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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book)
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Transmetropolitan is a Cyberpunk Graphic Novel series by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson, originally published from 1997 to 2002. It's a wild mix of gonzo journalism, American politics and the weird future. Although much of its focus is on surreal comedy, the books ultimately tell a heartwrenching story of one nation's politics swirling the drain in every possible way.Well-known outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem (basically, Hunter S. Thompson IN THE FUTURE!) begins the series "up a goddamn mountain", free from the constraints of dirty politics, toxic culture and his book deal. Until one day, his old publisher ("The Whorehopper") calls him up, reminding Spider that he still has two more books to turn out. Spider very reluctantly moves back to The City, a bastardized future version of New York City. He manages to get his old job back, and ends up picking up two "filthy assistants": first Channon Yarrow, his stripper-student-turned-nun-turned-bodyguard, and then Yelena Rossini, his editor's niece. For a while, he wreaks havoc upon The City with a keyboard and a bowel disruptor.It's only when Spider gets truly involved in politics that things start to get serious. He can't wait to get the current president, nicknamed "The Beast", out of office, and to usher his competitor, Gary Callahan, a.k.a. "The Smiler", into office. When it turns out that Callahan's willing to get his hands very dirty to become president, Spider realizes just what a monster he's released... and sets out to bring the entire government crashing down. | |
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"Have a Nice Day" Smile | |
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"Have a Nice Day" Smile: With three eyes (it's a Transient symbol when we first see it), ending every issue. | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology: "Transients", people who fuse alien DNA to them, appearing as stereotypical grey aliens, have their perception and biology change as the genes take over - Fred Christ says they lose the ability to digest human food at all, and their eyes change their perception so that people who seem like ugly, featureless aliens are extremely handsome or pretty in their eyes. | |
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Comic-Book Fantasy Casting | |
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Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Spider bears a distinct resemblance to Grant Morrison, who also loves funky-looking glasses and cats. When Spider still rocks the mountain hippie look, he resembles Alan Moore. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: The two lowbrow bar patrons who discuss the sex lives of reservation residents and then accost Spider for a mention in his column in "Wild in the Country" bear a striking physical resemblance to Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson. The black-clad cigar-smoker on page 9 of issue 24 rather resembles Ellis, also. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed Spider Jerusalem's personality, career and lifestyle is strongly based on Hunter S. Thompson. He's physically based on Grant Morrison. The look of Spider in the first issue makes him look like Alan Moore. Tarleton Sweeney, the politician Spider runs down in "Monstering", is pretty clearly modeled on Bill Clinton. The Smiler is somewhat based on Tony Blair, with elements of Richard Nixon... and The Joker. Physically he resembles Bobby Kennedy and failed US presidential candidate Gary Hart. The Beast also has elements of Nixon, right down to his peace pose (albeit now middle fingers to an America that hates him). Robert McX has quite a few characteristics of G. Gordon Liddy, being a conservative talking head and sharing a few aspects of his face. Oscar Rossini, Yelena's dad, is Patrick Stewart, who wrote a glowing introduction to the Volume Five trade paperback. Heartwarmingly, though Stewart wrote the introduction fully expecting to appear in the comic as some "fucked-up, mechanics-addicted, feces-smeared background character", Oscar Rossini is essentially Jean-Luc Picard as a foul-mouthed Uncle Pennybags who enjoys baiting corrupt cops. | |
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Romantic Fusion | |
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Romantic Fusion: Channon's ex undergoes Brain Uploading into a cloud of nanomachines, merging with another cloud just after. When she asks what's going on, she's told he's basically having sex with another uploaded person. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Spider has one during his research of television when the news starts reporting on him, thus making him television. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? In the last story arc, the City Center police assault on a student protest is pretty evocative of Kent State. The image of the female student crying over the corpse of her classmate is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the massacre. Spider overturning tables and chasing the religious leaders out of the shopping mall brings to mind Jesus chasing the moneylenders out of the temple, particularly given the outfit Spider's wearing at the time. A blue dress stained with Presidential semen is an obvious nod to the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandal. Bob Heller's racist rhetoric and possible spoiling role in the election are more than a bit akin to George Wallace. There are also obvious Nazi overtones to his rhetoric. A Hitler lookalike is focused on in Heller's crowd, and Spider overtly compares Heller to Hitler just to make things clear. The President's speech (which is summarized for us by Spider) about his kids' dog is Nixon's Checkers speech. Spider's encounter with The Beast in a toilet is very similar to Hunter Thompson's encounter with Richard Nixon in Where the Buffalo Roam. | |
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You Can Keep Her! | |
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You Can Keep Her!: Spider's initial reaction to hearing his ex-wife has been kidnapped, wrapped in Spider's usual creative invective. | |
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Right-Hand Cat | |
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Right-Hand Cat: Spider's two-faced, three-eyed cat should be one, but she's more likely to pee on his head. The Smiler expresses a wish for one, just to complete the Bond villain look. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Oscar Rossini, Yelena's dad, turns out to be a hell of a lot tougher than you might think. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Spider's "PODI" tattoo on his shoulder blade is, according to the artist, a corporate logo. Spider got it as a youth and then exposed the fact that corporations were paying to tattoo kids with their logos. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: Slightly, in the bits narrated by Spider's columns. Much like Thompson, he exaggerates the unimportant bits in order to point up the ones that matter...and to be funny. Subverted in that, also like Thompson, many of the more outrageous things he writes are confirmed by other characters' viewpoint to be perfectly true. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: The first time the title is mentioned in comic is during the clip from "Magical Truthsaying Bastard Spidey!" | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: The Smiler. | |
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Conditioned to Accept Horror | |
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Conditioned to Accept Horror: The true horror of the infamous chapter "Business" is that it's not just that children are selling themselves on the streets, it's that they're so casual about it. On meeting a fourteen year old hooker, she greets Spider with an idle offer "Thirty for French and sex" and when he questions her price, appalled that she has so little self-esteem that she's selling herself practically for pocket change, she mistakenly thinks he's trying to barter and offers a price of twenty-five instead. All throughout the chapter, the kids Spider interviews casually recount stories of the horrible things they've been through like they're describing the latest episode of their favourite TV show, including eleven-year old Matt casually describing how his back "looks like a railroad track" after his last stepdad mutilated him in front of his uncaring mother for swearing, as well as how he was raped by a fifteen-year old shortly after he was taken into care back when he was nine. And he thinks it's funny. | |
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Milholland Relationship Moment | |
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Milholland Relationship Moment: Yelena ends up ghost-writing one of Spider's columns for him after he is knocked unconscious and unable to write it. Given Spider's jerkass nature, Yelena seems to prepare for the worst when she tells him... Spider kisses her forehead and tells her "thank you", in what is probably one of his most humanizing moments in the comic. | |
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The Voice | |
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The Voice: The Whorehopper. | |
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Forced Creativity | |
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Forced Creativity: Spider Jerusalem is dragged out of retirement with a reminder that he still owes two books on his publishing contract. He plans to compile one anthology and write the second book about the upcoming presidential election, but this motive loses importance as he comes to take an interest in the political upheaval. | |
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Cool Shades | |
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Cool Shades: Spider Jerusalem's trademark camera shades with the mismatched lenses. Bonus points by being created, by accident, by a sentient nanotech manufacturing AI that was stoned out of its goddamned mind. So cool that when he lost those shades, another set was made for him with the same mismatched lenses. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: Bottles of "Sin Gin" are occasionally seen in various panels. "Sin gin" is the phonetic pronunciation of the surname "Saint John." Spider's trademark sidearm is a "Bowel Disruptor", making him both literally and figuratively a shit disturber. | |
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Stripperiffic | |
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Stripperiffic: Channon's election night party dress. It has a triangular hole cut out over her left nipple. Appropriate enough as she IS actually an ex-stripper. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Variant, after Stompanado takes a dump on Spider's Maker: | |
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Dare to Be Badass | |
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Dare to Be Badass: Royce makes this challenge to the board of directors of The Word when the Oval Office puts pressure on them to have Spider sacked. Sadly, they're too much of a bunch of pussies. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: The secret service in general doesn't really like either president, but it's still going to do its job. At least until the ending, where even they can't be bothered to keep supporting the Smiler. | |
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The Scottish Trope | |
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The Scottish Trope: K9 officer Stomponato goes into a seizure whenever someone says Spider's name, after an incident that left him maimed and castrated. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Interestingly played with if you pay attention: the City is a hellhole, and Spider goes on several tirades about how modern civilization is fucked six ways from Sunday, but on the rare occasions we get a glimpse of life outside the City, it actually looks pretty pleasant, especially in the final issue epilogue. The argument could be made that the City is its own "world", and in face is nearly treated as such by the narrative. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good Is Not Nice: Spider Jerusalem is such a jerkass misanthrope that it makes his crusade to stop political corruption and stand up for the poor all the nobler. | |
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Knight in Sour Armor | |
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Knight in Sour Armor: Spider. He's incredibly idealistic... but hides it between random bowel disruptor blasts and drugs. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: Cloned human meat is socially acceptable and available in chain restaurants called "Long Pig," which is itself a joke name for human meat. Beyond that, cannibalistic murders come up more than once: a family of crazed cannibals that eats election canvassers, and Spider makes an off-handed comment about once getting hit with an auto-cannibalism meme that left him unable to eat pork to this day. Also, the Beast eats Chilean Baby Extract. Spider also describes a jar of powdered Irish babies as perfect for mixing into a jug of vodka for summer afternoons on the balcony. | |
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Chekhov's Gun: | |
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Rapid DNA Test | |
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Rapid DNA Test: The G-Reader can scan someone's DNA from a distance, Spider uses one to bring down a hypocritical politician in one chapter, and then another one is used by a hate group to find a victim. | |
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Oppressive States of America | |
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Oppressive States of America: The police are pretty corrupt and oppressive to begin with, carrying riot shields with SUBMIT printed on them and stomping of protestors' faces. When the Smiler takes over it gets worse, culminating in the City getting put under martial law. | |
