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* TeamUpSeries: Back when Fathom was being published by Top Cow, Aspen did a crossover series with [[VideoGame/TombRaider Lara Croft]] and [[ComicBook/{{Witchblade}} Sara Pezzini]], both also properties of the company. This got discontinued when Michael Turner, the creator of Aspen Matthews, left Top Cow in 2003.
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* TeamUpSeries: Back when Fathom was being published by Top Cow, Aspen did a crossover series with [[VideoGame/TombRaider Lara Croft]] and [[ComicBook/{{Witchblade}} Sara Pezzini]], both also properties of the company. This got discontinued when Michael Turner, the creator of Aspen Matthews, left Top Cow in 2003.2002.
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* MakingASplash: Aspen's power.Aspen, being part Blue, can manipulate water on command, turn herself into water, and has no problem dealing with the depths of the ocean. She can do this to a much greater degree since she's also [[spoiler: part Black]], which also brings the added powers of energy blasts, telepathy, and the ability to heal wounds (even fatal ones).
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''Fathom'' is a comic book created by Michael Turner and originally published by Creator/TopCowProductions. It debuted in 1998 and was Michael Turner's first creator-owned comic book series, Fathom is published by Turner's own company, Aspen MLT. The plot of Fathom follows Aspen, a girl involved in a mysterious cruise ship disappearance only for the ship to reappear out of thin air ten years later. Aspen gets caught up in the mysterious events, coming to grips with her apparent water-based powers in the process.
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''Fathom'' is a comic book created by Michael Turner and originally published by Creator/TopCowProductions. It debuted in 1998 and was Michael Turner's first creator-owned comic book series, Fathom is published by Turner's series. It ran for four years before Turner was diagnosed with bone cancer. After his remission, he left Top Cow and formed his own company, Aspen MLT. MLT, which resulted in a lengthy legal battle with his former employer as to who owned the rights to the comic.
The suit was settled out of court, and Turner relaunched the series in 2004 with Aspen MLT, where it remains to this day. Even with Turner's passing in 2008, the series has continued on, with Volume 8 releasing in 2019.
The plot of Fathom follows Aspen, a girl involved in a mysterious cruise ship disappearance only for the ship to reappear out of thin air ten years later.Aspen gets caught up in She would be later be adopted by Captain Matthews, a naval officer investigating the mysterious events, coming to grips with disappearance. Throughout the series, she learns about her apparent water-based powers in heritage, her powers, and the process. events that happen both on the surface and the depths below.
The suit was settled out of court, and Turner relaunched the series in 2004 with Aspen MLT, where it remains to this day. Even with Turner's passing in 2008, the series has continued on, with Volume 8 releasing in 2019.
The plot of Fathom follows Aspen, a girl involved in a mysterious cruise ship disappearance only for the ship to reappear out of thin air ten years later.
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* TeamUpSeries: Back when Fathom was being published by Top Cow, Aspen did a crossover series with [[VideoGame/TombRaider Lara Croft]] and [[ComicBook/{{Witchblade}} Sara Pezzini]], both also properties of the company. This got discontinued when Michael Turner, the creator of Aspen Matthews, left Top Cow in 2003.
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* HiddenElfVillage: At the start, both the Blue and the Black preferred to keep to themselves than get involved with the surface. With time, the Blue would come to work with the surface on multiple occasions, even establishing a liaison with the human world in Cannon Hawke. The Black did the opposite, coming very close to [[ApocalypseHow destroying entire cities]] in the 2008 volume before Aspen, with the help of humans and the Blue, intervened.
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* UnderwaterCity: Muria, the main hub city for the Blue.
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* OlympicSwimmer: Aspen was already an Olympic level swimmer before realizing her powers.
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* OlympicSwimmer: Aspen was already an took part in the Youth Olympic level swimmer before realizing Games as a member of the US Swim Team. She would later be disqualified after a world-record breaking preliminary heat for "performance-enhancing drugs", even though the tests came back negative. She would later find out that her powers.Blue heritage was responsible for her biology being higher than normal human standards.
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* YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe: Aspen's reaction when she found out that people online were not talking so much about the fact that she battled a supervillain ontop of a tsunami, saving an entire city in the process, but that they instead were arguing about what she was wearing during the battle and if she was an illegal immigrant or not.
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* YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe: Aspen's reaction when she found out that people online were not talking so much about the fact that she battled a supervillain ontop on top of a tsunami, saving an entire city in the process, but that they instead were arguing about what she was wearing during the battle and if she was an illegal immigrant or not.
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* ElementalShapeshifterElementalShapeshifter: Aspen, as well as many of the Blue, have the ability to transform their body completely into water
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* TransformationTrinket: A mild example. In the 2017 volume, Aspen gets a collapsible glaive from an assailant who attacked her. While it doesn't give her any new powers, it does give a set of bone armor like the Blue wear.
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* ApparentlyHumanMerfolkApparentlyHumanMerfolk: The Blue (and even the Black, underneath their armor and masks) are perfectly normal human-looking underwater dwellers that can shapeshift into water as well as control it.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Aspen herself. It doesn't help that her skin tone tends to fluctuate from volume to volume.
