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Animal Man (Comic Book)

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Animal Man (Comic Book)	comment	Buddy Baker, also known as Animal Man, was one of many Super Heroes created during the 1960s. He first appeared in Strange Adventures #180 (September, 1965). Created by writers France Herron and Dave Wood, and artist Carmine Infantino. He could take the abilities of any animal who was nearby and was granted this power by yellow aliens. He mainly used it to be a Flying Brick, though.In 1988, Grant Morrison was given the chance to write Buddy's new series, and rewrote his personality into a passionate animal rights activist. There was also the drama of his family, who fully knew he was a superhero and tried to support it. And then things took a turn for the weird, as its second half delved into Meta Fiction, specifically the continuity problems that originated from the Crisis on Infinite Earths reboot. Morrison left after issue #26, and the series continued for another sixty-three issues, eventually coming under the Vertigo imprint.Animal Man continued to make appearances across The DCU, including a starring role in 52 (co-written by Morrison).In September of 2011, Animal Man was one of the characters receiving a series as part of the line wide New 52 relaunch. The new series, written by Jeff Lemire, deals with Buddy and his family dynamics, chiefly his daughter Maxine developing her own powers, as well as his attempts to protect "The Red". The series is a very dark one, and met with much critical acclaim before ending after 29 issues. Buddy himself continued to be written by Lemire though, this time featuring in his team book, Justice League United, until that ended after 17 issues.In 2012, Animal Man made his animation debut in a series of shorts as part of Cartoon Network's DC Nation block, voiced by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: After Buddy's wife and children are killed, he contemplates suicide before mercilessly tracking down and murdering the culprits with Mirror Master's assistance.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: The Red connects all animal life and is what gives Buddy his powers. "The Red" obviously refers to the color of vertebrate animals' blood like "The Green" refers to chlorophyll. However, Buddy can tap into the abilities of invertebrates, which do not have blood but the differently colored hemolymph.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_1a0881b	type	Muggle Born of Mages
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_1a0881b	comment	Muggle Born of Mages: Unlike Animal Man's daughter Maxine, his son Cliff did not inherit his powers.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: At one point, during a peyote trip, Buddy actually sees the reader.◊ During 52, Buddy — poisoned and on the threshold of death — looks straight up out of the panel and tells Starfire and Adam Strange that the readers are "out there, cheering them on". One of the yellow aliens destroys a supervillain by whittling him down until he's nothing but the rough pencil lines used to draw him. When Buddy meets Grant Morrison, it's actually written as a subversion. Buddy angrily attacks them, smashing them through a window and killing them for killing his family. However, he appears fine later, explaining that they wrote that emotion, that response, that anger—they're the reason Buddy feels at all. They also tell Buddy that they (The Writer) are also a character which the real author put in the book and speaks through, and that Buddy can neither harm nor reach the real Grant Morrison. In-Universe, Crafty Coyote is exiled by God from his fictional cartoon into the "hell above" of the DC universe in "The Coyote Gospel". During the JLApe: Gorilla Warfare! event, when the Martian Manhunter contacts Buddy for help, Buddy's first response is to remark "My God. I'm important to the plot..."
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_21fd09a7	type	How Do I Shot Web?
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_21fd09a7	comment	How Do I Shot Web?: Almost every arc involves Buddy learning something new about the way his powers work and/or struggling to control them, particularly when he discovers how versatile certain animals' abilities can be.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: While Morrison is thanking people for their support during the making of the series, Animal Man is getting the snot beaten out of him by two supervillains.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_30c40e9a	type	Deconstructor Fleet
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_30c40e9a	comment	Deconstructor Fleet: Morrison deconstructs and rebuilds the superhero with Animal Man and completely destroys the fourth wall, particularly having Buddy stray from his original intentions by blindingly aiding an Animal Wrongs Group whose actions put a firefighter into critical condition and becoming a bloodthirsty vigilante to avenge his murdered family before seeing the error of his ways and regaining sight of what he stood for in the first place.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_30d71ee	type	Flaying Alive
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_30d71ee	comment	Flaying Alive: One issue has Animal Man being teleported away against his will. And it involves him being stripped of his costume, then his skin, and finally his bones before disappearing completely.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The Crime Syndicate of Pre-Crisis Earth-Three find the Post-Crisis Earth too dark for their liking. In issue #24, Earth-Three Ultraman and Pre-Crisis Bizarro try to stop Overman from detonating a bomb that will wipe out the world.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_3496b29a	type	Heart Is an Awesome Power
