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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When fighting Tech-9 for position of team leader in the second issue, Holocaust calls him a "spic".
* PyroManiac: Holocaustdefinitely takes the cake with this one.has power over fire and has a sadistic enjoyment of making everything burn.
* PyroManiac: Holocaust
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** Wise Son has to balance between leading the team and being a father for his children, besides struggling with his own temperament.
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** Flashback has to live with the knowledge she has seen several of her teammates die, which takes a toll on her mind, plus her ConflictingLoyalty towards her ex-boyfriend Holocaust.
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* TokenReligiousTeammate: Wise Son is a devout muslim, and he's the only member of the Syndicate who's strong in his beliefs.
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* TokenReligiousTeammate: Wise Son is a devout muslim, and he's the only member of the Syndicate who's strong in his religious beliefs.
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* TokenReligiousTeammate: Wise Son is a devout muslim, and he's the only member of the Syndicate who's strong in his beliefs.
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Masquerade, who can shift all or part of her body depending on the situation.
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* WaterIsWomanly: Aquamaria's entire body was turned into water and she's usually one of the nicer and girly female members of the Syndicate.
* WaterIsWomanly: Aquamaria's entire body was turned into water and she's usually one of the nicer and girly female members of the Syndicate.
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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Miguel Medina/Oro joins the Syndicate because, after being expelled from the Shadow Cabinet by Dharma and framed for murder by System, he has nowhere else to go.
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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Miguel Medina/Oro joins the Syndicate because, after being expelled from the Shadow Cabinet by Dharma and framed for murder by System, SYSTEM, he has nowhere else to go.
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In 2022, a reboot of the series, helmed by Geoffrey Thorne and [=ChrissCross=] was published as part of DC's Milestone Media initiative. See ''ComicBook/BloodSyndicate2022'' for tropes pertaining to that series.
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** Masquerade [[spoiler:is a trans man who uses his powers to turn into their actual gender, but struggle more and more to keep appearances. And then Demon Fox manipulates them into impersonating Tech-9, leading to getting expelled from the Syndicate once they're exposed]].
** Kwai not only has to deal with stopping her evil sister Demon Fox, she also constantly worries about the friends she has made at the Syndicate and what could happen to them, especially Fade.
** Kwai not only has to deal with stopping her evil sister Demon Fox, she also constantly worries about the friends she has made at the Syndicate and what could happen to them, especially Fade.
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** Wise Son has to balance between leading the team and being a father for his children, besides struggling with his own temperament.
** Fade struggles with remaining solid due to the instability of his powers [[spoiler:as well as being a closeted gay man who hasn't opened up even to his sister]].
** Flashback has to live with the knowledge she has seen several of her teammates die, which takes a toll on her mind, plus her ConflictingLoyalty towards her ex-boyfriend Holocaust.
** Brickhouse is very insecure about her rocky appearance, plus her IdentityAmnesia and the seizures she suffers due to being experimented on by System.
** Third Rail is also insecure about being worthy of Brickhouse, plus the guilt he destroyed his father's restaurant with his powers.
** Boogieman for a long time lives with the guilt that [[spoiler:he's a white person who simply never bothered to confirm his ethnicity]].
** Fade struggles with remaining solid due to the instability of his powers [[spoiler:as well as being a closeted gay man who hasn't opened up even to his sister]].
** Flashback has to live with the knowledge she has seen several of her teammates die, which takes a toll on her mind, plus her ConflictingLoyalty towards her ex-boyfriend Holocaust.
** Brickhouse is very insecure about her rocky appearance, plus her IdentityAmnesia and the seizures she suffers due to being experimented on by System.
** Third Rail is also insecure about being worthy of Brickhouse, plus the guilt he destroyed his father's restaurant with his powers.
** Boogieman for a long time lives with the guilt that [[spoiler:he's a white person who simply never bothered to confirm his ethnicity]].
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* DysfunctionJunction: As expected from an AntiHeroTeam made up from former gang members, the group has some personal issues, especially since the death of their charismatic first leader Tech-9. They're even called one by their latest member Oro.
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* LanguageBarrier: Aquamaria only spoke Spanish in her earliest appearances, meaning she could only communicate with her Spanish-speaking teammates, although later on she learns a few phrases in English.
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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Miguel Medina/Oro joins the Syndicate because, after being expelled from the Shadow Cabinet by Dharma and framed for murder by System, he has nowhere else to go.
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* ActionDad: Hannibal White, aka Wise Son is a father of two and one of the strongest Bang Babies out there.
* AnimalTalk: Boogieman is capable of communicating with rats even in human form.
* AnimalTalk: Boogieman is capable of communicating with rats even in human form.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Carlos Quinones/Fade and Sara Quinones/Flashback are part of the Blood Syndicate and their powers work well together.
