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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)

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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	comment	Cerebus the Aardvark is a comic book created by Dave Sim that developed slowly from episodic comedy to high drama to Author Tract. Beginning in December 1977 and ending in 2004, it clocks in at over six thousand pages, making it the longest work in comic form by a single author in the West. Somewhere around the sixth issue, Sim decided to devote the next twenty-five years of his life to producing a three hundred issue storyline with a plotted-out beginning, middle, and end.Sim had begun Cerebus as a Conan the Barbarian pastiche in black and white line art, in the same vein as later independent comic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The silly parody starred a barbarian aardvark Anti-Hero, back in the days when having a Funny Animal interacting with humans was still a popular plot device. Along the way, he ran into his Love Interest Jaka, who started off as a one-shot Stripperiffic character. Umpteen issues later, she would re-appear, now fully fleshed-out. He also met the Roach, a superhero parody initially similar to The Tick. Much later, Sim would exploit the pathos inherent in the character.Behind the scenes, Sim experimented with LSD and drove himself beyond exhaustion creating and publishing his comic book. Overwork caused Sim to have a breakdown, and he even spent a day in a mental institution.Around issue 26, Cerebus gave up his barbarian ways, and thus began the High Society Story Arc. He ran into the manipulative Astoria and the scary matriarchal proto-feminist Cirin. Astoria's scheming got Cerebus a job as prime minister and, later, a brutish, morally warped pope. Back in the real world, Sim split up from his wife Deni Loubert, who was also co-owner of the comic's Aardvark-Vanaheim publishing company, and background artist Gerhard was brought on board starting with issue 65. His highly detailed backgrounds earned praise and became a key element of the comic, and also allowed Sim to focus on the characters and thus noticeably improve his art.Cerebus wound up on the Moon (long story), got lectured at by an omniscient Judge who lived there(!), returned to Earth and found that his home had been taken over by the Cirinists. He ran into Jaka, now married to a guy named Rick, and also Oscar Wilde. Yes, the Oscar Wilde, or rather an Oscar Wilde. In the world of Cerebus, you see, characters can exist in multiple iterations at the same time.The comic had, as the summary will imply, gotten more and more experimental. Sim began Painting the Medium, and diving into Postmodernism. Among other assaults on the reader's sanity, Cerebus met his creator, Dave, who sent him to the planet Pluto and also injured Cerebus' eyeball. Alan Moore (who should know) would later congratulate Sim for doing the most accurate portrayal of the mystical experiences ever put down into fiction.By then the comic had lengthy all-text pages, some of which were used to explain Sim's ever-changing theories on the creation of the universe and on The Bible. Editorials became increasingly controversial and verbose. Mostly, they defended creator rights over comic properties, rights agreed-upon by several well-known and respected comic book creators. It could be argued that Sim's rants were fundamental to the development of independent publishers in the nineties, such as Image Comics. On the other hand, his anti-feminist views, in the beginning moderate, but growing more aggressive issue by issue and finally becoming public with the infamous issue #186, were heavily criticized (The Comics Journal specifically referred to the material in #186 as "misogynistic, nutty and loathsome"), alienating both the audience and professional reviewers.While reading the Bible and Qur'an in preparation for the Rick's Story arc, Sim underwent a religious experience and converted to an idiosyncratic mixture of Judaism, Islam and Christianity, which also blended into his political beliefs and views on feminism and gender roles. As a result, religion began to increasingly influence the comic's story, to the point that the last two story arcs are based around Cerebus coming to the same religious revelations as Sim, although not in the same fashion. This, along with how Sim dealt with the final fates of Cerebus, the Cirinists, and their respective empires and allies, proved to be even more controversial than anything that had come before.To paraphrase Sim himself, he set out to write three hundred issues of a life that "made sense", unlike Spider-Man or Superman, series that, to Sim, "don't make sense as a story or a life".While Sim gave us liberty to use his characters without the threat of copyright infringement lawsuits, it has yet to be adapted to any other medium. Sim also intends to have all his work enter the public domain after his death.Generally accepted as proving that works of astonishing scope and dedication can be achieved if you don't mind going completely crazy in the process.Story arcs Cerebus note Issues #1-25, not really an arc so much as a mostly episodic series of shorter stories ranging from one to about four issues High Society note Issues #26-50 Church and State I and II note Issues #52-80, 81-111 Jaka's Story note Issues #114-136 Melmoth note Issues #139-150 Mothers and Daughters: Flight note Issues #151-162 Women note Issues #163-174 Reads note Issues #175-186 Minds note Issues #187-200 Guys note Issues #201-219 Rick's Story note Issues #220-231 Going Home: Going Home note Issues #232-250 Form and Void note Issues #251-265 Latter Days: Latter Days note Issues #266-288 The Last Day note Issues #289-300In 2021, apparently with Sim's full blessing, a 70-minute animated movie called The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark (described by its creator Oliver Simonson as "the first no-budget CGI feature in history) was released online, featuring John Di Crosta as the voices of both Cerebus and Lord Julius. If this has gotten your interest, the production company uploads the daily footage (also known as "dailies") to their YouTube channel here.An even earlier (albeit short-lived) adaptation was done for radio in the early eighties.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1171ed72	comment	Sexy Shirt Switch: At the start of Church and State, Cerebus has an Oh, Crap! moment when he wakes up wearing Red Sophia's bikini top.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_11bc87bc	comment	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: The parodies of real people in the comic essentially fell into "take this famous person and drop them into the comic."
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_12184cca	type	SelfInsert
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_12184cca	comment	Self-Insert: Sim shows up in person near the end of Rick's Story and converses with Cerebus on the stagnation of Cerebus' life.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Sim makes two major appearances, first in Minds and then in Rick's Story. Also, Viktor Davis shows up in Reads and is mentioned as being a friend of Rick's in Rick's Story.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Cerebus started off as a parody comic and never really left its roots in this regard. Many celebrities were parodied, including Groucho and Chico Marx; Oscar Wilde (twice!); Woody Allen; Mick Jagger & Keith Richards; Margaret Thatcher; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway; and The Three Stooges. Even famous fictional characters were parodied; for instance, Elrod is a combination of Elric of Melnibone and Foghorn Leghorn while the McGrew brothers are parodies of Yosemite Sam and the Roach parodies several very popular comic book superheroes over the course of his appearances. Weisshaupt is a combination of Adam Weishaupt and George Washington, in a reference to the claim in the Illuminatus! trilogy that the former had murdered and taken the identity of the latter.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: During the Church & State arc, while interrogating a captive Astoria, Cerebus finally has enough of her mind games and taunts and rapes her. In Women, during the confrontation between Cerebus, Astoria, Cirin, and Suenteus Po, Astoria's comments about the "rape", as she specifically calls it, imply that she may have wanted Cerebus to impregnate her to screw with Cirin even more than she already had, but she didn't get pregnant. This pops up twice in Jaka's Story: As a child, Jaka fell and received a head injury that left her comatose for days. While bedridden, she had hallucinations which included squid-like things around her bed; these were later implied to be manifestations of repressed memories of being molested. In discussions about this scene, Julius was hinted to be the culprit, but Sim later Jossed this. Near the end, Pud's inner narration of his interactions with Jaka begins to turn very dark, as he starts contemplating raping her. However, when he finally works up the nerve to attempt this, it's interrupted by a customer.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: After Cerebus learns the truth about his beloved Rabbi comicsnote namely, that they're a vicious satire about him and that their author met Cerebus once and thought he was an idiot, he snaps and commences to shuffling around his palace saying "DARRRR! Pret-ty flowers! Pret-ty sunsets!". It takes Konigsberg saying "Mungu Mkono" to him to snap him out of it.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Happens to both Rick and Cerebus at the end of Jaka's Story, although Cerebus's isn't revealed until Melmoth. Cerebus is in one at the start of Latter Days, as a result of the emotional trauma at the end of Form and Void.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Astoria's break with the orthodox Cirinist movement came from her declaring that a mother had a right to kill her own child, and that the state had no right to stop her or indeed even to know whether she had done so or not—effectively, arguing for infanticide to be placed within the penumbra of the right to privacy. One gets the impression that Sim was thinking about something in particular, there, and that he had some definite opinions about it...
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_15184afb	type	This Loser Is You
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_15184afb	comment	This Loser Is You: Sim confirmed that the sexually repressed, mother-dominated Pud Withers, who fantasizes about assaulting Jaka, was a slam on comic book readers.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_171ef47c	comment	Not-So-Harmless Villain: In the first issue, Cerebus demonstrates that he's not just some cute cartoon animal when some random guy tries to grab his tail. There's also The Artist. Remember back in Issue 25 when he was a friendly energetic guy? If you've read Church and State, you might not.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: From an adventure parody to...whatever the hell it became.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Several examples: Oscar, who massively inflates the tales of Jaka's childhood with his Purple Prose. Being a parody of Oscar Wilde, this is very much in character. In particular, he portrays Nurse as a cruel and spiteful religious fanatic who did nothing but try to crush Jaka's spirit. When we briefly meet Nurse for real, she seems a lot more human and appears to genuinely care about Jaka. Rick, who turns his memoirs into a holy text revolving around Cerebus after seeing Cerebus confront and dominate Mrs. Thatcher, who had engineered Rick and Jaka's divorce and then ordered Rick's maiming for hitting Jaka. Being quite deranged, he turns everything Cerebus says into scripture, regardless of Cerebus' intentions. He even writes a lengthy description of Cerebus' bar in the Old Testament style of description. Cirin and Astoria, whose in-story Author Tracts are documented in part in Women. Being parodies of second-wave and third-wave feminists, respectively, they are seen as mutually opposing ends of the same extremist viewpoint. Mary Ernestway and her diary about Ham's last safari. Being a textbook Ladette (or, at least, Sim's take on one), she over-inflates her contributions to the safari, as well as misinterpreting the ethical and social implications of some events. She is also seriously overbearing and condescending toward Ham, and drops hints in her diary that Ham liked to cross-dress, engaged in Gender Flip sexual roleplay with her, and enjoyed buggering her. Even Jaka and Cerebus appear to be embarrassed and confused by some of what she talks about, frequently exchanging puzzled glances during these sequences. Given that Sim used Mary Hemingway's published diaries as the source for Mary Ernestway's diaries, this leads to questions about Ernest himself. The Judge is retconned into being one during the Mothers & Daughters arc, occupying a kind of trickster role in Cirinist theology. Sim himself in multiple ways. He describes Victor Davis as himself during a period when he was drinking heavily and trying to get laid at the same time. Unfortunately, he was a mean drunk, which made getting laid that much more difficult, which led to him drinking more, and so on. It's not clear if Dave used Mary Hemingway's diaries in their entirety or picked the parts which suited his views the best to make Mary Ernestway the way she is. Later on, as Sim's anti-feminist and religious material increasingly influenced the comic...well...
