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A series picked up for NBC's 2010-2011 season.The Cape is Vince Faraday, a cop in the highly corrupt Palm City whose police force has been privatized under the ARK corporation. Vince uncovers evidence against ARK's CEO, Peter Fleming, who is really a masked crimelord known as Chess. Fleming responds by having Vince framed for Chess' crimes. Vince then "dies" in an explosion, only to be rescued by the "Carnival of Crime", a shady underground circus troupe.With the world believing Vince dead, he takes on the persona of his son's favorite superhero, a Batman-esque figure known as The Cape. The circus troupe trains him in a combination of martial-arts, stage magic, and using a specially designed cape as a weapon. Teaming up with the Carnival and an investigative blogger called Orwell who has an interest in bringing Fleming down, Vince sets out to expose ARK, save the city and clear his name.Though the series debuted fairly well, ratings tanked soon after, and NBC decided to cut the episode number down from 13 to 10 in response. The final episode was an online-only airing, with NBC cancelling the series for good in March of 2011.Not to be confused with the trope by the same name, regarding morally upright and inspirational costumed heroes. The Cape is much more of a Cowl anyways. Neither should it be confused with another series of the same name about astronauts.
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Secret Identity
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Secret Identity: Obviously, it's a superhero series. Though played with as well since, as far as most people are concerned, Vince is dead. Thus for the most part, Vince runs around as generic drifter or The Cape not to prevent people from knowing who he is but from knowing he's alive. Orwell, too. Even the audience doesn't learn her real name until the eighth episode, and no one else in the show has learned it yet. It's Jamie Fleming.
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Hidden Agenda Villain
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Hidden Agenda Villain: Hinted at with Fleming’s therapist who once want to talk to Chess instead of Fleming, and is remarkably non-judgmental about his criminal actions as both Chess and Fleming.
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Evil Versus Evil
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Evil Versus Evil: Scales vs. Chess.
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London Gangster
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London Gangster: Vinnie Jones plays Scales as one of these.
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Genre Savvy
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Genre Savvy: In "Goggles and Hicks," Scales recognizes the setup for what it is and gets the hell out of there.
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Feel No Pain
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Feel No Pain: The Lich feels nothing due to his condition. This is also how Orwell realizes she's in a Lotus-Eater Machine.
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Comic-Book Time
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Comic-Book Time: The show runs on this heavily at times. How much time passed between Vince's fake death and completing his training with Max? How much time did he spend building up his immunity to poison? How much time passed between his "death" and his family getting a new job/starting fights at school?
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis: Probably best known now by Community fans for being the inspiration for Abed's Catchphrase "Six seasons and a movie!"
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Villain Ball
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Villain Ball: Oh Peter, if only you hadn't lost your temper and gone all You Have Failed Me on Hicks, you would know who the Cape is. Nice work.
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In the Hood
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In the Hood: Played with. The Cape spends a lot of time with his hood up, but in several fight scenes shown thus far it has fallen down, or he wears a mask to conceal his face.
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High-Altitude Interrogation
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High-Altitude Interrogation: In episode 3, Vince dangles a corrupt cop by dangling him over a bridge with his cape. It doesn't work.
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Faceless Goons
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Faceless Goons: Many of Ark's police/soldiers run around in heavy SWAT-style gear and gas masks.
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Ironic Name
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Ironic Name: Orwell, the alias of a hacker who uses surveillance cameras to track bad guys (quite the opposite from in Nineteen Eighty-Four).
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Ascended Fanboy
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Ascended Fanboy: Vince reads his son "The Cape" comic books every night and then when he is framed he becomes the Cape. In Episode 4, Portman dresses up as the Cape for a costume party. He later runs into the Cape and they share an awkward moment. When Vince finds the unconscious guard, he asks Portman to act as a lookout.
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Captain Ersatz
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Captain Ersatz: The Cape wants to be Batman so bad it hurts. Some may see him as a modern day interpretation of The Shadow, however (Batman may have popularized a lot of those tropes, but he sure didn't invent them). He also takes aspects of The Phantom. In detail: costume and use of superstition from Batman, legacy back story from the Phantom, tactics (information control and hypnotism) from The Shadow. Orwell also seems to take a fair number of cues from Oracle, particularly when she's acting as the Cape's operator.
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Red Right Hand
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Red Right Hand: An interesting variation; Peter Fleming doesn't actually have silver eyes (they're just colored contacts), but he puts them in whenever he's feeling crazy, so the effect is the same.
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Train Job
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Train Job: "Scales on a Train."
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Defrosting Ice Queen
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Defrosting Ice Queen: As Orwell spends more time with Vince, we get to see her... girlier side. In one conversation with Vince, she admits that she would normally be getting her nails done on a Saturday if she wasn't Orwell.
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: Vince. A particularly sad example as he was a clear example of a doting father, but having to fake his own death makes it that much more painful. Inverted with Flemming who has been shown looking for his long lost daughter. She's revealed to be Orwell, who's fighting everything he stands for and declares him no longer her father.
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Non-Indicative Name
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Non-Indicative Name: The Cape is actually an example of The Cowl. Also it's really more of a cloak...
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Parental Abandonment
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Parental Abandonment: This appears to be at the center of The Lich's motives.
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Privately Owned Society
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Privately Owned Society: Pretty much everything is privatized in Palm City, with it being owned by Ark Corporation.
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Training Montage
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Training Montage: Vince uses one in the first episode to learn the carnival tricks he needs to be a superhero.
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Arch-Enemy
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Arch-Enemy: Chess, the supervillain who's The Cape and Orwell's greatest foe.