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Guile Hero | |
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Guile Hero: Spider. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_2a7e7af1 | comment |
Limited Wardrobe: Except for brief costumes, Spider either goes nude or wears the same outfit consisting of a black jacket over a bare chest, black pants, and big stompin' boots. It's eventually revealed that he re-wears the exact same set of clothes without washing them until they're fit to be burned, then gets a near set. It's a telling character moment when Spider complains of feeling cold and starts wearing a shirt. His rustic attire in the end also visually indicates his retirement. | |
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Adjective Noun Fred | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_2afd9e69 | comment |
The chapter "Nobody Loves Me" features three TV shows supposedly based on Spider's life ("Magical Truthsaying Bastard Spidey", a bizarre anime-style gag cartoon; "From the Mountain to the City", a crappy and over-the-top action/drama movie Very Loosely Based On The First Arc; and "I Hump It Here", a porno) and 2 drug-induced dreams of Spider's ("The Heroic Revenge Fantasy" and "The Ugly Paranoid Dream"), all drawn by different artists. | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_2d6f00e4 | comment |
Psycho for Hire: Agent Franklin Cauley. He may carry out his "special assignments" for the money, but anyone who guns down dozens of innocent bystanders as a distraction is going to be lacking in moral scruples. | |
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Little "No" | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_2d92c43c | comment |
Little "No": This is all Spider can utter when the first fatal shot is fired that kicks off the massacre of students by government troops at Dick Cavett University. | |
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Hostile Weather | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_2ddddebf | comment |
Hostile Weather: Ruinstorms. Thunderstorms on crystal meth apparently capable of tossing cars around and flooding a city under tidal waves. | |
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Statuesque Stunner | |
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Statuesque Stunner: Channon. She stands about a head taller than almost every other character in the series (even her boyfriend), and she is almost unique in that she is depicted as being very attractive by modern standards, whereas most other people are shown as either plain or ugly. | |
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Lipstick Lesbian | |
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Lipstick Lesbian: One of the representatives for reservations, essentially living areas of history re-enacted by willing volunteers who are mind-wiped and believe themselves to be in that time period. Spider punches himself in the groin when she tells him (after he's just asked her out). | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_319e4a2f | comment |
Even Evil Has Standards: Shortly before the election where The Beast and The Smiler are the biggest candidates, Spider has an interview with The Beast. He explains his standards: If 51% of the people have food on their table at the end of the day and 49% do not, he's succeeded at his job. After the interview Spider muses, "Turns out The Beast has some morals after all." The Smiler doesn't. | |
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Destination Defenestration | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_32976084 | comment |
Destination Defenestration: "I'll have my assistant defenestrate you. And you wouldn't want anything happening to your fenestrates, would you?" | |
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1.0 | |
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Disposing of a Body | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_33987735 | comment |
Disposing of a Body: When Spider realizes that he's inspired The Smiler to murderous rage, he acquires Nanomachines designed to break human tissues and clothing down to monoatomic vapor, knowing he'll have to kill more than a few CIA assassins. | |
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Everything Is 3D-Printed in the Future | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_34726736 | comment |
Everything Is 3D-Printed in the Future: The "Makers" installed in any decent kitchen can make nearly anything you like (they have lockouts on some things). Either they'll have a "base block" to draw matter from or you have to fill them with trash. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_34dcfc96 | comment |
Kick the Dog One of the first things Spider does is blow up his local bar purely out of spite. This establishes Spider as an Anti-Hero. We learn early on that Spider used one of his assistants to get a story, which turned her into an unwitting porn star. Not only does he show no remorse, but he also has only a vague recollection of her existing. This further establishes Spider as a flawed individual. We first learn that the Smiler is more than just an ambitious cipher of a politician when he refers to the American people as "the new scum." However, he gets considerably worse from there. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_35a858b3 | comment |
Cluster F-Bomb Spider's column following The Beast becoming president: Spider and the Filthy Assistants also bust out some pretty impressive strings of swearing when things go wrong. In volume 2 some assassins come to Spider's apartment to kill him and he goes berserk on them. | |
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Awful Truth | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_363f94c9 | comment |
Awful Truth: The chapter "Business" ultimately boils down to this: Spider believes it to be this when he discovers he has "become television" by way of participating in the senseless commercialized outrage culture (namely, by harassing television personalities as they're live on air) - and becoming one of the constantly angry and moralistic television personalities he hates as a result. His assistant is unimpressed by his drama and tells him to just eat his Caribou eyes. | |
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No Shirt, Long Jacket | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_36d0d1ba | comment |
No Shirt, Long Jacket: Spider, when he isn't a Walking Shirtless Scene. | |
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Cloning Body Parts | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_375e2c89 | comment |
Cloning Body Parts: Human body part cloning is so commonplace that a fast food chain called "Long Pig" serves it, and you can even grow your own vice presidential candidate. | |
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Asleep for Days | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_37c95f05 | comment |
Asleep for Days: Spider gets knocked out, comes to, and demands a machine so he can write a promised column, and is told he'd been out for four days. A drug addled variant: he'll often snort himself into a coma or otherwise render himself unable to work. One Filthy Assistant recounts the time Spider thought he was in a birdhouse in Switzerland for a week. It's implied Spider does this to piss off people and shirk on work, though. | |
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Hitchhiker's Leg | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_386257bf | comment |
Hitchhiker's Leg: Channon, Spider Jerusalem's female bodyguard, goes straight to flashing her boobs to hail a cab in the pouring rain. This being the City, home of every weird fetish imaginable, it takes Yelena joining in, and both stepping into the street, to get the driver to stop. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | comment |
Spider routinely causes collateral damage and even destroys lives in revealing his truths. In one specific case, he brought a film student along for an investigation into a club using libido enhancers to incite orgies that are then filmed and sold. Spider protected himself but didn't even warn the student, resulting in her participation that destroyed her reputation and family - leading to a years/decades-long plot to get hired at Spider's newspaper, work her way up, and try to murder him via assassins. He doesn't remember her name, and only that she volunteered to carry his stuff into the place, and has absolutely no idea she's behind half of the assassination attempts on him during that arc. | |
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Zeerust | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_393ec3f9 | comment |
Zeerust: The series was written in the late 90s and early 2000s, which is betrayed by some of its take on future technology. Spider's shades hold 2 gigs of memory and can take pictures and interface wirelessly, which was pretty futuristic when written. Sunglass cameras hold 32 gigs and record HD video the entire time - to say nothing of head-mounted cameras that pack far more power. Spider's laptop is called a "typewriter" in early issues and has round keys like a typewriter. Later issues simply call it a computer and show square keys. It's also bulkier than most modern laptops. Ellis started writing the series just as the Internet started becoming mainstream. Spider fails to mention it by that name, but he does tend to access something on dozens of Holographic Terminals simultaneously. Also, the City has "feedsites", which are essentially Twitter accounts run by various news outlets. The focus on paper books and newspapers does not anticipate the digital media and mobile devices that are already replacing them. The general lack of cell phones and smartphones. Spider's mountain home and first apartment are rotary. The Filthies are occasionally seen with PDA-like devices, but they still aren't phones. There are genetic traits that can cause you to grow a mobile inside your body, but Spider rejects an offer of those (after asking if they have a cell phone and getting a pill bottle thrown at him) in favor of finding a payphone. | |
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Bedmate Reveal | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_39f27cae | comment |
Bedmate Reveal Spider and Yelena. Later subverted. Channon wakes up next to Spider and freaks out. It turns out they didn't sleep together, Spider just snuck in to mess with her head. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_3aec9e5e | comment |
Properly Paranoid: One of Spider's sayings is that "A paranoid is simply someone in possession of all the facts". | |
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Noodle Incident | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident Spider claims to have killed 16 people. All in self-defense "except one." Ellis confirmed that Spider feels responsible for Vita's death. The Prague incident, in which Spider drove six politicians to suicide using only a telephone. Almost no information is given other than this. | |
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1.0 | |
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Out-of-Clothes Experience | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_3c5734b2 | comment |
Out-of-Clothes Experience: For much of the run, Spider wears as little as possible: usually a jacket (no shirt) and pants, often just his shorts, but frequent bouts of semi-public nudity are implied. Played for laughs. Mostly. It's eventually clear this was played straight all along when he comes down with a degenerative illness, and Spider begins wearing a full shirt at almost all times. He still seeks the Truth, but he's hiding plenty now, too, and his bouts of insanity have gone from revelatory to crippling. | |
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Parody Religion | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_3ec0c879 | comment |
Parody Religion: everything that's not Path of Inspiration is this. | |
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1.0 | |
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Transhuman | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_3f55f0a | comment |
Trans Human: Everyone on some level (even 'regular' humans usually have gene modifications and some sort of implant), but the Farsight Enclave takes it to extremes, even by the standards of Transmetropolitan. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
Blatant Lies: Spider uses them once to make a point: | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: Spider exposes the Smiler, forces him from the office of the Presidency and is apparently in the 1% who successfully beats his terminal illness. But the Smiler's wealth and army of supporters are trying (and succeeding) to keep him out of prison, though Royce notes that his wealth will run out someday. | |
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1.0 | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_415b3315 | comment |
Stylistic Suck: The movies and cartoon based on Spider. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_415b3315 | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_420c50b7 | comment |
A.I. Is a Crapshoot: We rarely see someone talk with a machine that isn't on some sort of electronic drugs. | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_420c50b7 | |
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Worst News Judgment Ever | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_43964f3 | comment |
Worst News Judgment Ever: Enforced by the government under the Smiler, and if it's not the government, it's the private news media being as offensive as possible, though The Word, Robert McX, and a few other news channels try their damndest to bypass government censorship. | |
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SecondhandStorytelling | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4499cea4 | comment |
Secondhand Storytelling: Used early on to give readers a good idea of how batshit insane Spider is. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4499cea4 | |