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_3496b29a	comment	Heart Is an Awesome Power: A big part of Morrison's original run was focused on showing what a formidable fighter the C-list superhero Animal Man could be if his powers were handled right. Being able to absorb the abilities of nearby animals is a decent power, but it wouldn't be that useful for combat indoors or in a city, right? Well, not unless you consider being able to absorb the proportional strength of an ant (which can lift over 50 times its body weight), or the regenerative healing of an earthworm, or the jumping ability of a flea, or the multiplying ability of a bacterium, or any number of other possibilities. Milligan's arc also explored this concept, explaining the seemingly lame heroes Animal Man kept encountering were the only ones capable of putting up a decent fight against the Angel Mob, since the Angel Mob themselves are so weird. And even then, Front Page and Notional Man were quite dangerous. Nowhere Man himself was quite good at finding ways to make his power work.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_34e1f2e5	type	Animalistic Abilities
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_34e1f2e5	comment	Animalistic Abilities: Initially believed to have gained his animal mimicry abilities from alien experiments, Animal Man was retconned into being an avatar for The Red, the mystical representation of the earth's morphogenetic field. Initially, Animal Man could only copy the powers of animals within his proximity but later gained the ability to use any animal ability just by tapping into the morphogenetic field, regardless of if he was in proximity to an animal or not.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: Buddy's story in Vertigo Jam ends with him flipping off a turkey he had a conversation with as soon as the bird went off, not amused by the turkey's sentiment that Humans Are Bastards and that Buddy's vegetarianism doesn't do enough to change that. Buddy and his kids gets flipped off by a random background character in issue 57. Ellen is given the finger by a driver who calls her a "tight-ass bitch" in the 58th issue. Buddy's son Cliff gives both his middle fingers to the police in the Vertigo run's Annual issue that tied into The Children's Crusade (Vertigo). When Ellen pulls the kids out of school in issue 64, Cliff takes the opportunity to give the principal the finger as they leave.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_38c493f1	type	End-of-Series Awareness
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_38c493f1	comment	End-of-Series Awareness: The conclusion of Grant Morrison's run features their Author Avatar addressing that a new writer will take over by the next issue and that their successor will likely take Buddy in different directions than what they did with the character as well as throw whatever they've done with the character out the window.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_3a3489f	type	Fourth-Wall Observer
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_3a3489f	comment	Fourth-Wall Observer: One of the few times it isn't played for laughs.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: During Invasion!, Animal Man has no idea how to stop a Thanagarian bomb before it explodes. Hawkman shows up, pushes a button on the bomb, and tells Animal Man that all he had to do was turn it off.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Buddy's story in Vertigo Jam ends with him flipping off a turkey he had a conversation with as soon as the bird went off, not amused by the turkey's sentiment that Humans Are Bastards and that Buddy's vegetarianism doesn't do enough to change that.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: The title of Morrison's last issue, which fittingly enough, ends with them using their Author Powers to resurrect Buddy's murdered family.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The miniseries The Last Days of Animal Man ends with Buddy successfully defeating the villains Bloodrage and Prismatik, only to find that he's now permanently lost his powers. The silver lining is that he's now free to retire from superheroics for good so he can have more time to be with his wife and children.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_4304666a	type	Meta Fiction
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_4304666a	comment	Metafiction: Probably the Trope Codifier for the comic book medium as a whole, and one of the most famous examples in all of history.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_430e15e1	type	Stripperific
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_430e15e1	comment	Stripperific: Strangely Lampshaded when Buddy fights a Thanagarian. She only wears a suspender bra (ala Starfire). This is quickly proven to be a bad idea, as it gives Buddy a way to grab on to her, and get close to avoid her weapon range. In addition, he's closer so he can remove the artificial wings from her back and alter her gravity device, sending her shooting up in the air and plummeting to her death.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_43b67361	type	Have We Met?
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_43b67361	comment	Animal Man and Rip Hunter apparently meet for the first time in Animal Man #22. Their Pre-Crisis team-ups appear to be no longer canon. Though they wonder if they ever met before.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_45a177f1	type	Touched by Vorlons
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_45a177f1	comment	Touched by Vorlons: The origin of Buddy's superpowers. Long story short: Buddy finds a spaceship, ship blows up and incinerates Buddy, yellow aliens rebuild him and give him animal powers (note that in the recent "Justice League", Buddy is stated to have gotten his powers by Anansi similar to Vixen. But Anansi pretty much outright states he is a liar and is only there for Vixen).
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_45ad2569	type	Vagueness Is Coming
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_45ad2569	comment	Vagueness Is Coming: After the yellow aliens reconcile Animal Man and his origin with the post-Crisis reality, they gave him these words of warning: "Terrible times are coming. Be strong. Be careful." It's unclear whether they're referring to the Second Crisis or the events following his family's murder.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe, Crafty Coyote is exiled by God from his fictional cartoon into the "hell above" of the DC universe in "The Coyote Gospel".
