History ComicBook / DCComicsBombshells

* AdaptedOut: Kate Kane's backstory is completely changed from the main universe, with all associated characters left out here, from her sister to her mom to her first known girlfriend; only her father gets even a passing mention. There's no indication Kate was kidnapped as a child, nor any evidence she attended West Point (something women are capable of doing in this universe despite it being the 1940s).

* GenderFlip: In this continuity, Power Girl's origin makes her a gender-flipped version of [[spoiler:Characters/SupermanConnerKent Conner Kent]]]].

* GenderFlip: In this continuity, Power Girl's origin makes her a gender-flipped version of [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/{{Superboy}} Conner Kent]]]].

** ComicBook/PoisonIvy is a French botanist who only used her powers violently to oppose the German occupier.

* AdaptedOut: Kate Kane's backstory is completely changed from the main universe, leaving all associated characters left out here, from her sister to her mom to her first known girlfriend. Only her father gets even a passing mention.

** ComicBook/HarleyQuinn fell in love (according to her) with her "[[ComicBook/TheJoker Mr. J]]" when he was a FriendlyNeighborhoodGangster with JustLikeRobinHood overtones, and was saddened when he later turned thoroughly evil.

* FiveManBand:
** The Batgirls achieve this by the time of the Pinkney Orphanage raid.
*** TheLeader: Kathy Duquesne, due to her experience corralling people.
*** TheLancer: Bette Kane, due to her having a different perspective than the others (rich vs. poor).
*** TheBigGuy: Nell Little, who is a beast behind the wheel (and made the Batmobile).
*** TheSmartGuy: Harper Row, who invents all of the other gadgets they use (and had the Batgirls idea in the first place).
*** TheChick: Alysia Yeoh, who provides flair and flowers.
*** SixthRanger: Felicity Smoak, Tim Drake, and Cullen Row. If comics portrayals hold true, Felicity and Tim will become additional Smart Guys, while Cullen becomes TheHeart. [[spoiler: They are later joined by a teenaged Lois Lane, who is their personal newsgirl/reporter.]]
*** TheMentor: [[spoiler: Maggie works with them to clean up the city, and eventually lets them live in her building.]]
** The King Beneath The Black and his servants.
*** BigBad: The King Beneath The Black, an EldritchAbomination whose minions have previously been turned back by the Amazons and the Atlanteans.
*** TheDragon: Baroness Paula Von Gunther, a former German noble who wishes to conquer Themyscira, rule it as her barony, and protect those people who swear themselves to her.
*** TheBrute: King Nereus of Atlantis, whose armies are nearly as dangerous as the Tenebrae and who views the King as the lesser of two evils when compared to surface dwellers.
*** TheEvilGenius: Edward Nygma, a brilliant scientist who feels himself exploited by far less intelligent nobles, and who wants to experiment on Supergirl.
*** TheDarkChick: The Joker's Daughter, an EvilSorcerer who runs a cabaret in Berlin and who facilitates the deal between the King and the Nazis.

* AdaptationalNationality: In this reality, Supergirl and Stargirl are Russians, Zatanna Zatara is Jewish/Romani, Catwoman is Italian, Harley Quinn is English, Poison Ivy, Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) and Killer Frost are French, Kimiyo Hoshi is Japanese-American, Huntress, Raven, [[AdaptationNameChange Miri]] Marvel, Speedy, and Lady Blackhawk are Germans, and Aquaman is Irish. Lois and Lucy Lane are Hispanic.

* AdultFear: [[spoiler: Kate and Renee losing their son to Cheetah.]]

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: In Greece, Wonder Woman has to stop Allied soldiers from executing captured German prisoners. They make the point that Germans have done worse, and Wonder Woman makes the point that that is the reason they need to be ''better'' than the Nazis.

** Mary Batson is Miriam Bätzel, and gains her powers when she becomes inspired to combine the names of Old Testament heroines into "Shazam," thus becoming [[ComicBook/MaryMarvel Miri Marvel]].