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Human Popsicle | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_457655dd | comment |
Human Popsicle: The trope is dealt with poignantly through the "Revivals", people who were awoken from cryogenic sleep only to find that the city no longer cares about them enough to prepare them for what now is accepted as "normal" (i.e., damn near anything), leaving them to go into near-permanent shock as soon as they leave the building and slip into the city's homeless population. Spider ends up befriending Mary Bannister, a 20th-century photojournalist, and helps her get back on her feet. | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_457655dd | |
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Dead Animal Warning | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_45b850b7 | comment |
Dead Animal Warning: Parodied. Spider owns a "maker" produced by a Mafia-owned company and if he tries to throw it away (its AI is a drug addict) severed horse heads appear in his bed. | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_45b850b7 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4612ec70 | type |
No Transhumanism Allowed | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4612ec70 | comment |
No Transhumanism Allowed: Thoroughly averted. They're not up to singularity levels yet, but that's mostly because it's most assuredly a Crapsack World. The Farsight Community is currently experimenting with transhuman technologies to see what's safe. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4781adbb | comment |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Spider can be surprisingly humane on a good day — problem is, he very seldom has one. He does have a soft spot for kids (despite protests to the contrary) and they normally bring out the best in him. At one point he sees a child who has just had her favorite toy pawned and immediately purchases it back for her. He talks about comforting victims of sexual abuse as well as saving children from pedophiles. We also know that he befriends at least one cryogenic Revival, and donates his fee for doing a Public Service Announcement to a Revival hospital. | |
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1.0 | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Spider receives the same amount of crap that he dishes out. | |
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Angel Face, Demon Face | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_488422f | comment |
Angel Face, Demon Face: How attractive characters are drawn often reflects how sympathetic their actions are at the time. Spider is a great example. In some of his worst moments he can look positively monstrous, but when writing about the plight of the revivals, or comforting children he looks much more handsome. | |
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1.0 | |
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Doom Troops | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4962280f | comment |
Doom Troops: The riot police have strong shades of this, what with having Submit Now emblazoned on their shields and taking Police Brutality to a whole new level. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4962280f | |
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Cheshire Cat Grin | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4a0ec47a | comment |
Cheshire Cat Grin: Spider could give seminars on the subject... as well as the Smiler, for obvious reasons. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Evil All Along | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4aa98555 | comment |
Evil All Along: The plot is kickstarted when Spider helps out the Smiler, only to then learn that the Smiler is far worse than the Beast ever was. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4aa98555 | |
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Pretty Little Headshots | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4ab9c868 | comment |
Pretty Little Headshots: Graphically averted on many occasions. Headshots in this series are messy in general, but a special, brutal, rather horrible mention goes to Vita Severn's assassination. | |
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-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4af44f4d | type |
Biodata | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4af44f4d | comment |
Bio Data: Data pollen. Literally, pollen from plants that's encoded with newsfeeds, advertising and other information. Breathed in, it releases the information to the nervous system. It's linked to degeneration of the synapses in the brain and goes in and out of legality several times over the series. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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President Evil | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4c554daf | comment |
President Evil: The Smiler could be the alternative Trope Namer. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4c554daf | |
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New Technology Is Evil | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4c6205c5 | comment |
New Technology Is Evil: Played with the G-Reader, a ranged DNA-testing device "so new it hasn't been restricted yet", in the "Lonely City" arc. First Spider uses one to expose a Moral Guardian politician's screwing of mentally disabled sex slaves, but then a gang of bigots use a G-Reader on a carrier of a controversial recessive gene and beat him to death while a police car that also has a G-Reader stands by and does nothing. However in the final arc Spider uses a G-Reader again to bring down the Smiler. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4c6205c5 | |
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SocialDarwinist | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4cf04991 | comment |
Social Darwinist politician Bob Heller is a bit on the short side (the showgirls introducing his speech are nearly twice his height), with "a really punchable face" in Spider's terms. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4cf04991 | |
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Wham Shot | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c | comment |
Wham Shot: During the Ruin Storm, the window of the bar suddenly and without warning exploding inwards, throwing Spider backward in a cloud of shattered glass, one piece cutting right across the spider tattoo on his head. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4eaa9b84 | type |
Author Tract | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4eaa9b84 | comment |
As might be expected for an Author Tract based on Hunter S. Thompson and making frequent references to A Modest Proposal, every issue has this to some extent about topics ranging from shallow mass media, to political corruption, to religion as a means to oppress and abuse people rather than comfort them. The biggest, most ongoing Take That!, though, is probably for the audience itself. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4eaa9b84 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4f84cdef | type |
Smug Snake | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4f84cdef | comment |
Smug Snake The Smiler. He grows his own vice president to make sure his record's clean while appeasing a rabid right-wing group that has Nazis in it; he assassinates his campaign manager to earn polling points for sympathy; and he arranges for the death of his wife and children when they start coming out against him. He even admits to Spider that he wants to be president just so he can fuck with the American people — but only when he knows Spider won't be able to obtain a record of the conversation. However, he's mentally unstable and Spider takes one potshot after another at him, gradually wearing him down. Fred Christ as well. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_4f84cdef | |
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Smell Phone | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5486efc8 | comment |
Smell Phone: Spider once got asked to test out a TV that uses a small Matter Replicator to add scent. The image shows him standing over the wreckage of it with a machine gun. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5486efc8 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_54a425f5 | type |
Arachnid Appearance and Attire | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_54a425f5 | comment |
Arachnid Appearance and Attire: Spider sports a spider tattoo on his scalp and wears all black, giving him a vaguely spidery appearance. The pectoral tattoos left bare by his coat also look vaguely like an hourglass, though this could be coincidental. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_54a425f5 | |
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Call to Agriculture | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_559b4bb3 | comment |
Call to Agriculture: Spider ends the series back up his mountain, growing real vegetables and utterly determined never to set foot in the City again, no matter how Royce tries to tempt him back. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_559b4bb3 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_562abd51 | type |
Let's Get Dangerous! | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_562abd51 | comment |
Let's Get Dangerous!: What Spider does after the Smiler has his column shut down and the media has turned him into a cartoonish joke, not taken seriously by anyone anymore. It's this near-destruction of his power to change minds that causes Spider to get nasty with Callahan and bend all his energies to bringing him down. This also marks the moment where Spider and the filthy assistants start using real guns instead of bowel disruptors. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_562abd51 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_56698261 | type |
Our Time Travel Is Different | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_56698261 | comment |
Our Time Travel Is Different: Entire groups of people willingly mindwipe themselves and join historical recreations of the past to keep it alive. Spider "time travels" in this way, and escapees (usually people who get flashes of nostalgia, or descendants of parents who grow up in clades that aren't friendly to modern morals, like homosexuality or atheism) often flee into the City, looking out of place. Later, Spider and the Filthy Assistants use quantum tech to project themselves into Victorian London, showing up as barely-visible apparitions. This is apparently the reason of ghost sightings back then. | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_56698261 | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_567e7c4d | comment |
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: The Smiler's favorite tactic is killing someone close to him to get him sympathy, then using the increased support to further his brutal agenda. Spider turns out to be faking the progression of his brain disease so that people will take care of him and not pressure him into coming back down his mountain to write. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_567e7c4d | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5791e14f | type |
The Future | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5791e14f | comment |
The Future: Quite a long way forward. In fact, no one in the comic actually knows the current year; they just refer to years by terms like, "The year when..." Particularly interesting was a memorial with a digital display that read the number of years since the event. It's actually a very clever way to avoid having the calendar catch up to the comic; without a frame of reference, Transmetropolitan can always take place in The Future. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5791e14f | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_58e43f17 | type |
Cats Are Mean | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_58e43f17 | comment |
Cats Are Mean: Spider picks up a cat with two faces early on. She smokes unfiltered Russian cigarettes, pisses on anything that slightly irritates her, kills almost any animal that crosses her, and supposedly attempted to rape one of Channon's boyfriends. In other words, it's his perfect pet. A gang of talking alley cats confronts a talking police dog named Stompanato when he wanders into a bad neighborhood. He gets out alive, but horribly scratched up and blinded. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_58e43f17 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5963b221 | type |
Eviler than Thou | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5963b221 | comment |
Eviler than Thou: the Beast and the Smiler. The Beast is evil, but only because of his incredibly cynical outlook on life makes him that way. The Smiler is actually trying to be as horrible as he can possibly be. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5963b221 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_596f675a | type |
Smoking Is Cool | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_596f675a | comment |
Smoking Is Cool: The heroic characters all chain smoke (even the cat!) and strike their most photogenic poses with cigarettes in hand or mouth. Spider explains that health problems caused by smoking can be eliminated simply by inserting the proper trait into your genome. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_596f675a | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5d103ea8 | type |
AwesomeMcCoolName | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5d103ea8 | comment |
Awesome Mc Cool Name: Spider Jerusalem. He states in a later issue that he was originally going to be named Django Heraclitus Jerusalem, but he was a spidery baby and his mother was a bit crazy. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5d103ea8 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5db59a03 | type |
Brown Note | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5db59a03 | comment |