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: First issue.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: Astoria giving up her political maneuvering once and for all in Reads.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Parodied. Elrod offers his friendship to Cerebus after their first encounter and subsequently follows him around, but is oblivious to the fact that Cerebus wants nothing to do with him.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_19dcd4bc	type	Sand in My Eyes
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_19dcd4bc	comment	Sand In My Eyes: Cerebus claims he has soot in his eyes in the last issue of the High Society arc. The Regency Elf isn't fooled.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_19f527df	comment	Blowing Smoke Rings: In the last issue of the Rick's Story arc, Bear drops a smoke ring on Jaka's head as a insult.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Astoria, in the squickiest way possible.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1a3b588c	type	Suicide Is Shameful
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1a3b588c	comment	Suicide is Shameful: This is a deeply-ingrained belief for Cerebus. Thus, he's shocked when Brak Mak Mufin kills himself, and is rattled to his core when Ham Ernestway does the same, mainly because he idolized him so much and for him to die by his own hand says some seriously shameful things about Cerebus in his self-estimation.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1b3b48f3	type	David Versus Goliath
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1b3b48f3	comment	David Versus Goliath: Anytime Cerebus has a one-on-one fight with anyone, they're always much, much bigger than he is, with Necross being the most extreme example. This becomes his main disadvantage when he fights Cirin in Reads.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: Suenteus Po is a self-imposed version. He's fully aware of his Weirdness Magnet nature and is resolved to interact as little as possible with the world to keep his "magnifier" from affecting things too much. It doesn't work. Near the end of the Latter Days arc, it's revealed that an exception to the edict about executing "evil" women was created if said women were really beautiful. These women were exiled to "Fruitcake Park" for 20 years, with the thought process being that they'd either become less "evil" (in which case they're released) or lose enough of their beauty that killing them wouldn't be an issue anymore. The female reporter sarcastically notes "No wonder they're calling this 'The Age of Enlightenment...'." This was, in part, an excuse for Sim to indulge in his passion for photorealism, with each of the "fruitcakes" drawn in stunning detail.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival: Weisshaupt eventually becomes this to Cerebus once Cerebus becomes Pope, although he changes his mind on his death bed. Cirin views Cerebus as this until Minds, when "Dave" reveals to her that her worst fear about Cerebus, namely that his uniquely hermaphroditic body could lead to him impregnating himself and possibly siring an entire race of aardvarks, can't happen because the stab wound he received as a child permanently damaged his womb. From that point on, to her he's merely a nuisance to be removed when it's convenient.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Roach and Elrod, at times. The McGrew Brothers quickly degenerated from antagonists to comic relief. Ham and Mary's two gunmen from Form and Void.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1cf11f13	comment	No Sympathy: Astoria treats the Cockroach this way near the end of High Society, even after the guy nearly kills himself by becoming a substitute wheel for her coach.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1d47dc06	type	Alternative Calendar
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1d47dc06	comment	Alternative Calendar: Cerebus creates a 4-month calendar...or tries to.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1dad7003	type	In the Hood
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1dad7003	comment	In the Hood: Po's disguise in the Mothers & Daughters arc. Po is revealed to be rather cunning. He knows that there is nothing inconspicuous about his disguise. He simply chose it so that people would think he was The Grim Reaper and be too scared to approach him.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Cerebus learns in Minds that he's a character in "Dave"'s story. This affects his life to varying degrees through Guys and Rick's Story, although the last time "Dave" is mentioned in-story is when Cerebus thanks him, Tarim, God, and whoever for Jaka showing up again and that aspect seems to vanish as the religion-centered material becomes really prominent.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Rick's left thumb is broken (off-panel, albeit very loudly) at the end of Jaka's Story as punishment for striking Jaka.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1ebfd039	type	Magical Incantation
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1ebfd039	comment	Magical Incantation: Right before Rick leaves the bar for good in Rick's Story, he casts a containment spell on Cerebus, a kind of low-key quasi-voodoo ritual involving pieces of a twig and a spoken incantation that keeps Cerebus from being able to leave the bar. It also has the side effect of removing and killing Cerebus' magnifier ability. The spell works until Jaka shows up and moves one of the twig pieces, breaking the spell.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: Starts with the epilogue of Melmoth and continues right through the Mothers & Daughters arc. These issues make very clear just how messy swordfighting can be, and Punisherroach's semi-automatic crossbow pistols shoot exploding bolts whose effects on their targets are made quite clear.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Estarcion in The Last Day, thanks to "New Joanne" and her revolt against Cerebus' social movement, has become a hellhole of every kind of societal perversion and corruption. Most of those that are mentioned are stereotypically conservative ideas of the absurd depths of depravity a completely liberal culture could sink to.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Red Sophia tearfully talks to Cerebus about their marital problems, not in the least bit noticing that Cerebus is in some kind of magical trance and has his head in a glowing sphere.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_222ca815	type	Bathroom Stall Graffiti
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_222ca815	comment	Bathroom Stall Graffiti: During Cerebus' interrogation of Astoria, she reveals that she originated the "One less mouth to feed is one less mouth to feed" line Cerebus used in one of his sermons.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Cerebus's brief tenure as Pope does this, especially his "sermons" which inevitably get someone killed. Generally, the humor in Cerebus doesn't so much go away as get darker as it goes on.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance Astoria and Lord Julius, back when they were married, anyway. Cerebus and "New Joanne." Her age isn't revealed but when the reader first sees her, she appears to be somewhere in her 20s, whereas Cerebus has lived a long, long time and looks it.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: An early story arc had Cerebus and a band of mercenaries capture a commander named Krull as part of an elaborate military campaign. A later story even depicts them having difficulty keeping Krull imprisoned, seeming to foreshadow an upcoming conflict or complication. However, Sim suddenly and unceremoniously dumps the story line, ultimately having it resolve itself offscreen. Not only that, it is never mentioned how (or even if) Krull affected the campaign's outcome.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_24383e9b	type	First Church of Mecha
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_24383e9b	comment	First Church of Mecha: The wizard Necross transferred his soul into a giant golem (the Giant Stone Thrunk, a parody of the Thing) and, several issue later, declared himself the god Tarim. Cerebus was running a messiah confidence scheme on the town at the time and got deposed when "Tarim" showed up. Cerebus eventually shot him through the head with a cannon.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Missy, Jaka's childhood doll. Taken to ridiculous extremes in the latter parts of the story.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: The Cockroach parodies many comic book characters, including Captain America, Batman (both his original iteration and Frank Miller's take in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns), Moon Knight, Wolverine, and Venom.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Sophia's father, who lampshades it himself, albeit accidentally.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_26852e3d	type	Persona Non Grata
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_26852e3d	comment	Persona Non Grata: At the very end of Form and Void, Cerebus is shunned by his hometown for not being there for his father as he was dying and then missing his father's funeral, because he was running around with a woman. Sand Hills Creek is Orthodox Tarimite and very old-fashioned and patriarchal, and this is seen as about as shameful and disrespectful a thing as a child can do. The only way he finds out why is because he happens to catch someone outdoors before he can get home.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_26d0fa3b	type	Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_26d0fa3b	comment	Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: Cirin had a human son, Sir Gerrik, who was betrothed to Astoria several years prior to her appearance in the story. Cerebus and "New Joanne" have one child, Sheshep Ankh.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_26d1f65f	comment	Bear's constant use of "Whattyacall".
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: In one issue during the Guys arc, Cerebus and the rest of the guys are being lectured by an elderly Cirinist about cleaning up their lives and finding wives to settle down with. At the same time, through the window in the center of the panels, a young lady is at the edge of the cornfield across the street doing a striptease, clearly meant to be a show for the guys. She waves and walks away as the lecture wraps up, and the view cuts to all the guys sitting down with blank stares and with their legs crossed and hands stuck between their legs.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: One of the longest setups in comic history, although if Sim's life hadn't taken the...odd directions it took, it begs the question of whether or not the end would've still been as dark as it was.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_29292e6d	comment	Walking the Earth: The first 25 issues or so are mainly Cerebus wandering from place to place having various adventures while trying to make money and get drunk. In the early issues of Latter Days, he wanders all over northern Estarcion trying to bide time until he dies.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Minor typos and inconsistencies nobody but the author could have possibly picked up on are returned to, expounded upon, and made into plot points.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2b3937ef	type	Our Hero Is Dead
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2b3937ef	comment	Our Hero Is Dead: Elrod's death in issue #22. The cover even advertised it as "The Death of Elrod". However, later on, when Elrod learns what he is, he winks out of existence, and thus, actually does die.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2b65aa76	type	Straw Critic
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2b65aa76	comment	Straw Critic: Oscar's description of "reads" fans probably counts. See Take That, Critics! below.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2bd44a0f	type	Hermaphrodite
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2bd44a0f	comment	Hermaphrodite: Cerebus is revealed in Reads to be one, with both male and female genitalia and reproductive systems. This becomes a plot point in multiple fashions in later story arcs. Bear unknowingly lampshades this in Guys when he's chewing out Cerebus over a hissy fit: "It's like you're part chick or somethin'!"
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2bf267a9	type	Beat Panel
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2bf267a9	comment	Beat Panel: Happen every now and then, with Cerebus' reaction to Astoria telling him he's a hermaphrodite combining one with an Aside Glance.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2c9ef8f7	type	Combo Platter Powers
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2c9ef8f7	comment	Combo Platter Powers: Parodied with the "reads" character Rabbi. He had hundreds of peculiar and highly specialized powers such as dextrorotatory breath—making the plane of polarization of light spin to the right by blowing.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: One early issue featured "buz". One shot is one hundred percent addictive and provides all the nutrition an adult needs in one day. A villain uses it to subjugate and rule his entire city.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: A non-human example: In Latter Days, Cerebus becomes a shepherd and has apparently named one of the sheep Elrod, who had been more-or-less killed almost 100 issues prior.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: During the Church and State arc, where Cerebus is at his most amoral, he reveals that he is disgusted by pedophilia. This plays into his confinement by the Wise Fellows in Latter Days when he tries to scare them off by stating the most evil thing he could think of.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_329a19a0	type	Hollywood Healing
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_329a19a0	comment	Hollywood Healing: When Cirin and Cerebus approach Mars in the Minds arc, and Cirin notes the planet's symbolism for childbirth and healing in their religion, their injuries are magically healed except for Cerebus's severed ear which isn't restored.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_34960f22	type	Vapor Wear
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_34960f22	comment	Vapor Wear: In the "affair with Joanne" section of Minds, a full page is spent on Cerebus tunnel-visioning on Joanne's breasts at times when she's clearly not wearing a bra.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Necross (technically a mad wizard, but still...)
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3545b7df	type	Proper Lady
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3545b7df	comment	Proper Lady: Michelle is elegant, classy, and the master of her domain wherever she is...even when she's acting as a mother figure for Super Secret Sacred Wars Roach and the Mc Grew brothers.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Lots of language throughout the series, with normalroach's tirade at the start of Melmoth as one of the most extreme examples, although it toned down after Sim's religious conversion.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_37cb353b	comment	Ate His Gun: Ham Ernestway kills himself in this manner, just like his real life counterpart.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_37fcf16	type	Death Is Cheap
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_37fcf16	comment	Death is Cheap: Parodied with Captain Cockroach's sidekick, "Bunky", until the Cerebus Syndrome kicked in.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_38072b53	type	Wrong Assumption
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_38072b53	comment	Wrong Assumption: The Cockroach, who thinks he's the protagonist of a superhero story.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Readers knew for a long time that Sim's plans were to have Cerebus die in the final issue. Sure enough, in #300, as he's lunging out of his bed to try to kill Sheshep Ankh, a hamstring gives out, causing him to fall and break his neck when he lands.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Cerebus tries to force himself to undergo this after his talk with Dave, resolving to become a better person. It doesn't work out.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3c88d6c2	type	Flat "What"
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3c88d6c2	comment	Flat "What": In Rick's Story, Cerebus has this reaction to Joanne being startled at seeing him after he walks out from behind the bar (she'd assumed he was as tall as her since she couldn't see the boxes he was standing on to be able to reach the top of the bar).
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle Cerebus killing the Cirinist at the end of Melmoth. Cerebus killing Cirin and her guards in an alternate scenario in Reads. This one is subverted when he actually fights Cirin. It initially seems the trope is going this way, then Cirin uses her size and strength to her advantage and nearly kills him.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3da73f66	type	Congestion Speak
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3da73f66	comment	Congestion Speak: In issue 68, Cerebus catches a cold and becomes horribly stopped up, which messes with everything he says. The issue ends with this confrontation between him and his rival Adam Weisshaupt:
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3e5f74c	type	Take That, Critics!
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3e5f74c	comment	Take That, Critics!: In Melmoth, Oscar Wilde's high opinion of Daughter of Palnu and his unflattering description of "reads" fans is basically Sim both being defensive and taking a swipe at comics readers who disliked the direction he'd been taking the comic in since Church & State.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3fe6a857	type	Public Domain Character
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_3fe6a857	comment	Public Domain Character: Cerebus will become one when Sim dies.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_40217655	type	Faux Action Girl
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_40217655	comment	Faux Action Girl: Although Red Sophia has beaten opponents before, we never see any of that onscreen.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Weisshaupt and Astoria both play on Cerebus' sense of honor and responsibility to manipulate him in their schemes. It works until it doesn't. Cerebus himself also shows some talent at this on occasion.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_411a35bd	type	Body Surf
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_411a35bd	comment	Body Surf: Elrod as Deadalbino (a direct parody of the DC character Deadman). Charles X. Claremont is revealed to have done this in Church & State, becoming trapped in Super Secret Sacred Wars Roach's head.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Cirin tries to pull one of these on Po in Reads. It doesn't work. Cerebus pulls one on Astoria later on in the same book. It really doesn't work.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_41435fc2	type	Pie in the Face
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_41435fc2	comment	Pie in the Face: "Dave" first makes contact with Cerebus in Minds in this manner.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Cerebus occasionally mangles his words, almost always when Dave's wanting to play off his lack of sophistication. For example, after Dave leaves the bar without drinking any of his Coors Lights in Rick's Story:
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_42008602	type	Story Arc
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_42008602	comment	Story Arc: Cerebus is broken down into 10 major arcs: Cerebus, High Society, Church and State, Jaka's Story, Melmoth, "Mothers and Daughters", Guys, Rick's Story, "Going Home", and "Latter Days." Church and State has two parts, and the arcs in quotation marks have two to four distinct sub-arcs fitting under the general titlenote Flight, Women, Reads, and Minds for M&D, Going Home and Form and Void for "Going Home", and Latter Days and The Last Day for "Latter Days." Each arc and sub-arc tells a distinct story, lasting anywhere from 11 issues (Flight) to almost 60 issues (the entirety of Church and State), and each is collected in its own TPB.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_430e15e1	type	Stripperific
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_430e15e1	comment	Stripperific: Almost all of Jaka's dancing costumes (at least, the ones that are depicted) are quite revealing.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him Surprisingly the Cirinists, who were the closest thing the series had to a Big Bad. The T'Gitans in the first phonebook.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Apparently, some of Lord Julius's "Like-A-Looks" get far too deep into the role.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Jaka tries to call this on Cerebus when he plans to personally confront the forces closing in on Iest near the end of High Society.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: One of the key themes of Jaka's Story. Jaka is married to Rick and loves him. Cerebus loves Jaka. Pud Withers...well he feels something for Jaka. And just to mix things up a bit, Oscar clearly has a crush on Rick.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_453871ec	comment	What Could Have Been: In-universe examples: Cerebus is presented with alternate futures throughout the "Mother and Daughters" arc, most notably in Minds. In Guys, Cerebus briefly dreams of an alternate future where he apparently became romantically involved with Astoria.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_458c7e61	type	Constructed World
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_458c7e61	comment	Constructed World: Possibly subverted, as it is implied if not outright stated that the world Cerebus inhabits eventually becomes ours.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The comic doesn't pull punches on this topic. As a kid, Cerebus is stabbed in the belly by a bully. In Church and State I, as one of his "lessons" (namely, that you can get what you want and still not be very happy), Pope Cerebus blesses a baby whose mother had repeatedly asked him to, and then hurls the baby away like a football. Cerebus's talk about killing the child mercenary during the "Mothers and Daughters" arc. After Cerebus' failed revolution in Flight, the Cirinists purge everyone who saw it happen; one of these unfortunates is a young girl. We don't actually see her death, but the last the reader is shown is the Cirinist drawing back to strike the blow. Hinted at in Latter Days, when Cerebus uses the long arm of a Spawn-like costume (it makes sense in-story) as an atlatl to fling away the baby of a dad being really annoying with cutesy-talk. The dad runs after the child, but it's not revealed if he makes it in time.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: The Artist. Remember in his debut appearance how he was just a friendly, over-enthusiastic dimwit who was perfectly happy to be an Extreme Doormat? Remember what he was like later on in Church and State?
