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* [[Defiant to The End]]: Batman, when captured by Luthor.
* [[Depraved Homosexual]]: it's implied that {{spoiler|Dick Grayson}} had the hots for {{spoiler|Batman}}, but was rejected by him, which lead to {{spoiler|Dick}} becoming a villain. At the end of the comic {{spoiler|Batman}} taunts him with all sorts of quasi-homophobic euphemisms relating to his supposed "sissiness". And since {{spoiler|Dick}} is the villain, apparently Miller thinks we're supposed to side with {{spoiler|Batman}} here. Although, since large parts of the comic are completely over-the-top, [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on how to interpret this scene.
* [[Destructo
* [[Distracted By the Sexy]]: More or less the point of "News in the Nude".
* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: Hawkman and Hawkgirl.
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* [[Gang of Hats]]: The Batboys.
* [[Gonk]]: There are some seriously ugly character designs here, especially Lex Luthor. This is mostly limited to the elderly males of the cast (which there are a ton of) but even the ostensibly pretty females have weirdly angular faces.
* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: One of the cooler bits of the series is that Miller really woke people up to just how utterly, insanely ''powerful'' Plastic Man is. A lot of comics released after this seemed to run with Miller's description of Plas as a [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] of epic proportions.
* [[Hypocrite]]: Catgirl berates one of the 'Batboys' in issue one about killing some soldiers and even beats him up for it. Yet in issue three she clams to have killed the Joker imposter "without an ounce of remorse" and "without a shred of regret" with an arrow through the head. True he couldn't die from that, but she didn't know that at the time.
* [[Kryptonite Ring]]: More than a ring - try Kryptonite napalm, Kryptonite [[Power Fist|power fists]]...
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* [[Swallowed Whole]]: Carrie accidentily swallows [[The Atom|Ray Palmer]] early on, leading to a [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]].
* [[Take That]]: [[Word of God]] says the book as Frank Miller's reaction to the [[The Dark Age of Comic Books|Dark Age]] [[Dork Age]] he helped inspire.
** Which leads to some [[Fridge Logic]] when combined with [[All Star Batman and Robin]]. For instance, this comic lauds [[Green Lantern]] (Hal Jordan) specifically as a [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|noble hero exiled by the petty people of Earth]], but who [[Emerald Twilight|is shown to be absolutely worthy of godlike power.]] In contrast, the Goddamn Batman once lured Hal into an ambush and beat him savagely with little provocation. The beating occurs canonically before he entrusts Bats with a means to summon him, but was written afterward.
* [[Too Soon]]: Yeah, having half a major city reduced to a smoky ruin not even a year after 9/11? This was unintentional though. The comic was written and drawn before 9/11 but it wasn't published until very little afterwards.
** Frank mentioned in documentary on comics that aired on the History Channel that Superman {{spoiler|finding that Lois died in Luthor's [[Kill Sat]] attack}} was his way of coping with 9/11.
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* [[Villain Decay]]: Brainiac and Lex Luthor aren't nearly as smart in TDKSA as they are in other stories. In fact, some of the decisions they make are downright moronic.
* [[We ARE Struggling Together]]: [[Green Arrow]] and [[The Question]], in that one wants Marxist Socialism, and the other Randian Objectivism.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: What happened to Mary Marvel? It was never revealed if she was rescued or not.
* [[Wife Husbandry]]: {{spoiler|Dick Grayson}} implies that this is what Batman is doing with Carrie, though [[Word of God|Word of Miller]] denies this vehemently. Also, {{spoiler|Dick Grayson}} was [[Incredibly Lame Pun|bat]]shit insane at that point, and had just spent a good amount of time {{spoiler|[[Cold
* [[Willfully Weak]]: This is apparently Batman's (and Miller's) main problem with Superman, as he stops being treated as a [[Butt Monkey]] once he starts taking the attitude to match his power as a [[Physical God]]. He even makes a [[World of Cardboard Speech]] (though it's not quite on the same level as the trope namer).
* [[Zeerust Canon]]: published 15 years later, but only takes place two years later.
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