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** Brock Samson. The early episodes show him bedding mostly unattractive women and even paying a particularly skanky prostitute. Later he's shown to be more of a memetic sex god, having bedded most of the female characters on the show.

* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: Rusty and Dr Orpheus spend the entirety of "Return to the House of Mummies pt II" debating this.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:

** From "Any Which Way But Zeus," various villains must submit to a power inhibitor for a joint hero/villain summit. After reading off a long list of side-effects, one of which is "loss of life."

* [[Author Appeal]]: In the DVD commentary for the Doc Hammer-written "ORB", Jackson Publick remarks that the script was "a list of stuff Doc likes." Most notably, allusions to late 19th/early 20th century American painters. (Doc Hammer is [http://doc-hammer.deviantart.com/ also a painter].)

* [[Author Avatar]]: In the DVD commentaries, Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick have said whenever they're stuck on the writing, they create a pair of characters loosely based on (and frequently voiced by) themselves. #21 and #24 are the Ur-example; others include Watch and Ward, the Moppets and the Lepidopterists.

* [[Author Filibuster]]: Possibly a subversion, but: the season four episode had two (Pro-Choice and Anti-Vegan/Vegetarianism) for the price of one, when now [[Imaginary Friend]] 24 delivers a tangent about the "truth" about souls: everything ''but'' unborn babies have souls (babies don't get their souls until their first year of life) and that God doesn't care if you eat animals/plants that have souls.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: A common source of humor in regards to many of the [[Zeerust]] devices.

* [[Emo Teen]]: Hank in season four.

* [[Equal Opportunity Evil]]: in Ünderland, both men and women are apparently subject to conscription into Baron von Ünderbheit's army until age 38, at which point [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]].

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Rusty Venture (who's just very, ''very'' morally ambiguous, as opposed to evil) {{spoiler|refusing to clone Hitler in the season four opener}}.

* [[Everyone Went to School Together]]: Rusty was in college with Baron von Ünderbheit (similar to [[Captain Ersatz|Doctor Doom]]'s relation with [[Fantastic Four|Reed Richards]]), as well as Pete White, Brock Samson, and the Monarch. This is quickly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Hank. Also, Professor Impossible was one of their teachers.

** And Ginny, who is clearly attracted to Brock and considers him the only real man she's ever met.

* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: For all his money problems Doc Venture never considers selling cloned organs. However, the clone slugs seem to grow in real time, so doing so wouldn't be very fast. He ''was'' able to make a "quick and dirty" clone of a boy who died in "The Buddy System," but the quality of that clone was pretty questionable.

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: In the season four premiere, 21 tries to convince Dr. Venture to clone {{spoiler|24}}. However, as the only payment he can come up with is a vintage comic book, Doc declines. In "Handsome Ransom", Capt. Sunshine seeks to make Hank his new Wonderboy. It's clear he's desperately trying to use Hank to replace his slain sidekick because he's not ready to deal with it, spoiling and sheltering him for fear that he'll feel that loss again.

* [[Reunion Revenge]]: "Past Tense" centers on Dr. Venture, Brock, Pete White and Baron Ünderbheit being kidnapped by a supposedly ({{spoiler|and actually}}) dead college classmate for their "crimes" against him - all of which are extremely minor, petty pranks which he thinks ruined his chances with the girl of his dreams (they didn't; he was a total loser and she wasn't interested).

** The pirate captain has an addiction to tranquillizer darts in the episode "The Lepidopterists."

** 24's attempt to kill Hank in the episode "Tears of the Sea Cow" are averted because he didn't know his rifle only shot tranquillizer darts.

** Some think Dr. Girlfriend, due to her deep, masculine voice. Brock continues to make jokes about Dr. Girlfriend to both the Monarch and Phantom Limb throughout seasons one and two, and her gender is questioned when she enters a public restroom. In the season three episode "Home Is Where the Hate Is", she's caught smoking for the first time by her husband, the Monarch, at a party. After he comes to realize the clues that she's been smoking (since 1989), well...

{{quote|'''Sgt. Hatred:''' I guess I'll say it. Her three-pack-a-day voice?}}

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