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The Authority (Comic Book)

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The Authority (Comic Book)	comment	Created by writer Warren Ellis and artist Bryan Hitch, The Authority took the standard superhero tropes and shook them up with a manga-influenced "widescreen" style that used splash pages and large panels to make the business of saving the world actually look impressive for once.The original series appeared in May, 1999 as a Sequel Series to the recently-cancelled Stormwatch, where most of the team members first appeared—during Warren Ellis' run—as members of the Stormwatch Black Team Division. Ellis started The Authority by blowing up Moscow and continued in suitably bombastic fashion, threatening the Earth with an imperialistic army from an alternate universe and a battle with God itself. Hitch's detailed but kinetic panels conveyed the action with aplomb, and the series' style essentially spawned the trend for Decompressed Comics.Later writers took the team in a slightly different direction. Picking up on the idea that the team originally formed to improve the world, not just save it, they had them executing dictators, defusing international crises and even pulling a coup d'etat on the US government itself. However, as Status Quo Is God, they have only rarely been able to effect any kind of serious change.The team's original members were: Jenny Sparks, "The Spirit of the 20th Century" (a woman who is reborn every 100 years, embodying that century's (or in past times, era's) central concept—in this case, electricity. She was the leader of Stormwatch's black-ops subteam, and assembled the Authority to continue their job on her terms). Apollo, "The Sun God" (a Superman pastiche with powers of flight, indestructibility and laser vision, and the Midnighter's lover. A Super-Soldier who became a Phlebotinum Rebel from a Stormwatch splinter cell before reconciling with the main organization). The Midnighter, "Night's Bringer of War" (a Batman pastiche who can work out how to win a fight in his head before it's even begun; he is also Apollo's lover and later husband. He shared an origin with his partner). The Doctor, "The Shaman" (the mightiest magic-user on Earth and the latest in a long line of shamans to defend the planet; also an ex-junkie). The Engineer, "The Maker" (a woman whose blood was replaced by nanotechnology, making her a Chrome Champion Gadgeteer Genius who can create her gadgets at will). Jack Hawksmoor, "The King of Cities" (a man experimented on by aliens who were actually humans from the 70th century who has a symbiotic relationship with cities, granting Super-Strength and psychic abilities relating to a city and what happens within it. He was a member of Jenny's Stormwatch Black team). Swift, "The World's Greatest Huntress" (a woman with the ability to grow wings and claws, low-level Flying Brick powers, and superhuman senses. Part of Jenny Sparks' Stormwatch team, and in fact the only character from pre-Ellis Stormwatch to survive into The Authority).Both Jenny Sparks and The Doctor eventually died and were replaced by Legacy Characters, Jenny's next incarnation (Jenny Quantum) and another Doctor, respectively. By 2007, the other members remained in the team, and other characters, such as Rose Tattoo (Another ex-Stormwatch member and the Spirit of Murder, transformed by the current doctor into the Spirit of Life), joined.As the series went on, the stories tended to get more and more outrageous, not to mention Anvilicious.Rather aggressively satirized in the Superman comic book What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way? and its Animated Adaptation Superman vs. the Elite, in which their Expies beat up Superman, who was concerned about both their violent methods and the pointlessness of killing them when they appear to be a symptom of the times rather than the cause of it... and then demonstrated that they shouldn't have made him mad.With the 2011 DC reboot, the Wildstorm characters were absorbed into the larger DC Universe, and the rebooted Authority characters became the core of a new Stormwatch. After their book ended in 2014, Midnighter went on to receive his own solo title, starting June 2015. The Wildstorm imprint would be revived with a brand new universe, with the first series, The Wild Storm, featuring a new team akin to the Authority, though they don't call themselves by any particular name. In 2021, as part of the DC Infinite Frontier initiative, the title will be revived as a four-issue mini-series called Superman and the Authority, which has the Man of Steel create his own team to help him liberate the alien slave world Warworld.In January 2023, James Gunn and Peter Safran announced a feature film centered on the team as part of a slate of film and television projects comprising their re-vamp of the DC Extended Universe. In addition, members of the team are set to appear in the Superman reboot film Superman: Legacy ahead of their own movie.If youâ€™re looking for the WWE faction that began causing the downfall of the company, look here.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_11bc87bc	type	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_11bc87bc	comment	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Jenny Sparks is visually based on the model Kate Moss.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1228314a	type	Strong as They Need to Be
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1228314a	comment	Strong as They Need to Be: As a result of power creep in the series, what The Doctor can do is limited solely by whatever the plot requires at the moment. Authors often try to portray him as a Glass Cannon to counter his effective omnipotence and invincibility, but come on, when you are explicitly stated and shown to have enough mojo to create and destroy universes, concocting some sort of personal shield shouldn't be particularly hard. It was explicitly and graphically confirmed that complete dismemberment isn't enough to kill a Doctor, seen when the Renegade Doctor temporarily regained the powers. He'll just pull himself back together like nothing happened, so any frailty that a Doctor shows is entirely their own failing and not a real weakness. This is what originally kept Jeroen from overshadowing the rest of the team. He tended to be either wacked out on heroin or suffering from severe lack of confidence, plus a requirement for his reality shifts to be largely nature-based. Unfortunately later writers got rid of those flaws.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: During the arc about Sliding Albion, it's revealed that several countries of the eponymous alternate Earth were turned into rape camps. The Commander, a Corrupted Character Copy of Captain America does this to a couple of nurses during a mission to find the infant Jenny Quantum and then Apollo after Thor expy Storm-God knocked him down and drains some of his solar charge via a lightning strike. This results in Midnighter being pissed and the aforementioned Oh, Crap! example and it's implied that Midnighter's going to return the favor and use the jackhammer to rape Commander back. During the G7 Authority arc, Swift and the Engineer both get brainwashed and handed over to men they would normally loathe as a Sex Slave and an abused wive, respectively. It happens off-screen, but both of them were clearly stated to have been used for sex without their consent many times. Needless to say, Swift is very, very angry once her brainwashing breaks down, and the first thing she does after killing her abuser is freeing the Engineer from hers. Also, Apollo was almost raped again during this storyline, this time by his bi-curious replacement Teuton who'd been using him as a punching bag for weeks. Thankfully, Midnighter arrived just in time to put a construction bolt through the bastard's brain.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_14dfb81	type	Power Creep, Power Seep
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_14dfb81	comment	Power Creep, Power Seep: While the Authority have always been heavy hitters, they all had reasonable limitations when written by Ellis, such as Angie's limited supply of nanoblood to use as weaponry and Jack's inability to survive outside of a city. Millar ignored this entirely when he took over and gave several characters new powers to boot, and almost all later writers have kept them at their new power level or higher.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_17521f7f	type	Clothes Make the Superman
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_17521f7f	comment	Clothes Make the Superman: The Engineer's nanites.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: This sort of thing happens to the Midnighter all the time. The man is canonically the scariest and most terrifying individual in the Wildstorm universe, yet he gets jobbed out in every single story arc, just to demonstrate how much of a threat that arc's villain is. In Captain Atom: Armageddon, it isn't Midnighter who is used this way to show how utterly outclassed everyone in the Wildstorm universe is when compared to Captain Atom, it's Apollo. Midnighter doesn't even count as a threat to Atom, and is casually (and entertainingly) dismissed offhand.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: When Midnighter is tasked with killing Hitler he actually finds he can't do it because the time he was sent to was the last days of the war. Hitler didn't look like one of histories greatest monsters. He looked like a tired and defeated old man. The time travelers Midnighter is traveling with tell him that most tend to react like him when they confront the worst people in history aren't monsters of supervillains, but just people.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: The Authority basically assumed they were the baddest asses in the Wildstorm universe, and everyone else in the Wildstorm universe thought that way too. And then they met a guy named Captain Atom...
