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Though the strip is mostly [[Gag Per Day Webcomics|gag-a-day]], there have been several story arcs as well
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* [[Five Five Five]]: [http://www.evil-comic.com/archive/20060831.html Samantha's phone number]
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* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The Ruby of Ragnoor.
* [[Art Shift]]: The adults in the flashback to Captain Heroic's School Days are drawn in a highly realistic style. Cap...not so much.
* [[Anti
{{quote| '''Miss Match:''' So you're a ''villain?''<br />
'''Alt Cap:''' I prefer "anti-hero".<br />
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* [[Basement Dweller]]: Grand Gamer
** Captain Heroic rejects {{spoiler|using Grand Gamer's wish to give Oscar superpowers}} for fear he'll become this.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Miss Match makes a wish, using an [[Artifact of Doom]], to give her fellow villains [[Laser
* [[Before I Change My Mind]]
{{quote| '''Captain Heroic:''' Muskiday?<br />
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'''Captain Heroic:''' Start running before I find a [[Burn It With Fire|magnifying glass]]. }}
* [[Biological Mashup]]: Dr. Muskiday is essentially a humanoid fly, his condition the result of a teleporter accident. He inverts [[The Fly|the usual]] order of things though, in that the original Dr. Muskiday was the ''fly''. {{spoiler|The human was a janitor who mistook Muskiday's teleporter experiment for a trash can.}}
* [[Bland
* [[Brain Bleach]]: Both Captain Heroic and Miss Match get chills from the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of the thought of Commander Heroic "appealing" to Flame. {{spoiler|Little do they know...}}
* [[
* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: {{spoiler|Captain Heroic. He recovers.}}
* [[Canon Welding]]: Pretty much every character from ''Greystone Inn'' (with one exception, see [[Expy]]) has showed up in the strip at one point or another.
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* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Subverted. Desdemona is a demon, but in appearance is 100% human.
* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: The entire ''point'' of the company.
** Though it should be said, they mostly sell inventions to supervillains, and most of their corporate strategies involve [[Step Three: Profit|somehow getting stockholders behind super-villainy]]. They aren't so much selling their fancy techonlogies to the regular consumers.
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Captain Heroic and Miss Match aren't just dating, they're ''married''.
** Later, Lightning Lady and Elastic Man have a fling, but worry [[The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life|what others will think]]...
{{quote| '''Lightning Lady:''' Besides, who ever heard of a super-villain getting into a relationship with a ''hero?''<br />
'''Elastic Man:''' Yeah...[[
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: ''Everybody''.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Did You Just Polymorph Cthulhu?]]: During his match against Captain Heroic during Grand Gamer's tournament, Evil Atom wears down Cap {{spoiler|1=by using his mastery over atoms (= matter) to ''change Grand Gamer, a [[Cosmic Being]], into a duplicate of himself!''}}.
* [[Disembodied Eyebrows]]: Evil Atom gets these when Captain Heroic interrupts his fight with {{spoiler|Miss Match}}.
{{quote| '''Cap:''' As soon as your eyebrows land back on your head, I'll explain...}}
* [[Lava Adds Awesome]]: the fight between Captain Heroic and {{spoiler|Wingman}}. Cap has no problem with having ''bathed in lava'' to retrieve his {{spoiler|Commander USA secret decoder ring, which he then uses to ''knock Wingman out''.}}
* [[Evil, Inc.]]: A-durr.
* [[Evil Pays Better]]: The reason Captain Heroic rejects the idea of {{spoiler|using Grand Gamer's wish to turn Miss Match into a hero}}.
* [[Expy]]: [[Word of God]] confessed that Memo ([[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|a sentient memo]] that communicates via writing) is an Expy of ''Greystone Inn's'' Narrator.
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* [[Fan Boy]]: Don Luke Piccardo. [[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Guess what he's obsessed with]].
{{quote| '''Don Luke:''' ''(discussing his choice of toy train)'' Number One? [[Incredibly Lame Pun|N-gauge]].}}
* [[Five
** [[Big Bad]]: Evil Atom
** [[The Dragon]]: Dr. Haynus
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{{quote| '''Evil Atom:''' Try not to look like a credit-card lobbyist.<br />
'''Desdemona:''' Believe me, there's ''nothing'' [[Fake Boobs|plastic]] about me }}
* [[Laser
* [[Luke, I Might Be Your Father]]: Commander Heroic has a heart attack in mid-flight ("helped" by the fact {{spoiler|Mr. Threat has been siphoning off his powers}}) when he {{spoiler|sees Flame babysitting Oscar}}, and realises {{spoiler|Miss Match might be his daughter. [[Brother
* [[The Mafia]]: Evil, Inc is hired by the Mafia to steal one family's "superweapon" for another. {{spoiler|It turns out it's [[Chekhov's Boomerang|Project X]].}}
* [[The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life]]: Lightning Lady and Elastic Man (type 3A).
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* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Captain Heroic's coffee addiction comes in unexpectedly handy in a fight with Lightning Lady.
* [[My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad|My Dad Can Thwart Your Dad]]
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: {{spoiler|Flame's}} reaction to Commander Heroic's heart attack.
* [[Offered the Crown]]: Following {{spoiler|being shrunk and becoming lost, Muskiday becomes the King of the Flies}}.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Keagan.
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