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* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Twiggy]], of all people, takes one at the end of the first arc. After [[spoiler: taking a fatal wound to the gut]] from the head trafficker, [[spoiler: she]] takes his fingers off with a sickle while he's gloating, and delivers a PreAssKickingOneLiner:
--->"Motherfucker, I'm half your size! ''I'm holding my guts in!'' '' '''COME ON!''' ''"
** [[spoiler: When Lt. Cooper finds them, it's shown that [[Main/DyingMomentOfAwesome Twiggy completely slaughtered him before dying]] ]].
--->"Motherfucker, I'm half your size! ''I'm holding my guts in!'' '' '''COME ON!''' ''"
** [[spoiler: When Lt. Cooper finds them, it's shown that [[Main/DyingMomentOfAwesome Twiggy completely slaughtered him before dying]] ]].
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* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Twiggy]], of all people, takes one at the end of the first arc. After [[spoiler: taking a fatal wound to the gut]] from the head trafficker, [[spoiler: she]] takes his fingers off with a sickle while he's gloating, and delivers a PreAssKickingOneLiner:
--->"Motherfucker,PreAssKickingOneLiner. [[spoiler: When Lt. Cooper finds them, it's shown that [[Main/DyingMomentOfAwesome Twiggy completely slaughtered him before dying]]]]:
-->"Motherfucker, I'm half your size! ''I'm holding my guts in!'' '' '''COME ON!'''''"
** [[spoiler: When Lt. Cooper finds them, it's shown that [[Main/DyingMomentOfAwesome Twiggy completely slaughtered him before dying]] ]].''"
--->"Motherfucker,
-->"Motherfucker, I'm half your size! ''I'm holding my guts in!'' '' '''COME ON!'''
** [[spoiler: When Lt. Cooper finds them, it's shown that [[Main/DyingMomentOfAwesome Twiggy completely slaughtered him before dying]] ]].
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* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler: Barclay]]. wants Cooper to make sure that the location of the bodies of everyone who died will be given to the authorities to recover them for burial.
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Ennis's run on the comic ends with issue #7, but Wolfer opted to continue it beyond that point as writer/artist. Wolfer's issues, rather than dealing directly with the plot of the initial arc, follows the path across the world of a surviving tank of the fluid that creates the Stitched, where it is often used as a biological weapon. It appears to have ended with issue #18.
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Ennis's run on the comic ends with issue #7, but Wolfer opted to continue it beyond that point as writer/artist. Wolfer's issues, rather than dealing directly with the plot of the initial arc, follows the path across the world of a surviving tank of the fluid that creates the Stitched, where it is often used as a biological weapon. It appears to have ended with issue #18.
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There's a spin-off known as ''Stitched: Terror'', set in Texas by Pat Shand and Daniel Gele where the Stitched are used as a terrorist weapon by an all-female group from the Middle East.
There's a spin-off known as ''Stitched: Terror'', set in Texas by Pat Shand and Daniel Gele where the Stitched are used as a terrorist weapon by an all-female group from the Middle East.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: SAS trooper Dave falls into this with Twiggy.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: SAS trooper Dave falls into this with Twiggy.Twiggy (possibly due to his having a younger sister who's not much older than Twiggy).
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* BigBrotherInstinct: SAS trooper Dave falls into this with Twiggy.
* OddFriendship: Bordering on CoolKidAndLoserFriendship between [[ActionGirl Lt. Cooper]] and [[NewMeat Twiggy]] in the first arc. Cass is tough as nails, both physically and mentally, a crack shot and the one who goads, bullies and physically drags Lt. Pruitt and Twiggy into making it to rendezvous with the SAS team; while Twiggy is naive, inexperienced, and self-admittedly terrified of everything ([[CowardlyLion although considering some of her later actions, she's probably overstating things]]), as well as [[InterclassFriendship Cooper being an officer and Twiggy enlisted]], and yet, the two are close enough friends that Cooper was willing to risk getting into trouble for smuggling Twiggy aboard a helo flight. [[LoserFriendPuzzlesOutsiders The SAS team lampshade this]], and Cooper explains;
-->"Look, we're in a general support aviation battalion. It's two hundred guys, me, Twiggy, and something from Tennessee called 'Thirsty Kirsty'. So, yes, we're friends."
-->"Look, we're in a general support aviation battalion. It's two hundred guys, me, Twiggy, and something from Tennessee called 'Thirsty Kirsty'. So, yes, we're friends."
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Cooper and Twiggy launch into mutual ones the night before the good guys' attack on the sex slavers' camp. It's mostly a sign of just how much stress they're under
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* TrollingTranslator: A serious example. Corporal Twiggy says her translator told the Afghani villagers she was addressing that the Americans were bad people, and if they listened to her they deserved a beating, instead of translating what she said.
