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* Sort of meta-Nightmare Fuel, but the "Mistress of Death" storyline that ran across summer 2001 ended with the villainess screaming to her congregation, and I quote: "You all must have faith! You must cling to it because life is short!" This coincides with a bolt of lightning hitting a tent pole and electrocuting her to death. The date of publication: 9/11/2001. Brr.
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Many of the deaths in ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' are horrifying, not to mention surprisingly gruesome for a newspaper comic. WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids?
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Many of the deaths in ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' are horrifying, not to mention surprisingly gruesome for a newspaper comic. WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids?
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*** In the novel, when kidnapping Tess, he strokes her face in a manner that suggests he's jealous of her for having features. It's incredibly creepy even though it's not necessarily sexual.
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* The Flattop Jr. storyline is ''brutal'', noted among comic scholars as [[https://www.tcj.com/the-gould-rush-the-mad-allure-of-dick-tracy/ an exceptional example of how far Gould could go in sadistic directions when punishing his villains]]. When Skinny, a girl he's been stringing along, reveals she entered his art in a local competition, thereby accidentally incriminating him, he loses it and throws her off the roof of the apartment to her death. Afterwards, Junior suffers a gradual nervous breakdown, as he starts to feel [[https://the-comics-journal.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/092156.jpg her invisible, ever-clinging arms wrapped around his neck]], with her ghost's face in an unmoving rictus of a smile. By the time he encounters Lizz by accident, [[https://funkywinkerbean.com/wpblog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Dick-Tracy-4.png he's gone completely insane, raving and bug-eyed with snow-white hair]]. The conclusion, where [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dicktracy/images/a/a8/SkinnyGhost.jpg Flattop dies and Skinny's ghost flies away at last]], isn't the "happy" one intended so much as it is quite disturbing.
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* The various death traps certainly qualify
** The boulder trap: Tracy is dropped into a hole near a construction site and a boulder is dropped on top of him. To make things worse the police force (tracy's boss, partner, and various co-workers) show up and are utterly unable to do anything as the boulder drops all the way down the hole (slowly)
** The ice block trap: Tracy is placed between two ice blocks, a refrigerator [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice attached to a spike]] is placed on top of the two blocks, with the spike aimed at his heart. The intended result being that the spike would slowly descend into his heart as the ice melted. To compound the issue, the doors and windows were closed and the oven turned on and opened.
** The boulder trap: Tracy is dropped into a hole near a construction site and a boulder is dropped on top of him. To make things worse the police force (tracy's boss, partner, and various co-workers) show up and are utterly unable to do anything as the boulder drops all the way down the hole (slowly)
** The ice block trap: Tracy is placed between two ice blocks, a refrigerator [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice attached to a spike]] is placed on top of the two blocks, with the spike aimed at his heart. The intended result being that the spike would slowly descend into his heart as the ice melted. To compound the issue, the doors and windows were closed and the oven turned on and opened.
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* The various death traps certainly qualify
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** The boulder trap: Tracy is dropped into a hole near a constructionsite site, and a boulder is dropped on top of him. To make things worse worse, the police force (tracy's (Tracy's boss, partner, and various co-workers) show up up, and are utterly unable to do anything as the boulder drops all the way down the hole (slowly)
(slowly).
** The ice block trap: Caught and held hostage by Itchy Oliver and Kitty Eyes (B. B. Eyes' widow), Tracy is placed between two ice blocks, a refrigerator [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice attached to a spike]] is placed on top of the two blocks, with the spike aimed at his heart. The intended result being that the spike would slowly descend into his heart as the ice melted. To compound the issue, the doors and windows were closed and the oven turned on and opened.
** The boulder trap: Tracy is dropped into a hole near a construction
** The ice block trap: Caught and held hostage by Itchy Oliver and Kitty Eyes (B. B. Eyes' widow), Tracy is placed between two ice blocks, a refrigerator [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice attached to a spike]] is placed on top of the two blocks, with the spike aimed at his heart. The intended result being that the spike would slowly descend into his heart as the ice melted. To compound the issue, the doors and windows were closed and the oven turned on and opened.
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** Yanni's death. Turns out that mind-control gas is extremely flammable without constant refrigeration, so when Yanni accidentally spills alcohol on himself while drunk, he burns alive.
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** Yanni's death. Turns out that mind-control gas is extremely flammable without constant refrigeration, so when Yanni accidentally spills alcohol on himself while drunk, he burns alive.is immolated.