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1bca196d	type	Reluctant Warrior
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1bca196d	comment	Reluctant Warrior: When Jenny formed the Authority, Jack and Shen had to adjust to the fact that it would often be necessary to kill their enemies. The former was extremely reluctant to kill and was disgusted by the two times he had to do so during his time in Stormwatch, while the latter was highly spiritual and preferred to avoid violent solutions whenever there was any other option. This... didn't last that long, mainly due to It Gets Easier and different writers.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1c74e774	type	Hillbilly Incest
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1c74e774	comment	Hillbilly Incest: The monstrous Three-Willy Seth is supposedly the product of a bunch of hillbillies gang-raping their sister.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1cd602ef	type	Calling Card
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1cd602ef	comment	Calling Card: Kaizen Gamorra in the original storyline, symbolically drawing his family's symbol (a circle with three knots) on the Earth, with Moscow, London, and Los Angeles as the knots.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Makes no mistake: the Authority will treat their enemies as bad or worse than those same enemies do other people. Midnighter slammed the Carrier into Kaizen Gamorra, and the Authority's response to the Blue's invasion of their Earth is to go to the Earth the Blue took over and destroy its London and Italy. One infamous incident had implied Apollo was raped by a Captain America expy. After Apollo crippled him, his lover Midnighter, walked up to the man holding a jackhammer, implying he intended to use it to return the favor.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1dfd19f9	comment	He is especially brutal to those who harm children, and given Midnighter's brutality on normal criminals, that's saying something.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1eb49c19	type	Stripperiffic
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1eb49c19	comment	Stripperiffic: The Engineer's aforementioned skintight nanosuit is very skintight.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1fc325dd	type	Do Not Adjust Your Set
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1fc325dd	comment	In one arc, the Authority discovers that some experiments the government did caused a dimensional distortion and the end of the world is one week away... and what they do is broadcast a world-wide message in which they threaten to hurt or kill any superheroes that try to fix this and order the governments to do so, because this is their shit they need to clean up. We never find out how they did it, but the fact is that they did.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_200c8312	type	Alternate Company Equivalent
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_200c8312	comment	Alternate Company Equivalent: The Elite in the Superman story What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way? were essentially a stand-in for The Authority created by Wildstorm's parent company DC, their debut story having the purpose of spelling out how Superman's methods of heroics were far superior and the Authority were ultimately no better than their opponents.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_21718ffc	type	Deep South
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_21718ffc	comment	Seth being a laundry list of every negative rural stereotype you can think of evidently includes being homophobic and racist, as he mocks Apollo and Midnighter for being gay and, when talking down to Jack Hawksmoor, belittles the Authority's methods of superheroics while stereotyping black people as "purse-snatchers" and referring to them using the N-word.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The team runs into these every now and then, like Sliding Albion, where humans and aliens have lived peacefully since the 16th Century, but went on so many world wars that most civilizations are destroyed, the world is literally poisoned, both races are slowly dying, China has been turned into a giant rape camp, and all is ruled by a mad dictator and mass murderer. Or the alternate Earth where a maniac called Adolf X had exterminated all non-black people on the planet and created a fascist dictatorship. Or the Earth where life is controlled by an Eldritch Abomination that feeds on our life energy, its whole presence causes general misery to some people and occasionally makes them commit suicide or other horrible acts. Other than that, it's a world exactly like ours.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Jenny Sparks.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fangirl: Angie was a big superhero fan before becoming one herself.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_257a52ac	type	Trapped on the Astral Plane
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_257a52ac	comment	Trapped on the Astral Plane: One arc had a supervillain's organization kidnap baby Jenny, them and their base overlapping with New York while being invisible and intangible explained away as existing at different vibrational frequencies.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_2588feac	type	Winged Humanoid
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_2588feac	comment	Winged Humanoid: Swift
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_2847a9f9	type	Mother Nature, Father Science
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_2847a9f9	comment	Mother Nature, Father Science: Inverted. The Doctor is in tune with the whole universe and deeply tied to nature, and is Always Male; Jenny, reborn to every age of mankind, embodies that age's dominating technological advancement, and is Always Female.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_2a07adf3	type	Use Their Own Weapon Against Them
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_2a07adf3	comment	Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: Issue #0 of the second volume has the Authority fighting an invasion from Viceworld, a a world-sized casino and pleasure complex catering to people across the multiverse, whose owner, Madorra Chance, is trying to make money off people betting on whether or not the Authority can win. Madorra sends a bomb capable of destroying an entire continent at the Authority but they use their portal technology to send it back to her, blowing up a section of Viceworld.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_2b3e7d3e	type	Sketchy Successor
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_2b3e7d3e	comment	Sketchy Successor: Jack Hawksmoor is not Jenny Sparks. Sparks was, for all her faults, honestly trying to make a better world; under her leadership, the team were a bunch of ruthless bastards but could still look in the mirror at the end of the day and call themselves heroes. Hawksmoor is the biggest Jerkass on the team, and with him in charge, they were barely any better than their enemies, with no concern whatsoever for collateral damage or civilian lives.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: The later Kevin stories don't feature the Authority in the slightest despite being in the title.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_2de7bbf1	type	Nominal Hero
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_2de7bbf1	comment	Nominal Hero: The team started out as extremely violent against potential world-ending threats, and was perfectly willing to kill thousands of invading superhuman terrorists, or cause extreme collateral damage and loss of innocent lives in doing so. However, this is no different from the actions of regular soldiers, and could initially have been argued as type III, as they were extremely benevolent in other respects: such as helping to clear up the disaster zones after any conflict; feeding and hosting millions of war refugees, or victims of other disasters; protecting them from militias; freeing them from tyrannies through much less human casualties than a standard military could manage (through outgunning scare tactics); reforming supergenius criminals to help their research for cures to various diseases or life-improving technologies; and overall genuinely making the world a better place. However, later writers who didn't like the themes arguably severely flanderised and tried to twist around the more idealistic notes that Ellis introduced, so among other things the team was tricked into "overthrowing the government of the US, and briefly taking over". However, the actions of the team during their takeover of the United States definitely lean towards the Nominal Hero sobriquet of their team, especially since Jack Hawksmoor had ordered two buildings to morph in order to help an injured Swift while blatantly saying he didn't care that the civilians inside the buildings would most likely be killed.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_2f94135c	comment	Thou Shalt Not Kill: Averted with extreme prejudice.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The current state of the Wildstorm universe.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_33c99c49	type	Might Makes Right
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_33c99c49	comment	Might Makes Right: The Authority, at their worst, believes being the most powerful superhuman team on Earth allows them to do whatever they please whenever they wish. Especially when they have Jenny Sparks and the Doctor on their roster.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_34082c59	type	Wolverine Publicity
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_34082c59	comment	Wolverine Publicity Plot Tumor: There was a two-page joke scene of Swift sleeping with GenÂ¹Â³'s Grunge in "The Nativity". Later, Adam Warren escalated it into an ongoing affair, mostly because of the effect of the reveal on Grunge's Woobie girlfriend.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3441859b	comment	Rank Scales with Asskicking: When the Authority takes control of the United States of America, they still continue their normal crime-fighting while running the country.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3496b29a	type	Heart Is an Awesome Power
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3496b29a	comment	Heart Is an Awesome Power: Swift can, uh, fly! And grow claws! But these powers are actually very effective since she is fast and strong enough to tear apart jet fighters from other dimensions and Speedsters. Especially true in the post Number of the Beast setting: Swift is now one of two Authority members (the other being Midnighter) whose powers still function reliably. Jenny Quarx and the Doctor are missing or presumed dead. Consequently, she's now tied for the position of most effective member of the group.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_362461f6	comment	During the G7 Authority arc, Swift and the Engineer both get brainwashed and handed over to men they would normally loathe as a Sex Slave and an abused wive, respectively. It happens off-screen, but both of them were clearly stated to have been used for sex without their consent many times. Needless to say, Swift is very, very angry once her brainwashing breaks down, and the first thing she does after killing her abuser is freeing the Engineer from hers. Also, Apollo was almost raped again during this storyline, this time by his bi-curious replacement Teuton who'd been using him as a punching bag for weeks. Thankfully, Midnighter arrived just in time to put a construction bolt through the bastard's brain.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3787fba	type	Extradimensional Power Source
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3787fba	comment	Extradimensional Power Source: The Authority's ship is powered by a baby universe.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_38ad0e6a	type	BreakingSpeech
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_38ad0e6a	comment	Breaking Speech: The Midnighter delivers a devastating one to a Iron Man analogue. It proves so effective that the Iron Man wannabe simply takes off his helmet, hands it to the Midnighter... and calmly walks away never to be seen or referenced ever again (although he sends Midnighter a thank you letter at the end of the storyline).