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Shotgun Wedding
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Shotgun Wedding: Minus the shotgun; the Lich tries to marry a paralyzed Orwell.
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Awful Truth
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Awful Truth: Orwell finally knows what daddy did to mommy. We, unfortunately, do not.
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Split Personality
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Split Personality: Fleming's dual identity as Chess is apparently the result of this.
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Good Is Dumb
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Good Is Dumb: Mostly averted, but Raia the acrobat, the nicest of the Carnival of Crime, is also its ditziest member.
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Title In
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Title In: Rather than location and time, they're chapter titles for each section of the story.
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Name of Cain
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Name of Cain: The Code Name of assassin Raimonde LeFleur is Cain.
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Batman Gambit
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Batman Gambit: Chess kills the new chief of police in a city with a history of organized criminal activity in order to have the city's police force privatized and turned over to his company. He then frames Vince Faraday and makes it look like he was Chess, and makes it look like Chess was killed on live television in broad daylight. End result: Chess controls the city's police and is believed to be dead while his alter ego operates with impunity and is believed to be an upstanding, well meaning corporate executive.
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Bulletproof Vest
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Bulletproof Vest: The cape apparently acts as one. Slightly justified as spider-silk is incredibly strong and actually is bullet proof (though being exceptionally flexible, while the material won't get punctured by a bullet, it won't actually stop the bullet from making a wound). Also slightly subverted as while the cape does protect Vince, he's still hurt by the sheer kinetic force of being shot (the bullets draw blood and leave visible welts).
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Secret Test of Character
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Secret Test of Character: In the second episode, Max withholds the Cape from our hero, and offers him train tickets to run away with his family. Faraday says no, and goes off to fight crime on his own. Max's smile when he leaves indicates he was at least partly testing Faraday's resolve.
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Shut Up, Hannibal!
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: In "Kozmo", Gregor is in the middle of a long winded victory speech when Vince comes up behind him, punches him, and says "Don't you ever shut up?!"
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Sibling Team
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Sibling Team: Goggles and Hicks are brothers who work as assassins.
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Shirtless Scene
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Shirtless Scene: Vince gets one in "Goggles and Hicks".
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Worthy Opponent
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Worthy Opponent: In the second episode, Chess is disappointed when the Cape doesn't turn out to be this and pleased at the end after the Cape has taken another level in badass.
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Badass in Distress
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Badass in Distress: Orwell in "The Lich Part 2". She's drugged by The Lich and held captive, with him intending to marry her.
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Traintop Battle
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Traintop Battle: Vince vs Scales, in episode 4.
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Combat Pragmatist
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Combat Pragmatist: Just shoot him? Shooting is almost always the first thing the mooks do upon seeing The Cape. They always miss, of course, but it is the thought that counts. More rarely, even Chess, the Big Bad, is quick to grab a gun and shoot. Still misses though unless it's with a knife.
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Archnemesis Dad
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Archnemesis Dad: Fleming's daughter turns out to be Orwell, who's worked tirelessly to bring him down.
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Wig, Dress, Accent
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Wig, Dress, Accent: Orwell's preferred M.O. for disguises.
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Et Tu, Brute?
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Et Tu, Brute?: Vince's best friend Marty helps to frame him as the supervillain Chess (under orders by the real guy). It's hinted he only did this under coercion, but of course it's a huge betrayal nonetheless to Vince.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: The Lich seems to suffer from a condition where his body is constantly rotting.
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Unresolved Sexual Tension
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Unresolved Sexual Tension: The promotional material alone has copious amounts of this between Vince and Orwell. Which makes things awkward since Vince is a married man and part of his whole origin story is getting back to said wife and kid. Exaggerated when Orwell is dreaming about marrying Vince. There appears to be something between Vince's "widow" and her new boss. When they accidentally touch hands in a bar, she runs home and cries in bed, trying to convince herself it's not flirting.
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Picture-Perfect Presentation
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Picture-Perfect Presentation: The panels of little Trip's comic turn to live action in the credits.
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: The Carnival of Crime, especially its leader Max Malini, to the point where both the hero and the audience may forget the evil part. At least until they rob a train. Believe it or not, Peter Fleming.
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Flashback
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Flash Back: Several involving Vince with his family, before he was framed.
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The Dragon
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The Dragon: Scales, albeit one who is at open war with the Big Bad.
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Lotus-Eater Machine
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Lotus-Eater Machine: The Lich's drugs trap Orwell in a fantasy in which she's marrying Vince.
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 The Cape / int_5989e3b6
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Enemy Mine
 The Cape / int_5989e3b6
comment
Enemy Mine: In "Scales" the Cape and Fleming have to work together to stop a runaway train. Also in "Lich", where the Cape has to work with Marty to stop the titular villain. All Vince has to say to convince Marty is that Lich is real, as every cop in the city knows about the mysterious crimes.
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The Cape / int_5989e3b6
 The Cape / int_598c4d8a
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A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil
 The Cape / int_598c4d8a
comment
Gregor Molotov spent twenty years in prison obsessing over the cape, which Max denied him because of the darkness in his heart. While this sort of situation is common with his character type, the exact circumstances are eerily similar to Tai Lung's motivations in Kung Fu Panda.
 The Cape / int_598c4d8a
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The Cape / int_598c4d8a
 The Cape / int_59907e4f
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Police Are Useless
 The Cape / int_59907e4f
comment
Police Are Useless: Especially when they're in the Big Bad's wallet.
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The Cape / int_59907e4f
 The Cape / int_59ca0c8a
type
Mob-Boss Suit Fitting
 The Cape / int_59ca0c8a
comment
Mob-Boss Suit Fitting: It had a scene with Peter Fleming and Scales meeting at a tailor to discuss business. Although Scales is just there to talk, Fleming insists on buying him a suit as well.
