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Howard the Duck / Comicbook
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Howard The Duck is one of the strangest comic book characters ever published by Marvel Comics, best known today because of its movie adaptation, believed by many to be one of the worst films ever made; this is unfortunate, as the comic was both funny and full of social criticism, and was one of Marvel's best known titles during the 1970s. While not an underground comic in of itself, Howard the Duck is widely cited as an example of the underground comix movement's influence on mainstream media.The character was apparently created as a sight gag; in "Adventure into Fear" #19 (December, 1973), in a Man-Thing story involving the "Nexus of All Realities" characters from several universes appeared, many of them being obvious homages to fictional characters such as Conan the Barbarian and (in Howard's case) Donald Duck. However, writer Steve Gerber, known for both his love of strange characters and playing with readers' expectations, decided to continue using Howard, and convinced Marvel to give the character his own series. Although Marvel had to strike a deal with Disney in order to use the character, including such things as requiring Howard to wear pants, the character proved popular, most likely due to Gerber's writing.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Gerber had the "duck" accidentally transported to Cleveland, where the "hairless apes" (as Howard always refers to them) refused to believe he was anything but a midget in a duck costume and treated him as a weirdo. "Trapped in a world he never made" (the series' catchphrase) Howard tried to live a normal life (and got a series of jobs, such as driving a taxi) but kept running into bizarre people and creatures and ended up having to confront them. The vast majority of these were just wannabe supervillains with silly names and goals such as "Doctor Bong" or humorous menaces like a vampiric cow. More importantly, the series used the short-tempered and sarcastic duck as a way to snark on modern human society. At one point, Howard even runs for President of the United States (!) only to retire after a false accusation of having sex with his friend, a human woman named Beverly Switzler.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Howard, despite running into superheroes occasionally, was no superhero himself, and had no superhuman powers (other than the occasional unexpected skill such as "Quack Fu") though he still did end up helping people, directly or indirectly, mostly because of Beverly.The character's popularity led to his being adapted into the live-action movie, but since other than the Beverly/Howard romance, nothing from the comics made it in, especially not the humor, fans of the character hated it. It was universally poorly-received among critics and fans alike, and was a major flop for Marvel, seemingly killing any chance of more stories involving Howard. Thankfully, time has been kind to him and he makes a cameo appearance in The Stinger of the hit and critically acclaimed film Guardians of the Galaxy, confirming him as a canon part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe continuity. He even got a new ongoing series —his first since The '80s— starting in March 2015, with Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones at the helm.Howard was also the cause of a legal dispute between Marvel and Gerber, who claimed to own the character. This caused Gerber to leave the company and led to many years of legal wranglings; in the end, the situation was settled with Marvel keeping ownership of Howard. Howard has appeared occasionally in various Marvel titles since the 1970s, and a few years ago starred in a miniseries (again by Gerber) that made open references to his sexual relationship with Beverly (it was part of Marvel's adult-oriented MAX line, which may not be a canonical part of the Marvel Universe.) He was one of the major parodied characters in the Amalgam Universe, merged with DC Comics's Lobo as Lobo The Duck. Seriously. He appeared again as an agent of the dimensional-patrolling agency ARMOR in the "Marvel Zombies" comics, starring alongside various heroes such as Aaron Stack, the Machine Man, and also had an appearance in the LEGO Marvel Superheroes game as an unlockable character.In 2019, it was announced that an adult-oriented Howard the Duck animated series would be airing on Hulu, as part of their nascent The Offenders franchise, alongside shows based on M.O.D.O.K., Dazzler & Tigra, and Hit-Monkey. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Supreme SOOFI is a never-named Anita Bryant (a singer who became a Heteronormative Crusader) — she even mentions having her epiphany in Dade County, where the real Bryant then lived — while Donny and Marie Dearth are based on the Osmonds who share their first names. See also Take That!. | |
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Actually a Doombot | |
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Actually a Doombot: Gerber managed a pre-emptive example: According to his super-secret Howard and Spider-Man/Destroyer Duck and Savage Dragon crossover (in which both sets of characters raided the same warehouse in different books), the real Howard actually ended up in the Image Universe under the name Leonard (although officially Leonard the Duck was an entirely creator-owned character) while the Howard left in the Marvel Universe for other writers to use was just a clone. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Early on Howard would do this on occasion. In one adventure he directly addresses the readers and tell them that he knows the story took a weird turn, but it beats the initial Driven to Suicide plot. As time went on this deescalated to a general focus on metacommentary without explicit meta-awareness. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: This picture◊ has Guardians of the Galaxy selfie with duckface. Also, notice Drax in the background. | |
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Talking Animal | |
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Talking Animal: Howard is a talking duck. | |
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Voluntary Shapeshifting | |
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Voluntary Shapeshifting: Tara Tam gained Skrull shapeshifting powers after eating the meat of a Skrull that had been turned into a duck. | |