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Buddy was frequently the most unfortunate and unlucky character during his time in Justice League International.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: The (3rd) Mirror Master has always had a Scottish Brogue, with its severity Depending on the Writer. When written by Morrison, he becomes downright unintelligible at times. Arguably a bit of Self-Deprecation, as Morrison themself is originally from Scotland.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: Travis Cody spits into Buddy's face in retaliation to getting arrested in the 34th issue.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Buddy starts off as an idealistic funny person, but after his wife and children die, he goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge and kills people. This, like many other events in the comic, is meant as a meta-commentary on the Dark Age of comics that had started a year or so after Crisis on Infinite Earths.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_4c554daf	type	President Evil
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_4c554daf	comment	President Evil: The Arc Villain of Peter Milligan's run is President Eagleton, who is not only a duplicitous bastard but also secretly a psychotic Child Hater who wishes he could kill every child in America.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_4e07ef21	type	Acid Reflux Nightmare
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_4e07ef21	comment	Acid Reflux Nightmare: Issue 14 of the 1988 series has Highwater attribute a bad dream to eating chili at 3:30 in the morning.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Lampshaded by Buddy's friends: "You don't have conversations anymore, you give lectures!" Morrison's Author Insert even admits to this themself in their final issue. They also note that the fact that they used the comic as a soapbox for their personal thoughts about animal cruelty while simultaneously inflicting numerous cruelties on Buddy himself is suggestive of a potential hypocrisy, or at least a similar sadistic impulse to inflict pain on something which can't fight back from a position of control, suggesting they don't have as much high ground from which to lecture the audience as they may have initially believed.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_504a1991	comment	The Rot is pretty much Body Horror incarnate (being represented by legions of undead, decaying creatures), and the New 52 series dives straight into the scare factor in that regard, especially when the art done by Travel Foreman.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_520680ca	type	Not Wearing Tights
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_520680ca	comment	Not Wearing Tights: After the conclusion of Grant Morrison's run, Buddy gradually began to dispense with his costume and stick to wearing regular clothing, especially after the comic moved to DC's Vertigo Comics imprint.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_542b8e66	type	Bad Powers, Bad People
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_542b8e66	comment	Bad Powers, Bad People: Lampshaded with Red Mask. Red Mask had originally wanted to become a hero and learn to fly. But when he gained a deathtouch power from a radioactive meteorite, he reluctantly became a super-villain, and even acknowledged that he wasn't very good at it.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: In the Milligan run, it turns out that the Animal Man we've been following is an alternate universe version. The usual one shows up at the end.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_59d7839f	type	Animal Lover
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_59d7839f	comment	Animal Lover: Animal Man is an animal lover in general, which comes in handy when your superpower is getting powers from animals. Exaggerated in Grant Morrison's run, when the sight of animal abuse makes him feel sick and he becomes vegetarian and adopts several animals. His children are animal lovers too.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_59f0de2a	type	Not Himself
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_59f0de2a	comment	Not Himself: At the end of Peter Milligan's first issue, Buddy kills a rampaging horse by tearing out its throat with his teeth. This is just one of several indicators (him urinating on the street, sniffing the butt of Ellen's friend) that something is making him act more like an animal than he should. In Justice League of America, Buddy realizes Anansi is affecting him when he eats chicken.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_5b057eae	type	Animalistic Abomination
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_5b057eae	comment	Animalistic Abomination: During The Childrens Crusade, Maxine is lured away to the Free Country by Jack Rabbit, who occupies the Uncanny Valley between a large realistic rabbit and a cartoon.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_5b1022b4	type	Magic Meteor
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_5b1022b4	comment	Magic Meteor: In one story a fellow got powers from a meteor only to find out it was being able to kill with one touch.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_5c9caf26	type	Civvie Spandex
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_5c9caf26	comment	Civvie Spandex: Animal Man pretty much started the trend in the 1980s with his denim jacket he wore over his costume, stylish and practical!
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_5f4097ba	type	Not Distracted by the Sexy
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_5f4097ba	comment	Not Distracted by the Sexy: During 52, he, Starfire and Adam Strange all got trapped on the far side of the universe where Starfire spent most of her time bathing naked in pools. Buddy totally ignore this talking with her like nothing.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_60ea2a89	type	Starter Villain
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_60ea2a89	comment	Starter Villain: An unnamed alien who has similar powers to Buddy and used them to go on a rampage in a small town, only to plummet off a cliff at the end of the issue.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Mirror Master shows up to help Buddy find his family's killers. Though he claims to be doing it to get his money, he does say he would never take such a job himself.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_6406a19c	type	Politicians Kiss Babies
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_6406a19c	comment	Politicians Kiss Babies: The Angel triplets explain that they found out President Eagleton is secretly a psychopathic Child Hater by reading his mind while he was kissing a baby.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_661a66d8	type	Animal Wrongs Group
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_661a66d8	comment	Animal Wrongs Group: Subverted in Morrison's run. Although Buddy Baker devotes his career to collaborating with like-minded individuals in disrupting fox hunts and freeing laboratory animals, he himself avoids the use of violence (except against a whaler and dolphin-hunter who dared him to do so). When one of his collaborators on a lab rescue mission blows it up with an incendiary bomb, putting a firefighter in critical condition in the process, Buddy hangs up his costume and resigns from the Justice League. Conversely, Animal Man's big-business enemies, far from being the put-upon victims normally found in this trope, are far more brutal and lawless.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_66755d29	comment	Grant Morrison's run has Buddy outlive his children Cliff and Maxine when they and his wife Ellen are murdered. At the end of the run, Morrison's Author Avatar uses their Author Powers to undo the deaths of Buddy's family after feeling they've made Buddy suffer enough, and also so that the next writer won't have to worry too much about maintaining their status quo.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_688afa6a	type	Evil Uncle
