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== [[DC Comics]] ==
* The number of times that [[DC Comics]] and [[Marvel Comics]] superheroes have beaten on an [[Alternate Company Equivalent]] of their rival's characters are too numerous to count.
** It's been a tradition for the two companies to do light-hearted jabs at each other for over fifty years. Unfortunately, writers today [[Armed with Canon|tend to forget that]].
* Ironically, when ''[[The Ultimates]]'' came out, their version of The Avengers seemed to be heavily influenced by a satirical version introduced when [[Mark Millar]] took over; a team of black-ops sociopaths controlled by the US government. The major villain on Millar's first arc is basically [[Jack Kirby]]; he's specifically described as "the guy who would've created all your favorite comic books" if he hadn't been hired by the US government. The series has a ''lot'' of [[Author Appeal]], and [[Anvilicious|they're not subtle about it either]]. He even takes shots at Charles Atlas bodybuilding ads. Also;
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* ''[[The Authority]]'' took this to a ridiculous extreme by fighting (and utterly destroying) satirical versions of the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, SHIELD, and the X-Men. The authors explained this was a deliberate poke at traditional superheroes who they felt embodied and maintained the status quo.
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** The comic itself later received a Take That in the form of the "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?" story arc of ''[[Superman]]''.
*** Ironically, despite the creator of "What's So Funny" intending for "The Elites" to basically be a one/two-shot deal, a second version of the Elites appeared... and turned out to be pulling a [[Xanatos Gambit]] to pretend to be the second coming of the original Elites in order to make humanity pull together for one major effort needed to waive off [[Gaia's Vengeance]]... a smackdown that Gaea herself was planning to dish out. They subsequently became the shortlived "[[Justice League Elites]]", in essence the black ops branch of the [[Justice League]] family.
** ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' even had an episode that showed what would happen if the titular heroes, which [[The Authority]] is patterned loosely after, were to suddenly decide that [[Knight Templar|they knew better than everyone else]]. It's not clear if it was a deliberate [[Take That]].
** Also in the series, during [[Warren Ellis]]' last story, is the Authority attempting to ''kill God''. Ellis is a staunch atheist.
* A bunch of defectors from Marvel (Byrne included), snuck in an epic [[Take That]] into the DC series ''Legends'', where Guy Gardner, [[Green Lantern]], beat the crap out of a transparent [[Expy]] of Star Brand and Shooter, without even breaking a sweat. Viewable [http://daveslongbox.blogspot.com/2006/10/guy-gardner-vs-jim-shooter.html here].
* ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'': Two words: [http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=4448 Rorschach sucks].
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** Issue #3 of Adventure Comics uses Funky Flashman as a throwaway villain, trying to steal a Mother Box. Take that as you will.
* Superboy Prime may be one big Take That at all silver-age fans who are complaining about current [[Darker and Edgier]] settings.
** At the end of Legion of Three Worlds, Superboy Prime is shown living in his parent's basement, ''posting on the DC message boards''.
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090827081402/http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/web/thread.jspa?threadID=2000188640&start=0&tstart=0 In a real thread, no less.] [[Mind Screw|There's even real posts from the guy]].
**** Further cementing the fact that [[Fridge Brilliance|Earth-Prime is our world.]] [[Fridge Horror|Wait...]] [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You|that means...]] [[Oh Crap|Oh god.]] [[Psychopathic Manchild|Oh]] [[Physical God|dear]] [[Complete Monster|GOD.]]
* When [[Dwayne McDuffie]] recycled the old, tossed out idea of superhero Black Power, who has access to his powers in [[Captain Marvel]] style - transformation after saying certain word - and from white man turns into black one, he made his white form look like ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]]'' writer [[Brian Bendis]], and his black form very similar to Luke Cage, Bendis' favorite character. This may have been more of a [[Shout-Out]] though.
* Prior to Mcduffie's death, he had been in some very publicized disputes with [[Dan
* ''[[Final Crisis]]: Rogues' Revenge'' has this thinly-veiled meta-commentary on Marc Guggenheim's run on [[The Flash]] and its misuse of [[Friendly Enemies|the Rogues]], as well as the quality issues of certain big events such as ''[[Amazons Attack]]'' and ''[[Countdown to Final Crisis]]''.
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Weather Wizard: This isn't {{spoiler|for my son}}.
