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[[Cloudcuckoolander|The Tick's]] adventures are evenly split between well-intentioned cluelessness and actual battles against supervillains. These villains -- such as Chairface Chippendale, [[Badass Spaniard|El Seed]], Brainchild, and the Terror -- are frequently just as bizarre as [[Cloudcuckoolander|the Tick]] and his allies. Some, like the Evil Midnight Bomber [[Repetitive Name|What Bombs At Midnight]] (''"One of these days, baby! Milkshake! Boom!"''), have even developed their own fan followings.
In every episode, this program [[Deconstruction|gleefully skewers the]] [[Trope|tropes]] and [[
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* [[Achilles in His Tent]] - Handy might well have named this trope.
* [[Adaptation Distillation]] - Most fans agree that the cartoon version was a great step for the franchise.
* [[Alien Among Us]]: Tick and Arthur get new neighbors in one episode: Thrakkorzog, some normal guy, and Thrakkorzog's brain-eating tongue.
* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]] - In one episode, [[Cloudcuckoolander|The Tick]] goes to see a psychiatrist. His "therapy" consists of being forced to wrestle the psychiatrist's assisstant <s> Shaft</s> [[Expy|Taft]] in various disguises.
{{quote|''Taft:'' Come on man, I'm your mother!
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** It didn't grow so much as...find its way onto his face.
** He seeks moustache advice from Taft, a man with a [[Badass Moustache]] [[Expy|who is totally not]] [[Shaft]].
* [[Badass Normal]]: In the cartoon at least, most of the heroes aside from [[Cloudcuckoolander|the Tick]] himself are this or at least trying to be this. Some have a gadget based gimmick like [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Arthur]].
** Sewer Urchin is probably the closest when acting in his element, since he has faced off against those weird filth monsters and won.
* [[Badass Spaniard]]: El Seed, to a certain degree.
* [[Bad Guy Bar]] : The Evil Eye Cafe
* [[Bad Santa]]: Multiple Santa.
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Die Fledermaus is German for "The Bat."
** This is averted in the Colombian Spanish dub, since they translated his name ''literally'' from German to Spanish and it's translated as ''La Rata Voladora'' (The Flying Rat)
* [[Body Horror]]: "ARTHUR! My mustache is touching ''my brain''!" [[Real Life|Actually possible]] - a little bit of your brain actually does protrude into your sinuses (that's how you can smell). Also, The Tick's transformation in ''Coach Fussel's Lament''.
** In the animated episode "Armless But Not Harmless", the Tick and Arthur are struck by a ray [[Bloodless Carnage|that causes their arms to fall off]]. The Tick takes his sudden debrachiation in stride. Arthur…not so much:
{{quote|'''Tick:''' (clears throat) All right…uh…this is quite a pickle. But no reason to panic, Arthur.
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* [[Captain Ersatz]]: All over the place. The live action series had them for the major characters.
** In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', of all places, The Tick gets one. Sentinel Prime is voiced by Townsend Coleman, resembles the Tick (he's large, blue and has a lantern jaw and antennae) and even speaks like the Tick at times. The biggest difference being that Sentinel is a [[Jerkass]] instead of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
* [[Canon Foreigner]]: Die Fledermaus did not appear in the comic; he was designed specifically for the cartoon.
* [[Captain Geographic]]: American Maid.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Many of the antagonists, particularly Chairface Chippendale and The Terror.
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** ''11?'' The Tick's dial goes all the way to "Justice"!
* [[Combat Stilettos]]: [[Action Girl|American Maid]] wears them and actually uses them in combat as throwing weapons.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Countless examples, in addition to the [[Deface of the Moon]] example below. In one case, Handy loses one of his eyes at the end of "The Tick vs. Arthur's Bank Account" and when Handy returns in "Grandpa Wore Tights", he's wearing an eye patch.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Tick versus the Infinity Orb.
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Die Fledermaus meets his own personal Catwoman when he encounters The Ottoman, a stylish woman who knows everything about furniture.
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**** Maybe he intended to write just "Chairface".
* [[The Ditz]]: The Tick.
* [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]]
* [[Doppleganger Spin]]: Multiple Santa, who duplicates whenever touched by an electrical spark.
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: The Tick himself.
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* [[For Science!]]: The primary motivation of most of the shows various mad scientists, most notably [[Mad Scientist|Dr Chrome Dome]].
* [[Genius Ditz]]: The Tick may be very, very ditzy in just about everything, but he has shown a certain level of philosophical thought in some cases.
* [[Good Guy Bar]]: The Comet Club; all the heroes are regulars.
* [[Gratuitous Latin]]: [[Gadgeteer Genius|Milo]] from the supervillain team [[Tiny Guy, Huge Girl|Venus and Milo]] spouts Latin phrases constantly.