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3b16449	type	Plot Tumor
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3b16449	comment	Plot Tumor: There was a two-page joke scene of Swift sleeping with GenÂ¹Â³'s Grunge in "The Nativity". Later, Adam Warren escalated it into an ongoing affair, mostly because of the effect of the reveal on Grunge's Woobie girlfriend.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: The Sliding Albion is built on this trope. It fields military aircraft armed with laser weaponry next to traditional (horse-riding) cavalry armed with sabres. And the aircraft themselves, although futuristic on the outside, look somewhat obsolete inside, featuring simple gauges instead of modern computers and outdated flight suits that are apparently still made of animal hide. Also, their society has a visible Victorian Era England vibe.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: When the Authority is replaced with new corporate versions of themselves the groups new team leader The Colonel fits this trope perfectly. In sharp contrast to his predecessor Jenny Sparks, The Colonel is very open about his disdain for his fellow teammates. And has no problem with dumping the corpse of his teammate Street out of The Carrier ship as if he was a piece of used up trash. But he saves the brunt of his mistreatment for poor Rush. Who he both physically and verbally abuses whenever she so much as questions his judgment.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: In Captain Atom: Armageddon, the team goes up against a guy who can swat them down like flies, and does so.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3dfa74a8	type	Corrupted Contingency
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_3dfa74a8	comment	Corrupted Contingency: The G7 cabal who gave Seth his powers also made sure to install a Trigger Phrasenote Welcome to the Oval Office, President Gore that would shut down his powers in the event they needed to remove Seth from play. The Authority learn of this phrase and Jenny Quantum speaks it to De-power him, removing the cabal's most dangerous weapon. The Children of Gamorra have a fortress built to withstand a superhuman assault. The Authority lock them inside it and then destroy it with the Children of Gamorra still inside it.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_40e8f166	type	Night and Day Duo
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_40e8f166	comment	Night and Day Duo: Apollo and Midnighter, a married couple. Apollo is a Superman Substitute whose Flying Brick/energy manipulation powers are fueled by solar energy, while Midnighter is an Awesome by Analysis cybernetic cowled vigilante.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_41186a50	type	Leg Cling
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_41186a50	comment	Leg Cling: Kev receives one from Midnighter and his evil boss on one of the Kev covers. He does not look in the slightest bit pleased.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: At the end of the Revolution arc, the Big Bad is bragging that his control over the world has made it a better place. The Midnighter responds by tearing off his head, ripping out his spine in the process, in a manner that would make Mortal Kombat envious, with the words:
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: During Kaizen Gamorra's all out assault on Los Angeles we get this exchange between the Doctor and and Midnighter
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: Jenny is rescued from execution by Nazis and deported safely back to England with Swift's egg by Adolf Hitler, because she was the one who told him his art was crap and he should think of getting into politics.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: The Authority rationalizes that their harsh methods are necessary to make the world a better place.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_47fea76b	comment	For all his Butt-Monkey status is played for laughs, Kev Hawkins is one of these. No, he doesnt stand a ghost's piss of a chance against superpowered opponents in a straight fight, but he's still a trained Special Forces agent who uses Combat Pragmatist tactics for all they're worth.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4a4cd4d8	type	Splash Panel
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4a4cd4d8	comment	Splash Panel: The series was famous for this, especially during Bryan Hitch's stint as artist.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4aa24ad9	type	I Have a Family
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4aa24ad9	comment	I Have a Family: One super powered mook tried using this on the Midnighter. Emphasis on tried. What's the Midnighter's respond? He slices the man's head off with a staff, and quips: "They're better off without you!"
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4c798fd5	comment	Shock and Awe: Jenny Sparks' electricity based powers. Which also plays into her being the "spirit of the twentieth century" and all that.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4d97e2b9	type	Urine Trouble
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4d97e2b9	comment	Urine Trouble: The eighth issue of the 2007 Midnighter series ends with Midnighter adopting a cyborg dog as his pet. Said dog then pees on Jack Hawksmoor's feet.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4e6e9b64	type	A Child Shall Lead Them
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4e6e9b64	comment	A Child Shall Lead Them: Jenny Quantum. She looks about 14, really about 8. Either way, she does her name proud.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4f362a27	type	Implied Rape
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4f362a27	comment	Implied Rape: The Commander's rape of the nurses of the hospital where Jenny Quantum was born and Apollo was handled like this. The former with Hornet questioning "He's not really gonna do them, is he?" and Tank Man confirming it and the latter with his standing over Apollo and adjusting his belt afterward. It should also be noted that the former case is the result of DC's interference as the original dialogue for the scene does have Hornet outright ask Tank Man if Commander was going to rape themnote the latter bit was also changed, but the only difference was the Commander's belt buckle was still undone.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4f4dd4b8	type	Tastes Like Disdain
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_4f4dd4b8	comment	Tastes Like Disdain: During an arc where Swyft is brainwashed into being a housewife in an abusive marriage, we see her "husband" put out his cigarette in the food she just brought him.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_501411f1	type	Experimented in College
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_501411f1	comment	Experimented in College: The Engineer. In the "Green Inferno" arc, the renegade (and bluntly homophobic) ex-Doctor disdainfully challenges the team with the phrase "Poofs first". It's obviously aimed at Apollo and The Midnighter, but Angie steps forward first, with a cool:
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Regis seems to be quite fond of this trope. He murders Windsor, the king of Albion (appointed by Regis himself) by crushing his skull - just because he verbally disrespected him.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Mark Millar's first arc had Midnighter admit out-loud that he was a racist after getting tired of dealing with some refugees the team had taken on. To be fair though, they had been sharing the Carrier with thousands of dirt-poor refugees for quite some time at that point, and the statement read more like Midnighter wanted them gone because the overpopulation stress caused him to have thoughts about these people that he wasn't proud of, making him realize his subconscious racism. He wasn't casually flinging racist slurs around or anything like that.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: All cities, as long as Jack's there to talk to them.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_5db7301f	type	Prophetic Names
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_5db7301f	comment	Prophetic Names: Jenny Sparks, Jenny Quantum.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_5ed3ace2	type	Batman Can Breathe in Space
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_5ed3ace2	comment	Batman Can Breathe in Space: The Engineer, post-Ellis, as she needed to use her nanotech to create a helmet and breathing apparatus during his run. Quite possibly Midnighter himself, as he claims to be able to survive in anaerobic environments. Midnighter is shown using a rebreather to meet up with Apollo when he has to live over the cloud that blocks the sun in later issues. He did say he could briefly survive in such, so maybe it doesn't work for long term exposure. Averted in the most badass way possible when Apollo is asked how he too can breathe in space:
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_6377d6e6	type	Grievous Harm with a Body
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_6377d6e6	comment	Grievous Harm with a Body: This quote from Jack says is all that needs to be said.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Averted rather sharply; unlike his inspiration, Midnighter is most definitely not a normal, but a cyborg Super-Soldier with a computerized brain and superhuman physical abilities. For all his Butt-Monkey status is played for laughs, Kev Hawkins is one of these. No, he doesnt stand a ghost's piss of a chance against superpowered opponents in a straight fight, but he's still a trained Special Forces agent who uses Combat Pragmatist tactics for all they're worth.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_64fd1e63	type	Other Me Annoys Me
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_64fd1e63	comment	Other Me Annoys Me: Alternate universe Authority versions.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_65262dae	type	Goo-Goo-Godlike
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_65262dae	comment	Goo-Goo-Godlike: Jenny Quantum's reality-bending powers manifest when she's about three days old, and she immediately starts using them to help the Authority.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_666648a3	type	Hostile Terraforming
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_666648a3	comment	Hostile Terraforming: The Authority battles God ("The Outer Dark" issues 9-12). Earth's creator is a moon-sized alien being that created the planet as a retirement home. Since Earth's creation, changes to its orbit and ecosystem led to the rise of life as we know it, instead of somewhere its creator would be comfortable. God immediately sets about "fixing" that.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: During Mark Millar's run, Jack Hawksmoor was pretty much transformed into Millar's political mouthpiece. And he wasn't subtle about it either.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_6895a65c	type	Paid-for Family
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_6895a65c	comment	Paid-for Family: In a decidedly creepy variation, in one story that has The Authority replaced by Heroic Sociopath Captain Ersatz-es, the Engineer has all her nanomachines removed and is brainwashed, then placed in a "family" of evil children and an abusive husband (all actors), that she will be conditioned to never leave or go against despite the abuse they heap on her.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_68f6e811	type	Made of Plasticine
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_68f6e811	comment	Made of Plasticine: Most anyone Midnighter gets his hands on. In one case he rips a guy's skull and spine right out. Actually seems to be even more pronounced with Jack Hawksmoor, at least in the earlier series when it was a more ensemble book, not so much Midnighter and Friends. Midnighter, brutal as he is, does use finesse; Jack just wails away with his superstrength. He kicks guys' spines out on several occasions.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Despite being a depraved rapist and an overall unpleasant individual, The Commander was valid in stating how absurd it is for the Authority, a group made up of seriously flawed and damaged individuals, to think they would have the right to tell the rest of the world how to live their lives under the guise of building a "better world".
