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Billy Bat (Manga)

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Billy Bat is a seinen thriller manga written by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, with the former providing the artwork. It was serialized in Morning from 2008 to 2016.Kevin Yamagata was born to Japanese immigrants in California in the 1920s, and during World War II he worked with allied forces in Japan as an interpreter. After the war he became a comic book writer, and by 1949 his series Billy Bat, about a private detective in a world populated by animals, is a huge hit whose popularity rivals the biggest titles of DC Comics. His comfortable life comes crashing down when the police use his apartment for a stakeout, and one of them notes that his work is very similar to a Japanese manga. Kevin is horrified that he may have subconsciously plagiarized a work he saw while in Japan, and promptly stops work on the comic to go back and investigate.Post-war Japan isn't the easiest place to conduct his search, with soldiers everywhere and many locals forced into poverty. To get anywhere he has to sign back up with the American forces and wear a uniform, which naturally makes people less likely to talk to him. However, these are the least of his problems when he tracks down the source of the Billy Bat image, and learns that it's the calling card of an Ancient Conspiracy who aren't very happy that he's been poking around about them.After that, the story really takes off as it careens around time to show how the Billy Bat image has influenced events throughout history. There's clearly far more going on here than just the conspiracy, but in Urasawa's typical style whatever it all may mean remains incredibly murky.
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Anyone Can Die
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Anyone Can Die: Kevin Yamagata in Chapter 93. Or so we are led to believe. It's very likely the only named people left alive by the end are the three introduced in the last two chapters.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: Kevin was in one, until Agent Smith pulled him out of it.
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Hitler Ate Sugar
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Hitler Ate Sugar: Hitler hosting Fake!Chuck Culkin, a German soldier of jewish descent, to his private house and showing him to his private art gallery.
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Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
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Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: The black bride's white groom's family can't keep quiet. The groom decides not to go along with it.
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The Trickster
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The Trickster: The Bat, probably. Wasn't there two of them? Now there's at least three of 'em.
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ManBehindTheMan
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Man Behind the Man: Or in front of the man: Chuck Culkin, Kevin's Woody Allen-looking assistant who took over Billy Bat after Kev went to Japan, is "played" in public and in business by a Walt Disney-lookalike.
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Scary Shiny Glasses
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Scary Shiny Glasses: Kurusu
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World:
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Companion Cube
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Companion Cube: The taxi driver (Mr. Momochi) 's Billy Bat toy, who's his "navigator". Subverted when Billy talks back, and also knows the future - er, present.
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Captain Ersatz
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Captain Ersatz: Billy Bat is one to Mickey Mouse. Chuck Culkin is one to Walt Disney. And the real Chuck Culkin is one to Ub Iwerks. Zofuu-sensei could be one, with beret and all, to Osamu Tezuka, who however is mentioned in-story as being a huge influence in manga. Kurusu also becomes an expy of Osamu Tezuka, although it seems it was only in a dream or an alternate universe. Mitsuru Yamazaki for Minoru Yamasaki, the man responsible for designing the WTC Towers. Henry Charles Devivie might be one to Esmond Cardon Walker, the man behind Tokyo Disneyland.
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Mysterious Parent
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Mysterious Parent: Audrey Culkin tried to investigate her father's past and found absolutely nothing.
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Reused Character Design
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Reused Character Design: Several characters in Billy Bat have an uncanny resemblance to characters in other Naoki Urasawa's works.
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Saving the World With Art
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Saving the World With Art: Literally. Mangaka who can see Billy Bat can create manga that actually influences the course of history. But this being Urasawa, it's most certainly played with. Kevin Goodman prevented Kiyoshi from resetting history and destroying the world, but he changed too much. It's heavily implied that his changes set the course for 9/11... and possibly something even worse. The Bat to Kevin Goodman in 2017, after revealing they've run out of alternate earths and this one MUST be saved: "You can't go back, anymore. There's only one thing left for you to do. Now go on... and draw."
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Hereditary Curse
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Hereditary Curse: Everyone in the Momochi clan can hear at least "one" of the bats. With the latest one being Maggie, Jackie's daughter.
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Ambiguously Jewish
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Ambiguously Jewish: Fake Chuck Culkin. Chapter 100 confirms he's at least partially Jewish, by Hitler himself!.
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Frame-Up
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Frame-Up: Oswald is set up as JFK's assassin, thanks to three doubles.
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It Will Never Catch On: "Who's gonna read a comic that isn't for kids?"
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Memetic Mutation
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And Zofuu-sensei basically describing what a Meme basically is (In-Universe) and how it pertains Human Evolution, many years before Richard Dawkins even coined the phrase.
