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* WheresTheKaboom: [[spoiler:WorldWarIII begins within an exchange of nuclear missiles. All of which fail to detonate due to the Star Child's interference]].
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* WheresTheKaboom: [[spoiler:WorldWarIII begins within with an exchange of nuclear missiles. All of which fail to detonate due to the Star Child's interference]].
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* WheresTheKaboom: [[spoiler:WorldWarIII begins within an exchange of nuclear missiles. All of which fail to detonate due to the Star Child's interference]].
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* MiddleEasternTerrorists: A variant. The terrorist attacks are physically carried out by Harlan Mook, who's a white American. But Harlan's acting on behalf of his controller in Iran and is steered by MindControl.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Colonel Oort and his South African backers]].
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* ArmedWithCanon: Jack Magniconte's previous appearance saw him kitted out with a costume, given a code name and positioned as the army's new CaptainPatriotic. Murray, a veteran who previously wrote Marvel's war comic ''The 'Nam'', immediately has Jack's new commanding officer scrap all of that and put him back in uniform.
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* ArmedWithCanon: A version that doesn't affect continuity. Jack Magniconte's previous appearance saw him kitted out with a costume, given a code name and positioned as the army's new CaptainPatriotic. Murray, a veteran who previously wrote Marvel's war comic ''The 'Nam'', immediately has Jack's new commanding officer scrap all of that that, ridicule the idea, and put him back in uniform.
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* ArmedWithCanon: Jack Magniconte's previous appearance saw him kitted out with a costume, given a code name and positioned as the army's new PatrioticHero. Murray, a veteran who previously wrote Marvel's war comic ''The 'Nam'', immediately has Jack's new commanding officer scrap all of that and put him back in uniform.
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* ArmedWithCanon: Jack Magniconte's previous appearance saw him kitted out with a costume, given a code name and positioned as the army's new PatrioticHero.CaptainPatriotic. Murray, a veteran who previously wrote Marvel's war comic ''The 'Nam'', immediately has Jack's new commanding officer scrap all of that and put him back in uniform.
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* ArmedWithCanon: Jack Magniconte's previous appearance saw him kitted out with a costume, given a code name and positioned as the army's new PatrioticHero. Murray, a veteran who previously wrote Marvel's war comic ''The 'Nam'', immediately has Jack's new commanding officer scrap all of that and put him back in uniform.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Pitbull is a short-tempered jerk who's often portrayed as a thug and a bully. He's also the first person to point out that the squad's warm welcome in South Africa was limited to their white members, excluding Jeff and the Major.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Pitbull is a short-tempered jerk who's often portrayed as a thug and a bully. He's also the first person white soldier to point out that the squad's warm welcome in South Africa was limited to their white members, excluding Jeff and the Major.
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* GlamourFailure: Bob Loeser (aka "Pretty Boy") has the power to appear as someone other people are expecting to see, just one more face in the crowd. Unfortunately, while infiltrating a rebel camp in Mozambique, he receives an unexpected telepathic cry for help and loses his concentration. He doesn't get out alive.
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The series centres around a squad of superhuman ("paranormal") American soldiers , sent overseas on a mission that threatens to spiral into WorldWarIII.
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The series centres around a squad of superhuman ("paranormal") American soldiers , soldiers, sent overseas on a mission that threatens to spiral into WorldWarIII.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Sahno's paranormality makes him an impossibly good shot. At one point he gets Jack to throw a playing card in the air - the eight of spades - and he neatly puts a bullet through every spade before it lands.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Pitbull is a short-tempered jerk who's often portrayed as a thug and a bully. He's also the first person to point out that the squad's warm welcome in South Africa was limited to their white members, excluding Jeff and the Major.
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* MonumentalDamage: Harlan's first two targets are the Pentagon and the Alamo.
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* MonumentalDamage: Harlan's first two targets are the Pentagon UsefulNotes/ThePentagon and the Alamo.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[spoiler:Colonel Oort is extremely racist, regularly using slurs when he talks about Black characters. His prison camp solely contains Black paranormals and he's creepily enthusiastic about Major Blizzard becoming a BreedingSlave in his SuperBreedingProgram]].
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* {{Telepathy}}: A couple of characters have telepathic powers.
** Major Kathi Blizzard has short range telepathy, picking up on others' thoughts, which she can't entirely control. Once she's made physical contact with someone she can also forge a two-way telepathic link that works at a longer distance.
** The Ayatollah can speak to others telepathically, seemingly regardless of their spoken language (although we only see this used at close range), and also has MindControl powers.
** Major Kathi Blizzard has short range telepathy, picking up on others' thoughts, which she can't entirely control. Once she's made physical contact with someone she can also forge a two-way telepathic link that works at a longer distance.