Brown Note: Spider carries a bowel disruptor most of the time, which shoots a beam that causes the target to crap his pants with variable intensity. Settings include Loose, Watery, Fiery, Burning Anal Geyser, Rectal Volcano, Prolapse, Unspeakable Gut Horror, Shat Into Unconsciousness, and Fatal Intestinal Maelstrom. The highest settings require hospitalization and could possibly be fatal. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5db59a03 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5f52cfcf | type |
Intrepid Reporter | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5f52cfcf | comment |
Intrepid Reporter: Spider isn't even the only one of these in the series. You need a serious spine to deliver the news in this world. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_5f52cfcf | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0 | type |
I Have Your Wife | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0 | comment |
I Have Your Wife: During the Freeze Me With Your Kiss arc, Spider's wife is kidnapped by the Zero Tactility Foundation. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6201e8b0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6259dfa3 | type |
Grey Goo | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6259dfa3 | comment |
Grey Goo: Nanotech, in general, is widespread but deliberately hardcoded to prevent this, but it's mentioned that it can be circumvented. We see the results twice - once was a man without legs, who lost them preventing an entire block from being wiped out by it. The second is when it's revealed that a contained version was used in Vita's assassination. One of Spider's columns also references nanomachines as being responsible for what happened to the city and people of what is now called Lake Baghdad. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6259dfa3 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_62f9ee25 | type |
Nanomachines | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_62f9ee25 | comment |
Nanomachines: "Makers," matter-rearranging engines that can produce almost anything from trash. There's even a whole community of people who download their entire consciousness into a colony of floating nanobots. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_62f9ee25 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_64713b04 | type |
Pedophile Priest | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_64713b04 | comment |
Pedophile Priest: Spider beats one up for info on a politician, which inspires a Pædo Hunt since pedophilia is one of the few remaining sexual taboos (the presence of the X-rated children's show "The Sex Puppets" raises questions on this, but there are also hints that it's really just Sex Education). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_64713b04 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_648fe274 | type |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_648fe274 | comment |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Spider routinely causes collateral damage and even destroys lives in revealing his truths. In one specific case, he brought a film student along for an investigation into a club using libido enhancers to incite orgies that are then filmed and sold. Spider protected himself but didn't even warn the student, resulting in her participation that destroyed her reputation and family - leading to a years/decades-long plot to get hired at Spider's newspaper, work her way up, and try to murder him via assassins. He doesn't remember her name, and only that she volunteered to carry his stuff into the place, and has absolutely no idea she's behind half of the assassination attempts on him during that arc. Likewise, Spider doesn't seem to have any recollection of having dog-cop Stompanato neutered and is completely oblivious to the latter's search for vengeance, not even noticing the dog's final (and closest) attempt. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_648fe274 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6627695f | type |
Author Appeal | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: Spider's tattoos are mostly tribal because the artist just likes tribal tattoos. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6627695f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6627695f | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_66755d29 | type |
Author Avatar | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_66755d29 | comment |
Author Avatar: This◊ is Mitchell Royce. This◊ is Warren Ellis. Royce's job is to take Spider's work and deliver it to the people. Ellis spent five years taking the unchained id which is Spider and winding it into a coherent narrative. Ellis inserted himself in the comic as Spider's editor. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_66755d29 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_683bb900 | type |
Last Disrespects | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_683bb900 | comment |
Last Disrespects: After Alan Schact commits suicide upon being exposed as a pedophile by Spider Jerusalem, the news reports the discovery of a giant pile of shit on Schact's grave with traces of Spider's DNA in it. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_683bb900 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_683bb900 | |
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Those Wacky Nazis | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_697b5232 | comment |
Those Wacky Nazis: Midget. Nazi. Gigolos. A Hitler look-alike shows up during Bob Heller's rally. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_697b5232 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_697b5232 | |
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Artificial Cannibalism | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_699b3142 | comment |
Artificial Cannibalism: The popular fast-food chain Long Pig specializes in cloned human meat. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_699b3142 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_699b3142 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_69fb91e8 | type |
Chewing the Scenery | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_69fb91e8 | comment |
Chewing the Scenery: Spider chews the scenery on a regular basis, especially when he's crammed full of drugs, which is most of the time. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_69fb91e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_69fb91e8 | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: For all he's supposed to be nothing more or less than the lesser of two evils, the Beast actually makes a lot of good points when Spider interviews him prior to the presidential election. This ends up slightly raising Spider and the voting public's esteem of him, though not quite enough for him to secure a victory. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6b05b601 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6bd689ca | type |
Meaningful Echo | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6bd689ca | comment |
Meaningful Echo: Both presidents, paraphrasing Richard Nixon's alleged words, say "If the president does it, it's not a crime." Only one of them then adds, "That's a joke, by the way." | |
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1.0 | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide Alan Schacht, the Smiler's advisor, commits suicide on being exposed as a pedophile. More humorously, Spider's reaction to "From the Mountain to the City" is to turn his bowel disruptor onto a lethal setting and put it in his mouth. His apartment turns on a porn channel to distract him. The Prague telephone incident before the series began, where Spider drove six politicians to suicide using only a telephone. In issue #5 the incident is referenced when a TV chef he called threatens to jump off a skyscraper, but the police apparently talked her down. The last thing we see in the comic is Spider, quite likely on the verge of dying from I-pollen poisoning, putting a gun under his chin. It's a lighter. "ONE PERCENT!" | |
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Disc-One Final Boss | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6de71c57 | comment |
Disc-One Final Boss: The Beast, who is defeated in the election fairly early in the series. It only becomes clear later that the Smiler is far, far worse. | |
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1.0 | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6e37c196 | comment |
Once Done, Never Forgotten: The porn movie about Spider references him getting turned down on a live feed. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6e37c196 | |
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Extreme Omnivore | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6eb1268c | comment |
Extreme Omnivore: Damn near anything is eaten. Heck, there's an entire restaurant chain devoted to cannibalism. (And let us not forget the powdered children. Powdered Irish children.) Justified - pretty much everything can be cloned or replicated with the Makers without having to bother with killing creatures/people for their flesh and organs. Baby seal eyes for a light snack... yummy... | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_6eb1268c | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_70638525 | type |
Luke, You Are My Father | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_70638525 | comment |
Luke, You Are My Father: Subverted. A French revenge weapon with no head claims it's Spider's son. | |
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-0.3 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_70638525 | |
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Fang Thpeak | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7063c9cc | comment |
Fang Thpeak: When the Filthy Assistants wear fake teeth to frighten a politician. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7063c9cc | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_70c73c20 | type |
TheUnseen | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_70c73c20 | comment |
The Unseen: Spider's old publisher who gets him to come out of retirement. The writing even goes as far as to never refer to him/her using any gender-specific nouns or pronouns. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_70c73c20 | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_72757e0d | comment |
"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Spider's account of a Heller rally ends with one of these. | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_72757e0d | |
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Outlandish Device Setting | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7301e3f0 | comment |
Outlandish Device Setting: The settings of the bowel disruptor gun start out as mostly reasonable in context, such as "loose", "watery", or "prolapse", but as the story goes on and stakes get higher, its primary user Spider Jerusalem reveals it can do far worse: "Intestinal Maelstrom", "Unspeakable Gut Horror", "Rectal Volcano", and "Shat into Unconsciousness". | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7301e3f0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_73f38fe0 | type |
LEGO Genetics | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_73f38fe0 | comment |
LEGO Genetics: "Temping", temporarily adding traits from other species for recreation or fashion. As there is no real utility in becoming a Komodo dragon, the full-conversion technique was nothing more than a curiosity until a colony of Grey Aliens(!) started offering their genome to body modification devotees. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_73f38fe0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_744e3311 | type |
Police Brutality | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_744e3311 | comment |
Police Brutality: The cops in The City are repulsive thugs. In the first arc, after Spider writes a column detailing their thuggery and role in inciting a riot, they catch him in the street and beat him up. One Splash Panel shows their shift change. It involves cleaning the blood off of their riot shields. Riot shields with "SUBMIT NOW" written on them. | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_744e3311 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "Trust the fuckhead." | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7464705c | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_74828aea | type |
Killer Rabbit | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_74828aea | comment |
Killer Rabbit: Spider's mutant cat is just as much of an unexpected badass as him, killing and maiming a larger dog and later a fox for sport. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_74828aea | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7506ec90 | type |
Fashionable Asymmetry | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7506ec90 | comment |
Fashionable Asymmetry: Spider's look is based on this. He has asymmetrical glasses and a spider tattoo on one side of his skull. Most of his other tattoos, however, have a roughly matching partner on the other side. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7506ec90 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_75538142 | type |
Friend to All Children | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_75538142 | comment |
Spider has a soft spot for what politicians have dubbed "The New Scum" - the marginalized outcasts that the rest of society abuses for the hell of it; hookers, drug addicts, homeless, fetishists, etc. Most obviously, he's a Friend to All Children - particularly victimized ones. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_75538142 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_75c952bf | type |
Our Presidents Are Different | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_75c952bf | comment |
Our Presidents Are Different: The Beast is President Corrupt, The Smiler is President Evil. | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_75c952bf | |
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We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_771b9373 | comment |
We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future: It seems that people with at least a middle-class income can afford to install genetic traits that make them immune to carcinogens and other illnesses. The poor, however, seems to be even more riddled with disease than in the real world. | |
