The Anticupids are deliberately opposed to Cupid: small blue figures with wings, bows and blunt lead arrows. In comic 1, one singles out a lonely young woman, wounds her confidence and reinforces her despair with a relentless belittling voice.

Matchman’s intervention leads to a confrontation with a whole squad in Union Square. In “Day of Discordia,” they help arrange a museum ambush using a suspended whale exhibit. Their work ranges from emotional sabotage to physical traps, relying on numbers and cunning while their courage falters under resistance.