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▲[[caption-width-right:300:Clockwise from top left: Dane "Jack Frost" MacGowan, Lord Fanny, Boy, King Mob and Ragged Robin. From the cover of volume 2, issue 1.]]
▲{{quote| ''[[Arc Words|"It's only a game. Try to remember."]]''}}
Possibly one of the best [[Comic Book]] series of the 1990s, [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''[[The Invisibles]]'' is an electric mashup of [[James Bond]] movies, 1960s psychedelia, [[Cosmic Horror]], Gnostic theory, ''[[The Prisoner]]'', ''The [[Illuminatus]] Trilogy'' and the books of [[Philip K. Dick]], with guest appearances by [[
It begins with young Dane MacGowan - a Liverpudlian tearaway with growing psychic power - who becomes a target for two sides of an ancient war: The Invisible College, fighting for chaos and limitless freedom, and The Outer Church, which wants to grind down all individuality and turn humans into mindless drones.
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The comic has been equally lauded and criticised for its complicated, nigh-on-labyrinthine structure, which jumps backward and forward in time and - particularly at the end of the third volume - requires the reader to put in some effort to unravel what exactly is going on. It's also let down by art of varying quality, particularly in the 10th and 11th issues of the third volume which had a different artist ''every couple of pages''. However, it remains Morrison's best-received non-superhero work and one of the high watermarks of 90s comic books. Many of its themes would be continued in Morrison's ''[[The Filth]]''.
Not
Generally regarded as being one of the primary inspirations for ''[[The Matrix]]'', alongside ''[[Ghost in
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* [[After the End]] -- Some of the parallel universes the characters cross through are post-apocalyptic and quite unpleasant.
* [[Anachronic Order]]
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*** Or [[Mind Screw|something]].
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]] -- Lord Miles; also Queen Elizabeth II is shown to be involved with The Outer Church in "The Invisible Kingdom".
* [[Ascend to
* [[Author Avatar]] -- This is a weird one. For whatever reason, King Mob greatly resembles Grant Morrison: both are tall, skinny bald British guys. In the letters column of the final issue of volume 1, Morrison relates the story of how, at the same time he stuck King Mob in a torture chamber with a gunshot wound to the stomach for about six issues, Morrison collapsed and nearly died because of a deflated lung. Morrison found this significant.
* [[Bomb Throwing Anarchist]]: Jack Frost starts as one. The rest of the series [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructs]] this trope.
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* [[How We Got Here]] -- In "How I Became Invisible", "And Half a Dozen of the Other" and "The Invisible Kingdom".
* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]] -- In "Royal Monsters".
* [[Journey to
* [[Lennon Specs]] -- King Mob
* [[Logic Bomb]] -- The series itself is allegedly designed to have this effect ''on the reader''.
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* [[Order Versus Chaos]]
* [[Psychic Nosebleed]]
* [[Raised
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]] -- Ragged Robin is the love interest for King Mob (and later... or earlier, depending on how you look at the chronology, Mason Lang).
* [[Recursive Reality]] -- The cast travels to worlds inside, outside, up, down and sideways to the real world. Whatever ''[[Up the Real Rabbit Hole|that]]'' is...
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* [[Technical Pacifist]]: King Mob gives up guns in volume three because of the damage killing has done to his karma.
* [[Time Travel]] -- {{spoiler|Ragged Robin comes from the year 2012.}} Also, the team uses psychic time travel regularly, for example to retrieve the Marquis de Sade.
* [[Trapped in TV Land]] - In "Arcadia", the team find themselves stuck in the Marquis de Sade's ''[[
** Truly an example of the trope, except for the "TV" part: it's a story which [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|barely evaded the censors]] to find an audience in well-enforced 18-and-over cinemas.
* [[Weirdness Censor]] -- In "Counting To None".
* [[Where Everybody Knows Your Flame]] -- The bar where Fanny takes his night off and is captured by Brodie.
* [[Whole
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] -- Lord Fanny. Admittedly, he's still quite amorous.
* [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?]] -- Lord Fanny is raised as a girl because his <s>culture</s> grandmother does not allow men to become shamans.
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