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* HesitationImpliesDishonesty: In the first issue, The Tick is asked if he's the guy who just escaped from an insane aslyum (he is). It takes about half a page of ums and ers for him to think up the answer "no".
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* HesitationImpliesDishonesty: HesitationEqualsDishonesty: In the first issue, The Tick is asked if he's the guy who just escaped from an insane aslyum (he is). It takes about half a page of ums and ers for him to think up the answer "no".
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* HesitationImpliesDishonesty: In the first issue, The Tick is asked if he's the guy who just escaped from an insane aslyum (he is). It takes about half a page of ums and ers for him to think up the answer "no".
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* JustKeepDriving: Apparently, running over a ninja is less important than running over a dog or being late.
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The comic became popular enough to spin off two TV series, one [[WesternAnimation/TheTick animated]] and one [[Series/TheTick live-action]].
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The comic became popular enough to spin off two three TV series, one [[WesternAnimation/TheTick animated]] and one [[Series/TheTick two]] [[Series/TheTick2016 live-action]].
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* HeroicBSOD: In the comic story "The Night of a Million Zillion Ninjas," The Tick's ally Oedipus gets stabbed by two of the ninjas, and she ends up needing medical attention. The Tick [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness completely drops his usual demeanor]]- he silently (and ruthlessly) defeats the two ninjas and forlornly carries her unconscious body, while whispering "This isn't supposed to happen." After handing Oedipus to paramedics, The Tick goes into a full-blown psychotic breakdown, complete with delusions of buildings questioning his worth, and he tries to deal with it by single-handedly destroying the theme park base that the ninjas built. [[spoiler: Eventually, he is snapped out of by Arthur, who reminds him that superheroes do not kill.]]
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In 1986, eighteen year old cartoonist Ben Edlund created The Tick as a mascot for a newsletter of the Norwood, Massachusetts store New England Comics. Edlund expanded this into stories, beginning with the three-page OriginStory '''''The Tick''''' in New England Comics Newsletter #14–15 (July/August – September/October 1986), in which the eccentric hero escaped from a mental institution.
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In 1986, eighteen year old cartoonist Ben Edlund created The Tick as a mascot for a newsletter of the Norwood, Massachusetts store New England Comics. Edlund expanded this into stories, beginning with the three-page OriginStory '''''The Tick''''' ''The Tick'' in New England Comics Newsletter #14–15 (July/August – September/October 1986), in which the eccentric hero escaped from a mental institution.
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In 1986, 18-year-old cartoonist Ben Edlund created The Tick as a mascot for a newsletter of the Norwood, Massachusetts store New England Comics. Edlund expanded this into stories, beginning with the three-page OriginStory ''The Tick'' in New England Comics Newsletter #14–15 (July/August – September/October 1986), in which the eccentric hero escaped from a mental institution.
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In 1986, 18-year-old eighteen year old cartoonist Ben Edlund created The Tick as a mascot for a newsletter of the Norwood, Massachusetts store New England Comics. Edlund expanded this into stories, beginning with the three-page OriginStory ''The Tick'' '''''The Tick''''' in New England Comics Newsletter #14–15 (July/August – September/October 1986), in which the eccentric hero escaped from a mental institution.
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* AxCrazy: What happens when The Tick sees Oedipus stabbed. He violently, quietly, swiftly, and possibly lethally takes out the two ninjas who did it, and he proceeds to completely destroy their lair, which was the size of an amusement park.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: What happens when The Tick sees Oedipus stabbed. He violently, quietly, swiftly, and possibly lethally takes out the two ninjas who did it, and he proceeds to completely destroy their lair, which was the size of an amusement park.
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* AxCrazy: What happens when The Tick sees Oedipus stabbed. He violently, quietly, swiftly, and possibly lethally takes out the two ninjas who did it, and he proceeds to completely destroy their lair, which was the size of an amusement park.
* BaguetteBeatdown: Paul the Samurai in the comics. [[JustifiedTrope A ever-so-slightly more realistic take]], because he hid a sword in it to sneak it past customs.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Arthur attempted this prior to meeting The Tick; he wore his moth suit at his old job at an accounting firm. He was "encouraged" to take a medical leave of absence.
* TheCameo: The 10th anniversary re-release of Tick issue #1 has a bonus segment showing Tick's escape from an insane asylum. It turns out [[Series/TheMuppetShow Dr. Bunsen and his assistant Beaker]] ran the place.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Arthur attempted this prior to meeting The Tick; he wore his moth suit at his old job at an accounting firm. He was "encouraged" to take a medical leave of absence.
* TheCameo: The 10th anniversary re-release of Tick issue #1 has a bonus segment showing Tick's escape from an insane asylum. It turns out [[Series/TheMuppetShow Dr. Bunsen and his assistant Beaker]] ran the place.
