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A character from [[The DCU]], created by comic book writer/artist Keith Giffen, Ambush Bug is the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] secret identity of Irwin Schwab, a man raised solely on TV who one day discovered a green teleportation suit that was sent within a capsule from a doomed planet ([[Unreliable Narrator|or so he claims]].) He has starred in several critically acclaimed mini-series, though he is pretty much [[Canon Dis Continuity|on the fringe of the comic universe he inhabits]].
 
Ambush Bug first appeared in ''"DC Comics Presents''" #52 (December, 1982). Originally he appeared as a minor foe of [[Superman]], before deciding to become a superhero himself, though Ambush Bug proves himself utterly incompetent at the job. As time went on, his appearances became increasingly in-jokey, [[Fourth Wall]]-breaking, satirical and surreal. As a generally [[Fun Personified]] character, he wasn't seen much during the pits of the [[Dark Age]], and though he is rarely used by other writers, he still exists in the DC Universe. Most recently, he's become a supporting character in Keith Giffen's [[Doom Patrol (Comic Book)|Doom Patrol]].
 
The closest [[Marvel Comics]] equivalent would likely be [[Deadpool]], with a dash of [[Squirrel Girl]] thrown in, though Ambush appeared before either of them.
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* [[Amusing Alien]]
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Argh! Yle! the living sock. Yes, his archenemy is a sock.
* [[Attack of the Fifty50 Foot Whatever]]: One of his nemeses is The Koala Who Walks Like A Man, a parody of [[Marvel Comics]]' Giant Monster comics from the [[Silver Age]]. It goes "niknak". It's very cute.
* [[Berserk Button]]: He doesn't take too kindly to anyone who threatens TV sets.
{{quote| '''Kobra''': First '''you''' will die! Then, I will defeat your fellow heroes, take over your nation, imprison its citizens, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|destroy their TV sets]], burn their homes, and--<br />
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*** Even more so, he {{spoiler|supposedly comes OUT of the game to interact directly with the players instead of their characters - the back cover was a mask to cut out and assemble to put on for that particular scene}}.
** In [[DC Universe Online]], Ambush Bug can be found in the Watchtower (for heroes) or the Hall of Doom (for villains). His first line is "Hey, look who's in your video game!"
** Ambush Bug stars in the [[Grand Finale]] to ''[[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'', where he attempts to thwart Bat-Mite's efforts to force the show into cancellation or at the very least, ensure the show ends with some dignity.
* [[Clingy Costume]]: The zipper is stuck.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Companion Cube]]: Cheeks the Toy Wonder, a Big Boy doll Ambush Bug adopted as his sidekick.
** Note that Cheeks isn't alive or even animated (except when he briefly became undead), Ambush Bug just ''thinks'' so. He also wears a costume reminiscent of [[El Chapulin Colorado]]'s.
* [[Determinator]]: Goes against [[Reality Warper|Bat-Mite]] and endures a round of being beat down by [[Batman]] and [[Aquaman (Comic Book)|Aquaman]] in an effort to save the ''[[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' universe from being deleted.
* [[End of Series Awareness]]: Ambush Bug throws an after-party at the end of his first miniseries.
** He also convinces Batman to ensure [[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|his Silver Age exploits]] end up with as much dignity as possible, even if they failed to save the show.
** He convinced the villain in the [[Doom Patrol (Comic Book)|Doom Patrol]] series to drop his plan, 'cause the book was being cancelled and there was no hope for him to see how it ended.
* [[Exiled From Continuity]]: Some of his more blatantly fourth-wall-breaking exploits are specifically not canon.
** At the end of the ''Son of Ambush Bug'' miniseries AB himself is put on trial and Exiled From Continuity.
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* [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]: He's probably glued himself to the farthest end of the silly side of the scale.
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: Parodied with a sequence where Ambush goes shopping and cannot find a fridge without the body of an ex-girlfriend in it. He settles for a mini-fridge with a pygmy corpse inside.
* [[Super-Hero Origin]]: Parodies [[Superman]]'s. The greatest [[The Dandy|dandy]] in an alien world, Brum-El, discovers his planet is going to be hit by a swarm of meteorites which will kill all life against [[Ignored Expert|the belief of all experts]], and creates a rocket... to save his wardrobe. And then it turns out the meteorites ''really'' were harmless, leaving the man naked and humiliated. And then a [[Spider -Man|giant radiactive space spider]] loots the rocket before accidentally nudging it to Earth, where it crashes, leaving one of the rocket's two remaining contents - a lime green suit - stuck in the antenna of a random Metropolis loser. The another item? ''A sentient sock''. Who immediately becomes a [[Doctor Doom]] parody, angry at being left behind.
* [[Super Zeroes]]: He's definitely one.
* [[Teleport Spam]]: Part of the reason of why he's a great fighter when dueling against serious enemies. Superman has learned to loathe this.
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* [[Un Installment]]: ''Ambush Bug: Year None'' has an issue number 7, but no number 6. The joke being that there was a huge delay with the release of the next issue after issue 5... so it was numbered 7 to mock the delay ("Issue 6 is ''never'' coming out!")
* [[What Did I Do Last Night?]]: In ''Ambush Bug: Year None'', he wakes up and finds he got married to Dumb Bunny of the Inferior Five.
** And then he tries to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|have his marriage]] [[One More Day|annuled by]] [[Deal Withwith the Devil|Neron]].
 
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