History ComicBook / GlobalFrequency

* ADayInTheLimelight: technically each episode is one for the featured agents in that story, but "Aleph" is one for the titular character as she's not merely MissionControl in that story [[spoiler: as she has to fend off invaders to the Global Frequency central headquarters]]

* TheAtoner: It's implied several times that Miranda Zero was involved in very bad things in her past and has set up Global Frequency to atone by making the world a better place. Several of the agents with darker pasts and skill sets (usually involving murder and assassination) also appear to have a bit of this going on. The team in "Big Wheel" especially gives off this vibe
* BadassBoast: Miranda Zero explains to a man who's managed to kidnap her how he cannot scare or intimidate her by listing off all of the times she's been injured or tortured in the past few years

* CatchPhrase: "[insert name here], you're on the Global Frequency"

* HeelFaceTurn: several members of the Global Frequency are implied or stated to be former criminals or wetwork agents for various governments, who have reformed and now work for Miranda Zero to fix the world

** [[spoiler: Janos Voydan]] is a non-Global Frequency member example: [[spoiler: he moves the gun John Stark was going to shoot him with to make sure the chip in his brain is destroyed]]

--->'''[[spoiler:Dan]]''': All this stuff left over from the last century that some bunch of bastards thought we didn't have the right to know about. Bert? You remember the crap we took from NASA just for wanting to go to space? Like they owned the gate to the world? Screw them all. We'll do what we like. We'll save our own lives and grow our own wings.

* TheAtoner: It's implied several times that Miranda Zero was involved in very bad things in her past and has set up Global Frequency to atone by making the world a better place. Several of the agents with darker pasts and skill sets (usually involving murder and assassination) also appear to have a bit of this going on.

** [[spoiler:Member 436]] in "Big Wheel".

-->'''Member 436''': ''I have to be careful with it. Bioelectric enhancements are cranky. It's not a case of just sticking an artificial arm on. The surrounding bones and fibers have to be hardened and supported, or else the new arm will rip clean off your shoulder the first time you flex. You'll need tensile support across your back, or your spine will snap the first time you lift something heavy. You need new skin; human skin isn't tough enough to handle the subcutaneous tension of superhuman strength. You'll take a chip in your brain to handle the specific dataload from the artificial nerve system controlling the arm. There's more, but you're getting the idea, right?''

--->'''Member 436''': ''Try to imagine. You're a multiple amputee who's been '''flayed alive.''' You can't feel your own '''heartbeat.''' You can't feel yourself '''breathe.''' You can feel metal rubbing against your muscles and organs. And '''you don't recognize the man in the mirror.'''''

--->'''[[spoiler:Dan]]''': ''All this [[SealedEvilInACan stuff]] left over from [[ColdWar the last century]] that [[TheGovernment some bunch of bastards]] thought [[{{Muggles}} we]] didn’t [[GovernmentConspiracy have the right to know about]]. Bert? You remember the crap we took from UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} just for [[IWantMyJetpack wanting to go to space?]] Like they [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem owned the gate to the world?]] Screw them all. We’ll do what we like. We’ll save our own lives and grow our own wings.''

* BrownNote: The alien memetic virus that takes over people's minds in "Invasive". One of the ''nastier'' ones seen in fiction, it suppresses intelligent thought in favor of non-sentient "flocking" programming intended to spread the infection as far as possible. It's implied to be ultimately lethal - a few hours after a geek who browsed SETI@Home too much downloaded it and played it over over the speakers in his apartment, everyone in earshot is crying TearsOfBlood. The GF specialist studying it is in similar condition after a few ''minutes.''

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Member 436]] in "Big Wheel".
** And [[spoiler:Dan]] in "Harpoon".

** [[spoiler: Tau]] in "Detonation".

* HypocriticalHumor: One issue brings in Alan Crowe who claims to be a magician -- as in, a real one. He asserts that magic is "a psychological discipline." One of the other characters makes a sneering comment. Alan, amused, points out she's a parapsychologist, and as such can't exactly claim to be part of the rational orthodoxy herself. She's less amused by this.
** Even worse when you consider that Alan is correct - real-world magic ''is'' all about exploiting psychological "loopholes" in human perception to appear to do the impossible, and is a legitimate field, both as entertainment and research. Parapsychology, on the other hand, is (at least so far) only a pseudoscience with no proof or evidence supporting it.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Takashi Sato.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The biofeedback technology that The Frenchman and Wellfare are said to use is based on very real technology with similar applications. (That is, increasing strength and blocking out pain, not ripping off people's arms)

--->'''[[spoiler:Dan]]''': ''All this [[SealedEvilInACan stuff]] left over from [[ColdWar the last century]] that [[TheGovernment some bastards]] thought [[{{Muggles}} we]] didn’t [[GovernmentConspiracy have the right to know about]]. Bert? You remember the crap we took from UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} just for [[IWantMyJetpack wanting to go to space?]] Like they [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem owned the gate to the world?]] Screw them all. We’ll do what we like. We’ll save our own lives and grow our own wings.''

* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler: The alien memetic virus that overwrites people is defeated when the symbology expert manages to encode her love for her partner (another woman) in its language.]]
* TheWormGuy: In a sense, a whole network of them, though they all get the proper respect for their expertise.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The bionic man in issue #2. It's explain in considerable detail that the process he's been through was traumatic enough to damage anybody's mental equilibrium.

* HandyRemoteControl: The terrorist leader in "Hundred" has one for setting of the bombs.

* HuskyRusky: Grushko isn't especially muscular, but he's probably the tallest of the Global Frequency's operatives. He describes himself as the large man from your nightmares who murdered your family and destroyed everything you loved.