Captain Cold: No. This is for one $%@#$@-up year. }}
* James Robinson's final issue of the 2006-2011 ''Justice League'' series has a number of potshots directed at the [[New 52]] reboot that resulted in the title's cancellation, including the favoritism shown towards [[Grant Morrisons Batman|Batwing]] over a number of already-established African-based heroes, Dick Grayson's return to the Nightwing identity and Donna Troy's apparent lack of appearance in the reboot. It also took shots at the ''Justice League'' fans who criticized Robinson's run, with Grayson stating that he didn't care whether or not his iteration of the League would be remembered fondly by the public, and that he and his team did their best despite what the detractors said. How subtle.
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* A precursor to Superboy-Prime appears in the ''[[The Flash|Flash]]'' storyline "Return of Barry Allen," Mark Waid's response to fans asking him to bring back Barry. He brings back Barry all right--except it's really {{spoiler|the young Eobard Thawne, future Professor Zoom}}, retconned into a fanboy so obsessive he gets plastic surgery to look exactly like Barry Allen. When various psychological shocks {{spoiler|such as discovering he goes on to be a villain and be killed by his former idol}} leave him convincing himself he ''is'' Barry, he is furious to discover that people grew to think of Wally West as the Flash in the years after Barry died, and he eventually leaves Wally in a deathtrap for "stealing his name."
* [http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012/01/17-1/dcs-robama-ad-sends-out-battle-cry-to-discourage-manga-sales This ad,] funded by DC, is already a petty jab at [[Manga]], but takes it a few steps further by saying "[[Barack Obama|Robama]](who is just [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Cyborg]]) [[Unfortunate Implications|wants you to buy American!]]" The [[Patriotic Fervor|overly patriotic tone]] doesn't help.
* During alternate universe shenangians ''[[Justice League]]'' introduced [[One-Scene Wonder]] the "Brown Bomber": a man who looks a lot like Marvel's Brian Bendis and transforms into [[Luke Cage]] upon saying "Black Power!" (Bendis is regularly accused of wanting to be black and using Luke Cage as a self insert). This doubles as a [[Mythology Gag]] about the Black Bomber concept (a white racist who [[Involuntary Shapeshifter|unknowingly changed]] into a super powered black man) that was scrapped in favor of Black Lightning.
== [[Marvel Comics]]: ==
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** Apparently he forgot that he actually fought alongside the Trojans in the real thing.
*** Considering that Achilles also remembers fighting alongside him, he probably fought for the other team in Marvel Universe.
** He also has once took jab at Spartans, saying they never failed to annoy him and that he favored Athens. Spartans having a statue of him in chains, and their kids claiming to be Hercule's descendants may have something to do with it.
* ''[[The Punisher]]'' and ''[[Wolverine]]'' occasionally traded jabs. [[Garth Ennis]] repeatedly wrote Punisher issues where Frank dealt Wolverine horrible injuries. Wolverine's writers responded by writing an issue where Logan defeats Frank and them implies that Frank is gay. Ennis responded by writing a Punisher comic where Frank shoots Logan in half with a rocket. It goes on like this.
* When John Byrne took over ''Star Brand'' back in the '80s, he proceeded to launch one [[Take That]] after another at the departing figure of ousted [[Marvel Comics]] editor-in-chief [[Jim Shooter]]. ''Star Brand'' was one of the Shooter-initiated "[[The New Universe|New Universe]]" titles, and was the one that Shooter himself wrote personally. Byrne not only took ''ad hominem'' shots at Shooter personally, but had exposition characters [[Lampshade Hanging|hang lampshades]] on how implausible the events of Shooter's run was, and how [[Idiot Ball|stupid]] the hero had been. Early on in Byrne's run, the hero's girlfriend got [[Stuffed in The Fridge]]; the hero later broke down and passed the titular Brand onto some other poor schmuck, ''destroying Pittsburgh in the process
* During the nineties period, somebody gave Hulk a fin to where on his head that resembled the Savage Dragon's. Hulk pointed out that despite this "ingenious disguise" everyone who saw him would think, Hey there goes Hulk with a fin on his head.
* The [[Marvel Adventures]] line of comics, featuring traditional Marvel heroes with stories aimed at a younger audience, has been known to take what can only be seen as deliberate snubs at the main line of Marvel Comics.
