Who else but the Tick? The guy's Nigh-Invulnerable and has heart of pure gold. He's also a grown man in a tick costume that never comes off.
Other examples would include the Human Bullet, who constantly goes to the crime scene using a giant cannon, The Bread Master, a man who makes bread bombs, and The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight, a guy who was able to plant several bombs in a super hero night club while acting completely unsubtle while only getting caught by one person.
Hilarious in Hindsight: With the rise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its imitators, this franchise now feels far ahead of the curve in throwing the viewer into a fully formed setting with numerous superheroes and forcing them to pick things up on the fly.
Narm Charm: The Tick's speeches are like sandwiches. Ungodly full of ham and cheese, sometimes nonsensical, and yet surprisingly inspiring and satisfying in a weird way.
Growing the Beard: The comic gets this over with quickly. The first issue is pretty rough, if not terrible, and the comedy isn't as played up. Some stubble grows in the second issue and by the third, the absurdity fans know and love really comes into play and The Tick becomes the Tick we all know and love.
Adaptation Displacement: Though the comic has a strong cult following and is well-known amongst comic fans, it is still hard to find copies of the original series. The cartoon had a long run and was quite popular.
Delusion Conclusion: There is a theory that the Tick is actually a child with leukemia and that his adventures are all in his head, with certain characters reflecting people in his life (such as American Maid and Die Fledermaus being his divorced parents).
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Harsher in Hindsight: "The Tick Vs. The Proto-Clown" opens up to an aerial shot of the city, with two very tall, identical skyscrapers near the ocean being knocked down into each other before collapsing. Even though The City isn't meant to represent any actual, real life city, it's still hard for older viewers not to notice the resemblance to the World Trade Center.
Chairface Chippendale laments that his namesake deformity made him an outcast from society. Not long after, his voice actor played a villain who bullied another character for exactly that reason.
In the episode "That Moustache Feeling" after the Tick's moustache latches on to Sewer Urchin, it starts running away by moving its hairs like tentacles, which is similar to a combo of Venom in Ultimate Spider-Man.
The Heys from "Tick vs. The Big Nothing" are astonishingly similar to The White from Shin Megami Tensei IV, due to them both being a group of fanatical nihilists who plan to use a black hole to reduce the universe to nothing.
The final episode introduces a girl who can talk to squirrels as her superpower. This was before a certain other Marvel superhero would gain more prominence (despite being created three years prior, though Doreen was initially created as a one off joke before Great Lake Avengers gave her more notice in the mainstream).
Chairface Chippendale is a deviously diabolical genius out to pay back the world for rejecting his glorious furniture head. So respected and feared by the criminal community as one of the world's greatest villains that a massive gathering of crooks and ne'er-do-wells throw him a surprise party, Chairface takes the opportunity to trap the Tick and his partners while carving his name into the moon with a super laser, partially succeeding before being stopped. Undeterred by his initial defeat, Chairface goes on to concoct a brilliant plot to drive Dinosaur Neil into his mutated form once more by sabotaging the man's wedding, Chairface forming a Villain Team-Up to then take control of Neil. In his final scheme, Chairface uses his ally Professor Chromedome to obtain a body-swapping device, then transfers his mind into the form of the Tick, intending to destroy the machine to ensure its effects are never reversed. Wicked Cultured and always facing defeat with mere annoyance before continuing his ingenious ways, Chairface is the closest thing the Tick ever has to a true Arch-Enemy.
The Breadmaster is one of the few recurring villains in the series, and always presents a major threat with his culinary schemes. Thrown out of Baking College for using his unrivaled cooking skills for evil, the Breadmaster stages a series of "bread bombings" throughout the City, destroying bakeries that he chastises for falling short of cooking perfection. Tricking the City into supplying him with tons of baking materials, the Breadmaster nearly destroys the entire City with a giant, growing souffle. Later teaming up with Chairface and El Seed for a time to masterfully disrupt Dinosaur Neil's wedding, the Breadmaster then goes about sending killer gingerbread men to heroes throughout the City, his baking pride ensuring that the cookies taste delicious and go properly stale without artificial preservatives. The Breadmaster then uses a cookie tank to nearly destroy the City's new hero Eclair, having adapted it to deflect all manner of her powers.
"The Tick VS Reno, Nevada": The Fin was once a trained show fish named "Mr. Smartypants", run through hoops of fire and other humiliating, dangerous torments by his trainers Soren and Frederica. Escaping from his trainers by staging a "kidnapping" of himself, the Fin uses his cultist followers to pull off heists throughout Reno and bring him the necessary technology to construct a "fish magnet." Capturing Soren and Frederica, the Fin uses the magnet to rain down tons of fish into Reno, hoping to flood the whole city with his favorite snack. Dueling the Tick in a breath-holding contest for the fate of Reno, the Fin winds up back in Soren and Frederica's care, but with a decidedly more suitable role as an entertainer: to fling mocking taunts at his trainers and the audience for laughs.
The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight is usually funny, but he becomes genuinely menacing when he starts actually acting on his threats to blow up the Comet Club, which paints his variousquirks in a darker light.
The Problem with Licensed Games: Like many superheroes of the era, The Tick received a video game for the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. Reviewers were split on how successful it was in capturing the series' signature humor, but its clunky Beat 'em Up gameplay, low frame-rate and overall repetitive nature did not endear it to many critics or players. GameRankings gives the SNES version a score of 47.50%, and the Genesis version 46.25%. However, more than a few die-hard Tick fans will commend and defend it for combining elements of the cartoon and the comic book, which is a lot more impressive than what other licensed games were doing at the time in that department.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The Tick vs. Dot and Neil's Wedding sees a team up between Chairface Chippendale, El Seed, and the Breadmaster, refreshingly getting along and at no point trying to double cross one another( hell, El Seed lampshades this by expressing his surprise that Chairface didn’t try poisoning them at dinner). Unfortunately this is because the latter two disappear halfway through the episode.
for the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. Reviewers were split on how successful it was in capturing the series' signature humor, but its clunky Beat 'em Up gameplay, low frame-rate and overall repetitive nature did not endear it to many critics or players. GameRankings gives the SNES version a score of 47.50%