History Webcomic / AxeCop

** In the [[TheTeaser Cold Open]] of episode 2 of the animated series, AdolfHitler abducts Chemist M and his daughter to force the former to build an army of zombies in a flashback. What happens to Hitler is left unexplained.

Guaranteed to be [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative the best comic written by a seven-year-old that you'll ever read]].

* HeyItsThatVoice: The motion comic version of Episode 3 has Creator/MauriceLaMarche as Avocado Soldier.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Subverted (in RealLife), as seen [[http://www.facebook.com/axecopfanpage/posts/10150165144328947 here]]. "Well I just spent a month with Malachai writing "Axe Cop VS. Al Qaeda" for nothing!" [Lots of people suggest they go ahead with it anyway, in spite of UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden's just having been killed.] "Okay, I was kidding."

Since then, ''Axe Cop'' has become a veritable phenomenon. In just a matter of months, Axe Cop had accomplished more than this page could possibly recount and a number of the comic's fans -- sorry, the comic's number of fans has exploded. And now it has [[WesternAnimation/AxeCop an animated TV series]] starring the voice of Nick Offerman on July 21, 2013.

->''"One day at the scene of a fire, the cop found the perfect fireman axe. That was the day he became Axe Cop."''
-->-- The opening narration of ''Axe Cop'', episode 1

[[http://axecop.com/ Axe Cop]] is a {{webcomic}} about a CrazyAwesome [[SuperCop police officer]] who uses his WeaponOfChoice to behead every evil he encounters while building an ever-expanding team of do-gooders. That in itself makes the comic notable enough, but there's another secret behind its success: although Axe Cop's adventures are brought to life by the trained hand of a professional comic book artist, the story and characters are directed completely by the overactive imagination of an initially ''5-year-old boy''.

Axe Cop made its internet debut in January of 2010. Originally created just for a select group of family and friends, the Axe Cop comics comprised then 5-year-old Malachai's raw ideas, formatted and illustrated by 29-year-old Ethan. The first four episodes chronicled the adventures of the eponymous hero, starting from the moment he discovered the perfect fireman axe and following him as he quickly grew into a larger than life legend. The strips proved insanely popular, and it was not long until tales of a webcomic written by a 6-year-old and illustrated by a 29-year-old began to spill over on to the internet at large. So popular, in fact, that weeks after its debut, he began taking [[FourthWallMailSlot viewer questions for the side series "Ask Axe Cop"]] which introduced so many more insane concepts and characters that it has become as popular as the main comic, if not more so. Now, Axe Cop is to be published by Creator/DarkHorseComics, with a collection of most of the web material. A three-part miniseries in color, named ''Bad Guy Earth'', was released in March 2011 and features Axe Cop and Dinosaur Soldier fighting the regular police and the army, who are fed up with Axe Cop's extreme methods. And a crossover with (who else?) [[Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja Dr. McNinja]] titled "Stolen Pizza, Stolen Lives" ended in August 2010. An Axe Cop-themed ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' set was released in late 2011.

** Baby Man has his own - "Shake what your baby gave ya!" [[WordSalad Whatever that means]].

** And more recently he has teamed up with the Lolbat from ''Webcomic/PvP''.

* TitleThemeTune: In the animated comics. ''Axe Cop! Axe Cop!! AXE COP!!! Axe Cooop! AXE COP! AXE COP! AXE COP! AXE COOOP!!'' [[TropesAreNotBad Very much a]] CrowningMusicOfAwesome.

** Someone specifically asked Axe Cop how to tell a good guy from a bad guy. Answers included how high they front-kick (only bad guys kick high) and eye color (good guys have green eyes, bad guys red; if you're part good and part bad, one of each.)

* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: Axe Cop (with lobster mental powers), Drag-Tri-Ghostacops Rex, Sockarang(a bum-Santa Claus man with socks for arms that he can shoot as boomerangs), Wexter the Dragon T-Rex with Machine Gun Arms and Rocket Wings, Presty the Teleporting Pug, Ralph Wrinkles the Talking Dog that Knows Karate, the Moon Warriors, the Baby Family, Zombie Lobster Man, Zombie Hasta Mia, Zombie Fishy Fish, the Zombie Cop army and an entire army of superheroes vs. Doctor Doo Doo and his fecal army. It's as awesome as it sounds.

* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:ChuckNorris]] in Ask Axe Cop #12, and Fire Slicer's magic move Fire Dumptruck, which involves scooping bad guys into a truck full of fire.

** Wolver Man is half {{Wolverine}} and half {{Superman}}.

* ProductPlacement: The NintendoDS and ''LegoStarWars'' in Ask Axe Cop #29.
** If Axe Cop ever manages to kill every bad guy and retires, he wants to spend his time playing everyone in the world (and winning) on the NintendoWii.

* ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Unintentionally {{exaggerated}}; not only is every planet within easy flying distance, but Axe Cop can fill a whole planet with bombs or visit everyone in the world during one night. Oh, and the sun can be moved with sun-picking gloves. Basically, a "jillion" or five of whatever thing or unit, it doesn't make much difference in this universe.

** "PEGG!" and "[[MST3K Hai-Keeba]]!"

*** The comic as a whole could be considered one for ''BoboboBoBoBoBo''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Subverted (in RealLife), as seen [[http://www.facebook.com/axecopfanpage/posts/10150165144328947 here]]. "Well I just spent a month with Malachai writing "Axe Cop VS. Al Qaeda" for nothing!" [Lots of people suggest they go ahead with it anyway, in spite of OsamaBinLaden's just having been killed.] "Okay, I was kidding."

** In the ColdOpen of episode 2 of the animated series, AdolfHitler abducts Chemist M and his daughter to force the former to build an army of zombies in a flashback. What happens to Hitler is left unexplained.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: [[http://axecop.com/comic/episode-90/ (Green is the color of good guys)]]

* HandWave: Ethan noted that he keeps forgetting to draw Axe Cop's lobster antennae. According to Axe Cop, they're retractable. Also a SureWhyNot, as fans had suggested that solution.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The motion comic version of Episode 3 has MauriceLaMarche as Avocado Soldier.

* HomoeroticSubtext: In one episode of ''Ask Axe Cop'', Axe Cop gets asked if he'd ever had a kid. He answered that, since he's his best friend, he'd turn Sockarang into a chick and have kids with him/her. This is either [[CrowningMomentOfFunny absolutely hilarious]] or the stuff nightmares are made of. He does the same to AbrahamLincoln.

* HyperactiveMetabolism: Axe Cop eats nothing but cake and wish food, but he's always incredibly fit and ready to fight crime. Then again, it might be subverted: he only sleeps two minutes a day, and spends the other 23 hours and 58 minutes fighting crime. He must burn calories like [[{{Fahrenheit451}} Guy Montag burns books]].

** In the Axecop/[[PvP Lolbat]] crossover, by the second strip, Axey has mistaken Lolbat for a villain, knocked him out, called his superpowers stupid, and come up with a cooler concept for a bat/internet themed hero. Lolbat did not want.

* SplashOfColour: The Night Monster arc includes some orange in addition to the usual black-and-white to illustrate it being the HalloweenEpisode. The ChristmasEpisode uses red and green, and gold weapons are always coloured appropriately.

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: On vacation, Axe Cop loves birthday cake with a candle shaped like him on top.

-->-- The opening narration of Axe Cop, episode 1

* MegaManning: Sockarang gains "the power of Christmas" after getting Bad Santa blood on him.
** Heck, acquiring the special abilities and/or form of something after being bitten/splashed by its blood or juice is one of the major reoccurring themes.