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** During a brief team-up, Wolverine asks Alex Power of [[Power Pack]] if he's ever considered "movin' up to the big leagues". Alex replies that he has once or twice, but "it turns out I'm pretty happy with the team I'm on." This is likely a reference to the change the character underwent in the '90s when he ''stole his siblings' powers'' not once but ''twice'' so he could fight without his siblings as one of the New Warriors.
** Sadly, it is because of this that [[Executive Meddling]] got involved and canceled the comic.
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20081108084818/http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/6540566.html this] [[Spider-Man]] comic, featuring a cameo by [[Stephen Colbert]], [[Joe Quesada]] is on his "On Notice" list.
** That issue went far easier on Quesada than the [[Daredevil]] movie, where the title character beats up and damns a rapist named "José Quesada" to hell before letting a subway crush him.
* The ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' series REALLY likes to dress up female lunatics in the costumes of whatever super-heroine is making Crisis Crossover trouble for the Marvel Universe today and drag them by police officers screaming their new catch-phrase. It's mostly [[Self-Deprecation]] as the series got girl dressed as Scarlet Witch screaming [[House of M|"I'M NOT CRAZY! I'M NOT!"]] and one dressed as Spider-Woman yelling [[Secret Invasion|"EMBRACE CHANGE! EMBRACE CHANGE!"]] and [[Brian Bendis]] writes both USM and the cross-overs involved. However, one exception was the guy in the Speedball costume yelling [[Civil War (Comic Book)|NOT LIKE THIS! NOT LIKE THIS!!!]]
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* ''[[The Incredible Hercules]]'' arc "Love & War" was more or less a massive Take That at DC's ''[[Amazons Attack]]''. And by that, we mean it was completely awesome.
* One of the first issues of [[Peter David]]'s ''[[Captain Mar-Vell]]'' (not [[Captain Marvel|that other guy]]) started with this dialogue:
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'''Marlo:''' A dollar.
'''Guy:''' A dollar a copy?! But they retail for $2.50 apiece! I bought this five years ago as a college investment!
'''Marlo:''' Not a dollar a copy. A dollar for the whole box. And frankly, it's guys like you who ruined the fun of comic reading for everybody else. }}
* Also, after Liefeld complained about how David revealed that Shatterstar is bisexual in ''[[X-Factor (
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'''Shatterstar:''' Apparently.
'''Guido:''' Figures. }}
** In the middle of X-Factor #200, Jamie Madrox is narrating:
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That last one, I don't get. Did anyone '''not''' know about Rictor and Shatterstar? }}
*** Evidently [[Rob Liefeld]] was the only one who didn't see it coming.
** And of course sometimes other characters mention how Shatterstar's original costume, which was designed by Liefeld, was totally gay.
* In ''[[
** Nova's third volume includes a jab at superhero movies from the 80s and 90s in which Nova, who is trying to become a more publically known hero, discusses a movie deal with executives from Marvel Comics who bring up such "classics" as the 1980s Captain America movies, the 1990s Fantastic 4 movie, the original Punisher movie and of course, the Howard the Duck movie.
* After [[Mark Millar]] left Ultimate Comics, a continuation of his title [[The Ultimates]] was given to Loeb, who created the terrible ''Ultimates 3'' and the even worse ''[[Ultimatum]]''. After that Millar returned to writing comics in [[Ultimate Universe]]. The ''very first page'' of his ''Ultimate Comics Avengers'' starts with Nick Fury looking at the mess caused by Ultimatum and saying "What the #$%^&? I leave for ten minutes and everything goes to hell." In the next issue Fury says that of all the Ultimates, Hawkeye is ''the only cool one'', which can be viewed as a [[Take That]] to Loeb and what he did with the team.
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* Tom Brevoort mentioned that ''Hawkeye and Mockingbird'' was "Guaranteed to have 100% less heroin use and impotence than [[Green Arrow|the average comic starring an archer]]".
* [[Spider Girl|Spider-Girl's]] creator Tom DeFalco does it from time to time in his MC2-continuity comics. For example:
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'''Ion Man''': You make those guys?
'''Silikong''': Did you think we were some kind of [[Secret Invasion]] from other planet? Don't be ridiculous. }}
* [[Brian Bendis]] wrote a few take thats towards [[One More Day]], not only having [[Spider-Man]] reveal his secret identity to New Avengers as soon as he could and having [[Spider Woman]], who never has any [[No Fourth Wall|fourth wall breaking moments]], asking if Peter wasn't married.