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Cerebus himself, frequently.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Sim has a true gift for writing dialogue in this fashion, with everything from Chico Marx's fake Italian accent to Alan Moore's Britishisms to Cerebus's dialogue when sick or drunk showing up perfectly rendered yet still easy to parse.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4977d7b8	comment	Body Double: Lord Julius' "Like-a-looks". As Julius is based on Groucho Marx, the joke is in lampshading the fact that anyone with the right build, walk, attitude, and a painted-on mustache can look like Groucho/Julius. It was never entirely clear who was the real Lord Julius after that, especially after a mob of increasingly absurd Like-a-looks (including Elrod the Albino!) invaded the palace and all claimed to be the real one. In a reprint, Sim mentioned the story was inspired by the scene from Duck Soup where Chico and Harpo both impersonate Groucho using greasepaint and the right props.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Gerhard's background art is so very, very pretty.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_49d5f48f	type	Of Corpse He's Alive
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_49d5f48f	comment	Of Corpse He's Alive: In one of the stories in the Cerebus World Tour Book, a drunken Cerebus mistakes a corpse for a living person and befriends it.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4a4cd4d8	type	Splash Panel
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4a4cd4d8	comment	Splash Panel: Sim played with the idea of 2-page splash panels by putting the left half on the final page of an issue and the right half on the first page of the next.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4a5cf754	type	Rebus Bubble
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4a5cf754	comment	Rebus Bubble: In one of the specials, Cerebus introduced an apprentice to the world of alcoholism. After he gets the boy drunk, the boy starts bashing his master (using speech bubbles with a picture of the master in a clown costume), and, after the master finds out, murder ensues.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4b4f6a2f	type	Mood-Swinger
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4b4f6a2f	comment	Mood-Swinger: The Artist.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4bc2095b	type	One Head Taller
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4bc2095b	comment	One Head Taller: The pint-sized Doris is just slightly taller than Cerebus. Granted, this was more of a one-sided crush than an actual relationship.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4c7e2c2d	type	Heroic Fantasy
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4c7e2c2d	comment	Heroic Fantasy: Parodies this (at first).
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4e07ef21	type	Acid Reflux Nightmare
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4e07ef21	comment	Acid Reflux Nightmare: Jokingly referenced rather than used. In Guys, Cerebus has an alcohol-induced nightmare involving Roaring Rick Veitch and his Rare-Bit Fiends. This is a parody of Veitch's actual comic/dream journal Roarin' Rick's Rare Bit Fiends, which was based off Winsor McCay's comic strip Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend, whose title referenced the notion that eating too much Welsh rarebit would cause nightmares.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4e34d653	type	See You in Hell
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4e34d653	comment	See You in Hell: When President Weisshaupt is dying and fails to tell Cerebus who the other two aardvarks in Estarcion are:
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The Last Day. Cerebus is apparently dragged into the very afterlife he was trying to avoid, abandoned by God, and the world he left behind is a complete mess that will probably do nothing but get worse as time goes on. Even before this point, many of the individual arcs (Church & State, Jaka's Story, etc.) ended on a depressing note.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Cirin and Astoria, whose in-story Author Tracts are documented in part in Women. Being parodies of second-wave and third-wave feminists, respectively, they are seen as mutually opposing ends of the same extremist viewpoint.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4ef62a4d	type	Full-Circle Revolution
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4ef62a4d	comment	Full-Circle Revolution: In Latter Days, the society created after the overthrow of the Cirinists is very successful for many years, but eventually decays into an even worse situation.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4f4602da	type	They Changed It, Now It Sucks!
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4f4602da	comment	They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: In-universe, part of Latter Days is used to express Sim's disappointment when The Three Stooges brought on Joe Besser and later Curly Joe Derita.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Po admits that both Astoria and Cirin are experts in guile and trickery, but he also accuses them of being overconfident to the point where they have both dangerously underestimated Cerebus.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4fc6385e	type	Unreliable Voiceover
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_4fc6385e	comment	Unreliable Voiceover: Used to introduce Astoria and her relationship to Moon Roach. Oddly subverted when, much later, another character tells a version of the story which doesn't match the art or narration of the first one.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_500696c6	type	Seinfeldian Conversation
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_500696c6	comment	Seinfeldian Conversation: Most of Guys consists of these.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: Used in many ways over the course of the comic, sometimes obviously and sometimes less so. After Cerebus wins the election in High Society, the several next issues' panels are turned 90Â° counterclockwise, signifying that his world has been "knocked sideways." In the penultimate issue of the same storyline, where the crisis is a fact, for a few pages the panels "spin" around so that the reader has to keep turning the comic around in order to read it. During Minds, "Dave" brings Cerebus close to Cirin to show that her telepathic denials of the truths he's trying to show her are so strong that they're actually distorting the "reality" around her, depicted as the edges of the panels fragmenting.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5025c785	type	Writing for the Trade
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5025c785	comment	Writing for the Trade: Pretty much the entire point of the comic, to the point that it's impossible to tell where one issue ended and another began after the fourth phonebook, when the stories stop having individual titles. The trades are printed together as a single story, because that's how they were written, which means monthly readers were basically getting 20-page chunks of a larger book every month, which simply cut off at whatever happened to be the 20th page that month. It got to the point where almost every issue ended with the left-hand page of a double-page spread and the next began with the right. Also, since recaps or even character pages weren't done, you had to get a half-dozen issues to start just to try to stay afloat. Another indie comic famously used the line "I haven't been this confused since I started reading Cerebus at issue 50!".
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_51509ce7	type	Convenient Miscarriage
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_51509ce7	comment	Convenient Miscarriage: Subverted. Jaka reunites with Cerebus in the middle of Church and State II after a long separation, only to tell him that she is now married and expecting a child. Cerebus is angry, but eventually relents and gives her some money for the baby. When he next sees her (at the start of Jaka's Story), her pregnancy is seemingly handwaved away with a single line about a miscarriage. It looks like Jaka has fallen victim to this trope...until the end of the story arc, where we learn that Jaka actually had an abortion behind her husband's back. This leads to the end of her marriage, and to her eventually getting back together with Cerebus. Abortion in the story is very illegal, and while Jaka's husband did want to have a child, her main motivation for lying to him was to protect him from criminal liability if she was found out...although her telling Cerebus that she was afraid having a baby would make her ugly casts some dark shadows on her motivation.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_527fc5fe	type	Gotta Catch Them All
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_527fc5fe	comment	Gotta Catch Them All: Cerebus spends years tracking down all the issues of Rabbi so he can make a guide to them.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: Cerebus, once he finds out that he has been chosen as the new pope.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Melmoth, Flight, and Minds each have at least one.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_545f8c91	type	Abortion Fallout Drama
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_545f8c91	comment	Abortion Fallout Drama: At the start of the Jaka's Story arc, when Cerebus and his former flame Jaka reunite, he asks about her babynote when they parted in the previous arc, she told him that she had gotten married and was pregnant and she tells him that she had a miscarriage. However, at the end of the arc, it's revealed that she actually had an abortion without her husband's knowledge, and that she would've had a son, which was what her husband wanted more than anything. Enraged and heartbroken, he punches her out and screams that he never wants to see her again, which the Cirinist government is happy to arrange.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_54f38833	type	PostScriptSeason
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_54f38833	comment	Post-Script Season: All lingering plot threads and character arcs were pretty much resolved by the end of Minds, but the series ran for another 3 arcs/100 issues... some people believe he did this solely because he'd earlier stated that the series would run for a total of 300 issues. Sim himself stated in an interview with The Comics Journal:
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5535bb82	type	Centipede's Dilemma
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5535bb82	comment	Centipede's Dilemma: Cerebus tries to win a ball game using this trope, asking if he breathes in or out when tossing the ball. Cut to panel of his panicked partner contemplating it. Cut to panel showing said partner having won and saying, "I breathe out!"
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church In a sense. The Cirinists started out as a benevolent association of mothers who grouped together to bolster their communities. The movement spread like wildfire, and when it began to meet resistance from multiple fronts, a disciplinary / defensive section was formed...which then took over the movement when the aardvark Serna, Cirin's best friend and co-founder of the movement, stole Cirin's identity, usurped her leadership, and had Cirin humiliated and punished as a traitor. By the time of High Society, the Church of Tarim has been corrupted from within by selfish and greedy individuals.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: The Cirinist-ruled region of Estarcion.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: The fandom has dubbed the TPBs as "phonebooks" due to the size of most of them.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_55ee648c	type	MommyIssues
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_55ee648c	comment	Mommy Issues: Astoria (Cirin's daughter-in-law) has enormous philosophical differences with Cirin, and took several opportunities to screw with Cirin both personally and politically in her backstory.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_56a3ad5d	type	Anthology Comic
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_56a3ad5d	comment	Anthology Comic: Some of the one-shot specials (Cerebus Jam, The Cerebus World Tour Book, etc.) fell into this category. Each story within was helmed by a different guest artist (sometimes solo, sometimes in collaboration with Sim).
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: The Hsiffies are demonized in the early issues in the same way that Asian races have been in Real Life.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Cerebus and the Roach work together to support Astoria's political maneuvering in High Society.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_59f0de2a	type	Not Himself
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_59f0de2a	comment	Not Himself: Cerebus, whenever he gets drugged. He's much nicer, almost goofy, and is very physically affectionate, especially after Mick gives him the codeine-laced drink.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": In Estarcion, books are called "reads", although they are much more heavily illustrated than normal books.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5b47f992	type	Monochromatic Eyes
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5b47f992	comment	Monochromatic Eyes: Elrod's eyes are completely white blanks.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: The Artist/Woman-Thing/SumpThing gestalt monster dies in this manner when the top of the tower it and Cerebus are on breaks off and dumps it into the upper atmosphere, where it eventually burns up on re-entry.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5cc9ae07	type	Rejection Ritual
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5cc9ae07	comment	Rejection Ritual: Sand Hills Creek has "lockout", a form of shunning signified by the townspeople closing and locking their doors as that person approaches their homes. Cerebus suffers this for missing his father's death and funeral while running around with Jaka, which is seen as immensely disrespectful and shameful. The only reason he finds out why it's happening is because he manages to catch one old man outside.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5d310fb8	type	Sword Fight
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5d310fb8	comment	Sword Fight: Guns don't show up until Form and Void, so almost all the fighting in the comic up to that point is swordfights.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5ed3ace2	type	Batman Can Breathe in Space
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5ed3ace2	comment	Batman Can Breathe in Space: The sections involving the Judge and Cerebus at the end of Church and State and "Dave", Cerebus, and Cirin in Minds have them on the surface of the moon and floating around in outer space (respectively) with no ill effects at all.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: An unspecified amount of time took place between the end of Church and State II and the beginning of Jaka's Story, but it was enough time for Cerebus' proclamations as Pope to be proven false and the Cirinists to take over and seize his gold. In Form and Void, Cerebus has a number of small time lapses due to fatigue and loss of consciousness while he and Jaka are trapped in a blizzard. The first few issues of Latter Days featured several skips, in which Cerebus seems to go into a fugue state and lose large swathes of time. Several decades are skipped between the end of Latter Days and the start of The Last Day.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Boobah has a pretty big appetite. It tends to get him into trouble.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Cerebus and Elrod, but in different ways: In the first "Mind Games" issue, a Cirinist does a fortune telling of sorts on Cerebus and deems him "a random factor with immense and disruptive capabilities." We later learn that Cerebus has a "magnifier" ability, a kind of unconscious probability altering that works to intensify the overall effects of whatever is happening around him, including the personality traits and abilities of the people around him and any magic that is present, and then causes things to fall into disarray once the effect is gone. This is later revealed to be a trait common to aardvarks; Suenteus Po secluded himself from society in large part to keep his from causing trouble. The container spell that Rick casts on Cerebus in Rick's Story drives out the magnifier and kills it. Elrod's prescence just naturally seems to make anything he's involved in go off the rails, especially any of Cerebus' plans. He's a physical incarnation of chaos, so this comes naturally to him.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6056f853	type	Homoerotic Subtext
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6056f853	comment	Homoerotic Subtext: Cerebus reveals in Minds that he has nursed an attraction to Bear and is rather conflicted about it. His dream about Roaring Rick Veitch is heavily loaded with subtext as well, which Veitch lampshades. Oscar is very obviously flirting with Rick, but Rick's completely oblivious.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Among the many things Sheshep Ankh reveals to Cerebus is that he and "New Joanne" are in such a relationship.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6108858f	type	Cheeky Mouth
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6108858f	comment	Cheeky Mouth: Actually justified here, in that Cerebus has two mouths on opposite sides of his head. Suenteus Po and Cirin are the same.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_62c365d5	type	Emotions vs. Stoicism
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_62c365d5	comment	Emotions vs. Stoicism: This is, loosely, the core of Sim's take on the differences between the sexes. His view is that the essence of masculinity is an adherence to logic and reason with little influence by emotion, while the essence of femininity is an almost total consumption by emotion and the need to placate those emotions and keep happiness as the ultimate goal, regardless of the consequences. This interplay/conflict is deeply interwoven into the overall story, but is especially prominent in The Last Day, as "New Joanne"'s overthrow of the social order Cerebus established has given everyone free reign to do whatever they want to do, which has led to a complete societal collapse.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_637b6123	type	Sickening "Crunch!"
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_637b6123	comment	Sickening "Crunch!": The reader is treated to the text equivalents when Rick's thumb is broken at the end of Jaka's Story and when Cerebus' neck breaks in issue #300.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_639cefd2	type	Go into the Light
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_639cefd2	comment	Go into the Light: Subverted. Cerebus dies, and is eventually dragged kicking and screaming into the Light. This, plus Rick not being in the Light with all the other characters, pretty much indicates that Cerebus went to Hell given that by the comic's end, the Light was associated with the YHWH. This was all fine and good until Sim suddenly decided he wanted an even more Broken Base than he already had. In the author annotations to the trade paperback of The Last Day, Sim mentioned the possibility that Cerebus actually went to Heaven and was just panicking needlessly at the last second.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Sophia's mother will snap at a moment's notice, with the target usually catching her cane upside the head.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_646407bd	type	We Named the Monkey "Jack"
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_646407bd	comment	We Named the Monkey "Jack": Cerebus becomes a shepherd in Latter Days and names one of the sheep "Elrod". It is unclear whether he's doing it because the sheep annoys him like Elrod used to, or if (after all these years) he misses Elrod (as well as his other old acquaintances). Outliving everyone you knew can have that effect on you.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_64b303c0	type	Drunk with Power
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_64b303c0	comment	Drunk with Power: Cerebus becomes this when he is appointed Prime Minister, and to a much greater extent when he becomes pope. A certain thing about throwing innocent babies like footballs and booting old people off of buildings to prove Broken Aesops...