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Knight in Sour Armor | |
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Knight In Sour Armor: Howard has a jaded attitude and a total lack of interest in supernatural affairs. | |
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Toothy Bird | |
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Toothy Bird: Howard is sometimes drawn with teeth. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Howard is usually this. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Captain Ersatz: Biggs the cyborg cat is a blatant take-off of "2," the cat from WE 3. | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: The little girl who created a gingerbread monster in Vol. 1 #6 ended up getting killed. | |
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Rogues' Gallery Transplant | |
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Rogues-Gallery Transplant: Dr. Bong is arguably Howard's archnemesis, but in recent years he seems to be slowly transferring to being part of Deadpool's supporting cast. | |
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ElmuhFuddSyndwome | |
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Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Winda Wester. Weally cute, though. | |
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Arch-Enemy | |
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Arch-Enemy: Dr. Bong. | |
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Beautiful All Along | |
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Beautiful All Along: Winda Wester, whose beauty makes a stark contrast to her speech impediment and general weirdness. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Howard is arrogant, opinionated and selfish and doesn't hesitate to insult people or throw snarky comments at them... but he also helps those that have been wronged and is very loyal to his friends. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Spider-Man goes through a series of Heroic BSODs thanks to Howard that culminates in Vol. 5 #5 with Howard "saving" him by pulling his foot out of a tiny amount of rubble. Spidey is so distraught over "owing Howard one" that the end of the issue has him hugging Johnny Storm for emotional support. | |
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Clue from Ed. | |
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Clue from Ed.: Parodied with repeated mentions of comics that were never made. | |
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PostModernism | |
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Postmodernism: As detailed under Celebrity Paradox, Vol. 6 culminated in Howard discovering Mojo was transmitting his adventures to the multiverse. And then he hired someone to put him in some outrageous stories...two purple aliens with Author Powers named Chipp and Jho (who work next to Ta-Nehi-C, Ry-N and Air-Icka). | |
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Getting Crap Past the Radar | |
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Getting Crap Past the Radar: The comic ran on the tension between the funny-animal kiddie comic it appeared to be and the actual very-for-adults comic it was. As a result, double entendres, cleverly concealed X-rated references ("Phelch" the space turnip) and near-obscenities ("Big clucking deal") were regular features. Not to mention the occasional implication that Howard and Beverly's relationship went beyond the platonic (leading to a particularly uncomfortable moment in the live-action film). Averted when the comic was revived in 2001. It was published by Marvel's "mature" imprint, MAX Comics, so there was no radar to get past and the content was much more explicit. | |
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Author Tract | |
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Author Tract: Lots of stories were devoted to Howard ranting on how stupid, lazy, self-centered, and shallow humanity had become. The last issue of the MAX series mainly amounted to being a rant on the negative aspects of religion. | |
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Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation | |
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Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation: Inverted. He's a human named Howard T. Duck in Earth-65, Spider-Gwen's home reality. Also inverted in the Howard The Human one-shot, where Howard is the only human in a world of anthropomorphic animals. | |
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Belated Backstory | |
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Belated Backstory: Howard reveals his past to Winda in Vol. 1 #13, telling his origins and how his life in his original universe was before getting trapped in ours. | |
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It's a Small World, After All | |
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It's a Small World After All: One of the people who Howard befriends in New York after a disastrous escape from Dr. Bong's castle happens to be Beverly's uncle, Lee. | |
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Rich Bitch | |
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Rich Bitch: Iris Raritan. | |
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Author Avatar | |
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Chipp, a "Sparkitect" tasked by an organization of purple-skinned Author Avatars tasked with making the Marvel Universe interesting one character at a time through the use of cosmic powers in what's blatantly an allegory for Marvel Comics. | |
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Fictional Political Party | |
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Fictional Political Party: Howard ran for President in 1976 for the All Night Party. | |
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Unfazed Everyman | |
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Unfazed Everyman: Beverly pretty much fills this role, if you consider that her friends includes a sleepwalking painter with a vigilante alter-ego, a psychic with a speech impediment and, of course... Howard. | |
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Rich Idiot With No Day Job | |