* The [[Ultimate Marvel]] version of of the [[Iron Man]] story arc ''Armor Wars'' has Iron Man at point mixing it up with other power armored soldiers [[Halo|who bear a striking resemblance to a certain Master Chief]]. Iron Man then proceeds to casually blow them out of the sky. [[Word of God|The writer, Warren Ellis]] stated online that [[Stealth Parody|he used the story as an excuse to have a little fun and throw in as many jokes as possible]] (including one about Tony Stark using his computers to browse 4Chan).
* And who can forget this one line by Ultimate [[Captain America (comics)]]: ''"[[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys|Surrender? SURRENDER?! You think this letter on my forehead stands for France?]]"''
** This then lead to a more subtle take that by Ed Brubaker in the pages of 616-verse Captain America, where Cap reflects on his time fighting with the French Resistance and chides the folks who dismiss the French as "cowards."
** To which another shout out was made in the pages of [[Nextwave]] - When Elsa Bloodstone is assaulted by a Captain America-imitation, and he claims she is just a victim, she blows him ten ways to Sunday, then points at the Euro-symbol on her T-shirt, and exclaims: "''Victim''? You think this letter on my chest stands for ''America?!''"
* ''[[The Awesome Slapstick]]'' is basically built on [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] and [[Take That|Take Thats]], having things like "[[The Punisher|The Overkiller]], mutant murderizer" and "[[Batman|Skulker-Arounder]], dark, gritty, realistic avenger of evil".
* Almost every ''Spider-Man'' writer since 1996 thinks making at least one joke about ''Clone Saga'' (sometimes really funny, [[Sturgeon's Law|more often not]]) to be his holy duty.
* Marvel's ''Wha... Huh?'' features take thats against DC and people complaining about comics at the Internet.
** DC was hit with [[Identity Crisis]] parody with Impossible Man turning evil and murdering [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|Aunt Petunia]] for [[C-List Fodder|being a character without a movie deal]] and then being killed by Identity Girl - "a new character you've never heard of that's just watered down version of a bunch of characters you have heard of." It was also featuring ''What if DC would let us do [[Batman]]\[[Daredevil]]'' by [[Brian Bendis]] and David Mack, which was a picture of frozen Hell.
** There was also "What if Internet existed in" segment, showing posts which would be written if Internet was around in [[The Sixties]], [[The Seventies]] and [[The Eighties]]. Here's few of them:
{{quote|-Who the hell does [[Jack Kirby]] think he is? Why can't he let someone else drawn a damn comics book? Who died and made him king?
-The new [[X-Men]] [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|team sucks!]] Why are they coming up with "great" new characters like Storm (white-haired black woman-- give me a break) and Colossus (like Thing but Russian) when we all know they're all going to fail. The only cool one was Thunderbird, so of course they killed him off! [[Ruined FOREVER|It's an insult to the fans of real X-Men]] [[Stan Lee]]'s X-Men, that we're forced to endure those pretenders!|All of sudden Matt Murdock is a ninja?? You gotta be kidding me?! Bring back Gene Colan and stop giving your books to these crazy people who clearly have never read a comics book before. }}
* Subversion - [http://www.4thletter.net/2009/11/okay-now-im-getting-mad this page] created some [[Internet Backdraft]], because it was seen as [[Take That]] against everybody who criticize sexist costumes of superheroines, but [http://www.4thletter.net/2009/11/boobgate-nine-days-later/ this response from Jen Van Meter] explains it was never intended to be take that.
* One issue of [[Marvel Adventures]]: Avengers poked fun at the infamous [[Captain America (comics)]] direct to video movie (where Cap wore rubber ears on his mask) by having [[Wolverine]] sarcastically ask him "Are those ears real?!"
* An [[Iron Man]] comic book featured Jarvis resigning. His letter of resignation is actually the same letter Dave Cockrum wrote when resigning from Marvel. In case people didn't get it, the writer explicitly mentioned this three issues later.
* An issue of [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] features a guy reading a newspaper that says, "Cruz Swipes Again". This was made by Joe Madureira who had accused fellow artist Roger Cruz of swiping (making pages nearly identical to that of) his material.
* ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' had one at the expense of DC for the time they took to release [[Superman]] vs. Muhammad Ali. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131111155611/http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/315/ Seen at the end of the page]
* In The Carnage 5-part series that ran from 2010 to 2011, one of the main characters, who brings Cletus Kasady and the Carnage symbiote back to Earth, and subsequently uses both for experimentation, is named Michael Hall. Now maybe it's a coincidence, but actor Michael C. Hall does play a red-haired serial killer on a certain Showtime channel TV drama and Cletus Kasady is a serial killer with short red hair. The series ended with Cletus taking Hall hostage to torture him for personal amusement.
* Recently [[Mark Waid]] posted on the web a long rant explaining why he is mad at [[Joe Michael Straczynski]], which he concluded by saying he needs to take a walk. [[Superman|Long, boring, pointless walk across America. That he won't finish.]]
* During the fight with [[Reality Warper|Cosmic Cube-enhanced Absorbing Man]] in Dan Slott's ''Mighty Avengers'', [[Dark Avengers|Ms. Marvel]] was hit by him, which had an effect of turning her back into Moonstone. Her comment:
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== Other: ==
* [[Garth Ennis]] has also been known to viciously parody the concept of [[The Cape (trope)]]. Ironically, he's clearly fond of [[Superman]]; when Superman appeared in an issue of ''Hitman'', the character was treated with complete respect, and a later issue had the [[Anti-Hero]] main character remark that Superman was the only superhero he had any time for.
* In an early issue of ''[[The Savage Dragon]]'' -- created and written by ex-Marvel artist Erik Larsen -- Officer Dragon is [[Let's You and Him Fight|randomly attacked by superhero Bedrock]], who at the end of the issue explains that it was a test to see if he was tough enough to join the team Youngblood.
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'''Bedrock''': ''It happens in [[Marvel Universe|Marvel Comics]] all the time!'' }}
** Larsen ''loves'' making Take Thats to Marvel. In one of the recent issues, not only did the new Overlord say that Magneto "really should think twice before giving his team the name 'Brotherhood of [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Evil]] Mutants'", when he asks Dragon to join his cause, the following exchange happens:
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'''Overlord:''' ''No, you misunderstood me. And by the way, that scene really sucked.'' }}
** A more recent issue had Lex Luther and Norman Osborn discussing Dragon's constantly coming back to life, while they are served coffee by none other than Gwen Stacy. Larsen doesn't like Comic Book Deaths.
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** This wasn't the first time a comic written by Michael Gallagher took a stab at dark and edgy '90s-era comics. ''[[ALF]]'' #38's cover featured a huge, fierce-looking silhouette of Alf, along with the labels "Darker!", "Grittier!", and "Alien with an attitude!". At the bottom of the cover was normal Alf standing in front of a spotlight, asking if the "revamp" would [[No Fourth Wall|actually boost the comic's income]].
*** In a similar vein to this, Sonic the Hedgehog #4's cover boasted Sonic as a "grittier! Darker!" chimney sweeper.
**** Bizzarely, the series became [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|darker itself]], what with geniocide, murder, love triangles, huge family trees, Eggman cracking, implied incest, [[Complete Monster]] villains like Fintevius and Kage in contrast to the [[Affably Evil]] current Robotnik or [[Harmless Villain]] old Robotnik from the early issues, nuclear bombing, and other horrific stuff.
** The whole Special Zone arc of the British [[Sonic the Comic]] was an affectionate parody of Marvel comics, most notably when Sonic walked in on a team of local superheroes in a fight with the Legion of Evil. After a comment about the property damage both sides are causing and a brief attempt to work out which side is which the cops arrive, at which point ''both'' groups make a quick retreat.
*** A later story introduces an obvious X-Men parody, including a Wolverine knock off with [[Could Have Been Messy|corks attached to his claws]] and the stated superpower of [[Informed Ability|snarling, getting angry and talking about what a badass he was.]]
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* [[Alan Moore]]'s ''Supreme'' had a gratuitous scene with the Televillain killing Courtney Cox's character on ''[[Friends]]'' using his powers, thus showing that, in spite of his tacky feel, he was awesome.