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Two explicit ones in-story: "Dave", who mainly just appears as a voice in Cerebus' head, and Viktor Davis, an author whose career resembles Sim's. (Sim's full name is David Victor Sim.) Some readers believed that Rick was one for Sim, which Sim has denied.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Cerebus' mother is seen in one panel and heard speaking at times, but never makes a meaningful appearance. Cerebus is said at one point to have a desperate need for a mother-substitute.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6700b479	type	Hybrid Monster
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6700b479	comment	Hybrid Monster: Artist, Fred, and Ethel merge into a three-headed monstrosity.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: High Society was the point where Cerebus pretty much stopped being a sword-and-sorcery comic. Also, several entire story arcs either shove Cerebus into the background or tell stories in a time or place where he isn't. Melmoth (which tells the story of the death of Oscar Wilde) is the most obvious of these, as well as Jaka's Story and Rick's Story. Also, another one of the later trades consisted almost entirely of Cerebus giving an exegesis on the Torah.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_671a3e1	type	Too Kinky to Torture
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_671a3e1	comment	Too Kinky to Torture: Red Sophia, much to Cerebus' annoyance.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_68cac7e0	type	Animate Dead
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_68cac7e0	comment	Animate Dead: Happens in the first issue.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6977c45e	comment	Oscar, who massively inflates the tales of Jaka's childhood with his Purple Prose. Being a parody of Oscar Wilde, this is very much in character. In particular, he portrays Nurse as a cruel and spiteful religious fanatic who did nothing but try to crush Jaka's spirit. When we briefly meet Nurse for real, she seems a lot more human and appears to genuinely care about Jaka.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: How Cerebus himself dies.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6c87dbef	type	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6c87dbef	comment	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: The Sandman parody in Women is kicked off by the Roach having his heart broken, which causes him to turn into Swoon. As Swoon, he spouts meta commentary, stands around looking moody and feeling sorry for himself, and masturbates under his robe. Cirin takes him to task about it when she finally runs into him and notices how crusty the end of his mask's snout is.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6d23fddb	type	Ending Fatigue
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6d23fddb	comment	Ending Fatigue: invoked Some readers may have been feeling this near the end, but the person suffering most was actually Gerhard. Basically the last person that Dave hadn't driven away from the comic with his crazy, Reclusive Artist behaviour (although by this point he and Dave never spoke outside work), he revealed in an interview with The Comics Journal that even he was lost as a reader and became very frustrated with the drudgery of working on a book "even I couldn't read anymore." It was to the point that he motivated himself to finish The Last Day with the mantra "done by Christmas, done by Christmas...", because Dave happened to mention at one point that the book would be "done by Christmas" if a certain amount of pages were finished per day. Gerhard also admitted in the same interview that after Cerebus was finished, he was so burnt out by the experience he didn't feel like drawing for nearly six years afterwards.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Bran Mak Mufin stabs himself in the chest when Cerebus' papacy crumbles. Ham Ernestway eventually can't take his personal deterioration any more and shoots himself. Getting away from Mary probably factored into it as well, but that's not revealed.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6d56cebf	type	Chess Motifs
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6d56cebf	comment	Chess Motifs: Scattered throughout the first half of Mothers and Daughters. The most explicit is the final mental meeting between Suenteus Po and Cerebus in Flight, where they play chess in a kind of trippy astral experience; Po reveals a piece of his past with each of his moves, and each of Cerebus' moves are compared to a character in the story and how being around Cerebus affected them. The symbolism of this extends past the actual "game", as Suenteus Po realizes that he made a mistake in the game, revealed by Sim to be Cerebus' "magnifier" at work.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator: Cerebus in Latter Days appears to be narrating portions of the story to the reader. At the end, we learn that he's actually telling the story to a female reporter.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: A sexually-repressed Momma's Boy named Pud Withers. The Aardvark-based cult called the "Pigts".note a pun on the Picts, an ancient Celtic people.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6d871385	type	Villainous BSoD
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6d871385	comment	Villainous BSoD: Pud Withers has one near the end of Jaka's Story, breaking down in hysterical sobbing and begging for forgiveness from both Tarim and his mother after he started to go through with his plan to rape Jaka, only to be foiled by the first night of actual business at the tavern in a long, long time and an unexpected act of generosity from Jaka.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6e92a631	type	Four-Fingered Hands
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6e92a631	comment	Four-Fingered Hands: Cerebus (four-fingered hands, three-toed feet), and Sheshep Ankh, who looks human aside from his three-toed feet.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6ec676cb	type	Adventure
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_6ec676cb	comment	Adventure: Pretty much every issue until High Society, either as standalone stories or as 2-3 issue arcs.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7142b38a	comment	The Grim Reaper: Subverted; the figure all in black with the hourglass believes it's Death but it's actually a self-deluded minor entity who gets wiped out of existence by its own devices.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_715704e5	type	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_715704e5	comment	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: Probably at its most extreme in Flight. One issue would end with a Cliffhanger and then the next issue would go on to something entirely unrelated, just to mess with you.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_72d2da56	type	Textplosion
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_72d2da56	comment	Textplosion: It ran several dozen issues which were almost entirely text save for a few panels and pages done in the classic illustrative style.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Cerebus, as well as many minor characters.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_73f51de7	type	Jerkass Ball
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_73f51de7	comment	Jerkass Ball: Jaka hears the reasons why Cerebus is being shunned by his hometown (namely, not being there for his father's death and funeral because he was running around with a woman), and then hits Cerebus with what amounts to "it's your fault for not doing what you wanted to do." He doesn't take it well at all.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words Whenever "Something fell!" shows up, expect something major to happen soon. It doesn't even have to be said to have power. At the end of Going Home, Jaka nearly falls off a gangplank but recovers and gets Cerebus out of a really dangerous situation. At the end of Form and Void, she does fall down while trying to climb over a fence, and proceeds to add salt to an already open wound and cause Cerebus to finally and utterly reject her. It even shows up unsaid in the final issue, as Cerebus breaks his neck falling out of bed and dies. "G'wan! Beat it! Scram!". It's originally advice given to Rick by Cerebus as a way of getting rid of pesty women, but it takes on a much darker significance later on when Cerebus hits Jaka with it at the end of Form and Void, screaming the "SCRAM!" at her. "Mungu Mkono" (Swahili for "the Hand of God") shows up for the first time in Form and Void being spoken by the Ernestways' African porters. In Latter Days, it's the trigger that leads Cerebus to fully accept his religious role. "Devils, vipers, and scorpions." It's a generic term for women who don't fit the ideal mold conceived in Rick's Story and then expanded on in Latter Days, and shows up frequently in Rick's religious writings and Cerebus' exegesis on the Torah. It also happens to be Sim's full initials. "You can get what you want and still not be very happy." While this only explicitly shows up once (as Cerebus' twisted "lesson" in the baby-throwing scene in Church and State), it's repeatedly shown over the course of the entire comic to be the fundamental theme to Cerebus' life. He desires three things in life more than anything: money, power, and Jaka. When he finally has the first two (as Prime Minister and Pope) his selfishness and suspicion of everyone around him keep him from enjoying them. When he finally has Jaka, he takes Rick's "be happy for two" advicenote namely that with a woman who's fundamentally unhappy, to keep the relationship stable you have to be doubly happy too literally and quashes his deepening fear that they could be trapped in a blizzard if they don't reach Sand Hills Creek before winter. That, combined with the slowly widening gulf between he and Jaka and the incredible blow to his self-identity caused by his favorite author killing himself takes such a toll on his nerves that the final break is explosive. When he finally acquires all the issues of his favorite "read" Rabbi and tries to make a guide to it, he learns what it's actually about and goes insane from the shock. When he falls for the reporter at the end of Latter Days, the relationship eventually goes awry in a way far worse than what happened with Jaka, eventually causing Cerebus' final downfall.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_74e2ef76	type	Orphaned Punchline
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_74e2ef76	comment	Orphaned Punchline: Invoked by Cerebus in Latter Days when he recounts the most disgusting thing he ever said and spares his audience everything but the punchline.note "...the worst part was trying to get the diaper back on after!"
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_76c7754f	type	All of Them
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_76c7754f	comment	All of Them: Cerebus is pretty straightforward about his greed:
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: The Cirinists and Kevillists are straw second-wave and third-wave feminists, respectively.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_77473d35	type	God Is Evil
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_77473d35	comment	God Is Evil: The foundation of Sim's religious beliefs (and, by extension, those Cerebus eventually adopts) stems from a very specific way of playing with the trope. Sim's argument isn't that God is evil, it's that the YHWH of the Old Testament and God are separate entities, the YHWH being a fragment of God that separated from him around the dawn of creation, gained sapience, and proceeded to try and become just like God, which only resulted in the YHWH developing a massive inferiority complex.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_78629e9c	type	Badass Pacifist
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_78629e9c	comment	Badass Pacifist: Suenteus Po; although he definitely wasn't always that way, when "onscreen", he manages to solve all of his problems with reason and will. He encourages Cirin and Cerebus to try to do the same at least once (it fails miserably, though they do show him just enough respect to wait until he's out of sight before they start beating the shit out of each other).
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7896ecc3	type	Perpetual Smiler
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7896ecc3	comment	Perpetual Smiler: The real Cirin, despite everything that has happened to her, is unflinchingly pleasant and cordial, even to the Cirinist stenographer who lives with her and takes down everything she says to report to the aardvark Cirin. She only drops the smile when said stenographer finally has all she can take of Cirin's Info Dump to Cerebus and leaves to report where he is.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: "Dave" reveals to Cerebus in Minds that the entire series, except for the first issue or so, has been a chaotic, fractured version of what should have been Cerebus' real destiny—bring the Pigt altar to life with the aardvark artifacts (his helmet, medallions, and sword) and lead the Pigts to conquer the world—because he didn't have all three of them at the time.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7b0fddcd	type	Battle Cry
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7b0fddcd	comment	Cerebus's favorite swear word: Tarim (the name for the god that he worships for most of the series). He starts using it as a Battle Cry in War of the Independents.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7bc90010	type	Hearing Voices
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7bc90010	comment	Hearing Voices: This is how "Dave" communicates to Cerebus in Minds. Cerebus hears "Dave" as a voice in his head; the reader sees both Cerebus' and "Dave"'s speech balloons coming out of Cerebus' head.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: Taken to extremes by Suenteus Po, who has grown so weary of the world that he hides in his small apartment and plays chess against himself...for decades. All of which seems to have been a way to protect his secrets from the Big Bad, who can read minds. When she tries to read Po's mind, she sees chess...and nothing else.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7cbe4363	type	Brown Bag Mask
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7cbe4363	comment	Brown Bag Mask: After Cerebus ditches the "Spore" costume, he realizes that the white paint he used on his face is indelible, and spends the next issue or two with a paper bag over his head.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7cd98af5	type	Potty Failure
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7cd98af5	comment	Potty Failure: Cerebus, as a kid, got so scared during a church service in his hometown that he wet himself. At one point in Guys, as an unconscious Cerebus is being carried off somewhere, someone notes a horrid smell and yells, "If he's shat himself again..." In The Last Day, age has made Cerebus at least mildly incontinent.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: Issues 1-26 each had this.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: The Artist gives one to Cerebus...in space, no less.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: Cerebus almost does this to himself after killing the Cirinists at the end of Melmoth, based on his memory of Bear's campfire story of what might happen in retaliation for such an act, but changes his mind and flees instead.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Cerebus gets smashed whenever he can, and can knock back prodigious amounts of booze. In one scene in High Society, he pours himself a brandy snifter full of whiskeynote as in, the kind that can hold at least a pint of liquid, if not more and in Guys, he's apparently acquainted with drinking scotch by the bucketful. In the early issues, this was usually played for laughs, but by the time Guys came around, the alcohol-based comedy is balanced by playing all the consequences of Cerebus' boozing much more seriously. For instance, Cerebus has to deal with the aftermath of very rude things he says about Bear while drunk, and in the middle of a booze pass-out, he tells "Dave" that he just wants to die. Cirinist society actually enables this trope; unmarried men tend to be sequestered in bars because the state provides free room and board for them and all the alcohol they can handle. The thought process is that they will either get tired of that lifestyle, shape up, and leave to find a wife, or eventually drink themselves to death. Guys is set in a bar and deals with this concept in multiple fashions. In keeping with his real-life basis, F. Stop Kennedy can't stay away from his gin, and spends many evenings on the boat ride with Cerebus and Jaka drunkenly soliloquizing on the roof of his cabin.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: After they're forced to clean up their acts by the Cirinists, Mick and Keef are shown with unflattering bowl haircuts. They're not happy. As part of his fanboying over being around Ham Ernestway, Cerbus has Jaka cut his hair into a flattop mimicing Ham's hairstyle, but Ham doesn't even notice.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7fb533de	type	Author Powers
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7fb533de	comment	Author Powers: "Dave"'s conversations with Cerebus in which he's speaking in Cerebus' thought balloons with nothing to differentiate his words from Cerebus', and yet somehow always manages to make it clear which of them is speaking at any time. He also alters reality around Cerebus in ways that only a completely omnipotent being could, although he makes it clear to Cerebus that, while he is Cerebus' creator, he isn't the god Tarim that Cerebus normally worships.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In the first issue, Cerebus is hired to steal a priceless gem from a sorcerer. He spends the issue storming the sorcerer's tower, overcoming all its obstacles through a combination of master swordsmanship and knowledge of how magic works. In the end, he kills the sorcerer and hands over the gem to his employers, only for them to find that it's turned into a walnut. Cerebus tells them he knew all along that it was just an illusion and that it would revert to its true form upon the sorcerer's death—but he'll still be taking his reward from them now. All of which demonstrates Cerebus' three main traits: he's a deadly warrior, smarter than he looks, and a complete asshole.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_80a247a9	comment	Guys, Rick's Story, and Going Home. Although each has significant serious material, as a whole they are more humor-focused and could also count as one huge Breather Episode considering how dark Form and Void was.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_80cf3316	type	Head Hat
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_80cf3316	comment	Head Hat: As part of Cerebus' "Spore" costume, he has two Cirinist skulls mounted on his shoulders. Readers will recognize this as a visual cue to Spawn's skull-shaped clasps for his cape.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_80d55f20	type	Cuteness Proximity
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_80d55f20	comment	Cuteness Proximity: The new fathers in Latter Days are a Deconstructive Parody. The TPB's annotations confirm that Sim detests this behavior.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Cirin, as the leader of a matriarchal fascist state created by her vision of the Cirinist movement.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Cerebus again...until the comic stops being a comedy.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Cerebus becomes one to increasing degrees in Going Home and Form and Void to try to keep Jaka on an even keel, per advice from Victor Davis via Rick on how to handle women who are fundamentally unhappy. By the last few issues of F&V, the facade has enormous cracks, and shatters explosively in the final pages of the arc.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_83ede4e3	type	Automatic Crossbows
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_83ede4e3	comment	Automatic Crossbows: The Roach (in his Punisherroach identity) wields two "pearl handled semi-automatic" belt-fed crossbows that shoot explosive-tipped bolts and have a firing rate similar to a machine gun.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_85bcc5a8	type	Lampshaded Double Entendre
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_85bcc5a8	comment	Lampshaded Double Entendre: How Cerebus makes the Artist understand that Sumpthing and Woman-Thing are not fighting each other, but are actually...well, you know.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_85debad9	type	Plucky Girl
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_85debad9	comment	Plucky Girl: The real Cirin
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Some of these show up in the early issues. Rick, in his insanity, sees both Cerebus and Mrs. Thatcher in this fashion in Rick's Story.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Both Cerebus and Michelle initially do this with Weisshaupt's schemes. Cerebus eventually gives in. Michelle doesn't.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Cirin is an absolutely terrible person, but she has the loyalty and admiration of her followers, and is seen as a benevolent mother figure. Of course, she's not actually the real Cirin.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: Cerebus has this forced upon him by "Dave" in Minds. As a result, in Rick's Story, as he's debating on whether or not to open the package Dave left at the bar, he wonders if his stagnation has pissed off Dave and/or Dave's readers enough to want him dead.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Subverted. Cerebus was supposed to be this for the Pigts and would have had a grand destiny were it not for a seemingly-innocuous decision he'd made prior to his first encounter with them.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: In some storylines, Cerebus slides from Anti-Hero right into this trope. He definitely does in Church and State after being made Pope. Realizing that he has the power to do anything he wants and none of the people who pulled his strings before can stop him anymore, he loses almost all of his sympathetic qualities and does more and more despicable things. His long-term plans involve demanding all the gold from everyone so he can raise an army and conquer the known world, and he even draws up plans for recruiting children as young as eight into the army, but even beyond that he commits a lot of minor atrocities for no other reason than that he just felt like Kicking the Dog. Among his worst deeds are killing a baby by throwing it off a staircase, thanking an old man who gave all his gold by kicking him off a tall rooftop and letting him fall to his death, and raping Astoria while she's in chains.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: Word of God in regards to Rick's behavior in Rick's Story, as a result of the events at the end of Jaka's Story. A comedic version happens when Cerebus finds out the truth about the Rabbi comic, which shatters him so badly that all he can do after is shuffle around saying "DAARRR! Pret-ty flowers! Pret-ty sunsets!".
