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* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Occurs several times in the series, whether voluntarily by one of the characters or due to higher-priority instructions during brainwashing.
* [[The Cape]]: Hyperion, fitting as he is the team's [[Superman]] analog.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Aside from the blatant use of Ersatz Justice Leaguers, the series introduced much milder variants in Nighthawk's enemies - Remnant, Pinball, and Mink, who roughly correspond to Joker, Penguin, and Catwoman (although Mink is by far the most obvious), and the Shape, who is sort of like a good version of Clayface, himself a bumbling [[Minion Withwith an F In Evil|henchman]] (later, he would take up a Plastic Man type of role, despite coming out years before Plas joined the JLA).
** Nighthawk's new recruits, who join the Squadron as infiltrators, are Ersatz versions of the Outsiders.
* [[Classy Cat Burglar]]: The Mink
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* [[Creator Provincialism]]: Although the story begins with the entire planet on the brink of collapse, the entire series takes place in the United States. This is especially jarring given that much of it focuses on how the Squadron's efforts are impacting the rights of individuals, yet the laws and traditions of different countries are never addressed.
* [[Crossover]]: In addition to the Squadron being a team of [[Captain Ersatz|Captain Ersatzes]] from Marvel's "distinguished competition", the limited series also had a [[Crossover]] with ''[[Captain America]]''. Both titles were written by [[Mark Gruenwald]] at the time.
* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]: When Tom Thumb visits the Scarlet Centurion for the Panacea Potion, the Centurion agrees to give it -- if Tom will poison Hyperion in return. Tom even calls it "a deal with the Devil".
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Happens to {{spoiler|Nuke. When he learns his radiation powers have given terminal cancer to his parents, he begs Tom Thumb to find a cure. Tom's failure to do so causes Nuke to blame him for their deaths.}}
* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: Several of the Squadron members embody this trope, which makes it easier for the team to agree to disarming the populace. {{spoiler|The Whizzer}} later gets a mild [[Heroic BSOD]] when {{spoiler|he believes the Institute of Evil has brainwashed the team and attacks them with an automatic weapon.}}
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* [[Hot Witch]]: Arcanna
* [[Hulk Speak]]: The Shape
* [[Human Popsicle]]: Unable to cure all disease, the Squadron develops hibernaculums instead. People near-death would be kept in suspended animation, presumably to be revived in the future [[We Will Have Perfect Health in Thethe Future|once a cure to their ailment is found]].
* [[Intelligence Equals Isolation]]: Tom Thumb is clearly the smartest member of the Squadron and their resident inventor, but he's socially isolated from the rest of the team, is often overlooked or belittled, and spends most of his free time in his lab instead. Though some of it has to do with him being very short, older than most of the team, and lacking the traditional heroic builds his teammates have.
* [[Istanbul Not Constantinople]]: And how -- Every geographic location is renamed from its real-life counterpart. Mt. Rushmore becomes Presidents' Mountain, New York City is Cosmopolis in the state of New Troy, Washington D.C. becomes Capitol City, Magelland, so forth and so on.
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* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: Possibly the first mainstream superhero comic to address this. The entire series is about the slippery slope of inverting it.
* [[Restraining Bolt]]: A logic-based version occurs when {{spoiler|the members of the Institute of Evil were brainwashed to be loyal and obedient to the Squadron. Subsequently, several occasions arise where Institute members are unable to alert the Squadron about suspicious events because it would conflict with their orders.}}
* [[Rewarded Asas a Traitor Deserves]]: {{spoiler|After Foxfire turns on Nighthawk and kills him, The Mink stabs Foxfire a moment later.}}
* [[Runaway Fiance]]: {{spoiler|Golden Archer, who abandons Lady Lark after she proved to be ''far'' too clingy when he brainwashed her to love him. And getting married was ''his'' idea...}}
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: {{spoiler|When Quagmire falls into a coma and starts producing extradimensional muck at an unstoppable rate, Hyperion is forced to terminate his life-support to avert disaster.}}
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* [[Tin Tyrant]]: Master Menace.
* [[Walking Wasteland]]: Foxfire, who projects a luminescence rot that causes things to quickly decay. {{spoiler|She uses them as a [[Touch of Death]] against Nighthawk as part of her [[Heel Face Turn]] at the final battle.}}
* [[We Will Have Perfect Health in Thethe Future]]: Invoked by the Panacea Potion, the Scarlet Centurion's 40th century cure-all.
** Also invoked by the hibernaculums, whose purpose is to keep terminally-ill people in suspended animation until a cure can be found in the ''future''.
** Even more so about the Panacea Potion, {{spoiler|it's just a bit of pennicillin and some vitamins - eugenics and genetic tampering have made future humans so resistant to illness that's all they need.}}
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