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* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened To The Dog]]: [=AOLstro=], Al's dog, hasn't been seen since Issue #1.
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* RichJerk: IronMan, Franchise/{{Batman}} and BlackPanther cameo just to be portrayed as this.
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* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: This comic gets virtually nothing right about how things in the past worked. This from how the characters are able to breathe at the beginning of the creation of earth, repeatedly calls the Jurassic Period "JurassicPark", Duck-Billed Dinosaurs where as intelligent as human beings because [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain they could use all 100% of their brains compared to the 10% humans do]], the many misplaced dinosaurs for said time period, Al believing that a [[GiantFlyer Pterosaurs]] was a dinosaur that would swim, dinosaurs couldn't be warm blooded because they did not have the proper skeleton structures, that humans evolved from otters with the first humanoid civilization being 100,000 years ago.
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* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: This comic gets virtually nothing right about how things in the past worked. This from how the characters are able to breathe at the beginning of the creation of earth, repeatedly calls the Jurassic Period "JurassicPark", "Franchise/JurassicPark", Duck-Billed Dinosaurs where as intelligent as human beings because [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain they could use all 100% of their brains compared to the 10% humans do]], the many misplaced dinosaurs for said time period, Al believing that a [[GiantFlyer Pterosaurs]] was a dinosaur that would swim, dinosaurs couldn't be warm blooded because they did not have the proper skeleton structures, that humans evolved from otters with the first humanoid civilization being 100,000 years ago.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: To say that this comic hasn't aged well is an understatement.
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* CannotTellFictionFromReality: It is revealed that the religious debate part of this comic is not a parody, Bill Jemas fully believes all of what is being said. This including many debunked theories such as [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain humans only using 10% brain power]], science only knowing a few centuries in the past, and so on.
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* CannotTellFictionFromReality: It is revealed that the religious debate part of this comic is not a parody, Bill Jemas fully believes all of what is being said. This including many debunked theories such as [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain humans only using 10% brain power]], science only knowing a few centuries in the past, and so on. Also much of the debate hangs on Wolverine being the first human being, who mutated from an animal; backing up real-world debates about evolution and stuff by using comic book characters as evidence (and making them as weird as possible in the process...)
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** Also at the beginning of each book, there is a few pages recaping what happened before. Often getting its own material wrong such as claiming that Mickey and Al are in love (which is never shown in the comic) and when stating Al being sent back to the past said picture is of Al receiving the time machine in the past.
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* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: This comic gets virtually nothing right about how things in the past worked. This from how the characters are able to breathe at the beginning of the creation of earth, repeatedly calls the Jurassic Period "JurassicPark", Duck-Billed Dinosaurs where as intelligent as human beings because [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain they could use all 100% of their brains compared to the 10% humans do]], the many misplaced dinosaurs for said time period, Al believing that a [[GiantFlyer Pterosaurs]] was a dinosaur that would swim, dinosaurs couldn't be warm blooded because they did not have the proper skeleton structures, that humans evolved from otters with the first humanoid civilization being 100,000 years ago.
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* WorldWarThree: [[spoiler: It is revealed in 5 that the reason that they are traveling through time is because Jack wants to show them how war works and due to their popularity and wealth from "fighting" crime they will prevent the upcoming World War.]]
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* CannotTellFictionFromReality: It is revealed that the religious debate part of this comic is not a parody, Bill Jemis fully believes all of what is being said. This including many debunked theories such as [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain humans only using 10% brain power]], science only knowing a few centuries in the past, and so on.
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* CannotTellFictionFromReality: It is revealed that the religious debate part of this comic is not a parody, Bill Jemis Jemas fully believes all of what is being said. This including many debunked theories such as [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain humans only using 10% brain power]], science only knowing a few centuries in the past, and so on.
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* {{Fanservice}}: The covers are always covered with a woman barely wearing anything and Book 3 has all the characters go skinny dipping.
* TheFool: Al. Where he thought he gained superpowers from traveling back in time, believing he could save people by just giving out money, and did not know the dinosaurs were killed off.
* TheFool: Al. Where he thought he gained superpowers from traveling back in time, believing he could save people by just giving out money, and did not know the dinosaurs were killed off.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Al, for some reason, believed he gained superpowers from being sent back in time. Mickey repeatedly has to remind him that he does not have any powers.
* MANY of the religious debates.
* MANY of the religious debates.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Lots of theories that this comic tries to preach have been already debunked for some time.
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* ApeShallNeverKillApe: The comics states that only humans kill other humans. A theory that has been debunked.
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** As well as science, claiming that scientists never do anything on purpose, anthropologists can't find jobs, and that they only know a few hundred years and have made up everything else.
