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** [[Badass Army]]: Composed of supervillains
** [[Badass Bookworm]]: Professor Setzer
** [[Badass Decay]]: An in-universe example. Turns out that this universe once had a [[Batman]] [[Expy]], who Mr. Rictus described as essentially being the "scariest man in the world" (and considering what Mr. Rictus is like, that says ''a lot''). After the villains effectively retconned the existence of superheroes, that same guy is now an expy of [[Adam West]], and is an actor who portrays a superhero in [[Batman (TV series)|a campy TV show]].
** [[Badass Normal]]: Wesley<ref> Yes, Wesley's marksmanship abilities are genetic, but aside from that he doesn't have any powers.</ref>
*** Although it's hinted that his powers extend to making mundane implements of death lethal to even [[Nigh Invulnerable]] foes.
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* [[Crapsack World]]: Ever wonder why the world seems like it sucks? Because it does, thanks to the villains erasing superheroes.
* [[Creepy Doll]]: The Doll-Master's weapons of choice. Able to fly and loaded with Professor Setzer-designed weapons.
* [[Deconstruction]]: Not just of comic books and super-villains (see below), but to a larger extent, society's glorification of violence. It's a widely-established fact that becoming an action-hero and "manning up" is a power fantasy frequently entertained by adolescents (mainly males). Here, Millar suggests that such dreams are not only unrealistic, but just downright dysfunctional and reprehensible. For example, Wesley mentions several times about how his transition to cold-blooded killer changed his life for the better, but isn't portrayed sympathetically at all. In fact, at this point readers are most likely disgusted by his actions, with his callous murder of innocents, like the {{spoiler|moment where, on a whim, he decides to walk into a police station and kill every male officer and nearly rape the sole female survivor, all because he was bored}}. In fact, towards the end of the comic, as he {{spoiler|enacts his [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against Mr. Rictus}}, he confidently states "I am John Wayne, Bruce Lee, Clint Eastwood", among other action heroes. At this point, would you really cheer for him, even if he plays on your power fantasies like a videogame?
* [[Crossover]]: Millar was reluctant to do any crossovers but agreed to do one with the [[Savage Dragon]] since he and Larsen are pals and had worked together in the past.
* [[Defector From Decadence]]: {{spoiler|Wesley's mother was a former supervillain who left the life of villainy after becoming a mother, coddling Wesley to the disgust of his father, who wanted his son to follow his legacy as a Complete Monster.}}
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* [[Evil Parents Want Good Kids]]
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: The finale, with {{spoiler|Wesley and The Fox}} facing off against Mr. Rictus and his crew.
* [[Expy]]: The Killer (especially the first one) seems inspired by Deathstroke the Terminator. Mr. Rictus has elements of [[The Joker]], but also [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|Judge Doom]]. The Fox is blatantly Catwoman. Professor Seltzer is pretty much a Golden Age [[Lex Luthor]].
** Then there are their foes: [[Superman]] is explicitly ''shown'' as a paraplegic, [[Batman]] is alluded to several times - as the Detective - before his post-1986 persona {{spoiler|who basically Adam West, along with Dick Grayson who has turned into Burt Ward, are placed in a death trap by Mr. Rictus and fed to an octopus.}} It's a bit of a [[Tear Jerker]] when {{spoiler|Mr. Rictus points out that the fat, pleading slob with the hood over his head was once the scariest man in the world.}}
** In a twist, the comic book heroes and villains Wanted's are based on are implied to be expies Wanted's "real life" versions, the comic book versions all that remain of humanity's knowledge of them after reality was edited.
** An alternative interpretation on who the original Killer might be? Check out his boots in the first scene as he chases after the assasins. Boots with intricate webbed detailing, walking on walls, crazy reflexes, unerring aim ... does anyone else think of a middle-aged, bisexual, gun-toting Peter Parker?
* [[Five-Bad Band]]: For both Rictus and Seltzer's gangs
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* [[Shiny New Australia]]: One of Mr. Rictus' grievances is that, when the villains divvied up the continents, he got stuck with Australia.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The series is stuffed with them. Seriously, there's probably enough to make an entire page.
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Part of Mr. Rictus ensemble. Red ones at that.
* [[Sliding Scale of Villain Threat]]: Mr. Rictus' idea of running roughshod over the world instead of staying in the shadows is repeatedly shot down by the other Fraternity heads, because if they ''did'' so, heroes from other realities would most likely show up to stop them and The Fraternity would lose everything. Perhaps unsurprisingly, [[Ax Crazy|Rictus doesn't care]].
* [[The Sociopath]]: Mr. Rictus. ''Ohhhh'', boy, Mr. Rictus.
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* [[This Loser Is You]]:
{{quote|{{spoiler|''Wesley:''}} "This is my face while I'm fucking you in the ass."}}
* [[Took a Level
* [[Training
* [[Training Montage]]: Wesley gets used to the training (which uses innocent civilians as targets, eventually) with glee.
* [[Turn Out Like His Father]]: Wesley's dad was watching him as a kid once and saw Wesley getting beat up by some other kids. Upon seeing Wesley not fight back and get rescued by his mom, who praised him for his actions, he realized that she knew, at least on a subconscious level, that if Wesley resorted to violence there'd be no turning back. [[You Can't Fight Fate|And she was right]].
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