History Series / TheTick2016

* SuperWeight:
** Arthur is on the low end of Muggle Weight, though his suit brings him up to Super Weight ([[HowDoIShootWeb once he figures out how to use it, anyway]]).
** The Terror is also Muggle Weight, relying on planning and underlings to punch high above his class.
** Overkill initially seems to be Iron Weight but is eventually revealed to be Abnormal Weight, enjoying slightly enhanced strength, speed and healing.
** [[spoiler: Dot]] is Abnormal Weight, having occasional precognitive flashes of the near future.
** Miss Lint, who can [[PsychoElectro generate and manipulate electricity,]] is Super Weight.
** The Tick is at the high end of Super Weight - he appears to be capable of surviving anything and of breaking down any obstacle in his way, but he usually requires some time to do so.
** Superian is World Weight, at one point seeming convinced that he could ''exterminate all life on Earth'' effectively at will.:

** Superian is World Weight, at one point seeming convinced that he could ''exterminate all life on Earth'' effectively at will.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** As a child, Arthur witnesses the murder of his father and childhood heroes at the hands of The Terror before [[spoiler:the killer [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking eats young Arthur's ice cream]]]]. Arthur has crippling neuroses as an adult, a long history with medications and trouble holding down jobs, and his sister is legally his caretaker.
** Overkill is the only superhero who kills criminals. This warrants a rather cautious reception from other heroes who don't follow his code while the general public considers him an unstable individual.
** While Arthur assists The Tick and Overkill in taking down Ramses, the series never fails to point out that, despite the suit, he's still a regular person with no superhero or fighting experience and spends the bulk of the series trying to figure out how the suit works. So it will take some time before he really [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]].
** The series shows what happens when a superhero universe doesn't bend to the status quo that your regular superhero universe does. Even though the attack on The Flag Five was decades ago, the city is still reeling from the events of that attack, and The Tick, Overkill, and Arthur's heroic actions have consequences.
** When a hero's secret identity is revealed to the public, a super villain would not hesitate in going after their friends and family the moment the hero is in no position to protect them.
** [[spoiler: Despite being the worlds most powerful superhero and an unaging needless superbeing, decades of fighting The Terror left Superian sick to the point of mental exhaustion of their neverending battle. When it seemed like The Terror was finally killed once and for all he chose to believe he really was dead than entertain the idea he was still alive because Superian just wanted it to be over.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Superian reenacts the "first flight" love scene from ''Film/{{Superman}}'' with E. Morgan Pearl (while [[ShoutOut reciting the words from]] Maureen [=McGovern's=] "Can You Read My Mind?" ("Just a friend from another star...") in his InnerMonologue. It's played for drama when Pearl (who Superian didn't bother to ask permission from first) is ''terrified'' of being dragged through the air at breakneck speeds.

** Superian shouts out to the various Donner ''Film/{{Superman}}'' films: showing E. Morgan Pearl what it's like to fly in a recreation of Superman's first flight with Lois in the first movie (resulting in Pearl, not consulted beforehand and thinking [[BewareTheSuperman Superian has gone berserk]], shrieking in terror the whole way); suggesting throwing all of Earth's nuclear weapons into the sun (which actually happened in ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace''; and finally [[spoiler:deciding to see if he can reverse time by flying around the Earth so fast that he reverses its orbit -- fully aware that, if he gets it even ''slightly'' wrong, every living creature on the planet will be sent hurtling into the void of space]].

* SpiritualAdaptation: This is ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' to Season One's ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Subverted with the AEGIS anthem, which is just "Scotland the Brave" without any changes. Except maybe played worse.

* CharacterRerailment: While by no means inaccurate in Season One, this happens for the setting as a whole with the introduction of many more wackier and weirder individuals to the City.

* TheCameo: Creator/WhoopiGoldberg appears as herself talking to Superian in her (fictional) talk show ''[[ExcitedShowTitle Whoop!]]''.

->''"Hello world, this is The Tick! Don't worry--I'm not in outer space. I'm not even in this yet! But I know what's coming--an epic tale, rife with destiny, adventure and blood loss. The ultimate struggle of light against darkness. Of good against evil. Of...neat."''

** The scene where The Tick tries moving (and breaking) objects around Arthur's apartment in an attempt to find a trigger that reveals a secret lair hearkens back to [[WesternAnimation/TheTick the cartoon]]'s first episode where Tick does the exact same thing in the exact same place.

** The series shows what happens when a superhero universe doesn't bend to the StatusQuo that your regular superhero universe does. Even though the attack on The Flag Five was decades ago, the city is still reeling from the events of that attack, and The Tick, Overkill, and Arthur's heroic actions have consequences.

* HighConcept: What if Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy starred the Creator/AdamWest Series/{{Batman|1966}}?

* RealityEnsues: While Tick's SuperStrength is enough to hold the weight of a bus, he can only grab it by two relatively small point: his hands. The bus is still in danger as it is tearing itself free around his hands.

Arthur comes to the conclusion that the Terror is running The City from underground. However, as he tries to blow the lid off the conspiracy, things take a turn for the bizarre when he inadvertently sparks the interest of a big, blue, [[NighInvulnerability nigh-invulnerable]], [[LargeHam shamelessly hammy]] and rather enigmatic superhero who calls himself The Tick (Peter Serafinowicz). But can Arthur and The Tick really save The City from its own seedy underbelly? Or are the two of them (especially Arthur) truly in over their heads?

This take on ''The Tick'' appeared as a part of Amazon Prime's Fall Pilot Season of 2016 in August 19, 2016 and was picked up for a full series on September 27, 2016. The series premiered on 25 August, 2017 and was renewed for a second season on 17 January, 2018.

On 16 May, 2019, the show was announced as canceled by Amazon.

* RealityEnsues:
** As a child, Arthur witnesses the murder of his father and childhood heroes at the hands of The Terror before [[spoiler:the killer [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking eats young Arthur's ice cream]]]]. Arthur has crippling neuroses as an adult, a long history with medications and trouble holding down jobs, and his sister is legally his caretaker.
** Overkill is the only superhero who kills criminals. This warrants a rather cautious reception from other heroes who don't follow his code while the general public considers him an unstable individual.
** While Arthur assists The Tick and Overkill in taking down Ramses, the series never fails to point out that, despite the suit, he's still a regular person with no superhero or fighting experience and spends the bulk of the series trying to figure out how the suit works. So it will take some time before he really [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]].
** The series shows what happens when a superhero universe doesn't bend to the StatusQuo that your regular superhero universe does. Even though the attack on The Flag Five was decades ago, the city is still reeling from the events of that attack, and The Tick, Overkill, and Arthur's heroic actions have consequences.
** When a hero's secret identity is revealed to the public, a super villain would not hesitate in going after their friends and family the moment the hero is in no position to protect them.
** [[spoiler: Despite being the worlds most powerful superhero and an unaging needless superbeing, decades of fighting The Terror left Superian sick to the point of mental exhaustion of their neverending battle. When it seemed like The Terror was finally killed once and for all he chose to believe he really was dead than entertain the idea he was still alive because Superian just wanted it to be over.]]

* CantDefaultToMurder: After The Tick saves Overkill's life, Overkill decides [[IOweYouMyLife his life now belongs to The Tick]], as The Tick being NighInvulnerable means there's no way he can repay him in kind. Tick decides to cash in the debt by ordering Overkill to stop killing people, who is horrified and disgusted but still forced to agree. In a later episode, Dot points out that she too has saved Overkill's life and uses ''that'' life debt to erase the no-kill order.