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Brilliant, but Lazy
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Brilliant, but Lazy: Adult Kevin Goodman. Never goes to class. Relies on classmates' notes. Yet he's good at memorizing and passes all his classes. And he's good at writing college papers too. Turns out he spends most of his time painting murals at the guidance of Billy Bat.
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The Hero Dies
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The Hero Dies: Kevin, seemingly, in chapter 93. Confirmed in chapter 192 — at the age of 100, "drawing to the last". Kevin Goodman too, the final chapters take place when he should be over 100 years old.
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There Are Two Kinds of People in the World
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There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: Billy's opening monologue in the very first page of the (real and in-story) manga.
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Defector from Decadence
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Defector from Decadence: Fake!Chuck Culkin, a lieutenant stationed at a POW camp, tried to desert but was captured, possibly in part because he's also part jewish.
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You Shall Not Pass!
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You Shall Not Pass!: Lee Harvey Oswald against the police, buying time for Jackie Momochi to escape. 'Shishou' getting in the way of Gary Devivie, so Gary's wife can escape.
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Reality Warper
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Reality Warper: The bat allows people to either predict the future or change it (apparently). It used to have the power to "fix" reality but they've run out of "lives" and this one's all we've got.
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NoKillLikeOverKill
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No Kill like Overkill: The lengths Chuck Culkin Enterprises would go to protect its interests, from killing bootleggers and "fan artists" of Kevin Yamagata's bat to obliterating a "cult of bat-worshipers" in Tibet (they're just hiding) to plowing into a crowded newsstand just to kill one snooping lawyer (they're stopped by Audrey who happens to need an exceptionally brave lawyer to find a certain Japanese-American artist hiding in Texas).
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Mr. Alt Disney
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Mr. Alt Disney: Chuck Culkin and the real Chuck Culkin! who took over Billy Bat when Kevin left.
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Historical Hero Upgrade
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Historical Hero Upgrade: Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Manipulative Bastard
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Manipulative Bastard: The Bat and whoever is/tries to control it.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: The world is a mess, but Kevin Goodman's comics ended up indirectly saving the kid who might just save the world.
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: What the Bat seems to be saying when he lists all the wars and man-made disasters that will happen if Kanbei doesn't deliver the scroll.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Audrey. She denies it of course.
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Big Fancy House
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Big Fancy House: The Goodmans seem to be doing all right.
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I Just Want to Be Normal
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I Just Want to Be Normal: Hitler, in chapter 100 - he just wants to join the art academy and resurrect his beloved girlfriend/cousin (Einstein tells him that's impossible).
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Sealed Evil in a Can
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Sealed Evil in a Can: Kanbei attempts this. It doesn't work.
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Fling a Light into the Future
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Fling a Light into the Future: One of the main themes of the comic. And also how it ends. Kevin Goodman's comics inspire two enemy soldiers to have a truce and save a kid, and inspire the kid to save the world after reading the last Billy Bat comic ever that was written by Kevin Goodman, which is apparently what Billy wanted all along.
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Wham Shot
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Wham Shot: The bat doodle on the moon which is eventually revealed to be a sound stage on Earth. Jackie Momochi in the World Trade Center plaza just after the reveal that the last number sequence includes 9.11.2001; unfortunately for the Bat crew it is 9/11 and they're too late. Timmy Saneda attacking the Hollywood sign in a fit of rage in 2032, revealing that southern California has become a desert dustbowl.
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The Aloner
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The Aloner: Kanbei. And now Kevin.
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Harsher in Hindsight
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Harsher in Hindsight: invoked Intentional within the Billy Bat comics, since they're predicting the future: The boss at Billy Bat World and his friend wonder if "a sexy, Marilyn Monroe-ish-thing" in a comic that's clearly about John F. Kennedy is going to be killed by a Government Conspiracy.
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Drowning My Sorrows
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Drowning My Sorrows: Kevin, who has become an Alcoholic to stop seeing the Bat.
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Bookends
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Book Ends: The series begins and ends with the fictional billy bat comic
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Dark Is Not Evil
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Dark Is Not Evil/Light Is Not Good: It's vaguely implied that the white (unfilled) drawing of The Bat is evil while the black (filled-in) one is good. Or is it the other way around?. Zofuu-sensei says the white one is sort of a Mad Oracle, and the black one manipulates people into doing bad things. Turns out the white bat wants to save the world using humans while the black bat wants to destroy humanity to save the world. The third bat (whose "color" isn't mentioned) has been observing them from the moon for millennia.