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* The Brow hid from the good guys in a box filled with ice cold water. He had nothing but a hose for air and a weight to keep him down. Freezing. Underwater. In the dark. For hours.
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* The Brow hid from the good guys in a box filled with ice cold water. He had nothing but a hose for air air, and a weight to keep him down. Freezing. Underwater. In the dark. For hours.
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* Lips Manlis' CruelAndUnusualDeath where he's put into a crate, covered in cement, and then dumped into the lake to drown. The fact he's begging not to die that way, not to be spared just NOT to die THAT WAY, only adds to the horror of the scene.
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* Lips Manlis' CruelAndUnusualDeath where he's put into a crate, covered in cement, and then dumped into the lake to drown. The fact he's begging not to die that way, not to be spared spared, just NOT ''NOT'' to die THAT WAY, ''THAT WAY'', only adds to the horror of the scene.
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* Many of the prosthetics are incredibly grotesque with some like Little Face and Pruneface being especially memorable. Steve the Tramp however, is quite [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/dicktracy/images/1/1b/10304035_708704872542865_7885842038776861773_n.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140911232713 hideous looking]]. The fact he's prone of [[WouldHurtAChild beating Kid]] makes it worse.
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* Many of the prosthetics are incredibly grotesque with some like Little Face and Pruneface being especially memorable. Steve the Tramp however, is quite [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/dicktracy/images/1/1b/10304035_708704872542865_7885842038776861773_n.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140911232713 hideous looking]]. The fact he's prone of to [[WouldHurtAChild beating Kid]] makes it worse.
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* Many of the prosthetics are incredibly grotesque with some like Little Face and Pruneface being especially memorable. Steve the Tramp however, is quite [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dicktracy/images/1/1b/10304035_708704872542865_7885842038776861773_n.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/604?cb=20140911232713 hideous looking]]. The fact he's prone of [[WouldHurtAChild beating Kid]] makes it worse.
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* Many of the prosthetics are incredibly grotesque with some like Little Face and Pruneface being especially memorable. Steve the Tramp however, is quite [[https://static.[[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/dicktracy/images/1/1b/10304035_708704872542865_7885842038776861773_n.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/604?cb=20140911232713 jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140911232713 hideous looking]]. The fact he's prone of [[WouldHurtAChild beating Kid]] makes it worse.
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* Many of the prosthetics are incredibly grotesque with some like Little Face and Pruneface being especially memorable.
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* Many of the prosthetics are incredibly grotesque with some like Little Face and Pruneface being especially memorable. Steve the Tramp however, is quite [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dicktracy/images/1/1b/10304035_708704872542865_7885842038776861773_n.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/604?cb=20140911232713 hideous looking]]. The fact he's prone of [[WouldHurtAChild beating Kid]] makes it worse.
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** Even worse in the novelization - they fill the crate all the way, meaning that Lips drowned in ''wet cement.'' When describing it to Breathless, Tracy outright calls it a lousy way to go.
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** Even worse in the novelization - they fill the crate all the way, meaning that Lips drowned in ''wet cement.'' When describing it to Breathless, Tracy outright calls it a lousy way to go.
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* The Brow hid from the good guys in a box filled with water. He had nothing but a hose for air and a weight to keep him down. Underwater. In the dark. For hours.
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* The Brow hid from the good guys in a box filled with ice cold water. He had nothing but a hose for air and a weight to keep him down. Freezing. Underwater. In the dark. For hours.
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* Lips Manlis' CruelAndUnusualDeath where he's put into a crate, covered in cement, and then dumped into the lake to drown. The fact he's begging not to die that way, not to be spared just NOT THAT WAY, only adds to the horror of the scene.
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* Lips Manlis' CruelAndUnusualDeath where he's put into a crate, covered in cement, and then dumped into the lake to drown. The fact he's begging not to die that way, not to be spared just NOT to die THAT WAY, only adds to the horror of the scene.scene.
* The Blank qualifies as this. For most of the film, we don't know who they are, or what their endgame is. They appear dressed in a black overcoat and fedora, they speak in a high, creepy voice that's been filtered to sound outright ghoulish, and they ''don't have a face.''
** And as the movie goes on, ''no one'' is safe from them - Pruneface gets gunned down while trying to shoot Tracy, Tess gets abducted, Tracy gets framed for shooting the DA, and then Big Boy himself gets set up when the Blank stashes the kidnapped Tess in his nightclub!
