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The following tropes apply to both of the twins:
* [[The All
* [[Divergent Character Evolution]]: They were practically the same character divided in two in early episodes. They've since become [[Different As Night and Day]], with Hank as a wannabe-badass [[Small Name, Big Ego]] and Dean as a nervous, awkward [[Non-Action Guy]].
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Hank gradually dropped this, while Dean clings to it. {{spoiler|Dean became decidedly less shy about cursing at the very end of "Operation: P.R.O.M."}}
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* [[Missing Mom]]: [[Shrug of God|It's still unconfirmed if Myra is the boys' mother]].
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: {{spoiler|Quite literally. Dr. Venture made clones of the boys as they wound up getting killed a lot (14 times to be exact). In fact, they died at the end of the first season, replace with new (but virtually identical) clones. Since then, the current incarnations have been able to stay alive.}}
* [[Shout
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Especially as the series progresses.
* [[Sleep Learning]]
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* [[Future Loser]]: According to Orpheus' Master, this is Dean's fate if he ends up with Triana.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Absolutely refuses to swear. Even "double dammit" is too vulgar for him. {{spoiler|Eventually subverted. The final line of the entire fourth season, was him telling the Outrider "Fuck you!"}}
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Michael Sinterniklaas]]. Most ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003]]'' fans will recall him as Leonardo, and most ''[[Bleach]]'' fans will recall him as Nnoitra and Luppi.
* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: Apparently, to Triana.
** Especially after she gets a boyfriend.
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* [[The Load]]: It is debatable whether he or Hank is the most useless member of the main cast.
* {{spoiler|[[Precision F-Strike]]: [[Moment of Awesome|You know what I think? Fuck you!]]}}
* [[Ping
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The blue to Hank's red.
* [[Shout
** And he dresses like [[Buddy Holly (Music)|Buddy Holly]].
* [[Squishy Wizard]]
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** He tries it three times - it works on Sgt. Hatred and Brock, amazingly.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Drops one after meeting Triana's boyfriend just to show Brock that "The New Hank cusses."
* [[Shout
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: or [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]], depending on [[Rule of Funny]].
* [[Talking to Himself]]: Literally, at one point, when he makes a quick recording on his watch to describe his first time, before getting his memory wiped. Turns out he knows himself exceedingly well.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Foil]]: To Orpheus. Even more apparent when they move in together.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Dana Snyder voices him with the same voice as Master Shake from ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]''.
* [[Leitmotif]]: Okay, so it may have only been in one episode ("What Goes Down Must Come Up"), but when the triad are performing magic, it's implied that The Alchemist has one too. When Orpheus does some magic, his leitmotif plays and when The Alchemist does some magic immediately afterward, a little trumpet piece plays. And immediately after that, when it's Jefferson's turn and it's revealed that he has no magic to do, it's completely silent.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Frequently the voice of reason for the Order of the Triad.
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* [[Cynical Mentor]]
* [[The Faceless]]: We've never seen his ''true'' form, if he even has one.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Voiced by H. John Benjamin, with pretty much the same voice as [[Home Movies|Coach McGuirk]].
** Also Carl, Chris's boss at the convenience store in [[Family Guy]].
** Or [[Archer|Sterling Archer]].
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Tropes associated with Dr. Girlfriend:
* [[Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?]]: She still holds a grudge against Brock Samson for not taking advantage of her when he had the chance.
* [[Cross
* [[Dark Action Girl]]
* [[Dark Mistress]]: A classic example.
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* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]
* [[He's Back]]: Well, technically, he was close by all along.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Patrick Warburton]], nuff said.
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Dr. Venture never has to worry about villains; Brock will handle them.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: lawnmowers, Bibles, sharks, jawbones, anything that is not a gun.
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: While Brock is often merciless to enemy minions, he has on occasion been nice to them. One time he sang off a guy who thought Brock had nicked a major blood vessel and thought he was bleeding to death.
* [[Put On a Bus]]: Leaves to work for SPHINX, but returns in the midseason finale.
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]: Absolutely every aspect of the trope applies to him.
** [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: However, he seems to be the more 'maternal' part of the [[Has Two Mommies|family unit]] as he's willing to play along with the boys' little games (even Dean's effeminate activities).
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Just about everything he does runs on it. He's even [[Badass]] enough to do things that are [[Awesome but Impractical]] just because he feels like it.
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* [[The Stoic]]
* [[Technical Pacifist]]
* [[Top
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: "They hit me with a truck." *eye twitches*
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Wouldn't ''kill'' a girl (unless she's a vampire). He keeps the eye he took from the woman he loves in his room as a trophy.
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* [[Badass Gay]]: Flamboyant as he is, there's a reason Shore Leave is usually Brock Samson's partner during SPHINX missions.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Despite his eccentricities, he's a top-tier former OSI agent.
* [[
* [[Camp Gay]]: An unusual combination of this and [[Badass]].
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "BOOM! Yummy!"
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* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: "Holy Diver" is a sailor with an anchor/cross tattoo on his chest; he was specifically created around this idea. Sky Pilot has a matching up arrow/cross tattoo, but it's not as punny.
* [[Macho Camp]]: He is the epitome of this trope.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: He and his clique of OSI buddies are [[The Village People]] [[X Meets Y|reimagined as]] ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' operatives. [[Lampshaded]] with an [[X Called. They Want Their Y Back.]]:
{{quote| '''Col. Gathers:''' "The Village People called, and they want you to GO FUCKING KILL YOURSELVES, YOU PRANCING BASTARDS!"}}
* [[Porn Stache]]: He has a giant Village People style mustache. Without it he'd probably look like a genuinely good looking guy.
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* [[Power Glows]]: Subverted: the glowing sword is just a plastic prop. Props, apparently, really drive the Word home with the kids.
