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* HilariousInHindsight: Guess [[UsefulNotes/ThePope who]] is sometimes called The Great Ratzinga in Italy.
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** Then topped during the ''"I Vendicatopi"'' story arc (initially a ShallowParody of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''), when Rat-Man discovers that his hero [[MickeyMouse Mr. Mouse]] [[spoiler: created not just the superheroes but also the ''supervillains'', and all in the name of profit]].
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** Then topped during the ''"I Vendicatopi"'' story arc (initially a ShallowParody of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''), when Rat-Man discovers that his hero [[MickeyMouse [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mr. Mouse]] [[spoiler: created not just the superheroes but also the ''supervillains'', and all in the name of profit]].
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** The last episode of the animated series, ''Saving and Imagination''. Basically, [[NoFourthWall only 199 dollars have been left for the last episode]], so the staff haves to cut short on stuff. At first it kinda works (a WraparoundBackground during driving scenes, [[PropRecycling backgrounds from older episodes are reused]] and so on), but then the MonsterOfTheWeek Lightning Man appears and wastes most of the budget by showcasing his powers and starting an impromptu dance sequence, meaning that the second half of the episode haves to be done even cheaper: scenes are played twice in a row, backgrounds are replaced with cruder versions and Lightning Man's powers are reduced to vanishing lasers that look like an effect from an old Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Then Rat-Man pulls out a giant tank [[UpToEleven that wastes even more budget]], meaning that the cartoon goes even cheaper, with only two characters, no backgrounds, no colors, the soundtrack is replaced with 15-second midi loops and the battles are done with ''Series/Batman1966''-styled {{Written Sound Effect}}s. At that point, the villain snaps and uses his powers anyway, cancelling the whole budget. The episode ends with Rat-Man, now a static picture with a SynchroVox mouth, whistling the theme song over the credits.
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** The last episode of the animated series, ''Saving and Imagination''. Basically, [[NoFourthWall only 199 dollars have been left for the last episode]], so the staff haves to cut short on stuff. At first it kinda works (a WraparoundBackground during driving scenes, [[PropRecycling backgrounds from older episodes are reused]] and so on), but then the MonsterOfTheWeek Lightning Man appears and wastes most of the budget by showcasing his powers and starting an impromptu dance sequence, meaning that the second half of the episode haves to be done even cheaper: scenes are played twice in a row, backgrounds are replaced with cruder versions and Lightning Man's powers are reduced to vanishing lasers that look like an effect from an old Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Then Rat-Man pulls out a giant tank [[UpToEleven that wastes even more budget]], budget, meaning that the cartoon goes even cheaper, with only two characters, no backgrounds, no colors, the soundtrack is replaced with 15-second midi loops and the battles are done with ''Series/Batman1966''-styled {{Written Sound Effect}}s. At that point, the villain snaps and uses his powers anyway, cancelling the whole budget. The episode ends with Rat-Man, now a static picture with a SynchroVox mouth, whistling the theme song over the credits.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: It's what happens when your series takes the innuendos in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''... And ''[[UpToEleven runs with them]]''. [[BetterThanABareBulb Obviously,]] this gets a LampshadeHanging whenever a Family Unfriendly Character such as [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} Cinzia Otherside]] shows up:
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: It's what happens when your series takes the innuendos in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''... And ''[[UpToEleven runs ''runs with them]]''.them''. [[BetterThanABareBulb Obviously,]] this gets a LampshadeHanging whenever a Family Unfriendly Character such as [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} Cinzia Otherside]] shows up:
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* {{Adorkable}}: Surprisingly, when he was young, Janus Valker – the BigBad of the first part of the saga – was quite the Nerd. At parties he was literally a wallflower: he always used a shirt with the same pattern of the wallpaper to better blend into the background (apparently he also subscribed a newsletter that informed which pattern to use). [[CannotSpitItOut His attempts to court Kalissa are just hilarious]].
* BizarroEpisode:
** One issue of the comic, "La Mummia" (''The Mummy''), had nothing to do with Rat-Man. It was a parody of the ''Mummy'' series of films starring [[IdenticalGrandson ancestors]] of Aldo and Giuda, characters from Ortolani's comic series "Venerdì 12".
