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* IdiotPlot: In the "Victory" arc, the Council of Nike cuts off Winged Victory from a significant portion of her power, inhibiting her ability to prove her innocence and nearly discrediting her entire female-empowerment organization... all because they disapprove of her relationship with Samaritan and her membership in the male-dominated Honor Guard.
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* NightmareFuel: Gormenghast, and what he does to Crackerjack. The man may have been a jerk, [[spoiler:but violently harvesting him for tissue samples to make an army of clones isn't what anyone deserves.]]
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* NightmareFuel: Gormenghast, and what he does to Crackerjack. The man may have been a jerk, [[spoiler:but violently harvesting him for tissue samples to make an army of clones isn't what anyone deserves.]]
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* TearJerker: There's a ''lot'' of tragedy behind the scenes in ''Astro City''. A lot of characters, even the ones who seem like they're doing great, are suffering for one reason or another.
** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a CosmicRetcon that ''erased his wife.''
** 'The Tarnished Angel' is a ReformedButRejected story, tragic because the ex-supervillain would be content with so little.
*** And the story-within-the-story "Voice of the Turtle," ends with a HopeSpot... but [[spoiler: the Turtle's the next victim of the hidden killer]].
** The Silver Agent's career ends in a way that was hinted at in the very beginning of the series: being executed by the state for a crime he didn't commit. And, as revealed in ''The Dark Age'' and his later two-issue focus arc, the Agent knew of his tragic death (because of time travel) and went to his death anyway, to avoid a BadFuture.
** Beautie's focus story, "Her Dark Plastic Roots", reveals that the robotic member of Honor Guard suffers from continuous loneliness (even though she doesn't understand the emotion) as well as inevitable 'amnesia' when she gets close to discovering her own secret origin.
** Then there's the anguish Crackerjack and Quarrel go through as time starts catching up with them. Watching them as they accept and deny the effects of time on their skills will hit home for older readers.
** The story of G-Dog, a superhero who's a FusionDance of a man and his pet corgi, using the same magical amulet that had belonged to Stormhawk (from "Sorrowsday"). The guy had been a petty criminal and had taken the dog as collateral from a drug addict who owed him money (who had himself stolen the dog from a breeder). Having the dog as a companion slowly begins to change him into a better person, but after stealing the amulet and stumbling across its power, he does a complete HeelFaceTurn as he gains an empathic bond with his dog, and feels guilty about committing crimes. The two begin fighting crime as G-Dog, the man goes back to school, gets a job and even gets married, and attributes all the positive changes in his life to his pet. Unfortunately, eventually the dog begins to grow old, and finally passes away from cancer at 17. The man doesn't lose his powers, as they're a permanent side effect of the amulet, but he's absolutely devastated by the loss of his beloved companion. In the end, rather than bonding with a new animal, he leaves the amulet out in the wilderness where Stormhawk had once found it, in the hopes that it will benefit someone else as much as it had him.
** While it eventually became more bittersweet, the original fate of Loony Leo was absolutely tear-drenched. Originally a cartoon character brought to life during a battle between a MadScientist and The Gentleman in a movie theater, Leo ended up becoming real thanks to the belief of the audience and became a bit of a sidekick to The Gentleman for a while, and eventually went into show business, but even after his career fell apart and he developed a drinking problem, the real kicker didnt come until he reveals what really drives his depression; he misses his girlfriend and three newphews, the side characters from his cartoon adventures. He has loving memories of people who never actually existed.
** The true nature of The Gentleman: [[spoiler: He's actually just a mental projection of a little girl, made to look like her father who died during an alien invasion in the 30's. He looks and acts the way she remembers her father, a kind, powerful man who helps anyone in need. She even keeps herself the same age with her powers, thinking that while she probably wants to grow up and mature, the world needs the Gentleman more than it needs another normal adult]]
** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a CosmicRetcon that ''erased his wife.''
** 'The Tarnished Angel' is a ReformedButRejected story, tragic because the ex-supervillain would be content with so little.
*** And the story-within-the-story "Voice of the Turtle," ends with a HopeSpot... but [[spoiler: the Turtle's the next victim of the hidden killer]].
** The Silver Agent's career ends in a way that was hinted at in the very beginning of the series: being executed by the state for a crime he didn't commit. And, as revealed in ''The Dark Age'' and his later two-issue focus arc, the Agent knew of his tragic death (because of time travel) and went to his death anyway, to avoid a BadFuture.
** Beautie's focus story, "Her Dark Plastic Roots", reveals that the robotic member of Honor Guard suffers from continuous loneliness (even though she doesn't understand the emotion) as well as inevitable 'amnesia' when she gets close to discovering her own secret origin.
** Then there's the anguish Crackerjack and Quarrel go through as time starts catching up with them. Watching them as they accept and deny the effects of time on their skills will hit home for older readers.
** The story of G-Dog, a superhero who's a FusionDance of a man and his pet corgi, using the same magical amulet that had belonged to Stormhawk (from "Sorrowsday"). The guy had been a petty criminal and had taken the dog as collateral from a drug addict who owed him money (who had himself stolen the dog from a breeder). Having the dog as a companion slowly begins to change him into a better person, but after stealing the amulet and stumbling across its power, he does a complete HeelFaceTurn as he gains an empathic bond with his dog, and feels guilty about committing crimes. The two begin fighting crime as G-Dog, the man goes back to school, gets a job and even gets married, and attributes all the positive changes in his life to his pet. Unfortunately, eventually the dog begins to grow old, and finally passes away from cancer at 17. The man doesn't lose his powers, as they're a permanent side effect of the amulet, but he's absolutely devastated by the loss of his beloved companion. In the end, rather than bonding with a new animal, he leaves the amulet out in the wilderness where Stormhawk had once found it, in the hopes that it will benefit someone else as much as it had him.