** Even worse in the novelization - they fill the crate all the way, meaning that Lips drowned in ''wet cement.'' When describing it to Breathless, Tracy outright calls it a lousy way to go.
* The Blank qualifies as this. For most of the film, we don't know who they are, or what their endgame is. They appear dressed in a black overcoat and fedora, they speak in a high, creepy voice that's been filtered to sound outright ghoulish, and they ''don't have a face.''
** And as the movie goes on, ''no one'' is safe from them - Pruneface gets gunned down while trying to shoot Tracy, Tess gets abducted, Tracy gets framed for shooting the DA, and then Big Boy himself gets set up when the Blank stashes the kidnapped Tess in his nightclub!
** Even worse in the novelization - they fill the crate all the way, meaning that Lips drowned in ''wet cement.'' When describing it to Breathless, Tracy outright calls it a lousy way to go.
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* Flattop's apparent cameo on 10-3-2003. If he's really still out there, he has more than enough reasons by now to come gunning for Tracy. Keep in mind that drowning is the least effective way of taking a Dick Tracy villain out permanently (see Mumbles, Flyface, and B-B Eyes).
* Sort of meta-Nightmare Fuel, but the "Mistress of Death" storyline that ran across summer 2001 ended with the villainess screaming to her congregation, and I quote: "You all must have faith! You must cling to it because life is short!" This coincides with a bolt of lightning hitting a tent pole and electrocuting her to death. The date of publication: 9/11/2001. Brr.
* Sort of meta-Nightmare Fuel, but the "Mistress of Death" storyline that ran across summer 2001 ended with the villainess screaming to her congregation, and I quote: "You all must have faith! You must cling to it because life is short!" This coincides with a bolt of lightning hitting a tent pole and electrocuting her to death. The date of publication: 9/11/2001. Brr.
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* The general freakish nature of most of Tracy's rogue gallery.
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** Brilliant Smith, a regular recurring character, and the inventor of Tracy's iconic Wrist Radio. He gets abruptly killed by Big Frost when he breaks into his apartment and kills him without a word. As a side note Brilliant is '''blind'', so despite the fact that he knew someone was there, he could not defend himself.
** Stooge Viller is one of the few villains of the 1930s to make multiple appearances, to the point where you'd consider him one of the few villains with JokerImmunity. Nope. He accidentally gets shot by his 9 year old daughter while trying to disarm her in the middle of pushing Tracy off of a ledge. He's arrested and dies in prison from gangrene, his last words to Tracy being to ''NEVER'' let his daughter know he died. One can only wonder what'd happen if she knew.
** Stooge Viller is one of the few villains of the 1930s to make multiple appearances, to the point where you'd consider him one of the few villains with JokerImmunity. Nope. He accidentally gets shot by his 9 year old daughter while trying to disarm her in the middle of pushing Tracy off of a ledge. He's arrested and dies in prison from gangrene, his last words to Tracy being to ''NEVER'' let his daughter know he died. One can only wonder what'd happen if she knew.
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** Brilliant Smith, a regular recurring character, and the inventor of Tracy's iconic Wrist Radio.two-way wrist radio. He gets abruptly killed by Big Frost when he breaks into his apartment and kills him without a word. As a side note note, Brilliant is '''blind'', so despite the fact that he knew someone was there, he could not couldn't defend himself.
** Stooge Viller is one of the few villains of the 1930s to make multiple appearances, to the point whereyou'd a reader might consider him one of the few villains with JokerImmunity. Nope. He accidentally gets shot by his 9 year old daughter while trying to disarm her in the middle of pushing Tracy off of a ledge. He's arrested and dies in prison from gangrene, his last words to Tracy being to ''NEVER'' let his daughter know he died. One can only wonder what'd happen if she knew.
** Stooge Viller is one of the few villains of the 1930s to make multiple appearances, to the point where
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** The Summer sisters, naughty thieves who try to reform to get the Nazi agent "The Brow" arrested, get drowned in one of the most traumatic sequences in the entire series.
** Flattop, one of the comics most iconic villains, died when he was trapped inside a full-scale model of the ''Santa Maria'', and drowned when the tide came in, his desperate struggle shown on panel the whole time. 30 years later, his daughter Angeltop died in the same ship, except she was ''burned alive'' when the ship caught fire.