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 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_59f47557
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Vicious Cycle
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_59f47557
comment
Vicious Cycle: The black bat thinks all of the white bat's plans to save humanity/use humans to save the world are like this because no matter what they do they keep winding up in such a bad spot they need to be bailed out by the bats.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_59f47557
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5a4aa505
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Government Conspiracy
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5a4aa505
comment
Government Conspiracy: While Marilyn Monroe really did kill herself, capitalist forces are conspiring to kill the Kennedy brothers, and succeed. They also succeed in framing Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone killer of JFK. Later the US government hires a Japanese director known for his obsession to detail and great special effects to fake the moon landing. The government claims the fake footage is a "training film" (and it may well have been) but when the astronauts go to the moon for real the fake film is spliced into the broadcast to cover up a familiar-looking doodle drawn in the moon's surface.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5a4aa505
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5b8c285b
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The Conspiracy
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5b8c285b
comment
The Conspiracy: Everywhere. With a heavy dose of Mind Screws and Historical In Jokes.
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1.0
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5b8c285b
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5bb094aa
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LongestPrologueEver
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5bb094aa
comment
Longest Prologue Ever: 93 chapters! Chapter 94 starts with the tag "And so our story meets its true protagonist"
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5bb094aa
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5eb92325
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Declaration of Protection
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5eb92325
comment
Declaration of Protection: Lee Harvey Oswald to Jackie Momochi, as he decides to buy her time to escape.
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5eb92325
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5eb92325
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5f930b19
type
Named After Somebody Famous
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5f930b19
comment
Named After Somebody Famous: In-universe. Tony Goodman explains he named his kid Kevin after Kevin Yamagata.
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1.0
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5f930b19
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5fcb9ad1
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Time Skip
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5fcb9ad1
comment
Time Skip: From the late forties to the early fifties to Biblical times to the Warring States Era to the sixties, to JFK's assassination to 10 months later, to 1981, 2001 right before the World Trade Center attack, 2017, and now 2032.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_5fcb9ad1
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_617f0563
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Heel–Face Turn
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_617f0563
comment
Heel–Face Turn: Lee Harvey Oswald used to work for Kurusu. Devivie after Zofuu-sensei rescues him.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_617f0563
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Sacrificial Lamb
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_61996785
comment
Sacrificial Lamb: Shizu.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_61996785
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_619985d7
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Sacrificial Lion
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_619985d7
comment
Sacrificial Lion: Agent Smith's sacrifice is Subverted.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_619985d7
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Cowardly Lion
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_64070096
comment
Cowardly Lion: Kanbei.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_64070096
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Spirit Advisor
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6492f4ca
comment
Spirit Advisor: The Bat, as those who would be "carriers" see him while others do not.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6492f4ca
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_64d3ffd8
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The Extremist Was Right
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_64d3ffd8
comment
The Extremist Was Right: To a point: By 2032 the US needs a wall (well, a better one manned by every member of the armed forces) between them and Mexico, China is at war with Japan in the Pacific and Uygurs in Tibet, the EU just collapsed, climate change is wrecking havoc everywhere, but somehow Somalia became stable enough to build a major theme park — with celebrity guests!
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_64d3ffd8
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_65acf9db
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He Knows Too Much
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_65acf9db
comment
He Knows Too Much: The reason why Jackie Momochi is in danger. Not only she saw Kurusu with one of the sniper teams, but also has bat-visions about the other sniper teams, including the one on the Grassy Knoll.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_65acf9db
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6941e30b
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Room Full of Crazy
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6941e30b
comment
Room Full of Crazy: Kevin's cabin at "Black Rock".
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6941e30b
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6b146924
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Species Surname
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6b146924
comment
Species Surname: Billy Bat is, well, a bat.
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6b146924
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 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6bda9a30
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Meaningful Name
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6bda9a30
comment
"The rabbit's name is Oswald." (although he looks more like Bugs Bunny) He's being groomed to be JFK's assassin. There's actually three Oswalds.
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 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6e9e1e32
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GottaCatchEmAll
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6e9e1e32
comment
Gotta Catch 'Em All: Devivie is destroying all traces of the "original" Billy Bat along with anyone who knows too much about the Bat and/or his mission.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6e9e1e32
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6f66bef7
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But Not Too Foreign
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6f66bef7
comment
But Not Too Foreign: Kevin is a Nisei (second-generation) Japanese-American, as are the Momochis; Timmy is half-Japanese, half-German.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_6f66bef7
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_715704e5
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Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_715704e5
comment
Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: After spending some time with Kevin, the story suddenly starts wildly moving through many different time periods to show all the people the bat image has influenced.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_715704e5
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_733e007a
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Unwitting Pawn
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_733e007a
comment
Unwitting Pawn: Oswald, even after his Heel–Face Turn. And the Real Chuck Culkin working under the Fake one.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_733e007a
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_76f0d7a5
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Historical Fiction
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_76f0d7a5
comment
Historical Fiction: Sort of.