** While it eventually became more bittersweet, the original fate of Loony Leo was absolutely tear-drenched. Originally a cartoon character brought to life during a battle between a MadScientist and The Gentleman in a movie theater, Leo ended up becoming real thanks to the belief of the audience and became a bit of a sidekick to The Gentleman for a while, and eventually went into show business, but even after his career fell apart and he developed a drinking problem, the real kicker didnt come until he reveals what really drives his depression; he misses his girlfriend and three newphews, the side characters from his cartoon adventures. He has loving memories of people who never actually existed.
** The true nature of The Gentleman: [[spoiler: He's actually just a mental projection of a little girl, made to look like her father who died during an alien invasion in the 30's. He looks and acts the way she remembers her father, a kind, powerful man who helps anyone in need. She even keeps herself the same age with her powers, thinking that while she probably wants to grow up and mature, the world needs the Gentleman more than it needs another normal adult]]
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* TearJerker: There's a ''lot'' of tragedy behind the scenes in ''Astro City''. A lot of characters, even the ones who seem like they're doing great, are suffering for one reason or another.
** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a CosmicRetcon that ''erased his wife.''
** 'The Tarnished Angel' is a ReformedButRejected story, tragic because the ex-supervillain would be content with so little.
*** And the story-within-the-story "Voice of the Turtle," ends with a HopeSpot... but [[spoiler: the Turtle's the next victim of the hidden killer]].
** The Silver Agent's career ends in a way that was hinted at in the very beginning of the series: being executed by the state for a crime he didn't commit. And, as revealed in ''The Dark Age'' and his later two-issue focus arc, the Agent knew of his tragic death (because of time travel) and went to his death anyway, to avoid a BadFuture.
** Beautie's focus story, "Her Dark Plastic Roots", reveals that the robotic member of Honor Guard suffers from continuous loneliness (even though she doesn't understand the emotion) as well as inevitable 'amnesia' when she gets close to discovering her own secret origin.
** Then there's the anguish Crackerjack and Quarrel go through as time starts catching up with them. Watching them as they accept and deny the effects of time on their skills will hit home for older readers.
** The story of G-Dog, a superhero who's a FusionDance of a man and his pet corgi, using the same magical amulet that had belonged to Stormhawk (from "Sorrowsday"). The guy had been a petty criminal and had taken the dog as collateral from a drug addict who owed him money (who had himself stolen the dog from a breeder). Having the dog as a companion slowly begins to change him into a better person, but after stealing the amulet and stumbling across its power, he does a complete HeelFaceTurn as he gains an empathic bond with his dog, and feels guilty about committing crimes. The two begin fighting crime as G-Dog, the man goes back to school, gets a job and even gets married, and attributes all the positive changes in his life to his pet. Unfortunately, eventually the dog begins to grow old, and finally passes away from cancer at 17. The man doesn't lose his powers, as they're a permanent side effect of the amulet, but he's absolutely devastated by the loss of his beloved companion. In the end, rather than bonding with a new animal, he leaves the amulet out in the wilderness where Stormhawk had once found it, in the hopes that it will benefit someone else as much as it had him.
** While it eventually became more bittersweet, the original fate of Loony Leo was absolutely tear-drenched. Originally a cartoon character brought to life during a battle between a MadScientist and The Gentleman in a movie theater, Leo ended up becoming real thanks to the belief of the audience and became a bit of a sidekick to The Gentleman for a while, and eventually went into show business, but even after his career fell apart and he developed a drinking problem, the real kicker didnt come until he reveals what really drives his depression; he misses his girlfriend and three newphews, the side characters from his cartoon adventures. He has loving memories of people who never actually existed.
** The true nature of The Gentleman: [[spoiler: He's actually just a mental projection of a little girl, made to look like her father who died during an alien invasion in the 30's. He looks and acts the way she remembers her father, a kind, powerful man who helps anyone in need. She even keeps herself the same age with her powers, thinking that while she probably wants to grow up and mature, the world needs the Gentleman more than it needs another normal adult]]TearJerker:
** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a CosmicRetcon that ''erased his wife.''
** 'The Tarnished Angel' is a ReformedButRejected story, tragic because the ex-supervillain would be content with so little.
*** And the story-within-the-story "Voice of the Turtle," ends with a HopeSpot... but [[spoiler: the Turtle's the next victim of the hidden killer]].
** The Silver Agent's career ends in a way that was hinted at in the very beginning of the series: being executed by the state for a crime he didn't commit. And, as revealed in ''The Dark Age'' and his later two-issue focus arc, the Agent knew of his tragic death (because of time travel) and went to his death anyway, to avoid a BadFuture.
** Beautie's focus story, "Her Dark Plastic Roots", reveals that the robotic member of Honor Guard suffers from continuous loneliness (even though she doesn't understand the emotion) as well as inevitable 'amnesia' when she gets close to discovering her own secret origin.
** Then there's the anguish Crackerjack and Quarrel go through as time starts catching up with them. Watching them as they accept and deny the effects of time on their skills will hit home for older readers.
** The story of G-Dog, a superhero who's a FusionDance of a man and his pet corgi, using the same magical amulet that had belonged to Stormhawk (from "Sorrowsday"). The guy had been a petty criminal and had taken the dog as collateral from a drug addict who owed him money (who had himself stolen the dog from a breeder). Having the dog as a companion slowly begins to change him into a better person, but after stealing the amulet and stumbling across its power, he does a complete HeelFaceTurn as he gains an empathic bond with his dog, and feels guilty about committing crimes. The two begin fighting crime as G-Dog, the man goes back to school, gets a job and even gets married, and attributes all the positive changes in his life to his pet. Unfortunately, eventually the dog begins to grow old, and finally passes away from cancer at 17. The man doesn't lose his powers, as they're a permanent side effect of the amulet, but he's absolutely devastated by the loss of his beloved companion. In the end, rather than bonding with a new animal, he leaves the amulet out in the wilderness where Stormhawk had once found it, in the hopes that it will benefit someone else as much as it had him.