''Global Frequency'' is a short GraphicNovel series by WarrenEllis and drawn by several different artists. It's built around a single idea: if TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed, then why [[HoldingOutForAHero Hold Out For A Hero]]? What's stopping us from saving ourselves? Answer: not a damn thing.

* AndThisIsFor: Grushko's last words to the body of ''Detonation'''s main antagonist.

* BodyHorror: An early issue features a man who has been engineered into a killing machine. Literally. His body is half gone. He has live orgasms when he ''kills people''.

A pilot episode for a television adaptation was produced and completed and the show was scheduled to premiere in the Spring of 2005 on the WB television network. The series was executive produced and had a pilot written by Creator/JohnRogers (''Film/TheCore'', ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'', ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', ''Series/{{Leverage}}''), with many high-profile names attached on the production staff, including Creator/JMichaelStraczynski (''Series/BabylonFive''), Diego Gutierrez (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''), Ben Edlund (''Series/{{Angel}}'', ''TheTick''), and David Slack (''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''). Nelson [=McCormick=] (''Series/{{Alias}}'') directed the series pilot. Everything about the pilot rocked every bit as hard as the graphic novel.

It never made it to the air. The long and short of it was the initial pilot made it onto torrent networks and the sheer speed at which the geeks of the world acquired it [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings pissed off the network]], so they refused to pick it up. In a sense, it died because it really was too good; the sheer brilliance of the pilot prompted too many people to tell the network that they'd seen it and loved it, despite it not being released yet.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A memetic virus with physical symptoms transferred by eye contact, and cured by shouting some indecipherable runes in an alien language that, for some reason, humans can pronounce perfectly. ''Ouch''.

* BrownNote: The alien memetic virus that takes over people's minds.

--->'''[[spoiler:Dan]]''': ''All this [[SealedEvilInACan stuff]] left over from [[ColdWar the last century]] that [[TheGovernment some bastards]] thought [[{{Muggles}} we]] didn’t [[GovernmentConspiracy have the right to know about]]. Bert? You remember the crap we took from {{NASA}} just for [[IWantMyJetpack wanting to go to space?]] Like they [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem owned the gate to the world?]] Screw them all. We’ll do what we like. We’ll save our own lives and grow our own wings.''

It never made it to the air, [[TooGoodToLast sadly]]. The long and short of it was the initial pilot made it onto torrent networks and the sheer speed at which the geeks of the world acquired it [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings pissed off the network]], so they refused to pick it up. In a sense, it died because it really was too good; the sheer brilliance of the pilot prompted too many people to tell the network that they'd seen it and loved it, despite it not being released yet.

''Global Frequency'' is a short GraphicNovel series by WarrenEllis, drawn by several different artists. It's built around a single idea: if TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed, then why [[HoldingOutForAHero Hold Out For A Hero]]? What's stopping us from saving ourselves? Answer: not a damn thing.

That something is the Global Frequency. Miranda has found and signed on 1001 unique talents from around the world, ranging from athletes to scientists and from cops to hackers. They're called on when the world needs saving, connected to Miranda's home base through a computer genius girl nicknamed "Aleph" who guides them through the mission. The story is fast-paced, with minimum backstory, and Miranda and Aleph are the series' only recurring characters.

A pilot episode was produced and completed and the show was scheduled to premiere in the Spring of 2005 on the WB television network. The series was executive produced and had a pilot written by Creator/JohnRogers (''Film/TheCore'', ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'', ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', ''Series/{{Leverage}}''), with many high-profile names attached on the production staff, including Creator/JMichaelStraczynski (''Series/BabylonFive''), Diego Gutierrez (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''), Ben Edlund (''Series/{{Angel}}'', ''TheTick''), and David Slack (''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''). Nelson [=McCormick=] (''Series/{{Alias}}'') directed the series pilot. Everything about the pilot rocked every bit as hard as the graphic novel.

* BorrowedBiometricBypass

* BreakThemByTalking

* EverythingIsOnline: Aleph plays it straight to some degree, but it's subverted by the cult intending to blow up a building in [[LandDownUnder Sydney]] - as they're all geeks, they put their demands on their website and no one has seen them, except for Aleph digging for trouble.

* HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday: In the unaired pilot, after the female lead reels off a very lengthy list of her academic qualifications, all acquired at a very young age (she's no older than thirty), the male lead makes a joke about how she mustn't have found much time for a life in the process. She gets surprisingly touchy and insists at length that she did, ending with the [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial unconvincing and unsolicited information]] that she "had boyfriends". The clear implication is that she's still a virgin.

* HypocriticalHumor: One episode brings in Alan Crowe who claims to be a magician -- as in, a real one. He asserts that magic is "a psychological discipline." One of the other characters makes a sneering comment. Alan, amused, points out she's a parapsychologist, and as such can't exactly claim to be part of the rational orthodoxy herself. She's less amused by this.

* NoodleIncident: In the unaired pilot, something happened involving the U.S Secretary of Defense in Tacumseh, Ohio that he does not want anyone to know about. Miranda Zero, of course, knows what it was.

** Miranda Zero herself has a rather dark and shady past filled with these.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower:

* Crossover: Perhaps unofficially with ''Series/{{Leverage}}''. As WordOfGod mentions Eliot taking off screen jobs for Ms. Zero.
* DeathFromAbove:

** Isn't the implication that he 'stole' it from the girlfriend by killing her?

* HeroesUnlimited:

* KillSat:

* RedRightHand: Used as a symbol by the terrorists in issue 7.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity

* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[Spoiler:happens twice in #2]]

* Crossover: Perhaps unofficially with Leverage. As WordOfGod mentions Eliot taking off screen jobs for Ms. Zero.