History ComicBook / DeadlyClass

Creator/{{Syfy}} adapted the comic as a series called ''Series/DeadlyClass'' starring Creator/BenedictWong and Creator/LanaCondor. It was previewed online on December 20, 2018, and on Syfy on December 30, 2018, ahead of its official premiere on January 16, 2019.

Deadly Class is a 2014 series published by Creator/ImageComics and is published in a monthly format. 37 issues have been published so far, of which the first 35 have been collected into 7 graphic novels. The humor is off the wall and dark, the characters are interesting and the violence is gratuitous.

A Creator/{{Syfy}} adapted the comic as series called ''Series/DeadlyClass'' starring Creator/BenedictWong and Creator/LanaCondor. it was previewed online on December 20, 2018, and on Syfy on December 30, 2018, ahead of its official premiere on January 16, 2019.

* BadassAdorable: Averted with Willie. [[spoiler: Turns out his uncle killed the assailants that struck his father and made it appear that Willie was the hero]]. Maria especially when she was a little girl.

* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Introduction of Saya as a BikerBabe.
* DecoyProtagonist: Played with.

* DrivenToSuicide: Marcus
** InterruptedSuicide: Thanks to Saya.
* GallowsHumor
* GothGirlsKnowMagic: While not magic Petra is very good at making poison.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: At one point Marcus takes peyote, and during his ensuing hallucinations he finally determines what it is he truly wants in his heart..

* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: This is TheEighties after all

* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Implied to be Saya's response after killing the officer in #1.

* RealityEnsures: What happens when a selection of fundamentally decent kids with no combat training go to a school full of violent brutes who were trained in murder since their youth? In a conventional story, the inexperienced but decent kids would somehow rally and defeat their tormentors. In this one, almost all of the kids with no murder experience die. [[spoiler:By issue 37, of all the initial 'rats' who showed up without experience, only Marcus and Stephen are still alive.]]

* BadassAdorable: Averted with Willie. [[spoiler: Turns out his uncle killed the assailants that struck his father and made it appear that Willie was the hero]].Maria especially when she was a little girl.

* TheEighties: The series begins in 1987.

* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: This is the TheEighties after all

Deadly Class is a 2014 series published by Creator/ImageComics and is published in a monthly format. 36 issues have been published so far, of which the first 35 have been collected into 7 graphic novels. The humor is off the wall and dark, the characters are interesting and the violence is gratuitous.

* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: At one point Marcus takes peyote, and during his ensuing hallucinations he finally determines what it is he truly wants in his heart.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Marcus dent.

* TheEighties: The first arc is set in 1987, and the second will begin in 1988.

Deadly Class is a 2014 series published by Creator/ImageComics and is published in a monthly format. The humor is off the wall and dark, the characters are interesting and the violence is gratuitous.

Marcus Lopez is a homeless Nicaraguan teenager living on the streets of San Francisco. His [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan parents are dead]] and he's being hunted by the local police force. That is until he's saved by [[FemmeFatale Saya]] and her plucky band of [[ChildSoldiers assassins]]. Marcus is then given the option of staying on the streets and eventually dying or joining [[AcademyOfEvil Kings Dominion High School for the Deadly Arts]] and learn to become an assassin.

* AxCrazy: Averted. Most of the characters are not fond of killing at all. [[spoiler:Then played straight during the Freshman Finals where people are killing off there own classmates for credit regardless if they are in their clique or their significant other.]]

** Subverted in universe as most other characters still assume that he is a badass.

* CliqueTour: Saya gives Marcus one as she introduces him to the assassins' school. The cliques in this case composed of the children of violent groups. The "Dixie Mob" are redneck neo-Nazis, the "Preps" are rich CIA/FBI, the "Jersey Kings" are East Coast mobsters, the "Soto Vatos" are [[TheCartel drug cartel kids]], the "Kuroki Syndicate" is {{Yakuza}}, and the "Final World Order" are LA gang mangers.

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Chico, Maria & fuckface (who was hyped to be a very important villain).]] Not surprise considering who is writing. [[spoiler: It doesn't stop there during the Freshmen Finals, Willie, Billy, Kendall, and even Marcus die. Averted with Marcus (with Maria too), who is later revealed to have faked his death.]]

Marcus Lopez is a homeless Nicaraguan teenager living on the streets of San Francisco. His [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan parents are dead]] and he's being hunted by the local police force. That is until he's saved by [[FemmeFatale Saya]] and her plucky band of [[ChildSoldiers assassins]]. Marcus is then given the option of staying on the streets and eventually dying or joining [[AcademyOfEvil King’s Dominion High School for the Deadly Arts]] and learn to become an assassin.

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Chico, Maria & fuckface (who was hyped to be a very important villain).]] Not surprise considering who is writing. [[spoiler: It doesn't stop there during the Freshmen Finals, Willie, Billy, Kendall, and even Marcus die. Averted with Marcus, who is later revealed to have faked his death.]]

A television adaptation of the series is set to premiere on Creator/{{Syfy}} in 2019, starring Creator/BenedictWong and Creator/LanaCondor.

A television adaptation of the series is set to premiere on Creator/{{Syfy}} in 2018, starring Creator/BenedictWong and Creator/LanaCondor.

A television adaptation of the series is set to premiere on Creator/{{Syfy}} in 2018, starring Creator/BenedictWong.

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Chico, Maria & fuckface (who was hyped to be a very important villain).]] Not surprise considering who is writing. [[spoiler: It doesn't stop there during the Freshmen Finals, Willie, Billy, Kendall, and even Marcus die.]]

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: [[spoiler:Almost the entire original main cast is dead by the end the first school year. "New" Deadly Class kicks off with Saya and a new group of freshmen students.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Maria.]] Later, at the end of Freshmen Finals [[spoiler:Marcus and everyone in the main group except Saya die, which shifts the story's focus to her.]]

Deadly Class is a relatively new series published by Creator/ImageComics and is published in a monthly format. The humor is off the wall and dark, the characters are interesting and the story is only just beginning.

* AcademyOfEvil: Poison, decapitation, ritual murder, and lockpicking are all in the curriculum

* BestialityIsDepraved: Fuckface really loves animals

* AcademyofEvil: Poison, decapitation, ritual murder, and lockpicking are all in the curriculum

* AxeCrazy: Averted. Most of the characters are not fond of killing at all. [[spoiler:Then played straight during the Freshman Finals where people are killing off there own classmates for credit regardless if they are in their clique or their significant other.]]

''ComicBook/DeadlyClass'' is a comic co-created by Rick Remender, of ComicBook/XForce fame and Wes Craig. Lee Loughridge acts as the Colorist and Rus Wooton as the letterer.

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Chico, Maria & fuckface (who was hyped to be a very important villain).]] Not surprise considering who is writing.
[[spoiler: It doesn't stop there during the Freshmen Finals, Willie,Billy,Kendall,and even Marcus dies.]]
* AxeCrazy: Averted. Most of the characters are not fond of killing at all.
[[spoiler:Then played straight during the Freshman Finals where people are killing off there own classmates for credit regardless if they are in their clique or their significant other.]]