* ClarkKenting: Clark Oppenheimer's glasses and The Tick's hypnotic tie.
* CloudCuckooLander: It's pretty obvious that many of the heroes are looking at reality just a bit differently than everyone else, but The Tick by far is the strongest example. Several comics focus on Arthur and how he tries his best to reconcile his superhero and mundane worlds, which frequently results in coming off as a cloudcuckoolander to ''both''.
* ConservationOfNinjitsu: In the comics. The third issue is titled appropriately "Night of a Million Zillion Ninjas" and they're every bit as ineffective as you'd expect with such large numbers. Justified in part by the revelation that Ninja has become a cheap franchise.
* CrimefightingWithCash: This was Barry's MO when he was using the name The Tick. When the title character beats Barry for the right to the name, The Tick acquires all of the crimefighting-specific gear Barry owned.
* CloudCuckooLander: It's pretty obvious that many of the heroes are looking at reality just a bit differently than everyone else, but The Tick by far is the strongest example. Several comics focus on Arthur and how he tries his best to reconcile his superhero and mundane worlds, which frequently results in coming off as a cloudcuckoolander to ''both''.
* ConservationOfNinjitsu: In the comics. The third issue is titled appropriately "Night of a Million Zillion Ninjas" and they're every bit as ineffective as you'd expect with such large numbers. Justified in part by the revelation that Ninja has become a cheap franchise.
* CrimefightingWithCash: This was Barry's MO when he was using the name The Tick. When the title character beats Barry for the right to the name, The Tick acquires all of the crimefighting-specific gear Barry owned.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: While properly introduced in the fourth issue, Arthur can be seen flying in background shots in the first three books.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: DrawSwordDrawBlood: In one comic issue, Paul the Samurai has an overly dramatic monologue to himself, which he ends by pulling out his sword and striking a pose. He then remembers that his sword can only be sheathed when it has tasted blood. He then looks at his hand, which is covered in band-aids. Apparently, it was a bad habit of his.
* EarlyBirdCameo:
** While properly introduced in the fourth issue, Arthur can be seen flying in background shots in the first threebooks.books.
** In one issue of the comic book, a mysterious female figure wearing a flying suit identical to Arthur's appears in a few panels. The comic ended before her story was revealed, but she later appeared in the animated series as Carmelita Vatos, [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter daughter of the suit's inventor]] and (eventually) Arthur's love interest.
* EverythingsBetterWithCows: The Man-Eating Cow, possibly-heroic scourge of the criminal underworld and star of her own spin-off comic.
* EvilKnockoff: Tina, the robot version of The Tick that Toy De Force builds to take out the original.
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** While properly introduced in the fourth issue, Arthur can be seen flying in background shots in the first three
** In one issue of the comic book, a mysterious female figure wearing a flying suit identical to Arthur's appears in a few panels. The comic ended before her story was revealed, but she later appeared in the animated series as Carmelita Vatos, [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter daughter of the suit's inventor]] and (eventually) Arthur's love interest.
* EverythingsBetterWithCows: The Man-Eating Cow, possibly-heroic scourge of the criminal underworld and star of her own spin-off comic.
* EvilKnockoff: Tina, the robot version of The Tick that Toy De Force builds to take out the original.
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* GodGuise: Of sorts, as other inmates of the Evanston Asylum that escaped when The Tick did start worshiping him, forming the Mystic Order of Arachnid Vigilance. Which then underwent {{Defictionalization}} as The Tick's fanclub.
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Just to tweak Chairface Chippendale, his attempt to carve his name in the moon is hushed up and subsequently blamed on Charo.
* HappyFunBall: One villain, Toy De Force, incapacitates The Tick at one point with the Happy Apple - a sparkling apple toy that is nearly impossible to look away from. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard He stares at it at the end.]]
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Just to tweak Chairface Chippendale, his attempt to carve his name in the moon is hushed up and subsequently blamed on Charo.
* HappyFunBall: One villain, Toy De Force, incapacitates The Tick at one point with the Happy Apple - a sparkling apple toy that is nearly impossible to look away from. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard He stares at it at the end.]]
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* ImAHumanitarian: Keith "Crime Cannibal" Donner, superhero with the power to ''eat human beings incredibly quickly''.
** An odd inversion is The Indigestible Man. His super power is he can't be digested.
** An odd inversion is The Indigestible Man. His super power is he can't be digested.
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* {{Macguffin}}: The Thorn, which supposedly has the power to destroy all ninja if it's destroyed. Control of The Thorn is the focus of the first major arc of the comic.
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* {{Meganekko}}: Arthur's sister Dot.
* TheMonolith: A Monolith upgrades a town full of farmers into full-blown [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder mad scientists]].
* TheMonolith: A Monolith upgrades a town full of farmers into full-blown [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder mad scientists]].