** The last episode of the animated series, ''Saving and Imagination''. Basically, [[NoFourthWall only 199 dollars have been left for the last episode]], so the staff haves to cut short on stuff. At first it kinda works (a WraparoundBackground during driving scenes, [[PropRecycling backgrounds from older episodes are reused]] and so on), but then the MonsterOfTheWeek Lightning Man appears and wastes most of the budget by showcasing his powers and starting an impromptu dance sequence, meaning that the second half of the episode haves to be done even cheaper: scenes are played twice in a row, backgrounds are replaced with cruder versions and Lightning Man's powers are reduced to vanishing lasers that look like an effect from an old Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Then Rat-Man pulls out a giant tank [[UpToEleven that wastes even more budget]], meaning that the cartoon goes even cheaper, with only two characters, no backgrounds, no colors, the soundtrack is replaced with 15-second midi loops and the battles are done with ''Series/Batman1966''-styled {{Written Sound Effect}}s. At that point, the villain snaps and uses his powers anyway, cancelling the whole budget. The episode ends with Rat-Man, now a static picture with a SynchroVox mouth, whistling the theme song over the credits.
* HilariousInHindsight: Guess [[UsefulNotes/ThePope who]] is sometimes called The Great Ratzinga in Italy.
* ShockingMoments:
** Aptly, very high towards the end of "The Last Secret": [[spoiler: The Buffoon is in fact Noctule?! Wolf is Spectre's father?! SPECTRE IS KIMMY?!]]
** Then topped during the ''"I Vendicatopi"'' story arc (initially a ShallowParody of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''), when Rat-Man discovers that his hero [[MickeyMouse Mr. Mouse]] [[spoiler: created not just the superheroes but also the ''supervillains'', and all in the name of profit]].
** What do you mean [[spoiler:Rat-Man is Walker's ''biological'' son]]? ''What do you mean '''[[spoiler:he'll be the next incarnation of the Shadow]]?!'''''
** The terrible, terrible truth about [[TheLostLenore Thea]]: [[spoiler:Rat-Man didn't fall in love with her, but with Aima, ''Denam's real daughter''. Denam and Kalissa, plus Topin, wiped their memories and set up things so Thea would die in Rat-Man's arms to create a weapon against the Shadow... But the love story and the memory wipe brought out Ik, the incarnation of Rat-Man's love for Aima who broke out of his cryo cell and rampaged through the city searching for Aima until Rat-Man himself got him to return to his cryo cell, and the brief time Rat-Man and Aima had together was enough for him to ''father a daughter'' named Thea]].
* ShallowParody: ''Rat-Man'' began as a Batman parody, but the more the stories went on, the more Ortolani removed elements of it, such as Rat-Man being a millionaire, his Rat-Mobile, his sidekick Tòpin, and so on. Justified since Ortolani wanted his hero to be more like a metropolitan vigilante a la ''Spiderman''.
** Leo himself even admitted he never even saw Tim Burton's Batman in its entirety.
** ''Venerdì 12'' (Friday the 12th), another series by Leo published on the Rat-Man magazine, has nothing to do with [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] besides the title and the fact that the protagonist is a hideous man turned into a monster who lives alone and hides his face under a blank mask.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: It's what happens when your series takes the innuendos in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''... And ''[[UpToEleven runs with them]]''. [[BetterThanABareBulb Obviously,]] this gets a LampshadeHanging whenever a Family Unfriendly Character such as [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} Cinzia Otherside]] shows up:
--> '''Cinzia:''' [[OncePerEpisode "Hi there! I'm Cinzia, and I'm a transsexual!"]]
--> '''Rat-Man:''' "Cinzia, there are ''kids'' [[NoFourthWall out there]]."
--> ''([[BeatPanel beat]])''
--> '''Cinzia:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "Hi there,]] '''''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint kids!]]''''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I'm Cinzia, and I'm a transsexual!"]]