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_76f0d7a5
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_76f0d7a5
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_77063cd7
type
Hooker with a Heart of Gold
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_77063cd7
comment
Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Unfortunately also a Disposable Love Interest
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_77063cd7
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_78255ad7
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Passing the Torch
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_78255ad7
comment
Passing the Torch: The Bat tells Lee Harvey Oswald that he must protect Kevin at all costs until he can pass his powers to his new successor, which according to The Bat, has already appeared. It was assumed it was Jackie Momochi, the daughter of the Taxi driver from the mixed-race wedding mini-arc and descendant of the ninjas. It is actually Kevin Goodman, the son of Tony and Diane Goodman, the interracial couple!. Zofuu-sensei handing the last parts of the his manga to Yamashita, a somewhat dim-witted fan of his work, so he can then hand them over to Kevin. Kevin Goodman, passing the Billy Bat torch to Timmy Sanada.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_78255ad7
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_7a6eac7f
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Biblical Motifs
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_7a6eac7f
comment
Biblical Motifs: An entire arc's worth.
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_7a6eac7f
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1.0
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_7a6eac7f
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_7fbb2a3
type
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_7fbb2a3
comment
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Kevin Goodman passing the artist/writer duties of the Billy Bat comic to Timmy Sanada, who went on to became the current Big Bad. Let's not forget that Kevin Goodman also accidentally set up the chain of events that would lead to 9/11 because his comic changed Kurusu's fate too much.
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_7fbb2a3
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1.0
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_7fbb2a3
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_7fe8b5b5
type
Time Machine
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_7fe8b5b5
comment
Time Machine: Fake!Chuck Culkin is able to figure out that the scroll is this, sorta, thanks to the real Chuck Culkin explaining the basics of Einstein's Theory of Relativity and Time Travel.
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_7fe8b5b5
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_7fe8b5b5
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_801e0eb5
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Facial Profiling
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_801e0eb5
comment
Facial Profiling: Invoked when two American agents walk around in Tokyo and wonder where all the yellow-skinned, buck-toothed, geta-wearing, bespectacled people have gone.
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1.0
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_801e0eb5
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_82accf22
type
Gainax Ending
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_82accf22
comment
Gainax Ending: Although more hopeful than most. In a Bad Future caused by Timmy Sanada, two enemy soldiers settle on a truce on the battlefield and save a little kid after discovering that they all love Kevin Goodman's Billy Bat. The kid is then inspired by Billy Bat's last comic to save the world, which is what Billy wanted all along.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_82accf22
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_83a903f6
type
Stepford Smiler
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_83a903f6
comment
Stepford Smiler: Timmy as head of Culkin Enterprises: His Billy Bat is bad (worse than bad, his own agents think it's "boring") and his attempts to "save Billy's fans" by expanding into water and power so they can withstand climate change is poisoning them instead (though he denies it) but he always has a serene expression on his face — at least until he starts explaining his plan to save the world and gets increasingly unhinged-looking.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_83a903f6
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8430699a
type
Alternate Universe
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8430699a
comment
Alternate Universe: As if time manipulation by a cartoon bat wasn't enough! There used to be many, but now there's just one.
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8430699a
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8430699a
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_88f16cee
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Go Out with a Smile
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_88f16cee
comment
Go Out with a Smile: Lee Harvey Oswald is told that he must not allow Jackie to be captured and thus sacrifices himself to the police to buy her time to escape. After doing so, he smiles, feeling satisfied that he at least did something good at the end.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_88f16cee
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_896459e2
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Adaptation Decay
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_896459e2
comment
Adaptation Decay: In-universe. Some of the people in the conspiracy express that Chuck Culkin's Billy Bat is nowhere near quality-wise to Kevin's. If the conspirators searching for the original Bat's scroll succeed no one will remember Kevin's version at all.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_896459e2
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8967e17f
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Back from the Dead
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8967e17f
comment
Back from the Dead: Devivie.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8967e17f
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_898ff050
type
Villain Protagonist
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_898ff050
comment
Villain Protagonist: Lee Harvey Oswald, although in-story, he is a would-be scapegoat for a government conspiracy.