** Johnny Scorn was incinerated by his popcorn cart, which had it's gasline sabotaged by The Pouch.
** Jeremy Trohs, better known as The Midget, was scalded to death with extremely hot shower water by his wife Mama as revenge for leaving her to the cops.
** All of the above cumulate in creating an extremely alarming atmosphere where month old Bonnie Tracy is accidentally kidnapped and dumped by her kidnapper in an open car in the middle of the woods in extreme cold. Luckily she makes it, but jeez.
** Flattop, one of the comics most iconic villains, died when he was trapped inside a full-scale model of the ''Santa Maria'', and drowned when the tide came in, his desperate struggle shown on panel the whole time. 30 years later, his daughter Angeltop died in the same ship, except she was ''burned alive'' when the ship caught fire.
** Johnny Scorn was incinerated by his popcorn cart, which had it's gasline sabotaged by The Pouch.
** Jeremy Trohs, better known as The Midget, was scalded to death with extremely hot shower water by his wife Mama as revenge for leaving her to the cops.
** All of the above cumulate in creating an extremely alarming atmosphere where month old Bonnie Tracy is accidentally kidnapped and dumped by her kidnapper in an open car in the middle of the woods in extreme cold. Luckily she makes it, but jeez.
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** The Summer sisters, Sisters, a pair of naughty thieves who try to reform to get the Nazi agent "The Brow" arrested, get drowned in one of the most traumatic sequences in the entire series.
** Flattop, one of thecomics comic's most iconic villains, died when he was trapped inside a full-scale model of the ''Santa Maria'', and drowned when the tide came in, his desperate struggle shown on panel the whole time. 30 years later, his daughter Angeltop died in the same ship, except she was ''burned alive'' when the ship caught fire.
** Johnny Scorn was incinerated by his popcorn cart, which hadit's its gasline sabotaged by The Pouch.
**Jeremy Jerome Trohs, better known as The Midget, was scalded to death with extremely hot shower water by his wife Mama as revenge for leaving her to the cops.
** All of the abovecumulate culminate in creating an extremely alarming atmosphere where month old month-old Bonnie Tracy is accidentally kidnapped and dumped by her kidnapper in an open car in the middle of the woods in extreme cold. Luckily she makes it, but jeez.jeez.
* The various death traps certainly qualify
** The boulder trap: Tracy is dropped into a hole near a construction site and a boulder is dropped on top of him. To make things worse the police force (tracy's boss, partner, and various co-workers) show up and are utterly unable to do anything as the boulder drops all the way down the hole (slowly)
** The ice block trap: Tracy is placed between two ice blocks, a refrigerator [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice attached to a spike]] is placed on top of the two blocks, with the spike aimed at his heart. The intended result being that the spike would slowly descend into his heart as the ice melted. To compound the issue, the doors and windows were closed and the oven turned on and opened.
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** Flattop, one of the
** Johnny Scorn was incinerated by his popcorn cart, which had
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* The various death traps certainly qualify
** The boulder trap: Tracy is dropped into a hole near a construction site and a boulder is dropped on top of him. To make things worse the police force (tracy's boss, partner, and various co-workers) show up and are utterly unable to do anything as the boulder drops all the way down the hole (slowly)
** The ice block trap: Tracy is placed between two ice blocks, a refrigerator [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice attached to a spike]] is placed on top of the two blocks, with the spike aimed at his heart. The intended result being that the spike would slowly descend into his heart as the ice melted. To compound the issue, the doors and windows were closed and the oven turned on and opened.
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** Then it's revealed that the seeming wife/accomplice of Yanni had actually been under his mind control for 2 years, forced to help him commit crimes and ''god knows what else''. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Assuming she wasn't lying to save herself of course.]] Oh, and she's probably still in jail for everything she was most likely forced to do.
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** Then it's revealed that the seeming wife/accomplice of Yanni had actually been under his mind control for 2 years, forced to help him commit crimes and ''god knows what else''. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Assuming she wasn't lying to save herself herself, of course.]] course]]. Oh, and she's probably still in jail for everything she was most likely forced to do.
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* The Brow had a ColdBloodedTorture device consisting of a small mechanical iron maiden that closed around the victim's leg. [[spoiler:Eventually Eventually, the villain gets caught in it ''by the head.'' He has no choice but to ''tear'' his bleeding head out of it before it can close on him completely.]]