** While it eventually became more bittersweet, the original fate of Loony Leo was absolutely tear-drenched. Originally a cartoon character brought to life during a battle between a MadScientist and The Gentleman in a movie theater, Leo ended up becoming real thanks to the belief of the audience and became a bit of a sidekick to The Gentleman for a while, and eventually went into show business, but even after his career fell apart and he developed a drinking problem, the real kicker didnt come until he reveals what really drives his depression; he misses his girlfriend and three newphews, the side characters from his cartoon adventures. He has loving memories of people who never actually existed.
** The true nature of The Gentleman: [[spoiler: He's actually just a mental projection of a little girl, made to look like her father who died during an alien invasion in the 30's. He looks and acts the way she remembers her father, a kind, powerful man who helps anyone in need. She even keeps herself the same age with her powers, thinking that while she probably wants to grow up and mature, the world needs the Gentleman more than it needs another normal adult]]
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* ItWasHisSled: It's pretty well known even to non-readers that Confessor [[spoiler: is actually a vampire.]]
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* HarsherInHindsight: In the "Victory" arc, Winged Victory is accused of EngineeredHeroics, leading to her detractors chanting "LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!" A few years later, "Lock her up!" would become a major slogan in the Donald Trump Presidential campaign against Hillary Clinton.
* ItWasHisSled: It's pretty well known even to non-readers that Confessor[[spoiler: is [[spoiler:is actually a vampire.]]
* ItWasHisSled: It's pretty well known even to non-readers that Confessor
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** The story of G-Dog, a superhero who's a FusionDance of a man and his pet corgi, using the same magical amulet that had belonged to Stormhawk (from "Sorrowsday"). The guy had been a petty criminal and had taken the dog as collateral from a drug addict who owed him money (who had himself stolen the dog from a breeder). Having the dog as a companion slowly begins to change him into a better person, but after stealing the amulet and stumbling across its power, he does a complete HeelFaceTurn as he gains an empathic bond with his dog, and feels guilty about committing crimes. The two begin fighting crime as G-Dog, the man goes back to school, gets a job and even gets married, and attributes all the positive changes in his life to his pet. Unfortunately, eventually the dog begins to grow old, and finally passes away from cancer at 17. The man doesn't lose his powers, as they're a permanent side effect of the amulet, but he's absolutely devastated by the loss of his beloved companion. In the end, rather than bonding with a new animal, he leaves the amulet out in the wilderness where Stormhawk had once found it, in the hopes that it will benefit someone else as much as it had him.
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** The story of G-Dog, a superhero who's a FusionDance of a man and his pet corgi, using the same magical amulet that had belonged to Stormhawk (from "Sorrowsday"). The guy had been a petty criminal and had taken the dog as collateral from a drug addict who owed him money (who had himself stolen the dog from a breeder). Having the dog as a companion slowly begins to change him into a better person, but after stealing the amulet and stumbling across its power, he does a complete HeelFaceTurn as he gains an empathic bond with his dog, and feels guilty about committing crimes. The two begin fighting crime as G-Dog, the man goes back to school, gets a job and even gets married, and attributes all the positive changes in his life to his pet. Unfortunately, eventually the dog begins to grow old, and finally passes away from cancer at 17. The man doesn't lose his powers, as they're a permanent side effect of the amulet, but he's absolutely devastated by the loss of his beloved companion. In the end, rather than bonding with a new animal, he leaves the amulet out in the wilderness where Stormhawk had once found it, in the hopes that it will benefit someone else as much as it had him.him.
** While it eventually became more bittersweet, the original fate of Loony Leo was absolutely tear-drenched. Originally a cartoon character brought to life during a battle between a MadScientist and The Gentleman in a movie theater, Leo ended up becoming real thanks to the belief of the audience and became a bit of a sidekick to The Gentleman for a while, and eventually went into show business, but even after his career fell apart and he developed a drinking problem, the real kicker didnt come until he reveals what really drives his depression; he misses his girlfriend and three newphews, the side characters from his cartoon adventures. He has loving memories of people who never actually existed.
** The true nature of The Gentleman: [[spoiler: He's actually just a mental projection of a little girl, made to look like her father who died during an alien invasion in the 30's. He looks and acts the way she remembers her father, a kind, powerful man who helps anyone in need. She even keeps herself the same age with her powers, thinking that while she probably wants to grow up and mature, the world needs the Gentleman more than it needs another normal adult]]
** While it eventually became more bittersweet, the original fate of Loony Leo was absolutely tear-drenched. Originally a cartoon character brought to life during a battle between a MadScientist and The Gentleman in a movie theater, Leo ended up becoming real thanks to the belief of the audience and became a bit of a sidekick to The Gentleman for a while, and eventually went into show business, but even after his career fell apart and he developed a drinking problem, the real kicker didnt come until he reveals what really drives his depression; he misses his girlfriend and three newphews, the side characters from his cartoon adventures. He has loving memories of people who never actually existed.
