History ComicBook / Gen13

* DownerEnding: The end of the first volume.

* MostCommonSuperpower: Caitlin, as shown in that trope's page image.

The book was created by Brandon Choi, Creator/JimLee and artist J. Scott Campbell, and any familiarity with those three should already give an idea of what the book was going to entail. The characters were introduced in ''Deathmate Black'' (September, 1993). In 1994, they got a 5-issue mini-series. It sold well enough for the introduction of an ongoing series in 1995. It focused on the exploits of five teens who were invited to participate in a government research project, but who all later discovered it was nothing more than a prison used to locate children with "Gen-Active" genes that the government would later attempt to experiment on and use as weapons, of course.

!!!The roster consists of:

''Gen¹³'' and its spinoffs have also tended to gather a wide variety of talent. To start with, this is the book that made J. Scott Campbell famous before ''DangerGirl''. WarrenEllis wrote the first eight issues of ''[=DV8=]'', a book starring the titular [[ThePsychoRangers Psycho Rangers]] and series ArchNemesis Ivana Baiul. Adam "''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}''" Warren did two well-received parody miniseries ("[[{{Wuxia}} Grunge]]: [[HeroicBloodshed The Movie]]" and "[[MagicalGirl Magical Drama Queen Roxy]]") and was the writer for what turned out to be the final issues of the original series. In an unexpected twist, the entire cast were KilledOffForReal by a nuclear weapon.

* DepravedDwarf: Mr. Luv. His mother was infected with Gen-Factor chemicals while she was pregnant with him and he lost the ability to grow physically, but instead grew very intelligent. He runs the Luv Industries toy empire and has a tendency of dressing up like Max from ''Literature/WhereTheWildThingsAre''.

Gen 13. So many genres and incarnations, so little time. This was a Creator/{{Wildstorm}} universe based comic series that used to be owned by Creator/{{Image|Comics}} until Jim Lee sold the imprint to {{Creator/DC Comics}}. DC gave it no less than three different reboots.

The book was created by Brandon Choi, JimLee and artist J. Scott Campbell, and any familiarity with those three should already give an idea of what the book was going to entail. The characters were introduced in ''Deathmate Black'' (September, 1993). In 1994, they got a 5-issue mini-series. It sold well enough for the introduction of an ongoing series in 1995. It focused on the exploits of five teens who were invited to participate in a government research project, but who all later discovered it was nothing more than a prison used to locate children with "Gen-Active" genes that the government would later attempt to experiment on and use as weapons, of course.

!!!The roster consisted of:

''Gen 13'' and its spinoffs have also tended to gather a wide variety of talent. To start with, this is the book that made J. Scott Campbell famous before ''DangerGirl''. WarrenEllis wrote the first eight issues of ''[=DV8=]'', a book starring the titular [[ThePsychoRangers Psycho Rangers]] and series ArchNemesis Ivana Baiul. Adam "''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}''" Warren did two well-received parody miniseries ("[[{{Wuxia}} Grunge]]: [[HeroicBloodshed The Movie]]" and "[[MagicalGirl Magical Drama Queen Roxy]]") and was the writer for what turned out to be the final issues of the original series. In an unexpected twist, the entire cast were KilledOffForReal by a nuclear weapon.

Following this, Creator/ChrisClaremont was brought in to write an [[{{Retool}} all-new, all-different]] ''Gen 13'', but the new version [[ReplacementScrappy was not terribly good]] and poorly received. Set in an alternate universe, the story featured a strangely alive Fairchild mentoring an [[FiveTokenBand all-new team]]. This version was cancelled after sixteen issues, ending with the resurrection of the original team.

''After that'', it seems to have been folded into the DC Universe along with the rest of Wildstorm as a result of ''Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}''; there are no plans to revive the book, but some ''Gen 13'' characters have shown up in the "[[FanNickname DCnU]]".

There is a little known direct-to-video animated film that was released overseas, titled ''[[Film/Gen13TheMovie Gen 13: The Movie]]''.

!!''Gen 13'' contains examples of:

* EvilCounterpart: The Deviants of [=DV8=] are Ivana Baiul's answer to Gen 13. Like our heroes, they're ''also'' Gen-Active teenagers with attitude problems -- only they're all borderline psychotic and at I/O's beck and call.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Killing off the entire team was not Adam Warren's idea, but rather forced on the book to make way for the all-new team.