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* The various death traps certainly qualify
** The Boulder trap: Tracy is dropped into a hole near a construction site and a boulder is dropped on top of him. To make things worse the Police force (Tracy's Boss, Partner, and various co-workers) show up and are utterly unable to do anything as the boulder drops all the way down the hole (slowly)
** The Ice block trap: Tracy is placed between 2 Ice blocks, a Refrigerator [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice attached to a spike]] is placed on top of the two blocks, with the spike aimed at his heart. The intended result being that the Spike would slowly descend into his heart as the ice melted. To compound the issue, the doors and windows were closed and the oven turned on/opened.
** The Boulder trap: Tracy is dropped into a hole near a construction site and a boulder is dropped on top of him. To make things worse the Police force (Tracy's Boss, Partner, and various co-workers) show up and are utterly unable to do anything as the boulder drops all the way down the hole (slowly)
** The Ice block trap: Tracy is placed between 2 Ice blocks, a Refrigerator [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice attached to a spike]] is placed on top of the two blocks, with the spike aimed at his heart. The intended result being that the Spike would slowly descend into his heart as the ice melted. To compound the issue, the doors and windows were closed and the oven turned on/opened.
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** The Ice block trap: Tracy is placed between 2 Ice blocks, a Refrigerator [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice attached to a spike]] is placed on top of the two blocks, with the spike aimed at his heart. The intended result being that the Spike would slowly descend into his heart as the ice melted. To compound the issue, the doors and windows were closed and the oven turned on/opened.
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** The Ice block trap: Tracy is placed between 2 Ice blocks, a Refrigerator [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice attached to a spike]] is placed on top of the two blocks, with the spike aimed at his heart. The intended result being that the Spike would slowly descend into his heart as the ice melted. To compound the issue, the doors and windows were closed and the oven turned on/opened.on/opened.
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* Many of the prosthetics are incredibly grotesque with some like Little Face and Pruneface being especially memorable.
* Lips Manlis' CruelAndUnusualDeath where he's put into a crate, covered in cement, and then dumped into the lake to drown. The fact he's begging not to die that way, not to be spared just NOT THAT WAY, only adds to the horror of the scene.
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* Many of the prosthetics are incredibly grotesque with some like Little Face and Pruneface being especially memorable.
* Lips Manlis' CruelAndUnusualDeath where he's put into a crate, covered in cement, and then dumped into the lake to drown. The fact he's begging not to die that way, not to be spared just NOT THAT WAY, only adds to the horror of the scene.
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* Tracy sends Officer O'Malley to figure out how [=B.B.=] Eyes's scheme works. B.B. Eyes sends O'Malley's corpse back.
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* The AnyOneCanDie nature of the comic lends itself to ''very'' grim situations. Suffice it to say NO ONE is safe in this comic. Some notable instances include:
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* The AnyOneCanDie AnyoneCanDie nature of the comic lends itself to ''very'' grim situations. Suffice it to say NO ONE is safe in this comic. Some notable instances include:
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** Brilliant Smith, a regular recurring character, and the inventor of Tracy's iconic Wrist Radio. He gets abruptly killed by Big Frost when he breaks into his apartment and kills him without a word. As a side note Brilliant is '''blind'', so despite the fact that he knew someone was there, he
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** Brilliant Smith, a regular recurring character, and the inventor of Tracy's iconic Wrist Radio. He gets abruptly killed by Big Frost when he breaks into his apartment and kills him without a word. As a side note Brilliant is '''blind'', so despite the fact that he knew someone was there, hehe could not defend himself.
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** Stooge Viller is one of the few villains of the 1930s to make multiple appearances, to the point where you'd consider him one of the few villains with JokerImmunity. Nope. He accidentally gets shot by his 9 year old daughter while trying to disarm her in the middle of pushing Tracy off of a ledge. He's arrested and dies in prison, his last words to Tracy being to ''NEVER'' let his daughter know he died. One can only wonder what'd happen if she knew.
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** Stooge Viller is one of the few villains of the 1930s to make multiple appearances, to the point where you'd consider him one of the few villains with JokerImmunity. Nope. He accidentally gets shot by his 9 year old daughter while trying to disarm her in the middle of pushing Tracy off of a ledge. He's arrested and dies in prison, prison from gangrene, his last words to Tracy being to ''NEVER'' let his daughter know he died. One can only wonder what'd happen if she knew.