** In episode 53, Good Bad Santa/Sockarang asks Axe Cop where his antennae went. It is {{Hand Wave}}d as being retractable. Axe Cop was last seen with antennae on episode 45

* GambitRoulette: King Evilfastozon throws Uni-Baby at the Earth, certain that the Earthlings will fight her. [[http://axecop.com/comic/episode-7/ Wait, What]]?

[[http://axecop.com/ Axe Cop]] is a [[{{Webcomics}} webcomic]] about a CrazyAwesome [[SuperCop police officer]] who uses his WeaponOfChoice to behead every evil he encounters while building an ever-expanding team of do-gooders. That in itself makes the comic notable enough, but there's another secret behind its success: although Axe Cop's adventures are brought to life by the trained hand of a professional comic book artist, the story and characters are directed completely by the overactive imagination of an initially ''5-year-old boy''.

** A later story arc in ''Ask Axe Cop'' features a crossover with ''LiteratureTheChroniclesOfNarnia''. Yes, really.

[[http://axecop.com/ Axe Cop]] is a {{webcomic}} about a CrazyAwesome [[SuperCop police officer]] who uses his WeaponOfChoice to behead every evil he encounters while building an ever-expanding team of do-gooders. That in itself makes the comic notable enough, but there's another secret behind its success: although Axe Cop's adventures are brought to life by the trained hand of a professional comic book artist, the story and characters are directed completely by the overactive imagination of an initially ''5-year-old boy''.

[[RuleOfFunny It's hilarious]]. [[RuleOfCool It's badass]]. It's beautiful. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome It's awesome]]. It's ''Axe Cop''.

* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: Averted. You want enough potion that turns zombies good for the whole town? It's only 1 dollar. Vacuum capable of sucking up an entire planet? It's only 1 dollar. Mind controls to subjugate evil {{mook}}s? 2 dollars. The most valuable resources in the series thus far seem to be prefab human servants; Chemist M cost $10. This goes out of the window, however, when Axe Cop mentions that three golden weapons (previously never seen for sale) costing ''one thousand'' dollars is considered a good deal.

* AndZoidberg: The brief, pointless appearances of Mr. Stocker.

** BlackAndGreyMorality: The protagonist is a borderline maniac, and the only way anyone knows how to solve problems is through violence. On the other hand, the bad guys are all either [[CardCarryingVillain Card Carrying Villains]] or irredeemable.

* CrackPairing: In-Universe: Axe Cop and AbrahamLincoln. [[http://axecop.com/comic/ask-axe-cop-24/ Seriously, it's canon]].

** A later story arc in ''Ask Axe Cop'' features a crossover with ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia''. Yes, really.
** And more recently he has teamed up with the Lolbat from ''PvP''.

* CurbStompBattle: Axe Cop gives one to ''ChuckNorris'', of all people. Then again, the book states that Malachai didn't know Chuck was such a MemeticBadass and had just heard of him as "some guy who knows karate".

* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: [[spoiler:Axe Cop sets ChuckNorris on fire and chops his head off]].

** In [[http://axecop.com/comic/ask-axe-cop-79/ Ask Axe Cop #79]], the cops' names are [[{{WesternAnimation/Cars}} Officer Lightning and Seargent McQueen]].

** Weapons are invariably more powerful when [[BlingBlingBang made of gold]]. And yes, a GoldenAxe has appeared. There's even been a golden [[ChainsawGood ''chainsaw'']]. Sockarang uses it to cut the head off of the Vampire Man Baby Kid.

** [[http://axecop.com/comic/ask-axe-cop-63/ Axe Cop's favorite singer]] is JohnnyCash, who Malachai learned about in ''RockBand''.

* TheCameo: Probably the two most badass cameos you could think off: ''ChuckNorris and Franchise/{{Batman}}''. [[spoiler: Axe Cop defeats Chuck Norris, but even he concedes that Batman is actually someone you want to emulate if you want to become a crime fighter]].

* CaptainErsatz: After Uni-Man [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] and gets a LanternJawOfJustice, several fans have noted he looks like the DCAnimatedUniverse version of [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Jim Gordon]].