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Batter Up! | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_77922c8c | comment |
Batter Up!: At one point Spider beats a story out of Fred Christ using a broken chair leg, which he dubs "The Chair Leg of Truth." | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_77922c8c | |
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Troubling Unchildlike Behavior | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_77ed6b7d | comment |
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: The chapter "Business", dealing with child prostitutes and the vicious cycle that perpetuates them. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_77ed6b7d | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7870e183 | type |
Nixon Mask | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7870e183 | comment |
Nixon Mask: Worn by "anticlowns". | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7870e183 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7870e183 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7ef728b1 | type |
Tsundere | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7ef728b1 | comment |
Tsundere: Yelena, who noticeably helps Spider out routinely despite being adamant that she hates his guts, also subjects him to a hell ride of an emotional rollercoaster love affair throughout the series: she has sex with him; denies that she had sex with him (he was too drunk to remember); when she finally admits it, she has to do it in a way that deliberately publicly insults him at his own party; she acts possessively over him when sensing rivals (Vita) but still refuses to admit having feelings for him; and they only end up together when she's one hundred percent sure (or should we say ninety-nine percent sure) that he's dying. Even then, nobody else is allowed to know that they're together. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7ef728b1 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7efd2e30 | type |
Expository Hairstyle Change | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7efd2e30 | comment |
Expository Hairstyle Change: Channon's long blonde hair is cropped short and dyed black when she decides to join a nunnery after losing her boyfriend. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7efd2e30 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Congrats Spider. You managed to get The Beast out of office. Problem is that his replacement is a million times worse to the point that he can't even hold an animal for a few minutes without killing it. | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7febc23b | type |
Establishing Character Moment | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: For Spider it isn't blowing up the bar, or smashing his way into The Word's offices to demand Royce give him work, or using violence on anyone who gets in his way. It's sitting on the roof of a city block, typing his article on the savage police response to the Transient Riots, forcing the truth into the faces of the people who normally turn their eyes from it and making a difference to the world. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_7febc23b | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_805d3175 | type |
Holographic Terminal | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_805d3175 | comment |
Ellis started writing the series just as the Internet started becoming mainstream. Spider fails to mention it by that name, but he does tend to access something on dozens of Holographic Terminals simultaneously. Also, the City has "feedsites", which are essentially Twitter accounts run by various news outlets. | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_805d3175 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_82b4f38e | type |
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_82b4f38e | comment |
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Spider treats his assistants like garbage, talks about sterilizing the entire city, runs over several people, and uses the Bowel Disruptor on random pedestrians. He's also a man singularly devoted to exposing the truth, no matter what the cost. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_82b4f38e | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_8344209e | type |
BFG | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_8344209e | comment |
BFG The Frost Biter 7-K. Who wouldn't want a big snowball gatling cannon... thing? One of the guns Yelena considers buying requires "two backup spines" to fire safely. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_8344209e | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_83a903f6 | type |
Stepford Smiler | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: The Smiler. When he's introduced, a series of panels shows his plastic smile fading as his aides bicker. Then he reasserts his smile as broad as ever when he takes back control of himself. | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_83a903f6 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b | type |
Necessarily Evil | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b | comment |
Necessarily Evil: Of all Spider's epithets, the only one which gets The Beast's goat is being told that he "doesn't believe in anything." Sneeringly, he responds that he's no nihilist; he's simply accepted that the President doesn't have the power to change anything — only maintain the status quo with brutal efficiency. Contrast with a wacko like Callahan, whom The Beast warns is out to refashion the state in his image because he "doesn't believe in shit." | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_83f3983b | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_8504b817 | type |
Where the Hell Is Springfield? | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_8504b817 | comment |
Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The location of the City is never explicitly stated, though it's pretty clearly either New York City or its future equivalent. It's apparently on the East Coast, since it's coastal and isn't on the West Coast. It has a version of the Statue of Liberty off its shores with a sword and shield instead of a tablet and lantern. | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_8504b817 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_8573ac0a | type |
The Social Darwinist | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_8573ac0a | comment |
The Social Darwinist: Bob Heller, whose Rousing Speech says anything short of American in-breeding would cause America to fall. The Beast also has more than a bit of this, but it's more a cynical, angry, apathetic uncaring sort of Darwinism - let the dumb get wasted and drunk and leave the rest of them alone. | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_8573ac0a | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: John Nkrumah is first introduced as Qi's lover/partner in running The Hole when Spider goes rogue after being fired from The Word. After Spider's first column is released on The Hole, he's seen having celebratory sex with Qi- then he's never seen or mentioned again, while Qi gets a drastic makeover and continues assisting Spider alone. | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_863fa679 | |
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Badass Boast | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: Shortly after being beaten to near-death by corrupt cops... | |
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1.0 | |
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| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_87bb6874 | type |
Villain with Good Publicity | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_87bb6874 | comment |
Villain with Good Publicity: The Smiler. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_87bb6874 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_8b568cb7 | type |
Posthumous Character | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_8b568cb7 | comment |
Posthumous Character: Senator Longstreet, the last presidential candidate from the opposition party who ran against The Beast. His name is brought up several times during the election arc and he inspired Vita Severn, Kirsten was his former campaign manager, and was bankrolled by Oscar Rossini. Spider even broke one of his rules and gave him a (relatively) positive write-up, a move he describes as being willing to do practically anything to get The Beast out of office. When The Beast won re-election anyway, it ultimately led to Spider abandoning the city and setting the comic in motion. Longstreet died shortly afterwards; it's implied he might have comitted suicide. | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_8b568cb7 | |
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Token Good Teammate | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_8f612013 | comment |
Token Good Teammate: Vita for the Smiler's team. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_8f612013 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_912b24c4 | type |
Art Shift | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_912b24c4 | comment |
Art Shift: The chapter "Nobody Loves Me" features three TV shows supposedly based on Spider's life ("Magical Truthsaying Bastard Spidey", a bizarre anime-style gag cartoon; "From the Mountain to the City", a crappy and over-the-top action/drama movie Very Loosely Based On The First Arc; and "I Hump It Here", a porno) and 2 drug-induced dreams of Spider's ("The Heroic Revenge Fantasy" and "The Ugly Paranoid Dream"), all drawn by different artists. The Smiler is drawn like a cartoon character when he's shown putting on a face for the public. When he's shown behind closed doors, especially after he wins the election, he looks much more like an actual and horrible person. | |
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The Bus Came Back | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_927b2f11 | comment |
The Bus Came Back: Channon returns to Spider after leaving him to become a Bride of (Fred) Christ. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_9298d265 | comment |
Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life: Spider regularly gets away with violent and property crimes, but has to go on the run from the police when his insurance policy is revoked. Justified — it was his Journalist's Insurance. Raising hell in the name of a scoop is fine — if you're covered. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Geometric Magic | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_94eb5311 | comment |
Geometric Magic: late in the story's second act, Spider tells the tale of an entire city block spontaneously incinerated except for a single empty room containing an old man's journal full of mathematical equations and diagrams. A university took ten years to figure out what it was for — a machine that was "just three ideas in motion around each other." It was supposed to make a new City, one kinder and happier than the old. A flaw in the math caused a firestorm instead. The rebuilt city block's suicide rate is so high it skews the entire City's suicide rate higher than anywhere else in the world. Except Calcutta... | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_957e5fc2 | comment |
Villainous Breakdown: Callahan succumbs to one as Spider really starts kicking his ass, getting increasingly deranged and mood-swingy. | |
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1.0 | |
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Get Thee to a Nunnery | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_95d67d24 | comment |
Get Thee to a Nunnery: Channon literally fucks off to a nunnery after she's had enough of being Spider's assistant, joining the Brides of (Fred) Christ, who are essentially his groupie cultists. She leaves mainly because the sex was shit and Fred is really an ass. | |
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Bodyguard Crush | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_96f6335d | comment |
Bodyguard Crush: A couple of in-universe shows based very loosely on Spider's life (including a porno) mistakenly assumed that he and Channon were lovers. | |
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1.0 | |
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Won't Do Your Dirty Work | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_97402fc2 | comment |
Won't Do Your Dirty Work: Near the comic's end, the Smiler orders his Secret Service agents to kill Spider Jerusalem. The agents tell him to get bent. The Smiler decides to kill Spider himself... only for Spider to reveal he has a live microphone. | |
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Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It | |
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Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It: The exact year is never given, and Spider eventually states that no one knows the proper year anymore. Now people just give dates in relative terms: "25 years ago", or "the same year that boy band exploded on stage when their enhancements went horribly wrong". | |
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This Is a Work of Fiction | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_986bd638 | comment |
This Is a Work of Fiction: In-Universe, porn based on Spider disclaims any resemblance to persons "living, dead, or writing a weekly column for a newspaper". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Sell What You Love | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_9bcfe996 | comment |
Sell What You Love: One issue has a poor mother pawn her child's stuffed toy so they can buy a trait that removes their need to eat. Spider runs into the child while her mother is in the trait shop, and decides to pay off the toy. | |
