History Literature / TheScienceOfSupervillainy

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Other Gary has this as ruler of Falconcrest City. [[spoiler: This is partially due to the fact he's drugging everyone and using low-level brainwashing similar to Film/TheyLive.]]

* BreadAndCircuses: Other Gary rules Falconcrest City with a combination of this, a mercenary army, and low-level brainwashing. AndItWorked.

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** Undertown is a more direct example of this, [[Series/ThePrisoner being explictly compared to the Village.]]

* ShoutOut: ''Film/RogueOne'', ''Film/TheyLive'', ''Series/ThePrisoner'', and ''Film/{{Pleasantville}}'' all get referenced as part of the plot.

* TheBusCameBack: The Black Witch and Human Tank play a substantial role in the story despite the fact they haven't played a big role since ''Litertaure/TheRulesOfSupervillainy.''

* ShoutOut: ''Film/StarWarsRogueOne'', ''Film/TheyLive'', ''LiveActionTV/ThePrisoner'', and ''Film/{{Pleasantville}}'' all get referenced as part of the plot.

* CozyCatastrophe: Twelve million people died in World War 2. According to Other Gary, it was originally over a hundred million. He's an UnreliableNarrator, though.

* CounterEarth: Gary harnesses all the collected magical energies of Big Bad Other Gary (his Light Is Not Good Evil Counterpart) to [[spoiler: create an alternate Earth on the opposite side of the solar system. This is a resurrection of the Silver Age of Comic Books universe where Other Gary originally hailed and his primary motivation for trying to destroy Gary's universe. Gary then kills Other Gary, giving him one look at the world he'd sacrificed so much to create.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Other Gary is killed DeaderThanDead while President Omega is banished for a time from the universe. Gary has also regained his lost powers, healed Diabloman, restored Earth-B, as well as found himself a new daughter. Unfortunately, Cloak is dead along with new heroine Starlight Maiden. Mandy has suffered centuries of living through {{Retgone}} futures. The United States also lost 12 million people and the Society Of Superheroes may have made a FaceHeelTurn to become tyrants. Gary has also decided to devote himself to conquering the world with Mandy deciding to help him do it.]]

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: It turns out the massive amount of super-technology Gary has brought to the world is powered by [[spoiler: the deaths of those around him, accumulated with his necromantic powers as well as Ultragoddess, who he has set up as a living battery to power the United States with cheap green energy.]]

* CruelMercy: Gary has a particularly effective one [[spoiler: where he harnesses Other Gary's collected magical energy to rebuild his lost planet, his original goal in the first place, which Other Gary was never able to do. This is due to the presence of Cloak and the fact Gary is a servant of Death so resurrection is part of his portfolio while Other Gary serves Life. After seeing his world returned to life, Other Gary is then executed by Gary and burned to atoms that are promptly scattered so he can never rejoin his loved ones or regenerate.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Other Gary is killed DeaderThanDead while President Omega is banished for a time from the universe. Gary has also regained his lost powers, healed Diabloman, restored Earth-B, as well as found himself a new daughter. Unfortunately, Cloak is dead along with new heroine Starlight Maiden. Mandy has suffered centuries of living through {{Retgon}} futures. The United States also lost 12 million people and the Society Of Superheroes may have made a FaceHeelTurn to become tyrants. Gary has also decided to devote himself to conquering the world with Mandy deciding to help him do it.]]

* MundaneUtility: Gary used his time-machine to find out how ''LiveActionTV/GameOfThrones'' ended. Apparently, Jon and Sansa hook up.

* ShoutOut: ''Film/StarWarsRogueOne'', ''Film/TheyLive'', ''LiveActionTV/ThePrisoner'', and ''Film/Pleasantville'' all get referenced as part of the plot.

* OppressiveStatesOfAmerica: The Society of Superheroes (!) has taken over the United States after World War 3. The civilian government is still there but cities are now controlled by First Citizens with all major decisions going through the SOS. Subverted by the fact the Society of Superheroes are doing a better-than-normal job.

Gary Karkofsky a.k.a Merciless: The Supervillain Without Mercy (TM) returns in the fourth volume of the popular Literature/TheSupervillainySaga by Creator/CTphipps.

Gary Karkofsky a.k.a Merciless: The Supervillain Without Mercy (TM) returns in the fourth volume of the popular Literature/SupervillainySaga by Creator/CTphipps.

* BigBad: Other Gary a.k.a Merciful, Gary's SilverAge doppleganger from a previous universe, is the chief bad guy this time.

* BenevolentDictatorship: Tropenamed by Gary Karkofsky at one point. Other Gary is ruling over an economically prosperous and crime-free Falconcrest City. [[spoiler: Subverted when we find slums which are patrolled like Baghdad.]]

* DayOfTheJackboot: Gary emerges [[spoiler: five year after President Omega's defeat]] to discover Falconcrest City has been taken over by Other Gary. Played with as Other Gary is a BenevolentDictator despite keeping the city as an oppressive surveillance state.