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The Cape / int_59ca0c8a
 The Cape / int_5a7fc31
type
Faux Death
 The Cape / int_5a7fc31
comment
Faux Death: The Lich uses a toxin to do this to people in order to brainwash them.
 The Cape / int_5a7fc31
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The Cape / int_5a7fc31
 The Cape / int_5bdf025f
type
Instant Sedation
 The Cape / int_5bdf025f
comment
Instant Sedation: In the pilot, when Vince is jumped after finding the bombs being smuggled into the city. In an interesting case, this one actually makes sense; the sedative is injected directly into Vince's neck, ensuring it hits his brain very quickly.
 The Cape / int_5bdf025f
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The Cape / int_5bdf025f
 The Cape / int_5e3c35bd
type
Badass Bureaucrat
 The Cape / int_5e3c35bd
comment
Badass Bureaucrat: Secretary of Prisons Patrick Portman has a gun in his desk to use against enemies in the second episode and provides some assistance during one fight scene in a later episode.
 The Cape / int_5e3c35bd
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The Cape / int_5e3c35bd
 The Cape / int_5f52cfcf
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Intrepid Reporter
 The Cape / int_5f52cfcf
comment
Intrepid Reporter: In a nod to the modern mediascape, she's a blogger, rather than an Old Media type.
 The Cape / int_5f52cfcf
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The Cape / int_5f52cfcf
 The Cape / int_5fb94733
type
 The Cape / int_5fb94733
comment
"Uh-Oh" Eyes: Fleming's damn creepy chess piece contact lenses. One of the villains is even nicknamed Eyes, as he cannot blink.
 The Cape / int_5fb94733
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1.0
 The Cape / int_5fb94733
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The Cape / int_5fb94733
 The Cape / int_63499260
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VillainOfTheWeek
 The Cape / int_63499260
comment
Villain of the Week: Setting up to be this, with Chess being an overarching Big Bad. The first villain was Scales, the second Cain and so on.
 The Cape / int_63499260
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The Cape / int_63499260
 The Cape / int_638b65bc
type
Armor Is Useless
 The Cape / int_638b65bc
comment
Armor Is Useless: Despite wearing some sort of breastplate, Vince gets stabbed right through it not once, but twice, in the first two hours alone. By more or less regular people. At least one of these stabbings was near his shoulder where the armor cuts away to give room for free movement of the arms. This has a little bit of Truth in Television, as most bullet-resistant vests are not much help against stabbing attacks. At least it helps against the taser. See however Bulletproof Vest below.
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The Cape / int_638b65bc
 The Cape / int_64e975cf
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Manly Tears
 The Cape / int_64e975cf
comment
Manly Tears: When "the Cape" gives Trip a message "from his father."
 The Cape / int_64e975cf
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The Cape / int_64e975cf
 The Cape / int_66dfe36a
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Missing Mom
 The Cape / int_66dfe36a
comment
Missing Mom: Orwell doesn't know where her mother went at the start. Eventually, she learns her father did something to her (though the audience never learns the details).
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The Cape / int_66dfe36a
 The Cape / int_67edaf78
type
Gargle Blaster
 The Cape / int_67edaf78
comment
Gargle Blaster: The Vietnamese Snake Wine from the finale likely applies.
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The Cape / int_67edaf78
 The Cape / int_6941e30b
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Room Full of Crazy
 The Cape / int_6941e30b
comment
Room Full of Crazy: Dice's apartment
 The Cape / int_6941e30b
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The Cape / int_6941e30b
 The Cape / int_6b6556ee
type
Mentor Occupational Hazard
 The Cape / int_6b6556ee
comment
Mentor Occupational Hazard: Max gets captured by Ark, beaten, shot, and gives his last words to Vince while lying in his arms. Then he realizes he isn't dying, and gets annoyed he wasted that good speech.
 The Cape / int_6b6556ee
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The Cape / int_6b6556ee
 The Cape / int_6b8b122b
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The Good, the Bad, and the Evil
 The Cape / int_6b8b122b
comment
The Good, the Bad, the Evil and the Complete Monster: The Cape, the Carnival of Crime, Scales, and Fleming.
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The Cape / int_6b8b122b
 The Cape / int_6bda9a30
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Meaningful Name
 The Cape / int_6bda9a30
comment
Meaningful Name: Orwell a hacker who sees all and knows all, sorta like big brother.
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The Cape / int_6bda9a30
 The Cape / int_6c553873
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Private Military Contractors
 The Cape / int_6c553873
comment
Private Military Contractors: Ark is mostly this, but they want to expand into the police and prison business.
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The Cape / int_6c553873
 The Cape / int_6d56cebf
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Chess Motifs
 The Cape / int_6d56cebf
comment
Chess Motifs: Peter Fleming. He even takes on the supervillain alias "Chess". Also, he has contacts that look like chess pieces, and a holographic terminal (with the projector hidden under a chess board!) that projects his files in a chessboard layout. When he is having a bad day he hallucinates a chessboard with red and black pieces and on one occasion himself as Chess telling him to kill people.
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The Cape / int_6d56cebf
 The Cape / int_6f059863
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Oddly Small Organization
 The Cape / int_6f059863
comment
Oddly Small Organization: The Carnival of Crime only has four onscreen members.
