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* BadassGrandpa: Augustus and Julius have been operating since the 1950s and they're still leading the family on all sorts of wacky adventures.
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* OldSuperhero: Augustus and Julius have been operating since the 1950s and they're still leading the family on all sorts of wacky adventures.
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* {{Transgender}}: [[spoiler:It takes a while for Simon to come around to it, largely because the jocks who'd tormented her had used it to mock her and so she'd naturally resisted the idea.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Astro City's [[ComicBook/ThePunisher Punisher]], with elements of [[ComicBook/GhostRider Ghost Rider]] thrown in.
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* FamousLastWords: "Oh, wow."
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* MyGreatestFailure: As "Mind Over Mattie" she stopped a carjacker by locking his brakes. [[RealityEnsues To her horror, he swerved, crashed into a pole and very nearly died.]] That's what made her realize she wasn't cut out for the superhero life.
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* MyGreatestFailure: As "Mind Over Mattie" she stopped a carjacker by locking his brakes. [[RealityEnsues To her horror, he swerved, crashed into a pole and very nearly died.]] died. That's what made her realize she wasn't cut out for the superhero life.
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* CharacterDeath: The elderly Noah is eventually revealed to have died some time between the "Confessions" arc and issue 18 of the ongoing. Without him, the rest of the Crossbreed ended up going their separate ways.
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* GeneticEngineering: The presumed source of his powers.
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* GeneticEngineering: LegoGenetics: The presumed source of his powers.
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* GeneticEngineering: The source of their powers and appearance.
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* GeneticEngineering: LegoGenetics: The source of their powers and appearance.
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* TheTrickster: Dedicated to showing up the rich and privileged.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In his fight with Professor Borzoi, he managed to ensure Loony Leo would stay alive through ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve. Unfortunately, this also created massive problems for poor Leo, who was never meant to be alive.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: While most of his story is self-contained and he's barely ever appeared since, he was the subject of a landmark court case that asked the question of whether a company could claim an artificial being as property (being based on a copyrighted character). Due to having acted as the Gentleman's sidekick, he was too beloved in the public eye for the company to risk the bad press, and so they allowed him to exist as an independent person.
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* TheTrickster: Dedicated to showing up the rich and privileged.
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** Rex is one for Fantastic Four's Ben Grimm/Thing. (Funnily, Ben Grimm's rough-and-tumble working-class personality is closer to Julius.)
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** Rex is one for Fantastic Four's Ben Grimm/Thing. (Funnily, Ben Grimm's rough-and-tumble working-class personality is closer to Julius.Julius; Rex, being a former prince, is a lot more formal and eloquent.)
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* HiddenDepths: Initially, they come across as obnoxious Evangelical-types, but it quickly becomes apparent that they're genuinely decent people and entirely competent heroes.
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* {{Expy}}: Her golden Egyptomania-fueled attire, magical powerset, and link to a mystic artifact give her a lot of commonality with ComicBook/DoctorFate.
* FadSuper: Busiek has implied that her initial incarnation was linked to the renewed interest in Cleopatra's story that resulted in [[Film/{{Cleopatra}} the 1963 film]].
* FadSuper: Busiek has implied that her initial incarnation was linked to the renewed interest in Cleopatra's story that resulted in [[Film/{{Cleopatra}} the 1963 film]].
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** Rex is one for Fantastic Four's Ben Grimm/Thing. (Funnily, Ben Grimm's rough-and-tumble working-class personality is closer to Julius.)
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* {{Expy}}: As a monstrous more extreme version of Jack O'Lantern (the expy of Franchise/SpiderMan) with a viscous semi-liquid appearance he is the Astro City equvilant of ComicBook/{{Venom}}.
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* {{Expy}}: As a monstrous monstrous, more extreme version of Jack O'Lantern Jack-in-the-Box (the expy of Franchise/SpiderMan) with a viscous semi-liquid appearance appearance, he is the Astro City equvilant equivalant of ComicBook/{{Venom}}.the Symbiotes.
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* {{Expy}}: As a monstrous more extreme version of Jack O'Lantern (the expy of Franchise/SpiderMan) with a viscous semi-liquid appearance he is the Astro City equvilant of ComicBook/Venom.ComicBook/{{Venom}}.
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* {{Expy}}: As a monstrous more extreme version of Jack O'Lantern (the expy of Franchise/SpiderMan) with a viscous semi-liquid appearance he is the Astro City equvilant of ComicBook/Venom.
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* {{Expy}}: Of Franchise/{{Batman}}, with a little bit of Franchise/{{Zorro}} mixed in
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* {{Expy}}: Of Franchise/{{Batman}}, with a little bit of Franchise/{{Zorro}} mixed in in.
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* AttentionWhore[=/=]GloryHound: He is easily Astro City's pre-eminent example of these tropes.
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* AttentionWhore[=/=]GloryHound: AttentionWhore: He is easily Astro City's pre-eminent example of these tropes.this, glorifing his most inane accomplisments to everyone, even himself. An alien spying on him is flummoxed when he sees Crackerjack congragulating himself for a win that was purely by luck.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: ''Dark Age'' shows that Pyramid employs stereotypical drill instructors to put new recruits through TrainingFromHell in their boot camps.
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* MonochromaticEyes: Cleopatra's eyes are entirely white.
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* MonochromaticEyes: Cleopatra's eyes are entirely white. [[DependingOnTheArtist Usually.]]
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* AffirmativeActionLegacy: The first Cleopatra was a blonde Caucasian; the second one is Sarah Brandeis, who has dark skin and tight black curls.
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* AffirmativeActionLegacy: The first Cleopatra was a blonde Caucasian; white woman; the second one is Sarah Brandeis, who has dark skin and tight black curls.
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* [[ArchnemesisDad Archnemesis Mom]]: Rex's mother, Madame Majestrix, is the queen of Monstro City, and has threatened the world many times over, to the point she proved to be worthy of a CrisisCrossover after her son was adopted by the Fursts.
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* MistakenForGay: Nightingale wanted to throw Manny Monkton out the window when he printed rumors that she and Sunshrike were a lesbian couple.
* NightAndDayDuo: It's right in their names, one as a 'bird of light' and the other as a 'bird of shadow'
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* MistakenForGay: Nightingale wanted to throw Manny Monkton out the window when he printed rumors that she and Sunshrike were a lesbian couple.
* NightAndDayDuo: It's right in their names, one as a 'bird of light' and the other as a 'bird of shadow'
* WorkingClassHero: They're shown to be living together in a small apartment, and have a stronger camaraderie with street-level heroes, like Crackerjack, Jack-in-the-Box, and Quarrel.
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* ChildhoodRomance: Rex was about 14 years old when he first met the Fursts, and Natalie was presumably in her teens as well at that time. They both ended up getting married later in life.
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* FirstNameBasis: He calls Samaritan by his civilian name, Asa, during their yearly dinners.
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** In a bit of MythologyGag, it turns out he's actually a [[spoiler:vampire]] something which many criminals suspected ol' Bats of being.
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** [[spoiler:He later inherits his mentor's mantle, much like Dick did with Bruce (temporarily)]].
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