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In other words, this series was essentially a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]], UsefulNotes/ComicsCode-friendly version of Literature/JohnCarterOfMars.

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In other words, this series was essentially a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]], UsefulNotes/ComicsCode-friendly MediaNotes/ComicsCode-friendly version of Literature/JohnCarterOfMars.



* GuileHero: As fits a DC Comics hero of UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, Adam mostly defeated the menaces he encountered with science and trickery.

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* GuileHero: As fits a DC Comics hero of UsefulNotes/{{the MediaNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, Adam mostly defeated the menaces he encountered with science and trickery.
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* AfterTheEnd: Rann suffered from a nuclear war that plunged the civilization into collections of warring city-states, except for Rannagar which still retained its technological advances and attempting to restore the remnants civilization into a more pristine state. In Alan Moore's ComicBook/SwampThing, the entire planet suffered from drought-borne famine and declining birth rate from lingering radiation.

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* AfterTheEnd: Rann suffered from a nuclear war that plunged the civilization into collections of warring city-states, except for Rannagar Ranagar which still retained its technological advances and attempting to restore the remnants civilization into a more pristine state. In Alan Moore's ComicBook/SwampThing, the entire planet suffered from drought-borne famine and declining birth rate from lingering radiation.



* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: Rannagar's neighboring planet of Anthorann was colonized just before the apocalypse in the same first issue. Their descendents also help out the restoration of their post-apocalyptic civilization.

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* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: Rannagar's Ranagar's neighboring planet of Anthorann was colonized just before the apocalypse in the same first issue. Their descendents also help out the restoration of their post-apocalyptic civilization.
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* BattleCouple: Adam Strange and Alanna.

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* HumanAliens: The Rannians. As typical of DC, no explanation for this was ever given. Though ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' made them a little more alien.

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* HumanAliens: The Rannians. As typical of DC, no explanation for this was ever given. Though ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' made them a little more alien.



* PlanetaryRomance: In some versions.

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* NotQuiteDead: Basically how Alanna is brought back to life after her apparent death in childbirth; Adam explicitly notes later that she was declared dead by a human doctor who was inexperienced with Raanian physiology, giving her father hope that some alien civilisation would be able to bring her back to 'life'.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: When the telepathic En'Tarans tried to acquire zeta beam technology in exchange for his resurrected wife Alanna, Adam was able to use a mentaliser headband to project insane thoughts and give the impression that Alanna's return had driven him mad, coming up with a complex plan to drive the En'Tarans away while disguising it as a mental breakdown.
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** WeaponizedTeleportation: Adam uses this to rather lethal effect while on the hunt for the missing Rann star system during '''Planet Heist'''. Once he used it to fight off a [[BalefulPolymorph Durlan mercenary]] by warping him into a supernova.

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** WeaponizedTeleportation: Adam uses this to rather lethal effect while on the hunt for the missing Rann star system during '''Planet Heist'''. Once he used it to fight off a [[BalefulPolymorph [[ForcedTransformation Durlan mercenary]] by warping him into a supernova.
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No relation to Professor Hugo Strange from Franchise/{{Batman}}'s rogues gallery, or the Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} character [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} Adam Warlock]] or ComicBook/DoctorStrange.

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No relation to Professor Hugo Strange from Franchise/{{Batman}}'s rogues gallery, or the Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} character [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]] or ComicBook/DoctorStrange.
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A two-issue story in the Creator/AlanMoore run of ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' stated that Adam was not transported by accident, but rather that the Rannians needed him to help repopulate their species as nuclear war had rendered them sterile. The idea was further developed in a three-issue miniseries by Richard Bruning in which Adam learned the truth, Sardath went mad, and Alanna was killed off. This RetCon was quietly undone in the late 1990s by Creator/MarkWaid, who revealed Alanna was [[DeathIsCheap still alive]] and casually had Adam mention curing Sardath's madness. The "sterile Rann" RetCon has gone unmentioned since, and associated miniseries seems to have tacitly slipped into CanonDiscontinuity.

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A two-issue story in the Creator/AlanMoore run of ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' stated that Adam was not transported by accident, but rather that the Rannians needed him to help repopulate their species as nuclear war had rendered them sterile. The idea was further developed in a three-issue miniseries by Richard Bruning in which Adam learned the truth, Sardath went mad, and Alanna was killed off. This RetCon was quietly undone in the late 1990s by Creator/MarkWaid, who revealed Alanna was [[DeathIsCheap still alive]] and casually had Adam mention curing Sardath's madness. The "sterile Rann" RetCon has gone unmentioned since, and associated miniseries seems to have tacitly slipped into CanonDiscontinuity.



No relation to Professor Hugo Strange from Franchise/{{Batman}}'s rogues gallery, or the Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} character [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} Adam Warlock]] or Comicbook/DoctorStrange.

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No relation to Professor Hugo Strange from Franchise/{{Batman}}'s rogues gallery, or the Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} character [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} Adam Warlock]] or Comicbook/DoctorStrange.
ComicBook/DoctorStrange.