 The Cape / int_6f059863
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The Cape / int_6f059863
 The Cape / int_7175cb16
type
Clark Kenting
 The Cape / int_7175cb16
comment
Clark Kenting: Averted with Chess/Fleming. The only pictures of him as Chess are blurry and when he goes to make a deal with his Scales as Fleming, he sends a rep so that Scales can't get close enough to notice. Played straight with the Cape/Vince. Neither Fleming nor Vince's best friend recognize Vince while he's wearing a tiny mask and not changing his voice. Slightly justified in that they believe Vince to be dead. He also turns his head away from them.
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The Cape / int_7175cb16
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Murder, Inc.
 The Cape / int_72217e12
comment
Murder, Inc.: The Tarot society are a group of assassins for hire.
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The Cape / int_72217e12
 The Cape / int_7286e96d
type
Idiot Ball
 The Cape / int_7286e96d
comment
Idiot Ball: Fleming picks it up at the end of "Goggles and Hicks", firing Hicks just as he is about to hand him The Cape's Identity.
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The Cape / int_7286e96d
 The Cape / int_73733868
type
Awesomeness by Analysis
 The Cape / int_73733868
comment
In "Dice", we also see that Max had a chart that apparently predicted Vince's arrival and that he would become the cape. The flashback in question followed a conversation concerning the existence of Destiny or Fate, suggesting higher powers at work. However, the same episode also involves a savant who can predict the future using math. It also indicates that either he's very good using them quickly, or Chess doesn't wear contacts.
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The Cape / int_73733868
 The Cape / int_787a34e7
type
Swiss-Army Superpower
 The Cape / int_787a34e7
comment
Swiss-Army Superpower: The cape seems capable of a number of highly improbable abilities, but it's implied by Max that they all just take training in knowing how to use the cape in the right way.
 The Cape / int_787a34e7
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The Cape / int_787a34e7
 The Cape / int_79cce27b
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Law Enforcement, Inc.
 The Cape / int_79cce27b
comment
Law Enforcement, Inc.: ARK Corporation's MO in Palm City. They take over all police functions at the start of the series.
 The Cape / int_79cce27b
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The Cape / int_79cce27b
 The Cape / int_7f514dd1
type
AwesomeByAnalysis
 The Cape / int_7f514dd1
comment
Awesome by Analysis: Tracy's savant skills make her this. She's so good at predicting the odds of everything that she can walk right past security guards.
 The Cape / int_7f514dd1
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The Cape / int_7f514dd1
 The Cape / int_823c6e3e
type
Large Ham
 The Cape / int_823c6e3e
comment
Large Ham: Max Malini, and pretty much the entire Carnival of Crime to boot. They're a circus that robs banks in costume, after all.
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The Cape / int_823c6e3e
 The Cape / int_83442cc3
type
EMP
 The Cape / int_83442cc3
comment
EMP: Used by Goggles and Hicks to prevent Orwell from tracking them.
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The Cape / int_83442cc3
 The Cape / int_84a1984d
type
Legacy Immortality
 The Cape / int_84a1984d
comment
Legacy Immortality: Kozmo the Unkillable.
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The Cape / int_84a1984d
 The Cape / int_86b21114
type
Badass Boast
 The Cape / int_86b21114
comment
Badass Boast:
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The Cape / int_86b21114
 The Cape / int_8748f851
type
Brainy Brunette
 The Cape / int_8748f851
comment
Brainy Brunette: Orwell, a brown-haired young woman who's also a genius hacker.
 The Cape / int_8748f851
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The Cape / int_8748f851
 The Cape / int_875615dd
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Truth in Television
 The Cape / int_875615dd
comment
Truth in Television: The cellphone headsets are the obvious one, sure, but Orwell's keyboard is as well.
 The Cape / int_875615dd
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The Cape / int_875615dd
 The Cape / int_87bb6874
type
Villain with Good Publicity
 The Cape / int_87bb6874
comment
Villain with Good Publicity: Peter Fleming (as himself, not as Chess.)
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The Cape / int_87bb6874
 The Cape / int_88799cf4
type
Badass Cape
 The Cape / int_88799cf4
comment
Badass Cape: Vince is able to grab, throw, and strike things with it. True to the source material as well, the cape seems to gain and lose length (among other things) as needed for the scene (partially because of the switch between CGI and the prop). Notably where The Cape is chasing Orwell who has several yards ahead of him and yet manages to use his ankle length cape to grab something that's ahead of Orwell. The cape seems to be able to hide most or all of its length in the leather mantle, because of its material. The length of the cape seen during most scenes is only a small part of its capable length. Its weighted edge allows it to wrap around objects at range, like a whip or lasso. It was custom built for stage magician in the past, and it takes a skilled sleight-of-hand artist to extend the cape to its full length usefully. Max reveals that almost all previous owners of the cape used it for their own gain (one in particular having used it to go on a killing spree).
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The Cape / int_88799cf4
 The Cape / int_8a295a46
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Cool Car
 The Cape / int_8a295a46
comment
Cool Car: Orwell has a couple of these.
 The Cape / int_8a295a46
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The Cape / int_8a295a46
 The Cape / int_8a4988bb
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Mind Rape
 The Cape / int_8a4988bb
comment
Mind Rape: The Lich's neurotoxin causes this on some of his victims. After her ordeal with the Lich, Jamie/Orwell is clearly affected.
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The Cape / int_8a4988bb
 The Cape / int_8bb79fdf
type
Designated Girl Fight
 The Cape / int_8bb79fdf
comment
Designated Girl Fight: Averted in "Dice," despite the promos making it look that way. The closest we get is Dice pistol-whipping Orwell in one scene and then Orwell handcuffing her at the end.
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The Cape / int_8bb79fdf
 The Cape / int_8bff32a8
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Creepy Doll
 The Cape / int_8bff32a8
comment
Creepy Doll: There is one hanging in the Lich's lair.
