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'''This series provides examples of:'''
* [[A Day in
** Six Sixx hogs the spotlight for most of ''Mind Killer, Part II''.
* [[A God Am I]]: Ourobouros.
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* [[Asian and Nerdy]]: Chris.
* [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]]: Notably, a pet-eating snow blower.
* [[Attempted Rape]]: A drugged Cassie is saved by [[
* [[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]]
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: A popular pose for Cassie and Vlad on covers.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Cassie, [[Depending
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Vlad wears a trench coat.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Cassie.
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* [[Came Back Wrong]]
* [[Cannibal Clan]]: Vlad and his biological family are apparently descended from Sawney Beane.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: A few slashers are loose parodies of film characters, such as [[Hellraiser
* [[Car Fu]]: While effective against zombie animals in ''Euthanized'', the resurrected Mosaic Man proves immune in ''Foes and Fortunes''.
* [[Caught
* [[Celibate Hero]]: Cassie admits in the first issue that one of the reasons she became a monster hunter is because she's afraid of romance.
** [[Virgin Power|As you know, slashers tend to only die at the hands of a virgin.]]
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* [[Deadly Prank]]: Bobby Brunswick's origin.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Deal
* [[Determinator]]: Vlad.
* [[Death
* [[Death By Origin Story]]
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Before [[
* [[Deus Sex Machina]]: Acid Angel, who could secrete a powerful acid when she was sexually aroused.
* [[Development Hell]]: The film adaptation is proceeding... just very, ''very'' slowly.
* [[Diagonal Cut]]
* [[Did We Just Have Tea
* [[Die Hard
* [[Disappeared Dad]]
* [[Disposable Sex Worker]]: While stuck in the ''Hack/Slash'' universe, Evil Ernie spends his time murdering random strippers and prostitutes.
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* [[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''.
* [[Everything's Even Worse
* [[Evil Chef]]: Delilah Hack and Hibachi Devil (presumably).
* [[Evil Cripple]]: Courtney in ''Hatchet/Slash''.
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* [[Evil Gloating]]
* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]
* [[Expy]]: Samhain and [[
** X-O is [[Batman|Victor Zsasz]] with a Tic-Tac-Toe fetish.
* [[Eye Awaken]]
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** Cassie also falls victim to a crotch-kick in ''Murder Messiah''.
* [[Groupie Brigade]]: That turns into a lynch mob.
* [[Guilt
* [[Guys Smash Girls Shoot]]: While Vlad slices and pulverizes, Cassie usually blows brains out.
* [[Harmless Villain]]: Pooch (who pulled a [[Heel Face Turn]]) and the [[Jersey Devil]]. ''Super Sidekick Sleepover Slaughter'' featured a so-called "secret society" of them.
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* [[I Ate What?]]: Delilah didn't just kill the kids who bullied Cassie, she butchered them and made them into cafeteria food, which was fed to the rest of the unknowing students.
* [[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
* [[Implacable Man]]: Most slashers.
* [[Immune to Bullets]]: Averted, surprisingly. Shoot a slasher enough times, and it stays down.
* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: After Cassie and Vlad release {{spoiler|Fantomah, given what's happening to the world's jungles nowadays}}.
** ... Which is actually being brought up, starting with issue five of Volume 2.
* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: Most notably with ''[[Re-Animator]]'' and ''[[
** And the one-page dream project, ''[[Dexter]] vs. [[Friday the 13th (
* [[In Love
* [[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
* [[Jerkass]]: Kyle, also something of a [[Politically-Incorrect Villain|Politically Incorrect Jerkass]] considering some of the stuff he says to and about Chris.
* [[Joker Immunity]]: A few slashers (notably Ashley Guthrie) have reappeared after their apparent demise.
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* [[Living Toys]]: Ashley Guthrie's entire shtick, mixed with [[Your Worst Nightmare]]
* [[Loony Fan]]: The Sundermann brothers from ''Comic Book Carnage'', and the Tin Man from ''Over the Rainbow''.
* [[Lost in
* [[Mama Bear]]: A ''very'' dark one.
** Along with Delilah, there was Mother Leeds from ''The Living Corpse'' crossover.
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* [[Not So Different]]
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]
* [[Off
* [[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..."}}
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* [[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.
* [[Raising the Steaks]]: Early villain Bobby Brunswick had the ability to reanimate animals from the pet cemetery where he was buried. A ''[[Everything's Even Worse
* [[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".
* [[Revenge
* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: Ashley Guthrie's mother, after being institutionalized.
* [[Rogues Gallery]]
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* [[Scars Are Forever]]: But can be conveniently covered by a boot.
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: The ''Tub Club'' arc featured an entire cult of them... it was hot.
* [[Sealed Good in
* [[Serial Killer]]: The mortal slashers would probably be this, if they didn't have some kind of edge (magic, demonic empowerment, etc.)
* [[Serial Killer Killer]]: A radio show Cassie and Vlad occasionally listen to even nicknamed her "The S.K.K."
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* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Cassie killing the remaining feral children at the end of ''Little Children''.
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: Libby Loch's subplot in ''Murder Messiah'', which ends with her being literally shot in the face.
* [[Shout-Out]]: A number to the works of [[
** Mary Shelley Lovecraft, not only being a shout out unto herself, mentions that Cassie is a compelling character, though not as loved as [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|the Summers girl]]
*** An earlier reference to Buffy can be found in the [[Shout-Out]]-filled ''Comic Book Carnage''. When Cassie explains who she is, someone tells her that if she "wants to play Buffy" the roleplaying room is upstairs.
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* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: The main mercenary from ''Tub Club'' had shades of this.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Mary Shelley Lovecraft:
{{quote| [sigh] Though your tale is more complex than some, you still exist in a simple world of revenge, titillation and death. Allow me to try again, in language more befitting your author. Hi, I'm Mary. I'm [[Frankenstein]], [[
* [[Squee]]: Pretty much Cassie's initial reaction to seeing [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[He
* [[Staking the Loved One]]: Cassie is forced to kill her mother... ''twice''.
* [[Strawman Political]]: Laura Lochs and both Father Wraths.
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** [[Bare Your Midriff]]
** [[Black Bra and Panties]]
** [[Collared
** [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]
** [[Fingerless Gloves]]
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