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* BizarroEpisode:
** One issue of the comic, "La Mummia" (''The Mummy''), had nothing to do with Rat-Man. It was a parody of the ''Mummy'' series of films starring [[IdenticalGrandson ancestors]] of Aldo and Giuda, characters from Ortolani's comic series "Venerdì 12".
** The last episode of the animated series, ''Saving and Imagination''. Basically, [[NoFourthWall only 199 dollars have been left for the last episode]], so the staff haves to cut short on stuff. At first it kinda works (a WraparoundBackground during driving scenes, [[PropRecycling backgrounds from older episodes are reused]] and so on), but then the MonsterOfTheWeek Lightning Man appears and wastes most of the budget by showcasing his powers and starting an impromptu dance sequence, meaning that the second half of the episode haves to be done even cheaper: scenes are played twice in a row, backgrounds are replaced with cruder versions and Lightning Man's powers are reduced to vanishing lasers that look like an effect from an old Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Then Rat-Man pulls out a giant tank [[UpToEleven that wastes even more budget]], meaning that the cartoon goes even cheaper, with only two characters, no backgrounds, no colors, the soundtrack is replaced with 15-second midi loops and the battles are done with ''Series/Batman1966''-styled {{Written Sound Effect}}s. At that point, the villain snaps and uses his powers anyway, cancelling the whole budget. The episode ends with Rat-Man, now a static picture with a SynchroVox mouth, whistling the theme song over the credits.
* HilariousInHindsight: Guess [[UsefulNotes/ThePope who]] is sometimes called The Great Ratzinga in Italy.
* ShockingMoments:
** Aptly, very high towards the end of "The Last Secret": [[spoiler: The Buffoon is in fact Noctule?! Wolf is Spectre's father?! SPECTRE IS KIMMY?!]]
** Then topped during the ''"I Vendicatopi"'' story arc (initially a ShallowParody of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''), when Rat-Man discovers that his hero [[MickeyMouse Mr. Mouse]] [[spoiler: created not just the superheroes but also the ''supervillains'', and all in the name of profit]].
** What do you mean [[spoiler:Rat-Man is Walker's ''biological'' son]]? ''What do you mean '''[[spoiler:he'll be the next incarnation of the Shadow]]?!'''''
** The terrible, terrible truth about [[TheLostLenore Thea]]: [[spoiler:Rat-Man didn't fall in love with her, but with Aima, ''Denam's real daughter''. Denam and Kalissa, plus Topin, wiped their memories and set up things so Thea would die in Rat-Man's arms to create a weapon against the Shadow... But the love story and the memory wipe brought out Ik, the incarnation of Rat-Man's love for Aima who broke out of his cryo cell and rampaged through the city searching for Aima until Rat-Man himself got him to return to his cryo cell, and the brief time Rat-Man and Aima had together was enough for him to ''father a daughter'' named Thea]].
* ShallowParody: ''Rat-Man'' began as a Batman parody, but the more the stories went on, the more Ortolani removed elements of it, such as Rat-Man being a millionaire, his Rat-Mobile, his sidekick Tòpin, and so on. Justified since Ortolani wanted his hero to be more like a metropolitan vigilante a la ''Spiderman''.
** Leo himself even admitted he never even saw Tim Burton's Batman in its entirety.
** ''Venerdì 12'' (Friday the 12th), another series by Leo published on the Rat-Man magazine, has nothing to do with [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] besides the title and the fact that the protagonist is a hideous man turned into a monster who lives alone and hides his face under a blank mask.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: It's what happens when your series takes the innuendos in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''... And ''[[UpToEleven runs with them]]''. [[BetterThanABareBulb Obviously,]] this gets a LampshadeHanging whenever a Family Unfriendly Character such as [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} Cinzia Otherside]] shows up:
--> '''Cinzia:''' [[OncePerEpisode "Hi there! I'm Cinzia, and I'm a transsexual!"]]
--> '''Rat-Man:''' "Cinzia, there are ''kids'' [[NoFourthWall out there]]."
--> ''([[BeatPanel beat]])''
--> '''Cinzia:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "Hi there,]] '''''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint kids!]]''''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I'm Cinzia, and I'm a transsexual!"]]
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