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The Cape / int_8bff32a8
 The Cape / int_8c96ae78
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No One Could Survive That!
 The Cape / int_8c96ae78
comment
No One Could Survive That!: Various explosions.
 The Cape / int_8c96ae78
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The Cape / int_8c96ae78
 The Cape / int_8d80bc0d
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Private Profit Prison
 The Cape / int_8d80bc0d
comment
Private Profit Prison: Chess, in his civilian identity, is trying to privatize the prisons under his control so that he can exploit the prisoners. The first few episodes are about the Cape trying to delay this, usually by keeping Chess from assassinating the judges and politicians standing in his way.
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 The Cape / int_8f1450ba
type
Pint-Sized Powerhouse
 The Cape / int_8f1450ba
comment
Pintsized Powerhouse: Rollo, a circus performer with dwarfism, is even so a very tough fighter.
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 The Cape / int_94332264
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Busman's Holiday
 The Cape / int_94332264
comment
Busman's Holiday: Naturally, almost the instant that Vince tries to take a day off to rest up from his injuries, a pair of assassins come gunning for him.
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Dynamic Entry
 The Cape / int_950329d8
comment
Dynamic Entry: The Cape specializes in these, but becomes especially notable in "From Russia With Love" when Gregor reveals himself and taunts "Where is a hero when you need one?" Well, when you give Vince a straight line like that....
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Wild Card
 The Cape / int_95a4c6df
comment
Wild Card: Scales, who goes from supporting Fleming to opposing him several times.
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The Cape / int_95a4c6df
 The Cape / int_970c790a
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Big Bad
 The Cape / int_970c790a
comment
Big Bad: Chess, the main villain of the series.
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The Cape / int_970c790a
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type
Falling Chandelier of Doom
 The Cape / int_98c4ea5f
comment
Falling Chandelier of Doom: Dice tries to kill Fleming with one.
 The Cape / int_98c4ea5f
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The Cape / int_98c4ea5f
 The Cape / int_9ae0cca6
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Character Blog
 The Cape / int_9ae0cca6
comment
Character Blog: Given that Orwell is a blogger, it only makes sense that she'd be given one of these.
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The Cape / int_9ae0cca6
 The Cape / int_9b54d536
type
Evil Counterpart
 The Cape / int_9b54d536
comment
Evil Counterpart: Gregor, who lampshades it by saying: "You're just me with a badge."
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The Cape / int_9b54d536
 The Cape / int_9d12bbc1
type
Foreshadowing
 The Cape / int_9d12bbc1
comment
Foreshadowing: In the second episode, Max tells Vince about how he has to be cold and precise on the high wire. Guess what Vince had to do a mere three episodes later?
 The Cape / int_9d12bbc1
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 The Cape / int_9d17b859
type
Made of Iron
 The Cape / int_9d17b859
comment
Max promises this, but it's fairly light-hearted and some of it is even played for laughs, like a knock down, drag out bare knuckle brawl with a Made of Iron circus little person.
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The Cape / int_9d17b859
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type
CloudCuckooLander
 The Cape / int_9dd2cbc2
comment
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Trip's friend Jerry, who establishes his credentials within two minutes of introduction.
 The Cape / int_9dd2cbc2
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The Cape / int_9dd2cbc2
 The Cape / int_9fde2eb1
type
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
 The Cape / int_9fde2eb1
comment
Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "No bars." "When you wake up, let me know if you felt this."
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Rogues Gallery
 The Cape / int_a0396574
comment
Rogues Gallery: The Cape is acquiring quite an impressive one. So far, there's Chess, Scales, the Tarot society, Gregor, Dice and the Lich.
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The Cape / int_a0396574
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type
Final Speech
 The Cape / int_a0d9c2f3
comment
Final Speech: Subverted to hell and back in the pilot; Max Malini gives a standard-issue one, then decides that he isn't dying after all.
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Eye Scream
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Eye Scream: Poker Face's eye drops being replaced with turpentine.
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The Cape / int_a2b38d3b
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Highly-Conspicuous Uniform
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comment
Highly-Conspicuous Uniform: Genre Savvy tropers probably didn't take too long to figure out where/who Max was on "Scales on a Train" - the grim reaper, the only person completely covered up from head to toe in a train of people mostly dressed in a small mask.
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The Cape / int_a30a7977
 The Cape / int_a3509d95
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
 The Cape / int_a3509d95
comment
The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Marty Voyt's password for the ARK mainframe is "Flowers." Vince as his old friend can remember it and gains access with it.
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The Cape / int_a3509d95
 The Cape / int_a3eea2ea
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Cop Killer
 The Cape / int_a3eea2ea
comment
Cop Killer: In the pilot Chess murders Palm City's police chief and frames Vince (a police detective) for it. All this is part of his plan to control the city.
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The Cape / int_a3eea2ea
 The Cape / int_a412cd2b
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Lens Flare
 The Cape / int_a412cd2b
comment
Lens Flare: Used rather excessively during the church meeting in "Goggles and Hicks".
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The Cape / int_a412cd2b
 The Cape / int_a536f3a3
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Gender-Blender Name
 The Cape / int_a536f3a3
comment
Gender-Blender Name: Orwell's real name turns out to be "Jamie".
 The Cape / int_a536f3a3
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The Cape / int_a536f3a3
 The Cape / int_ac4ac8e5
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
 The Cape / int_ac4ac8e5
comment
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode is named for its villain.