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Badass Decay
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8aa41dd9
comment
Bad Ass Decay Billy Bat goes from a tough noir detective to an expy of Mickey Mouse within 10 years, and to top it off no one remembers the original artist. No one remembers the original art work either. When someone starts publishing new BB comics in the original style the boss at Billy Bat World hates how sinister Billy looks.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8aa41dd9
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Flash Forward
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8abdf73a
comment
Flashforward: And back again.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8abdf73a
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Humanity Is Young
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8b6496e8
comment
Humanity Is Young: From the bat's perspective. He appeared in caveman times and from his POV we're still cavemen. Humans Need Aliens / Puny Earthlings: Seeing as the bat's origin was a meteor that crashed to Earth: "Ever since that time... You all [humanity/those who can see the bat] has never stopped asking me (puts on pouty/whiny face) 'What should I do?'" Reiterated at the end of chapter 163: Two enemy soldiers, seemingly the only living people for miles around, are more concerned with killing each other than the fact that they don't know what killed the inhabitants of the town they're in and they aren't wearing gas masks and the one we've been following just realized he's triggered a mine that could kill both of them if the other doesn't move.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8b6496e8
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8b6e8d7
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Anachronic Order
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8b6e8d7
comment
Anachronic Order: It jumps back and forth between different eras and locations, including the US in the 40's, 50's and 60's, Feudal Japan, Modern Day Japan, and Judea in biblical times.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8b6e8d7
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8c16c5d
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Powers That Be
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8c16c5d
comment
Powers That Be: The Bat refers to itself as "The Administrator of the Human Race". It's also actively working for humanity, trying to prevent the apocalypse from happening early.
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 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8d23f3a7
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Timey-Wimey Ball
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8d23f3a7
comment
Timey-Wimey Ball: A bat doodle beats the astronauts to the moon(?), and it seems Jesus is affected too.
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8d23f3a7
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8d23f3a7
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8dd4a996
type
Identical Grandson
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8dd4a996
comment
Identical Grandson: Momochi Sandayu looks exactly like his descendant, Randy Momochi.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8dd4a996
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8e20979
type
Wham Episode
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8e20979
comment
Wham Episode: Chapter 93. Kevin Yamagata gets killed and the story jumps to 1981, with Kevin Goodman as the new protagonist. Chapter 118. Agent Smith has been hiding the fact that Kevin Yamagata was alive all this time. Chapter 125. Timeskip to 2000, New York, Ground Zero. Chapter 159-160. There's a third bat observing things on the moon, they used to be one being, and it came from outer space.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8e20979
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8e20b0f7
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Private Detective
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8e20b0f7
comment
Private Detective: Billy Bat is one of these.
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Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8e20b0f7
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_8e5c862
type
Ancient Conspiracy
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Ancient Conspiracy: Around the Bat.
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Kevin works for Marble Comics and by The '50s Billy has his own theme park in Florida.
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Femme Fatale
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Femme Fatale: The mysterious art dealer, Audrey Culkin.
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Grandfather Paradox
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Grandfather Paradox: Weaponized by Einstein. Zofuu-Sensei uses it against Devivie by revealing he knows his parents' names.
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Art Shift
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Art Shift: From Kevin's Funny Animal comic to the "real" manga.
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The Tape Knew You Would Say That
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The Tape Knew You Would Say That: While Kevin is reading a letter from Agent Smith by the window, the last line is "PS. Don't stand so close to the window."
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Villainous Breakdown
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Villainous Breakdown: Timmy in chapter 162 when he impotently beats the Hollywood sign after realizing he'll never "get" Kevin Goodman with either threats or money and that for all his successes (93 Billylands and control of most of the world's water and power) he lost the one thing that brought him joy — drawing Billy Bat with Kevin. The final straw is when Kevin compliments Timmy on his drawing skills.
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Faux Affably Evil
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Faux Affably Evil: Henry Charles Devivie, an agent sent to acquire the land where Billy Bat Land will be built in Japan, a fake front whose real purpose is to find the scroll, and who will kill anyone that stands in the way. Same goes for Henry's father. Gary Devivie, a LAPD Detective, and serial murderer. The Fake Chuck Culkin also qualifies to some degree.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: So far, Agent Finney and Kurusu from EAI (East Asian Industries) seem to fill the role; also it is implied that General Walker, Fake! Chuck Culkin and Henry Charles Devivie are part of the same circle. Should be noted, due to his ambivalent nature, that there are times when the same could be said of the Bat himself. By the year 2017, most of them have died to old age or other circumstances, and the current human Big Bad is Timmy Sanada, Kevin Goodman's old protege, who has taken over Culkin Enterprises and is the illegitimate son of Fake!Chuck Culkin. In fact, Timmy did such a bad job that it's the main reason the world is a wasteland in the Bad Future.
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Dirty Communists
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Dirty Communists: The series starts at the beginning of the Red Scare, and several conspirators are supposedly commies in Japan. Lee Harvey Oswald is a costumed employee in a Billy Bat theme park.
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Taking the Bullet
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Taking the Bullet: The Bat implies that Kevin must die to save JFK. On one hand, we know how that ended in real life, on the other hand, it's Naoki Urasawa. Except that the Bat died, and what Kevin was supposed to do was save Kevin, his successor.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: The Bat telling Kevin Yamagata that he was destined to die to save JFK. He was meant to save Kevin Goodman instead, he still gets killed eventually after his role has been completed and now the new protagonist is Kevin Goodman. Looking back, it was probably a bad sign that Timmy Sanada was friends with a Neo Nazi gang. Then it turns out his father was working for the Nazis, and that he intends to fulfill his father's role of taking the bat and ultimately destroying the world.