** The true nature of The Gentleman: [[spoiler: He's actually just a mental projection of a little girl, made to look like her father who died during an alien invasion in the 30's. He looks and acts the way she remembers her father, a kind, powerful man who helps anyone in need. She even keeps herself the same age with her powers, thinking that while she probably wants to grow up and mature, the world needs the Gentleman more than it needs another normal adult]]
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** [[FauxAffablyEvil Deke "the Deacon" M(a)cManus]] has no superpowers or doomsday plans, but more than makes up for it in sheer ambitious depravity. After serving as the top lieutenant for mob boss Joey "thr Platypus" Platapopoulous for many years, the Deacon made his move for power by igniting the most awful gang war Astro City has ever seen, bombing gangs turfs and killing the bosses' loved ones, then framing other crime lords for the acts to instigate bloody battles throughout the city. As hundreds of people are caught up in the bloodshed, the Deacon [[TheStarscream murders Joey]], unleashes the psychopathic [[PsychopathicManchild Jitterjack]] onto the city, and manipulates Black Velvet into murdering the criminals who once brutally tortured and experimented on her, something the Deacon himself had a hand in. Upon assuming control of the annihilated gangs, the Deacon cornered the market on drug running, arms trades, and human trafficking throughout Astro City, and continues to be a plague upon its civilians and heroes alike to this day.
** ''The Dark Age'': [[DarkIsEvil Aubrey Jason, later known as Lord Sovereign]], was a [[AncientConspiracy PYRAMID]] operative who killed a random couple to escape superhero pursuers, resulting in the couple's children growing up with a burning hatred towards him. Later pursuing him, the brothers force Jason to leave PYRAMID and go on the run. Attempting to escape them, Jason causes a massive amount of terrorist attacks that claim multiple innocent lives to throw them off his trail until he harnesses mystical energies to make himself into a superpowered being. Christening himself "Lord Sovereign", Jason threatens to force the brothers to relive their parents' murder for eternity and intends on draining the minds of everyone in Astro City to make them his slaves while repeating this process across the world.
** ''Samatarian'': [[ArchEnemy The Infidel]] is one of Astro City's greatest threats and a wicked contrast to his enemy's unfailing virtue. Born [[FromNobodyToNightmare Kiyu]] and possessed of an ever-constant curiosity of the world and how it worked, Kiyu eventually absorbed the power of the Empyrean fires and slaughtered those who would defy and oppress him. Branded a monstrous infidel, Kiyu [[AppropriatedAppellation happily takes the title for his own]] and travels across reality to use countless people from across time to use as fodder for experimentation, slaves, or his own pleasure, goading many into becoming subservient to him by saving them from many of the world's greatest disasters only to enslave them. When fought against by the Samatarian, the Infidel devastated the world and tried to destroy or enslave those close to his enemy countless times, even obliterating the entire world before finally making a pact of peace with his enemy when both realized the fight would be never-ending. Even in the present day where the Infidel seems to be a RetiredMonster, he still actively schemes to subtly corrupt the Samatarian during their annual peace meetings, with even the prospect of a potential redemption for the Infidel left doubtful in lieu of the Infidel's perpetual crusade to slake his curiosity and trump over his nemesis no matter who has to suffer.
** [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Aegyptus]] is an Egyptian-themed supervillain from the early 1900s in Astro City. First introduced having stolen a mystical time-traveling artifact, Aegyptus uses it to kidnap black men, women and children, taking them back to the 1700s and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil selling them into slavery]] to use the proceeds to buy magical artifacts in the past before anyone is aware of their true value. Later resurfacing with a new plan, Aegyptus plans to sacrifice a crowded theater full of innocent people in 1917 to summon an EldritchAbomination to hand the very world over to it, resulting in everything that lives being devoured in return for Aegyptus gaining ultimate power.
** One-shot villain [[BloodKnight Krigari the Ironhanded]] started out as an entity native to the Unterverse who [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking slaughtered his way to a position of power and strength]], becoming a [[GalacticConquerer galactic tyrant]] with a perpetual lust for war and blood. Decimating entire worlds and races with the few survivors forced to toil at his armies with slaves and destroying billions of innocents, Krigari's psychotic crusade takes him to Earth once the disguised Quiqui-a, Eth, tells him he is destined to be defeated at the hands of Astro City's Honor Guard. Repeatedly attempting to destroy Earth, Krigari ultimately binds his soul to an artifact called the Dark Opal to make himself invincible and crush all his enemies, with only the HeroicSacrifice of the noble Stormhawk putting an end to the Ironhanded's [[OmnicidalManiac universe-destroying crusade]].
** [[FauxAffablyEvil Deke "the Deacon" M(a)cManus]] has no superpowers or doomsday plans, but more than makes up for it in sheer ambitious depravity. After serving as the top lieutenant for mob boss Joey "thr Platypus" Platapopoulous for many years, the Deacon made his move for power by igniting the most awful gang war Astro City has ever seen, bombing gangs turfs and killing the bosses' loved ones, then framing other crime lords for the acts to instigate bloody battles throughout the city. As hundreds of people are caught up in the bloodshed, the Deacon [[TheStarscream murders Joey]], unleashes the psychopathic [[PsychopathicManchild Jitterjack]] onto the city, and manipulates Black Velvet into murdering the criminals who once brutally tortured and experimented on her, something the Deacon himself had a hand in. Upon assuming control of the annihilated gangs, the Deacon cornered the market on drug running, arms trades, and human trafficking throughout Astro City, and continues to be a plague upon its civilians and heroes alike to this day.
** ''The Dark Age'': [[DarkIsEvil Aubrey Jason, later known as Lord Sovereign]], was a [[AncientConspiracy PYRAMID]] operative who killed a random couple to escape superhero pursuers, resulting in the couple's children growing up with a burning hatred towards him. Later pursuing him, the brothers force Jason to leave PYRAMID and go on the run. Attempting to escape them, Jason causes a massive amount of terrorist attacks that claim multiple innocent lives to throw them off his trail until he harnesses mystical energies to make himself into a superpowered being. Christening himself "Lord Sovereign", Jason threatens to force the brothers to relive their parents' murder for eternity and intends on draining the minds of everyone in Astro City to make them his slaves while repeating this process across the world.