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The Cape / int_ac4ac8e5
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Chekhov's Skill
 The Cape / int_acecb17d
comment
Chekhov's Skill: In the pilot Vince goes through a training montage to learn the circus trade. Later he is chained and thrown into deep water, as per a famous escape artist trick.
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The Cape / int_acecb17d
 The Cape / int_afc6df04
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What You Are in the Dark
 The Cape / int_afc6df04
comment
What You Are in the Dark: In the finale, Voyt admits he'd planed on pulling a Heel–Face Turn, and rescuing Vince from Fleming back in the pilot, but when the moment came, he froze and couldn't do it.
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Self-Defenseless
 The Cape / int_afd82868
comment
Self-Defenseless: In the pilot, Orwell tasers Vince before realizing they're on the same side, but his chest armor absorbs it.
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The Cape / int_afd82868
 The Cape / int_b01abe4f
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Catchphrase
 The Cape / int_b01abe4f
comment
Catchphrase: Lampshaded. The Cape (in-universe comic version) has one. When Trip asks Vince (in The Cape costume) if he actually does say it to people, Vince gets flustered and can only get out a weak "Sometimes." The hypnotist tends to go with "Don't get cocky." Usually when he does something pretty cocky to counter someone else's cockiness.
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The Cape / int_b01abe4f
 The Cape / int_b032e4ed
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Ms. Fanservice
 The Cape / int_b032e4ed
comment
Ms. Fanservice: Raia. Orwell too, with some her disguises and outfits.
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The Cape / int_b032e4ed
 The Cape / int_b2cb7993
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Brains and Brawn
 The Cape / int_b2cb7993
comment
Brains and Brawn: Orwell is the brains to Vince's brawn. Goggles (brains) and Hicks (brawn). Also an Evil Duo.
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The Cape / int_b2cb7993
 The Cape / int_b707726f
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Hypocritical Humor
 The Cape / int_b707726f
comment
Hypocritical Humor: Says the guy who runs around in a mask with crazy contacts and what have you: "No offense, but your daughter is pretty creepy."
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The Cape / int_b707726f
 The Cape / int_b89ab683
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick
 The Cape / int_b89ab683
comment
Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Rollo, Max and Orwell all have their moments.
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The Cape / int_b89ab683
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Victoria's Secret Compartment
 The Cape / int_b9fc31d3
comment
Victoria's Secret Compartment: Averted with Dice, notable because it is lampshaded by Orwell:
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The Cape / int_b9fc31d3
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Clear My Name
 The Cape / int_bc3cb7ff
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Clear My Name: This is Vince's quest, after he gets framed for being supervillain Chess. In particular, proving it to his wife and son.
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The Cape / int_bc3cb7ff
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Berserk Button
 The Cape / int_bc74ef27
comment
Berserk Button: Nobody puts Scales in a cage. He also doesn't like midgets.
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The Cape / int_bc74ef27
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No Escape but Down
 The Cape / int_bd196e3c
comment
No Escape but Down: Vince gets away from Cain this way in the second episode.
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Mission Control
 The Cape / int_bebf0356
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The Chariot, actually a duo consisting of Goggles (Mission Control, hacking, surveillance) and Hicks (who performs the actual wetwork).
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The Cape / int_bebf0356
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Tarot Motifs
 The Cape / int_bf5fc089
comment
Tarot Motifs: There's a secret society of tarot-themed assassins, with tattoos of their major arcana. So far we've met: The Tower, LeFleur, who specializes in poison and knives. The Chariot, actually a duo consisting of Goggles (Mission Control, hacking, surveillance) and Hicks (who performs the actual wetwork).
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I Have You Now, My Pretty
 The Cape / int_bfad4265
comment
I Have You Now, My Pretty: The Lich and Orwell. Even ends with a "My Dear"... Gregor has a brief moment like this with Orwell as well. He wraps the cape around her waist and drags her close, and his voice gets lower and huskier while he taunts her.
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I Have No Son!
 The Cape / int_c132c0c5
comment
I Have No Son!: Orwell turns out to be Fleming's daughter. She's disowned him as her father for his evil deeds. He retorts (in her hallucination at least) that they'll always share genes, no matter what.
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The Cape / int_c132c0c5
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Big Blackout
 The Cape / int_c253090a
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Big Blackout: Done intentionally by Goggles.
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
 The Cape / int_c33ba0a8
comment
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: In the pilot, the carnival of crime has a stilt walker, trapeze artist, fire eater and two or three more acrobats but afterwards Max, Rollo, Raia and Ruvi are the only ones to appear.
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Cliffhanger
 The Cape / int_c6b8d37a
comment
Cliffhanger: The series ends on one due to its cancellation.
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Shout-Out
 The Cape / int_c75df49a
comment
Shout-Out: Three last names from Lost, LeFleur, Linus, and Faraday have appeared. Orwell is named after George Orwell, who is most famous for his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Her slogan, "Orwell is Watching," is a reference to the Arc Words "Big Brother is Watching You." Ironically, her secretly fighting against the evil authority is actually more reminiscent of the protagonist's love interest from that novel. The Cape's first fight with Scales is takes place at a shipyard, where his Mooks are grabbed out of the shadows. And towards the end of the second episode, the Cape looks down on the city from a tall building. Gregor Molotov spent twenty years in prison obsessing over the cape, which Max denied him because of the darkness in his heart. While this sort of situation is common with his character type, the exact circumstances are eerily similar to Tai Lung's motivations in Kung Fu Panda. In "Tarot", Orwell uses a fake name: Diane Simone. "Scales on a Train" is a not-so-subtle nod to Snakes on a Plane. During the robbery montage in the pilot, one of the costume sets the gang wears strongly resembles a cross between the nun costumes worn in The Town, mixed with clown attire. Vince tells Max to give the wisdom of Solomon thing a rest.