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1.0 | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Spider mentions a government-sanctioned culling of intelligent dogs that he participated in. However, we also see in one issue that intelligent dogs serve as police officers. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight Issue 33 has Channon and Yelena sneak out to have a day to themselves. They go out, have fun, talk about Spider, and get into an adventure. The perfect catharsis before the climactic arc of series 3. Issue 51 centers on Royce being a badass. It is aptly titled "Two-Fisted Editor". | |
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MarriedToAGod | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_9fa7dc45 | comment |
Married to a God: Fred Christ's "Brides of Christ". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Homage | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_a1a1491e | comment |
Homage: The whole series is a tribute to gonzo journalism and the late Hunter S. Thompson. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Eye Scream | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream Spider injecting into the corner of his eye. Augh. Blinding Fred Christ's henchman. Channon claims that when she was a stripper, some guy actually pulled out his eyes and threw them at her breasts. They stuck. | |
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1.0 | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: Most notably, the hilarious and cathartic "Monstering" chapter is immediately followed by the horrific "Lonely City" arc, which starts with a gang of violent thugs savagely beating an innocent man to death solely because they used a G-Reader to determine that he had recessive traces of the Sexgang trait in his DNA, and it only gets worse from there. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Ascended Extra | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: One of the three unnamed strippers who watch Spider write his first column returns a short while later as his first assistant, Channon, becoming one of the main characters of the series. | |
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Due to the Dead | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_a679184b | comment |
Due to the Dead: After Vita Severn is murdered, a group of devotees set up a shrine to her in a back alley in the City. Over time, it gradually evolves into a full-on place of worship. Spider pays multiple visits to it throughout the story. | |
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Humble Goal | |
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Humble Goal: In spite of getting into a feud with the President himself, all Spider really wants is to return to seclusion in his little mountain shack. | |
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1.0 | |
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No New Fashions in the Future | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_a7ae597a | comment |
No New Fashions in the Future: Thoroughly averted, as any look over the art will indicate. | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_a7aef9ff | comment |
Obfuscating Stupidity: Spider, multiple times. He intentionally plays up various portrayals of him (drug-addled loon, trigger-happy gunman, holed-up pet writer) to distract people from what he's actually up to. He even does it on occasion to Yelena and Channon. | |
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Sub-Par Supremacist | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_aa83d0d6 | comment |
Sub-Par Supremacist: One man proselytizing for a church of Norse gods is dressed like a Barbarian Hero, but is short, skinny and wears Nerd Glasses. Social Darwinist politician Bob Heller is a bit on the short side (the showgirls introducing his speech are nearly twice his height), with "a really punchable face" in Spider's terms. | |
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High Times Future | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_aba04d22 | comment |
High Times Future: Spider's copious drug use is at least partially because drugs are tax deductible for journalists. | |
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Future Imperfect | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ac0f4761 | comment |
Future Imperfect: People in the City rarely think about the past, and when they do they often get it wrong. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ac0f4761 | |
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Myth Arc | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ac7cbf8d | comment |
Myth Arc: Spider's battle against The Smiler. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_acecb17d | comment |
Chekhov's Skill: Channon mentions early on that she worked as a bodyguard, but she quits as Spider's assistant without beating anyone up. It's therefore less of a surprise when she shows back up and starts serving as Spider's bodyguard. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Informed Flaw | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_af2547c9 | comment |
Informed Flaw: Spider is constantly said to be out-of-shape and unattractive (in looks, not just personality). However, he has a wiry and toned physique, and his face is bereft of flaws save for slightly crooked teeth. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Catchphrase | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase Mitchell "Where's my fucking column?" Royce. At one point Spider lampshades it - when Royce calls about a threat on Spider's life, his first reaction is, "Hey, you didn't ask where your fucking column was". Spider doesn't give two tugs of a dead dog's cock about catchphrases. | |
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Bread and Circuses | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_b0fb2427 | comment |
Bread and Circuses: It's implied that this is one reason why The City is such a Crapsack World, and also why the Beast is President; the abundance of luxuries and entertainment provided by future tech make it easier than ever to ignore the less fortunate. The Beast tells Spider straight out that he feels his job isn't to fix all the problems in society but simply to make sure the average citizen has a few creature comforts to get them through the day. | |
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The Future Will Be Better | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_b18700f4 | comment |
The Future Will Be Better: Spider, despite a violently cynical misanthrope, genuinely believes this. He just wishes that it would happen FASTER. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Intellectual Animal | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_b2463ea1 | comment |
Intellectual Animal: The City's K9 corps, as seen in the "Freeze Me With Your Kiss" arc. Also a gang of talking cats in a brief appearance therein. | |
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1.0 | |
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Squick | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_b486877f | comment |
Double on the Squick: | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_b4a6ae4c | type |
Everyone Has Standards | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_b4a6ae4c | comment |
Everyone Has Standards: Spider is noticeably terrified after leaving Heller's press conference, ending with a "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer. Despite the considerably loosened social and sexual mores of this future, where sometimes it seems anything goes... pedophilia is still beyond the pale. Spider uses the revelation of someone's association with a NAMBLA Expy organization and all that it connotes to destroy the person's reputation and drive him to suicide. | |
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Only a Lighter | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_b4fa26d3 | comment |
Only a Lighter: Spider Jerusalem develops a fast-progressing neurodegenerative disorder with very little chance of recovering. In the epilogue he has barely any manual dexterity left, his assistants leave him alone for a minute and he whips out what looks like a gun and slowly draws it towards his head... then lights a cigarette with it, revealing that he is recovering after all. | |
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Take That! | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: As might be expected for an Author Tract based on Hunter S. Thompson and making frequent references to A Modest Proposal, every issue has this to some extent about topics ranging from shallow mass media, to political corruption, to religion as a means to oppress and abuse people rather than comfort them. The biggest, most ongoing Take That!, though, is probably for the audience itself. The first volume contains a rip on Charlie's Angels, with a show about three bisexual survivalist women guided by a disembodied voice on mindless killing and sex, on a channel literally for lonely virgins. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ba236071 | comment |
Spider believes it to be this when he discovers he has "become television" by way of participating in the senseless commercialized outrage culture (namely, by harassing television personalities as they're live on air) - and becoming one of the constantly angry and moralistic television personalities he hates as a result. His assistant is unimpressed by his drama and tells him to just eat his Caribou eyes. | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ba236071 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ba5bbda5 | type |
Mirror Character | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ba5bbda5 | comment |
Mirror Character: Spider gets this with many people Yelena - as the series progresses their similarities become more and more visible. Royce and Channon even discuss if she's becoming more like Spider, or just more true to herself. Yelena's father at first seems to be the antithesis of Spider, being respected, mild-mannered former political adviser, but at the end of the day, he's just as much motivated to do the right thing as Jerusalem. Even Smiler gets this - compare some things Spider says with his famous speech about why he wants to be the president and you'll see they both are just tired of how stupid and easy to manipulate the masses are. The difference is that Spider tries to make the world a better place, while Smiler just wants to abuse the power and screw people over for fun. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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It's All About Me | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_bb18a227 | comment |
It's All About Me: Society (especially in Spider's eyes) has taken this trait. People care only for themselves and their own pleasure. Other people and the rest of the world in general are only around to facilitate this. | |
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Putting on the Reich | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_bcba27a1 | comment |
Putting on the Reich: Many of Heller's rallies are like this if only to appeal to the neo-Nazi/redneck demographic. Lampshaded by Vita. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_bd4264a3 | type |
Slasher Smile | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_bd4264a3 | comment |
Slasher Smile: Spider and The Smiler. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_bd4264a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_bd4264a3 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_bd5e8cd9 | type |
Urban Fantasy | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_bd5e8cd9 | comment |
Urban Fantasy: Of a sort: There are references to magic, including a number-based ritual meant to improve the city (and instead set a city block on fire that burned for days), and the reason why no one in the world remembers exactly what year it is. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_bd5e8cd9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_bd5e8cd9 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_beb932ca | type |
Big Applesauce | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_beb932ca | comment |
Big Applesauce: The City is rather transparently a future NYC, although it is hinted to have grown to cover most of New York State. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_beb932ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_beb932ca | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361 | type |
Anti-Hero | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361 | comment |
One of the first things Spider does is blow up his local bar purely out of spite. This establishes Spider as an Anti-Hero. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_bf23f967 | type |
Our Showers Are Different | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_bf23f967 | comment |
Our Showers Are Different: It takes less than a second for a "Voice-Keyed Physical Cleaning Unit" to turn Spider Jerusalem from hairy mountain man into a completely bald person. Given that he Screams Like a Little Girl while it emits a blinding flash of light, it apparently does so with lasers. It also appears to have been permanent, as he is never again shown with a single strand of hair. Not as crazy as it sounds - Laser hair removal was developed in The '90s. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_bf23f967 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_bf23f967 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c011cd29 | type |
Path of Inspiration | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c011cd29 | comment |
Path of Inspiration: Several religions are depicted like this, most notably Fred Christ's church (founded so he could gain political power by whoring women out). | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c011cd29 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c011cd29 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c011cd29 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c0961831 | type |
Interrupted Suicide | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c0961831 | comment |