** Lex Luthor is probably the most minor example, now named '''Alexander''' Luthor (a name [[FanWink he's gone by before]]).

* AdaptationExpansion: The original "Bombshell" properties were only stylized character designs for use as alternate covers and statue models, with no story or plot associated with them. The comic series creates backstories for each character to fit into the time frame and crafts an over-arching plot to connect them all. Compare to ''Toys/AmeComiGirls'', another series of digital-first comics based on sexy collectors' statues that bombed after two story arcs.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Harvey Dent's initial role as a fascist bigot ([[spoiler:due to being under Hugo Strange's mind control]]) is an unsubtle caricature of Creator/DonaldTrump.

* AdaptationalNationality: In this reality, Supergirl and Stargirl are Russians, Zatanna Zatara is Jewish/Romani, Catwoman is Italian, Harley Quinn is English, Poison Ivy, Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) and Killer Frost are French, Kimiyo Hoshi is Japanese-American, Huntress, Raven, [[AdaptationNameChange Miri]] Marvel, Speedy, and Lady Blackhawk are Germans, and Aquaman is Irish. Lois and Lana Lane are Hispanic.

* AdaptationalNationality: In this reality, Supergirl and Stargirl are Russians, Zatanna Zatara is Jewish/Romani, Catwoman is Italian, Harley Quinn is English, Poison Ivy, Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) and Killer Frost are French, Kimiyo Hoshi is Japanese-American, Huntress, Raven, [[AdaptationNameChange Miri]] Marvel, Speedy, and Lady Blackhawk are Germans, and Aquaman is Irish.

** At the very end of the original series, the characters face off against the ultimate threat, [[spoiler:Faora Ha-Ul transformed by a combination of mad science and black magic into a version of Doomsday]].

** Harley Quinn fell in love (according to her) with her "Mr. J" when he was a FriendlyNeighborhoodGangster with JustLikeRobinHood overtones, and was saddened when he later turned thoroughly evil.
** Poison Ivy is a French botanist who only used her powers violently to oppose the German occupier.

** Harvey Dent [[spoiler: remains on the side of right after losing half of his face.]]

** Talia al Ghul is a benevolent character who [[spoiler:defends a Lazarus Pit beneath Madrid from those who would abuse it]]. Her father apparently exists as well, but it's hinted that he might not be so different from his main-continuity self.

** The Joker's Daughter is an ally of the Nazis, while in the regular comics, she's a member of the Teen Titans.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: An unusal case. Though the series is a FeministFantasy with plenty of examples of PoliticallyCorrectHistory, sexist (and to a lesser extent, racist) attitudes of the time are still present, though their influence is greatly reduced compared to real life.

* FeministFantasy: Though the overall culture of the 1940s has not been altered too much from reality, women have many more avenues of life available to them here than they did in actuality, such as full military and police service or expanded participation in sports, including traditionally masculine ones like boxing; none of these, it seems, are considered that unusual. Additionally, superpowers and technology are possessed and wielded by women, to the point that there do not actually seem to be ''any'' male superheroes in this universe. With the "traditional" male-dominated militaries slaughtering each other, it is up to the Bombshells to affect dramatic change. Doubly impressive for a series that started as a set of cheesecake figurines.

** Frankie Charles graduated from West Point in 1941, 39 years before the first graduating class with female cadets in real life.

* FeministFantasy: Though the overall culture of the 1940's has not been altered from reality--meaning women [[StayInTheKitchen get no respect]]--all of the superpowers and technology are possessed and wielded by women, to the point where there do not actually seem to be ''any'' male superheroes in this reality. With the 'traditional' male-dominated militaries slaughtering each other, it is up to the Bombshells to affect dramatic change. Doubly impressive for a series that started as a set of cheesecake figurines.

* {{Expy}}: Franchine Davis for [[Franchise/IndianaJones everyone's favorite]] AdventureArchaeologist, being the one who recovered the Ark of the Covenant for Amanda Waller.