* DarkerAndEdgier: Adam's two issue appearance in Creator/AlanMoore[='=]s ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' and the three-issue miniseries "The Man of Two Worlds". Although Moore is often blamed for driving this change, [[WordOfGod it was revealed in the letter column of]] ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' that the mini-series was already in the works when Moore came to write his stories, and he was asked to reflect its nature.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Adam's two issue appearance in Creator/AlanMoore[='=]s ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' and the three-issue miniseries "The Man of Two Worlds". Although Moore is often blamed for driving this change, [[WordOfGod it was revealed in the letter column of]] ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' that the mini-series was already in the works when Moore came to write his stories, and he was asked to reflect its nature.



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No relation to Professor Hugo Strange from Franchise/{{Batman}}'s rogues gallery, or the Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} character Comicbook/AdamWarlock or Comicbook/DoctorStrange.

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No relation to Professor Hugo Strange from Franchise/{{Batman}}'s rogues gallery, or the Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} character Comicbook/AdamWarlock [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} Adam Warlock]] or Comicbook/DoctorStrange.
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* HumanMomNonhumanDad: An Inversion to this trope with Adam (Human) and Alanna (Rannite) for Aleea Strange.
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* MightyWhitey ([[AC:[[RecycledInSpace In Space]]]])

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Adam returned to prominence in a 12-issue miniseries as part of the Creator/DCBlackLabel, ''ComicBook/StrangeAdventures''. Written by Tom King, with art from Mitch Gerads and Evan "Doc" Shaner, the novel focuses on a recently-retired Adam Strange, the things he did on Rann, [[{{Deconstruction}} and whether or not those were war crimes.]] Adam and Alanna try to hold their lives together, on Earth and on Rann, as the Pykkts prepare a new invasion force and Earth's superhero community tries to figure out the truth.

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Adam returned to prominence in a 12-issue miniseries as part of the Creator/DCBlackLabel, ''ComicBook/StrangeAdventures''.''ComicBook/StrangeAdventures2020''. Written by Tom King, with art from Mitch Gerads and Evan "Doc" Shaner, the novel focuses on a recently-retired Adam Strange, the things he did on Rann, [[{{Deconstruction}} and whether or not those were war crimes.]] Adam and Alanna try to hold their lives together, on Earth and on Rann, as the Pykkts prepare a new invasion force and Earth's superhero community tries to figure out the truth.

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No relation to professor Hugo Strange from Franchise/{{Batman}}'s rogues gallery, or the Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} character Comicbook/AdamWarlock or Comicbook/DoctorStrange.

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Adam returned to prominence in a 12-issue miniseries as part of the Creator/DCBlackLabel, ''ComicBook/StrangeAdventures''. Written by Tom King, with art from Mitch Gerads and Evan "Doc" Shaner, the novel focuses on a recently-retired Adam Strange, the things he did on Rann, [[{{Deconstruction}} and whether or not those were war crimes.]] Adam and Alanna try to hold their lives together, on Earth and on Rann, as the Pykkts prepare a new invasion force and Earth's superhero community tries to figure out the truth.

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* MightyWhitey ([[AC:[[RecycledInSpace In Space]])

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Adam is a long-time ally of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, though not a member.

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Adam is a long-time ally of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, though not a member.
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No relation to professor Hugo Strange from Franchise/{{Batman}}'s rogues gallery, or the Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} character Comicbook/DoctorStrange.

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No relation to professor Hugo Strange from Franchise/{{Batman}}'s rogues gallery, or the Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} character Comicbook/AdamWarlock or Comicbook/DoctorStrange.
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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Inverted: he ''wanted'' to stay in Rann, but couldn't for long.
* UngratefulTownsfolk: In the modern age, the Rannians are a lot less thankful for Adam's help and a lot more {{Jerkass}} on account of him being an alien ape. Strange is well aware of this fact but being the HumbleHero that he is, coupled with his wife living there; he does what he can to help them anyway.

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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Inverted: he ''wanted'' to stay in on Rann, but couldn't for long.
* UngratefulTownsfolk: In the modern age, the Rannians are a lot less thankful for Adam's help and a lot more {{Jerkass}} on account of him being an alien ape. Strange is well aware of this fact but being the HumbleHero that he is, coupled with his wife living there; there, he does what he can to help them anyway.



** WeaponizedTeleportation: Adam uses this to rather lethal effect while on the hunt for the missing Rann star system during '''Planet Heist'''. Once he used it to fight off a [[BalefulPolymorph durlan mercenary]] by warping him into a supernova.

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* StarterVillain: The Eternals, a race of aliens who attacked Rann for a rare mineral soon after Adam first teleported there, and are trapped in the Fourth Dimension at the end of the issue.
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In the ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'', Adam and Alanna are members of Justice League United, and their origin is tied to the team's. However. Alanna was given a RaceLift as a black female from earth, [[spoiler: at least HalfHumanHybrid child of Sardath born on Earth by Issue 16.]]

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In the ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'', Adam and Alanna are members of Justice League United, and their origin is tied to the team's. However. Alanna was given a RaceLift as a black female from earth, Earth, [[spoiler: at least HalfHumanHybrid child of Sardath born on Earth by Issue 16.]]
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* PoisonousPerson: The GeniusLoci planet, Yggardis, gave off radiation that would kill anyone on its surface (meaning it [[WhoWantsToLiveForever lived for centuries totally alone]]).

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