** [[http://axecop.com/comic/episode-77/ Wolver Man]] is {{Wolverine}} with {{Superman}}'s hair style.

** [[http://axecop.com/comic/axe-cop-presents-6/ Little Chuchu]] is Malachai's ''LittleLulu'' fan comic with all of the names slightly changed.

* FinalBoss: In spite of this not being a video game, some opponents are conceptualised as bosses as if it were, such as the giant zombie robot in "The Ultimate Battle".

* IGotARock: At once point the team visits Uni-Man for new weapons. Ghost Cop gets a gun that shoots [[AbnormalAmmo tornadoes and unicorns]]. Sockarang gets a gun that shoots anything you want, such as armour, onto you. Axe Cop gets a plunger. Later subverted; the plunger was [[spoiler:ChekhovsGun]].

* LiteralGenie: Sockarang uses a unicorn horn to wish for every weapon--and then asks Axe Cop to fetch a chainsaw. This only works once you remember that chainsaws are meant as tools.

** Army Chihuahua's squad partner who was killed by Chicken Head was named Sergeant T. Ethan chose to draw and write him as ''[[Creator/MrT Mr]]''. [[Creator/MrT T]].

* TooManyBabies: [[http://axecop.com/comic/episode-81/ The Beautiful Girly Bobs]], identical decatuplet superheroes that are all denied service in Axe Cop's team.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn After all of the zombies were converted and promoted to cops]], [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere the ground crumbles]] and reveals [[FinalBoss the boss of the zombies]]: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_41/ a giant robot zombie]]]]. Axe Cop seems to be expecting it.

** Each time the Bad Guy can be killed with specific item only, one person on Axe Cop's team will have exact this item. Or will be buying it in the shop right now.

* DesignatedVillain: Telescope Gun Cop, at first. He never actually does anything evil until ''after'' he's dubbed a villain.

** According to [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acguest/read/AC_MC3 this strip]], Axe Cop is the smartest man in the world. So he's the smartest Earthling.

* MrImagination: Malachai, and [[CrazyAwesome it shows]]. To quote [[http://www.chopcast.com/2010/05/chop-4-wa-poom/ the Chop! podcast]], "this kid's got so much creativity it hurts."

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_21/ Ask Axe Cop #21]] says that Axe Cop was inspired to be a police officer after he killed a bad guy with a poisonous apple and realized he could kill bad guys all day and night.
** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_43/ Ask Axe Cop #43]] has young Axey chopping the head off a rabbit "who had been breaking all the rabbit rules". All the other rabbits hailed him as a hero, inspiring him to give up his heretofore-unmentioned dream of being a fireman to take up a career as a police officer instead.
** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_74/ Ask Axe Cop #74]] has him inspired to be an axe fighter by his childhood hero "Uncle Axe", a fictional character on a TV show.
** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_79/ Ask Axe Cop #79]] has him recruited by police officers after he ran over a bad guy while working as a cab driver, and he later struck out on his own due to finding fighting bad guys with a gun to be boring.

** '''''[[http://axecop.com/index.php/acguest/read/AC_MC2/ LET'S GO]].'''''

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_31/ Be wary of your girlfriend's activity. She might be hiding one of these]].
** Even Axe Cop's butler has [[PunnyName such a name]]: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_50/ Al Punch You In The Face]]

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acpresents/read/axe_cop_presents_6 ZOMBIE INDIANS ON SEGWAYS]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_75/ Bat Warthog Man's original form]] greatly resembles Creator/RodSerling.

* OffhandBackhand: An advised awesome move to present to Axe Cop [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_11/ if you wish to join his team]].
* {{Omniglot}}: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_41/ The moon warriors know every human and alien language]]

** Axe Cop's station also has [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_23/ the more traditional variant]].

* PerspectiveFlip: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_53/ Zombie Fishy Fish's favorite video game]] is ''[[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies Zombies vs. Plants]]'', as rendered by the author of the original game himself.

