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No Hero (Comic Book)
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No Hero is the second super-hero miniseries from Warren Ellis at Avatar Press, and also his second collaboration with artist Juan Jose Ryp. The series started with issue #0 and lasted for 8 issues, from June, 2008 to September, 2009.Taking place in 2011, the super hero group Front Line has just lost several members to attacks targeted at them, and are rushing to replace them when they find Joshua Carver, a young man who wants nothing more than to be a super hero. And he'll get his wish, if he can survive the process... | |
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Shrine to Self | |
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Shrine to Self: Carrick has a hallway of self-portraits done by various artists — the styles of Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol are the most immediately recognizable. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Doubles as a Wham Line as things take a dark turn afterward. | |
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Would Not Shoot a Civilian | |
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Would Not Shoot a Civilian: Averted with a vengeance. Carrick orders all his civilian staff to evacuate his house/Front Line headquarters— and they run straight into troops who proceed to machine-gun every last one of them. If it can be said to be justified, it's that the troops don't know if any of those people are enhanciles. | |
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Engineered Heroics | |
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Engineered Heroics: In issue 6, Joshua makes a fine impression on the people of San Francisco by redirecting a disabled airliner from slamming into a building and belly-landing it in the bay. Then two other members of The Front Line show up and casually tell him they killed the pilots and threw the plane at the building for him to save. | |
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Hero's First Rescue | |
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Hero's First Rescue: Joshua stops a plane from crashing into San Francisco. But see Engineered Heroics above... | |
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Dead Guy Puppet | |
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Dead Guy Puppet: Joshua does this to Fasthawk. | |
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Psychopathic Manchild | |
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Psychopathic Manchild: Joshua turns out to be this, mostly because his childhood wasn't exactly kind to him. He has a petulant moment later: | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Those Two Government Agents discussing Joshua: | |
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Electronic Eyes | |
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Electronic Eyes: Mr. Marsh has computers in his head and it's revealed by glowing eyes. | |
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Flat Character | |
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Flat Character: Fasthawk is messily mocked for it by Joshua as he kills him. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Joshua against the Frontline. One of the most extreme cases EVER. | |
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Immortality Immorality | |
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Immortality Immorality: We don't know what Carrick was like before his FX7 enhancement, except that he was once a chemist and LSD drug dealer during an Early Psychedelic Movement that discovered FX7 by experimenting with drugs and immediately tried to milk it for all it was worth for his own benefit. There's definitely the sense that his manipulating the world is because since he's going to be living in it for who knows how long, he might as well make it to his liking. | |
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Immortality Hurts | |
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Immortality Hurts: Carrick, in no uncertain language. | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: Joshua to Carrick when he claims the world will collapse without him. | |
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Personality Powers | |
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Personality Powers: Justified since FX7 brings out what is inside as super powers. Josh's horrific transformation after taking FX7 is the first big hint about his true nature — a serial killer with a chameleon-like personality. No face of his own, so to speak.... | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: What FX7 does to Joshua. It makes his skin, teeth and penis fall off. | |
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Jumped at the Call | |
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Jumped at the Call: Josh really worked to get Carrick's attention. | |
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Deceptive Disciple | |
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Deceptive Disciple: Joshua actually has no intention to be with the Frontline, despising Carrick's megalomania. | |
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Super Serum | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_571bfe2 | comment |
Super Serum: FX7 See also Psycho Serum. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine: Carrick is trying to figure out how their attacker have access to a Russian anti-TFL weapon yet know things that only the Chinese government could know and is trying to wonder which country is working with who or who is trying to frame which country. Joshua, an American assassin, explains that it's an international effort from almost all governments that are done with Carrick's rule. The countries go back to fighting each other even worse over the spoils of the Front Line. | |
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Pragmatic Villainy | |
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Pragmatic Villainy: Carrick explicitly states that the purpose of the Front Line is selfish as hell. "The more people alive there are, the more people there are to earn money that will eventually be given to me. Also, the more people there are to breed girls whom I will eventually fuck." They save people, shut down Nixon and Vietnam, kept the French from getting nuclear weapons, destroyed Iran's oil reserves to nip terrorism in the bud, etc., because it is good for business and keeps the world stable for Front Line to control as they please. They're assholes of the first degree, but they've made their world better than ours (maybe — the line about "black states" imply that the US went through an apartheid-like stage at some point). And once Joshua shuts them down on behalf of every government on the planet, everything goes straight to hell. | |