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* TrollingTranslator: A serious example. Corporal Twiggy says her translator told the Afghani villagers she was addressing that the Americans were bad people, and if they listened to her they deserved a beating, instead of translating what she said.said.
* VitriolicBestBuds: SAS troopers [[BashBrothers Baz and Dave]] from the first arc. The two constantly berate and insult each other, but are the best of friends.
* VitriolicBestBuds: SAS troopers [[BashBrothers Baz and Dave]] from the first arc. The two constantly berate and insult each other, but are the best of friends.
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* AndIMustScream: The cultists that create the Stitched state that creating a Stitched involves trapping the victims soul inside his own corpse (the reason for why they stitch all the orifices closed).
** The origin of the mysterious black fluid that creates the Stitched; it's the fluid remains of a young girl who had been kidnapped by the cult during the British invasion of Afghanistan in the 19th century, and raped by a demon they had summoned. Tainted by the evil essence, the girl couldnt be put down, and the British were forced to bury her alive; the rattle noises used to control the Stitched are actually effective because the fluid recognizes it as the same sound as the sound of earth being tossed on top of a coffin lid.
** The origin of the mysterious black fluid that creates the Stitched; it's the fluid remains of a young girl who had been kidnapped by the cult during the British invasion of Afghanistan in the 19th century, and raped by a demon they had summoned. Tainted by the evil essence, the girl couldnt be put down, and the British were forced to bury her alive; the rattle noises used to control the Stitched are actually effective because the fluid recognizes it as the same sound as the sound of earth being tossed on top of a coffin lid.
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* TheDreaded: The Cultists are virtual boogeymen of Afghanistan, even the ''taliban'' are scared shitless of them.
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** Rashad Salbib treats his wife like trash and acts ridiculously entitled towards her.
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** The third and final arc of the comic has [[{{Yakuza}} Mr. Kuzo]], who heads a crime syndicate that killed the parents of the main character, Kenji's, wife and whom he seeks revenge against, although [[spoiler:Hassan, the last of the Stitched's handlers]] operates as TheManBehindTheMan, using Kenji's quest for vengeance as an opportunity to spread the chaos of the Stitched and continue his depraved religion.
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** The third and final arc of the comic has [[{{Yakuza}} Mr. Kuzo]], who heads a crime syndicate that killed the parents of the main character, Kenji's, wife and whom he seeks revenge against, although [[spoiler:Hassan, the last of the Stitched's handlers]] operates as TheManBehindTheMan, using Kenji's quest for vengeance as an opportunity to spread the chaos of the Stitched and continue his depraved religion.[[spoiler:depraved religion]].
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** The first segment of the comic, set in Afghanistan has [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Homayoun]], who allies himself with the cult controlling the Stitched to wipe out villages and gain women and children for his human trafficking organization.
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** The first segment of the comic, set in Afghanistan has [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Emad Homayoun]], who allies himself with the cult controlling the Stitched to wipe out villages and gain women and children for his human trafficking organization.
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** Homayoun makes a remark to Twiggy that she is useless because he is a woman and that he would like to rape her, saying it's the 'real use' for women.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
** Homayoun makes a remark to Twiggy that she is useless because he is a woman and that he would like to rape her, saying it's the 'real use' for women.
** Hassan, the only named Stitched handler, believes women are utterly worthless and unworthy of human rights. When another character's wife approaches him, he tells her she should be beaten for acting without explicit instruction from her husband.
** Homayoun makes a remark to Twiggy that she is useless because he is a woman and that he would like to rape her, saying it's the 'real use' for women.
** Hassan, the only named Stitched handler, believes women are utterly worthless and unworthy of human rights. When another character's wife approaches him, he tells her she should be beaten for acting without explicit instruction from her husband.
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** Despite being the main viewpoint character, [[VillainProtagonist Salim]] sets off the second arc when he tries to sell the Stitched to a collector, before their black magic convinces him to slaughter everyone in the man's estate to become a warlord.
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** Despite being the main viewpoint character, [[VillainProtagonist Salim]] Rashad Salib]] sets off the second arc when he tries to sell the Stitched to a collector, before their black magic convinces him to slaughter everyone in the man's estate to become a warlord.
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** The first segment of the comic, set in Afghanistan has [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Homayoun]], who allies himself with the cult controlling the Stitched to wipe out villages and gain women and children for his HumanTrafficking business.
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** The first segment of the comic, set in Afghanistan has [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Homayoun]], who allies himself with the cult controlling the Stitched to wipe out villages and gain women and children for his HumanTrafficking business.human trafficking organization.
