History ComicBook / Prez2015

** Beth's vice president and political mentor is a congressman named Preston Rickard, who "was almost president once"; he's drawn to resemble an aged-up version of the original {{ComicBook/Prez|1973}}.

* OriginalPositionFallacy: Boss Smiley and his fellow corporate cads try to get a bill passed that will enable them to copyright the DNA of any living creature. Beth coerces them into allowing her to repeal it by having trillionaire Fred Wayne obtain the rights to their DNA and demand they either pay him the royalties he owes or die.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Smiley and the other members of his cabal.

* EasilyElected: Beth becomes a popular write-in candidate for the Presidential election after featuring in a viral video despite being underaged, and manages to win the election without campaigning because the other two major parties end up maneuvering each other out of the running.

* GenderFlip: Male teenage president -> female teenage president.

* NonHumanHead: In this version, Smiley is the avatar of a corporation that has been granted legal personhood, a man whose individual identity is hidden behind a holographic mask representing the corporation's logo. Several other such avatars appear in the series as well.

* ReimaginingTheArtifact: Boss Smiley in the original comic quite literally had a smiley for a head![[note]][[AluminumChristmasTrees long before the advent of chatrooms, we might add]][[/note]] While he was no less ghoulishly corrupt, it made him a little hard to take seriously. This version has a human head, but does sport a holographic smiley mask. And as a bonus, the expression on it doesn't change throughout the series, making him all the more eerie since we can't read his emotions.

* ReimaginingTheArtifact: Boss Smiley in the original comic quite literally had a smiley for a head!][note]][[AluminumChristmasTrees long before the advent of chatrooms, we might add]][[/note]] While he was no less ghoulishly corrupt, it made him a little hard to take seriously. This version has a human head, but does sport a holographic smiley mask. And as a bonus, the expression on it doesn't change throughout the series, making him all the more eerie since we can't read his emotions.

* ReimaginingTheArtifact: Boss Smiley in the original comic quite literally [[UncannyValley had a smiley for a head!]][[note]][[AluminumChristmasTrees long before the advent of chatrooms, we might add]][[/note]] While he was no less ghoulishly corrupt, it made him a little hard to take seriously. This version has a human head, but does sport a holographic smiley mask. And as a bonus, the expression on it doesn't change throughout the series, making him all the more eerie since we can't read his emotions.

** One could argue that the debate scenes between the two initial candidates qualify as well, being parodies of very real problems with political debates and the public perception of them, but ramped up to the point of making the reader laugh at the horribleness of it all.

* EasilyElected: Beth becomes a candidate for the Presidential election after making a viral video despite being underaged, and manages to win the election without campaigning because the other two major parties end up maneuvering each other out of the running.

* PlayfulHacker: A group of anonymous hackers who are partly responsible for getting Beth on the ballot in the first place and later save her from an assassination attempt while playing around with the White House's security systems.

%%* BlackComedy

* CrapsackWorld: Other than United States under [[OneNationUnderCopyRight corporations' control]] to the point where they can run for political office and turn poor people into billboards, half of the world is experiencing environmental collapse, conflicts (including [[WarForFunAndProfit United States' intervention]]), and having their refugees in United States turned into part of Human Zoo.
* CyberPunk: Pretty much have a hilarious take on its elements of MegaCorp, dysfunctional society, and CrapsackWorld. But Beth's administration might make it PostCyberpunk.

* TakeThat: Makes criticism to American Political System, Society, and even Foreign Policies.

* SurrealSymbolicHeads: In this version, Smiley is the avatar of a corporation that has been granted legal personhood, a man whose individual identity is hidden behind a holographic mask representing the corporation's logo. Several other such avatars appear in the series as well.

''Prez'' is a comic book series published by DC Comics. It debuted in 2015 as part of the DC YOU line, and was created by writer Mark Russell and artists Ben Caldwell and Mark Morales. It is a re-envisioning of the [[{{ComicBook/Prez1973}} short-lived 1970s series of the same name]].