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Homage
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_a1a1491e
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Homage: Chapter 32 is based on Bad Day At Black Rock minus Smith's gimpy arm, the burned house, and dead Japanese-American. The locals act mean to protect Kevin, who gave their little town a cameo as the setting for one of his non-Billy Bat comics.
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Doomed by Canon
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Doomed by Canon: JFK, and Lee Harvey Oswald. The Twin Towers.
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Gratuitous Ninja
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Gratuitous Ninja: They are involved too.
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Ascended Extra
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_a65288e2
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Ascended Extra: Diane and Tony Goodman, the black bride and the white groom, get not only fleshed out later on, but become important characters later in the series, and specially their son Kevin. Fake!Chuck Culkin's illegitimate son, Timmy, can see The Bat as well. Or at least that's what he wanted to project, as Billy himself called Timmy a liar as a message to Kevin.
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General Ripper
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General Ripper: It is implied Retired General Walker is this.
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MacGuffin
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MacGuffin: The Ninja Scroll (no, not that one).
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Rule of Three
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_a6cda066
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Rule of Three: The Three Lee Harvey Oswalds (four if you count the original). There's actually three bats. It used to be one being until it fell to Earth in prehistoric times. "Black" and "White" are on Earth manipulating humanity while the third one was observing things on the moon.
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Private Eye Monologue
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Private Eye Monologue: In the first chapter.
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Town with a Dark Secret
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Town with a Dark Secret: See Homage.
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Jesus Taboo
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Jesus Taboo: Averted. Jesus is (or could be) an actual character in one of the flashbacks, along with Judas.
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Your Days Are Numbered
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Your Days Are Numbered - Kevin and Lee Harvey Oswald, according to the Bat. Apparently, he lied about Kevin, but was right about Oswald. Zofuu-sensei.
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Metaphorically True
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Metaphorically True: The Bat will employ this at times.
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid: We first meet Timmy as an innocent, adorable child who liked to draw. Currently, see Well-Intentioned Extremist.
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Anti-Hero
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Anti-Hero: Lee Harvey Oswald
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Mind Screw
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Mind Screw: It's Urasawa, what do you expect? Examples include: "What's this [doodle] on the moon?!" Is it even the real moon? It is! And there really was a doodle on the moon! The american public were shown the fake landing to prevent them to find out about the doodle. "Welcome home, Judas." The Three Lee Harvey Oswalds. Einstein to Zofuu: "If you tell anyone about the Bat I'll go back in time and kill your parents". And "There used to be uncountable Earths in alternate universes but now there's only this one." 20010911. There's three bats who used to be one, and it/they are from outer space.
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Show Within a Show
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Show Within a Show: The Billy Bat comic book inside the manga. When someone reads it you can see that it reads from left to right, like a comic book should.
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True Companions
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True Companions: Ken-chan and pals. He ends up killing them all.
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I Lied
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The Bat telling Kevin Yamagata that he was destined to die to save JFK. He was meant to save Kevin Goodman instead, he still gets killed eventually after his role has been completed and now the new protagonist is Kevin Goodman.
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We Can Rule Together
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We Can Rule Together: What the Bat seems to be selling ("Hey - want to rule the world, or become a superhero?")
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Yank the Dog's Chain
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Yank the Dog's Chain - To Lee Harvey Oswald, when he realizes that he was set up by a government conspiracy, and that he will go down in infamy in history. Kevin Yamagata, after getting so close to understanding the truth behind the Bat is unceremoniously killed by a sniper.
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Shout-Out
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_c75df49a
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Shout-Out: Everywhere, what did you expect in a Urasawa manga? Billy Bat(son) is the alter-ego of DC's Captain Marvel In the original comics, Billy Bat is a private eye, clearly evoking Sam Spade of the Maltese Falcon who eventually becomes an inspiration for Dick Tracy. The 'real' segments with Kevin start off with every indication that this is Urasawa's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, then the mind screw happens. Sometimes Billy's manifestations look a lot like Batman's classic symbol. "The rabbit's name is Oswald." (although he looks more like Bugs Bunny) He's being groomed to be JFK's assassin. There's actually three Oswalds. Chapter 52 features a shout-out to "The Freewheeling Bob Dylan" album. Chapter 60 has Seven Days in May, not to mention that the current mini-arc is the JFK assassination! Timmy seems to reference previous Urasawa characters Johan and Epsilon: He always has a calm expression on his face that hides a very trouble past (and possibly present). His shoulder-length black hair also makes him look like a less-intense Android 17.
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Freudian Excuse
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Freudian Excuse: Gary Devivie's reason for the series of Japanese murders: His real father ran off with a Japanese prostitute.
