History YMMV / DickTracy

** And Moon Maid.

* CreatorsPet: Moon Maid

* SoBadItsGood: The Moon Period stories can actually be a lot of fun if you enjoy the very pulpiest of pulp science fiction. They're utterly ridiculous and out of place, but they're fun for ''exactly those reasons.'' And Gould's artwork during this period is ''gorgeous,'' arguably the best he ever did; he very clearly enjoyed getting to draw stuff so radically different from the normal restrictions of the strip's genre. Some even consider this period to be outright VindicatedByHistory, especially since Moon Maid's return under Curtis and Staton.

* CompleteMonster: Quite a few of the villains.

* SoBadItsGood: The Moon Period stories can actually be a lot of fun if you enjoy the very pulpiest of pulp science fiction. They're utterly ridiculous and out of place, but they're fun for ''exactly those reasons.'' And Gould's artwork during this period is ''gorgeous,'' arguably the best he ever did; he very clearly enjoyed getting to draw stuff so radically different from the normal restrictions of the strip's genre.

* PragmaticVillainy: The people running the Apparatus find out about Big Boy's million dollar open contract on Dick Tracy and storm in to tell him point blank that it isn't worth it.

* TookALevelInBadass: Groovy Grove, Tracy's hippie sidekick, gradually became a much more serious and heroic character once Max Allan Collins took over the writing. It didn't prevent him from being killed, mind you, but he did at least get into a relationship with Lizz in the months prior to his death.

* PragmaticVillain: The people running the Apparatus find out about Big Boy's million dollar open contract on Dick Tracy and storm in to tell him point blank that it isn't worth it.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The people running the Apparatus decide that the contract on Dick Tracy isn't worth it.

* SoBadItsGood: YourMileageMayVary, of course, but the Moon Period stories can actually be a lot of fun if you enjoy the very pulpiest of pulp science fiction. They're utterly ridiculous and out of place, but they're fun for ''exactly those reasons.'' And Gould's artwork during this period is ''gorgeous,'' arguably the best he ever did; he very clearly enjoyed getting to draw stuff so radically different from the normal restrictions of the strip's genre.

* TheWesley: Moon Maid

* SoBadItsGood: YourMileageMayVary, of course, but the Moon Period stories can actually be a lot of fun if you enjoy the very pulpiest of goofy pulp science fiction. They're utterly ridiculous and out of place, but fun for exactly those reasons. And Gould's artwork during this period is gorgeous; he very clearly enjoyed getting to draw stuff so radically different from what he usually drew.

** The Brow had a ColdBloodedTorture device consisting of a small mechanical iron maiden that closed around the victim's leg. [[spoiler:Eventually the villain gets caught in it ''by the head''.]]

* {{Anvilicious}} - Chester Gould's stories got really bad for this during TheSeventies, with Tracy frequently going on [[AuthorFilibuster lengthy speeches about how the law should operate]]. Mike Kilian had a tendency to do this as well (most infamously with the movie piracy story), though to a much lesser extent than Gould.

* CompleteMonster - Quite a few of the villains.
* DorkAge - Arguably from the start of the "Space Era" in the 1960s until Max Allan Collins took over as writer, and ''definitely'' Dick Locher's era as writer.

* TookALevelInBadass - Groovy Grove, Tracy's hippie sidekick, gradually became a much more serious and heroic character once Max Allan Collins took over the writing. It didn't prevent him from being killed, mind you, but he did at least get into a relationship with Lizz in the months prior to his death.
* TheWesley - Moon Maid

* EthnicScrappy - Joe-Jitsu and Go-Go Gomez in one of the animated series. Think about the worst way you could animate an Asian and a Mexican while still having them be good guys. That's about it.

* GoddamnedBats[=/=]DemonicSpiders - The snipers in the NES game.

* SoBadItsGood: YourMileageMayVary, of course, but the Moon Period stories can actually be a lot of fun if you enjoy the very pulpiest of goofy pulp science fiction. They're utterly ridiculous and out of place, but fun for exactly those reasons. And Gould's artwork during this period is gorgeous; he very clearly enjoyed getting to draw stuff so radically different from the strip's standard fare.

* SoBadItsGood: YourMileageMayVary, of course, but the Moon Period stories can actually be a lot of fun if you enjoy the very pulpiest of goofy pulp science fiction. They're utterly ridiculous and out of place, but fun for exactly those reasons. And Gould's artwork during this period is some of the best he ever did; he very clearly enjoyed getting to draw stuff so radically different from the strip's standard fare.

* TearJerker: Well, actually it's more of a [[MissedMomentOfAwesome Missed Moment Of Sad]]. [[spoiler: Breathless Mahoney, the woman whom Tracy has been trying to protect during the whole movie, dies of a fatal gunshot wound. Shockingly, Tracy seems to take this in stride....and then, a minute later, is happily reunited with Tess.]]

* {{Anvilicious}} - Most of the storylines about crime, most especially "harmless" crime

* DorkAge - Arguably from the start of the "Space Era" in the 1960s until Max Allan Collins took over as writer, and ''definitely'' since Dick Locher became the writer in 2006.