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_6beacd8c	type	Badass and Baby
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_6beacd8c	comment	Badass and Baby: Midnighter and baby Jenny Quantum.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_6d871385	type	Villainous BSoD
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_6d871385	comment	Villainous BSoD: The Earth Inferno arc, sees our heroes forced to give the previous Doctor (a mass murderer) his powers back for an hour, during which he one-handedly thrashes the team. The current Doctor is berated because the old Doctor can alter time to make his one hour infinite, but as it turns out each Doctor is the sum of all previous ones, which causes the old Doctor to gain the new one's conscience. Realizing the horror he's done, he begs for forgiveness. Only to be denied and executed on the spot.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_70920da1	type	Rule of Escalating Threat
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_70920da1	comment	Rule of Escalating Threat: First, they went up against a terrorist organization with the numbers and power to attack three major cities in the course of a few days. Then, they took on an enemy that had conquered an alternate reality Earth and turned an entire country into a rape camp. Then they took on God. Then...
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_7175cb16	type	Clark Kenting
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_7175cb16	comment	Clark Kenting: Alluded to/averted.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Seth being a laundry list of every negative rural stereotype you can think of evidently includes being homophobic and racist, as he mocks Apollo and Midnighter for being gay and, when talking down to Jack Hawksmoor, belittles the Authority's methods of superheroics while stereotyping black people as "purse-snatchers" and referring to them using the N-word. The G7 version of The Authority gives us The Colonel. A repugnant, misogynistic, xenophobic asshole and damn proud of it. He even attempts to rape his teammate Rush when she makes it clear she's not attracted to men. And then there's Last Call, a reactionary homophobe who takes sadistic glee in beating the crap out of Apollo and taunting him over the unlikelihood that Apollo's boyfriend Midnighter survived Seth's attack. If somebody says anything even remotely homophobic in the Midnighter's comic book series, they're evil. Period. Sole exception is Kev, who in the end admits to himself he repeats homophobic slurs, because he got his idea how tough guys should act from TV and movies. The Renegade Doctor is racist (he downplays his massacre of 12 million people by dismissing that most of his victims were "Sambos"), homophobic (he calls Midnighter and Apollo "poofs" and "queens") and misogynist (he uses his powers to go back in time and molest the Engineer when she was a teenager, then returns with a Post-Rape Taunt). The Corrupted Character Copy of Nick Fury from Millar's first arc proudly boasted about his racism and xenophobia while he attacked Paris, gloating that he considered French people to be even less human than Mexicans, Asians and black people. In the "Godhead" arc of Robbie Morrison's run, the villain is John Clay, founder of a religious movement called the Church of Transcendence. His plan involves wiping out proponents of other religions and attempting to cure Midnighter and Apollo of their homosexuality. The Authority: Revolution begins with the Authority clashing with the Sons of Liberty, a group of nationalistic reactionaries whose member Johnny Rocketman even insults the Chinese Swift using racial slurs. They turn out to be pawns of Henry Bendix, whose minion Samson has a fight with Apollo where he addresses him using a certain homophobic slur rhyming with "maggot".
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: The Midnighter starts every battle by first running the whole thing through the supercomputer in his head a million times, analyzing every possible outcome, so he'll know precisely how the battle will go, and what he'll have to do. He's particularly fond of telling people that he's already beaten them a million times, so doing it once more will be simple. He even puts this on a business card once in an effort to save time, This failed, as the card ended up getting punched into his forehead. Ouch. This was rather effectively inverted in Captain Atom: Armageddon. The Midnighter saw Captain Atom as just another target for a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Instead, Captain Atom treated the Midnighter to a total Curb-Stomp Battle, showing that sometimes Awesome by Analysis is no match for raw, unadulterated, world-shaking power. Also fails when a supervillain summons the Joker of all people. The Joker despite being human, is so psychotic and unpredictable that the only thing Midnighter can do is stand there... staring at him.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Swift, the sole non-white member in the team. Relentlessly mocked and lampshaded in Garth Ennis' run.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: Kids love Midnighter, probably because they can spot a badass a mile away. For his part, Midnighter's pretty fond of kids, especially Jenny Quantum. He is especially brutal to those who harm children, and given Midnighter's brutality on normal criminals, that's saying something. He also refuses to harm children, to the point of refusing to go back in time and kill Hitler while he was in his infancy. This was after his severe reluctance to kill the infant Jenny Fractal, no matter how necessary it was, so it may be the reason he's unwilling to cross that line again just to save his own life.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: When the cabal of wealthy private citizens that secretly run the world decide that they have finally had enough of the Authority and their attempts to change the status quo they send Seth, their Super Super-Soldier, to take the team down. Seth easily defeats and disables every one of the Authority without even smallest amount of difficulty, firing, consuming and blowing them all to pieces... and then he hands them over to his superiors who do not kill the Authority, but instead decide to imprison and torture them for months instead of just executing them. Swift in particular is kept as a Sex Slave and servant to one of the Cabal without any sort of security or monitoring after being conditioned, so once she hears enough to learn how to defeat Seth she just kills the entire cabal and gets the rest of the team together.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_78fdd115	type	Witless Protection Program
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_78fdd115	comment	Witless Protection Program: Kev Hawkins' address is supposed to be a secret due to his history with the SAS, but he keeps getting found by the various Irish terrorist groups who want him dead. It's later revealed that his handler, Froggett, deliberately leaks his location to his enemies in the hopes that they'll kill him and thus Froggett will finally be rid of Kev once and for all.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_7b5f3541	type	Hero's Evil Predecessor
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_7b5f3541	comment	Hero's Evil Predecessor: One of Doctor Jeroen Thornedike's predecessors, known only as the Renegade Doctor, was an Omnicidal Maniac. After Jeroen suffered a heroin overdose during a crisis, the Authority was forced to restore his predecessor's powers in order to fix the crisis. Luckily for them, in the intervening years, the Garden of Ancestral Memory had added "empathy with all living things" to the list of powers that came with the job, which overwhelmed the Renegade Doctor, distracting him long enough for the Authority to finally kill him.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_7c8981df	type	Portal Door
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_7c8981df	comment	Portal Door: How the Authority come and go.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_7d10c8a5	type	Skip the Anesthetic
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_7d10c8a5	comment	Skip the Anesthetic: The Midnighter goes through surgery in one issue, and remains awake the whole time.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the above-mentioned Intercontinuity Crossover. Nice job blowing up the universe and causing the cosmic reboot, The Authority. Also Jenny Sparks in her mini solo series. Apparently during her brief time in Austria she felt sympathetic for a young artist trying to sell self-made postcards to passers-by. She decided to tell the poor lad he had absolutely no talent for art and should just stop trying. She thought he DID have a talent for rhetoric and therefore advised him to try politics. The said artist's name? Yeah.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_80d58c37	type	Hayseed Name
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_80d58c37	comment	Hayseed Name: Seth Angus Billy Cletus Bubba Jamie Clement Cowie is unsurprisingly a hillbilly.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8159411a	type	Extreme Omnisexual
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8159411a	comment	Extreme Omnisexual: Swift. She once mentioned to a dumbfounded parallel version of herself that she will have sex with anyone she wants to. She even hits on her during their fight to emphasize that point.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: The Midnighter loves delivering these. Unfortunately, this gets flipped around later on, when Warrior King Regis delivers one of these to the Midnighter while simultaneously kicking his ass. Jenny Quantum takes after her adoptive dad in this regard, telling Captain Atom who she is, pointing out that Quantum Physics replaced Nuclear Physics. Atom is mostly just bemused, and when she does go for him, she gets vaporised, by accident.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: While the Authority tend to be violent and brutal, a lot of its villains are arguably orders of magnitude worse. Memorable examples include Kaizen Gamorra, who killed millions for fun, or Regis, who headed an empire on an alternate Earth that turned all of China into a rape camp. It doesn't help that the leaders of the countries the Authority fight to protect have the habit of being revealed as morally bankrupt or outright stupid. Like when they created the G7 Authority and subjected the originals to horrific treatments. Or the US government who were easily manipulated into making a botched attempt to enter the Bleed, despite being warned this was a really bad idea, to try and exploit other worlds and killing the entire state of Florida.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8a9ecd0b	type	Bloody Murder
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8a9ecd0b	comment	Bloody Murder: The Engineer can use the nanites in her blood to make just about anything.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63	type	Reed Richards Is Useless
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63	comment	Reed Richards Is Useless: Lampshaded and averted. The Engineer, in particular, spends a lot of time making multiple copies of herself and spreading them around the world so she can simultaneously build wind farms, address the UN, research cures for diseases, etc., and Habib's first act upon becoming the Doctor was to create peace in the Middle East.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8cb259f4	type	Overshadowed by Awesome
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8cb259f4	comment	Overshadowed by Awesome: Swift is frequently this compared to her teammates, despite having powers roughly equivalent to Hawkgirl, who frequently holds her own amongst the rest of the JLA.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8e04eca1	type	Proportionately Ponderous Parasites
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8e04eca1	comment	Proportionately Ponderous Parasites: Inside the god-like pyramid creature... which has developed into a full civilization!