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** Flattop, one of the comics most iconic villains, died when he was trapped inside a full-scale model of the ''Santa Maria'', and drowned when the tide came in, his desperate struggle shown on panel the whole time. 30 years later, his daughter Angeltop died in the same ship, except she was ''burned alive'' when the ship caught fire.
** Johnny Scorn was incinerated by his popcorn cart, which had it's gasline sabotaged by The Pouch.
** Jeremy Trohs, better known as The Midget, was scalded to death with extremely hot shower water by his wife Mama as revenge for leaving her to the cops.
** Johnny Scorn was incinerated by his popcorn cart, which had it's gasline sabotaged by The Pouch.
** Jeremy Trohs, better known as The Midget, was scalded to death with extremely hot shower water by his wife Mama as revenge for leaving her to the cops.
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* The general freakish nature of most of Tracy's rogue gallery.
* The AnyOneCanDie nature of the comic lends itself to ''very'' grim situations. Suffice it to say NO ONE is safe in this comic. Some notable instances include:
** Brilliant Smith, a regular recurring character, and the inventor of Tracy's iconic Wrist Radio. He gets abruptly killed by Big Frost when he breaks into his apartment and kills him without a word. As a side note Brilliant is '''blind'', so despite the fact that he knew someone was there, he
** Stooge Viller is one of the few villains of the 1930s to make multiple appearances, to the point where you'd consider him one of the few villains with JokerImmunity. Nope. He accidentally gets shot by his 9 year old daughter while trying to disarm her in the middle of pushing Tracy off of a ledge. He's arrested and dies in prison, his last words to Tracy being to ''NEVER'' let his daughter know he died. One can only wonder what'd happen if she knew.
** Big Boy, the first real BigBad of the series, dies of a heart attack just as he's about to be arrested.
** Moon Maid, Junior's wife is killed by a car bomb. To say this was unexpected of such a major character would be an insane understatement.
** The Summer sisters, naughty thieves who try to reform to get the Nazi agent "The Brow" arrested, get drowned in one of the most traumatic sequences in the entire series.
** All of the above cumulate in creating an extremely alarming atmosphere where month old Bonnie Tracy is accidentally kidnapped and dumped by her kidnapper in an open car in the middle of the woods in extreme cold. Luckily she makes it, but jeez.
* The AnyOneCanDie nature of the comic lends itself to ''very'' grim situations. Suffice it to say NO ONE is safe in this comic. Some notable instances include:
** Brilliant Smith, a regular recurring character, and the inventor of Tracy's iconic Wrist Radio. He gets abruptly killed by Big Frost when he breaks into his apartment and kills him without a word. As a side note Brilliant is '''blind'', so despite the fact that he knew someone was there, he
** Stooge Viller is one of the few villains of the 1930s to make multiple appearances, to the point where you'd consider him one of the few villains with JokerImmunity. Nope. He accidentally gets shot by his 9 year old daughter while trying to disarm her in the middle of pushing Tracy off of a ledge. He's arrested and dies in prison, his last words to Tracy being to ''NEVER'' let his daughter know he died. One can only wonder what'd happen if she knew.
** Big Boy, the first real BigBad of the series, dies of a heart attack just as he's about to be arrested.
** Moon Maid, Junior's wife is killed by a car bomb. To say this was unexpected of such a major character would be an insane understatement.
** The Summer sisters, naughty thieves who try to reform to get the Nazi agent "The Brow" arrested, get drowned in one of the most traumatic sequences in the entire series.
** All of the above cumulate in creating an extremely alarming atmosphere where month old Bonnie Tracy is accidentally kidnapped and dumped by her kidnapper in an open car in the middle of the woods in extreme cold. Luckily she makes it, but jeez.
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** Also the general freakish nature of most of Tracy's rogue gallery.
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WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids indeed...
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WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids indeed...
!! Nightmare Fuel for the comics
!! Nightmare Fuel for the comics
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* The Brow had a ColdBloodedTorture device consisting of a small mechanical iron maiden that closed around the victim's leg. [[spoiler:Eventually the villain gets caught in it ''by the head.'' He has no choice but to ''tear'' his bleeding head out of it before it can close on him completely.]]
* The Brow hid from the good guys in a box filled with water. He had nothing but a hose for air and a weight to keep him down. Underwater. In the dark. For hours.
* The Brow hid from the good guys in a box filled with water. He had nothing but a hose for air and a weight to keep him down. Underwater. In the dark. For hours.