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8a931051	type	Decoy Damsel
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8a931051	comment	Decoy Damsel: Astoria, in her first appearance.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Cerebus and the T'Gitans
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: The later books do this to the earlier books. In the earlier books, any violent or morally questionable action Cerebus takes is treated as being all in good fun. Once Cerebus Syndrome set in, the consequences of Cerebus' actions are thoroughly explored and often very unpleasant.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Cerebus, almost all the time; it's eventually revealed to be a normal speech pattern for the people in his native lands. The only times he breaks this are in the very first issues, and in High Society when giving political speeches. Jaka in her first appearance . This was retconned as her trying to pass herself off as a northerner, although this isn't revealed until much later, so the reader is left wondering why she started talking differently for a good portion of the series.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Cerebus and The Artist in Church and State.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Several characters get their moments of this: The Judge in Church and State, especially during his interpretation of the creation of the universe and the fate of life on Earth. Po in the Mothers and Daughters arc, as he's talking with Cirin, Astoria, and Cerebus. In Women, the real Cirin gives Cerebus a lengthy explanation of certain things that the Cirnists would really prefer he not know about what's going on around him. Sim himself in Minds, giving Cerebus multiple lengthy Info Dumps about, among other things, the history of the Cirinists, what his medallions actually are, and most importantly, just how much of a Jerkass he really is.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8d0461e2	type	Destructive Romance
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8d0461e2	comment	Destructive Romance: The "living with Jaka" scenario in Minds. As "Dave" explains, Cerebus and Jaka are married, but Cerebus is completely controlling of and callous toward Jaka, and nothing she does is right with him. Cerebus, inside the scenario but talking with "Dave" in his head, is shocked at how miserable Jaka looks, and "Dave" notes that she is planning on leaving him the instant an opportunity shows up.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8ea9eb54	type	Black Swords Are Better
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8ea9eb54	comment	Black Swords Are Better: Inverted; Elrod's sword Seersucker is black because of rust, and it shatters against Cerebus' sword when Elrod attacks him with it.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8f1450ba	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8f1450ba	comment	Pintsized Powerhouse: Cerebus. He's three feet tall but can hold his own against just about anyone in a fight. The only character who comes close to defeating him is Cirin.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8f4822fd	type	The Great Flood
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_8f4822fd	comment	The Great Flood: During the Judge's monologue in Church and State II, he mentions a prior civilization of sentient redwood trees that accidentally set off a climate catastrophe that causes a worldwide flooding event every 12,000 years. The civilizations in existence when it happens call it "the Great Flood", while the redwoods that are around call it "oh no, not this again."
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_90769dd0	type	Evil Genius
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_90769dd0	comment	Evil Genius: Weisshaupt
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: According to Bear in Melmoth, the Cirinists are like this. The real Cirin's confession indicates that he's right.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Astoria
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: The motive behind Cerebus's actions in Melmoth and Flight, partly because of how the Cirnists have taken over society and partly becaused they mistreated Jaka. The Roach's first incarnation is as The Cockroach, a parody of Batman who seems to be out for revenge for his parents' murder.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: Most of the more notable characters show up in the afterlife in issue 300...then it's possibly subverted since Cerebus might be in Hell and his old acquaintances might be demons who lured his soul into a trap.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_93b92ca4	type	Lousy Lovers Are Losers
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_93b92ca4	comment	Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Cerebus' potency and actual talent in bed are rarely mentioned, aside from the marathon of his wedding night with Red Sophia and siring Sheshep Ankh with "New Joanne". However, one thing that is consistently shown is that he is very much not a good lover. His self-absorption, temper, and lust for power foul his relationship with Red Sophia, and she eventually reaches a breaking point and leaves him. In Minds, along with the aforementioned traits, "Dave" shows that his propensity to violence would lead to him beating Jaka, and even when he has "Dave" make him not be physically abusive, he's still a controlling, verbally abusive asshole who places his own satisfaction over hers. Even when he has "Dave" make things as good as they can be, he ends up being tempted into an affair with his neighbor Joanne, but coldly dismisses her once they've actually done the deed. When he and Joanne hook up in Rick's Story, he hides the fact that he's planning on leaving town with Bear should Bear ever show back up, and this leads to a heartbroken Joanne dumping him when she eventually finds out. He and Jaka finally reunite, but the relationship slowly but steadily crumbles as it becomes more and more clear that they are fundamentally incompatible, and comes to an explosive crash at the end of Form and Void.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Astoria in Reads, after Cerebus gives her an ultimatum.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_95265081	type	Leeroy Jenkins
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_95265081	comment	Leeroy Jenkins: Cerebus in the first issue. Subverted in that (1) he probably only made the mission slightly more difficult than it would have been and (2) that the mission's success was still mostly due to his participation.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Played for laughs with The Artist at the end of issue 25, when he thinks he was being insenstive about Claremont's death.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_95afab6	type	Black Cloak
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_95afab6	comment	Black Cloak: Po and the being who thinks it is Death both dress in long, hooded black cloaks during the "Mothers and Daughters" arc.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_970c790a	comment	Surprisingly the Cirinists, who were the closest thing the series had to a Big Bad.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_97c8b5b0	type	Tyop on the Cover
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_97c8b5b0	comment	Tyop on the Cover: The origin of Cerebus' name.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_97ee273	comment	A sexually-repressed Momma's Boy named Pud Withers.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": In Church & State, at one point, a bunch of his followers are cheering him as he walks into his HQ. Cerebus interrupts them with, "ANYONE WHO MOVES BEFORE MOST HOLY COMES BACK OUT WILL SPEND ETERNITY SIPPING LAVA THROUGH AN IRON STRAW!" The next panel is a hundred frozen followers, and a hundred separate "Oh crap" thought bubbles.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Cerebus (makes no sense, but...) and Dirty Drew. This even extended outside the comic; one promotional artwork◊ for Hepcats featured Cerebus at a strip club being told by one of the dancers that Jaka was right about him being cute.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9a0870ae	type	Screw Yourself
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9a0870ae	comment	Screw Yourself: Cerebus could (in theory) do this due to how his genitals are arranged.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9b73b497	type	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9b73b497	comment	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Cirin's attitude toward Astoria on account of their bitter rivalry and shared personal baggage.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9bfbf9f3	comment	Chainmail Bikini: Red Sophia's standard attire, which is only fitting since she's a direct parody of Red Sonja. This leads to a funny remark from Cerebus about the side effects of such attire. Inverted by the Cirinists; often their eyes are the only parts uncovered.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Jaka's Story, Rick's Story, and the Lord Julius story that comes right before Melmoth.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: "You die alone, unmourned and unloved." Sure enough, come issue #300, that's exactly what happens. Cerebus getting his right ear cut off is foreshadowed multiple times before it finally happens near the end of Reads.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Elrod, The Roach, and The Regency Elf all qualify.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9df812ad	type	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9df812ad	comment	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Cerebus and each of his love interests, since he's only three feet tall and they're normal-sized women. In Rick's Story, this catches Joanne off guard the first time she sees how short he really is. He had put boxes on the floor behind the bar so he could reach the top of the bar and she assumed he was a normal height, having never looked back that far.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9f5e99a7	type	DistressedDamsel
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_9f5e99a7	comment	Distressed Damsel: Jaka, in her first appearance.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a0e51cd2	type	Judge, Jury, and Executioner
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a0e51cd2	comment	Judge, Jury, and Executioner: When the Cirinists find Pud's tavern in Jaka's Story, after killing the old man who attacks them, their leader declares Pud guilty of a moral crime and immediately proclaims "Death." This is agreed upon by the other Cirinists, and he's summarily executed. Subverted, however, when it comes to Jaka and Oscar. The leader also says "Death" for Jaka, but after Jaka announces who she is and who she's connected to, one Cirinist proposes "Questioning". She does this repeatedly, which leads to the leader apparently giving in and Jaka being arrested. Oscar is questioned and arrested for not having the proper legal permission to be a writer—as the lead Cirinist states, "No artistic license."
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a13bda01	type	Crack! "Oh, My Back!"
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a13bda01	comment	Crack! "Oh, My Back!": This happened to Cerebus a lot over the course of The Last Day; being almost 200 years old, it's not at all surprising. It's also what leads to his death; a hamstring gives out on him as he's trying to jump out of bed, causing the fatal fall.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a1b83879	type	Yoko Oh No
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a1b83879	comment	Yoko Oh No: Non-musical example in Ziggy, Bear's on-again-off-again girlfriend, who everyone else calls "Zig-pig" because she's incredibly obnoxious, has a nails-on-chalkboard laugh, and because Bear utterly folds in her presence, the thought of getting laid overruling all other concerns about her crap. By Cerebus and the Starkey brothers' reaction to the one time in the comic where she shows up, it's apparent that this is something that's been happening for years. It's bad enough that almost everyone else in the bar makes plans to leave for good the next day because Bear leaving with her shatters the already-tenuous atmosphere in the bar.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a1e83460	type	Speech Bubbles
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a1e83460	comment	Speech Bubbles: These were one of the distinctive features of Cerebus; they could be incredibly expressive and as artistic as anything else that was going on in the comic.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a284ce57	type	Token Wholesome
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a284ce57	comment	Token Wholesome: Michelle, the only morally upright character in the series, and definitely the most morally upright female character.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: "Dave" likens Cerebus and how he's turned out and is affecting "Dave" to an infected lump at the edge of Cerebus' eye which has to be drained and bandaged. "He knows Cerebus is squeamish about eyes." Indeed, he does. The Injury to the Eye Motif is even referred to by name.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a32c4e5d	type	Chessmaster
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a32c4e5d	comment	Chessmaster: Weisshaupt stands out as the most accomplished, but Astoria and Lord Julius are also particularly adept. Suenteus Po is a literal version; he is perhaps the wisest character in the series yet is so humble that he believes any sort of action on his part that affects the world, in any way, would be arrogance. Thus, he spends all his time and intellect on playing chess...by himself. This is the only thing he does for several decades.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The first two or so years were a spoof of Conan, and then things get serious and by the end has become an Author Tract. Considering the fact the entire run (save for a couple of standalone issues) are widely available in collected graphic novels, to experience this trope read the first volume and then immediately skip to either Church & State or any of the post-Women collections.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a50df7e9	type	Jossed
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a50df7e9	comment	As a child, Jaka fell and received a head injury that left her comatose for days. While bedridden, she had hallucinations which included squid-like things around her bed; these were later implied to be manifestations of repressed memories of being molested. In discussions about this scene, Julius was hinted to be the culprit, but Sim later Jossed this.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a5d817b0	type	Celebrity Endorsement
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a5d817b0	comment	Celebrity Endorsement: In a sense. Sim, for his entire career, has been a very outspoken advocate for independent comic writers and titles, even creating a how-to book for self-publishing. Sonny Strait has confessed to being a fan and is mentioned by Sim several times in Collected Letters.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Played straight initially. Then, it's subverted and finally retconned away entirely.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a5e77a67	type	The Cat Came Back
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a5e77a67	comment	The Cat Came Back: In High Society, Elrod turns up at the Regency Hotel unannounced to meet Cerebus, much to the latter's annoyance. Cerebus beats Elrod over the head and pays a taxi driver to take the unconscious nuisance to the docks and put him on the next boat going far away. Of course, by the time Cerebus returns to his hotel room, he finds that Elrod, now sopping wet, has somehow managed to beat him there. This makes a lot more sense in hindsight when Elrod's true nature is revealed.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: According to Sim, Jaka was originally supposed to be a one-shot character.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: Some time in the 80s, Sim made some animation cels for some very short Cerebus stories. Never came to anything beyond that. The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark, a feature-length CGI movie, was released in 2021. It was done over a period of 14 years on pretty much no budget, and... not to put it too bluntly, it shows.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The albatross, which was vital to establish who would be the proper pope over the Eastern and Western Churches of Tarim in the High Society and Church and State arcs. Searching for it is a running plot thread throughout High Society. It's eventually found in one of Cerebus' bags of loot and seemingly destroyed, but a different one shows up in Church and State.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: The first 25 issues typically followed this pattern: No matter how much money Cerebus made on a job or through one of his schemes, he'd either lose it or simply waste it away and be forced to continue his career as a wandering mercenary.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a74ca4fc	type	The Peeping Tom
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a74ca4fc	comment	The Peeping Tom: In one of the early Latter Days stories, while Cerebus worked for Gurzky as a shepherd, he spent a lot of time in the bushes watching Gurzky's wife while she bathed.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Crotch-Face
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Lord Julius. He often has multiple plans running at once and goes to great lengths to make everything he says and does entirely incomprehensible so nobody knows whether they're doing what he wants or not. When Cerebus starts writing his memoirs, he points this out several times.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Cerebus and Jaka. Granted, Cerebus was under the effects of a mind-altering drug at the time, but he still cared about her even after it wore off.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a9ee4fee	type	Secret Diary
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_a9ee4fee	comment	Secret Diary: As part of her manipulations of Jaka to get a signed confession of immoral behavior, Ms. Thatcher reveals that Pud had such a diary, reading some excerpts that are very tawdry and show how much he was lusting for Jaka, which rattles Jaka badly.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ab5ef919	type	Hermit Guru
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ab5ef919	comment	Hermit Guru: Po was retconned into being one by the time he actually showed up in Mothers & Daughters.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Cerebus' fixation on Jaka, combined with his simple-minded, self-absorbed outlook on life. In his mind, they are meant to be together simply because he loves her. When "Dave" shows Cerebus in Minds that Jaka doesn't love him romantically anymore, and that Cerebus doesn't understand Jaka at all, he can't handle it and tries to manipulate "Dave" into making Jaka love him "that way". "Dave" responds by showing him multiple possible futures where the two are in a relationship, all of which are horribly flawed no matter how Cerebus tries to get "Dave" to fix him so they will work, due to Cerebus' inherent selfishness, controlling ways, and propensity for violence, which are fundamentally incompatible with Jaka's need for freedom and artistic expression. Their time together in Going Home and Form and Void is marked by their initial happiness and passion slowly but steadily crumbling as their personalities and what each wants for the future clash more and more, and eventually explosively crashing. At the end of Latter Days, Cerebus falls for the reporter who looks a lot like Jaka, and this sows the seeds for his eventual ruin and demise.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ac0827be	type	Private Eye Monologue
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ac0827be	comment	Private Eye Monologue: The Frank Miller take on the trope is parodied when Super Secret Sacred Wars Roach begins to take on elements from Miller's version of Batman in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The four story arcs after Flight roughly form the sentence "Women read minds, guys." (a hint about women in the storyline having telepathic powers).