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_688afa6a	comment	Evil Uncle: Ellen's maternal great-uncle, Dudley, is a Snuff Film director who is crazy as an outhouse rat and worships death, and tries to bring Cliff under his wing, purposely running over Buddy and temporarily killing him to keep him from interfering, then bringing Cliff to his subterranean murder pit and leaving him for dead as a twisted rite of passage.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: Played with in Milligan's arc. The Notional Man was created due to his mother's uncontrolled love and desire for a child that didn't exist. While fighting with him, Buddy uses his powers to channel raw, animalistic love as a way to disorient the Notional Man, before switching to pure animal hate and killing him.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_6aa199f3	type	Old Superhero
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_6aa199f3	comment	Old Superhero: The Last Days of Animal Man is set in a future where after 20-odd years as a superhero, an aging Buddy starts losing his powers. Even so, he takes on a last fight as a nearly-powerless Badass Normal wearing body armor and wielding a crowbar.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Buddy almost offs himself when his family is killed.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_6e9c18a5	type	Speech-Bubble Censoring
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_6e9c18a5	comment	Speech-Bubble Censoring: Issue 60 has a panel where a naked Buddy's crotch is obscured by a woman's speech bubble.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_6ea5ed34	type	Power Loss Makes You Strong
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_6ea5ed34	comment	Power Loss Makes You Strong: The miniseries The Last Days of Animal Man depicts a near future where middle-aged Buddy, now a full-time member of the Justice League, sees his powers slowly fade out to nothing. Nearly powerless, he finds a way to defeat two extremely Ax-Crazy supervillains with sheer guts, resourcefulness, and the very last, tiny drop of superpowers he has left.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_72426bbd	type	Self-Duplication
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_72426bbd	comment	A big part of Morrison's original run was focused on showing what a formidable fighter the C-list superhero Animal Man could be if his powers were handled right. Being able to absorb the abilities of nearby animals is a decent power, but it wouldn't be that useful for combat indoors or in a city, right? Well, not unless you consider being able to absorb the proportional strength of an ant (which can lift over 50 times its body weight), or the regenerative healing of an earthworm, or the jumping ability of a flea, or the multiplying ability of a bacterium, or any number of other possibilities.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: Shockingly, Buddy's final contingency when faced with a tremendous threat has little to do with channelling giant animals; that's still very kosher to him. The Last Days of Animal Man shows that robbed of avenues for more traditional applications of his abilities, he can still copy the properties of deadly bacteria, which requires just a finger-hold into the morphogenetic field and has the potential to be insanely deadly for everything in his immediate area.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: The Grant Morrison era story "Hour of the Beast" has Mr. Van de Voort, a racist who takes sadistic pleasure in tormenting Dominic Mndawe after holding him prisoner. The Penalizer in Tom Veitch's run uses the slur "dinks" when reminiscing on the number of soldiers he's killed in Vietnam.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: Dr. Myers witht the fusion of monkeys B'wana Beast left behind in S.T.A.R. Labs.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_7842867	type	Vengeance Feels Empty
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_7842867	comment	Vengeance Feels Empty: After Buddy Baker brutally avenges the murder of his wife and children, he feels it was all for nothing, and decides instead to travel back in time and attempt to warn his family in advance.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_7eda7f78	type	Transformation Horror
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_7eda7f78	comment	Transformation Horror: A running theme, particularly in the new 52 incarnation of his powers, is to undergo transformations that are frightening and grotesque.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_8430699a	type	Alternate Universe
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_8430699a	comment	Alternate Universe: Peter Milligan's arc involves Buddy going into a coma as a result of the trauma he endured in Morrison's arc, waking up to find he's now in a different world where his marriage to Ellen is a sham, Hitler was executed for war crimes, and the president isn't George Bush (the arc was published in 1990 when Bush was still President). As it turns out, according to the compendium included in the Absolute Edition of Crisis on Infinite Earths this world was designated Earth-27 in the original Multiverse.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: A rare in-universe example. Buddy realizes that a group of drunken rednecks who threatened his wife just seemed to disappear after that sub-plot was over, as part of his slow realization that he's a fictional character.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Lucinda Angel of the Angel Mob develops a crush on Buddy, which genuinely creeps him out because she's a kid and she's also a creepy mind reader who keeps implanting unsettling thoughts into Buddy's head. However, Lucinda grows to actually care about Buddy and is livid when her brother Mark seemingly kills him, viewing this as an indicator they need to stop what they've been doing. Buddy starts to care about Lucinda the same way he cares about Maxine, and is horrified when he sees what the government does to Lucinda and her brothers after they get captured. He regretfully has to help Lucinda pull a Mercy Kill because he can't save her.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_8a27f768	type	Space Whale
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_8a27f768	comment	Space Whale: Earth's Green Lantern in the timeline of "The Last Days of Animal Man" is an actual whale that travels through space.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_8b5db38b	type	They Killed Kenny Again
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_8b5db38b	comment	They Killed Kenny Again: Crafty the wolf (a Wile E Coyote expy) gets killed multiple times in both his cartoon world and Animal Man's world. By the end of the story, he dies for real.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: When Buddy wakes up from his coma in Peter Milligan's run, he's shocked at the sudden change in personality Ellen's gone through. She smokes, she's cold and shallow, talks about wanting to impress some friends from her writing group because they're "Old money," and has been cheating on Buddy for a while now because she claims their marriage has been dead for years. It eventually turns out this is the Ellen of another universe, and the regular version of Ellen's as loving as she always was.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: In the alternate future miniseries The Last Days of Animal Man, Buddy laments that he permanently loses his powers before he can cure Prismatik and Bloodrage of their bubonic plague infections and prevent them from being crippled for life, but the fact remains that the villains deserve their fate for remorselessly threatening lives and attempting to extort a fortune from the world by holding the League of Titans hostage.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_9058da25	type	Nuclear Family