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No Name Given
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_ca87e3ec
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No Name Given: Fake!Chuck Culkin's real name has yet to be revealed, even though the latest arc depicts his backstory as a WWII German soldier. Mysterious Parent: Audrey Culkin tried to investigate her father's past and found absolutely nothing.
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I Just Want to Be Special
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I Just Want to Be Special: Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Dodge the Bullet
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_cd682fe1
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Dodge the Bullet: Appears to be one of the Bat's powers that he loans out, although it says it was just "Kanbei's heart" all along. On the one hand, Kanbei is a ninja; on the other, by that point he's literally running on fumes.
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Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act
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Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: Played with it. Chapter 100 reveals that Hitler ordered Fake!Chuck Culkin to find the Bat, take control of it and start an empire based on it, and if possible to get hold of the scroll with the intention of changing Hitler's history so that he is accepted at the Art Academy in Vienna.
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Cassandra Truth
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Kevin Goodman resembles a young Michael Jackson, a lot; he also tries to get his classmates to create the first music video (which might involve walking on the moon seeing as they meet Akechi) after hearing their unusual tune (I think it was "Billie Jean" — they dismiss him, of course). Old Kevin in 2032 VS Ebony magazine's 1985 mock-up of how Michael Jackson would look like in the year 2000 VS Michael's father Joe Jackson in 2010◊
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An Arm and a Leg
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An Arm and a Leg: Kevin Yamagata survived his shooting in 1964, but later lost both arms.
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Mocky Mouse
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Mocky Mouse: Billy Bat, as is evident with his name and the fact that he is a loved cartoon character featured in comic books, television shows, and his own theme park.
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Red Herring
 Billy Bat (Manga) / int_dbca2c99
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Red Herring: Anyone would think the sheriff was at The Klan meeting where they burned a black man. It was his cousin. Jackie Momochi being the successor; turns out it's Kevin Goodman, a 3 year old kid. Also, it was the boy that Kevin Yamagata was meant to save, not JFK.
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Reasonable Authority Figure
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Surprisingly, the racist sheriff turns out to be an honest cop, and instantly helps Tony when he discovers his cousin was responsible for the murder of a black man.
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Chekhov's Gunman: Remember the alleged Soviet spy living across Kevin's room who got mentioned in chapter 1 and never appeared again? No? It's fake!Chuck Culkin! Did I mention this guy has never, ever again been mentioned until chapter 110?!
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Bad Future: By 2032, the world has become a dystopian wasteland, partly run by Billyland. Crapsack World: By 2063, the world is an even worse wasteland.
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Decoy Protagonist: Where is Kevin, anyway? This is taken to its extreme after Kevin gets killed by a sniper in Chapter 93, and the new protagonist is Kevin Goodman. Billy Bat himself could arguably be seen as this. He's the star of the first chapter. Then, the second one reveals that it's just a story within a story.
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Historical In-Joke: This may as well be called Historical In-Joke - The Series. So far, the Bat has either had influence on, or predicted Jesus, Judas, and the foundation of Christianity, the fall of Iga and the rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the civil rights movement, MLK, the Lunar Landing, the JFK Assassination, the Warren Commission, the RFK Assassination, and Marilyn Monroe's relationship to both men. At one point, it predicted Obama's Presidency as well. Don't forget when talking to Kanbei the Bat starts talking about Napoleon, the Sarajevo Incident, Hitler, Stalin, the World Wars in general, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Shimoyama Incident, and 9/11. The Bat sure gets around. Kevin does some sightseeing by the Grassy Knoll, and other suspected sniper spots on the eve of the JFK Assasination. And Zofuu-sensei basically describing what a Meme basically is (In-Universe) and how it pertains Human Evolution, many years before Richard Dawkins even coined the phrase.
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Historical Villain Upgrade: Henry Charles Devivie, who might be based on Esmond Cardon Walker.
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From Nobody to Nightmare
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From Nobody to Nightmare: Timmy Sanada, the illegitimate son of Fake!Chuck Culkin, who was a poor kid, to becoming the leader of Culkin Enterprises and seemingly the current Big Bad in the series.
