- Fridge Brilliance: What if Feely is a pedophile, and the Filth (as the "cleaners" of society) are his mind's way of coping, by providing the illusion of an outside group willing to "clean" him up?
- Quirky Work: A porn-addicted bachelor who discovers he is a secret agent for a paradimensional agency residing in a dimension made of pop culture memorabilia and Nazi dolphins (Wait no, it's actually a tiny stain on the floor of the protagonist's kitchen) who fight threats like a human virus or a real-life superhero with muscle dysmorphia.
- Spiritual Antithesis: To Grant's The Invisibles. Instead of a crazy and glamorous pop magick team in a world of weirdness fighting chaos, we follow a single unhappy middle aged man in a dirty Crapsack World that works for an agency that hails Status Quo Is God.
- The Woobie: Try to think of something nice that happens to Sharon Jones
- What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: The cosmic garbage trucks cross dimensions by engaging Ninth Gear ("faster than the speed of wall.") A character in The Invisibles mentions that nine is the favorite number of the Hindu god Ganesh, Remover Of Obstacles. Other references to religion and cosmology are sprinkled throughout the story.
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