* PowerOfFriendship: Ellis' [=DV8=] had really dark take on this trope - friends watching each other's back become necessary thing to survive for the entire cast.

* BookEnds: Adam Warren's run on the title begins with everyone sans Grunge dead which turns out to be [[AllJustADream just a dream]] with the team being alive. Ignoring the epilogue, [[spoiler:it ends with a giant party eventually revealed to be an illusion of Fairchild's as the team is vaporized by a bomb]].

* Fanservice: From the cover of the first issue, it's clear that this is a major point of the series.

!! This comic book series provides examples of:

Following this, ChrisClaremont was brought in to write an [[{{Retool}} all-new, all-different]] ''Gen 13'', but the new version [[ReplacementScrappy was not terribly good]] and poorly received. Set in an alternate universe, the story featured a strangely alive Fairchild mentoring an [[FiveTokenBand all-new team]]. This version was cancelled after sixteen issues, ending with the resurrection of the original team.

* AbortedArc: Numerous throughout the comic's various incarnations. Notably, Adam Warren had planned a lengthy character arc for the oft-overlooked Sarah Rainamker, only to have the book cancelled after only one issue of said arc was completed.
** Claremont's entire run became this, cut short to sixteen issues and its last arc being about ressurecting the original team.

* AllJustADream: The penultimate two issues of Warren's run feature an over-the top hedonistic party night complete with skinny dipping and hook-ups between the team and their other Gen-active friends. It turned out that this was all happening in Fairchild's subconscious in the microseconds before she and the others were [[KilledOffForReal vapourised by a nuclear weapon]]

* HerCodenameWasMarySue: "Gunge: The Movie" and "Magical Drama Queen Roxy" are fantasies on the part of Grunge and Freefall (respectively) that cast them as amazing heroes over whom everyone is in awe. In the former case, it's a literal story thought up by Grunge.

* BreakTheHaughty: Warren Ellis' run on [=DV8=] consist almost enteirly of this happening to the cast. Even sociopath like Bliss and Treshold ends up broken or close to breaking point.
* BreastExpansion: When Caitlin first transforms, her muscles grow and her brests.

** Ja'nelle Moorhead (Black female, ambigously bisexual)

* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: During the Claremont run, Fairchild was turned into a shape-shifitng, purple goo-monster. Of course [[AuthorAppeal this being Claremont...]]

* PowerOfFriendship: Ellis' [=DV8=] had really dark take on this trope - friends watching eac other's back become necesary thing to survive for the entire cast.

* TheMovie - In 1999, Disney, of all companies produced an animated direct-to-video adaptation of the film. It can be noted that despite being Disney, it is much DarkerAndEdgier than their other direct-to-video projects that borders between PG-13 to R with intense action violence, profanity, brief nudity and blood and gore. Never officaly released in the US.

* TwoferTokenMinority: Sarah Rainmaker, Native American Lesbian. Her personality rarely went beyond that

Following this, ChrisClaremont was brought in to write an [[ReTool all-new, all-different]] ''Gen 13'', but the new version [[ReplacementScrappy was not terribly good]] and poorly received. Set in an alternate universe, the story featured a strangely alive Fairchild mentoring an [[FiveTokenBand all-new team]]. This version was cancelled after sixteen issues, ending with the resurrection of the original team.

Finally, Creator/GailSimone launched a ContinuityReboot of the original team in 2006, which was also critically well-received but TooGoodToLast. The series had been {{Retool}}ed ''yet again'', along with the rest of the Wildstorm universe, as part of the ''[[AfterTheEnd World's End]]'' CrisisCrossover.

* ClothingDamage: The number of times Caitlin Fairchild's outfit gets blown up or torn up is beyond counting.

* HeroicRedhead: Caitlin.

* BreastExpansion: In the animated adaptation, when Caitlin first transforms.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Rainmaker frequently admonishes Grunge for being perverted, but she herself makes perverted comments towards women. For example in Issue 17 she yells at Grunge for staring at them when they were kidnapped and dressed in teddies, but two pages before remarks to Catlin that a Coda Warrior has a "nice ass."

* MostCommonSuperpower: See the trope page image.

* RealityWarper: Fairchild became this after her death, creating an entire universe (the Claremont run) as a way of bringing her team back to life

* TooMuchInformation: One issue is kind enough to add to Freefall's misfortune of being kidnapped by pirates and forced to cook for them by telling us that she's [[spoiler:"riding the crimson wave."]] Thanks, Roxy.