* TheQuietOne: DMZ almost never talks nor takes off his helmet.
* TokenWizard: Kwai is the only member of the team whose powers come from magic rather than the Big Bang or alien technology.
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* WhiteGangbangers: [[spoiler:Boogieman. Though he was raised on Paris Island, which is very much the definition of the hood. Wise Son tears into Boogieman for hiding his race from the gang, even though no one ever asked.]]]]
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: The few times the Syndicate battled other heroes it was framed as this, whether it was erroneously believing {{ComicBook/Icon}} had come to take their turf back on behalf of the city, or being in complete disbelief that {{Franchise/Superman}} was flying around the ruins of Paris Island during the events of ''ComicBook/WorldsCollide1996''.
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: The few times the Syndicate battled other heroes it was framed as this, whether it was erroneously believing {{ComicBook/Icon}} had come to take their turf back on behalf of the city, or being in complete disbelief that {{Franchise/Superman}} was flying around the ruins of Paris Island during the events of ''ComicBook/WorldsCollide1996''.''ComicBook/WorldsCollide1994''.
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: The few times the Syndicate battled other heroes it was framed as this, whether it was erroneously believing {{ComicBook/Icon}} had come to take their turf back on behalf of the city, or being in complete disbelief that {{Franchise/Superman}} was flying around the ruins of Paris Island during the events of ''ComicBook/WorldsCollide''.''ComicBook/WorldsCollide1996''.
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* LikeParentLikeChild: The Demon Fox, the single most sadistic character in the comic's run, [[spoiler:clearly takes all of her traits from her father the Jade Emperor. [[AbusiveParents Her father]] not only couldn't give less of a shit about the Demon Fox, he set her up to begin with to commit horrible atrocities against her sister Kwai.
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* LikeParentLikeChild: The Demon Fox, the single most sadistic character in the comic's run, [[spoiler:clearly takes all of her traits from her father the Jade Emperor. [[AbusiveParents Her father]] not only couldn't give less of a shit about the Demon Fox, he set her up to begin with to commit horrible atrocities against her sister Kwai.]]
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* LikeFatherLikeDaughter: The Demon Fox, the single most sadistic character in the comic's run, [[spoiler:clearly takes all of her traits from her father the Jade Emperor. [[AbusiveParents Her father]] not only couldn't give less of a shit about the Demon Fox, he set her up to begin with to commit horrible atrocities against her sister Kwai.
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* LikeFatherLikeDaughter: LikeParentLikeChild: The Demon Fox, the single most sadistic character in the comic's run, [[spoiler:clearly takes all of her traits from her father the Jade Emperor. [[AbusiveParents Her father]] not only couldn't give less of a shit about the Demon Fox, he set her up to begin with to commit horrible atrocities against her sister Kwai.
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:Masquerade impersonates the deceased Tech-9 and takes leadership of the Syndicate from Wise Son. However, once her deception is revealed by the Demon Fox, the gang disbands completely]].
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** [[spoiler:Masquerade impersonates the deceased Tech-9 and takes leadership of the Syndicate from WiseSon. Son, at the Demon Fox's manipulation. However, once her deception is revealed by the Demon Fox, the gang disbands completely]].completely]].
** [[spoiler:The Demon Fox pretends to be John Wing's own wife a while after she was summoned by him. In reality, not only did John Wing sacrifice his own pregnant wife to call upon the Demon Fox in the first place, the Demon Fox snapped his neck afterward [[ForTheEvulz because she's just that much of an evil bitch]].]]
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** [[spoiler:The Demon Fox pretends to be John Wing's own wife a while after she was summoned by him. In reality, not only did John Wing sacrifice his own pregnant wife to call upon the Demon Fox in the first place, the Demon Fox snapped his neck afterward [[ForTheEvulz because she's just that much of an evil bitch]].]]
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* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Neither Kwai's coldness nor the Demon Fox's insanely sadistic behavior could be explained by anything less than the monstrous abuse of their father, the Jade Emperor, who set up their SiblingRivalry as a cheap game between him and his immortal buddies.]]
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* LikeFatherLikeDaughter: The Demon Fox, the single most sadistic character in the comic's run, [[spoiler:clearly takes all of her traits from her father the Jade Emperor. [[AbusiveParents Her father]] not only couldn't give less of a shit about the Demon Fox, he set her up to begin with to commit horrible atrocities against her sister Kwai.
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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:The Jade Emperor is this to both Kwai and the Demon Fox, and not only the worst abusive parent in the Milestone universe but possibly one of the worst in all fiction. The Jade Emperor has condemned both his daughters to seventy-seven cycles--77 full lifespans--of eternal torture, death and misery for literally no other reason than to have a cheap game for him and his immortal buddies to gamble on. When Kwai manages to reach her father and beg him to break the cycle, the Jade Emperor opts to ''[[OffingTheOffspring murder]]'' her instead.]]