* AscendedFanboy: When Batwoman joins the Bombshells and leaves Gotham city, a group of girls assume her costume and her role as crimefighter. Calling themselves the Batgirls, their numbers start at three, quickly become four, then five, and then explode to ''eight'' (Including boys), now calling themselves the Bat ''Family''.

* BoomerangBigot: The people running Pinkney's Orphanage are Jewish-American Nazis, something the Batgirls (One of whom is herself Jewish) have trouble wrapping their minds around. They justify it by saying that the Nazis have the right idea about keeping themselves pure and free from immigrants and foreigners, and that ''they'' will keep America free from the "swarms and floods of foreigners". [[note]]Shamefully, the "Jews who were Nazis" are TruthInTelevision, and some of them were even highly placed officials who were Jewish or had some Jewish heritage.[[/note]]

* CardboardPrison: The barred metal doors to the rooms/cells in Dr. Harleen Quinzel's hospital are either not locked at all, or have locks so weak that they can be pried open with a broken piece of wood (The panel as drawn when a patient escapes is unclear as to whether there is an active lock or not). Either way, the escape requires no effort and is effected in a manner of seconds.

* DivideAndConquer: [[DownplayedTrope Briefly]]. When Harleen Quinzel first reverts to her Harley Quinn persona she goes to a bar and begins dancing with all of the attractive women, getting the men angry and starting a fight at the loss of 'their' women. Harley then withdraws and leaves all of the men to fight amongst themselves, and Hal Jordan pops up to remark that he had never thought of this strategy: By letting the men fight ''each other'', that leaves him (Or, in this case, Harley) to easily sweep up the women afterwards.

* ItsPersonal: Batwoman is Jewish, so has personal reasons to hate the Nazi regime beyond moral opposition. When she is interrogating a Gotham City smuggler who was selling information to the Nazis on where to find Jews trying to escape Europe, he attempts to deflect her rage by saying that a man "was just a Jew", only for her to reply (In a word balloon [[PaintingTheMedium that is bursting its borders with spikes]]) "''So am I''."

* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: In her first attempt at crimefighting, Harper Row says "BAM!" when she kicks a guy, then says "POW!" when Batwoman clobbers a guy with her bat (The actual sound effects written in the comic were "WHAM" and "CRK!" respectively). Afterwards, [[LampshadeHanging Batwoman tells her that she does not need to say the sound effects herself.]]

* StarterVillain: There are two in the first year of the war: Edel Nacht for the Bombshells in Europre, and [[spoiler: Headmistress Katharine Webb-Kane]] for the Batgirls in the home front. They are legitimately dangerous, but ultimately overshadowed by other villains (the King Beneath The Black and the rest of his team, and [[spoiler: Hugo Strange]] respectively.)

** Kate Kane is Jewish and a lesbian, which has her face discrimination in Gotham City and would be lethal (If it were discovered) in Nazi Germany.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory:
** Though [[StayInTheKitchen general attitudes are portrayed as they were in real life]], the main characters are afforded opportunities that were unavailable for years (In some cases decades) after the time of the series. Amanda Waller, an African-American woman, is a Commander in the US Navy at a time when African-Americans were only allowed to enlist in the US Navy as ''messmen''.
** There is no racism or classism amongst the Batgirls, which include white, black, Jewish, and Singaporean members, who also represent the immigrant poor, the working class, and the rich.
** The writer said this was intentional, as she wanted to make up for the under representation of minorities in most movies, books, and TV shows about World War 2.

** No one pays much attention to the fact that most, if not ''all'' of the ladies in the cast are primarily interested [[EveryoneIsBi in]] [[CastFullOfGay each]] [[BadassGay other.]]

* BadassGay: Most of the cast is lesbian or bisexual, and all of them are quite badass.

* ButNotTooBlack: Mari of Zambezi is drawn with re d hair and a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/dc-bombshells/images/6/63/Vixen.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/310?cb=20160913203450 much lighter skin tone]] than she's usually depicted with.