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Rich Idiot with No Day Job: Deconstructed in the Iris Raritan arc. Iris decides to try to become a vigilante because rich people always seem to be able to do it with ease, but she's so incompetent that even usual Marvel loser villains the Circus of Crime end up being a serious threat to her, and the resulting debacle leads to Paul being shot and Winda getting severely beaten and possibly raped. | |
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Beware the Silly Ones | |
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Beware the Silly Ones: Dr. Bong, who, despite his goofy conception, was the most dangerous foe that Howard ever faced. | |
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Recursive Canon | |
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Recursive Canon: As per the Celebrity Paradox entry above, the 2016 series revealed that Mojo had made knockoff Howard adventures starring a brainwashed Lea Thompson and an alien actor in a duck suit. Mojo's fake Howard was, of course, a dead ringer for the star of the 1986 movie. | |
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Herr Doktor | |
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Herr Doktor/Those Wacky Nazis: Dr. Reich | |
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Phrase Catcher | |
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Phrase Catcher: "You're a talking duck!" Sometimes it was just "You're a duck!" Played with in an issue of Sensational She-Hulk - when one of the characters says this, he replies "That ain't the half of it, toots," as he pulls out a cigar. "I'm also a smoker." | |
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Frankenstein's Monster | |
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Frankenstein's Monster: Created in one issue by a little girl Mad Scientist. Oh yes, and it's made of gingerbread. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_7b8b3def | comment |
Celebrity Paradox: As if the franchise didn't have enough Postmodernism, Vol. 6 features Lea Thompson hiring Howard. While the 1986 movie doesn't exist, it's revealed there were moments where X-Men villain Mojo kidnapped Thompson and had her play Bev against someone in a Howard costume, to fill in the gaps where Howard had no adventures (i.e. when he did not have a dedicated title) and "[his] life was the equivalent of a post-credits cameo". | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_7b8b3def | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_7b8b3def | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_7b8b3def | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_7b90899b | type |
Ultimate Universe | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_7b90899b | comment |
Ultimate Universe: In the MAX series, God suggests Howard could be reborn as "Ultimate Howard the Duck." | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_7b90899b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_7b90899b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_7b90899b | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_7bc90010 | type |
Hearing Voices | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_7bc90010 | comment |
Hearing Voices: Howard is haunted by them during his temporary state of insanity. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_7bc90010 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_7bc90010 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_7bc90010 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_8344209e | type |
BFG | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_8344209e | comment |
BFG: Howard owns one and refers to it as such. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_8344209e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_8344209e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_8344209e | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_8485d41a | type |
Interspecies Romance | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_8485d41a | comment |
Interspecies Romance: Sometimes implied between Howard and Beverly, but we only see them reciprocate their affections in Vol. 2 and the MAX series. | |
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1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_8485d41a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_8485d41a | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_85ebb64d | type |
Humanlike Hand Anatomy | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_85ebb64d | comment |
Humanlike Hand Anatomy: Howard has White Gloves on human-like hands, but has webbed feet. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_85ebb64d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_85ebb64d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_85ebb64d | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_874176be | type |
Psychic Powers | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_874176be | comment |
Psychic Powers: Winda. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_874176be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_874176be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_874176be | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_8bc4a55d | type |
Went to the Great X in the Sky | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_8bc4a55d | comment |
Went to the Great X in the Sky: In the back-up story of the third issue of the 2015 series, Howard informs a Wolverine impersonator that the real Wolverine has gone to the big Canada in the sky. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_8bc4a55d | featureApplicability |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_8bc4a55d | featureConfidence |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_8bc4a55d | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_90b330ab | type |
No-Respect Guy | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_90b330ab | comment |
No Respect Guy: Invoked for laughs (and to keep him a 'joke character' within the Marvel Universe). Even Nice Guy Spider-Man has urged Howard to 'lose my number!' when he crosses paths with him. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for the first time, she looks him up in her set of 'Deadpool's Guide to Super-Villains' trading cards, only to discover that the usually reliable (...sorta) author just didn't care. Played with in his S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014) appearance (from about a year before this run); S.H.I.E.L.D. actually do respect Howard, but they also know he's at his best when he feels hard-done-by, so they don't act as if they do. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_90b330ab | featureApplicability |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_90b330ab | featureConfidence |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_90b330ab | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_92f863b6 | type |