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8e3f39b3	type	Parody Episode
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8e3f39b3	comment	Parody Episode: The eighth issue of "The Lost Year", where the Authority visit an Alternate Universe which is essentially a Fusion Fic with Justice League International. Alternate Swift is The Ingenue as a pastiche of "Captain Whitebread-excuse us-Marvel", while that universe's Apollo and Midnighter are Have-We-Mentioned-We-Are-Heterosexual-Today Life Partners who always have a half-baked Get-Rich-Quick Scheme in mind (although they're still preparing to adopt Jenny Quantum together).
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: When the Authority is replaced with a new corporate sponsored team that consists of seven representatives from the worlds seven richest nations. The Canadian representative Rush falls neatly into this trope. Unlike the rest of her teammates who are depicted as sadistic, power hungry, amoral assholes. She is the only one who is shown to have any sense of morality and decency.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8fac4a3a	type	Superpower Lottery
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_8fac4a3a	comment	Superpower Lottery: Jenny Quantum and The Doctor. Although best embodied by the villain Three-Willy Seth: a government conspiracy spent billions of dollars cramming every enhancement they could come up with into him. He has powers numbering in the quadruple digits. Some of them are hard to even conceive of—his mention of "nuclear poop vision" was probably a joke, but he did use something to blast Jack Hawksmoor through a wall in the very next panel. 1,204 powers, to be exact, although he exaggerates that to 2,012.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_922ec657	type	Corrupted Character Copy
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_922ec657	comment	The Commander, a Corrupted Character Copy of Captain America does this to a couple of nurses during a mission to find the infant Jenny Quantum and then Apollo after Thor expy Storm-God knocked him down and drains some of his solar charge via a lightning strike. This results in Midnighter being pissed and the aforementioned Oh, Crap! example and it's implied that Midnighter's going to return the favor and use the jackhammer to rape Commander back.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_9398f2b0	type	Get Back in the Closet
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_9398f2b0	comment	Get Back in the Closet: In a textbook example of this trope, a panel depicting Apollo and Midnighter kissing was censored, while apparently Apollo getting raped by another man is just fine, as long as it's not pictured.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_953c92eb	type	Beware the Superman
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_953c92eb	comment	Beware the Superman: Between Knight Templarish, brutally violent superheroes and supervillains that kill millions For the Evulz, Muggles of Wildstorm universe live their lives in constant fear. You know it is bad, when the first reflexive reaction of the people upon seeing a previously-unknown super is to beg for mercy.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_970c790a	comment	Unfortunately, this gets flipped around later on, when Warrior King Regis delivers one of these to the Midnighter while simultaneously kicking his ass.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: When the Midnighter goes after the new G7 Authority his first victim is the team's only black member Street.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: Kev in his last story arc. He is blackmailed into leaving the UK for good with an old pornographic movie he once filmed in his youth with a now-famous German porn star, and his last two surviving buddies and teammates Bob and Danny are both killed. On the other hand, he manages to avenge their deaths and begins a new life in the States growing cannabis and caring for Danny's tiger with his new girlfriend.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_9979c2eb	type	Rings of Activation
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_9979c2eb	comment	Rings of Activation: While searching for survivors in the third issue of the original series, The Doctor casts a spell to move some rubble out of the way. When this happens a ring of mystical symbols materializes around his arms.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: Emphasizing the "Sociopathic" more as time went on, see the Designated Hero entry above. ...but the emphasis on the "Sociopath" has always been true about the Midnighter. He's a killer all the way through, and he never pretends to be anything else. In his own series, he crosses the Horizon with a particularly cringe-worthy torture session, showing himself to be a villain who happens to fight villains.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: After their defeat at the hands of Seth, the Authority was replaced by corporate versions of each member: The Colonel, a violent, misogynistic British ex-footballer with electrical powers. (Jenny Sparks) Street, an African-American gangster with golems formed from pavement (Jack Hawksmoor) Rush, an inoffensive Canadian woman with wings (Swift) Teuton, a bi-curious and overly emotional solar-powered German heavy (Apollo) Last Call, a sadistic and homophobic Italian brawler (Midnighter) The Surgeon, an amoral French alchemist, given control over the Doctor's powers Machine, a callous Japanese woman using the Engineer's stolen blood
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_9ce377f1	type	Cure Your Gays
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_9ce377f1	comment	In the "Godhead" arc of Robbie Morrison's run, the villain is John Clay, founder of a religious movement called the Church of Transcendence. His plan involves wiping out proponents of other religions and attempting to cure Midnighter and Apollo of their homosexuality.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_a1c5e0cc	type	Trigger Phrase
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_a1c5e0cc	comment	The G7 cabal who gave Seth his powers also made sure to install a Trigger Phrasenote Welcome to the Oval Office, President Gore that would shut down his powers in the event they needed to remove Seth from play. The Authority learn of this phrase and Jenny Quantum speaks it to De-power him, removing the cabal's most dangerous weapon.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_a2b998a0	comment	He also refuses to harm children, to the point of refusing to go back in time and kill Hitler while he was in his infancy. This was after his severe reluctance to kill the infant Jenny Fractal, no matter how necessary it was, so it may be the reason he's unwilling to cross that line again just to save his own life.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: Issues 23-26 of the original run (a Filler arc which starred the replacement Authority created after Seth dispatched the originals) were never referenced again, removed from collected volumes and featured very contradictory characterization.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_a505fdd7	type	Jobber
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_a505fdd7	comment	Jobber: There was a period where the Authority didn't have their own ongoing series, yet were still supposed to be the most powerful superhero team of their Earth. This led to the team only being used so that they could be jerks to the protagonists of other series, then swatted down to show off how cool those other heroes were. Examples include Stormwatch: Team Achilles, and Gail Simone's GenÂ¹Â³ (where they substitute "realize what jerks they're being" for "swatted down"). Notably not the case in Captain Atom: Armageddon, where they were portrayed as the badasses they are... it's just they were up against a bigger Badass than they were.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: This seems to be the only reason why modern jet fighters are losing the battle against the fleet of Sliding Albion. Despite their futuristic outlook and ability to fire laser tic-tacs, the latter ones are visibly inferior to former ones in every way, courtesy of Schizo Tech. They have crude avionics that still rely solely on gauges, no computerized interface nor guidance systems, primitive flight suits akin to those used in first half of twentieth century (which would greatly limit the pilot's ability to withstand the pressure caused by acceleration force - and thus, hinder the speed and maneuverability of the aircraft itself) and can fire their weapons only in line of sight like WW2 fighters. Modern jets, that can take out a target from beyond visual range and whose pilots are greatly assisted by sophisticated computer systems, should make short work on such machines. Instead, they fight the Sliding Albion craft at suicidally close quarters, basically setting themselves up to be shot down and apparently make zero use of guidance systems, firing their missiles completely blindly. Suffice to say, this is absolutely not how modern fighters would operate. What makes the above more egregious is that this scene could be a refreshing change where modern, real-world military is capable of fighting supernatural threat at least to a degree. Instead, they are deliberately made incompetent, just so the Authority could pull off their Big Damn Heroes moment as usual, and show once again how the world is totally helpless without them and reliant on their protection.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_a7a59f31	type	Doppelganger Link
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_a7a59f31	comment	Doppelganger Link: The Engineer has a mental link to the duplicates of herself she creates using her Nanomachines. She can create up to 82 duplicates, but going further will cause her personality to dissociate. The Engineer can also limit the mental connection between herself and her clones through concentration as seen by when she stopped herself and her other clones from experiencing an orgasm one clone had during sex with Jack.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_a9667a3b	type	Hero Insurance
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_a9667a3b	comment	Hero Insurance: The Authority are one of the few superhero teams who acknowledge that the massive collateral damage from their battles can and probably has caused civilian casualties. The general understanding is that it's an unfortunate but necessary evil, since allowing their enemies to rampage unchecked would cause even more death and destruction. It's also worth noting that they try to limit the damage when possible, such as evacuating civilians and fencing in the combat zone, and are frequently on hand afterwards to help with the emergency services dealing with the aftermath.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_ab2ffd70	type	Foreign Ruling Class
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_ab2ffd70	comment	Foreign Ruling Class: Sliding Albion is part of an alternate reality in which an alien race called the Blue conquered Italy prior to its formal unification, intermarried with the various ruling families, and then used the resulting mix of political, military, and technological might to take over the rest of the world. Consequently, Albion has a twofold foreign ruling class, as they are taking orders from Italians who are in turn taking orders from the Blue.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Don't cross Midnighter (or worse, hurt Apollo), or you will wear this expression. For either two seconds or until your face rots off. A prime example is when Apollo is subdued and then raped by a member of a government-sponsored superteam given the directive to neutralize The Authority. In a later confrontation this same super is paralyzed from the waist down by Apollo and the last we see of him is a look of horror on his face as The Midnighter stands over him with an evil grin, holding a rusty, but operational jackhammer. Make whichever Dr. Horrible references you deem appropriate. And many more, such as Kaizen Gamorra watching as the Midnighter pilots the Carrier on a collision course with his skyscraper fortress in the first arc. This was the look on Midnighter's face, right before Captain Atom tosses an unconscious Apollo at him in Captain Atom: Armageddon.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_b1b5081b	type	Sapient Ship
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_b1b5081b	comment	Sapient Ship: The Carrier a spaceship that, while being made of metal, is fully sapient. However, it has only once spoken directly to anyone (and then it was only to tell hapless assassin Kev Hawkins what a prick he is).