* [[The Reveal]]: He turns out to be an operative of SPHINX, and appears to be Hunter's right-hand man up until Brock joins. Sky Pilot, too, but whatever.
* [[Shout
** And their OSI identities as Shore-Leave and Mile High are based specifically on Shipwreck and Airborne from ''[[G.I. Joe]]''
** "Holy Diver" itself is a pretty obvious shout-out to the [[Ronnie James Dio]] song of the same name.
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Tropes associated with 21 and 24:
* [[Affably Evil]]{{spoiler|, then in "Operation: P.R.O.M.", Gary decides he probably isn't evil afterall.}}
* [[Alas, Poor Yorick]]: After 24 dies, 21 keeps his skull as a memento, and claims he can still listen to 24 speaking to him through it.
* [[I Always Wanted to Say That|I Always Wanted To Do That]]: Instead of taking their mission seriously with #1, they hide in plain sight from Brock by pretending to be manniquins in a "villain diarama"; they comment on how little chance there is to actually do it.
* [[Author Avatar]]: Listening to the creator commentary and seeing Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick at cons makes it very obvious that 21 and 24 ''are'' the writers. When a fan asked them to settle an [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]] that 21 and 24 argued about in the show, they seriously debated it with each other and were indistinguishable from the characters.
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** {{spoiler|It's also part of the reason 21 gets rid of 24's skull. He keeps showing up when he tries to masturbate.}}
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: 21 following 24's death.
* [[The End
** {{spoiler|It's just the Moppets trying to cover up their (likely) murder.}}
* [[Genre Savvy]]: They catch on to a lot of details regarding the workings of the Venture universe.
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* [[Eyepatch of Power]]
* [[A Father to His Men]]
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Toby Huss, who tweaks his [[King of the Hill|Cotton Hill]] voice to sound a bit like [[Looney Tunes|Foghorn Leghorn]].
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: He knows of secrets even ''[[Hunter S Thompson|Hunter]]'' is unaware of, all while acting like a rather naive fellow.
** He upgrades this to [[Obfuscating Insanity]] when {{spoiler|he pretends that he truly believes himself to turn into the [[Incredible Hulk]]. This is a ploy to flush out the two O.S.I. moles Cardholder and Doe who are gaslighting him to turn him insane and take over the O.S.I.}}
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Tropes associated with Doe and Cardholder:
* [[Batman Gambit]]
** [[Out
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Well, sort of. They are snarkers, and are completely deadpan, but somehow aggressively so.
* [[The Men in Black]]
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* [[Characterization Marches On]]: His first appearance, in which he tries to murder Rusty, clashes a lot with his later characterization.
** Not as much as you'd think, "Now Museum Now You Don't" showed that he's something of a condescending jerk.
* [[Combining Mecha]]: pilots the core component of Ventronic, a walking [[Shout
* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]: By his own choice.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: built a mecha body out of spare parts in his first appearance and apparently created his own [[Combining Mecha]].
* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: He has a robot forearm covering the gimpy non-limb he had in his first appearance.
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* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]
* [[Instant Sedation]]: Gets ''addicted'' to it in one episode.
* [[Shout
* [[Talk Like a Pirate]]: And he friggin' loves it!
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* [[Romantic False Lead]]: His initial role.
* [[Rule of Funny]]: The only possible explanation for all of the things that he manages to do (without his prosthetics) with just one arm and one leg...
* [[Shout
* [[Shoe Slap]]
* [[The Starscream]]: To the Guild Sovereign.
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* [[Visible Invisibility]]: His limbs avert the trope, which is an occasional source of humor - such as when he tried "wringing [his] hands - [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|menacingly]]!", only for nobody to know what he was doing.
* [[Wicked Cultured]]
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: Subverted. In his first appearance, his only [[Incredibly Lame Pun|visible]] power is having invisible limbs. Turns out he's got more.
=== Professor Richard Impossible ===
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* [[Lyndon Johnson]]
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Based on the former US President and his wife.
* [[Shout
=== Brick Frog ===
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** {{spoiler|Actually, Kano just broke the ORB, but had orders to kill him.}}
** {{spoiler|Incorrect; it was Rusty's ''grandfather'' who was spared by his bodyguard, Sandow. Kano may well have killed Jonas after all, which is made especially ironic by the fact that Sandow had already rendered the so-important ORB useless.}}
* [[A Party - Also Known As an Orgy]]: Has hosted a [
* [[Posthumous Character]]
* [[Spirit Advisor]]: But only while Rusty is off his drugs.
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Tropes associated with Jo(h)nny:
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Brendon Small, the co-creator of ''[[Home Movies (Animation)|Home Movies]]'' (Also voices Brendon Small) and ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' (Voices three of the five band members, as well as their manager, among others), two other [[Adult Swim]] shows.
* [[Wangst]]: Deliberately invoked in as dramatic a way as possible.
* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: The writers are no longer allowed to call him "Jonny Quest" so that he doesn't do too much damage to the brand name.
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Tropes associated with Tinyfeet:
* [[Braids, Beads, and Buckskins]]
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]/[[Foot Focus]]
* [[My Girl Is a Slut]]: She apparently left Hatred for not being sensitive to her very kinky needs and was seen having a bizarre threesome with some of his former men. {{spoiler|Hatred later gladly took her back and was fine with playing rough.}}
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Tropes associated with Baldavich:
* [[Butter Face]]
* [[Expy]]: I swear to God, she HAS to be a [[Shout
* [[The Faceless]]: [[Take Our Word for It|And for a good reason]].
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}
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* [[The Power of the Sun]]
* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: Desperately tries to make Hank into his new Wonderboy, as a way of coping with the previous Wonderboy's death at the hands of the Monarch.
* [[Shout
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