Madman (Comic Book): Difference between revisions

 

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* [[Annoying Arrows|Annoying Discs]]: His disc gun fires sharp discs that get embedded into his enemies' flesh. These are designed to [[Only a Flesh Wound|only injure]] but you still end up seeing guys fighting with blades sticking out of them.

* [[Arch Nemesis]]: Mr. Monstadt is the only real reoccuring [[Big Bad]] of the series.

* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The first scene of the entire series features Madman ripping an eyeball out of a thug's head and swallowing it. He is shown coughing it back up once the thug and his partner leave but the character ended up going in a completely different direction. Allred himself mentioned that he hated that scene right after he wrote it.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Some have shown up with little explanation, making people go insane, giving them superpowers, or just generally being creepy.

* [[The Faceless]]: For the first miniseries, Frank's face was never shown.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Joe.

* [[Genre Shift]]: Atomic Comics starts out...strange, but there is still some adventure to be had. By the end of it however, things get rather less...superheroey. For example, the last two issues of the series, while including Frank briefly getting charred by an alien, is ultimately about aliens dressed as girl scouts asking the Atomics to play at a concert on their home planet.

* [[Government Agency of Fiction]]: Tri-Eye. Exactly which governments it's involved with remains a mystery (but it's probably all of them). Monstadt, Boifard, and Flem all had various connections to this organization {{spoiler|as did Frank when he was alive}}. It comes complete with an [[Ancient Conspiracy]] and [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness]].

* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Joe is a redhead that has been by his side from the beginning.

* [[Robot Girl]]: Mechana, although she doesn't look quite as human as other examples of this trope.

* [[Robotic Spouse]]: Astroman and Machina for each other in a rare robot-on-robot example. It should be noted that Dr. Flem's robots began creating robot companions for themselves.

** The aforementioned Machina looks a lot like the robot from ''[[Metropolis]]'' and her lover, Astro Man, looks like a cross between Madman himself and ''[[Astro Boy]]''. Considering Allred's love of all things pop culture, this is not an accident.

*** [[Man or Astro-man?]]?

** The alien Mott is part of an alien race called hooples. [[Mott the Hoople]] was a band in [[The Sixties]] and [[The Seventies]].

** When Frank notices that Mott's ship is [[Bigger on the Inside]] he states "It must be a [[Doctor Who|Tardis]]."

* [[Super Reflexes]]: He was able to outperform circus acrobats without any training (including balancing on one finger while on a tightrope) and has used his skills to [[Dodge the Bullet|avoiding getting shot]].

* [[Skeletons in the Coat Closet]]: Madman's first costume resembled a skeleton, complete with a stiched mouth that looked like a fleshless jaw.

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