History ComicBook / TheDNAgents

* AuthorTract: Became this sometimes. An issue of ''Crossfire'' was seriously an extended angry diatribe about Mark Evanier's well-known experiences with the censorship of kids cartoons.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Several, but most prominent is the agents' creator, Lucius Krell.

It concerned a team of five genetically-engineered superhumans created by the Matrix Corporation to serve as spies/enforcers for the corporation's interests. [[GoneHorriblyRight The scientists did their job too well]], creating a group with all-too-human foibles instead of the loyal robots the head of the corporation, Lucius Krell, was hoping for.

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

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Rainbow, who's the smartest and most mature of the agents, directing them in battle with her telepathic powers.
** TheLancer: Surge, powerful but brash fighter who's quick to jump into a fight even if just ends up making things worse for the team.
*** In an extremely amusing turn, Surge's own foil was a guest-star hero actually named Lancer, making Lancer TheLancer ''to'' TheLancer!
** TheBigGuy: Tank, who's the team's primary combat machine with his SuperStrength and PoweredArmor loaded with guns and missiles.
** TheSmartGuy: Sham, who with his commando skills and ability to disguise himself takes a more cerebral approach to his duties.
** TheChick: Amber, who acts as sort of a stable big sister to the others.

''The [=DNAgents=]'' was a title originally released by Eclipse Comics in 1983, written by Creator/MarkEvanier and illustrated by [[WesternAnimation/XMen Will]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Exosquad}} Meugniot]].

* {{Fanservice}}: Certainly wasn't shy about showing off its cast's bodies. Both Amber and Rainbow's outfits BareYourMidriff and include booty shorts, and Surge's uniform showed a male version of AbsoluteCleavage to display bare chiseled pecs and abs. Reprinted collections of the comics in the 2000s were even remastered to make the fanservice more evident.

* {{Fanservice}}: Certainly wasn't shy about showing off its cast's bodies. Both Amber and Rainbow's outfits BareYourMidriff and include [[WhoWearsShortShorts booty shorts]], and Surge's uniform showed a male version of AbsoluteCleavage to display bare chiseled pecs and abs. Reprinted collections of the comics in the 2000s were even remastered to make the fanservice more evident.

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

* 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 love story, when at most the replicant-daughter had 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 sweeping Hollywood love story, when at most she'd been learning to tolerate him when she died.

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 also had their own individual spinoff books. 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, [[VoluntaryShapeshifting who had the power to transform himself into anyone he wanted]]. Because his powers had the fewest direct combat applications he also had commando training.

** TheLancer: Surge, powerful but brash fighter who's quick to jump into a fight even if just makes up ending things worse for the team.

*** In an extremely amusing turn, Surge's own foil was a hero actually named Lancer, making Lancer TheLancer ''to'' TheLancer!

** SixthRanger: Crossfire, who becomes a regular ally to the team after several issues.

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Rainbow.
** TheLancer: Surge.
*** In an extremely amusing turn, Surge's own foil was a hero actually named Lancer, making Lancer TheLancer ''to'' TheLancer!
** TheBigGuy: Tank.
** TheSmartGuy: Sham.
** TheChick: Amber.
** SixthRanger: Crossfire.

* {{Fanservice}}: Certainly wasn't shy about showing off its 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.

* 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.

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

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

* OffOnATechnicality: Surge hunts down Luger, the assassin who killed his replicant girlfriend, and sets fire to the building Luger is in planning to burn him alive. Surge is then arrested and put on trial for murder, but gets off when evidence surfaces showing Luger committed suicide by shooting himself before the building collapsed on top of him. Yep, last we hear of that.

* MistakenForPedophile: In an issue of ''Crossfire'', Rainbow tries to get enough money to help the agents become independent from their corporate masters by posing for a nude photo shoot. Crossfire gets her out of her contract by pointing out that while she has the body and mind of a woman in her 20's she was born in a tank and is technically only seven years old, so technically a nude photo spread of her is kiddie porn ([[ProtagonistCenteredMorality although the comic overlooks how by that logic Crossfire himself is a child molester for being in a sexual relationship with her...]]).

* PaedoHunt: In an issue of ''Crossfire'', Rainbow tries to get enough money to help the agents become independent from their corporate masters by posing for a nude photo shoot. Crossfire gets her out of her contract by pointing out that while she has the body and mind of a woman in her 20's she was born in a tank and is technically only seven years old ([[ProtagonistCenteredMorality although the comic overlooks how by that logic Crossfire himself is a child molester for being in a sexual relationship with her...]]).