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Luke, I Am Your Father
 The Cape / int_c83a589c
comment
Luke, I Am Your Father: "The Lich Part 2" confirmed the suspicions of many Genre Savvy fans by revealing that Fleming is Orwell's father.note Then again, this tidbit was revealed in several interviews, so it wasn't exactly a surprise to people who have been paying attention.
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The Cape / int_c83a589c
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
 The Cape / int_cb70651c
comment
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: There are some hints in the third episode that the cape may be something more than just a very elaborate stage prop. It's suggested it could be Merlin's robe or have belonged to Jack the Ripper as well. Some of the things Kozmo does with it (such as throwing a man across the room just from the draft of flapping the cape) should not be physically possible either. Then again, maybe it's just a cover mythology and some more advanced tricks. Max suggests that the cape can wear the user and bring out their dark side if not careful; this could be taken literally, or it could be seen as symbolic of the training and skill required to use the cape (that is, power corrupts) means that it's tempting to use said talents for selfish reasons since few would be able to stop them. In "Dice", we also see that Max had a chart that apparently predicted Vince's arrival and that he would become the cape. The flashback in question followed a conversation concerning the existence of Destiny or Fate, suggesting higher powers at work. However, the same episode also involves a savant who can predict the future using math. It also indicates that either he's very good using them quickly, or Chess doesn't wear contacts.
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Corrupt Corporate Executive
 The Cape / int_cbe687ab
comment
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Peter Fleming.
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The Cape / int_cbe687ab
 The Cape / int_cbf9d0fe
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Sour Supporter
 The Cape / int_cbf9d0fe
comment
Sour Supporter Ruvi nearly does this in the finale, as Vince and Fleming's feud gets more intense, but he's talked into staying by Max.
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The Cape / int_cbf9d0fe
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
 The Cape / int_cec8b87a
comment
This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: "Say hello to Dorothy, bitch." Also happens in "Dice," when Orwell handcuffs Dice in the stairwell.
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 The Cape / int_cf496044
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Smoke Out
 The Cape / int_cf496044
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Smoke Out: The Series! If there's not one Smoke Out within 10 minutes, you're not watching the same show.
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 The Cape / int_cf92fea8
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Cassandra Truth
 The Cape / int_cf92fea8
comment
Cassandra Truth: No one believes Scales when he says Fleming is Chess. No one believes Vince was framed except his son.
 The Cape / int_cf92fea8
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 The Cape / int_d001c42c
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Anti-Villain
 The Cape / int_d001c42c
comment
Anti-Villain: Marty Voyt. Also Dice, who is just trying to kill Fleming and stop a project which could have let Fleming mathematically predict the future, which isn't exactly a bad thing, and despite her ruthlessness, probably wouldn't have posed a threat to anyone else if Vince had just let her go after Fleming.
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The Cape / int_d001c42c
 The Cape / int_d397657d
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Hoist by His Own Petard
 The Cape / int_d397657d
comment
Hoist by His Own Petard: Fleming demands Scales payment and give up some low-level cronies in exchange for letting him be the Godfather of Crime in the "bad" part of the City. In the season finale, after ARK's corruption is exposed, Marty is forced to take the fall and the Cape rescues him, Scales turns their deal around and demands Fleming to pay him to kill Marty and the Cape
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Hypno Fool
 The Cape / int_d40d7fc1
comment
Hypno Fool: Ruvi the hypnotist is capable of making people do silly things when hypnotized.
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I Have Many Names
 The Cape / int_d5d976dd
comment
I Have Many Names: In the pilot episode Max told Vince that the cape was made for Kozmo the Russian escapist Kozmo is one of Max's known aliases. In the third episode, it is revealed that there were multiple Kozmos. Each one used the cape.
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Carnival of Killers
 The Cape / int_d609b01a
comment
Carnival of Killers: The Big Bad Chess occasionally hires members of an assassin order called Tarot, each of whom specializes in a different skill. Cain is a poison expert, while the Goggles and Hicks duo (brothers) specialize in surveillance. After one too many failures, Chess refuses to have any more dealings with the Tarot. Ironically, he does this moments before Hicks would have revealed the true identity of the Cape. However, since he no longer works for Chess, Hicks feels no obligation to hand over the information and, instead, uses it to bargain with the Cape for the location of his captured brother.
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Training from Hell
 The Cape / int_d66cd0e6
comment
Training from Hell: Max promises this, but it's fairly light-hearted and some of it is even played for laughs, like a knock down, drag out bare knuckle brawl with a Made of Iron circus little person. It doesn't stop with his origin story though. He's still pretty unpolished in episode too and subjects himself to more of this to make it up.
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Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You
 The Cape / int_d8e0e9f7
comment
Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Vince did, as he was framed and forced to fake his death. Unusually, this trope is portrayed from the perspective of the father. He tries to keep a relationship with his son as The Cape.
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The Cape / int_d8e0e9f7
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Acquired Poison Immunity
 The Cape / int_daba0e87
comment
Acquired Poison Immunity: The Cape, after a bad run in with a serial killer specializing in exotic poisons. Subverted as well, due to not actually being used, since Cain winds up trying to stab him instead of poisoning him.
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Action Girl
 The Cape / int_dae5c997
comment
Action Girl: Orwell. Especially when she uses her taser.
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The Cape / int_dae5c997
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Reasonable Authority Figure
 The Cape / int_dca70c44
comment
Reasonable Authority Figure: Patrick Portman, commissioner of prisons, and Travis Hall the head of the public defenders office are both well-meaning public servants not under Fleming's thumb, like so many others. Even Voyt shows a little bit of this during an Enemy Mine situation with The Cape in the two-part episode The Lich.