** ''Samatarian'': [[ArchEnemy The Infidel]] is one of Astro City's greatest threats and a wicked contrast to his enemy's unfailing virtue. Born [[FromNobodyToNightmare Kiyu]] and possessed of an ever-constant curiosity of the world and how it worked, Kiyu eventually absorbed the power of the Empyrean fires and slaughtered those who would defy and oppress him. Branded a monstrous infidel, Kiyu [[AppropriatedAppellation happily takes the title for his own]] and travels across reality to use countless people from across time to use as fodder for experimentation, slaves, or his own pleasure, goading many into becoming subservient to him by saving them from many of the world's greatest disasters only to enslave them. When fought against by the Samatarian, the Infidel devastated the world and tried to destroy or enslave those close to his enemy countless times, even obliterating the entire world before finally making a pact of peace with his enemy when both realized the fight would be never-ending. Even in the present day where the Infidel seems to be a RetiredMonster, he still actively schemes to subtly corrupt the Samatarian during their annual peace meetings, with even the prospect of a potential redemption for the Infidel left doubtful in lieu of the Infidel's perpetual crusade to slake his curiosity and trump over his nemesis no matter who has to suffer.
** [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Aegyptus]] is an Egyptian-themed supervillain from the early 1900s in Astro City. First introduced having stolen a mystical time-traveling artifact, Aegyptus uses it to kidnap black men, women and children, taking them back to the 1700s and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil selling them into slavery]] to use the proceeds to buy magical artifacts in the past before anyone is aware of their true value. Later resurfacing with a new plan, Aegyptus plans to sacrifice a crowded theater full of innocent people in 1917 to summon an EldritchAbomination to hand the very world over to it, resulting in everything that lives being devoured in return for Aegyptus gaining ultimate power.
** One-shot villain [[BloodKnight Krigari the Ironhanded]] started out as an entity native to the Unterverse who [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking slaughtered his way to a position of power and strength]], becoming a [[GalacticConquerer galactic tyrant]] with a perpetual lust for war and blood. Decimating entire worlds and races with the few survivors forced to toil at his armies with slaves and destroying billions of innocents, Krigari's psychotic crusade takes him to Earth once the disguised Quiqui-a, Eth, tells him he is destined to be defeated at the hands of Astro City's Honor Guard. Repeatedly attempting to destroy Earth, Krigari ultimately binds his soul to an artifact called the Dark Opal to make himself invincible and crush all his enemies, with only the HeroicSacrifice of the noble Stormhawk putting an end to the Ironhanded's [[OmnicidalManiac universe-destroying crusade]].
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** The story of G-Dog, a superhero who's a FusionDance of a man and his pet corgi, using the same magical amulet that had belonged to Thunderhawk. The guy had been a petty criminal and had taken the dog as collateral from a drug addict who owed him money (who had himself stolen the dog from a breeder). Having the dog as a companion slowly began to change him into a better person, but after stealing the amulet and stumbling across its power, he does a complete HeelFaceTurn as he gains an empathic bond with his dog, and feels guilty about committing crimes. The two begin fighting crime as G-Dog, the man goes back to school, gets a job and even gets married, and attributes all the positive changes in his life to his pet. Unfortunately, eventually the dog begins to grow old, and finally passes away from cancer at 17. The man doesnt lose his powers, as theyre a permanent side effect of the amulet, but he's absolutely devastated by the loss of his beloved companion. In the end, rather than bonding with a new animal, he leaves the amulet out in the wilderness where Thunderhawk had once found it, in the hopes that it will benefit someone else as much as it had him.
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** The story of G-Dog, a superhero who's a FusionDance of a man and his pet corgi, using the same magical amulet that had belonged to Thunderhawk.Stormhawk (from "Sorrowsday"). The guy had been a petty criminal and had taken the dog as collateral from a drug addict who owed him money (who had himself stolen the dog from a breeder). Having the dog as a companion slowly began begins to change him into a better person, but after stealing the amulet and stumbling across its power, he does a complete HeelFaceTurn as he gains an empathic bond with his dog, and feels guilty about committing crimes. The two begin fighting crime as G-Dog, the man goes back to school, gets a job and even gets married, and attributes all the positive changes in his life to his pet. Unfortunately, eventually the dog begins to grow old, and finally passes away from cancer at 17. The man doesnt doesn't lose his powers, as theyre they're a permanent side effect of the amulet, but he's absolutely devastated by the loss of his beloved companion. In the end, rather than bonding with a new animal, he leaves the amulet out in the wilderness where Thunderhawk Stormhawk had once found it, in the hopes that it will benefit someone else as much as it had him.
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** The story of G-Dog.
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** The story of G-Dog.G-Dog, a superhero who's a FusionDance of a man and his pet corgi, using the same magical amulet that had belonged to Thunderhawk. The guy had been a petty criminal and had taken the dog as collateral from a drug addict who owed him money (who had himself stolen the dog from a breeder). Having the dog as a companion slowly began to change him into a better person, but after stealing the amulet and stumbling across its power, he does a complete HeelFaceTurn as he gains an empathic bond with his dog, and feels guilty about committing crimes. The two begin fighting crime as G-Dog, the man goes back to school, gets a job and even gets married, and attributes all the positive changes in his life to his pet. Unfortunately, eventually the dog begins to grow old, and finally passes away from cancer at 17. The man doesnt lose his powers, as theyre a permanent side effect of the amulet, but he's absolutely devastated by the loss of his beloved companion. In the end, rather than bonding with a new animal, he leaves the amulet out in the wilderness where Thunderhawk had once found it, in the hopes that it will benefit someone else as much as it had him.
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** Then there's the anguish Crackerjack and Quarrel go through as time starts catching up with them. Watching them as they accept and deny the effects of time on their skills will hit home for older readers.
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** Then there's the anguish Crackerjack and Quarrel go through as time starts catching up with them. Watching them as they accept and deny the effects of time on their skills will hit home for older readers.readers.