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_9058da25	comment	Nuclear Family: Buddy has a wife, a son and a daughter with the twist that he is, of course, a superhero.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Dr. Myers, head scientist of terrible animal experimentations, got what's coming to him when B'wana Beast, grieving over the death of his gorilla friend, used his power to merge Myers with the gorilla's body. He ends up getting dissected alive by his collegues.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: The art style changes into a pastiche of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner when depicting Crafty's cartoony world.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: Or rather numbers, as "9 27" appear throughout Morrison's run. It turns out that it's the date Buddy's family are murdered. The numbers that have mysteriously manifested were the time-traveling Buddy's futile attempts to warn them.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_922ec657	type	Corrupted Character Copy
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_922ec657	comment	Corrupted Character Copy: Tom Veitch's run features an in-universe comic titled The Penalizer, the title character a blatant pastiche of The Punisher, but while Frank Castle only kills ruthless criminals and does so in an attempt to avenge the deaths of his wife and kids, the Penalizer has no tragic backstory to justify his actions and is a full-on reactionary lunatic who takes sadistic enjoyment in his killings to the point that he'll find any excuse to blow people away indiscriminately and seems incapable of dealing with any threat without resorting to lethal force.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_92cca75b	type	Ret-Gone
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_92cca75b	comment	Ret-Gone: Hamed Ali and pre-Crisis Buddy are wiped out of existence by the efforts of the Yellow Aliens in correcting the few anomalies not addressed by the forming of the Post-Crisis universe.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_953c92eb	type	Beware the Superman
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_953c92eb	comment	Beware the Superman: Overman, a version of Superman from an Earth where all heroes were created by the government. After contracting an STD he went insane and killed everyone, and then planned on destroying himself and the world with a nuclear bomb. This is a Take That! at the grim and gritty comics of the 1980s, with Psycho-Pirate providing commentary on what a stupid idea Overman's world was.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_95614e0e	type	One-Night-Stand Pregnancy
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_95614e0e	comment	One-Night-Stand Pregnancy: During the Vertigo era, Buddy has a falling out with Ellen and ends up sleeping with Annie Cassidy, resulting in Annie being pregnant with his child and giving birth to a baby girl by the final issue. Like many aspects of the comic's Vertigo period, this was ignored after Buddy and his family resurfaced in the main DC Universe.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Metamorpho shrugs off the Time Commander's attack and advances on him, smashing his hourglass (the source of his powers), and reducing him to tears as he feels he's going back to the mental institute where the doctors tried to make him sane and "destroying the clockwork" he sees in his mind. When Animal Man needs to time travel, he locates the Commander who is just in his cell trying to put his mind back together:
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Grant Morrison's run has Buddy outlive his children Cliff and Maxine when they and his wife Ellen are murdered. At the end of the run, Morrison's Author Avatar uses their Author Powers to undo the deaths of Buddy's family after feeling they've made Buddy suffer enough, and also so that the next writer won't have to worry too much about maintaining their status quo. Buddy's son Cliff dies again in the New 52 series by Jeff Lemire, which stuck this time and was one of the few aspects of the post-Flashpoint era to be retained after DC Rebirth in spite of the Rebirth initiative's primary purpose being to restore the DCU to how it was prior to Flashpoint.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_98a150f3	type	Excrement Statement
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_98a150f3	comment	Excrement Statement: Ellen mentions to Buddy in issue 66 that Maxine protested against the felling of a tree by climbing up the tree and peeing on a worker who tried to get her down.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_9a6990	type	Skinny Dipping
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_9a6990	comment	Skinny Dipping: Maxine Baker invites Ray to swim naked with her in issue 76.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_9c4a7090	type	Springtime for Hitler
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_9c4a7090	comment	Springtime for Hitler: While working on issue #5, Morrison was convinced it would kill their career, and they basically wrote it because they were out of ideas at the time, didn't particularly care for the tone of the early story, and had an attitude of "If I'm going out, I'm doing it on my terms." It ended up being a hit, and helped define the rest of the run.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: During his peyote trip, Buddy sees an image from the Crisis, then another one that tells of a second Crisis. Whether it is foreshadowing the events in the comic (with the Psycho Pirate), Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!, or Infinite Crisis is your own guess. During the early issues of Morrison's run, Animal Man and his family are being watched by a masked man in leather, crying. Later on, we learn that it was Animal Man all along, who changed his costume and traveled back in time to warn his family about their deaths.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: Played with. When Crafty, an anthropomorphic cartoon coyote, comes to the "real world" (the comic books world, actually), he retains his ability to regenerate himself from every mortal wound. But instead of being innocent and bloodless, like on his cartoons, his injuries are gruesome and realistic.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: After Buddy helps superheroes from various other Earths to disappear, there's still a butterfly that the Mysterious Watcher claims is from another Earth.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_a0434be6	type	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_a0434be6	comment	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Grant Morrison's Author Avatar is notably depicted with dark hair and pale skin, presumably to make them appear mysterious and otherworldly as well as emphasize their nature as an outsider to the DC Universe.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_a284511d	type	Balance Between Good and Evil
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_a284511d	comment	Balance Between Good and Evil: Animal Man has a balance between the Red (animal life), the Green (plant life), and the Rot (death and decay). While the first story arc has the Rot and its avatar as the Big Bad, it's implied that any one of the three sides has the ability to grow beyond its means and become a threat.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: A lot of the events from the 1988 comic's Vertigo era have been discarded after Animal Man was restored to the main DC Universe, particularly Buddy's time as a beaked chimera and his falling out with his wife Ellen that resulted in him getting another woman named Annie Cassidy pregnant.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Peter Milligan's run had three of them. The Angel Mob, made up of Matt, Mark, and Lucinda Angel, were fraternal triplets with psychic powers who had it out for the President. They turned out to be well-intentioned, as one of them read the President's mind and discovered that he really hated children and wished he could've rounded them all up and have them shot. After they've formed a deal with Animal Man and the government, the President turns on them and has them captured for dissection. So this turns out to be a Justified Trope as they had very good reason to not like the President.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_ad9559e6	type	Arc Villain