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_b2b2093c	type	Rape and Revenge
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_b2b2093c	comment	Rape and Revenge: As mentioned below, the Commander raped Apollo. The last we see of him, it's implied that Midnighter intends to return the favor—with a jackhammer. Likewise, Midnighter saved Apollo when Teuton tried to do it himself. Arguably the deaths of the Rengades Doctor and G7 Authority fall into this, given the former went back in time to sexually assault the Engineer during their fight and the latter, in addition to Teuton's actions, were party to Engineer and Swift being brainwashed into sex slaves.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_b2c15631	type	"No More Holding Back" Speech
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_b2c15631	comment	"No More Holding Back" Speech: When under the writing of Warren Ellis the series featured quite a few memorable examples of these. Later on during Warren Ellis' final arc on the series Jenny Sparks delivers one to god himself
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: As a century baby, Jenny Sparks knew that she would die along with century on the stroke on the last moment of December 31st 1999 along with the 20th century, to be reincarnated as Jenny Quantum, spirit of the 21st century.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: Rush from the G7 Authority. She only accepted the job and the surgery to give her wings because her father pressured her into it. Then within the team she is bullied, and verbally abused by the Colonel. Yet, she is the one member of the team who actually tries to do good and improve other people's lives. Alas, it does not save her from being nailed to a wall by Midnighter. She may even qualify as The Woobie of the team.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Mark Millar's first arc took this to a ridiculous extreme by fighting (and utterly destroying) satirical versions of the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the X-Men and the main villain being Jack Kirby; he's specifically described as "the guy who would've created all your favorite comic books" if he hadn't been hired by the US government. The series as a whole has a lot of Author Appeal, and they're not subtle about it either. The authors explained this was a deliberate poke at traditional superheroes who they felt embodied and maintained the status quo. He even takes shots at Charles Atlas bodybuilding ads. Also; Speaking of Clinton, Millar hated him, and so his run on the series and the Jenny Sparks mini-series had several jabs against him. One of the issues of the mini-series even goes so far as to implicitly compare Clinton to Adolf Hitler. At one point, Midnighter gives us his personal opinion on Friends:
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_b78a50ef	type	Civilians Are Irrelevant
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_b78a50ef	comment	Civilians Are Irrelevant: The book goes both ways about this, both times applying hefty amounts of violence to achieve results: The Authority likes to play world police and get rid of threats, and they give absolutely no shits about what the governments have to say (as the page image shows, one time some random passerby tries to ask Midnighter what is going on and the very next panel we see he's been knocked out and his arm broken because Midnighter really Hates Being Touched). In one arc, the Authority discovers that some experiments the government did caused a dimensional distortion and the end of the world is one week away... and what they do is broadcast a world-wide message in which they threaten to hurt or kill any superheroes that try to fix this and order the governments to do so, because this is their shit they need to clean up. We never find out how they did it, but the fact is that they did.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: The heroes kill or threaten to kill anyone who opposes them.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: The Midnighter.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_be02bc15	type	Holy Halo
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_be02bc15	comment	Holy Halo: Apollo, whose halo gets dimmer when weak and brighter after a good sunbath.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_bec60099	type	Victory Sex
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_bec60099	comment	Victory Sex: Engineer beds the Doctor after the team manages to defeat his Omnicidal Maniac predecessor, partly to encourage the Doctor to get off of drugs (as his heroin addiction was responsible for his predecessor's resurgence in the first place) and to get back at her boyfriend, who decided to celebrate the victory by cheating on her.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_bf1c906	type	Trophy Wife
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_bf1c906	comment	Trophy Wife: When a group of Corrupt Corporate Executives kidnap and brainwash the Authority, this is the fate of Swift, who is creepily "given" to one of the men behind the scheme. It turns out that keeping one of their victims nearby and alive in this way isn't such a good idea once the brainwashing is inevitably undone.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_bf6907cb	type	Destroyer Deity
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_bf6907cb	comment	Destroyer Deity: Rose Tatoo, the incarnation of murder.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_c09dbbbb	type	Weaksauce Weakness
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_c09dbbbb	comment	Weaksauce Weakness: Jack Hawksmoor becomes catastrophically ill if he spends too long outside a sufficiently large city; one of his powers allows him to travel between cities without assistance. Fortunately, the Carrier is large enough to count as a city; unfortunately, Stormwatch's old satellite base wasn't. Seth's powers can all be disabled by saying a four-word phrase which is never actually used to defeat him; Jenny just rewrites history so he never had his powers.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_c3debc8e	type	V-Sign
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_c3debc8e	comment	V-Sign: The Engineer flashes the palms-inverted version at an enemy's blown up corpse.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_c4240537	comment	In his own series, he crosses the Horizon with a particularly cringe-worthy torture session, showing himself to be a villain who happens to fight villains.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Many "This some kind of green eco thing, isn't it?" No. When Midnighter was turned into an enemy against the rest of the team, he managed to sneak into the Carrier Lab and put on a metallic formfitting suit which he used to beat Apollo to a pulp in a manner reminiscent to Batman fighting Superman in The Dark Knight Returns.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db	type	Legacy Character
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db	comment	Legacy Character: Quite a few. Angie's the second Engineer, a new Doctor is made every time the old one dies, and a different Jenny is born to every age of mankind.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God, the villains of Ellis' three arcs:
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: Most of the major arc opponents are these. They come upon the Authority unprepared and hand them their own asses, then the Authority work out how to deal with them, and return the favour.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_cdc4a218	type	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_cdc4a218	comment	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: The first story arc of Midnighter's 2007 solo series is about him being coerced into going back in time and killing Adolf Hitler.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: A Man Called Kev, the last Kev arc. While it also has humorous elements like in the previous Kev arcs, the story is notably darker and more somber in tone. Also noteworthy is the fact that none of the Authority make an appearance in the arc.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_cffd71bd	type	MostCommonSuperpower
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_cffd71bd	comment	Most Common Superpower: Lampshaded. Swift makes no secret of her "twenty-grand boob job".