Revival | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_92f863b6 | comment |
Averted when the comic was revived in 2001. It was published by Marvel's "mature" imprint, MAX Comics, so there was no radar to get past and the content was much more explicit. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_92f863b6 | featureApplicability |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_92f863b6 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_9dd2cbc2 | type |
CloudCuckooLander | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_9dd2cbc2 | comment |
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Most of the villains appear to be this, particularly the Kidney Lady. | |
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1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_9dd2cbc2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_9dd2cbc2 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_9ebd9c33 | type |
UnPerson | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_9ebd9c33 | comment |
Un-person: During Civil War, Howard attempted to register, but the government considered him to be such a hassle with his status, they just decided altogether that he didn't exist at all. He was quite overjoyed as that meant no more taxes. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_9ebd9c33 | featureApplicability |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_9ebd9c33 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a236dd4c | type |
Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a236dd4c | comment |
Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Only in his earliest appearances. A threatened lawsuit from the creators of a similar pantsless duck resulted in Howard donning a pair of trousers, becoming a Barefoot Cartoon Animal. And now Disney owns Marvel. Huh. However, Howard was able to get away without wearing pants in his Marvel Zombies appearances. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a236dd4c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a236dd4c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a236dd4c | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a3912d0e | type |
Sexy Discretion Shot | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a3912d0e | comment |
Sexy Discretion Shot: The last story in the first issue ended with Howard shutting off the lamp before getting into bed with a naked Beverly. The very next panel shows the aftermath of their lovemaking. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a3912d0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a3912d0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a3912d0e | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a536f3a3 | type |
Gender-Blender Name | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a536f3a3 | comment |
Gender-Blender Name: Beverly's uncle, who she was named after. He got around it by going by "Lee". | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a536f3a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a536f3a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a536f3a3 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a861560f | type |
The Friend Nobody Likes | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a861560f | comment |
The Friend Nobody Likes: Howard is widely known in the superhero community, but he's not particularly liked. She-Hulk is practically a Sit Com Arch Nemesis. The only known exceptions are Beverly Switzer, Aunt May, Tara Tam, Doctor Strange and [[Guardians of the Galaxy Rocket Raccoon. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a861560f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a861560f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_a861560f | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Howard's usual coping mechanism (aside from the long-suffering "Waaaugh!") | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_ae3d6438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_ae3d6438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_ae3d6438 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b01abe4f | type |
Catchphrase | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: Howard's whining "Waaaugh!" "Case closed!" in the Zdarsky/Quinones series. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b01abe4f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b01abe4f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b01abe4f | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b032e4ed | type |
Ms. Fanservice | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Beverly, who particularly in Vol. 2 was often shown in skimpy clothing and was seen naked on at least two occasions. In addition, the character's backstory included time working as a nude model. Then there's the fact that she wore a literal Chainmail Bikini in her first appearance (a nerdy evil magician with a Conan complex put her into it). | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b032e4ed | featureApplicability |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b032e4ed | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b15b6a35 | type |
Cosmic Plaything | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b15b6a35 | comment |
Cosmic Plaything: Quite aside from being trapped on a planet full of apes (no, not that Planet of the Apes: we mean Earth)note but Earth is the Planet of the Apes!, Howard is perpetually being swept up in surreal and dangerous events. Unlike most superheroes - or, indeed, most Cosmic Playthings - the stress this involves creates appropriate Angst in Howard. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b15b6a35 | featureApplicability |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b15b6a35 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: The first issue of the 2015 series has Howard mention a band called Quacking Pumpkins and describe them as being "horrible" and "the worst". In the first issue of the 2016 series, Howard fails to use the Abundant Glove to return home. To make sure whether he's still in the current dimension and not a similar one, he asks who the President is. Tara Tam answers that Donald Trump is the current President and then explains that she was only kidding, remarking "God, could you imagine that universe?" | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_b53077b3 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_bbfaa837 | type |
