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* MonumentalDamage: The remains of the Statue of Liberty appear in issue #3. [[spoiler: The statue was relocated to Paris after relations between the United States and France break down.]]

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* MonumentalDamage: The remains of the Statue of Liberty Art/StatueOfLiberty appear in issue #3. [[spoiler: The statue was relocated to Paris after relations between the United States and France break down.]]
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* MonumentalDamage: The remains of the Statue of Liberty appear in issue #3. [[spoiler: The statue was relocated to Paris after relations between the United States and France break down.]]
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* CurseCutShort: Simon during his fight with the assassin, Ladykiller.
--> '''Wonder Man''': Ah-ah. None of that. This is Hollywood, and this fight's been rated PG.
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* ShoutOut: Issue #3 directly references Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes using the Statue of Liberty. In the same issue, Beast uses [[Series/{{Frasier}} Frasier Crane's]] "I'm listening" catchphrase, which is a reference to Creator/KelseyGrammer, who played Beast in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''.
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* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiiler:The rest of the Nobility kill BigBad Neal Saroyan after his plan leads to their teammate Huan's death]].

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* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiiler:The [[spoiler:The rest of the Nobility kill BigBad Neal Saroyan after his plan leads to their teammate Huan's death]].
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* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiiler:The rest of the Nobility kill BigBad Neal Saroyan after his plan leads to their teammate Huan's death]].


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* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:Simon never actually meets or fights the Nobility, with the exception of Huan. He knows Neal Saroyan, but has no idea he has powers, or that he's the BigBad behind the scheme, until the very end - and by that point the rest of the Nobility have [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork already killed him]] in revenge for Huan's death]].
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* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Averted when the rest of the Nobility intervene, but [[spoiler:Lord Thunder has to be stopped from stabbing himself in the chest after Saroyan tells him to kill himself]].
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Ladykiller [[DyingAsYourself kills herself]] to escape from Neal's MindControl and thwart his plan to poison the Avengers]].
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* DarkActionGirl: Ladykiller, a lethal assassin who dresses in black.
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Implied. Ladykiller is never shown to have actual powers, and her origin shows nothing but training, but is never directly said to be a normal human. Either way, she's he's fast, strong and durable enough to brawl with superheroes.

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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Implied. Ladykiller is never shown to have actual powers, and her origin shows nothing but training, but is never directly said to be a normal human. Either way, she's he's fast, strong and durable enough to brawl with superheroes.
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Implied. Ladykiller is never shown to have actual powers, but she's fast, strong and durable enough to brawl with superheroes.

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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Implied. Ladykiller is never shown to have actual powers, and her origin shows nothing but training, but is never directly said to be a normal human. Either way, she's he's fast, strong and durable enough to brawl with superheroes.
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Implied. Ladykiller is never shown to have actual powers, but she's fast, strong and durable enough to brawl with superheroes.
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* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:Huan kills herself before Neal's MindControl can ensnare her again]].
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* MeaningfulName: A BilingualBonus one, as it's never explained in the series. [[spoiler:Saroyan is an Armenian surname that means "prince" - and Neal Saroyan is the leader of the Nobility]].
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* TitleDrop: The ''My Fair Super Hero'' subtitle is also the title of the documentary Neal plans to make (although there's some discussion about whether Super Hero is one word, two words or hyphenated).
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* WholePlotReference: An invoked trope, as Neal actively persuades Simon to test his theories on rehabilitation via Ladykiller, which he intends to use as the basis for a new documentary film. It's very deliberately modelled on ''Theatre/MyFairLady'' and he intends to call it ''My Fair Superhero''.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Neal Saroyan, leader of the Nobility. He arranged for Huan's capture by ensuring that Wonder Man would foil her assassination attempt, then used MindControl to nudge Simon into the rehabilitation scheme. All of which was to get Huan into a position where he could reassert his mental control over her and use her to poison the Avengers]].
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* BadFuture: Simon's far future prologues show the aftermath of a nuclear war and a dry, desolate Africa where nothing lives.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Huan wrecks the plan to poison the Avengers, but then immediately kills herself to escape from Neal's mind control. Neal is dead, killed by the Nobility, before Simon reaches him. The Nobility themselves have vanished, and are never brought to justice]].
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!!''Wonder Man (2006)'' provides the following tropes:

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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Huan and Neal are both dead at the end of the series. As of July 2022, neither has been resurrected]].
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The whole series is framed as a flashback, remembered by the immortal Simon in the future. Each issue's prologue moves further into the future.
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But Ladykiller has no intention of being reformed, and Simon and his friends have some doubts about the morality of their actions. It may not end well...

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But Ladykiller has no intention of being reformed, and Simon and his friends have some doubts about the morality of their actions. It may not end well...well...

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''Wonder Man'' (subtitled ''My Fair Super Hero'') is a 2006 comic book limited series from Creator/MarvelComics. It's written by Creator/PeterDavid and illustrated by Andrew Currie and Drew Hennessy, with color art by Rob Schwager.

The series, set in the shared Franchise/MarvelUniverse, stars the titular ComicBook/WonderMan, Simon Williams, an immortal superhero who's a member of ComicBook/TheAvengers.

When the supervillain Ladykiller is captured after Simon foils an assassination attempt, Simon is persuaded that he ought to try to reform her. His attempts to do so (aided by Ms. Marvel and the Beast) will be the subject of a documentary by filmmaker Neal Saroyan, "My Fair Superhero".

But Ladykiller has no intention of being reformed, and Simon and his friends have some doubts about the morality of their actions. It may not end well...

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