Re-Animator]]'' and ''[[Childs Play (Film)|Child's Play]]''.

* [[In Love With Your Carnage]]: Evil Ernie, once he gets inside Cassie's head.

* [[Ironic Hell]]: Subverted in the Chucky crossover with Laura Loch's Hell House, where the assigned punishments were completely random. Played straight in the ''Shout at the Devil'' arc, when Six Sixx is sentenced to perform in a demonic dive for the rest of eternity.

* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: Cassie, most of the time.

* [[Joker Immunity]]: A few slashers (notably Ashley Guthrie) have reappeared after their apparent demise.

* [[Just Think of the Potential]]: Using slashers as [[Super Soldiers]], and studying them in an attempt to attain immortality.

* [[Killer Rabbit]]: Ashley Guthrie, when he [http://www.boomvavavoom.com/image/hack/HS_SLICE_01_01.jpg was stuck possessing a teddy bear].

* [[Knight Templar Parent]]: Don't let Delilah Hack catch you mistreating Cassie. Seriously, '''don't.'''

* [[Legacy Character]]: Father Wrath II.

* [[Living Toys]]: Ashley Guthrie's entire shtick, mixed with [[Your Worst Nightmare]]

* [[Oh Crap]]: Various instances, the best probably being when Cassie goes to tell the authorities all about slashers, realizing too late she's wanted as a suspect in homicide cases all over the country.

{{quote| '''Cassie:''' "... Fuck me running..."}}

* [[Opening Narration]]:

{{quote| "Cassie Hack is the lone survivor of an attack by a slasher called the Lunch Lady... a slasher that happened to be her mother! Now, she travels the world with her monstrous partner and friend Vlad, hunting down and destroying slashers wherever they find them!"}}

* [[Orifice Invasion]]: Creepy leech monsters. ''In the eyes''.

* [[Origins Issue]]: ''My First Maniac'' for Cassie, and ''Me Without You'' for Vlad.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Jack Hack left his wife and daughter.

* [[Police Are Useless]] and usually fodder.

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Bobby Brunswick from ''Euthanized'', the Sundermann brothers from ''Comic Book Carnage'', Edgar from ''BUMPed''.

* [[Public Domain Character]]: Nightmare and Sleepy, a pair of [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] superheroes, appear in flashback, and a few other [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] heroes are obliquely mentioned in the same story.

* [[Recycled in Space|Recycled IN SPACE!]]: One of the "possible" stories in ''Trailers'' had the government sending Cassie and Vlad into space to kill slashers who had taken over a space station.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Summoned when Six Sixx, when asked about the source of his success, gleefully yells ''"I MADE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL!"''. He ''did'', but the other man just says "yeah, whatever".

{{quote| '''Nurse:''' "You! This is a high security area of the hospital! How'd you get in here?!"<br />

'''Cassie:''' "I showed the guy at the door a li'l leg... oh, and I paid him 150 bucks." }}

* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Used by The Waking Man. Julian the Mosaic Man also used a spiky scythe... ''thing''.

* [[Sinister Minister]]: Father Wrath, who even appeared to be a Fred Phelps-[[Captain Ersatz]] when he was mortal.

* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: The main mercenary from ''Tub Club'' had shades of this.

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Mary Shelley Lovecraft:

* [[Squee]]: Pretty much Cassie's initial reaction to seeing [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[He Man and The Masters of The Universe|He-Man]] and [[Thunder Cats|Lion-O]] fighting in ''Land of Lost Toys''.

* [[Staking the Loved One]]: Cassie is forced to kill her mother... ''twice''.

** [[Black Bra and Panties]]

** [[Collared By Fashion]]

** [[Fingerless Gloves]]

** [[Loin Cloth]]

* [[Victim of the Week]]

* [[Vigilante Man]]: Cassie and Vlad, Nathan from ''The Coldest Dish''. Evil Ernie tried becoming one, but didn't make a real effort to not kill random bystanders.

** Ashley and Six Sixx in ''Closer''.

* [[Waif Fu]]: Usually [[Weak but Skilled|averted]], surprisingly.

* [[When Trees Attack]]: ''BUMPed''

* [[Whip It Good]]: Cassie in ''Super Sidekick Sleepover Slaughter''. She proves skilled enough with it to pretty much ''eradicate'' someone's nose with it.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Pretty much all slashers, due to their brains being screwed up. Samhain appears to be an exception, though only due to conditioning, and Ms. America had moments of lucidity, as she wasn't a "pure" slasher.

* [[X Meets Y]]: At least one ad described the series as [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]], if it was made by Wes Craven and Rob Zombie.

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: The Dread Drinkers' plan; they let Six Sixx go when Ashley ended up in their prison dimension, sensing Ashley was a [[Dream Weaver|dreamwalker]] whose abilities, combined with Six Sixx's, could allow them to escape the dimension, which "the One" exiled them to aeons ago. [[Evil Plan|Once out, they intended to use Ashley's abilities to spread across the world, and then the universe.]] If Ashley didn't work with Six Sixx as planed, then she's stuck in a prison dimension with things that take pleasure in [[Mind Rape]].

** Cassie gets friends in ''My First Maniac''... then one is revealed to be the crazy girlfriend of the slasher, who kills the other.

* [[You No Take Candle]]: Vlad, since the butcher who raised him had a fairly loose grasp of English.

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