** And now this trope appears to be approaching its conclusion as [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_23/ chapter 3 starts with his authority being challenged]] by yet another NinjaPirateZombieRobot newcomer. He responds by growing lobster antennae to develop a SpiderSense.

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: "[[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_39/ Happy Die Day, redcoats]]!"

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acpresents/read/axe_cop_presents_4/ Jack and John]] depend on Google for the logistics of their zombie-hunting mission.
** Later we have [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_83 Dr. Googleman vs. Dr. Yahoo]] who fight each other using search engine dwarves.
** Was eventually [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_46/ subverted]]:

* ProjectilePlatforms: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_11/ The awesome blade gun depicted here]].

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/axe_cop_presents_1/ Jack and John]] are hardened vampire zombie hunters, but they're not afraid to telephone God for help frequently. God, in turn, asks for their help as well.

** If he had three wishes, Axe Cop would make this [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_57/ one of his wishes]].

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_44/ Die by the power of dying!]]
** Bat Warthog Man [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_76/ wears his bat warthog mask to cover up the fact that every night, his head turns into that of a bat warthog]]. Justified: His mask is more stylized in comparison to his grotesque head.
** Axe Cop's list of bad guys he has to kill has an [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_28/ (unknown) headed head]].

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_24 Episode 24]] has who appears to be JhonenVasquez walking his dog in the background.
** In [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_79/ Ask Axe Cop #74]], the cops' names are [[{{WesternAnimation/Cars}} Officer Lightning and Seargent McQueen]].

* SingleTargetSexuality: [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Possibly]] Sockarang, since he's [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/comments/ask_axe_cop_52/P25/ in love with the Best Fairy Ever despite hating girls]].

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acguest/read/guest_episode_6/ Guest episode 6]], described by Ethan as "opposite anything an Axe Cop comic would ever, or should ever be."
* SpinoffBabies: The concept is mocked, along with the ExecutiveMeddling that would birth it and subsequently ruin it, in [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acguest/read/guest_episode_30/ guest episode #30.]]

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/axe_cop_presents_1/ Axe Cop Presents: Jack & John, Vampire Zombie Killers]]
** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/axe_cop_presents_2/ Axe Cop Presents: Secret Agent Brothers: The Secret Missions of Secret Agent I and Secret Agent M]].

* {{Superdickery}}: The Night Monster [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_72/ uses an Axe Cop costume to kidnap babies]].

* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_41/ Enforced for some reason]].

* ToBeAMaster: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_46/ Axe Cop went to Jumping School over and over]] until he took the world record for jump height, displacing his own teacher for the title.

* TooManyBabies: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_81/ The Beautiful Girly Bobs]], identical decatuplet superheroes that are all denied service in Axe Cop's team.

* ViewerFriendlyInterface: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acpresents/read/axe_cop_presents_4/ When Jack and John]] searches the internet for where the zombies are hiding, the answer is "ZOMBIES ARE IN THE SECRET STATE" over a map of the United States.
* VillainByDefault: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_81/ Bad Guys.]]

* ButThouMust: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/19p6/ Dr. [=McNinja=] is obligated to join the team of anyone who presses the secret button]], even if a bad guy presses it. But don't worry, if that ever happens, Axe Cop will chop off his head and then the heads of the bad guys so that [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Dr. [=McNinja=] can heal himself with his doctor powers]].

* ConvectionSchmonvection: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_22/ Sun picking up gloves]] are all you need to safely pick up the sun.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_18/ Axe Cop recommends taking unruly children to one of his Learn-Outs]].

* CrackPairing: In-Universe: Axe Cop and AbrahamLincoln. [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_24 Seriously, it's canon]].
* CrazyPrepared: Axe Cop seems to NEED this level of preparation to survive. He winds up with 1,050 poisoned candies on Halloween due to tampering from villains, and bad guys manage to sneak into his house to try and kill him during the two minutes he sleeps each night.