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* OneSteveLimit: The premise driving "The Tick vs. The Tick". Tick encounters a superhero at the Comet Club named Barry, who also goes by "The Tick", and has to fight him for the privilege of keeping his name. This is even a bigger deal in the comics; the winner also gets all of the loser's superhero-related stuff.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The fourth issue, "The Night Of A Million Zillion Ninjas" seems much like the previous chapters, until The Tick's friend and partner Oedipus gets stabbed by two ninjas, seriously enough that she falls unconscious and starts losing blood. At this, the wheels come off -- rather than his usual bombast and style, The Tick quickly, silently, and violently dispatches the two ninjas, and all he can say as he carries Oedipus is "This isn't supposed to happen." He [[HeroicBSOD barely registers the paramedics who come to help Oedipus]], and is later seen with paranoid delusions of the various buildings taunting him over his failures. Unlike most [[CloudCuckooLander Cloudcuckoolanders]], he doesn't suddenly become sane... he just [[AxCrazy stops being the "fun" kind of insane]].
* PlanetEater: Omnipotus, an obvious parody of ComicBook/{{Galactus}}.
* RobotMe: Tina, the robot Toy De Force builds to fight The Tick. Unlike most cases, De Force knows that Tina isn't powerful enough to beat The Tick on its own, so he gives it some backup in the form of the [[HappyFunBall Happy Apple]].
* ThisIsReality: The Thorn is a legendary artifact that supposedly will result in the destruction of the ninja. Its actual destruction is fairly mundane, although the steps taken to prevent its destruction by the bad guys does decimate the ninja. The Tick and Paul the Samurai expected something more metaphysical to destroy the ninja, and Arthur notes how unrealistic this was of them.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The fourth issue, "The Night Of A Million Zillion Ninjas" seems much like the previous chapters, until The Tick's friend and partner Oedipus gets stabbed by two ninjas, seriously enough that she falls unconscious and starts losing blood. At this, the wheels come off -- rather than his usual bombast and style, The Tick quickly, silently, and violently dispatches the two ninjas, and all he can say as he carries Oedipus is "This isn't supposed to happen." He [[HeroicBSOD barely registers the paramedics who come to help Oedipus]], and is later seen with paranoid delusions of the various buildings taunting him over his failures. Unlike most [[CloudCuckooLander Cloudcuckoolanders]], he doesn't suddenly become sane... he just [[AxCrazy stops being the "fun" kind of insane]].
* PlanetEater: Omnipotus, an obvious parody of ComicBook/{{Galactus}}.
* RobotMe: Tina, the robot Toy De Force builds to fight The Tick. Unlike most cases, De Force knows that Tina isn't powerful enough to beat The Tick on its own, so he gives it some backup in the form of the [[HappyFunBall Happy Apple]].
* ThisIsReality: The Thorn is a legendary artifact that supposedly will result in the destruction of the ninja. Its actual destruction is fairly mundane, although the steps taken to prevent its destruction by the bad guys does decimate the ninja. The Tick and Paul the Samurai expected something more metaphysical to destroy the ninja, and Arthur notes how unrealistic this was of them.
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* FlightStrengthHeart: The Tick is NighInvulnerable, has Super Strength... and he apparently has an unlimited supply of two-dollar bills in his pockets. Also, [[MundaneMadeAwesome HE HAS POCKETS!]]
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: The Tick nearly goes comatose with shock when he discovers that he has pockets in his outfit.
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* NighInvulnerable: The Tick [[TropeNamer names the trope]] in the very first issue. He apparently doesn't quite have the RequiredSecondaryPowers of the trope to the extent that most do - while burying himself up to his waist in concrete didn't do any appreciable damage to The Tick, he screamed in pain from it.
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* LimitedWardrobe: The Tick and Arthur (most superheroes and villains in general, actually) are never seen without their costumes.
** This is referenced in the Free Comic Book Day story ''Ghosts Of Sidekicks Past'' where Arthur mentions that he does change clothes fairly often. We just never see it.
** This is referenced in the Free Comic Book Day story ''Ghosts Of Sidekicks Past'' where Arthur mentions that he does change clothes fairly often. We just never see it.
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* MadArtist: The Impressionist. His roommate calls him crazy for eating a plain omelet.
-->'''Inpressionist:''' "I am not crazy! I am an artist! Was Creator/{{Michelangelo|Buonarroti}} crazy? Was Renoir crazy? Was [[Creator/VincentVanGogh Van Gogh]] crazy? OK, bad example, but still.."
-->'''Inpressionist:''' "I am not crazy! I am an artist! Was Creator/{{Michelangelo|Buonarroti}} crazy? Was Renoir crazy? Was [[Creator/VincentVanGogh Van Gogh]] crazy? OK, bad example, but still.."