More humorously, Spider's reaction to "From the Mountain to the City" is to turn his bowel disruptor onto a lethal setting and put it in his mouth. His apartment turns on a porn channel to distract him. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c0961831 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c0961831 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c0961831 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c176e0ad | type |
"Nighthawks" Shot | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c176e0ad | comment |
"Nighthawks" Shot: A panel in issue #32 is a homage to Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. The diner Spider's sitting in is even named "Hopper's." | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c176e0ad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c176e0ad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c176e0ad | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c213d569 | type |
Snowball Fight | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c213d569 | comment |
Snowball Fight: In the side-story "Next Winters", Spider reminisces about the winters of his youth while snowball fighting with the filthy assistants. Near the end of the story, he produces the Frost Biter 7-K, a rapid-fire automatic snowball gun. The filthy assistants retaliate with a cannon. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c213d569 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c213d569 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c2288824 | type |
A Nazi by Any Other Name | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c2288824 | comment |
A Nazi by Any Other Name: Bob Heller. Complete with one of the attendees at his rally being physically identical to Adolf Hitler (except with a larger mustache, as if it weren't obvious already), just in case the reader wasn't paying attention to his rhetoric. Then later, just to make sure, Spider invokes Hitler's name in describing Heller. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c2288824 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c2288824 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c2288824 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c2e1777 | type |
Conveniently Common Kink | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c2e1777 | comment |
Conveniently Common Kink: In a one-page side-story, a woman stops to talk to a man who's sitting on the sidewalk, crying. He explains that he's crying because he has no friends — he keeps eating them. "Me too," she says. Then she invites him to dinner. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c2e1777 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c2e1777 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c2e1777 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c2e2a445 | type |
Jade-Colored Glasses | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c2e2a445 | comment |
Jade-Colored Glasses: Half-literal - one-half of Spider's glasses is jade-colored, while the other is rose-colored. True to form, Spider swings between hardened, cynical misanthropy and loathing/abuse of everyone around him, and loving, idealistic hope that humanity - a beautiful, loving species in his eyes - can change for the better, no matter how long it takes. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c2e2a445 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c2e2a445 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c33ba0a8 | type |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c33ba0a8 | comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Once the plot starts focusing on how The Smiler hates Spider and wants him dead, the Whorehopper ceases to even be referenced in-story. Although this could be because Spider managed to silence him by finishing the contract. He mentioned in year two that he would produce two more books: a compilation of his Word columns and one about the election. He wanted to return to the Mountain afterwards but then the Smiler got elected, forcing Spider to focus on getting him out of office. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c33ba0a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c33ba0a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c33ba0a8 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c3fbac64 | type |
Bestiality Is Depraved | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c3fbac64 | comment |
Bestiality Is Depraved: On a society level. We know the future is seriously depraved when we see ads for intelligent dog prostitutes. It's still apparently a taboo, as exemplified by Bill Chimpfucker. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c3fbac64 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c3fbac64 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c3fbac64 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c3fcb43e | type |
Protection from Editors | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c3fcb43e | comment |
Protection from Editors: Used as a plot point in-universe. Royce, the editor at the newspaper Spider writes for, doesn't actually edit Spider's writing, nor does anyone want him to. He does occasionally suggest topics, but mostly he runs interference, gets Spider on-track (where's my fucking column?), pays for all the damage Spider causes, and protects Spider, in the run-up to the finale. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c3fcb43e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c3fcb43e | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c4d09d24 | type |
Couch Gag | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c4d09d24 | comment |
Couch Gag: The three-eyed smiley at the end of every issue. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c4d09d24 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c4d09d24 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: So many we gave the series it's own page. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ca87e3ec | type |
No Name Given | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: Spider's editor at Driven Books, to whom he owes two books as of the beginning of the story. Spider only refers to the editor as "the Whorehopper," and he's the only character who interacts with the editor in the comic. There's a common fan theory that "the Whorehopper" might not actually exist outside of Spider's drug-fueled fantasies. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ca87e3ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ca87e3ec | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cbf5c04 | type |
Insult of Endearment | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cbf5c04 | comment |
Insult of Endearment: "Filthy Assistants." | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cbf5c04 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cbf5c04 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cbf5c04 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cc4b45f6 | type |
Word of God | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cc4b45f6 | comment |
Spider claims to have killed 16 people. All in self-defense "except one." Ellis confirmed that Spider feels responsible for Vita's death. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cc4b45f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cc4b45f6 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cdd676a3 | type |
Hyper-Competent Sidekick | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cdd676a3 | comment |
Hypercompetent Sidekick: Filthy Assistants (and to a lesser degree Royce, although he's Spider's boss) in regards to anything non-journalism related, who lampshade it repeatedly. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cdd676a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cdd676a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cdd676a3 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ce1d78bc | type |
Foreign Queasine | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ce1d78bc | comment |
Foreign Queasine: In the future, just about all of the food we see eaten is disgusting, from New Zealander blood milkshakes to Alaskan caribou eyeballs. Cloned human flesh is served at "Long Pig," a popular fast food chain aimed at children. It's played for gross-out humor. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ce1d78bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ce1d78bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ce1d78bc | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cf3158e0 | type |
Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cf3158e0 | comment |
Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: In-universe — Spider states that part of the reason he became a hermit on the mountain was his overzealous fans, who at one point attempted to mug him for his gizzard. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cf3158e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_cf3158e0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d0b95b85 | type |
Used Future | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d0b95b85 | comment |
Used Future: Some parts of the city look much like modern-day, except overgrown and overused - many mutants and hicks live in these parts. There's also the issue of several abandoned giant robots around the city that no one knows how they got there - people think they were made for defense, and then forgotten about. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d0b95b85 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d0b95b85 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d0b95b85 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f | type |
What the Hell, Hero? | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: A source calls Spider out on losing interest in her once he got the information he needed for his story out of her, in effect treating her like a prostitute. Indira accuses Spider of ruining her life when she was his assistant just to get a story. And when asked about her, Spider doesn't even remember her name and denies that she was his assistant. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d442f9d1 | type |
ToiletHumor | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d442f9d1 | comment |
Toilet Humor: Spider is not afraid to share how constipated mental acuity drug Jumpstart makes him, nor how loose his bowels get after he stops taking it. In general, the off-handed and easy discussion of waste elimination (not to mention frequent demonstrations of urination) are to be expected rather quickly. And that's not even beginning to describe the shenanigans with Spider's bowel disruptor. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d442f9d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d442f9d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d442f9d1 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d4bb4e51 | type |
Walking Shirtless Scene | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d4bb4e51 | comment |
Walking Shirtless Scene: Spider almost never wears a shirt under his jacket. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d4bb4e51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d4bb4e51 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d4bb4e51 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d6519b1b | type |
Rabid Cop | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d6519b1b | comment |
Rabid Cop: The CPD has a fair few of 'em. Stomponato would be a literal example. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d6519b1b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d6519b1b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d6519b1b | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d71073b5 | type |
Subverted Kids' Show | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d71073b5 | comment |
Subverted Kids' Show: Two of 'em in the setting. "Anthrax Cat" is Tom and Jerry as a torture Gorn show, and "The Sex Puppets" is Sesame Street puppets and people doing hardcore pornography. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d71073b5 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d71073b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d71073b5 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d7b34c31 | type |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d7b34c31 | comment |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Beast. He claims that even his kids call him that. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d7b34c31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d7b34c31 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d7b34c31 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d7fc9fd0 | type |
Vitriolic Best Buds | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d7fc9fd0 | comment |
Vitriolic Best Buds: Spider and pretty much anyone he calls a friend - Yelena, Channon, Royce, Tico, etc. Averted with Oscar Rossini and Vita Severn. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d7fc9fd0 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d7fc9fd0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d839c530 | type |
The Unfettered | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d839c530 | comment |
The Unfettered: The Smiler. Spider claims to be this and can straddle the line at times, but the fact that Even Bastards Have Standards puts a dampener on that. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d839c530 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d839c530 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d848560f | type |
Unusual Euphemism | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d848560f | comment |
Unusual Euphemism: READ MY SCRIPTURE!!! | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d848560f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d848560f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d848560f | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d9cf40fa | type |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d9cf40fa | comment |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The secret service agents Callahan brought for his final confrontation with Spider. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d9cf40fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d9cf40fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_d9cf40fa | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dab2f3ee | type |