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: In Church and State II, The Artist comes very close to killing Cerebus but is undone by his overconfidence and failure to account for the frailty of his position.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ac7cbf8d	type	Myth Arc
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ac7cbf8d	comment	Myth Arc
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ad03437f	type	Reverse Cerebus Syndrome
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ad03437f	comment	Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: Issue 3. In all honesty, the first two issues were basically straight-up fantasy adventures that happened to star a Funny Animal and had some comic relief thrown in here and there. Issue 3 was where the parody started becoming apparent. Guys, Rick's Story, and Going Home. Although each has significant serious material, as a whole they are more humor-focused and could also count as one huge Breather Episode considering how dark Form and Void was. Latter Days subverts this. The first half of the book is extremely light-hearted. Then the Three Wise Fellows die during a Time Skip and things stay pretty bleak for the rest of the arc and series.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Cerebus' reaction to The Artist, Fred, and Ethel in Church & State after seeing that they've merged into a three-headed chimeric beast.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Cerebus' love of raw potatoes comes up several times; he even yells at someone to "[...] leave the skin on! That's the best part!" CRUNCH
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Astoria, Cerebus, Michelle, and especially Lord Julius.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ae9dc88	type	Conjoined Eyes
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ae9dc88	comment	Conjoined Eyes: Cerebus. Neither Suenteus Po nor Cirin have them.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_aef07b11	type	Pig Man
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_aef07b11	comment	Pig Man: ...or "Earth Pig Man", in Cerebus' case. In the early issues, he often referred to himself as an "earth pig born."
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b00a7c5e	type	Robe and Wizard Hat
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b00a7c5e	comment	Robe and Wizard Hat: Worn by Necross the - Ha Ha - Mad prior to his becoming the giant stone Thrunk.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Bear's constant use of "Whattyacall". Cerebus' "G'wan! Beat it! Scram!" advice to Rick. The Conniptin war cry: Cerebus's favorite swear word: Tarim (the name for the god that he worships for most of the series). He starts using it as a Battle Cry in War of the Independents.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b15b6a35	type	Cosmic Plaything
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b15b6a35	comment	Cosmic Plaything: Ultimately subverted in Minds when Cerebus finally accepts that it's his own fault that his life turned out the way it did.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Mayflyâ€“December Romance: Cerebus and Jaka (although Cerebus' incredibly slow aging isn't revealed until the last two phonebooks, and their romance is long over at that point).
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: The Regency Elf. Jaka acts this way in Going Home, but not really anywhere else in the series.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b2f4114e	comment	Heir Club for Men: When we first meet Rick, his one desire in life is to have a son. Finding out that Jaka aborted that son causes him to explosively snap and punch Jaka, and sets in motion the mental instability he shows in Rick's Story.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b5060b63	type	The Lad-ette
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b5060b63	comment	Mary Ernestway and her diary about Ham's last safari. Being a textbook Ladette (or, at least, Sim's take on one), she over-inflates her contributions to the safari, as well as misinterpreting the ethical and social implications of some events. She is also seriously overbearing and condescending toward Ham, and drops hints in her diary that Ham liked to cross-dress, engaged in Gender Flip sexual roleplay with her, and enjoyed buggering her. Even Jaka and Cerebus appear to be embarrassed and confused by some of what she talks about, frequently exchanging puzzled glances during these sequences. Given that Sim used Mary Hemingway's published diaries as the source for Mary Ernestway's diaries, this leads to questions about Ernest himself.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Sometimes Dave Sim's mockery of superhero comics ceases to be Affectionate Parody and enters the realm of outright disdain. Sim tends to resort to name-calling with anyone he disagrees with (such as calling Scott McCloud a weenie and calling Heidi MacDonald a moron). Whether or not this is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek is...not very easy to determine. Sim had public fall-outs with Jeff Smith and Terry Moore, infamously publishing an editorial accusing Smith of lying about an argument they had over issue #186 and challenging him to a boxing match, to which Smith replied, "Get stuffed." From the famous feuds file again, Sim also managed to piss off Gary Groth, editor-in-chief of The Comics Journal, and the journal's subsequent hostility to the comic was also alluded to in several Take That, Critics! outbursts. The feud between Sim and Groth reached such a height that it led to an infamous Award Snub, where one of The Comics Journal's lists of the best comics very noticeably left off Cerebus, despite the fact that at least one Journal writer admitted in an interview that Cerebus should have been on the list, but that Groth did not allow it. Sim opened the "Tangent" essay in issue #265 by slamming Carol West, who had resigned as Aardvark-Vanaheim's administrative assistant in disgust after seeing the first draft of the essay. Miz Thatcher, which surely must've caused Sim embarrassment; he has since said that she was right all along, as his politics shifted to being more obviously ultra-conservative about the same time as his religious conversion and he reinterpreted the themes of Jaka's Story in that vein. The front cover of issue 290 is a movie poster parody that describes Cerebus as "the latest issue of the comic book liberals love to hate". The rest of the text degenerates into further pointless Strawman Political insults, ends in "OKAY OKAY JUST STOP WHINING! PLEASE!" and then restarts but changes the description to "the latest issue of the comic book that many people buy".
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: It starts with Reads and then gradually gets worse and worse. Reads, in addition to the comic material, has two lengthy prose sections, with parts spread over each individual issue in the arc. The first is a fictional depiction of a "reads" writer who lets his greed get the better of him and sells his work to a big-name publishing company, and what happens to him and his work afterwards.note This theme also shows up in Spawn #10, a crossover with Cerebus. The second, narrated by Viktor Davis, is hard to succinctly describe, but features a surreal attack on the readers' perceptions of the fourth wall, and also introduces the "male light/female void" material in issue #186, which is where the serious misogyny accusations began. Sim's notes, both in the individual issues and the phonebooks, for content and for sheer verbosity. Becomes most troubling with "Chasing YHWH", which is basically Sim filtering his religious beliefs through Cerebus's exegisis on the Torah. This culminates in the opening pages of The Last Day, which is a combination of the Big Bang theory and Sim's unconventional views on the God/YHWH problem.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b6287eff	type	Briar Patching
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b6287eff	comment	Briar Patching: Weisshaupt is forced to resort to this when Pope Cerebus threatens his men with eternal damnation if they obey his orders.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b7059ab0	type	Dungeon Crawling
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b7059ab0	comment	Dungeon Crawling: The first issue. Plot-wise, it isn't all that different from a Dungeons & Dragons session.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b7396aae	type	Talk Show
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b7396aae	comment	Talk Show: Women features one (the daytime version), with Red Sophia and her mother as the guests.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b7d8c936	type	Sequential Symptom Syndrome
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b7d8c936	comment	Sequential Symptom Syndrome: Cerebus does this to con someone into believing they had a plague, so the symptoms were largely psychosomatic.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: The Roach thinks one of these exists between himself, Astoria, and Cerebus.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: At one point in Minds, Cerebus sees flashbacks to various points in his life that connected to his faith in Tarim...including that he furiously denounced Tarim after thinking that Jaka had been killed by the Cirinists, which Cerebus tries to backslide on in embarrassed panic.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b89d9f13	type	Assimilation Plot
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b89d9f13	comment	Assimilation Plot: In a very roundabout way, this is the essence of the "merged permanence" and "male light/female void" material in issue #186, namely that the void continually seeks to absorb the light in order to meld the two together, bringing stability to the void at the cost of the light's power and uniqueness.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b8a362d4	type	Miniature Senior Citizens
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b8a362d4	comment	Miniature Senior Citizens: Lord Storm'send is only about as tall as Cerebus (around three feet).
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b8f5a02	type	Non-Standard Character Design
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_b8f5a02	comment	Nonstandard Character Design: Cerebus (and the other two aardvarks) are drawn in a very simple style, with liberal use of zip-a-tone. The rest of the world, characters included, is drawn much more realistically, and with no zip-a-tone whatsoever.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Cerebus and Cirin are both power hungry and prone to violent outbursts. Both are unexpectedly strong (he's a shrimp, she's middle-aged). Both tend to zealously guard their egos. Finally, they're both aardvarks.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Cerebus is a low-key version. He isn't portrayed as openly arrogant or egotistical, but is described at one point as having "a self-absorption that borders on the pathological." Every decision he makes and every action he takes is done to satisfy his desires and whims and to fulfill what he thinks will be better for himself, with considerations for others coming second, if they occur to him at all. Even when he seems to be in normal interactions with others, this "me first" tendency is bubbling under the surface. This gets him into trouble in many, many ways over the course of the comic, upsetting plans and fracturing friendships and deeper relationships, and leads to his eventual downfall when his inability to learn from his mistakes ends up costing him everything.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bb35f8b6	type	Mixed Metaphor
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bb35f8b6	comment	Mixed Metaphor: Cerebus has a tendency to drop these.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bb6c96a7	type	Culture Police
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bb6c96a7	comment	Culture Police: The Cirinists, in a rather idiosyncratic and selective way. Anything they believe is harmful to the welfare of mothers and children will make them go into full Knight Templar mode. Pretty much anything else, they will ignore completely.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: Happens pretty much every time Cerebus is granted any kind of real power. In High Society, most of the brutal repression happens offscreen, with the reader only seeing Cerebus' orders and hearing reports of the aftermath, to the point where it's almost Played for Laughs and easy for casual readers to miss, but Church and State brings his tendencies toward cruelty front and center. It's generally implied that he's not so much Drunk with Power as that he sees anyone who disagrees with him as a threat.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Subverted. Cerebus is one of the best warriors on Estarcion and rather intelligent. However, he is entirely unsophisticated, being interested only in fighting, drinking, indulging his short temper, and (eventually) sex, and can be shockingly dim-witted at times.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Cerebus' reaction of "Shit." to Jaka rejecting him in favor of her husband in Church and State II is the first time that word shows up in the comic's run. "Death" 's reaction to his fate in Flight. "Dave" near the end of Minds. The reactions of Cerebus and the Starkey brothers to Bear's girlfriend showing up at the bar.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: Cerebus. Most kids aren't too crazy about him either.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bc1a0bb1	type	The Last Dance
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bc1a0bb1	comment	The Last Dance: Subverted. Cerebus goes out to singlehandedly face an enemy horde near the end of High Society, only to realize at the last second that the army consisted of former allies who stop their attack and make peace upon recognizing him.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Talking about hurting or threatening Jaka within earshot of Cerebus is an effective form of suicide. This has been done both humorously and...not so humorously.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bcb452a9	type	Weirdness Magnet
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bcb452a9	comment	Weirdness Magnet: A side effect of Cerebus' "magnifier" ability is that he seemingly can't get away from weird people and circumstance. Eventually, it's revealed that the chaos in his destiny caused by not having all the aardvark artifacts has a lot to do with this as well.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Cerebus, although before things got serious, he was really more of a parody than a straight example.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Happens both to the reader and to Cerebus. The latter is the whole point of the various "Mind Games" issues, and is in large part how Cerebus interacts with Suenteus Po before they meet face-to-face. The reader gets slapped with this in the second prose section of Reads.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bf5fc089	type	Tarot Motifs
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bf5fc089	comment	Tarot Motifs: The cover art for the issues in the Reads arc as well as the cover for the phonebook.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Cerebus is an aardvark, and all the women that he has relationships with in-story are anywhere from attractive to stunningly beautiful.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c145f69b	comment	Near the end, Pud's inner narration of his interactions with Jaka begins to turn very dark, as he starts contemplating raping her. However, when he finally works up the nerve to attempt this, it's interrupted by a customer.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c23525d4	type	Character Title
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c23525d4	comment	Character Title: The series as a whole and some of the individual phonebooks which focus on secondary characters (or in the case of Melmoth, Oscar Wilde).