** Billy Eliot is one big [[Take That]] against Grant Morrison and the resident [[Butt Monkey]]. His M.O. is to [[Kudzu Plot|create as much complicate and complex stories as he can, to the point that they fall under their own weight and become an unreadable mess]], other people think he's a total [[Jerkass]], Supreme's villains consider his presence an act of cruel and unusual punishment, the equivalent of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes]] hates him (especially after he accidentally joined their [[Legion of Doom]]) and the only person who likes him is a [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[The Joker]].
** Moore also delivered a few take thats against Hillary Clinton when Korgo The Space Tyrant took over the United States and made her his bride. First, we see her during a press conference claiming this is not a bad thing and that the press should stop panicking about nothing. And then we find out she's [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth|so horrible that Korgo willingly allowed Supreme to beat him to get away from her]].
* [[Jhonen Vasquez]]'s ''I Feel Sick'' is basically aimed at [[Nickelodeon]], according to this [[wikipedia:I Feel Sick|entry here]].
* The Curtis', owners of the comic book company, Shanda Fantasy Arts, upset at the horrific [[Screwed by the Network|screwing]] of ''[[
** Of course, DC has just undone that editorial misdeed at the end of ''[[Final Crisis]]'', so the hard feelings shouldn't be quite so much.
* From Jeremy "Norm" Scott, the creator of Slave Labor Graphic's Hsu and Chan series.
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** While we're on the topic of Hsu and Chan, many of the issues contain at least one [[Take That]] targeted at the ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' games and movies.
** And [https://web.archive.org/web/20090325151552/http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8980763&publicUserId=5811079 this comic he released on the new Hsu and Chan blog]
* In the pages of Marvel Comic's ''[[Incredible Hulk
* Whilst [[Alan Moore]]'s ''1963'' is more of an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the characters and stories of the [[Silver Age]], particularly those debuting in [[Marvel Comics]], it's more of a pointed Take That to the creators behind them; in the letters pages provided in the issue, it's made pretty clear that "Affable" Al Moore is an egotistical tyrant who shamelessly takes credit for the work and achievements of others.
* [[Don Rosa]]'s comic ''Super Snooper Strikes Again'' is a huge [[Take That]] to dark and violent superhero comics, eventually leading in [http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/TakeThat.jpg this panel] and the follow-up, where the nephews decide that [[Donald Duck]] is greater than Super <s>Man</s> Snooper, because he can face everyday problems and support three nephews without any kind of superpowers.
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** Said protagonist was modeled after Eminem; take that little factoid as you will.
* On one [[Dark Horse Comics|Dark Horse]] message board, a poster was pestering writer Randy Stradley to include Mandalorians in an upcoming comic. They got their comeuppance when a scene in the comic in question showed the Mandalorians in full retreat. When the poster complained, Stradley had one of the following issues feature a whole cave full of ''dead'' Mandalorians.
* [[Twisted
* The ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' strip "The Deep Hereafter" is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Film Noir|noir]]''-ish, [[Pulp Magazine|pulpy]] detective stories in general, and ''[[The Spirit]]'' in particular. One newspaper clipping pinned on the detective's wall reads "[[Frank Miller|Miller]] Kills Colt". Apparently Dan McDaid wasn't a fan of [[The Movie]].
* ''[[2000 AD|Two Thousand AD]]''' prog 1661 took a jab at DC's ''Wednesday Comics''
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** Note: one of the few examples of a [[Take That]] against something critically acclaimed.
* ''[[Elf Quest]] - The Rebels'' has one against television in general. This is a planet-that-is-not-earth inhabited by humans. They have interplanetar space travel and internet for information, news, and porn. At one point we see preparations for a live feed of a car race.
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Chairwoman Nuriham: "And induce people to watch it in their free time? When would they create art, or make music, or converse... I think such a project would be bad for the collective soul of the people." }}
* A British post-punk rock group took the name "Love and Rockets" in homage to the Hernandez Brothers' comic series ''[[Love and Rockets]]''. Los Bros, however, were not happy as they hadn't been asked permission and weren't fans of the band's pretentious music. Gilbert Hernandez proceeded to write a story featuring a particularly talentless and unpleasant fictional LA punk band called "Love and Rockets", with several derogatory barbs aimed directly at the British group.
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* The ''[[Power Rangers]]'' parody comic ''[[Mightily Murdered Power Ringers]]'' is a bitter, mean-spirited jab at the show, which qualifies it for this. However, being made as a [[Take That]] coupled with the quality of the writing in it qualifies it for ''[[Parody Failure]]''.
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