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* CannotTellFictionFromReality: It is revealed that the religious debate part of this comic is not a parody, Bill Jemis fully believes all of what is being said. This including many debunked theories such as [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain humans only using 10% brain power]], science only knowing a few centuries in the past, and so on.
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* PlotHole: Around issues 3 to 5, the Time Machine's mechanics become a little confusing and inconsistent. The characters decide to use a bag, some water, and a pre-historic life form to check what year they're arriving at, but it's never explained how ''they're'' not aging along with it either, and a panel ago, there's a window on the time machine, rendering their "biological clock" a little pointless.
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* PlotHole: You can't go more than three steps without falling into one. Around issues 3 to 5, the Time Machine's mechanics become a little confusing and inconsistent. The characters decide to use a bag, some water, and a pre-historic life form to check what year they're arriving at, but it's never explained how ''they're'' not aging along with it either, and a panel ago, there's a window on the time machine, rendering their "biological clock" a little pointless.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Issues #3 and #4 are loaded with scientific inaccuracies.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Issues #3 and #4 to #5 are loaded with scientific inaccuracies.inaccuracies.
* AuthorFilibuster: Issues 3 to 5 are filled with this (and since they are nonsensical and don't seem like parodies at all, [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] described as "a gaze into the eyes of madness").
* AuthorFilibuster: Issues 3 to 5 are filled with this (and since they are nonsensical and don't seem like parodies at all, [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] described as "a gaze into the eyes of madness").
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Most of the covers feature [[SexyPackaging cheesecake shots of a redhead]] [[LadyNotAppearingInThisGame who never actually appears in the comic.]] [[http://www.universohq.com/quadrinhos/reviews/marville_1_udon.jpg Issue #1 also had a cover with mechas.]]
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Most of the covers feature [[SexyPackaging cheesecake shots of a redhead]] [[LadyNotAppearingInThisGame who never actually appears in the comic.]] [[http://www.universohq.com/quadrinhos/reviews/marville_1_udon.jpg Issue #1 also had a cover with mechas.]]
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A notorious [[ShallowParody "parody"]] comic created by Creator/MarvelComics editor Bill Jemas, as a bet between him and PeterDavid on who could make a better comic.
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A notorious [[ShallowParody "parody"]] comic created by Creator/MarvelComics editor Bill Jemas, as a bet between him and PeterDavid on who could make a better better-selling comic.
* ColonyDrop: It opens with a meteor shower on Earth. One of the stones is cut by Ted Turner with a karate chop.
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* OneNationUnderCopyright: AOL purchases Earth and renames it "[=AOLon=]".
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* OneNationUnderCopyright: Ted Turner purchased Earth... and once AOL purchases Earth and renames overtook it they renamed the planet "[=AOLon=]".
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[[caption-width-right:250:[[{{Smallville}} Somebody]] [[SuspiciouslyAproposMusic save meeeeeeee....]]]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[{{Smallville}} Somebody]] [[SuspiciouslyAproposMusic save meeeeeeee....]]]]
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* NWordPrivileges: [[http://www.4thletter.net/marville/nword.jpg Oh, God]].
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* OneNationUnderCopyright: AOL purchases Earth and renames it "AOLon"."[=AOLon=]".
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* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: Issue 4, right down to calling the Jurassic period "JurassicPark".
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* StrangledByTheRedString: The opening recaps try to imply Mickey and Al are in love, but it never shows up in the actual comic.
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A notorious "parody" comic created by Creator/MarvelComics editor Bill Jemas, as a bet between him and PeterDavid on who could make a better comic.
Kal-AOL Turner, son of Ted Turner from the year 5002, is transported into the present day. Believing himself to be a superhero, Kal-AOL meets up with Mickey and Lucy. And crosses paths with Spike Lee and Rush Limbaugh. The first books are also filled with attempts at parody and topical humor.
Kal-AOL Turner, son of Ted Turner from the year 5002, is transported into the present day. Believing himself to be a superhero, Kal-AOL meets up with Mickey and Lucy. And crosses paths with Spike Lee and Rush Limbaugh. The first books are also filled with attempts at parody and topical humor.
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A notorious "parody" [[ShallowParody "parody"]] comic created by Creator/MarvelComics editor Bill Jemas, as a bet between him and PeterDavid on who could make a better comic.
Kal-AOL Turner, son of Ted Turner from the year 5002, is transported into the present day. Believing himself to be a superhero, Kal-AOL meets up with Mickey (who nicknames him "Al") and Lucy. And crosses paths with Spike Lee and Rush Limbaugh. The first books are also filled with attempts at parody and topical humor.