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Goomba Stomp | |
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Goomba Stomp: Joshua's first in-panel kill, delivered to a mugger from three stories up. The unfortunate man's ears come right off in a spurt of blood. | |
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The Reveal | |
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The Reveal: Joshua is actually a serial killer who became an FBI mole sent to infiltrate the Front Line and destroy them from the inside. Charlie Kraft, original member of Front Line who retired in 1985 didn't die six months later but was instead kidnapped by US government and vivisected by an international teams of surgeons for twelve years, so the countries of the world can find what makes FX7-enhanced individuals tick and develop counter measures. | |
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I Am a Monster | |
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I Am a Monster: Josh says as much, claiming to be the FBI's pet monster periodically assigned to kill other monsters like Masterson. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Joshua Carver. Based on his last name, he did exactly that to The Front Line — that is to say, carving it out. After all, it is what he does best. There are Jesus Christ analogies as well: Same initials, Joshua is one possible translation of name Jesus and Jesus's father Joseph was a carpenter, colloquially known as woodcarver. | |
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Real Event, Fictional Cause | |
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Real Event, Fictional Cause: The People's Temple in Guyana was actually a CIA front for a lab trying to recreate FX7. The Front Line shuts it down messily. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Without Carrick and the Front Line, the last two pages indicate the entire world is beginning to collapse, with economic markets failing, wars starting and the White House being destroyed with a plane. | |
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Compensating for Something | |
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Compensating for Something: Played for Laughs of the Squickiest sort when Joshua rips out Ben's spine and wears it like a strap-on: | |
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Necessarily Evil | |
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Necessarily Evil: The Front Line, for its many wrongs, are at the same time keeping fault lines stable, are behind several aid efforts, and are also insuring economic stability in some parts of the world. The FBI keeps Joshua, who had been raised in a way that makes him unable/unwilling to stop hurting people, to use as their best assassin when situation demand a Evil vs. Evil. He fully acknowledges he is a monster and knows he belongs behind bars but his sadism shows. | |
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Psycho Serum | |
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Psycho Serum: FX7 gives superpowers— but it's a nasty hallucinogen. Worse, the subject's stress hormones need to kick in in a big way to aid the transformation. Carrick has a special room, inspired by Aleister Crowley's "la chambre des cauchemars" ("the room of nightmares"), to ensure the subject has a bad trip. The heroes tend to come out deeply traumatized, some turning to other drugs to suppress PTSD flashbacks. | |
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Villain with Good Publicity | |
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Villain with Good Publicity: The Front Line. Especially Carrick. | |
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Eye Beams | |
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Eye Beams: Redglare has heat vision. | |
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Token Good Teammate | |
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Token Good Teammate: Ben Chisholm/Redglare... maybe. He certainly has standards enough to call out Carrick on the Engineered Heroics mentioned previously, and he seems to genuinely think that the Front Line has done what was necessary— though Carrick points out that Ben has also benefited very materially from the way the Line runs things, which suggests that Ben may be Believing Their Own Lies. Either way, it doesn't save him; he's the first one killed by Joshua. Also his main issue is more that he wasn't warned about the staging beforehand and while being genuinely nice he admits twice in the story he won't have a problem burning Joshua to ashes if things go poorly. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: As if the "Adam's Ale"note an old slangy name for water comment Carrick makes ("Very straight edge. The hardest stuff in the Garden of Eden, prior to eating the fruit") when getting Joshua something to drink isn't enough, what does he offer him to snack on? An apple. | |
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Complete Immortality | |
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Complete Immortality: Carrick Masterson. He can't age or get killed by external means, but he does feel pain. | |
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Beware the Superman | |
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Beware the Superman: What happens when you give superpowers to a monster? | |
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Ceiling Corpse | |
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Ceiling Corpse: Marsh, after Joshua takes care of him. | |
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Genuine Human Hide | |
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Genuine Human Hide: The cover◊ of issue #6 shows Carrick sitting in a chair upholstered in human skin. You can tell because of the nipples and stitched-closed faces. | |
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Homage | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_a1a1491e | comment |
Homage: Alternate covers for all issues were takes on classic comic covers: #0: Jim Steranko's Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D #1 (original◊, homage) #1: Jack Kirby's Captain America #109 (original◊, homage) Another #1 alternate: Gerry Conway's The Amazing Spider-Man #129 #2: Dave Cockrum's X-Men #100 (original, homage) #3: Dave Gibbons' Watchmen #1 (original◊, homage) #4: Robert Crumb's Zap Comix #0 (original, homage) #5: George Pérez's Crisis on Infinite Earths #71 (original, homage) #6: Bernie Wrightson's House of Secrets #92 (also homaged by John Totlebein for Saga of the Swamp Thing #33) (Wrightson, Totlebein◊, Ryp) For some reason, this one doesn't credit either Wrightson or Totlebein. #7: Todd Mc Farlane's Spider-Man #1 (original◊, homage) | |