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* DefaceOfTheMoon: Chairface tries to carve his name into the moon, but only manages "CHA" before he's stopped. Later, just to tweak his ego, this is blamed on Charo.
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* ChainsawGood: The Chainsaw Vigilante, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a chainsaw-wielding vigilante]] who views the heroes as self-interested meddlers. He cuts off their clothes with his chainsaw, but has never actually killed anyone; he's just ''that'' good. Wears a yellow smiley face mask. At worst he's an AntiVillain.
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* ChainsawGood: The Chainsaw Vigilante, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a chainsaw-wielding vigilante]] who views the heroes as self-interested meddlers. He cuts off their clothes with his chainsaw, chainsaw to humiliate them into quitting, but has never actually killed anyone; he's just ''that'' good. Wears a yellow smiley face mask. At worst he's an AntiVillain.
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* HighlyVisibleNinja: In one issue, several ninja hold leaves and call themselves a hedge. Provides the page image.
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* BadSanta: Multiple Santa, an evil MallSanta who can clone himself.
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* CityOfAdventure: The City, though it's rather boring for superheroes, or at least before Tick arrives. New York, however, is full of superheroes.
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* WeWillNotHavePocketsInTheFuture: Parodied. The Tick is surprised to find his costume has them, having never noticed before.
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* WeWillNotHavePocketsInTheFuture: Parodied. The Tick is surprised amazed to find his costume has them, having never noticed before.even overlooking the wad of cash he found in them.
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* WeWillNotHavePocketsInTheFuture: Parodied. The Tick is surprised to find his costume has them, having never noticed before.
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* CyanidePill: A spy once reveals he has a tooth filled with cyanide, only he can't remember which one.
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* CyanidePill: A spy once reveals he has a tooth filled with cyanide, poison, only he can't remember which one.
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* CyanidePill: A spy once reveals he has a tooth filled with cyanide, only he can't remember which one.
--> I try to avoid crunchy foods.
--> I try to avoid crunchy foods.
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In 1986, 18-year-old cartoonist Ben Edlund created The Tick as a mascot for a newsletter of the Norwood, Massachusetts store New England Comics. Edlund expanded this into stories, beginning with the three-page tale ''The Tick'' in New England Comics Newsletter #14–15 (July/August – September/October 1986), in which The Tick escape from a mental institution.
In June 1988, it was released in an independent, recurring black-and-white comic series. Arthur was introduced in ''The Tick #4'' (April 1989). Transitioned to colour in 2001.
In June 1988, it was released in an independent, recurring black-and-white comic series. Arthur was introduced in ''The Tick #4'' (April 1989). Transitioned to colour in 2001.
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In 1986, 18-year-old cartoonist Ben Edlund created The Tick as a mascot for a newsletter of the Norwood, Massachusetts store New England Comics. Edlund expanded this into stories, beginning with the three-page tale OriginStory ''The Tick'' in New England Comics Newsletter #14–15 (July/August – September/October 1986), in which The Tick escape the eccentric hero escaped from a mental institution.
In June 1988, it was released in an independent, recurring black-and-white comic series. Arthur was introduced in ''The Tick #4'' (April 1989).Transitioned It transitioned to colour in 2001.
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The comic became popular enough to spin off two TV series, one [[WesternAnimation/TheTick animated]] and one [[Series/TheTick live-action]].
In June 1988, it was released in an independent, recurring black-and-white comic series. Arthur was introduced in ''The Tick #4'' (April 1989).
The comic became popular enough to spin off two TV series, one [[WesternAnimation/TheTick animated]] and one [[Series/TheTick live-action]].
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* ChainsawGood: The Chainsaw Vigilante, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a chainsaw-wielding vigilante]] who views the heroes as self-interested meddlers. At best he's an AntiVillain. He cuts off their clothes with his chainsaw, but has never actually killed anyone; he's just ''that'' good. Wears a yellow smiley face mask. At worst he's an AntiVillain.
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* MysteriousPast: The Tick. Before ''The Tick's Loony Bin'', all that was known was his escape from Evanston Asylum. ''Loony Bin'' revealed [[spoiler:he was married, but separated]], though nothing more is currently known.
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* ChainsawGood: The Chainsaw Vigilante, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a chainsaw-wielding vigilante]] who views the heroes as self-interested meddlers. At best he's an AntiVillain. He cuts off their clothes with his chainsaw, but has never actually killed anyone; he's just ''that'' good. Wears a yellow smiley face mask.
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* HighlyVisibleNinja: IN one issue, several ninja hold leaves and call themselves a hedge. Provides the page image.
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!!The comic series provides examples of the following:
* EarlyBirdCameo: While properly introduced in the fourth issue, Arthur can be seen flying in background shots in the first three books.
* IdentityAmnesia: The Tick doesn't remember anything about his life before becoming The Tick. This may be from frequent head trauma, or he may be legally insane.
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