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_ad9559e6	comment	Arc Villain: President Eagleton, a psychopathic Child Hater, serves as the central villain of Peter Milligan's run.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: B'wana Beast fuses an epidemiologist with the corpse of an escaped ape he was using to incubate a super-anthrax strain. The guards mistake the man for the ape, and promptly strap him down to continue the anthrax experiments.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b15b6a35	type	Cosmic Plaything
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b15b6a35	comment	Cosmic Plaything: During 52 (where Buddy's scenes were also written by Grant Morrison), he's poisoned, killed, and brought back to life again, breaking the fourth wall yet again.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: The aliens who gave Buddy his powers rewrite history so that instead of the '60s, they gave him them in the '80s. It makes sense, too. Later, his origin and the nature of his powers get redefined several times. Which is why it initially seems perfectly plausible that Anansi [presented as the Anthropomorphic Personification of Retcon] might have been behind it all along. He first got his powers by radiation when the alien ship exploded, which also made him sterile, in Pre-Crisis continuity. But in post-Crisis, the ship is intact and the aliens grafted his body, and he is able to have children. Pre-Crisis, he was almost 30 when he first got his powers. Post-Crisis, he was in his early-to-mid 20's when he got it. Animal Man and Rip Hunter apparently meet for the first time in Animal Man #22. Their Pre-Crisis team-ups appear to be no longer canon. Though they wonder if they ever met before. Grant Morrison does this on purpose to give Buddy a happier ending, declaring the events of their run to be nothing more than a nightmare and everything in his life still as it was before.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b23e7ba9	type	Real Is Brown
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b23e7ba9	comment	Real Is Brown: The real world is a gray, colorless world while Buddy stands out.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b2e5a4f3	type	Virtuous Vegetarianism
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b2e5a4f3	comment	Virtuous Vegetarianism: Starting with Grant Morrison's run on the 1988 comic series, Buddy quits eating meat out of disgust at how often animals have been harmed and killed for humanity's benefit.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3	comment	When Psycho Pirate releases old comic characters from his head, he releases Overman, a twisted Superman-like hero who caught an STD and went crazy, killing the worldnote He's a Take That! to 90's comics. Psycho-Pirate yells "Who thought this was a good idea?!"
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Nowhere Man's mother was a religious nut obsessed with the idea that sex was bad, and did everything she could to stop her son from exploring his sexuality (like tying baseball mitts to his hands so he wouldn't masturbate). She eventually snapped and abandoned him when his powers manifested. Notional Man's mother wanted a child so badly she willed one into existence. And it's implied from his mention of her "Terrible love and desire" for her child that she may have molested him.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b8a13baa	type	Meat Versus Veggies
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b8a13baa	comment	Meat Versus Veggies: Buddy's connection to animals gradually persuaded him to become vegetarian, leading to friction with Ellen on the subject. Though it wasn't exactly the idea of becoming vegetarian itself that was the problem, but the fact that Buddy unilaterally decided the issue for his whole family without actually discussing it first, informed her of this only when she came upon him throwing all the meat in their refrigerator into the trash, and his high-handed and self-righteous attitude when confronted about it, culminating in him storming off in a huff after an argument, didn't help matters. Later, in his confrontation with Grant Morrison, Morrison admits that they'd just been using Buddy as an Author Tract for their own vegetarian beliefs, and also makes an interesting contrast between the self-righteousness of their animal rights message and the various cruelties they had subjected Buddy to over the course of their run on the title, pondering if both cruelty to animals and cruelty to fictional characters ultimately stem from the same sadistic impulses.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b901ef97	type	Forgotten Fallen Friend
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b901ef97	comment	Forgotten Fallen Friend: Highwater.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b9e8ad28	type	The Multiverse
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_b9e8ad28	comment	The Multiverse: Morrison's series takes place shortly after Crisis on Infinite Earths, and plays with the then-departed DC Multiverse. Psycho-Pirate, the only person who remembers the old continuity, releases the characters who had been erased by the Crisis into the new universe, where they come to the realization that they are comic book characters. Buddy's role with the other "Space Heroes" in 52 is that a monster believes Buddy saw the rebirth of The Multiverse following Infinite Crisis and wants to silence them.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: President Eagleton in Peter Milligan's run is revealed to be a psychopath who wants to murder all children, the Angel triplets discovering his secret when they read his thoughts while he was kissing a baby.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: With two children! He adds a denim jacket over his regular skintight costume so he can carry around his keys and notes from his wife. He's the only superhero with "bring home milk" on his crimefighting agenda. He loves his wife so much that, when he is trapped on a planet far away from home with Adam Strange and Starfire, he think only to his family even with Starfire bathing naked! That Ellen is suddenly acting like she and Buddy are not this in Milligan's run is one of the earliest indicators this is the wrong universe.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: The Penalizer, a Captain Ersatz of The Punisher, during Tom Veitch's run of the comic. In the reboot there's a movie where an aging superhero tries to make a comeback, the superhero being played by Buddy.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_c26e2b1	type	New Powers as the Plot Demands
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: In The Childrens Crusade, Maxine suddenly gains the power to make an exact duplicate of herself to send home to her parents, conveniently allowing her to stay in the Free Country without seriously affecting the plot of the Animal Man comic.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_c30b3981	type	Mistaken for Prostitute
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_c30b3981	comment	Mistaken for Prostitute: In issue 58, Ellen gets stuck in the seedy part of town and her attempts to turn to the police for help result in the cops mistaking her for a hooker.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_c49a9e3a	type	Face on a Milk Carton
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_c49a9e3a	comment	Face on a Milk Carton: The 56th issue features a milk carton that has a picture of a missing child.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A cartoon wolf named Crafty (an obvious expy of Wile E. Coyote) appears in Morrison's Animal Man #5. In issue 16 a tyrannosaurus goes on a rampage in Paris. When we first see it, it's standing next to a street sign that reads "Rue de Harryhausen".