* CreatorCameo: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_80/ The security guard]] who ''loves'' stunts so much he will pay to watch them for hours is intended to be Ethan, according to WordOfGod in the episode's comments box.

* DaChief: Parodied in [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acguest/read/axe_cop_guest_episode_2/ a guest episode]] with Axe Chief.

* DanceBattler: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_49/ Axe Cop can do fighting dance moves]], [[ThemeMusicPowerUp but only to his own music]].

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_50/ Whatever you do]], [[SeriousBusiness do]] ''[[SeriousBusiness not]]'' [[SeriousBusiness forget the Axe Cop candle on his birthday cake]].
* DoesntLikeGuns: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_37/ Ask Axe Cop #37]] might explain why he rarely uses them.

* EldritchAbomination: The [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_71/ Night Monsters]] in the Halloween Special. They're your basic Lovecraftian horrors lying on the void of space. When a Night Monster catches a baby, it turns it into a Baby Night Monster which then digs into a planet's core to grow into a Full Night Monster. They can also sneak up on people and scare them.

** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/19p5 The Book of Killing Stinky People]]. Subverted in that [[spoiler:its contents don't contain the key to killing stinky people, it has to be literally launched at such a person to kill them]].

* FaceOfAThug: The good mermaids have evil-looking faces. [[spoiler:This oversight costs one of them her head when Axe Cop happens by their gathering. [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_20/ Fortunately]], she gets better]].

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_43/ If you're a rabbit, break the rabbit rules and you'll pay for it with your head]].

* FoodFight: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_25/ A magic food fight]]!
* ForMassiveDamage: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_45/ Courtesy of the Axe Cop Fire Gang]]!

* GambitRoulette: King Evilfastozon throws Uni-Baby at the Earth, certain that the Earthlings will fight her. [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_7/ Wait, What]]?

* GISSyndrome: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acpresents/read/axe_cop_presents_4/ Jack & John episode 2]] uses a photo of the U.S. Capitol instead of a drawing of one.

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/axe_cop_presents_3/ One of the evil bosses]] that the Secret Agent Brothers confront is crushed by his own doom machine.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_39/ Book Cop]].

* InformedAbility: Telescope Gun Cop, at first. He never actually does anything evil until ''after'' he's dubbed a villain.

* {{Inversion}}: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/mal1/ For one comic]], Malachai illustrated and Ethan wrote.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Bat Warthog Man only assumes his bat warthog form at night, because that's when bats are awake. In the day, he's normal. As a result, he can only fight crime during the night. [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_76/ That is the law of the Bat and Warthog]].

* KirbyDots: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_22/ Emitted by the Sun Picking-Up Gloves]].

* LargeHam: Axe Cop himself, in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZquaoUMfIc animated version]]. "'''I WILL CHOP YOUR HEADS OFF!!!!!'''"

* LiteralMinded: Axe Cop's "axe" (in a rock band he fronts) is , well, his axe.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acblog/read/year_one_prints_now_for_sale/ Axe Cop Year One]] is a testament to the versatility of Malachai's imagination.

[[http://www.axecop.com/ Axe Cop]] is a {{webcomic}} about a CrazyAwesome [[SuperCop police officer]] who uses his WeaponOfChoice to behead every evil he encounters while building an ever-expanding team of do-gooders. That in itself makes the comic notable enough, but there's another secret behind its success: although Axe Cop's adventures are brought to life by the trained hand of a professional comic book artist, the story and characters are directed completely by the overactive imagination of an initially ''5-year-old boy''.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_26/ Evil Baby Bobblehead Battle at Big Beach Castle]].

* AndThatsTerrible: Turned up in a guest strip: "All he did all day was eat planets. [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acguest/read/guest_episode_33 It wasn't nice]]."

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_37/ Axe Cop got a plunger]].

