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* [[Affably Evil]]: Professor Solomon Setzer seems like a fairly nice, easy to get along with guy. Then you remember that ''he'' was the person who engineered the heroic genocide...
** The Doll-Master is as evil as the rest of the Fraternity but he loves his family and won't swear in front of children.
* [[Alternate Company Equivalent]]: Wayyyy too many to list here. Suffice to say that pretty much 80% of the characters are either [[Lawyer
* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: Mr. Rictus (and his gang of supervillain cronies, if you take them all together as one boss). The entire fight at the end, basically, was a huge letdown.
* [[A Real Man Is a Killer]]: Wesley seems to believe this, talking up how "macho" he becomes after becoming a villain.
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* [[Blasphemous Boast]]: At the yearly conference of Fraternity heads, Adam One doesn't see the point in Mr. Rictus advocating for the Fraternity to step out of the shadows, since they're "already sitting here with more money than God".
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Invoked with {{spoiler|Wesley}} by the end.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: The entire series is {{spoiler|Wesley}} telling you, the reader, all of this after it's happened and giving you a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] for thinking it's just a comic book.
* [[Brotherhood of Evil]]: The Fraternity.
* [[Bullet Time]]: This is shown to be part of the reason {{spoiler|Wesley}} is [[A History of Violence|so good at killing people]].
* [[But You Screw One Goat!]]: Double inverted; Mr. Rictus [[Crosses the Line Twice|''makes love'']] to '''goats'''. Plural.
* [[Canon Welding]]: Some bits of dialogue in both titles indicates that Millar's ''Chosen'' takes place in the same Universe.
* [[Card
* [[Career Killers]]: The Killer, who is Wesley's father.
* [[Catch and Return]]: Done with a bullet. Using a fucking ''knife''.
* [[Classy Cat Burglar]]: The Fox subverts it. She seems like one at first glance, but stick around and you'll find her to be crass, vulgar, and ultraviolent.
* [[Cluster F
* [[Comic Book Fantasy Casting]]: [[Eminem]] as Wesley, [[Halle Berry]] as Fox and [[Tommy Lee Jones]] as The Killer
** Adam-One bears a striking resemblance to President Mobutu
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* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: The original Killer occasionally engages in homosexual acts once in a while when he gets bored with women.
* [[Dodge the Bullet]]: Despite having a vast array of firearms used against him, Wesley never actually ends up getting shot, most likely due to this trope. His father is explicitly shown dodging bullets, and since Wesley got his powers from his dad, it makes sense that he would be capable of the same feat.
* [[Don't Think, Feel]]: Wesley's first test is to shoot the wings off some flies. He's unable to even try until The Fox is literally about a second from blowing his brains out.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: In a way; {{spoiler|Wesley's dad}} can't stand the thoughts of not being the best killer in the world or of someone less talented than he is taking him out, so he gets {{spoiler|Wesley to do it}}.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: In spades. Wesley Gibson: Mass murderer and remorseless rapist? Oh yeah, absolutely. But at least he has a tiny sense of decency when he displays his appreciation of family values. Mr. Rictus, on the other hand, commits such heinous atrocities that disgust even Wesley and most of the other villains. In fact, Mr. Rictus' evil is pretty much the only reason you would cheer for Wesley when he {{spoiler|goes on his killing spree against Rictus}}: the latter is only slightly better than the former when it comes to morality. Just barely.
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** 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
** [[Big Bad]]: Mr. Rictus
** [[The Dragon]]: Shithead
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* [[Gun Fu]]: Wesley and his dad are the undisputed kings of this in the series.
* [[Gun Kata]]: Wesley's powers allow him to ''know'' just where and when to shoot.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: At the end of the series, Wesley gives one to the audience [[You Suck|because they suck compared to him.]] Of course, the fact that Wesley is nothing more then a comic book character makes [[Shut UP, Hannibal|shutting him up]] as easy as closing the book.
** However this is the equivalent of walking away from an argument because you have nothing to say in return...
** Sure thing Wesley, we'll listen. Just give ''us'' genetic super powers, millions of dollars and reality warping friends.
*** Oh yeah, and say something beyond what's printed in your speech bubbles.
* [[The Hedonist]]: Nearly everyone in The Fraternity. Which is bad for the universe at large since the thing that makes supervillains feel good is [[Evil Is Petty|petty evil]] on a good day and vicious genocide on a bad one.
* [[Hell
* [[Here There Were Dragons]]: The whole point of the story in regards to Silver Age superheroics.
* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Mr. Rictus, who turned evil because he found out there was no afterlife, and decided to just do whatever the hell he wanted for the rest of his life. [[Complete Monster|And it turns out he wants to do some evil, evil shit.]]
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Or rather, [[Blatant Lies|no superheroes were harmed.]]
* [[Not My Driver]]: {{spoiler|Shithead kills Seltzer this way.}}
* [[Not
** Worse: During the rewrite of reality, he made him into a [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|quadriplegic]].
* [[Oh Crap]]: Subjective, but each issue has at least one such moment
* [[Pointy
* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: The stated purpose of The Fraternity. They've already conquered the world, and all they want is their pleasures. Widespread chaos threatens that. Solomon Seltzer just wants to party and practice [[Mad Science]]. The Emperor just wants to party and run his empire. Adam-One just wants to party and enjoy his [[Living Forever Is Awesome|eternal life]]. However, the heroic genocide required more firepower than the three of them had, so they had to make alliances and therefore share power with less pragmatic types. The Future just wants to party and [[Politically
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: Averted; they're neither pretty nor little.
* [[Reality Warper]]: At times it is subtly hinted that The Killer's powers make mundane objects like lead bullets and steel blades deadly to entities who would otherwise be immune.
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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 In Badass]] / [[Took a Level In Jerkass]]: Wesley goes from a cuckolded corporate drone to a cold-blooded killer. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Who's a dick.]]
* [[Training From Hell]]: Part of Wesley's physical training is being tied to a chair while a [[The Brute|Brute]] beats the shit out of him. Every day. Until, as part of Wesley's graduation, the ropes are left loose, allowing him to [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice|shove a broken chair leg through the guy's throat and into his brain]].
* [[Training Montage]]: Wesley gets used to the training (which uses innocent civilians as targets, eventually) with glee.
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* [[Visionary Villain]]: Professor Setzer convinced ''all the other supervillains in the world'' to [[Evil Plan|team up in one massive attack that the superheroes wouldn't be able to stop]]. And it ''worked''.
* [[War On Cops]]: The equivalent of Deadshot walks into a police station and opens fire. There's no Batman to stop him...
* [[
* [[Writtenbythe Winners]]: Literally. After they killed or brainwashed all the heroes, the Fraternity used their magic and mad science to [[Rewriting Reality|rewrite history]], making everyone believe they were never real to begin with.
* [[Yellow Peril]]: The Emperor, who is an [[Expy]] of [[Fu Manchu]] and other similar villains.
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