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_c92a568	type	Family Extermination
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_c92a568	comment	Family Extermination: During Grant Morrison's run, the family of the titular character was murdered as a retaliation for his eco-activism. In the last issue, the deaths are undone by Morrison themself as a courtesy to Buddy.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Morrison themself ends their run with both Buddy and Morrison's Author Avatar criticizing their preachy writing.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Some people whose businesses are harming the environment and trafficking in animal cruelty aren't happy with Buddy's stance on animal rights, and show it by hiring an assassin to kill his wife and children.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_d0c8e54	type	Monkeys on a Typewriter
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_d0c8e54	comment	Monkeys on a Typewriter: The penultimate issue of Morrison's run began with a monkey at a typewriter while Animal Man travels through Comic Book Limbo.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_d3beb0de	type	Precocious Crush
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_d3beb0de	comment	Precocious Crush: Lucinda Angel in Peter Milligan's run is a young girl, but has a huge crush on Buddy and doesn't seem to care much that he's a married man in addition to being old enough to be her father.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_d3f8ad06	type	Close on Title
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_d3f8ad06	comment	Close on Title: Every issue of The Last Days of Animal Man waits until the last page to reveal the story's title.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_d4cc3a71	type	Audience? What Audience?
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_d4cc3a71	comment	Audience? What Audience?: In Grant Morrison's run, Buddy gradually becomes aware that he is a comic character. Near the end, he wanders through Comic Limbo where different discarded characters made references to him being a character, only for him to be confused or outright dismiss them.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_dad134b4	type	Exiled from Continuity
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_dad134b4	comment	invokedExiled from Continuity: Discussed in one issue. Many of the characters that were erased from continuity and fade back in reality question this reason. However, James Highwater tells them they can still exist since the comics they appear in are still in print, even if they're no longer canon.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: In Dwayne McDuffie's run on Justice League of America, Anansi (the spirit who gave similarly powered hero Vixen her powers) tried to state that Buddy got his powers from it, saying that it was always the yellow aliens. However, not only is Anansi an Unreliable Narrator, he retroactively rewrites himself out of the event, restoring Buddy's connection with the real yellow aliens. As well, the yellow aliens have stated that they posed as Anansi to make the totem that gives Vixen her power. Which means that either the yellow aliens impersonated Anansi, Anansi impersonated the yellow aliens... or there is simply a man with a typewriter in a room.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_dd3272bb	type	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_dd3272bb	comment	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Milligan's run ran on this trope in regards to the other heroes Buddy met. Nowhere Man, who is molecularly displaced and has to concentrate to keep his form, and then there's the Green Cigarette, the Human Vegetable, Envelope Girl, Front Page, and the Notional Man.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_dd891949	type	Who Writes This Crap?!
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_dd891949	comment	Who Writes This Crap?!: Done literally in Morrison's final issue, when Buddy actually meets Grant and the two discuss the flaws in the latter's writing. When Psycho Pirate releases old comic characters from his head, he releases Overman, a twisted Superman-like hero who caught an STD and went crazy, killing the worldnote He's a Take That! to 90's comics. Psycho-Pirate yells "Who thought this was a good idea?!"
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_e0c470a1	comment	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Subverted. Psycho Pirate recreates all the lost characters and goes to wage war on the readers who control their lives and judge them, but he's stopped. When Buddy actually confronts Morrison, Morrison makes it a point that Buddy (and everyone else to that extent) can't actually break the fourth wall, all his actions, thoughts and dialogue, including the belief that he can see the readers has all been written by them. Morrison further notes that they can't actually talk to Buddy, but had to create a character in a book to talk to him directly.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_e13b799	type	A Dick in Name
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_e13b799	comment	A Dick in Name: In Animal Man Vol. 1 #1, Buddy Baker attempts to rejuvenate his superhero career by appearing on a talk show hosted by one Dick Griffith. However, during his segment Griffith humiliates him with a string of lewd and otherwise belittling "animal" jokes. The day after it airs, the Bakers' next-door neighbour Tricia says, "Whoever christened that guy knew how he was gonna turn out."
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_e5421161	comment	A cartoon wolf named Crafty (an obvious expy of Wile E. Coyote) appears in Morrison's Animal Man #5.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_e598d4ac	type	Innocent Inaccurate
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_e598d4ac	comment	Innocent Inaccurate: In issue 61, Maxine mistakes discarded condoms on the beach for "wiggly balloons".