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 The Cape / int_dcb9c541
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Ship Tease
 The Cape / int_dcb9c541
comment
Ship Tease: Between Vince and Orwell, particularly the scene where Orwell hallucinates marrying Vince while drugged during her wedding to the Lich, despite Vince being married.
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Token Black Friend
 The Cape / int_dd08dba9
comment
Token Black Friend: Averted with Marty, in that Marty is a fully-developed character in his own right. While he is Vince's best friend, he is also a traitor. It's implied that this is under duress. Played semi-straight with Vince's mentor Max, except for Vince having to tolerate his side job as an armed robber.
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Kubrick Stare
 The Cape / int_dea5fe1
comment
Kubrick Stare: Cain's signature look.
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The Cape / int_dea5fe1
 The Cape / int_debf324f
type
Immune to Fate
 The Cape / int_debf324f
comment
Immune to Fate: Dice is able to use savant-level mathematics to predict everything... except The Cape. Somehow, he exists in a blind spot in her calculations.
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Know When to Fold 'Em
 The Cape / int_e16cd24e
comment
Know When to Fold 'Em: Hicks backs down from hunting the Cape in order to focus on breaking Goggles out of jail. Sour Supporter Ruvi nearly does this in the finale, as Vince and Fleming's feud gets more intense, but he's talked into staying by Max.
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Disposable Vagrant
 The Cape / int_e1d1a88c
comment
Disposable Vagrant: Several lived in the train yard where Vince "died." They're being arrested on trumped up charges rather than killed though.
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The Cape / int_e1d1a88c
 The Cape / int_e276cd
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The Cowl
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The Cowl: The hero, interestingly enough.
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Attending Your Own Funeral
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Attending Your Own Funeral: Apparently dead, Vince's family holds a memorial service as he secretly watches from a distance.
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Reconstruction
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Reconstruction: The series seems to be an attempt at a throwback to more traditional superhero stories (secret identities! costumes! clear-cut standards of good and evil!) after the deconstruction seen in Heroes. It also bears similarity to old serials like The Shadow and Dick Tracy.
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Camp
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Camp: Even though it takes itself entirely seriously, the Camp is almost intentional in quantity and quality.
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Expy
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Expy: Orwell to Eyes Only. A cyber-journalist/hacker with a Secret Identity trying to stem the tide of corruption. There are also parallels to be drawn to Oracle. She is a super-tech oriented person who is unable to fight the corruption she hates directly; so she acts as Mission Control for a Badass Normal ultra detective who specializes in theatrics and deception and dresses in a long black cape, she also is a uber-hacker who uses her improbable, phenomenal skills to assist him. Scales is very similar to Killer Croc, in terms of being a thug with a skin condition who wants to get respect. There is also the fact that Dominic Raoul and Waylon Jones were both sideshow freaks before turning to crime. Fleming/Chess has a few similarities to Norman Osborn/Green Goblin. The Carnival of Crime to Marvel's Circus of Crime.
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Determinator
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Determinator: Comes with the territory.
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Death Dealer
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Death Dealer: Playing poker with Gregor is hazardous to your health.
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Gratuitous Russian
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Gratuitous Russian: The prison in the first scenes of episode three (though the spoken phrases don't match the subtitles).
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Dirty Cop
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Dirty Cop: Chess has many corrupt cops on his payroll, including Marty (though it's hinted he might be coerced into this).
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: In "The Lich, Part 2," Vince, Max and Rollo show up just in time to rescue Orwell. In "Razer," Max puts on the cape and rescues Vince in a way that shows everybody how it's done.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Ruvi, a self-centered Sour Supporter who is the only member of the Carnival of Crime who Vince doesn't seem to like.
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Chronic Villainy
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Chronic Villainy: Even though Peter Fleming's plan in the pilot involved killing his "Chess" persona with Vince as his patsy, in the very same episode he seems compelled to continue carrying out his crimes as Chess.
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Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts
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Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts: Attempted by Dice in a clever split-screen montage.
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Redemption Equals Death
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Redemption Equals Death: Marty in "Endgame".
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Being Evil Sucks
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Being Evil Sucks: Voyt decides this by the finale, after he's been sold out the moment Fleming no longer needs him.
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Evil Brit
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Evil Brit: Chess, who's English and also the main villain. Scales, a lesser villain, is another example.
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Crazy People Play Chess
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Crazy People Play Chess: Chess, of course.
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Viewer-Friendly Interface
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Viewer-Friendly Interface: Chess and Orwell both have fancy holographic displays.
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Faking the Dead
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Faking the Dead: Vince makes it look like he died in an explosion. It sets everything in motion and allows Vince to take on his new identity.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: Vince can never seem to win against Scales in a fist fight.
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You Killed My Father
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You Killed My Father: Dice to Peter Fleming. She predicted it at the beginning of the episode, thanks to her being able to calculate almost any odds. Her father doesn't listen.
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Car Cushion
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Car Cushion: The Cape survives a fall from a multistory building this way.
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Attack Drone
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Attack Drone: Goggles and Hicks use one (nicknamed "the bumblebee") to try and kill Vince.
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Evil Duo
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Goggles (brains) and Hicks (brawn). Also an Evil Duo.
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: "British Bartitsu ... Kodokan Judo ... the warrior dancers of the Tang Dynasty used their robes as weapons, and so will you!" A pleasant surprise to hear this wasn't an example of getting it wrong. The writers did their homework. The toxin that The Lich uses is also a real thing, commonly used in Voodoo.
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