Heartbeat Soundtrack: After Oscar is shot, there’s a long shot from his perspective in the waning moments of his life as we hear his heartbeat gradually slowing. Homage: The psychedelic colors a…
The story ends with him still alive
He also lives in a belfry, which is a play on the saying “bats in the belfry”. Stock Animal Diet: Both Batly and Webster, a bat and a spider respectively, love to eat bugs, much to the dis…
Although justified, Crash keeps tricking him into shooting the
Vague Age: Nera Vivaldi appears in a few contemporary settings as well as at least two which noticeably take place in the future. Montgomery books are pretty empthatic about this trope. Weaksauce Weak…
Fortunately it works out that that cracker
The first OVA gives us Broken Bird Lily McGuire who is practically a slave to the Big Bad, Geese Howard, and in fact was partly responsible for an incident in which Geese killed Terry’s father, …
Alien Autopsy: Subverted in “Viva Las Vegas”
Apocalypse himself does this quite a bit, empowering Bennet du Paris, Nathaniel Essex, and a slew of modern day mutants (including a few of the X Men) in exchange for service. Ironically, this has hel…
Magic Versus Science: Tenar (the priestess) is ironically
Though most claim the Fall was carefully orchestrated by the out of control TITANs, others whisper that the driving powers behind the wars both AI and transhuman were infected by a mutating virus with…
All Just a Dream: On occasion
A Day in the Limelight: A few post 2000 stories feature the PFY without the BOFH. All Just a Dream: On occasion, such as the one with the crew of Star Trek: The Original Series and the one with an and…
Volume 3: Kokabiel, a rogue fallen angel who has stolen the
Big Ol’ Unibrow: Sported by Lope. Bindle Stick: Bill takes one to London, it gets stolen off of the stick without him noticing. Black and Grey Morality: King Philip is the obvious bad guy, he…
Later, a character who is oblivious of the closet’s nature
Curse Cut Short: A few exist in “Here’s To Never Growing Up”. Cover Version: “Knocking On Heaven’s Door”, “Mickey”, “Bad Reputation” and …
He is frigid and snarky towards his wife
Flanderization: The worm eating schtick became more and more of a focus until it was all Michael Cole would talk about on commentary during Boogeyman segments. Folk Music: Sang “Oh My Darling, C…