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d00e73dc	type	Badass Longcoat
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d00e73dc	comment	Badass Long Coat: Midnighter wears one quite nicely.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d17a0ba4	type	Living Polyhedron
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d17a0ba4	comment	Living Polyhedron: God takes the form of a pyramid large enough to house ecosystems capable of supporting advanced civilizations in its bowels.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: During Revolution, Midnighter rips into Jack and Doctor for letting the power of their new positions get to their heads and believe that they could solve all the problems in the world because they knew best. Which lead to a full-scale revolt which killed numerous civilians.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d3aad64a	type	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d3aad64a	comment	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Jeroen. Every other Doctor as well. In fact, the only Doctor who is explicitly confirmed to have actually been a doctor(he was a heart surgeon) was an Omnicidal Maniac who had the position of The Doctor revoked.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d3f8ad06	type	Close on Title
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d3f8ad06	comment	Close on Title: Each issue of the mini-series The Secret History of the Authority: Jack Hawksmoor.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d59d06c4	type	Breeding Slave
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d59d06c4	comment	Breeding Slave: Regis heads an empire on an alternate Earth that turned all of China into a rape camp in an attempt to produce offspring for his dying race.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d5f31c75	type	Rabble Rouser
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d5f31c75	comment	Rabble Rouser: In one iteration, the team fought against a group of patriotic heroes who were essentially expies of DC's Freedom Fighters. Among these was the Uncle Sam expy Paul Revere, whose powers included the ability to rile up crowds.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d83f3588	type	Depending on the Artist
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d83f3588	comment	Depending on the Artist: In the second volume of The Authority, halfway through there is a different artist, and everyone suddenly looks grittier, wrinkled, and pouty lipped. Jack Hawksmoore and Apollo are particularly victim to this in regards to making them look almost repugnant. Midnighter's hair color seemed to switch with every artist. Eventually a writer just had him say he likes dying his hair.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: The Authority features many of the characters, plot elements, and themes from Ellis' revamp of Stormwatch.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d9f97805	type	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_d9f97805	comment	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: In one of The Authority: Kev miniseries, Kev got attacked by both the PIRA and the Ulsters simultaneously. Of course, since the two factions hate each other far more than they hate him, he simply pointed them out to each other and let them kill each other off.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_db33bc7e	comment	It was explicitly and graphically confirmed that complete dismemberment isn't enough to kill a Doctor, seen when the Renegade Doctor temporarily regained the powers. He'll just pull himself back together like nothing happened, so any frailty that a Doctor shows is entirely their own failing and not a real weakness. This is what originally kept Jeroen from overshadowing the rest of the team. He tended to be either wacked out on heroin or suffering from severe lack of confidence, plus a requirement for his reality shifts to be largely nature-based. Unfortunately later writers got rid of those flaws.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: At least half the team. Jenny Sparks was choosy.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Jenny Sparks was never known for her humility, but her flipping off God crosses the line into this when she says that the Earth is "under new management".
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: The series really loves this trope. The first few panels of the very first issue depicts the Kremlin as well as most of Moscow being blown to kingdom come by an army of superhuman clones. Whom later go on to attack London and blow up Big Ben. All of which happens in the first issue.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3	type	Bad Future
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3	comment	Bad Future: Midnighter was shown a future where The Authority ruled the world in The Authority: Revolution. He ended up becoming a brutal, brain damaged dictator.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e2023325	type	StrawmanPolitical
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: Pretty much any politician who appears in the series will be portrayed as one of these. The more opposed they are to the team the more straw they get. They were very apparent during Mark Millers run, whenever he needed to get a point across. Made especially pretentious when the politician actually does have a logically sound argument yet is dismissed either way. Usually with some sort of lame rebuttal.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e2415f	type	The Cape
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e2415f	comment	The Cape: An analysis at Too Busy Thinking About Comics points out that the heroes of the Authority under Ellis/Hitch, once the violence and counter culture are stripped from them, are closer to the oldest school superheroes, lacking even the sort of conflict introduced by Spider-Man or the Fantastic Four.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e399c1dd	type	Manly Gay
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e399c1dd	comment	Manly Gay: Apollo and Midnighter, especially the latter.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e48b8fb9	type	Best Woman
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e48b8fb9	comment	Best Woman: The Engineer appears to be filling this role for Apollo at his wedding to the Midnighter.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e48b8fb9	featureConfidence	1.0
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Apollo and Midnighter fill roughly the same roles on their team as Superman and Batman, respectively. Word of God, the villains of Ellis' three arcs:
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e5a93e61	type	Homeworld Evacuation
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e5a93e61	comment	Homeworld Evacuation: The Authority do this in one arc, evacuating the planet's entire population so as to cause less collateral damage when fighting a superpowered villain.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e5d2c175	type	HULK MASH!-Up
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e5d2c175	comment	HULK MASH!-Up: A nameless version briefly appears (alongside other Avengers-ripoffs) in one arc, and is dispatched when he latches on to the Engineer by flying high enough in the atmosphere that he suffers Explosive Decompression.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: The team became more and more sociopathic and homicidal as time passed, especially compared to Ellis' version. Usually justified by Jenny Sparks being a Morality Chain for the team. Outright lampshaded during Ed Brubaker's Revolution mini, where it's stated Jenny Sparks would be revolted by what the group has become. The story eventually ends with Jenny Q and the Engineer acknowledging that they're back where they started, which was—in a meta sense—the entire point of the story; To return the Authority to the Ellis days and to give the team a moral and emotional anchor in the form of a Jenny old enough to boss them around again. Subsequent stories naturally ignored this and had the Authority as amoral psychos once more.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e61d9a3c	type	Clothing Damage
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: Apollo. This sort of thing happens to him in every. Single. Fight.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e6f18344	type	Humongous Mecha
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e6f18344	comment	Humongous Mecha: Jack Hawksmoor can turn entire cities into this.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e791e16b	type	Weapons-Grade Vocabulary
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e791e16b	comment	Weapons-Grade Vocabulary: There was an issue where Apollo and Midnighter were trying to stop the deaths caused by a killer word: anyone who heard it would kill themselves, but not before whispering the word to someone else, repeating the process.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: The writer of the day tending to using the comics to ram their beliefs about politics and superhero comics at the reader; particularly obvious during Grant Morrison's run. And also Mark Millar's. And pretty much every other author's run except the original Warren Ellis. And even him, though to a lesser extent.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_eb81c601	comment	What makes the above more egregious is that this scene could be a refreshing change where modern, real-world military is capable of fighting supernatural threat at least to a degree. Instead, they are deliberately made incompetent, just so the Authority could pull off their Big Damn Heroes moment as usual, and show once again how the world is totally helpless without them and reliant on their protection.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_ed46da54	type	Martial Pacifist
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_ed46da54	comment	Martial Pacifist: Swift. She's a self-admitted Buddhist and strictly abhors violence despite using it for the reason that doing so would prevent the occurrence of more violence and death. However, later issues shows that she is a Buddhist in name only as she displays a devil-may-care attitude to killing opponents regardless of threat level and a willingness to have anonymous sex with anyone with comedic consistency.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_f290a8bb	type	Attack Pattern Alpha
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_f290a8bb	comment	Attack Pattern Alpha: When fleet of Sliding Albion attacks Los Angeles, their leader orders them to assume "Waterloo formation". Which, apparently, amounts to "just fly in every direction and blow up anything you see".
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_f914cae5	type	Post-Rape Taunt
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_f914cae5	comment	Post-Rape Taunt: The Commander mocked Apollo and the Authority after raping him. Likewise, the Renegade Doctor, after returning from raping a high school-aged Angela, mocked the Engineer with what he did to her.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_faf383f7	type	Time-Traveling Jerkass
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_faf383f7	comment	Time-Traveling Jerkass: When the Renegade Doctor discovers that his new powers include time travel, he goes back in time and molests the Engineer when she was a teenager.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_fb794269	type	Electronic Telepathy
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_fb794269	comment	Electronic Telepathy: the radiotelepathy network the team uses.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: On a normal day, Apollo is easily the most pleasant and idealistic of the group; it's hard to make him truly furious. On the rare occasions it happens, though, his anger is a terrifying, city-wrecking, burninating sight to behold.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: All of The Authority, really, but the Midnighter and Jack Hawksmoor tend to stand out as the most hardcore about their ideals and the most brutal.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Depending on the Writer: Abnett and Lanning's 17-issue run showed the Authority in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, working closely with civilians to protect them from outside threats, risking their own lives when half of them had been Brought Down to Normal, and generally being very human and relateable. Come January of 2010, and issue #18 by Bernardin and Freeman shows the Authority casually abandoning said civilians, including such gems as Midnighter wearing Spikes of Villainy and beating up an old man who protests. Mood Whiplash ensues.
