History ComicBook / TheDNAgents

* StupidCrooks: A regular character in the pages of ''Crossfire'' was a counterfeiter. A talented counterfeiter, evidently. But one who can't resist putting obviously fake denominations and the faces of TV personalities on the bills.

* WorldsStrongestMan: The hero Lancer declares himself to be this. From what we see he probably is.

*** Amusingly the character actually named Lancer is TheLancer ''to'' TheLancer.

''The [=DNAgents=]'' was a titled originally released by Eclipse Comics in 1983, written by Creator/MarkEvanier and illustrated by Will Meugniot.

* BodyguardCrush: Surge is assigned to protect a replicant of the company CEO's (dead) daughter, and falls hard for her, it becoming his driving ambition to find a way to bring her back after she's killed. For extra melodrama he kind of pathetically misremembers it as a sweeping Hollywood-style love story, when at most she'd been learning to tolerate him when she died.

* BodyguardCrush: Surge is assigned to protect a replicant of the company CEO's (dead) daughter, and falls hard for her, it becoming his driving ambition to find a way to bring her back after she's killed. For extra melodrama he kind of pathetically misremembers it as a Hollywood-style sweeping love story, when at most she'd been learning to tolerate him when she died.

* Rainbow: A telepath who could create intricate illusions. As time wore on [[PowerIncontinence it was rarely when she actually wanted to]], however.

* Surge: An angry lightning-controller.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Possibly the comic's greatest claim to fame was a "stealth crossover" it had with ComicBook/TeenTitans. A thinly-veiled copy of the Titans known as Project Youngblood appeared in the pages of ''[=DNAgents=]'', while a thinly-veiled copy of the [=DNAgents=] known as the Recombatants appeared in the pages of ''Titans'', with the guest star group sacrificing themselves to save the day at the end of the arc.
* AuthorTract: Became this sometimes. An issue of ''Crossfire'' was basically an extended angry diatribe on Evanier's experiences with the censorship of kids cartoons and the perceived effects.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The second series ended with Krell facing the fact that the agents were too human to control and too powerful to be left running around the way they were. Their energy was drained leaving them nothing but lifeless mannequins in cold storage, even though Rainbow turns out to be pregnant with Crossfire's child.]]

* AuthorTract: Became this sometimes. An issue of Crossfire was basically an extended angry diatribe on Evanier's experiences with the censorship on kids cartoons and the perceived effects.

* InformedFlaw: Crossfire #3 had him noting he needed to lose weight to be able to be doing all the AirVentEscape work that comes with the job...in a panel showing him with a VERY prominent six-pack.

* TheWorfEffect: People would always show how tough they were by punching Tank through a wall.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Snafu, the result of an interrupted attempt to create a new [=DNAgent=], is this.

*** Amusingly the character actually named Lancer is TheLancer ''to'' The Lancer.

* SixthRanger: Crossfire, and he even was an add-on to a five-member group at that.
* TheWorfEffect: As was to be expected, people would always show how tough they were by punching Tank through a wall.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Snafu, the result of an interrupted attempt to create a new [=DNAgent=], is this.

* {{Fanservice}}: Certainly wasn't shy about showing off its young female cast's bodies. Both Amber and Rainbow's outfits BareYourMidriff, and reprinted collections of the comics in the 2000s were remastered to make the fanservice more evident.

''The [=DNAgents=]'' was a titled originally released by Eclipse Comics in 1983.

* Rainbow: A telepath who could create intricate illusions. As time wore [[PowerIncontinence it was rarely when she actually wanted to]], however.

The comic originally ran for 24 issues from 1983-1985. Later that year it was picked up for another 17 issues as "The New [=DNAgents=]," even though it was a direct continuation of the previous storyline. Crossfire and Surge had their own spinoff series also. In 1986 a sourcebook for use with the TabletopGame/VillainsAndVigilantes role-playing game was released, covering the material from the first 20 issues of the main series and the spinoff books out by then.

* Sham: The most withdrawn of the agents, who had the power to transform himself into anyone he liked. Because his powers had the fewest direct combat applications he also had commando training.

* MissFanservice: Rainbow.

''The DNAgents'' was a titled originally released by Eclipse Comics in 1983.

The comic originally ran for 24 issues from 1983-1985. Later that year it was picked up for another 17 issues as "The New DNAgents," even though it was a direct continuation of the previous storyline. Crossfire and Surge had their own spinoff series also. In 1986 a sourcebook for use with the TabletopGame/VillainsAndVigilantes role-playing game was released, covering the material from the first 20 issues of the main series and the spinoff books out by then.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The second series ended with Krell facing the fact that the agents were too human to control and too powerful to be left running around the way they were. Their energy was drained leaving them basically nothing but lifeless mannequins in cold storage, even though Rainbow turns out to be pregnant with Crossfire's child.]]