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Expy: Zofuu-sensei looks like the assassin from 20th Century Boys. The dog-wife from Chapter 1 has similar eyes and facial expressions to Eva Heinemann. So does Diane, the black bride. Billy himself becomes one of Mickey Mouse. Kevin is a dead-ringer for Sahad, Agent Smith for Gesicht, and the real Chuck Culkin for Professor Hoffman, all from Pluto. Jackie Momochi is a less ditzy Kyoko Koizumi. They even end up having to do their class reports through similar misunderstandings. In a meta-example, Chuck Culkin's relationship with the man who portrays him in public is very similar to Ub Iwerks's relationship with Walt Disney. The two detectives from the first chapter look a bit like Laurel and Hardy. Akechi, the Japanese effects director hired by the US government to fake the moon landings seems to be a combination of Akira Kurosawa and Stanley Kubrick — all three are obsessive over the tiniest details including the texture of moondust and the proper color of the earth, despite having only one black and white photo to work with. He also directed a "Gazura" movie. Kevin Goodman resembles a young Michael Jackson, a lot; he also tries to get his classmates to create the first music video (which might involve walking on the moon seeing as they meet Akechi) after hearing their unusual tune (I think it was "Billie Jean" — they dismiss him, of course). Old Kevin in 2032 VS Ebony magazine's 1985 mock-up of how Michael Jackson would look like in the year 2000 VS Michael's father Joe Jackson in 2010◊ In another meta-example, the relationship between Kevin and what became of Billy Bat bears some resemblance to the situation between Jack Kirby and Marvel Comics/Stan Lee. Kirby created many characters and aspects within the Marvel Universe, but Lee through business-savvy tactics like self-promotion took practically all credit from Kirby to the point where characters like Captain America which only Kirby created were attributed to Lee. And much like Kevin's Billy Bat, only the hardcore older fans know that he is the true creator and not Chuck.
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Gonk
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Gonk: "Shishou", Zofuu's predecessor.
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Insistent Terminology
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The Klan
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Anyone would think the sheriff was at The Klan meeting where they burned a black man. It was his cousin.
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Bastard Bastard: What Timmy Sanada has become.
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Dark Messiah
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Dark Messiah: From a certain point of view, Fake!Chuck and his bastard son, Timmy, to Kevin Yamagata and Kevin Goodman.
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Those confirmed to have been influenced and guided by the Bat are: Judas, Lee Harvey Oswald, Francisco Xavier, Albert Einstein and Adolf Hitler.
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The Starscream
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The Starscream: Timmy Sanada to Audrey Culkin and Kevin Goodman. Also, slightly prior to that... Audrey Culkin to Kevin Goodman, even though originally Audrey had placed Kevin in a position of power to handle Billy Bat.
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Fallen Princess
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Fallen Princess: After Audrey leaves Culkin Enterprises with only the rights to the Billy Bat books she tries to make a go at managing up-and-coming artists. She's got a good eye for talent but her artists keep killing themselves (at least four in a row) and she's reduced to using men to pay for her meals. When that runs out she tries convincing an old friend to republish the Billy Bat books but he refuses because even though Audrey owns the rights he's terrified of what Culkin Enterprises would do to him and his already struggling publishing company.
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Friend on the Force
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Friend on the Force: Agent Smith for Kevin.
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Non-Indicative First Chapter
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Humans Need Aliens
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Humans Need Aliens / Puny Earthlings: Seeing as the bat's origin was a meteor that crashed to Earth: "Ever since that time... You all [humanity/those who can see the bat] has never stopped asking me (puts on pouty/whiny face) 'What should I do?'"
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Never Found the Body
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Never Found the Body: Agent Smith.
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Mushroom Samba
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Mushroom Samba: Kevin is sent on one thanks to some drugged sake, where he imagines Billy Bat and some of his other characters talking to him. Now, he doesn't need to drugs to have the bat talk to him.
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Well-Intentioned Extremist
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Timmy in 2017 has expanded Culkin Enterprises into water and power (and dismisses accusations by a lawyer who happens to be an ex-girlfriend of Kevin Goodman that his operations are polluting the land and poisoning the inhabitants) because he wants to save the world — specifically all of Billy Bat's current and future fans so Billy can live forever. Well, that's what he's claiming he's doing. He then orders his men to eliminate the lawyer (they fail and 15 years later it's revealed she and Kevin got married). The Extremist Was Right: To a point: By 2032 the US needs a wall (well, a better one manned by every member of the armed forces) between them and Mexico, China is at war with Japan in the Pacific and Uygurs in Tibet, the EU just collapsed, climate change is wrecking havoc everywhere, but somehow Somalia became stable enough to build a major theme park — with celebrity guests! The next chapter reveals there's 93 Billylands around the world that are oasis from the devastating effects of climate change (that Timmy's company exacerbated when they took control of much of the world's water supply)... If you can get to them.
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Brick Joke / The Call Knows Where You Live: The Momochi clan seems to be intrinsically tied to the Bat all the way from Momochi Sandayu, from Iga, to the taxi driver, Randy Momochi, back in 1959, to his daughter, Jackie Momochi, in 1963. The encrypted scroll has been decoded. It ends with a warning about 9/11. The Bat had already hinted at it waaaaay early in the series.
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Pet the Dog
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Pet the Dog: For Lee Harvey Oswald
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