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c2b0ebc0	type	Never Gets Drunk
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c2b0ebc0	comment	Never Gets Drunk: The Regency Elf can match Cerebus drink for drink but never gets affected by it.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c2e1f423	type	Really Dead Montage
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c2e1f423	comment	Really Dead Montage: An entire page is devoted to one after Cerebus breaks his neck and his body finishes falling to the floor, with the flashback panels interspersed with the life fading from Cerebus' eyes.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: At one point, Sim pointed out the irony of readers' horror at Sheshep Ankh's sphinx cloning experiments when said readers were completely accepting of Cerebus, who by his very nature is equally monstrous in the most literal sense of the word. Given Sim's disdain for homosexuality, it's very ironic that a tall, burly, bearded, hirsute man who's an object of Cerebus' conflicted attraction is named Bear.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Cerebus finishes off the wizard Necross, in the form of the giant stone Thrunk by shooting him in the head with a cannon. Punisherroach kills a few Cirinists in this fashion with his crossbow pistols. Cerebus' plan to root out the remaining Cirinists who have blended into the normal civilian population involves having the men in each community vote on whether or not each woman should be put to death for being too much of a devil, viper, or scorpion; those who don't make it are summarily executed in this fashion. This later extends to men through the "complete dick" rule, where any man voted by at least ten of his peers to be a complete dick is executed.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c3f6e68	type	Dem Bones
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c3f6e68	comment	Dem Bones: The skeleton mooks in Issue 1.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: After Minds, Cerebus tries to become a better person but eventually goes right back to the same behaviors he initially had.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: At one point in Guys, Bear gets so mad at Cerebus for cheating during their Five Bar Gate games that he knocks Cerebus out with a shot, then picks him up by the tail, "inserts" one of the game balls, and tamps it in with the handle of his mallet. Marty then shows up, says that he used to have experience in dealing with Cerebus' condition, and produces something that looks like pasta tongs if they were designed by the Inquisition. Bear walks away holding his butt in sympathy pain.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c4b09e97	type	Doppelgänger
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c4b09e97	comment	DoppelgÃ¤nger: The Regency Elf has one, but she insists that they look completely different.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c4c9bb40	type	Inner Monologue
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c4c9bb40	comment	Inner Monologue: Cerebus has these. Sometimes, they turn into arguments between different parts of his personality.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Rick was deliberately written to be one in Jaka's Story. He's a bit of a deadbeat who can be Innocently Insensitive and self-centered (and when he appears again in Guys he's notably Took a Level in Jerkass, though it's debatable how much that was intentional on Sim's part) — but in the world of Cerebus, where everyone is either a corrupt and self-centered Jerkass or a delusional idiot, he does stand out as a remarkably nice person. Enforced by Sim's idea that it would make the Love Triangle more interesting if the guy who stood between Jaka and Cerebus was really likable himself. As he stated in the intro in the Jaka's Story phonebook, Rick is "the nearest I will ever come to the portrayal of a good and thoroughly decent human being; completely without guile or malice." The Regency Elf might be the only character in the series who's just sweet-natured and kind; her worst trait is being prone to childishness.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c6823a14	type	Masculine, Feminine, Androgyne Trio
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c6823a14	comment	Masculine, Feminine, Androgyne Trio: In the comic's final issue, after Cerebus dies, he sees in the "light" his best friend Bear, his former lover Jaka, and his favorite author Ham Ernestway standing together and apparently welcoming him, only for them to turn distorted and horrific and drag Cerebus' soul into the light. This ties into Dave Sim's unusual religious beliefs regarding the God/YHWH argument, as he believes the YHWHnote which per his beliefs is God's true adversary and is the light that we normally think of when we think of heaven tries to cover all genders at once, and refers to it as "he/she/it", as opposed to God who is inherently masculine. This makes the apparitions take on a dual meaning—they're not only the three people Cerebus is most eager to be with (and are thus the perfect lure to trap Cerebus), they represent the three aspects of the YHWH—masculine Bear, feminine Jaka, and neutered Ham ("unmanned" by both his wife's hints about his sexual preferences and his suicide).
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c6d11745	type	Telepathy
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c6d11745	comment	Telepathy: Women in Cerebus have a degree of mind-reading ability, and in the case of the Cirinists, take it almost to a Hive Mind level. The real Cirin reveals to Cerebus that women who are especially talented can actually influence the thoughts of others, or even outright brainwash them. She speaks from experience, since this is how Serna stole her identity and usurped her.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	comment	Issue 275 is a huge Shout-Out to Peanuts, right down to Cerebus wearing Charlie Brown's yellow shirt with the black zigzag.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Cerebus, the Regency Elf is Your Daughter...sort of.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Even Sim takes a crack at his own outspokenness on the front cover of issue 290. (See below under Take That! for further details.)
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: In the Mothers and Daughters arc, Cerebus recalls killing a particularly annoying kid who also happened to be a captured enemy soldier.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ca04edd6	type	Charles Atlas Superpower
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ca04edd6	comment	Charles Atlas Superpower: The Roach from his Captain Cockroach incarnation onward, although he thinks it was through mystical means.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The Artist's name is never revealed.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_caa28b82	comment	The Roach's first incarnation is as The Cockroach, a parody of Batman who seems to be out for revenge for his parents' murder.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_cadf2d2a	type	Death of a Thousand Cuts
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_cadf2d2a	comment	Death of a Thousand Cuts: Subverted. During Cirin and Cerebus' fight at the end of Reads, Cirin manages to take Cerebus' sword from him, and proceeds to give him several serious cuts. However, Cerebus is able to dodge each enough so that none are incapacitating (aside from blood loss), and eventually is able to counterattack in a way that makes the sword useless to Cirin.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_cb224889	type	Something That Begins with
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_cb224889	comment	Something That Begins with "Boring": Julius tries to play the game with Cerebus while they're riding in a coach, but Cerebus has no patience for it.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_cbaa9102	type	Signature Headgear
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_cbaa9102	comment	Signature Headgear: Elrod wore a tall, conical cap in his early appearances, and tried to invoke it as a status symbol when Cerebus tried to brush him off.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_cbe32f62	type	Decided by One Vote
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_cbe32f62	comment	Decided by One Vote: The outcome of the election in High Society.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God in regards to Rick's behavior in Rick's Story, as a result of the events at the end of Jaka's Story.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ce6487aa	type	Misery Builds Character
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ce6487aa	comment	Misery Builds Character: Super Secret Wars Roach invokes this in Church and State II:
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: Po's advice to Cerebus in Mothers & Daughters regarding the Judge's prophecy is essentially this. Cerebus resolves to do just that at the end of Minds.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Cerebus in Melmoth cuts down two Cirinists in a rage after he overhears them talking about mistreating Jaka in prison. One spits blood on him as she lays dying and he hacks her to pieces. Both Cerebus and the Roach in Flight.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_cfe25df6	type	Lord Error-Prone
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_cfe25df6	comment	Lord Error-Prone: Silverspoon
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: Take a guess who it is. Cerebus's boss during his brief stint as a shepherd during Latter Days. One of the main reasons he got hired is that the boss liked having someone around who was even shorter than him.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: The entity who believes itself to be Death is annihilated from existence by the gems he thought were giving him his power.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d50a5478	type	Unlimited Wardrobe
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d50a5478	comment	Unlimited Wardrobe: It's not said outright, but while Jaka was living under Julius' roof after Jaka's Story, she apparently became very spoiled to having all the new clothes she could get, and a lot of her and Cerebus' travels in Going Home prior to the boat ride are to various shops so she can indulge this fancy. She even has a childish meltdown when Cerebus tries to get her to move away from this, as the idea of having to wear an outfit more than once or twice is horrific.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d5b3df2d	type	Dark Action Girl
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d5b3df2d	comment	Dark Action Girl: Geet-A, Red Sophia's clone, who seems to do nothing but grunt and fight.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d5c3da0c	type	HouseWife
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d5c3da0c	comment	House Wife: Red Sophia retires from her Action Girl life-style and briefly becomes one of these in Church and State. She still keeps wearing the Chain Mail Bikini all the time, though. Jaka during her marriage to Rick, although she works in Pud's tavern in the evenings as a dancer...or she would if Pud ever had any business.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d91d0365	type	The Magic Goes Away
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d91d0365	comment	The Magic Goes Away: All of the weird esoterics and mysticism that is prevalent throughout the comic to the conclusion of Minds slowly but surely fades away to be replaced by the more directly religious themes. It really goes away when Cerebus' magnifier is destroyed.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d94ff9b3	type	Wall of Text
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d94ff9b3	comment	Wall of Text: Happens several times throughout the series, but the absolutely worst case is the "Chasing YHWH" portion of Latter Days. These issues are almost completely text with only minimal art, usually Cerebus examining the Torah scrolls with a magnifying glass.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: A talking aardvark? Hardly worth commenting on, really. It's later revealed that aardvarks have been around in Estarcion for a long time.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Jaka tries to get Cerebus to invoke this trope in High Society, when Iest is under siege. He refuses and slaps her in disgust. He later apologizes, but still claims that she was in the wrong for trying to convince him to run out on his men. Astoria does this for real in Reads, taking Po's advice to abandon her political scheming and pursue one of her childhood dreams.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_da4d59ae	type	Memento MacGuffin
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_da4d59ae	comment	Memento MacGuffin: Missy, Jaka's childhood doll. Cerebus carries it around in Melmoth but eventually leaves it behind, and it shows back up with Jaka in Rick's Story. In Form and Void, it's also how the Cirinists know it was Jaka and Cerebus that took Ham's gun and fled after he killed himself, since they found it at their campsite.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_da650ce1	type	I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_da650ce1	comment	I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: In issue 6, a fleeing, dying man tells Cerebus about some lost treasure in the Black Sun Temple.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997	comment	Red Sophia retires from her Action Girl life-style and briefly becomes one of these in Church and State. She still keeps wearing the Chain Mail Bikini all the time, though.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_dba4ae4f	type	Arc Welding
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_dba4ae4f	comment	Arc Welding: Cerebus did this a lot. There were very few minor, throwaway characters. Just about anyone who talked to Cerebus at some point is revealed to be important to the plot somehow.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_dc292b90	type	Ear Ache
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_dc292b90	comment	Ear Ache: During the climactic fight at the end of Reads, Cerebus gets most of his right ear cut off.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ddbbcf6a	type	Idiosyncratic Cover Art
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ddbbcf6a	comment	Idiosyncratic Cover Art: The cover art for issues #291 - #299, when put together, forms a 360Â° panoramic view of Cerebus' room where he spends his last day.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_de5f028b	type	Barbarian Hero
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_de5f028b	comment	Barbarian Hero: Cerebus is a deconstruction/parody of this. His simple-minded, unsubtle way of thinking and approach to pretty much everything in life end up biting him in the butt several times as he fails to think through things or learn from his mistakes.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Pretty much describes the politics of Iest.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Those parts of Jaka's Story told from Pud Withers' point of view, especially in the evenings when Jaka's sitting around in her dancing costumes.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e04ed269	comment	Urban Segregation: Iest's Upper City is on a very high and sheer mesa, though this is not made explicit for some years.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Among the societal delinquents and weirdos clustered outside the gates of Cerebus' manor in The Last Day is a man with his hand under the skirt of a young girl whose face has a completely mindless, blank stare.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: The Cirinists start out as just a non-violent, weirder-than-usual Monster of the Week, but then things changed...
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e1da40	type	The Bear
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e1da40	comment	Given Sim's disdain for homosexuality, it's very ironic that a tall, burly, bearded, hirsute man who's an object of Cerebus' conflicted attraction is named Bear.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e2023325	type	StrawmanPolitical
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e2023325	comment	The front cover of issue 290 is a movie poster parody that describes Cerebus as "the latest issue of the comic book liberals love to hate". The rest of the text degenerates into further pointless Strawman Political insults, ends in "OKAY OKAY JUST STOP WHINING! PLEASE!" and then restarts but changes the description to "the latest issue of the comic book that many people buy".