Knight Templar | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_bbfaa837 | comment |
Knight Templar: The underground organization S.O.O.F.I. (Save Our Offspring From Indecency) | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_bbfaa837 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_bbfaa837 | featureConfidence |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_bbfaa837 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_bcb452a9 | type |
Weirdness Magnet | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_bcb452a9 | comment |
Weirdness Magnet: Howard thinks he's one. He might be right, as the talking duck is more often than not the least ridiculous thing about the stuff that goes on around him. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_bcb452a9 | featureApplicability |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_bcb452a9 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_be009bbc | type |
Alliterative Name | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_be009bbc | comment |
Alliterative Name: Winda Wester. Tara Tam in the 2015 series. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_be009bbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_be009bbc | featureConfidence |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_be009bbc | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_beb932ca | type |
Big Applesauce | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_beb932ca | comment |
Big Applesauce: This run had him move to New York City. He sub-lets office space from Jennifer Walters (better known as She-Hulk). | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_beb932ca | featureApplicability |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_beb932ca | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_bfaff026 | type |
Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_bfaff026 | comment |
Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: The egotistical and Hair-Trigger Temper-afflicted Count Macho. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_bfaff026 | featureApplicability |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_bfaff026 | featureConfidence |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_bfaff026 | |
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Character Title | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c23525d4 | comment |
Character Title | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c23525d4 | featureApplicability |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c23525d4 | featureConfidence |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c23525d4 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c30a1170 | type |
Foo Fu | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c30a1170 | comment |
Foo Fu: Howard is a self-proclaimed master of Quack Fu. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c30a1170 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c30a1170 | featureConfidence |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c30a1170 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: In The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl crossover of the 2015-6 series, the villainous Mrs. Sugarbaker calls Kraven a "commie traitor". In the finale of the 2015-2016 series, Tara transforms into an Eva, Jun the Swan and Judge Dredd during the final battle, quipping "Tara is the law" while dressed as the last one. In the same issue, Johnny Storm does the Lin Beifong pose. On one occasion Howard is accosted by a bigot at a gas station who bares an uncanny resemblence to Soos from Gravity Falls. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c75df49a | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c9597a03 | type |
Self-Deprecation | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c9597a03 | comment |
Self-Deprecation: Played for Drama. In Vol. 6, Howard is assaulted by "Chipp", an alien version of author Chip Zdarsky, who informs Howard that members of Chipp's species have been fucking with Howard since Howard arrived on Earth to create interesting stories. Howard quips that Chipp's predecessor (implicitly alien!Steve Gerber) made Howard's life way more interesting than Chipp ever did, and Chipp, in a fit of rage, murders him. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c9597a03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c9597a03 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_c9597a03 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_cbe687ab | type |
Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_cbe687ab | comment |
The sixth issue of the short-lived B&W illustrated magazine version of Howard the Duck, which came out after legal action from Disney forced Howard to don pants, features a parody of Scrooge McDuck named Scrounge McDrake, who got his first dime from killing someone rather than an honest living as a shoeshine and in general was very corrupt. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_cbe687ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_cbe687ab | featureConfidence |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_cbe687ab | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_cda501da | type |
Killed Off for Real | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_cda501da | comment |
Killed Off for Real: Nearly every antagonist aside from Dr. Bong and the Kidney Lady ended up getting killed off and never came back. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_cda501da | featureApplicability |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_cda501da | featureConfidence |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_cda501da | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_ce3a819d | type |
Most Common Super Power | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_ce3a819d | comment |