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_e5da07dd	type	Badass Unintentional
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_e5da07dd	comment	Badass Unintentional: Ellen Baker. A supervillain breaks into her house to get at her superhero husband... and she beats the crap out of him.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: Morrison admits during their cameo in the comic that they had been using Buddy as a mouthpiece.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Grant Morrison ends their run by retconning it into a dream as a favor to the title character.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: In issue 58, Ellen uses her knee to hit Mike in the crotch when he tries to sleep with her and ignores her insistence that she isn't interested.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_eb253679	type	Dirty Kid
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_eb253679	comment	Dirty Kid: Cliff was really happy when his family take care, for a brief period, of Starfire. He also get a photo of her sleeping in the bed to make his friends jealous because he has a "totally hot alien princess" in his home.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_ef92caa4	type	World Gone Mad
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_ef92caa4	comment	World Gone Mad: The coyote from "The Coyote Gospel" comes from a world where animals are engaged in endless cartoonish violence.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Buddy's jacket looked really cool and helped set him apart by giving him a unique look, but the whole reason he started wearing it was so he had pockets to carry around his keys and notes from his wife reminding him to bring home milk. Also, he admits that he's self-conscious wearing a skintight suit.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_f2a6d76d	type	Rage Against the Author
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_f2a6d76d	comment	Rage Against the Author: The story arc "Deus Ex Machina" is notable in that it plays Buddy's outrage at Grant Morrison's control over his life for drama.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_f5eda11	type	Mix-and-Match Critters
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_f5eda11	comment	Mix-and-Match Critters: The first arc of Jamie Delano's run has Buddy Baker die and revive as an amalgamated creature with the head of a tiger, the horns of a ram and enormous bat wings. He eventually becomes human again by eating the severed fingers of his original corpse.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Morrison's run concludes with Buddy Baker having his family resurrected after all the torment he endured when his wife and kids were killed.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_f76b8969	type	Anthropomorphic Personification
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_f76b8969	comment	The aliens who gave Buddy his powers rewrite history so that instead of the '60s, they gave him them in the '80s. It makes sense, too. Later, his origin and the nature of his powers get redefined several times. Which is why it initially seems perfectly plausible that Anansi [presented as the Anthropomorphic Personification of Retcon] might have been behind it all along.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_f88600be	type	Higher Understanding Through Drugs
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_f88600be	comment	Higher Understanding Through Drugs: In one issue, a peyote trip helps the eponymous character realize he's a character in a comic book, though he forgets it once the trip is over. Animal Man is accompanied by a Native American called James Hightower, and the peyote ritual is depicted in stereotypical Native American terms, but with the twist that Hightower is a scientist and not a shaman of any sort. Both of them also get an totem animal guide for the trip.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: The Gay Ghost, an obscure DC character in Limbo, doesn't want to return to continuity since the word "gay" has a different meaning in today's world. However, he did appear a year before (in Secret Origins #42); fortunately, his name was changed to the Grim Ghost. He is "brought back", after he was rescued by Superman, along with all the other inhabitants in Final Crisis.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_fa77a6e5	type	Heroic Dolphin
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_fa77a6e5	comment	Heroic Dolphin: One story features Animal Man saving dolphins from murderous Scandinavian townsfolk who kill them for fun. At the end, one of the dolphins saves an evil townsperson from drowning.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: During the 1993 annual, the cops and the Department of Biologically Enhanced Criminality and Eco-Subversion attempt to raid the Arkadia compound in search of elephants who attacked the cops earlier, while Buddy and his family lie and insist that they have no elephants on their ranch.
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Time Commander (Richard Starr), just a crazy man who rediscovers his ability to control time, and sets out in France, summoning Vikings and dinosaurs. When these characters distract the League, he goes to a cemetery, meets random people and decides to bring their loved ones back to life, even making an old lady young again. He then proclaims he'll use his powers to cure all death and make a paradise, when the League attacks him. He beats them back, except Animal Man who tries to talk to him. Buddy respects what he's doing but states that there could be unexpected consequences (like the dinosaurs attacking).
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Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
Animal Man (Comic Book) / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Depending on the Writer: In Morrison's last issue, Grant Morrison tells Buddy straightup about the 2D nature of his universe, and demonstrates how Buddy only does whatever he does because Grant writes him that way. And they remark to Buddy that "maybe some new writer will make you do something completely different."
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Convergence / Comicbook	seeAlso	Animal Man (Comic Book)
Extraordinary X-Men / Comicbook	seeAlso	Animal Man (Comic Book)
Rotworld / Comicbook	seeAlso	Animal Man (Comic Book)
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	A Dick in Name / int_8727bf22
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Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	All Just a Dream / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	All Your Powers Combined / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Animal Lover / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Animal-Themed Superbeing / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Animal Wrongs Group / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Animalistic Abilities / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ascended Fanon / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Author Avatar / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Badass Unintentional / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Balance Between Good and Evil / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Big Brother Bully / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Civvie Spandex / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Close on Title / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Color Character / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Comic Books of the 1960s / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Computer Equals Monitor / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Cosmic Plaything / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Crucified Hero Shot / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Crusading Lawyer / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Daddy's Girl / int_8727bf22
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Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Drugs Are Good / int_8727bf22
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Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Full-Frontal Assault / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Gender-Blender Name / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Hates Their Parent / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Have We Met? / int_8727bf22
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Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Immortality Hurts / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Inhuman Eye Concealers / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Innocent Inaccurate / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Instant Soprano / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Karmic Transformation / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Magic Meteor / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Meat Versus Veggies / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Me's a Crowd / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Meta Guy / int_8727bf22
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Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Mushroom Samba / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	No Fourth Wall / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Not Wearing Tights / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Old Superhero / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	One-Night-Stand Pregnancy / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Outliving One's Offspring / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Power Copying / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Power Loss Makes You Strong / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	President Evil / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ret-Gone / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Samaritan Syndrome / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sapient Cetaceans / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Signature Series Arc / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Skinny Dipping / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sleeps in the Nude / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Soapbox Sadie / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Something Person / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Space Whale / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Speaks Fluent Animal / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Speech-Bubble Censoring / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Spiteful Spit / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Super-Hearing / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The '60s / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Touched by Vorlons / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ugly Cute / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Vengeance Feels Empty / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wire Dilemma / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Writer on Board / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	You Bastard! / int_8727bf22
Animal Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Offscreen Teleportation / int_8727bf22

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