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dab2f3ee | comment |
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Spider, the "filthies" and Royce all smoke. Even the cat smokes, and Spider suggests that the cat's the biggest chimney of them all. It's practically invoked by Spider, who forces his assistants to smoke in the first place. Then again, Spider does also demands his assistants take anti-smoking traits, too, implying he wants the look but not the side effects. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dab2f3ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dab2f3ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dab2f3ee | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997 | type |
Action Girl | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Channon and Yelena prove to be extremely handy with guns, especially after the Smiler ramps up attacks on Spider - splattering several Secret Service goons sent to tail them as they go about gathering evidence. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dca70c44 | type |
Reasonable Authority Figure | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dca70c44 | comment |
Reasonable Authority Figure: Bill Rose, the man who runs the orphanage most of the child prostitutes come from in "Business". Spider thinks he's responsible for their actions... only to learn Rose, while not at fault for it, is perfectly aware of what they're doing, but has no ability to stop them, as hard as he - and the government, several religious organizations, the public, and charities try. He tries to protect them (even as they spiral into self-abuse anyway) and gives one of the most intelligent monologues in the series on human nature. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dca70c44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dca70c44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dca70c44 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_de5f028b | type |
Barbarian Hero | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_de5f028b | comment |
One man proselytizing for a church of Norse gods is dressed like a Barbarian Hero, but is short, skinny and wears Nerd Glasses. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_de5f028b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_de5f028b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_de5f028b | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dea5fe1 | type |
Kubrick Stare | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dea5fe1 | comment |
Kubrick Stare: Spider is fond of these. | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dea5fe1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dea5fe1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_dea5fe1 | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_df582b0b | type |
Continuity Snarl | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_df582b0b | comment |
Continuity Snarl: a big fat one. Spider gives a camera to a woman, Mary, after Vita's death; this later comes into play at the end of the series with her taking a photo needed to expose and bring down the Smiler for his role in Vita's death. Unfortunately the event in question happens BEFORE Mary got her camera. Ellis has admitted in Q&A's that this was a mistake on his part, and that he didn't catch it before the issues went to press. | |
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Historical In-Joke | |
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Historical In-Joke: Names of controversial figures appear obliquely throughout the series: McVeigh High School is a reference to bomber Timothy McVeigh. Channon phones Spider from a street named Liddy, referencing G. Gorgon Liddy of the Watergate scandal. Spider states that "President Rodham" was caught fisting kittens, a reference to Hillary Rodham Clinton. A senile television character named "Ronnie" is a reference to Ronald Reagan, who had Alzheimer's. The mob-owned "Godti" brand of makers is a reference to notorious mob boss John Gotti. Blood-soaked riot police are seen in the Richard P. Daley precinct building. This is a reference to Richard J. Daley, a Chicago mayor who advised violent police action against rioters in the aftermath of the Martin Luther King assassination. The Dahmer's restaurant, where they apparently serve cloned human meat, is a reference to cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer. | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_e154ff08 | comment |
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: When Spider gets serious you have two options: either you give him the truth, or he'll fuckin' take it from you! | |
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StrawmanPolitical | |
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Strawman Political: Averted; there are only the "Ruling" and "Opposition" parties, and they aren't identified so much by policies as by their tendencies to play dirty and screw with the American populace. | |
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Comfort Food | |
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Comfort Food: Invoked. When Channon breaks down after being dumped and turns almost catatonic, Spider's first impulse is to carry her outside and feed her deep-fried foods and wheat beer. Channon is... less than enthusiastic. | |
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No Party Given | |
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No Party Given: Two political parties exist, but they're referred to by whether they're in office or not. (The Beast's party is referred to — by Spider — as the Party In Government.) It's still implied to be a Liberal vs. Conservative sort. Notably, despite the general adherence to the "Opposition party"/"Party in office" descriptors, Callahan is identified in his first appearance as "D-Cal." Of the two Opposition party candidates shown, Callahan's campaign shows traits of the modern Democratic party (such as hiring Vita as a showpiece for women's representation despite giving Schact more power), while Heller's campaign shows some aspects of the modern Republican party (with an exaggeration of the party's neoliberal economic ideals). | |
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Gonk | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_e542d80a | comment |
Gonk: A lot of people, especially when faces are twisted with rage. Darick does not do "pretty". | |
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Gorn | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_e542d889 | comment |
Gorn: The series is regularly brutally, bloodily violent, but the assassination of Vita Severn is particularly gruesome. In-universe depictions of violence appear on this level as well, as noted by the ultra-violent cartoon antics of Anthrax Cat. | |
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A-Cup Angst | |
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A-Cup Angst: Yelena claims that for her to fill out the kinds of dresses that look good on Channon she'd "need to be shot in the back by two cruise missiles" first. Which, given Channon's rather more spectacular figure, doesn't necessarily mean much. Still, Yelena seems to have a preference for wearing clothes that understate her figure: seemingly so as not to call attention to it. | |
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Humongous Mecha | |
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Humongous Mecha: The "Gladiator Wall" robots Spider talks about in "Filth of the City". | |
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Satellite Character | |
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Satellite Character: Robert McX. That guy with a scar. Tells people just how awesome Spider is, and what he wrote recently, and isn't afraid of anything. | |
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Contractual Obligation Project | |
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Contractual Obligation Project: invokedAn in-universe version; Spider is forced to come down from the mountain to complete his two-book contract. He ends up declaring that one book will be an Omnibus rerelease of his columns. | |
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Writer on Board | |
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Writer on Board: As with most of Ellis' work. Even in-universe with Spider. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Practically Spider's Catchphrase. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_eb251937 | comment |
Dirty Cop: Almost all of the CPD are corrupt powertrippers in it to murder people at random. Part of the Secret Service is also corrupt, too. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Fred Christ. Spider on a bad day. | |
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Slouch of Villainy | |
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Slouch of Villainy: Spider is really really good at this, even if he isn't technically a villain. | |
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Shrine to the Fallen | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_ed7817b2 | comment |
Shrine to the Fallen: Quite a few pop up for Vita Severn after her demise. | |
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0% Approval Rating | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_eda30d58 | comment |
0% Approval Rating The Beast is so unpopular that the Secret Service has started charging him for protection. Near the end the Smiler's support has fallen lower than that of an earlier president who was caught fisting kittens in public. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_eef90616 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick Double on the Squick: Spider mentioned having been a prostitute as a bit of background information to a witty aphorism he'd heard while employed as such. Blink and you'll miss it. | |
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Exotic Entree | |
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Exotic Entree: The far-future setting allows for many (usually vat-grown) delicacies such as caribou eyes or "Leg of Bastard" (that is, human). Some prefer to save money by catching door-to-door political canvassers or other easy prey. | |
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Phlegmings | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_f041eb0d | comment |
Phlegmings: Stomponato, the psychotic talking police dog, drools constantly. Likely to be a symptom of rabies. | |
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Drugs Are Good | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_f0f69743 | comment |
Drugs Are Good: Spider is a functional drug addict who does a lot of his best work while blitzed out of his mind on various drugs. Future technology, however, seems to shield him from the worst consequences of habitual drug use. | |
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Da Editor | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_f641252f | comment |
Da Editor: Mitch Royce, City Editor of The Word. Comes out the other side of parodic exaggeration to arrive at complete awesome. | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_f6b30338 | comment |
Murder Is the Best Solution: The Smiler. He can't even mimic Nixon's Checkers speech without killing the pet in question. | |
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A.I. Getting High | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_f849c819 | comment |
A.I. Getting High: Just about everyone in Transmetropolitan is on drugs, and the computers are no exception. In fact, Spider Jerusalem's trademark Cool Shades were created by a fabricator AI that was stoned out of its mind on machine drugs at the time. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: When The Smiler is fleeing the White House by helicopter in the last volume, Robert McX loudly challenges him, causing him to snap and shove his political advisor towards the crowd of journalists with a snarl of "You deal with their shit!" Shortly afterwards his flight path is leaked to the authorities and media. | |
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The Future Is Shocking | |
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The Future Is Shocking: For people from the Present Day. The Revivals, cryogenically preserved individuals from the late 20th/early 21st century, are rendered catatonic and traumatized when forced into The City with no buffer or psychological care. | |
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Brain Uploading | |
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Brain Uploading: The Foglets upload their minds into clouds of free-floating Nanomachines. | |
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There Is a God! | |
| Transmetropolitan (Comic Book) / int_fd5b9124 | comment |
There Is a God!: Said by Spider Jerusalem when a party-goer tosses a grenade necklace into his lap while he is feeling down. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: In the first issue, Spider makes a threatening remark to the toll booth attendant giving him a hard time, stating "I'll be back for you." He makes good on his promise at the end of the series, published five years later. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: In spite of being a violent and abrasive misanthrope, Spider occasionally shows that he's a good guy underneath. Spider has a soft spot for what politicians have dubbed "The New Scum" - the marginalized outcasts that the rest of society abuses for the hell of it; hookers, drug addicts, homeless, fetishists, etc. Most obviously, he's a Friend to All Children - particularly victimized ones. And then Spider goes on to buy the girl's beloved stuffed toy back from the pawnshop for her. Even as early as the second chapter, Spider Pets The Cat when he finds a scruffy, ugly, three-eyed, two-faced, cat smoking a cigarette on his way home from Angels 8. When she lunges at him and tries to claw his face off, only to collapse in a heap from hunger, he takes her home and feeds her and she becomes his pet for the rest of the series; she stays with him right up to the final chapter. | |
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