Most Common Super Power: Beverly Switzler. Add to that, Beverly is one of the few Marvel characters to appear fully naked on panel. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_ce3a819d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_ce3a819d | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_d6b5863 | type |
Driven to Madness | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_d6b5863 | comment |
Driven to Madness: Poor Howard suffers a psychological breakdown after encountering with several weirdos at some point. Fortunately, he gets better with the help of Daimon Hellstrom and Dr. Avery (but not before causing a complete chaos while he is accidentally possessed by Hellstrom's demonic soul). It gets subversive, too: the real cause of Howard's madness is that at a crucial moment he refuses to fight Le Beaver, thus repudiating the entire ethos of Marvel comics at the time, which is that every issue had to have a fight scene. Howard essentially rejects a major trope of the very medium he's a part of. In-universe he says he failed to live by the dictates of his male social conditioning, but read between the lines and it's clear he has a breakdown because, like Dr. Manhattan, he's a puppet who was able to see the strings. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_d6b5863 | featureApplicability |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_d6b5863 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_da0eeab5 | type |
Breakout Character | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_da0eeab5 | comment |
Breakout Character: Howard was initially intended as a single-appearance character, even getting killed off after his debut, but fate (and popular demand) wouldn't have it. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_da0eeab5 | featureApplicability |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_da0eeab5 | featureConfidence |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_da0eeab5 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dab2f3ee | type |
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dab2f3ee | comment |
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Howard smoked cigars. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dab2f3ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dab2f3ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dab2f3ee | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dca70c44 | type |
Reasonable Authority Figure | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dca70c44 | comment |
Reasonable Authority Figure: In a small arc where Howard and Winda end up in a Bedlam House-like asylum, Dr. Morton Avery was the only character who wanted to help them. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dca70c44 | featureApplicability |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dca70c44 | featureConfidence |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dca70c44 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dcd423d2 | type |
Affectionate Nickname | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dcd423d2 | comment |
Affectionate Nickname: Howard is called "Ducky" by Beverly, and "Ducko" by her uncle Lee. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dcd423d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dcd423d2 | featureConfidence |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_dcd423d2 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Dr. Bong is clearly a parody of Doctor Doom, while borrowing a few traces from Dr. Moreau with his experiments regarding metamorphosis on animals. Dr. Bong (real name Lester Verde) is also a Take That! to Bob Greene, who'd written a column criticizing Marvel's special KISS issue, which Gerber wrote. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e5421161 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e5421161 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e5421161 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e5d8460d | type |
Unexplained Recovery | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e5d8460d | comment |
Unexplained Recovery: Dr. Bong's French duck maid Fifi was apparently killed in the 19th issue of the original series, but turned up alive and well in the fifth issue of The Sensational She-Hulk, where she assisted Dr. Bong in his plan to "improve" television by making it more realistic and accurate to reality. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e5d8460d | featureApplicability |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e5d8460d | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e9604359 | type |
Monster of the Week | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e9604359 | comment |
Monster of the Week: Before Dr. Bong came along, Howard fought one-shot adversaries that often got killed by the end of the story, | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e9604359 | featureApplicability |
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| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e9604359 | featureConfidence |
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Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e9604359 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e9702c83 | type |
Opposite-Sex Clone | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e9702c83 | comment |
Opposite-Sex Clone: In Volume 6, it's revealed that the Collector created one called Linda the Duck, and also Shocket Raccoon. | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e9702c83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Howard the Duck / Comicbook / int_e9702c83 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen | |
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Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen: Happened to Howard during a crossover with Spider-Man in an issue of Marvel Team-Up after he waded naked in a pond to avoid getting attacked by the minions of Status Quo. | |
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Rage Against the Author | |
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Rage Against the Author: The 2015-16 run culminates in Howard fighting Chipp and Jho and complaining about how they make his life difficult. | |
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HeroesWantRedheads | |
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Heroes Want Redheads: Beverly Switzler was a redhead and it was occasionally implied that she and Howard regarded one another as more than friends. | |
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