Kal-AOL Turner, son of Ted Turner from the year 5002, is transported into the present day. Believing himself to be a superhero, Kal-AOL meets up with Mickey (who nicknames him "Al") and Lucy. And crosses paths with Spike Lee and Rush Limbaugh. The first books are also filled with attempts at parody and topical humor.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Most of the covers feature cheesecake shots of a redhead who never actually appears in the comic.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Most of the covers feature [[SexyPackaging cheesecake shots of a redhead redhead]] [[LadyNotAppearingInThisGame who never actually appears in the comic.
comic.]] [[http://www.universohq.com/quadrinhos/reviews/marville_1_udon.jpg Issue #1 also had a cover with mechas.]]
*RecapEpisode: EvolutionaryLevels: The "biological clock".
* TheFool: Al.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: God is seen by Mickey and Al in different forms, before eventually settles on a young African American.
* MindScrew
* NarrowParody: For a supposed parody, it doesn't attempt too much, to the point [[DontExplainTheJoke jokes are explained]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Actual celebrities appear, from the hero's parents being Ted Turner and Jane Fonda [[MindScrew in 5002]], to Spike Lee being the Kingpin, and cameos by Alan Greenspan and Rush Limbaugh.
* NWordPrivileges: [[http://www.4thletter.net/marville/nword.jpg Oh, God]].
* NonIndicativeName: Besides the cover of issue 1, ''{{Smallville}}'' is never touched upon.
* OneNationUnderCopyright: AOL purchases Earth and renames it "AOLon".
* PreHistoria: Issues 3 to 5.
* RecapEpisode \ PostModernism: Issue #6 is Kal pitching the events of the earlier issues to an unnamedperson.person.
* RichJerk: IronMan, {{Batman}} and BlackPanther cameo just to be portrayed as this.
* SkinnyDipping: Issue 3 has everyone doing that in ''prehistoric Earth''.
* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: Issue 4, right down to calling the Jurassic period "JurassicPark".
* StrangledByTheRedString: The opening recaps try to imply Mickey and Al are in love, but it never shows up in the actual comic.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Lucy is introduced in this, supposedly as an undercover cop. The girls also
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* TheFool: Al.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: God is seen by Mickey and Al in different forms, before eventually settles on a young African American.
* MindScrew
* NarrowParody: For a supposed parody, it doesn't attempt too much, to the point [[DontExplainTheJoke jokes are explained]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Actual celebrities appear, from the hero's parents being Ted Turner and Jane Fonda [[MindScrew in 5002]], to Spike Lee being the Kingpin, and cameos by Alan Greenspan and Rush Limbaugh.
* NWordPrivileges: [[http://www.4thletter.net/marville/nword.jpg Oh, God]].
* NonIndicativeName: Besides the cover of issue 1, ''{{Smallville}}'' is never touched upon.
* OneNationUnderCopyright: AOL purchases Earth and renames it "AOLon".
* PreHistoria: Issues 3 to 5.
* RecapEpisode \ PostModernism: Issue #6 is Kal pitching the events of the earlier issues to an unnamed
* RichJerk: IronMan, {{Batman}} and BlackPanther cameo just to be portrayed as this.
* SkinnyDipping: Issue 3 has everyone doing that in ''prehistoric Earth''.
* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: Issue 4, right down to calling the Jurassic period "JurassicPark".
* StrangledByTheRedString: The opening recaps try to imply Mickey and Al are in love, but it never shows up in the actual comic.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Lucy is introduced in this, supposedly as an undercover cop. The girls also
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* TimeTravel: Al does this in Issue 1. Then in the ones in 3 through 5 it is used for Jemas to drop weird philosophy.
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A notorious "parody" comic created by Creator/MarvelComics editor Bill Jemas, as a bet between him and PeterDavid on who could make a better comic.
Kal-AOL Turner, son of Ted Turner from the year 5002, is transported into the present day. Believing himself to be a superhero, Kal-AOL meets up with Mickey and Lucy. And crosses paths with Spike Lee and Rush Limbaugh. The first books are also filled with attempts at parody and topical humor.
Then, it takes a turn for the weirdly philosophical they all go back in time and meet God, who is actually a black man named Jack. After that, they watch the evolution of the world, and discover that {{Wolverine}} is the first human, evolved from an otter.
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* CerebusSyndrome: It went from a "parody" comic to a philosophical comic about life, the universe, and everything. Also doubles as GoingCosmic.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Most of the covers feature cheesecake shots of a redhead who never actually appears in the comic.
* TakeThat: Most of the digs at Creator/DCComics are rather mean-spirited.
* ViewersAreMorons: Issue #1 gives a summary on the people who are riffed on in the comic. Even the backstories for Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man are given. However, [[ViewersAreGeniuses it does not explain]] such things as Ron Perelman or controversy around the Atlanta Braves.
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