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• Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work is essentially a guide on how an artist can use this trope in comics, as evidenced by the alternate title: "Some Interesting Ways To Get Some Variety In Those Boring Panels Where Some Dumb Writer Has Some Lame Characters Sitting Around and Talking For Page After Page!"
• One scene in Empowered, where Thugboy and Emp are suiting up in the manner of a Lock and Load Montage, complete with jump cuts and action lines...in fetish outfits. Appropriately, it's narrated by the Caged Demonwolf.
• Yankee from the German comic Lula Und Yankee "slaughtering" his piggy bank. "Now die, pig!" (Note that he's an adult man, not a boy.)
• The plot of The Tick New Series #8 follows The Tick looking after a group of super-powered animals. They lead him on a 22 pages quest to "Destroy the evil beast" A vacuum cleaner. The B-Plot focuses on a loquacious Captain Ersatz of Galactus.
• The 2009 Marvel Digital Holiday special. The Illuminati lend Santa the Infinity Gauntlet to save Christmas ("I still can't believe the reindeer were all Skrulls.."), but he goes mad with power. Namor the Sub-Mariner saves the day.

Namor: Must use all my Atlantean might to throw this snowball!

• In Buck Godot Zap Gun for Hire, the big innovation that humans introduced to the galactic community and caused massive cultural upheval was popsicles.