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** Yanni's death. Turns out that mind-control gas is extremely flammable without constant refrigeration, so when Yanni accidentally spills alcohol on himself while drunk, he burns alive.
** Just the concept of the gas. You lose all free will to the person who gassed you. Made somewhat worse by the fact that the inventor casually mentions he tried to sell it to '''Hitler''' at first.
* The Brow had a ColdBloodedTorture device consisting of a small mechanical iron maiden that closed around the victim's leg. [[spoiler:Eventually the villain gets caught in it ''by the head.'' He has no choice but to ''tear'' his bleeding head out of it before it can close on him completely.]]
* The Brow hid from the good guys in a box filled with water. He had nothing but a hose for air and a weight to keep him down. Underwater. In the dark. For hours.
** Just the concept of the gas. You lose all free will to the person who gassed you. Made somewhat worse by the fact that the inventor casually mentions he tried to sell it to '''Hitler''' at first.
* The Brow had a ColdBloodedTorture device consisting of a small mechanical iron maiden that closed around the victim's leg. [[spoiler:Eventually the villain gets caught in it ''by the head.'' He has no choice but to ''tear'' his bleeding head out of it before it can close on him completely.]]
* The Brow hid from the good guys in a box filled with water. He had nothing but a hose for air and a weight to keep him down. Underwater. In the dark. For hours.
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* In a 1940's storyline (Yanni Yogi), Tracy sends Tess in to see if a couple of fortune tellers are robbing their clients. She creates a diversion by '''pretending to be suicidal''' by ''pointing a gun at her head''. You actually feel a bit sympathetic for the villain as he tries to calm her down. Then it's revealed that they robbed her anyway. Yikes.
** Then it's revealed that the seeming wife/accomplice of Yanni had actually been under his mind control for 2 years, forced to help him commit crimes and ''god knows what else''. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Assuming she wasn't lying to save herself of course.]] Oh, and she's probably still in jail for everything she was most likely forced to do.
** Then it's revealed that the seeming wife/accomplice of Yanni had actually been under his mind control for 2 years, forced to help him commit crimes and ''god knows what else''. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Assuming she wasn't lying to save herself of course.]] Oh, and she's probably still in jail for everything she was most likely forced to do.
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* The various death trapstraps certainly qualify
** The Boulder trap: Tracy is dropped into a hole near a construction site and a boulder is dropped on top of him. To make things worse the Police force (Tracy's Boss, Partner, and various co-workers) show up and are utterly unable to do anything as the boulder drops all the way down the hole (slowly)
** The Ice block trap: Tracy is placed between 2 Ice blocks, a Refrigerator [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice attached to a spike]] is placed on top of the two blocks, with the spike aimed at his heart. The intended result being that the Spike would slowly descend into his heart as the ice melted. To compound the issue, the doors and windows were closed and the oven turned on/opened.
** The Boulder trap: Tracy is dropped into a hole near a construction site and a boulder is dropped on top of him. To make things worse the Police force (Tracy's Boss, Partner, and various co-workers) show up and are utterly unable to do anything as the boulder drops all the way down the hole (slowly)
** The Ice block trap: Tracy is placed between 2 Ice blocks, a Refrigerator [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice attached to a spike]] is placed on top of the two blocks, with the spike aimed at his heart. The intended result being that the Spike would slowly descend into his heart as the ice melted. To compound the issue, the doors and windows were closed and the oven turned on/opened.
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* The Blank's real face.
** Also the general freakish nature of most of Tracy's rogue gallery.
* The Brow had a ColdBloodedTorture device consisting of a small mechanical iron maiden that closed around the victim's leg. [[spoiler:Eventually the villain gets caught in it ''by the head.'' He has no choice but to ''tear'' his bleeding head out of it before it can close on him completely.]]
* The Brow hid from the good guys in a box filled with water. He had nothing but a hose for air and a weight to keep him down. Underwater. In the dark. For hours.
* The various death traps
** Also the general freakish nature of most of Tracy's rogue gallery.
* The Brow had a ColdBloodedTorture device consisting of a small mechanical iron maiden that closed around the victim's leg. [[spoiler:Eventually the villain gets caught in it ''by the head.'' He has no choice but to ''tear'' his bleeding head out of it before it can close on him completely.]]
* The Brow hid from the good guys in a box filled with water. He had nothing but a hose for air and a weight to keep him down. Underwater. In the dark. For hours.
* The various death traps