** The story of G-Dog.
** The story of G-Dog.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Doctor Egyptus kidnapping on its own would be bad enough, but then it turns out he's exclusively kidnapping black people, taking them back to before the American Civil War and ''selling them into slavery''.
* NightmareFuel: Gormenghast, and what he does to Crackjack. The man may have been a jerk, [[spoiler:but violently harvesting him for tissue samples to make an army of clones isn't what anyone deserves.]]
* NightmareFuel: Gormenghast, and what he does to Crackjack. The man may have been a jerk, [[spoiler:but violently harvesting him for tissue samples to make an army of clones isn't what anyone deserves.]]
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* MoralEventHorizon: Doctor Egyptus Aegyptus' mass kidnapping on its own would be bad enough, but then it turns out he's exclusively kidnapping black people, taking them back to before the American Civil War War, and ''selling them into slavery''.
* NightmareFuel: Gormenghast, and what he does toCrackjack.Crackerjack. The man may have been a jerk, [[spoiler:but violently harvesting him for tissue samples to make an army of clones isn't what anyone deserves.]]
* NightmareFuel: Gormenghast, and what he does to
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* MoralEventHorizon: Doctor Egyptus kidnapping on its own would be bad enough, but then it turns out he's exclusively kidnapping black people, taking them back to before the American Civil War and ''selling them into slavery''.
* NightmareFuel: Gormenghast, and what he does to Crackjack. The man may have been a jerk, [[spoiler:but violently harvesting him for tissue samples to make an army of clones isn't what anyone deserves.]]
* NightmareFuel: Gormenghast, and what he does to Crackjack. The man may have been a jerk, [[spoiler:but violently harvesting him for tissue samples to make an army of clones isn't what anyone deserves.]]
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* ItWasHisSled: It's pretty well known even to non-readers that Confessor [[spoiler: is actually a vampire.]]
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* ItWasHisSled: It's pretty well known even to non-readers that Confessor [[spoiler: is actually a vampire.]]]]
* TearJerker: There's a ''lot'' of tragedy behind the scenes in ''Astro City''. A lot of characters, even the ones who seem like they're doing great, are suffering for one reason or another.
** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a CosmicRetcon that ''erased his wife.''
** 'The Tarnished Angel' is a ReformedButRejected story, tragic because the ex-supervillain would be content with so little.
*** And the story-within-the-story "Voice of the Turtle," ends with a HopeSpot... but [[spoiler: the Turtle's the next victim of the hidden killer]].
** The Silver Agent's career ends in a way that was hinted at in the very beginning of the series: being executed by the state for a crime he didn't commit. And, as revealed in ''The Dark Age'' and his later two-issue focus arc, the Agent knew of his tragic death (because of time travel) and went to his death anyway, to avoid a BadFuture.
** Beautie's focus story, "Her Dark Plastic Roots", reveals that the robotic member of Honor Guard suffers from continuous loneliness (even though she doesn't understand the emotion) as well as inevitable 'amnesia' when she gets close to discovering her own secret origin.
** Then there's the anguish Crackerjack and Quarrel go through as time starts catching up with them. Watching them as they accept and deny the effects of time on their skills will hit home for older readers.
* TearJerker: There's a ''lot'' of tragedy behind the scenes in ''Astro City''. A lot of characters, even the ones who seem like they're doing great, are suffering for one reason or another.
** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a CosmicRetcon that ''erased his wife.''
** 'The Tarnished Angel' is a ReformedButRejected story, tragic because the ex-supervillain would be content with so little.
*** And the story-within-the-story "Voice of the Turtle," ends with a HopeSpot... but [[spoiler: the Turtle's the next victim of the hidden killer]].
** The Silver Agent's career ends in a way that was hinted at in the very beginning of the series: being executed by the state for a crime he didn't commit. And, as revealed in ''The Dark Age'' and his later two-issue focus arc, the Agent knew of his tragic death (because of time travel) and went to his death anyway, to avoid a BadFuture.
** Beautie's focus story, "Her Dark Plastic Roots", reveals that the robotic member of Honor Guard suffers from continuous loneliness (even though she doesn't understand the emotion) as well as inevitable 'amnesia' when she gets close to discovering her own secret origin.
** Then there's the anguish Crackerjack and Quarrel go through as time starts catching up with them. Watching them as they accept and deny the effects of time on their skills will hit home for older readers.
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* ItWasHisSled: It's pretty well known even to non-readers that Confessor [[spoiler: is actually a vampire.]]
* TearJerker: There's a ''lot'' of tragedy behind the scenes in ''Astro City''. A lot of characters, even the ones who seem like they're doing great, are suffering for one reason or another.
** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a cosmic RetCon that ''erased his wife.''
** 'The Tarnished Angel' is a ReformedButRejected story, tragic because the ex-supervillain would be content with so little.
*** And the story-within-the-story "Voice of the Turtle," ends with a HopeSpot... but [[spoiler: the Turtle's the next victim of the hidden killer]].
** The Silver Agent's career ends in a way that was hinted at in the very beginning of the series: being executed by the state for a crime he didn't commit. And, as revealed in ''The Dark Age'' and his later two-issue focus arc, the Agent knew of his tragic death (because of time travel) and went to his death anyway, to avoid a BadFuture.
** Beautie's focus arc, "Her Dark Plastic Roots", reveals that the robotic member of Honor Guard suffers from continuous loneliness (even though she doesn't understand the emotion) as well as inevitable 'amnesia' when she gets close to discovering her own secret origin.
** Then there's the anguish Crackerjack and Quarrel go through as time starts catching up with them. Watching them as they accept and deny the effects of time on their skills will hit home for older readers.
* TearJerker: There's a ''lot'' of tragedy behind the scenes in ''Astro City''. A lot of characters, even the ones who seem like they're doing great, are suffering for one reason or another.
** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a cosmic RetCon that ''erased his wife.''
** 'The Tarnished Angel' is a ReformedButRejected story, tragic because the ex-supervillain would be content with so little.
*** And the story-within-the-story "Voice of the Turtle," ends with a HopeSpot... but [[spoiler: the Turtle's the next victim of the hidden killer]].
** The Silver Agent's career ends in a way that was hinted at in the very beginning of the series: being executed by the state for a crime he didn't commit. And, as revealed in ''The Dark Age'' and his later two-issue focus arc, the Agent knew of his tragic death (because of time travel) and went to his death anyway, to avoid a BadFuture.
** Beautie's focus arc, "Her Dark Plastic Roots", reveals that the robotic member of Honor Guard suffers from continuous loneliness (even though she doesn't understand the emotion) as well as inevitable 'amnesia' when she gets close to discovering her own secret origin.
** Then there's the anguish Crackerjack and Quarrel go through as time starts catching up with them. Watching them as they accept and deny the effects of time on their skills will hit home for older readers.
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* ItWasHisSled: It's pretty well known even to non-readers that Confessor [[spoiler: is actually a vampire.]]
* TearJerker: There's a ''lot'' of tragedy behind the scenes in ''Astro City''. A lot of characters, even the ones who seem like they're doing great, are suffering for one reason or another.
** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a cosmic RetCon that ''erased his wife.''
** 'The Tarnished Angel' is a ReformedButRejected story, tragic because the ex-supervillain would be content with so little.
*** And the story-within-the-story "Voice of the Turtle," ends with a HopeSpot... but [[spoiler: the Turtle's the next victim of the hidden killer]].
** The Silver Agent's career ends in a way that was hinted at in the very beginning of the series: being executed by the state for a crime he didn't commit. And, as revealed in ''The Dark Age'' and his later two-issue focus arc, the Agent knew of his tragic death (because of time travel) and went to his death anyway, to avoid a BadFuture.
** Beautie's focus arc, "Her Dark Plastic Roots", reveals that the robotic member of Honor Guard suffers from continuous loneliness (even though she doesn't understand the emotion) as well as inevitable 'amnesia' when she gets close to discovering her own secret origin.
** Then there's the anguish Crackerjack and Quarrel go through as time starts catching up with them. Watching them as they accept and deny the effects of time on their skills will hit home for older readers.]]
* TearJerker: There's a ''lot'' of tragedy behind the scenes in ''Astro City''. A lot of characters, even the ones who seem like they're doing great, are suffering for one reason or another.
** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a cosmic RetCon that ''erased his wife.''
** 'The Tarnished Angel' is a ReformedButRejected story, tragic because the ex-supervillain would be content with so little.
*** And the story-within-the-story "Voice of the Turtle," ends with a HopeSpot... but [[spoiler: the Turtle's the next victim of the hidden killer]].
** The Silver Agent's career ends in a way that was hinted at in the very beginning of the series: being executed by the state for a crime he didn't commit. And, as revealed in ''The Dark Age'' and his later two-issue focus arc, the Agent knew of his tragic death (because of time travel) and went to his death anyway, to avoid a BadFuture.
** Beautie's focus arc, "Her Dark Plastic Roots", reveals that the robotic member of Honor Guard suffers from continuous loneliness (even though she doesn't understand the emotion) as well as inevitable 'amnesia' when she gets close to discovering her own secret origin.
** Then there's the anguish Crackerjack and Quarrel go through as time starts catching up with them. Watching them as they accept and deny the effects of time on their skills will hit home for older readers.
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** Beautie's focus arc, "Her Dark Plastic Roots", reveals that the robotic member of Honor Guard suffers from continuous loneliness (even though she doesn't understand the emotion) as well as inevitable 'amnesia' when she gets close to discovering her own secret origin.origin.
** Then there's the anguish Crackerjack and Quarrel go through as time starts catching up with them. Watching them as they accept and deny the effects of time on their skills will hit home for older readers.
** Then there's the anguish Crackerjack and Quarrel go through as time starts catching up with them. Watching them as they accept and deny the effects of time on their skills will hit home for older readers.
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* TearJerker: Beautie's focus arc, "Her Dark Plastic Roots".
** And "Voice of the Turtle" combined with a later issue. [[spoiler: He's the next victim of the murders]].
** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a cosmic RetCon that ''erased his wife.''
** And "Voice of the Turtle" combined with a later issue. [[spoiler: He's the next victim of the murders]].
** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a cosmic RetCon that ''erased his wife.''
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* TearJerker: Beautie's focus arc, "Her Dark Plastic Roots".
** And "VoiceThere's a ''lot'' of tragedy behind the Turtle" combined with a later issue. [[spoiler: He's scenes in ''Astro City''. A lot of characters, even the next victim of the murders]].
ones who seem like they're doing great, are suffering for one reason or another.
** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a cosmic RetCon that ''erased his wife.''''
** 'The Tarnished Angel' is a ReformedButRejected story, tragic because the ex-supervillain would be content with so little.
*** And the story-within-the-story "Voice of the Turtle," ends with a HopeSpot... but [[spoiler: the Turtle's the next victim of the hidden killer]].
** The Silver Agent's career ends in a way that was hinted at in the very beginning of the series: being executed by the state for a crime he didn't commit. And, as revealed in ''The Dark Age'' and his later two-issue focus arc, the Agent knew of his tragic death (because of time travel) and went to his death anyway, to avoid a BadFuture.
** Beautie's focus arc, "Her Dark Plastic Roots", reveals that the robotic member of Honor Guard suffers from continuous loneliness (even though she doesn't understand the emotion) as well as inevitable 'amnesia' when she gets close to discovering her own secret origin.