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* ArcVillain:
** The first segment of the comic, set in Afghanistan has [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Homayoun]], who allies himself with the cult controlling the Stitched to wipe out villages and gain women and children for his HumanTrafficking business.
** Despite being the main viewpoint character, [[VillainProtagonist Salim]] sets off the second arc when he tries to sell the Stitched to a collector, before their black magic convinces him to slaughter everyone in the man's estate to become a warlord.
** The third and final arc of the comic has [[{{Yakuza}} Mr. Kuzo]], who heads a crime syndicate that killed the parents of the main character, Kenji's, wife and whom he seeks revenge against, although [[spoiler:Hassan, the last of the Stitched's handlers]] operates as TheManBehindTheMan, using Kenji's quest for vengeance as an opportunity to spread the chaos of the Stitched and continue his depraved religion.
** The first segment of the comic, set in Afghanistan has [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Homayoun]], who allies himself with the cult controlling the Stitched to wipe out villages and gain women and children for his HumanTrafficking business.
** Despite being the main viewpoint character, [[VillainProtagonist Salim]] sets off the second arc when he tries to sell the Stitched to a collector, before their black magic convinces him to slaughter everyone in the man's estate to become a warlord.
** The third and final arc of the comic has [[{{Yakuza}} Mr. Kuzo]], who heads a crime syndicate that killed the parents of the main character, Kenji's, wife and whom he seeks revenge against, although [[spoiler:Hassan, the last of the Stitched's handlers]] operates as TheManBehindTheMan, using Kenji's quest for vengeance as an opportunity to spread the chaos of the Stitched and continue his depraved religion.
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->We have survived for centuries. We shall live forever. As long as your kind exist, we exist. We thrive on chaos, destruction. There is no sweeter reward than death. Even among ourselves, who are ancient and eternal... we feed on our eternal strife.
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* BodyHorror: Issue #3 deals with how the Stitched are made. It is profoundly unpleasant.
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* BodyHorror: Issue #3 deals with how the Stitched are made. It is profoundly unpleasant. [[spoiler:The men in the black cloaks take a relatively healthy man, and pour a thick black substance down his throat. Then they stitch shut all nine of his bodily orifices, so none of it can leak out. A day or so later, the man is one of the Stitched.]]
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* CrossOver: Dave and Boz have gone drinking with [[ComicBook/TheAuthority Kevin Hawkins]].
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* CrossOver: Dave and Boz Baz have gone drinking with [[ComicBook/TheAuthority Kevin Hawkins]].
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* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Twiggy]], of all people, takes one at the end of the first arc. After [[spoiler: taking a fatal wound to the gut]] from the head trafficker, [[spoiler: she]] takes his fingers off with a sickle while he's gloating, and delivers a PreAssKickingOneLiner:
--->"Motherfucker, I'm half your size! ''I'm holding my guts in!'' '' '''Come on!''' ''"
** [[spoiler: When Lt. Cooper finds them, it's shown that [[Main/DyingMomentOfAwesome Twiggy completely slaughtered him before dying]] ]].
--->"Motherfucker, I'm half your size! ''I'm holding my guts in!'' '' '''Come on!''' ''"
** [[spoiler: When Lt. Cooper finds them, it's shown that [[Main/DyingMomentOfAwesome Twiggy completely slaughtered him before dying]] ]].
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A five-man team of American soldiers are on their way to evacuate a small squad of British troops from the mountains of Afghanistan. Their helicopter suffers an engine failure and crash-lands in the mountains, far from home and well out of radio contact with their home base. Two of the crew members die in the crash, and of the three survivors, one has suffered a potentially life-threatening wound to the leg.
They meet up with the survivors of the SAS squad they're there to rescue, but soon encounter an enemy that has it in for both them and the Taliban: the Stitched, undead creatures that tear any human they reach limb from limb, guided by mysterious men in black robes. With little ammunition, no food, no water, and a wounded companion, the soldiers must figure out a way to get out of Afghanistan before the Stitched or the Taliban find and kill them.
''Stitched'' is both a horror comic book from Avatar Press and a seventeen-minute short horror film. In both cases, it's written by Creator/GarthEnnis; in the former, it has art by Mike Wolfer.
Ennis's run on the comic ends with issue #7, but Wolfer opted to continue it beyond that point as writer/artist. Wolfer's issues, rather than dealing directly with the plot of the initial arc, follows the path across the world of a surviving tank of the fluid that creates the Stitched, where it is often used as a biological weapon. It appears to have ended with issue #18.