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The Authority (Comic Book) / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Authority (Comic Book) / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: An extremely rare Midnighter example. When an Iron Man Expy is about to execute him, Midnighter is able to talk him out of it (which is a feat unto itself) while delivering an extremely effective Breaking Speech that proves so effective that the Iron Man Expy is left a psychological train wreck. Cut to the next panel, where we see the Midnighter and the goon actually embracing one another with a hug. Even Jack is impressed.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

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The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	A Child Shall Lead Them / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	A-Cup Angst / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Adaptation Decay / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Alien Space Bats / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ambition Is Evil / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ancient Astronauts / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	And This Is for... / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Animal Wrongs Group / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ascended Fanon / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Badass in Distress / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Badass Longcoat / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Badass Preacher / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Barbie Doll Anatomy / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Batman Parody / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Been There, Shaped History / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Best Woman / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Black-and-Gray Morality / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Black Knight / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Bloody Murder / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Bond One-Liner / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Boss Subtitles / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Brainy Baby / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Breast Expansion / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Breeding Slave / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Bridal Carry / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Can't Have Sex, Ever / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Car Fu / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Casino Episode / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Celebrity Superhero / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Character Focus / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Churchgoing Villain / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	City Planet / int_e5ea79ee
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The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Civvie Spandex / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Clothes Make the Superman / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Clothing Damage / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Colonel Badass / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Combat Clairvoyance / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Combo Platter Powers / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Come Back to Bed, Honey / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Comic Books Are Real / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Comic Books of the 1990s / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Confusion Fu / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Cool Gate / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Cool Starship / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Corrupt Hick / int_e5ea79ee
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The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Creepy Physical / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Crossover Ship / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Cure for Cancer / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Cure Your Gays / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Cyborg / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Deconstructor Fleet / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Deep South / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Definite Article Title / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Dehumanizing Insult / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Delivery Guy Infiltration / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Destroyer Deity / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Destructive Saviour / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Differently Powered Individual / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Disposable Superhero Maker / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Do-Anything Robot / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Do with Him as You Will / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Doppelganger Link / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Electronic Telepathy / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Elites Are More Glamorous / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Elseworld / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Emotion Bomb / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Enlightened Antagonist / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Excrement Statement / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Exotic Equipment / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Expendable Alternate Universe / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Experimented in College / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Extradimensional Power Source / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Fag Hag / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Feel No Pain / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Filth / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Finger-Snap Lighter / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	First Time Feeling / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Flash Step / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Flight, Strength, Heart / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Flying Brick / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Foot Popping / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	For the Evulz / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Forced to Feel Empathy / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Foreign Ruling Class / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Free-Love Future / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Friend to All Children / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	From a Single Cell / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Future Me Scares Me / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Gadgeteer Genius / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Gaia's Vengeance / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Gay Groom in a White Tux / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Gender-Bent Alternate Universe / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Gender Flip / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Genius Loci / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Giant Corpse World / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	God Guise / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	God Is Dead / int_e5ea79ee
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The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Good Wears White / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Got the Whole World in My Hand / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Great Offscreen War / int_e5ea79ee
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The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Grievous Harm with a Body / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Hard Work Hardly Works / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Have You Seen My God? / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Having a Blast / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Heroic Willpower / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Hero's Evil Predecessor / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Hidden Disdain Reveal / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Hillbilly Incest / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Historical Domain Superperson / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Holding Out for a Hero / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Homeless Hero / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Homeworld Evacuation / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Hostile Terraforming / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	HULK MASH!-Up / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Humans Are Insects / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Humongous Mecha / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	I Have a Family / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Immortality Begins at Twenty / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Immune to Drugs / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Inbred and Evil / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Indulgent Fantasy Segue / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Inferred Holocaust / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Instant Armor / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Intimidating Revenue Service / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ironic Nickname / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Jerkass Has a Point / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Jumped at the Call / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Kaleidoscope Hair / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Karmic Rape / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Kill the God / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Latex Perfection / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Latex Space Suit / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Leatherman / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Legacy of the Chosen / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	LEGO Genetics / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Licked by the Dog / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Light Is Good / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Little Miss Badass / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Living Ship / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Logic Bomb / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lover and Beloved / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Made of Plasticine / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Mars Needs Women / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Martial Arts Staff / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Master of Unlocking / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	MegaCorp / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Me's a Crowd / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Millennium Bug / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Mind Virus / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Mistaken for Badass / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	More Popular Spinoff / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Naked on Arrival / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Nanomachines / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Neck Snap / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	New Powers as the Plot Demands / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Night and Day Duo / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus / int_fb263a0e
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Not-So-Final Confession / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Odd Name Out / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Old Superhero / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	One Degree of Separation / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	One True Love / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	"Open!" Says Me / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Opposites Attract / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Outside Man, Inside Man / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Paid-for Family / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Panspermia / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Path of Inspiration / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Personality Powers / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Phlebotinum Battery / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Phlebotinum Rebel / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Phony Veteran / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Plot-Relevant Age-Up / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Position of Literal Power / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Post-Rape Taunt / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Power Levels / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Prescience Is Predictable / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	President Evil / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Prison Rape / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Prophetic Names / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Proportionately Ponderous Parasites / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Psycho for Hire / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rabble Rouser / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ramming Always Works / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rape and Revenge / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Recursive Canon / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Recycled Title / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Redemption Earns Life / int_fb263a0e
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Replacement Artifact / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Resolved Noodle Incident / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rich Kid Turned Social Activist / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ride the Lightning / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rings of Activation / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rotating Arcs / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rule of Escalating Threat / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rule 63 / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sapient Ship / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers! / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Secretly Dying / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Self-Duplication / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Send in the Clones / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sense Freak / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Shapeshifter Weapon / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Shoot the Dog / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Signature Scene / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Significant Birth Date / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids! / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sinister Geometry / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sinister Sentient Sun / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sketchy Successor / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Skip the Anesthetic / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sleeping with the Boss's Wife / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sorry, I'm Gay / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sorting Algorithm of Evil / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Spin-Off / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Spirit Advisor / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Spirit World / int_fb263a0e
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Standardized Leader / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Stepford Suburbia / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Straight Gay / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Straw Character / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Strongly Worded Letter / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Subspace or Hyperspace / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sucksessor / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sugar-and-Ice Personality / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Super Hero Origin / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Super-Power Meltdown / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Super-Soldier / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Super Team / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Superpowered Mooks / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Surefooted Barefooter / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sword and Fist / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sympathetic Sentient Weapon / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	"Take That!" Tit-for-Tat / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Talking the Monster to Death / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Talking Your Way Out / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Tastes Like Disdain / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	That's No Moon / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Big Guy / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Empath / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Group / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Lad-ette / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The One Where Everyone Dies / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The One Who Made It Out / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Power of Love / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Power of the Sun / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Quiet One / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Role-Playing Game / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Theme Park Version / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Vicar / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Threatening Mediator / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Throw-Away Country / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Throw 'Em to the Wolves / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Time-Traveling Jerkass / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Too Powerful to Live / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Touched by Vorlons / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Tough Spikes and Studs / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Trapped on the Astral Plane / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Trenchcoat Warfare / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Trigger Phrase / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Troubled Fetal Position / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Try to Fit That on a Business Card / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Turtle Island / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Twin Threesome Fantasy / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Two-Faced / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Undignified Death / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Use Their Own Weapon Against Them / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Utopia Justifies the Means / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Victory Sex / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Villainous BSoD / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Violence is the Only Option / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wall Crawl / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Weapons-Grade Vocabulary / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wearing a Flag on Your Head / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Who's Laughing Now? / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Winged Humanoid / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Witless Protection Program / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wolverine Wannabe / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Writer on Board / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Younger Than They Look / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Your Normal Is Our Taboo / int_e5ea79ee
theauthority	sameAs	The Authority (Comic Book)
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Anonymous Ringer / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Big Breast Pride / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Comm Links / int_e5ea79ee
The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Dark Age of Supernames / int_fb263a0e

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