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''Fathom'' is a comic book created by Michael Turner and originally published by Top Cow Productions. It debuted in 1998 and was Michael Turner's first creator-owned comic book series, Fathom is published by Turner's own company, Aspen MLT. The plot of Fathom follows Aspen, a girl involved in a mysterious cruise ship disappearance only for the ship to reappear out of thin air ten years later. Aspen gets caught up in the mysterious events, coming to grips with her apparent water-based powers in the process.
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''Fathom'' is a comic book created by Michael Turner and originally published by Top Cow Productions.Creator/TopCowProductions. It debuted in 1998 and was Michael Turner's first creator-owned comic book series, Fathom is published by Turner's own company, Aspen MLT. The plot of Fathom follows Aspen, a girl involved in a mysterious cruise ship disappearance only for the ship to reappear out of thin air ten years later. Aspen gets caught up in the mysterious events, coming to grips with her apparent water-based powers in the process.
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* YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe: Aspen's reaction when she found out that people online were not talking so much about the fact that she battled a supervillain ontop of a tsunami, saving an entire city in the process, but that they instead were arguing about what she was wearing during the battle and if she was an illegal immigrant or not.
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'''Fathom''' is a comic book created by Michael Turner and originally published by Top Cow Productions. It debuted in 1998 and was Michael Turner's first creator-owned comic book series, Fathom is published by Turner's own company, Aspen MLT. The plot of Fathom follows Aspen, a girl involved in a mysterious cruise ship disappearance only for the ship to reappear out of thin air ten years later. Aspen gets caught up in the mysterious events, coming to grips with her apparent water-based powers in the process.
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''Fathom'' is a comic book created by Michael Turner and originally published by Top Cow Productions. It debuted in 1998 and was Michael Turner's first creator-owned comic book series, Fathom is published by Turner's own company, Aspen MLT. The plot of Fathom follows Aspen, a girl involved in a mysterious cruise ship disappearance only for the ship to reappear out of thin air ten years later. Aspen gets caught up in the mysterious events, coming to grips with her apparent water-based powers in the process.
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* EmergencyTraineeBattleDeployment: Kiani has recently reunited with her younger sister and they are under frequent attacks by Admiral Maylander, who believes them to be enemies of America. Kiani keeps sending Anika off to guard the village while she fights, then when Admiral Mayhab brings out his latest weapon, hydrophagic engineered soldiers, Kiani says that "both of them are needed" to fight this new threat.
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* ShoutOut: One of the earlier issues in 2017 [[https://twitter.com/HiTechControl/status/829889537115553794 had a page referencing]] political figures from social media like Anita Sarkeesian, Paul Joseph Watson, The Young Turks, Milo Yiannopoulos, Chris Ray Gun and Shoe 0n Head.
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* IronicNickname: "Joker"'s backstory has him mention that, at least at first, this was the reason for his callsign. By the time of the story proper, though, he has grown into being a regular ClassClown (by Navy standards).
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* TakeOverTheWorld: Both the Blue and the Black keep switching between this and KillAllHumans throughout the series.
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** SexSells: A probable reason. This trend would carry on to Michael Turner's later Soulfire series, which has two main characters, [[TheChosenOne a kid]] and [[TheObiWan a woman]]. Guess which one tends to get more cover time throughout the issues.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Both the Blue and the Black largely go barefoot, as they live underwater. Played straighter with Aspen, who tended to ditch her sandals whenever she felt like it. Slightly averted with Cannon, as he's a Blue who tends to wear casual, modern clothes (shoes included). His first appearance was in a [[BadassInANiceSuit suit]].
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* OlympicSwimmer: Aspen was already an Olympic level swimmer before realizing her powers.
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* Fanservice: Lots of it. Slightly justified by the fact that the vast majority of the series takes place in or or near the ocean, but it's usually a tropical zone. Just do an image search for "Fathom" (nothing else needed) to see just how much of it there is.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Aspen or another female character will appear on the cover in an extremely skimpy string bikini (if she's even [[SceneryCensor wearing that much]]). On the inside, though still in a two-piece suit, it's often a far more modest athletic bathing suit.
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'''Fathom''' is a comic book created by Michael Turner and originally published by Top Cow Productions. It debuted in 1998 and was Michael Turner's first creator-owned comic book series, Fathom is published by Turner's own company, Aspen MLT. The plot of Fathom follows Aspen, a girl involved in a mysterious cruise ship disappearance only for the ship to reappear out of thin air ten years later. Aspen gets caught up in the mysterious events, coming to grips with her apparent water-based powers in the process.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Aspen herself.
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* RuthlessModernPirates
* StatuesqueStunner
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Tropes associated with this work include:
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Aspen herself.
* ApparentlyHumanMerfolk
* ElementalShapeshifter
* MilitaryMashupMachine: An amphibious jet-fighter, based on a recovered fighter from the race the titular character is from. Semi-F-14ish with variable wings, but mounted with a forward sweep design.
* RuthlessModernPirates
* StatuesqueStunner
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