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e24e15a6	type	Has a Type
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e24e15a6	comment	Has a Type: While Cerebus' true feelings are for the blonde Jaka, the story's twists and turns leave him paired with two redheads: Weisshaupt cons Cerebus into getting married to Red Sophia for a large part of Church and State. Cerebus isn't happy about it, partly because of the circumstances and partly because his sense of honor and desire to do the right thing by Sophia is grating against his anger over the manipulation, although it does teach him to enjoy sex. In the last "living with Jaka" scenario in Minds, Cerebus cheats on Jaka with the red-headed Joanne, which leads to Jaka committing suicide. In Guys, after Joanne shows up for real, she and Cerebus have a brief relationship that ends badly. She then starts putting the moves on Rick, partly to screw with Cerebus.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: Elrod claims to be the last member of a dying race. Ultimately subverted in Reads when his true origin and nature are revealed.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: The Artist in his first appearance and Elrod more generally.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: Sim's artwork and character designs showed drastic improvement over the course of the first hundred issues or so, especially after Gerhard took over backgrounds, freeing Sim to focus on the characters. The art also took another leap when Sim began experimenting with photorealism in the later issues of the "Chasing YHWH" arc. He carried this technique into his later works glamourpussnote a combined parody of women's magazines and history of photorealism in comics and Judenhassnote a story about historical anti-Semitism which featured disturbingly realistic renditions of WWII-era photographs.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: Several show up in the early story arcs, including the Cirinists prior to their seizing power.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Inverted and then played straight. Prior to his religious conversion, Sim depicted a creation myth (given by the Judge at the end of Church and State) in which the female Light was essentially raped by the male Void in which it resided, causing the Light to completely shatter and form the physical universe. After his conversion, the male void became God and the female Light became YHWH, God's Adversary. Cerebus is physically dragged into the Light after his death in the last issue, screaming for God to save him.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e54482ee	type	Keet
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e54482ee	comment	There's also The Artist. Remember back in Issue 25 when he was a friendly energetic guy? If you've read Church and State, you might not.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e63228a7	type	InfoDump
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e63228a7	comment	Sim himself in Minds, giving Cerebus multiple lengthy Info Dumps about, among other things, the history of the Cirinists, what his medallions actually are, and most importantly, just how much of a Jerkass he really is.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e69efe7f	type	Lysistrata Gambit
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e69efe7f	comment	Lysistrata Gambit: There's at least one moment of Deconstruction of this in Rick's (prose) memoirs. Of course, we are talking about post-Reads Dave Sim here, so there are a few... weird ideas there, but the point is made that if a woman feels compelled to use her body to "punish or reward" her man, the relationship might not be the healthiest one to begin with.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e6f18344	type	Humongous Mecha
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e6f18344	comment	Humongous Mecha: Sort of. The Pigt idol (the giant aardvark statue) would have functioned as one of these had things gone a little differently.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e8d46c29	type	Backstory
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e8d46c29	comment	Backstory: Cerebus's past before becoming a wandering mercenary, such as his stint as a city guard. Jaka's Story fills in some important parts of her childhood and adolescence. However, as these parts are from Oscar's read about her based on anecdotes from Rick, the reader doesn't know what really happened and what is Oscar filling in the gaps with his florid writing. A large part of Minds is dedicated to revealing the backstory of the Cirinist movement and its rise to power.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: Cerebus does one in High Society after learning that his would-be kidnappers used their real names (and real signatures) to sign the ransom note. He also does one in Reads in the Beat Panel between Astoria telling him he's a hermaphrodite and his reaction.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e9604359	type	Monster of the Week
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e9604359	comment	Monster of the Week: For the most part, the first 25 issues followed this format.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e9d6eff8	type	Cool Airship
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_e9d6eff8	comment	Cool Airship: Seen from a distance in Form and Void.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: Happens to several characters, but Cerebus gets this treatment the most. Usually (but not always) done comedically, especially in Latter Days where he spends a long time tied up while the Three Wise Fellows test him and eventually cracks from boredom.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: Cerebus guest-stars in issue #8 of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The book is drawn by Turtles creators Eastman and Laird, with the exception of Cerebus himself, who is drawn by Sim. Cerebus also appeared in the highly self-referential Spawn #10. Flaming Carrot appears in one issue of Church and State (issue #104, to be precise) during Cerebus's ascension. Much like Cerebus was drawn by Sim in the Turtles crossover, Flaming Carrot was in this issue drawn by his creator Bob Burden. Death from The Sandman (1989) appears in a single panel in the opening pages of Flight. The short-lived Cerebus Radio show had brief cameos by impersonators of Rocky and Bullwinkle in the adaptation of Issue 6. Bullwinkle does the pull-a-rabbit trick and pulls Cerebus out of his hat. Cerebus has also appeared as a major character in the first issue of Dave Ryan's War of the Independents alongside other characters such as The Tick, Fone Bone, The Savage Dragon, and others. How big of a part he'll play in the overall series remains to be seen and, due to various problems, will likely remain to be seen for quite some time.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Lord Julius in his first appearance. Baskin, who saves Lord Julius from an assassin in Flight.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Cerebus himself. Heavily deconstructed, especially in Minds.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_eb99df21	type	Funny Animal
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_eb99df21	comment	Issue 3. In all honesty, the first two issues were basically straight-up fantasy adventures that happened to star a Funny Animal and had some comic relief thrown in here and there. Issue 3 was where the parody started becoming apparent.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ebab0a5b	type	Best Her to Bed Her
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ebab0a5b	comment	Best Her to Bed Her: Yet another layer of the Red Sonja parody. Red Sophia's father hires Cerebus to torture the man who besmirched her honor. During the journey her logorrhea is too much, they fight, he wins, she pledges service. (He refused to demand sexual favors from her at that point, instead trying to teach her a lesson by using her as a pack mule. She didn't learn; Sophia is simply Too Kinky to Torture.) The eventual torture is forcing the blackguard (who saw her naked) to marry Sophia. However, years later she ends up married to Cerebus (she much more happy about the prospect than he, given the circumstances).
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ebf8fc6	type	Not a Morning Person
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ebf8fc6	comment	Not a Morning Person: Rick in Jaka's Story. Getting out of bed is a massive struggle for him, and even when he's finally up and moving he's slow and sluggish, with a tendency to drift right back to sleep as soon as he comes to a stop. Jaka can wake him in a hurry with a "wet willy", but he's back out soon after.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ed07a226	type	No More for Me
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ed07a226	comment	No More for Me: When a gardener spots what appears to be Lord Julius in a dress (actually one of his Like-a-Looks), he pulls out his flask, takes one last swig, then throws the rest away.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: Shortly after Cerebus realizes Red Sophia's in his bed, Weisshaupt shows up and inquires about the previous night. Upon hearing her mention "Oh, at least twelve times...I lost count [...]", Cerebus pukes in a chamberpot.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ee3ea61e	type	Fourth-Wall Mail Slot
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ee3ea61e	comment	Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: In the letters pages, a regular correspondent mentioned Cerebus throwing a baby off a roof. In a later issue, Astoria berates Cerebus for that action. He replies to her (and to the letter writer), pointing out that he threw the baby from the front steps; he threw an old man off the roof. Next issue had a letter from the original correspondent feeling crunchy for having been corrected by Cerebus himself.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_efef300	type	Put on a Bus to Hell
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_efef300	comment	Put on a Bus to Hell: At the end of Form and Void, in the wake of Jaka and Cerebus' relationship finally collapsing, the Cirinists who have been pursuing them since they fled the Ernestways show up, revealing that they found where Cerebus and Jaka had camped, and thus found the gun they took with them; under Cirinist law it's a capital offense for unmarried couples to possess a gun. Jaka is carted away in tears and is never seen in the flesh again, leaving Cerebus alone to vent his grief and rage. Sim never revealed Jaka's final fate, although he hinted at least once that due to her being a public celebrity and Palnu royalty, and with her and Cerebus now permanently separated and thus not an issue to the Cirinists anymore, she was probably placed under permanent house arrest rather than executed.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f0a6a09d	type	Mistaken for Servant
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f0a6a09d	comment	Mistaken for Servant: Michelle, although she seems more amused than annoyed.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: The character known only as "The Judge", a seemingly omnipotent being, never actually does anything with his limitless powers and knowledge because he is too busy making long, long, long expository speeches using very big words. How long? In his first appearance, he speaks uninterrupted for five straight issues. In a later issue, The Judge appears out of thin air to inform Death that he is about to die. And also that he is actually not Death at all, just delusional. It takes him more words to tell him this than the entire word count of the previous two issues combined. Leading to a funny moment when "Death's" only response to this verbal tsunami is to say "Well, fuck me," and die. Parmoorians have a well-deserved reputation for long-windedness.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f265445e	type	Accidentally Broke the MacGuffin
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f265445e	comment	Accidentally Broke the MacGuffin: Cerebus unwittingly ruined his original destiny by selling his helmet. If he'd had the full set of helmet/medallions/sword when he came upon the Pigts' aardvark idol, it would've come to life as a mecha-like monstrosity and given him the power to conquer the world. Whoops.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f2a6d76d	type	Rage Against the Author
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f2a6d76d	comment	Rage Against the Author: Pops up in Minds when Cerebus tries to butt heads with "Dave" over how his life's gone. "Dave" decisively puts paid to his complaints. A lesser example shows up near the end of Rick's Story when Dave actually shows up in the bar to talk with Cerebus about his life at that point.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: Red Sophia has one, although she was created via magic rather than the...usual method.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f360fc33	type	Dumbass Has a Point
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: One issue has Red Sophia, not the biggest thinker, hold a monologue where she goes over Cerebus' current behaviour, explains why it makes no sense in the light of his supposed motivations, and makes a reasonable deduction as to what his real motivations are and suggests that he just admit them to himself. All the while, Cerebus is listening in silence with a sullen "this is hitting a nerve" look on his face.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f37c192	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f37c192	comment	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: The second issue uses "it's" twice where it meant to use "its". One such instance is actually followed only one page later by a proper "its".
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: The bully who stabbed Cerebus as a kid.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Played straight in multiple ways throughout the comic. However, during the "living with Jaka" scenarios in Minds, when Cerebus is shown right away that he'd be physically abusive to Jaka, he's horrified and immediately has "Dave" alter things so it's not in the cards...not that that helps in the long run.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f4c9c97a	type	Aardvark Trunks
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f4c9c97a	comment	Aardvark Trunks: When the comic started, Cerebus had a long snout with a somewhat pig-like nose that was the same width as his snout. As the comic progressed and Sim's art improved, his snout shortened and the nose broadened, becoming more round and completely obscuring his snout if seen from the front. He also has two mouths, one on each side of his head just behind his snout. Cirin and Suenteus Po, the two other aardvarks that appear in the story, have similar mouth/snout arrangements but their snouts are more tapered and their noses aren't as wide as Cerebus' is.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f61cddc9	type	Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f61cddc9	comment	Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: Aardvarks are not at all common, but have appeared enough times throughout Estarcion's history that it's not a cause for public wonder. That three aardvarks are running around at one time, on the other hand, is exceedingly rare.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The Mothers & Daughters arc and the first half of Latter Days. Unfortunately for our (anti)hero, Sim decides to subvert it both times.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f765e2d3	type	Dying Alone
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone "You live only a few more years. You die alone, unmourned and unloved." The Judge ended up being half right. Cerebus does die alone, unmourned and unloved, but lives for much longer than the rest of the cast except for Cirin. Cerebus' father...which leads to Cerebus being shunned by his home town.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: Mick gives Cerebus a codeine-laced drink, which causes him to start acting hilariously out of character, becoming extremely friendly and clingy. However, once it wears off, he throws up.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f7e540ee	type	Ow, My Body Part!
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f7e540ee	comment	Ow, My Body Part!: In The Last Day, this almost becomes a Running Gag due to Cerebus' many, many aches and pains. However, the final instance isn't so funny, as it's when his hamstring gives out and foils his attempt to go after Sheshep Ankh to kill him, leading to the fall that kills him.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: Lord Julius is literally shooed out by Cerebus right before Cerebus does his rather infamous interrogation of Astoria.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: One gag that ran roughly from the early issues through Church and State was that if Cerebus got wet, his fur gave off a hideous stench that even he could barely tolerate.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department:
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: The Artist eventually becomes one-third of a three-headed monstrosity, with Sump-Thing and Woman-Thing being the other two parts.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: A few instances. The "Mind Games" issues all deal with mental weirdness of one form or another. The "Chasing YHWH" arc in Latter Days, a pun on Chasing Amy and dealing with Cerebus'...unusual...exegesis on the Torah. The names of the Three Wise Fellows are Yiddish variants of The Three Stooges' names, in keeping with their use in the story as Old Testament-style prophets.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In The Last Day, an aged, decrepit Cerebus has a scene where he begs God for "a last proper fart" before he dies. Guess what the last thing he manages to do after he falls out of his bed but before breaking his neck and dying is?
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_fe61495d	type	Grail in the Garbage
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_fe61495d	comment	Grail in the Garbage: Revealed at the end of High Society when Cerebus kicks over a bag of loot, revealing the albatross statue.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_fec2b522	type	Happy Ending
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_fec2b522	comment	Happy Ending: Near the end of Rick's Story, Jaka shows up at the bar out of the blue. She and Cerebus joyfully reunite, and eventually leave the bar. By the end of Form and Void, this is completely subverted.
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Rick was deliberately written to be one in Jaka's Story. He's a bit of a deadbeat who can be Innocently Insensitive and self-centered (and when he appears again in Guys he's notably Took a Level in Jerkass, though it's debatable how much that was intentional on Sim's part) — but in the world of Cerebus, where everyone is either a corrupt and self-centered Jerkass or a delusional idiot, he does stand out as a remarkably nice person. Enforced by Sim's idea that it would make the Love Triangle more interesting if the guy who stood between Jaka and Cerebus was really likable himself. As he stated in the intro in the Jaka's Story phonebook, Rick is "the nearest I will ever come to the portrayal of a good and thoroughly decent human being; completely without guile or malice."
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book) / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: In Latter Days, Cerebus eventually decides to stop aimlessly wandering around waiting to die and let the Cirinists do the job. However, the Wise Fellows get to him before the Cirinists do.
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Cerebus The Aardvark (Comic Strip)	seeAlso	Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)
CerebusTheAardvark	sameAs	Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Aardvark Trunks / int_767bd4d8
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Archive Panic / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Art-Style Clash / int_767bd4d8
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Batman Can Breathe in Space / int_767bd4d8
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Genki Girl / int_767bd4d8
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Heel–Faith Turn / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Hermaphrodite / int_767bd4d8
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Idiosyncratic Cover Art / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming / int_767bd4d8
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lady Land / int_767bd4d8
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Mixed Metaphor / int_767bd4d8
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Mushroom Samba / int_767bd4d8
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Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Narrative Filigree / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	No More for Me / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Non-Standard Character Design / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Not a Morning Person / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Obfuscating Insanity / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Offscreen Inertia / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Overcomplicated Menu Order / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ow, My Body Part! / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Padding / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Perfect Health / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Please, I Will Do Anything! / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Post-Script Season / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Purple Prose / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rage Against the Author / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rage Against the Heavens / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Really Dead Montage / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rebus Bubble / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rejection Ritual / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Reverse Cerebus Syndrome / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Robe and Wizard Hat / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sand in My Eyes / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Seasonal Rot / int_bcaefcf8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Secret Diary / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	See You in Hell / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sequential Symptom Syndrome / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Shrug of God / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sickening "Crunch!" / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Skyward Scream / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Smart People Play Chess / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Smoke Out / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Something That Begins with / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Speech Bubbles / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Spell My Name with a "The" / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Splash Panel / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Story Arc / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Straw Feminist / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Suicide Is Shameful / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Super-Detailed Fight Narration / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Textplosion / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The '70s / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Exile / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Great Flood / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Lad-ette / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Napoleon / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	There Is Another / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	They Called Me Mad! / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	This Isn't Heaven / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Three Stooges Shout-Out / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Tyop on the Cover / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unreliable Voiceover / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Urban Segregation / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wall of Text / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	We Named the Monkey "Jack" / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Writing for the Trade / int_767bd4d8
Cerebus the Aardvark (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Yoko Oh No / int_767bd4d8

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