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_63/ Axe Cop's favorite singer]] is JohnnyCash, who Malachai learned about in ''RockBand''.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_10/ AXE COP 2012]]. Although, as he points out, [[AndThenWhat it's probably for the best he doesn't]].

* BadassBoast: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_30/ Axe Cop & co.'s battle cries]].
** "[[http://axecop.com/index.php/acguest/read/AC_MC3/ I'm the smartest man in the world]]."
** From [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_87/ episode 87]]:

* BadassMustache: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_32/ With powers all its own]]!
** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_39/ And then there's his ancestor's gloriously pointy and curvy mustache]].

* BattleButler: Axe Cop's butler, [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_50/ Al Punch You In The Face]], is presumably one.

* BearsAreBadNews: ''[[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/mal1/ The Moon Warriors Go Camping]]'' and [[spoiler:meet their demise by The God of All Bears]].

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Good guys are good, Bad guys are bad. More accurately, [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_15/ bad guys have mean looking faces]], while almost all the good guys have shades.

* BloodyHilarious: In ''[[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_99/ The Funny Episode]]'', we see that Axe Cop and Dinosaur Soldier's idea of a prank is to go back in time and murder innocent warriors.

* BondOneLiner: "[[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_12/ I almost forgot... to chop your head off]]!"
* BoringButPractical: When faced with a financial crisis, [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_80/ Axe Cop suggests that he could simply have Uni-Man wish for money]], [[AvertedTrope but of course that won't do in a webcomic like this]].
* BowtiesAreCool: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_82/ Chemist M wears one]]. In that episode's comments, Ethan writes that Malachai agrees with this trope to the point that he wears one in his school photo.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/axe_cop_presents_2/ The Secret Agent Brothers]] depend entirely on mind control to complete their missions.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_63/ Ask Axe Cop #63 has Axe Cop literally meet his makers.]]

* BritishRoyalFamily: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_58/ The Queen of England]] can grant biting powers.
* BrownNote: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_36/ Axe Cop's albums are toxic to villainous ears]]. In fact, many things are dangerously volatile when brought into contact with bad guys, or cause disguised bad guys to inadvertently reveal that they're bad guys, or are otherwise so foreign to bad guys that being a bad guy with some kind of superpower is really the only way for a villain to get ahead. Life for a vanilla bad guy in Axe Cop's world is kind of a raw deal.

* ButThouMust: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/19p6 Dr. [=McNinja=] is obligated to join the team of anyone who presses the secret button]], even if a bad guy presses it. But don't worry, if that ever happens, Axe Cop will chop off his head and then the heads of the bad guys so that [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Dr. [=McNinja=] can heal himself with his doctor powers]].

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_77/ Wolver Man]] is {{Wolverine}} with {{Superman}}'s hair style.

** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acpresents/read/axe_cop_presents_6 Little Chuchu]] is Malachai's ''LittleLulu'' fan comic with all of the names slightly changed.
** [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_140/ Hell Chicken]] is basically what ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} would be like if he was a chicken.

* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's]] [[spoiler:[[ChekhovsGun Plunger]]]]: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_37/ As]] [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_63/ seen]] [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_64/ in episodes 63--64]].

* ChristmasSpecial: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/xmas2010/ Featuring the Snoward family in their first appearance since episode 6]].

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_90/ (Green is the color of good guys)]]

* AltText: Since episode #84.

* [[AxCrazy Axe Crazy]]: Yes, everybody and everything in the comic is crazy, but the eponymous character is the only one (so far) who, in addition to being crazy, has an ax(e), so...

* CowboyCop: In the webcomic, there are ''no'' {{By The Book Cop}}s in the Axe Cop universe. [[IncrediblyLamePun Unless you count Book Cop]].

* XMeetsY: ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' combined with ''DragonBall'' and [[{{FLCL}} every]] [[GurrenLagann major]] {{Gainax}} [[HanamaruKindergarten production]] sans ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
** Ethan described Axe Cop himself as a cross between Franchise/{{Batman}} and Characters/BugsBunny.