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Muggle Power | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_a4ed127f | comment |
Muggle Power: At first most of the Front Line's attacker appears to be foreign governments putting together their knowledge of the Front Line and what can kill them, most of the World's government are working together to purge the Front Line because of the many transgressions Carrick did toward all of them (he threatened to destroy Beijing at one point. | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_a51b63ed | type |
Flying Brick | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_a51b63ed | comment |
Flying Brick: FX7 seems to induce this power set the most, with occasional other powers (Smokestack Lightning has Intangibility and Shock and Awe talents, The Operator is a Technopath). Notably, Redglare can't fly. Carrick supposedly tweaks FX7 to try and induce other superpowers in his enhanciles as he is uninterested in standard Flying Bricks: | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_a5f0752f | type |
Rule of Drama | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_a5f0752f | comment |
Rule of Drama: Joshua becomes a little less deformed after the fourth issue (mainly by having eyelids and lips again). Justified in issue 5: it's the next day, so he could still be changing. But the real change happens in issues 6 and 7 — barely some hours later. This is probably since what happens next is more unsettling if Joshua is capable of showing more emotions. | |
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Code Name | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_a7defafd | comment |
Code Name: Pretty funny ones used by a couple of government agents for Joshua and Carrick. | |
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Alternate History | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_a86069f | comment |
Alternate History: It's implied the Front Line has changed history significantly, including the dissolution of South Africa and the institution of "Black States" in the USA. | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_a8a04f6f | type |
And I Must Scream | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_a8a04f6f | comment |
And I Must Scream: Carrick ends the book leaving Earth's orbit. He cannot die of asphyxiation, decompression, dehydration, starvation, or any of the other things he has to look forward to... | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_aac2244a | type |
EvilVsEvil | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_aac2244a | comment |
The FBI keeps Joshua, who had been raised in a way that makes him unable/unwilling to stop hurting people, to use as their best assassin when situation demand a Evil vs. Evil. He fully acknowledges he is a monster and knows he belongs behind bars but his sadism shows. | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Carrick, in spades. | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_b1346878 | type |
Fate Worse than Death | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_b1346878 | comment |
Fate Worse than Death: Carrick can't die, so what does Joshua do? He flies him into space so he could drift for eternity. | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_b8198b96 | type |
Dead Man's Switch | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_b8198b96 | comment |
Dead Man's Switch: Never explicitly shown, but the fact that the San Andreas Fault around San Francisco becomes active again after The Front Line is taken down does make one wonder... | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361 | type |
Anti-Hero | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: Joshua, he accidentally kills a mugger to impress the Frontline and is actually a government Serial-Killer Killer. Nevertheless he is aware of his flaws (saying his reaction to his accidental murder proves he is not a hero) and do wants to make the world better. | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_c868a42a | type |
Freudian Excuse | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_c868a42a | comment |
Freudian Excuse: Joshua's parents were murdered by a serial killer who adopted him and taught him his craft. | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_cb83d23b | type |
I Just Want to Be Special | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_cb83d23b | comment |
I Just Want to Be Special: Joshua Carver is this at the beginning. Supposedly. | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_cf92fea8 | type |
Cassandra Truth | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_cf92fea8 | comment |
Cassandra Truth: Mandy/The Operator makes this comment about Joshua: | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_d7f21602 | type |
Holding Out for a Hero | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_d7f21602 | comment |
Holding Out for a Hero: Invoked by Carrick: | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_de7b7cbf | type |
Drugs Are Bad | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_de7b7cbf | comment |
Drugs Are Bad: This definitely seems to be a message, if not the message, of the story. | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_e26d8285 | type |
Explosive Decompression | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_e26d8285 | comment |
Explosive Decompression: Apparently how Joshua dies, though realistically he shouldn't have had his ribcage blow open like that. | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_e542d889 | type |
Gorn | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_e542d889 | comment |
Gorn: Lots of it, the most extreme being Joshua tearing out Ben's spine, and then using Ben's muscles to wrap it around his waist to imitate a penis. | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_f9a5eaa5 | type |
Inhuman Eye Concealers | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_f9a5eaa5 | comment |
Inhuman Eye Concealers: Mr. Marsh wears sunglasses to hide his Electronic Eyes. | |
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| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_ffad4e9f | type |
Shown Their Work | |
| No Hero (Comic Book) / int_ffad4e9f | comment |
Shown Their Work: FX7 is based on a real-life psychedelic tryptamine, 5-MEO-DIPT, with "unknown" modifications. While it will not turn you into a superhero by way of Body Horror, it is a fairly strong psychedelic discovered by Alexander Shulgin, who Carrick is at least partially modeled after. | |
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ItemName | |
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