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* CaperRationalization: The Syndicate rob crackhouses as a source of income, but it's justified by the idea that they're removing the drugs and the unsavory criminal element from the streets. When a crackhouse boss attempts to cut the Syndicate in on their profits in exchange for staying open, Fade's response is to knock the drug lord through a window.
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: The few times the Syndicate battled other heroes it was framed as this, whether it was erroneously believing {{ComicBook/Icon}} had come to take their turf back on behalf of the city, or being in complete disbelief that {{Franchise/Superman}} was flying around the ruins of Paris Island during the events of ''ComicBook/WorldsCollide''.
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* DeadPersonImpersonator: [[spoiler:Masquerade impersonates the deceased Tech-9 and takes leadership of the Syndicate from Wise Son. However, once her deception is revealed by the Demon Fox, the gang disbands completely]].
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* DeadPersonImpersonator: DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:Masquerade impersonates the deceased Tech-9 and takes leadership of the Syndicate from Wise Son. However, once her deception is revealed by the Demon Fox, the gang disbands completely]].
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* DeadPersonImpersonator: [[spoiler:Masquerade impersonates the deceased Tech-9 and takes leadership of the Syndicate from Wise Son. However, once her deception is revealed by the Demon Fox, the gang disbands completely]].
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Wise Son, being far less charismatic and affable than Tech-9, frequently butts heads with the other team members and is abrasive to everyone else on his good days. Nevertheless, he still desires to improve things for Paris Island and its people.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Wise Son, being far less charismatic and affable than former leader Tech-9, frequently butts heads with the other team members and is abrasive to everyone else on his good days. Nevertheless, he still desires to improve things for Paris Island and its people.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Wise Son, being far less charismatic and affable than Tech-9, frequently butts heads with the other team members and is abrasive to everyone else on his good days. Nevertheless, he still desires to improve things for Paris Island.Island and its people.
* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: The Big Bang. While the Bang was a key factor in the origin of other Milestone characters (most notably Static), ''Blood Syndicate'' was the most directly connected to the event, serving as the gang's origin, with numerous issues dedicated to the team trying to figure out how and why it happened.
* NighInvulnerability: Wise Son's power. Demonstrated in the first issue when Brickhouse knocks him through the second floor of the factory hangout they use and he immediately gets up, ready to fight.
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* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters: For the most part. While the locals fear them for the most part (justified as they were able to stand up to Icon), they don't purposefully cause trouble for the average citizen without a good reason. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded in an issue of]] ''{{ComicBook/Static}}'' where Static (in his civilian identity) and the Syndicate show up to the same theatre, but the worst that happens is Fade tells the audience to keep quiet during the film and not to smoke weed since children are present.
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* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters: For the most part. While the locals fear them for the most part (justified as they were able to stand up to Icon), they don't purposefully cause trouble for the average citizen without a good reason.reason and will go out of their way to save innocents in danger. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded in an issue of]] ''{{ComicBook/Static}}'' where Static (in his civilian identity) and the Syndicate show up to the same theatre, but the worst that happens is Fade tells the audience to keep quiet during the film and not to smoke weed since children are present.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Wise Son, being far less charismatic and affable than Tech-9, frequently butts heads with the other team members and is abrasive to everyone else on his good days. Nevertheless, he still desires to improve things for Paris Island.
* IntrepidReporter: Roberta "Rob" Chaplik. The first four issues use her as the POV character for the readers to introduce the Syndicate and the Big Bang as she goes to Paris Island to write a detailed story about them. [[spoiler:She returns in the final issue as Wise Son and Dogg give her the remaining evidence so she can finish her story]].
* IntrepidReporter: Roberta "Rob" Chaplik. The first four issues use her as the POV character for the readers to introduce the Syndicate and the Big Bang as she goes to Paris Island to write a detailed story about them. [[spoiler:She returns in the final issue as Wise Son and Dogg give her the remaining evidence so she can finish her story]].
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Masquerade, who can shift all or part of her body depending on the situation.
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* DeepCoverAgent: [[spoiler: DMZ, whom Icon recognizes as one of the Green Lantern expies of the Milestone universe.]]
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* TheBigGuy: GenderFlip with Brickhouse. She also wishes she were a GirlyGirl, but since she's an {{Expy}} of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the Thing]], it's impossible.
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*WhiteGangbangers: [[spoiler:Boogieman. Though he was raised on Paris Island, which is very much the definition of the hood. Wise Son tears into Boogieman for hiding his race from the gang, even though no one ever asked.]]
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The Blood Syndicate is a MilestoneComics "team" of superhumans created by DwayneMcDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr. and Denys Cowan. It ran for 35 issues from April 1993 to February 1996.
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