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* TheyCopiedItNowItSucks: Captain Electron being a Superman {{expy}} would have been one thing, but he ends up so similar that you could just change a few bits of dialogue, slightly recolor his costume and add the "S" logo, and this would become yet another ProductPlacement comic featuring Superman. For good measure, you also could shave Dr. Zongor bald, change his name to Lex Luthor, and it would feel even ''more'' like a Superman comic.
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* TheyCopiedItNowItSucks: TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Captain Electron being a Superman {{expy}} would have been one thing, but he ends up so similar that you could just change a few bits of dialogue, slightly recolor his costume and add the "S" logo, and this would become yet another ProductPlacement comic featuring Superman. For good measure, you also could shave Dr. Zongor bald, change his name to Lex Luthor, and it would feel even ''more'' like a Superman comic.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process
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* UncannyValley: Mr. Computer manages to be precisely the right blend of human and inhuman design aspects to be thoroughly unnerving.
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* UncannyValley: UnintentionalUncannyValley: Mr. Computer manages to be precisely the right blend of human and inhuman design aspects to be thoroughly unnerving.
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* FashionVictimVillain: Dr. Zongor starts out wearing a bright orange jacket with an upturned collar, yellow pants, and a scarf, making him look like a cross between Lex Luthor and Ming the Merciless. He later swaps this out for a purple sweater and blue jeans, though the sweater still has the same kind of upturned collar as the jacket.
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* TheyCopiedItNowItSucks: Captain Electron being a Superman {{expy}} would have been one thing, but he ends up so similar that you could just change a few bits of dialogue, slightly recolour recolor his costume and add the "S" logo, and this would become yet another ProductPlacement comic featuring Superman. For good measure, you also could shave Dr. Zongor bald, change his name to Lex Luthor, and it would feel even ''more'' like a Superman comic.
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* TheyCopiedItNowItSucks: Captain Electron being a Superman {{expy}} would have been one thing, but he ends up so similar that you could just change a few bits of dialogue, slightly recolour his costume and add the "S" logo, and this would become yet another ProductPlacement comic featuring Superman.
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* ProtectionFromEditors: Of a sort. Jay Disbrow worked as the Brick Computer Science Institute's director of public relations, and thus was effectively his ''own'' editor, likely accounting for how the main Captain Electron story contains so many inaccuracies about computers despite being produced by a technical college. That being said, the more accurate depictions of computer history elsewhere in the comic suggest that Disbrow at least had the script checked over by staffers who were more knowledgable on the subject.
* TheyCopiedItNowItSucks: Captain Electron being a Superman {{expy}} would have been one thing, but he ends up so similar that you could just change a few bits of dialogue, slightly recolour his costume and add the "S" logo, and this would become yet another ProductPlacement comic featuring Superman. For good measure, you also could shave Dr. Zongor bald, change his name to Lex Luthor, and it would feel even ''more'' like a Superman comic.
* TheyCopiedItNowItSucks: Captain Electron being a Superman {{expy}} would have been one thing, but he ends up so similar that you could just change a few bits of dialogue, slightly recolour his costume and add the "S" logo, and this would become yet another ProductPlacement comic featuring Superman. For good measure, you also could shave Dr. Zongor bald, change his name to Lex Luthor, and it would feel even ''more'' like a Superman comic.
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* UncannyValley: Mr. Computer manages to be precisely the right blend of human and inhuman design aspects to be thoroughly unnerving.
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* {{Padding}}: The sequence with Captain Electron dealing with a plane crash has no relevance to the rest of the story, and is just there to let him engage in some superheroics for a few pages.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The sub-plot with the passenger plane having crashed into the Chrysler Building becomes ''incredibly'' uncomfortable reading post-9/11. On top of that, some of the people in the building are unable to reach the ground floor due to damage to the elevators, albeit here the building isn't in any imminent danger of collapse.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The comic was clearly marketed towards younger people thinking of a possible career in computers. However, these are the exact same people who would have been expecting something far more sophisticated than the simplistic Golden Age-style storytelling that we get here, given that this comic came out the same year as ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns'' and the concluding chapters of ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.
* TheyCopiedItNowItSucks: Captain Electron being a Superman {{expy}} would have been one thing, but he ends up so similar that you could just change a few bits of dialogue, slightly recolour his costume and add the "S" logo, and this would become yet another ProductPlacement comic featuring Superman.
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* TheyCopiedItNowItSucks: Captain Electron being a Superman {{expy}} would have been one thing, but he ends up so similar that you could just change a few bits of dialogue, slightly recolour his costume and add the "S" logo, and this would become yet another ProductPlacement comic featuring Superman.
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