History ComicBook / AdamStrange

No relation to [[Franchise/{{Batman}} professor Hugo Strange]] or the Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} character Comicbook/DoctorStrange.

* WhatTheHellTownspeople: Twice in one going after Adam and a crew of space and earth heroes battled the murderous Lady Styx. Rann and the high council replaced him with a [[NiceCharacterMeanActor stuck up film himbo]] also from earth due to Adam spending more time with his family than protecting Rann. And again when aforementioned GalacticConqueror made [[AllTheOtherReindeer everybody on Rann]] including the [[SketchySuccessor roid raging, mean spirited & glory seeking copy cat rocket jockey]] they replaced him with, turn into homicidal murder happy abomnoids through viral infection. Greatly ramping up the [[HatesEveryoneEqually xenophobic fervor Rann had already]] to [[{{Demonization}} new and terrifying heights]].

* 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 TheSwampThing, the entire planet suffered from drought-borne famine and declining birth rate from lingering radiation.

* 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 alleviate the surviving civilization into a more pristine state.

* 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 alleviate the surviving civilization into a more palatable state.

* Hardlight: For a while during Infinite Crisis and its lead up stories, Adam would utilize some new ordinance comprising of which created by his father-in-law Sardeth to better aid him in fierce battle.

* DeathByChildbirth: Alanna until {{Retcon}} by Mark Waid in his [[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]] run with her being in coma after giving birth to their daughter.

No relation to [[Franchise/{{Batman}} professor Hugo Strange]] or the Creator/{{Marvel}} character Comicbook/DoctorStrange.

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 born on Earth by Issue 14.]]

* HumanMomNonhumanDad: An Inversion to this trope with Adam (Human) and Alanna (Rannite).

In the ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'', Adam and Alanna are members of Justice League United, and their origin is tied to the team's.

No relation to [[Franchise/{{Batman}} professor Hugo Strange]] or the {{Marvel}} character Comicbook/DoctorStrange.

In other words, this series was essentially a UsefulNotes/SilverAge, UsefulNotes/ComicsCode-friendly version of Literature/JohnCarterOfMars.

* GuileHero: As fits a DC Comics hero of the SilverAge, Adam mostly defeated the menaces he encountered with science and trickery.

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[[caption-width:199:Did he just notice his costume?]]

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

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Kanjar Ro went from fighting the JusticeLeague to repeatedly clashing with Adam for awhile.

* BattleCouple: Adam Strange and Alanna. Especially in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Batman: The Brave and the Bold]]''.

* HumanAliens: The Rannians. As typical of DC, no explanation for this was ever given.

In Comicbook/TheNewFiftyTwo, Adam and Alanna are members of Justice League United, and their origin is tied to the team's.

Adam Strange is a DCComics [[RaygunGothic space hero]] character from the [[TheFifties 1950s]], who still appears occasionally in their comics and cartoons. He was created by Gardner Fox, and first appeared in ''Showcase'' #17 (November, 1958). After three try-out issues in ''Showcase'', he became a regular feature in ''Mystery in Space'' beginning with #53 (August, 1959).

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 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.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Adam is an archeologist but it rarely plays into his adventures.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Adam's two issue appearance in Creator/AlanMoore[='=]s ''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]] ''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.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Adam's two issue appearance in AlanMoore's ''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]] ''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.

A two-issue story in the 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 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.

* GoalOrientedEvolution: The Rannians are further along than Earth humans (no appendix, no hair except on the head), leading to the "ape" epithet for Adam in the Alan Moore comics.

* DarkerAndEdgier:The three-issue miniseries "The Man of Two Worlds".

Adam Strange is a DCComics [[RaygunGothic space hero]] character from the [[TheFifties 1950s]], who still appears occasionally in their comics and cartoons. He was created by GardnerFox, and first appeared in ''Showcase'' #17 (November, 1958). After three try-out issues in ''Showcase'', he became a regular feature in ''Mystery in Space'' beginning with #53 (August, 1959).

No relation to [[{{Batman}} professor Hugo Strange]] or the {{Marvel}} character Comicbook/DoctorStrange.

* BattleCouple: Adam Strange and Alanna. Especially in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''.