The Lone Gunmen: Difference between revisions

[[File:LoneGunmen.jpg|frame|From left: Melvin Frohike, John Fitzgerald Byers, Richard "Ringo" Langly]]

 

 

 

If for nothing else, the show is notable in that its pilot episode [[Harsher in Hindsight|"predicted" the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.]] [[Government Conspiracy|Also noted for predicting what happened after that, too.]]

* [[Badass Long Hair]]: Langly seems to be going for this. [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|It doesn't work.]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: Never, ever, make fun of Langly's hair.

* [[Book Dumb]]: Jimmy. He cleans computer keyboards with soap and water, puts used coffee filters through the shredder, and doesn't know "geography" from "geology", amongst other things. But he's also much more empathetic and in tune with human behaviour than the other Gunmen or even Yves, and sometimes this actually puts him one step ahead of the others.

* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Frohike.

* [[Classy Cat Burglar]]: Yves Adele Harlow.

* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Langly, Frohike, and Yves.

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Yves. [[Love Redeems|Jimmy does most of the defrosting.]]

* [[Ditzy Genius]]: Langly, and Frohike to an extent.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: One of the reasons Jimmy was introduced, according to [[Word of God]].

** [[The Hero]]: Byers.

** [[The Lancer]]: Frohike.

** The [[Sixth Ranger]]: Kimmy and Morris Fletcher both fulfil this role, especially in later episodes.

::One character refers to the Gunmen as a "little mongoloid Girl Scout troop".

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Jimmy, who appears to have zero common sense and the personality of a golden retriever, yet will inevitably shock everyone with a brilliant suggestion.

* [[Government Conspiracy]]

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: The Lone Gunmen seem to do everything together, including living together.

* [[Hollywood Spelling]] No one ever asks Yves Adele Harlow just how that's spelled. The Gunmen discovered it was an alias, because it's an anagram of Lee Harvey Oswald. Her name was never spelled out until they made the connection, despite there being at least four different ways to spell the names involved. For one thing, 'Yves' is usually a men's name, and is pronounced exactly like the women's name 'Eve'.

** However, in ''every other case'' it's played straight and [[Up to Eleven]]. They are hackers and underground journalists who seek to expose "mundane" conspiracies and wrongdoings.

* [[Latex Perfection]]

* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Tends to be a [[Running Gag]].

* [[Myth Arc]]

* [[Risky Business Dance]]: In "Eine Kleine Frohike".

* [[Running Gag]]: The guys get [[Mistaken for Gay]] often. And when people aren't [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|actually mistaking Langly for a girl,]] they're pretending to as a joke.

* [[Speculative Fiction Series]]

* [[Themed Aliases]]: Yves Adele Harlow's assumed name is an anagram of Lee Harvey Oswald, as are most of her one time only aliases.

* [[Three Plus Two]]: [[Power Trio|Byers, Frohike, and Langly]], plus Jimmy and Yves.

 

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