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!!Tropes encountered in this work include:
* ActionGirl: Lieutenant Cooper.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: One might expect that issue #8 would remain in Afghanistan, but instead, it's about the Stitched being exported to foreign markets as weapons. This includes a trader in Sri Lanka and a yakuza in Japan who intends to use them as part of a revenge plot.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: The soldiers in the first arc rescue an entire village of women and children from human traffickers, and manage to slaughter both all the slave traders and a good whack of the necromancy cult they were allied with]].
* BlackCloak: The Stitched's handlers.
* BodyHorror: Issue #3 deals with how the Stitched are made. It is profoundly unpleasant.
* FacialHorror / EyeScream / GroinAttack: it involves stitching their orifices shut. All 9 of them.
* CrossOver: Dave and Boz have gone drinking with [[ComicBook/TheAuthority Kevin Hawkins]].
* {{Gorn}}: A specialty of Mike Wolfer's and of Avatar Press's. The book's interiors are mild by comparison to the covers, however.
* HiddenDepths: Corporal "Twiggy," the nineteen-year-old American soldier, is more or less a total load for the first two issues. In the third, however, she reveals she's been following the stories of human trafficking out of Afghanistan with an eye towards doing something about it, to the point where she knows the name of the head trafficker.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Stitched fill most of the criteria of a standard Romero-style zombie, but can wield simple weapons and display an alarming proclivity towards dismemberment, disembowelment, and creative methods of impalement. Their handlers control them by using a tin can on a length of chain with pebbles inside, and the Stitched lash out in the direction of the cans' rattling sound. As long as the rattling sound persists, the Stitched seem virtually indestructible, to the point of standing up to automatic weapons fire; the only way to destroy them seems to be to still the rattling somehow, ''then'' take their bodies apart.
* TrollingTranslator: A serious example. Corporal Twiggy says her translator told the Afghani villagers she was addressing that the Americans were bad people, and if they listened to her they deserved a beating, instead of translating what she said.
They meet up with the survivors of the SAS squad they're there to rescue, but soon encounter an enemy that has it in for both them and the Taliban: the Stitched, undead creatures that tear any human they reach limb from limb, guided by mysterious men in black robes. With little ammunition, no food, no water, and a wounded companion, the soldiers must figure out a way to get out of Afghanistan before the Stitched or the Taliban find and kill them.
''Stitched'' is both a horror comic book from Avatar Press and a seventeen-minute short horror film. In both cases, it's written by Creator/GarthEnnis; in the former, it has art by Mike Wolfer.
Ennis's run on the comic ends with issue #7, but Wolfer opted to continue it beyond that point as writer/artist. Wolfer's issues, rather than dealing directly with the plot of the initial arc, follows the path across the world of a surviving tank of the fluid that creates the Stitched, where it is often used as a biological weapon. It appears to have ended with issue #18.
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!!Tropes encountered in this work include:
* ActionGirl: Lieutenant Cooper.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: One might expect that issue #8 would remain in Afghanistan, but instead, it's about the Stitched being exported to foreign markets as weapons. This includes a trader in Sri Lanka and a yakuza in Japan who intends to use them as part of a revenge plot.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: The soldiers in the first arc rescue an entire village of women and children from human traffickers, and manage to slaughter both all the slave traders and a good whack of the necromancy cult they were allied with]].
* BlackCloak: The Stitched's handlers.
* BodyHorror: Issue #3 deals with how the Stitched are made. It is profoundly unpleasant.
* FacialHorror / EyeScream / GroinAttack: it involves stitching their orifices shut. All 9 of them.
* CrossOver: Dave and Boz have gone drinking with [[ComicBook/TheAuthority Kevin Hawkins]].
* {{Gorn}}: A specialty of Mike Wolfer's and of Avatar Press's. The book's interiors are mild by comparison to the covers, however.
* HiddenDepths: Corporal "Twiggy," the nineteen-year-old American soldier, is more or less a total load for the first two issues. In the third, however, she reveals she's been following the stories of human trafficking out of Afghanistan with an eye towards doing something about it, to the point where she knows the name of the head trafficker.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Stitched fill most of the criteria of a standard Romero-style zombie, but can wield simple weapons and display an alarming proclivity towards dismemberment, disembowelment, and creative methods of impalement. Their handlers control them by using a tin can on a length of chain with pebbles inside, and the Stitched lash out in the direction of the cans' rattling sound. As long as the rattling sound persists, the Stitched seem virtually indestructible, to the point of standing up to automatic weapons fire; the only way to destroy them seems to be to still the rattling somehow, ''then'' take their bodies apart.
* TrollingTranslator: A serious example. Corporal Twiggy says her translator told the Afghani villagers she was addressing that the Americans were bad people, and if they listened to her they deserved a beating, instead of translating what she said.
