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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Victoria Yes dies in utter agony after being freed from the brainwashing that turned her into Envelope Girl, when the Enigma's mother bursts out of her body.]]
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* TheEveryman: Michael
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* TheEveryman: MichaelMichael is a parody of this, as he is so utterly normal and boring because he's driven by a need to not disappoint the mother who abandoned him.
* FreudianExcuse: Michael's subconsciously obsessive desire to be normal stems from being abandoned by his mother as a child, with one of the last things she said to him were to be a good boy. He's spent his life imagining how she would react to his behavior, and thus tries to be as mundane as possible.
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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: [[spoiler:The Enigma]]
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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: [[spoiler:The Enigma]]Enigma spent his entire life living in a well with only lizards for companions (and food). He believed he was the only thing that existed in the universe, and when he learned about the world outside the well he wandered around until he found Michael's old house and ''Enigma'' comics and used those as the basis for his life.]]
* NoNameGiven: [[spoiler:Whatever name the Enigma was given by his parents is never revealed.]]
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* ThrownDownAWell: [[spoiler:The Enigma was thrown into a well as a baby and lived by eating lizards at the well's bottom for 26 years.]] His survival may seem preposterous at first, but this is explained by [[spoiler:him basically being God.]]
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* ThrownDownAWell: [[spoiler:The Enigma was thrown into a well as a baby and lived by eating lizards at the well's bottom for 26 years.]] His survival may seem preposterous at first, but this is explained by [[spoiler:him basically being God.]]]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Michael's been trying to please his mother's memory years after she left him on a sidewalk.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Michael's been trying to please his mother's memory years after she left him on a sidewalk.
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* EmotionEater: The Head doesn't just eat physical brains, he eats peoples' minds as in their memories, emotions, and mental compulsions.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: The Interior League break into houses at night and rearrange the furniture in a manner that will cause at least one member of the household to have a psychotic breakdown and kill everyone before committing suicide.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: The Interior League break into houses at night and rearrange the furniture in a manner that will cause at least one member of the household to have a psychotic breakdown and kill everyone their families before committing suicide.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Truth discovers that he himself is not immune to the AwfulTruth and has a breakdown when his attempt to use his power on Michael reveals something horrible.
* LovingAShadow: Played with. When Michael breaks up with his girlfriend (who's also been cheating on him), he shocks her by saying she doesn't really love him. Rather, she loves the idea of ''him'' loving ''her''.
* MindRape: The Truth inflicts the psychic variant of this by stripping away all delusions and lies, while the Interior League uses a mundane version by instigating their victims into having homicidal breakdowns that turn suicidal.
* LovingAShadow: Played with. When Michael breaks up with his girlfriend (who's also been cheating on him), he shocks her by saying she doesn't really love him. Rather, she loves the idea of ''him'' loving ''her''.
* MindRape: The Truth inflicts the psychic variant of this by stripping away all delusions and lies, while the Interior League uses a mundane version by instigating their victims into having homicidal breakdowns that turn suicidal.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Titus Bird is initially horrified when the Enigmatics start committing suicide, blaming himself for having written the issue where the Enigma talks a businessman into killing himself by making him realize how pointless his life is.
* ObsessivelyNormal: Michael's initial characterization is that he might be the most normal man in the world in the most painful way possible.
* ObsessivelyNormal: Michael's initial characterization is that he might be the most normal man in the world in the most painful way possible.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: There have been scholarly works comparing this comic to the works of Creator/SteveGerber in Marvel in The70s. That would make Titus Bird an {{Expy}} of Gerber himself.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: There have been scholarly works comparing this comic to the works of Creator/SteveGerber in Marvel in The70s. That would make Titus Bird an {{Expy}} of Gerber himself.