** And "Voice
** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a cosmic RetCon that ''erased his wife.
** 'The Tarnished Angel' is a ReformedButRejected story, tragic because the ex-supervillain would be content with so little.
*** And the story-within-the-story "Voice of the Turtle," ends with a HopeSpot... but [[spoiler: the Turtle's the next victim of the hidden killer]].
** The Silver Agent's career ends in a way that was hinted at in the very beginning of the series: being executed by the state for a crime he didn't commit. And, as revealed in ''The Dark Age'' and his later two-issue focus arc, the Agent knew of his tragic death (because of time travel) and went to his death anyway, to avoid a BadFuture.
** Beautie's focus arc, "Her Dark Plastic Roots", reveals that the robotic member of Honor Guard suffers from continuous loneliness (even though she doesn't understand the emotion) as well as inevitable 'amnesia' when she gets close to discovering her own secret origin.
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** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a cosmic RetCon.
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** "The Nearness of You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a cosmic RetCon.RetCon that ''erased his wife.''
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** "The Nearness of You". Full stop.
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** "The Nearness of You". Full stop.You": a short story dealing with an ordinary person's struggle with a cosmic RetCon.
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* StrawFeminist: Some accused Busiek of depicting Winged Victory this way, something he deliberately addressed in Winged Victory's arc.
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Unfortunate Implications require citation. I\'ve seen some of the design notes in the back on the books but I can\'t find any online sources. Moving it to discussion.
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* UnfortunateImplications: Deliberately averted with Infidel. While discussing the character with Alex Ross, Kurt Busiek rejected the idea of making him Arabic because they had not yet had a Middle-Eastern hero and he felt it was better for the first character of a particular race to be a hero so it wouldn't be offensive. They already had established black heroes, though, so they felt it was safe to make Infidel black. Early concept art of Infidel had Islam's star and crescent thing as his symbol, but the final design was a more abstract "superheroey" symbol.
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* UnfortunateImplications: Deliberately averted with Infidel. While discussing the character with Alex Ross, Kurt Busiek rejected the idea of making him Arabic because they had not yet had a Middle-Eastern hero and he felt it was better for the first character of a particular race to be a hero so it wouldn't be offensive. They already had established black heroes, though, so they felt it was safe to make Infidel black.
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* UnfortunateImplications: Deliberately averted with Infidel. While discussing the character with Alex Ross, Kurt Busiek rejected the idea of making him Arabic because they had not yet had a Middle-Eastern hero and he felt it was better for the first character of a particular race to be a hero so it wouldn't be offensive. They already had established black heroes, though, so they felt it was safe to make Infidel black. Early concept art of Infidel had Islam's star and crescent thing as his symbol, but the final design was a more abstract "superheroey" symbol.
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** And "Voice of the Turtle" combined with a later issue. [[spoiler: He's the next victim of the murders]]
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** And "Voice of the Turtle" combined with a later issue. [[spoiler: He's the next victim of the murders]]murders]].
* StrawFeminist: Some accused Busiek of depicting Winged Victory this way, something he deliberately addressed in Winged Victory's arc.
* StrawFeminist: Some accused Busiek of depicting Winged Victory this way, something he deliberately addressed in Winged Victory's arc.
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* CompleteMonster: Despite not even being seen on panel, Dr. Aegyptus definitely qualifies. To wit: he had a time machine, and wanted to use it to make money. His solution: kidnap hundreds of black people, transport them back to UsefulNotes/AmericanRevolution times, and sell them into slavery.
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* CompleteMonster: Despite not even being seen on panel, Dr. Aegyptus definitely qualifies. To wit: he had a time machine, and wanted to use it to make money. His solution: kidnap hundreds of black people, transport them back to [[TheAmericanRevolution American Revolution]] times, and sell them into slavery.
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* CompleteMonster: Despite not even being seen on panel, Dr. Aegyptus definitely qualifies. To wit: he had a time machine, and wanted to use it to make money. His solution: kidnap hundreds of black people, transport them back to [[TheAmericanRevolution American Revolution]] UsefulNotes/AmericanRevolution times, and sell them into slavery.
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* CompleteMonster: Despite not even being seen on panel, Dr. Aegyptus definitely qualifies. To wit: he had a time machine, and wanted to use it to make money. His solution: kidnap hundreds of black people, transport them back to [[TheAmericanRevolution American Revolution]] times, and sell them into slavery.
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** And "Voice of the Turtle" combined with a later issue. [[spoiler: He's the next victim of the murders]]
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** And "Voice of the Turtle" combined with a later issue. [[spoiler: He's the next victim of the murders]]murders]]
* UnfortunateImplications: Deliberately averted with Infidel. While discussing the character with Alex Ross, Kurt Busiek rejected the idea of making him Arabic because they had not yet had a Middle-Eastern hero and he felt it was better for the first character of a particular race to be a hero so it wouldn't be offensive. They already had established black heroes, though, so they felt it was safe to make Infidel black.
* UnfortunateImplications: Deliberately averted with Infidel. While discussing the character with Alex Ross, Kurt Busiek rejected the idea of making him Arabic because they had not yet had a Middle-Eastern hero and he felt it was better for the first character of a particular race to be a hero so it wouldn't be offensive. They already had established black heroes, though, so they felt it was safe to make Infidel black.
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* TearJerker: Beautie's focus arc, "Her Dark Plastic Roots".
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* TearJerker: Beautie's focus arc, "Her Dark Plastic Roots".Roots".
** And "Voice of the Turtle" combined with a later issue. [[spoiler: He's the next victim of the murders]]
** And "Voice of the Turtle" combined with a later issue. [[spoiler: He's the next victim of the murders]]
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* TearJerker: Beautie's focus arc.
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* TearJerker: Beautie's focus arc.arc, "Her Dark Plastic Roots".