* [[Grievous Harm with a Body]]: "Arthur, my body is a weapon. Use it!"
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* [[Idiot Hero]]
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Keith "Crime Cannibal" Donner, superhero with the power to ''eat human beings incredibly quickly''.
* [[Implacable Man]]: Blow-Hole, who was a weird variation (well, no more weird than most stuff on the show). A giant whale with arms and legs dressed in overalls, he wasn't malevolent — at least not on purpose, although he did a lot of collateral damage — but he was determined for some odd reason to jog from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, and wasn't going to let anything stop him until he made it.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hN-uCyWbjo "It's a YULE TIDE!!"]
** Another episode had a gun that turned half The City into "[[Ray Gun|some guy named Ray]]".
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** Well, they would. They carefully studied the situation, and came to the conclusion that the fact that he was pantsless was Neil's beef.
* [[Matryoshka Object]]: The Living Doll.
* [[Mayincatec]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20140212143915/http://home.jps.net/~lsnyder/7_tick.html#aztecs The Deertown Aztecs] are classic examples of this, right down to the trap filled temple pyramid.
* [[Meganekko]]: Arthur's sister Dot
* [[Metaphysical Fuel]]: The Whats' starships run on fear -- their own.
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* [[My Brain Is Big]]: Brain Child and Dr. Chromedome.
* [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]]
* [[Nested Mouths]]: Thrakkorzog has a little face on his tongue that talks about eating brains.
* [[Nineties Anti-Hero]]: Parodied with Big Shot.
{{quote|''Tick'': Guns and superheroes don't mix. Seek professional help.}}
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** Die Fladermaus acts like the [[Adam West]] [[Batman (TV series)|Batman]].
* [[No Export for You]]: Finally averted when the live-action version got its UK premiere, in January of 2011. [[Friday Night Death Slot|At 9PM on a Friday night]].
* [[No Name Given]]: The Tick. Quite possibly, he doesn't even remember who he was before becoming a hero.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: American Maid is likely the closest thing to a competent hero here.
** Arthur, occassionally. While he was rather anxious to be a hero (having been fired from his previous job for showing up at work in his costume) he's clearly the [[Straight Man]] to the Tick.
* [[Paper Master]]: Papercut
* [[Plant Person]] : El Seed
* [[Pokémon-Speak]]: The language of the Whats and the Heys.
* [[Pulling Themselves Together]]: The Living Doll is, as his catchphrase goes, "full of tinier men". Of course, that means that once the fighting's over he has to round himself up and make sure he's got all of them in the right order.
* [[Punny Name]]: Scarf Ace, a knitting supervillain.
** For that matter, the "Rive Droite" bank whose fitting slogan is "The Right Bank for You"
* [[Reinventing the Telephone]]: Parodying the Bat Signal
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* [[She's Got Legs]]: American Maid
* [[Shout-Out]]: To many sources, including ''Dick Tracy'' and [[The DCU]].
* [[
* [[Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass]]: Evil giant ants plan to deliver [[Karmic Death|Karmic Deaths]] to all of humanity via one gigantic magnifying glass.
* [[Southern-Fried Genius|Southern-Fried Geniuses]]: In One issue the characters ran into a whole town of these type of hillbillies that got their hands on [[The Monolith]] from [[2001: A Space Odyssey]].
* [[Spikes of Villainy]]: Baron Violent's costume.
* [[Spoof Aesop]]: "You know, though today was the worst day of my life, I learned many things. First, the world looks a lot different when you're six inches tall and covered with feathers. Second, two heads are definitely not better than one. And finally, you can lay eggs and still feel like a man."
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{{quote|'''Arthur:''' (sotto voce) "Who knew Sewer Urchin of all people would be this cool?"
'''Sewer Urchin:''' (revealing that he heard Arthur just fine) "Down here I'm the apotheosis of cool." }}
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: BLT sandwiches for both the Tick and Arthur.
* [[The Unintelligible]]: The Idea Men, while theyre helmets are closed anyway.
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: Which can turn even that into doing unspeakable evil.
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* [[We Need a Distraction]]: "Hi, I'm Arthur, and this is my diversion!"
* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: With the ''villains'' bringing him back. "We've got to rescue the Blue Tick, who is also mad, but in a much more goal-oriented way."
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|What Kind Of Lame Power Is xxx]]: Many heroes and villains have weird/marginal abilities: The Indigestible Man, Pig Leg/The Deadly Bulb, Bi-Polar Bear, the Caped Chameleon, the Carpeted Man, Four-Legged Man, Baby Boomerangutan, loads more...
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: The Tick fights crime in a city named The City.
* [[The Worm That Walks]]: "ANTS IN PANTS!"
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