** The Ayatollah can speak to others telepathically, seemingly regardless of their spoken language (although we only see this used at close range), and also has MindControl powers.
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The US Army's Paranormal Force, led by new character Major Kathi Blizzard and Captain Jack Magniconte (formerly the lead of ''ComicBook/KickersInc''), is dispatched to South Africa to investigate and take necessary action. Things swiftly go ''very'' wrong for them.
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The US Army's Paranormal Force, led by new character Major Kathi Blizzard and Captain Jack Magniconte (formerly the lead of ''ComicBook/KickersInc''), is dispatched to South Africa UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica to investigate and take necessary action. Things swiftly go ''very'' wrong for them.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Harlan teleports into Iran, where he find the Ayatollah in a street and decides to [[HavingABlast assassinate him with his powers]]. He doesn't realise that the Ayatollah's a paranormal with MindControl powers until it's too late.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Harlan teleports into Iran, where he find the Ayatollah in a street and decides to [[HavingABlast assassinate him with his powers]]. He doesn't realise that the Ayatollah's a paranormal with MindControl powers until it's too late.late.
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* InternalReveal: The Pittsburgh claim on the tape is a lie, orchestrated as a FalseFlagOperation by [[spoiler:Colonel Oort]]. Previous comics (e.g. ''ComicBook/StarBrand'' and ''ComicBook/ThePitt'') revealed to readers that Pittsburgh was accidentally destroyed when Ken Connell tried to neutralise the Star Brand.
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* InternalReveal: The Pittsburgh claim on the tape is a lie, orchestrated as a FalseFlagOperation by [[spoiler:Colonel Oort]]. Previous comics (e.g. ''ComicBook/StarBrand'' and ''ComicBook/ThePitt'') revealed to readers that Pittsburgh was accidentally destroyed when Ken Connell tried to neutralise the Star Brand.Brand, but none of the characters know that.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Harlan teleports into Iran, where he happens to find the Ayatollah in the street, and decides to [[HavingABlast assassinate him with his powers]]. He doesn't realise that the Ayatollah's a paranormal until it's too late.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Harlan teleports into Iran, where he happens to find the Ayatollah in the street, a street and decides to [[HavingABlast assassinate him with his powers]]. He doesn't realise that the Ayatollah's a paranormal with MindControl powers until it's too late.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: This version of [[UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} Iran's]] Ayatollah Khomeini (named only as "the Ayatollah", but clearly drawn as Khomeini) has acquired paranormal mind control powers.
* InternalReveal: The Pittsburgh claim on the tape is a lie, orchestrated as a FalseFlagOperation by [[spoiler:Colonel Oort]]. Previous comics (e.g. ''ComicBook/StarBrand'' and ''ComicBook/ThePitt'') revealed to readers that Pittsburgh was accidentally destroyed when Ken Connell tried to neutralise the Star Brand.
* InternalReveal: The Pittsburgh claim on the tape is a lie, orchestrated as a FalseFlagOperation by [[spoiler:Colonel Oort]]. Previous comics (e.g. ''ComicBook/StarBrand'' and ''ComicBook/ThePitt'') revealed to readers that Pittsburgh was accidentally destroyed when Ken Connell tried to neutralise the Star Brand.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: This version of [[UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} Iran's]] Ayatollah Khomeini (named only as "the Ayatollah", but clearly drawn as Khomeini) has acquired paranormal mind control {{Telepathy}} and MindControl powers.
* InternalReveal: The Pittsburgh claim on the tape is a lie, orchestrated as a FalseFlagOperation by [[spoiler:Colonel Oort]]. Previous comics (e.g. ''ComicBook/StarBrand'' and ''ComicBook/ThePitt'') revealed to readers that Pittsburgh was accidentally destroyed when Ken Connell tried to neutralise the StarBrand.Brand.
* MuggingTheMonster: Harlan teleports into Iran, where he happens to find the Ayatollah in the street, and decides to [[HavingABlast assassinate him with his powers]]. He doesn't realise that the Ayatollah's a paranormal until it's too late.
* InternalReveal: The Pittsburgh claim on the tape is a lie, orchestrated as a FalseFlagOperation by [[spoiler:Colonel Oort]]. Previous comics (e.g. ''ComicBook/StarBrand'' and ''ComicBook/ThePitt'') revealed to readers that Pittsburgh was accidentally destroyed when Ken Connell tried to neutralise the Star
* MuggingTheMonster: Harlan teleports into Iran, where he happens to find the Ayatollah in the street, and decides to [[HavingABlast assassinate him with his powers]]. He doesn't realise that the Ayatollah's a paranormal until it's too late.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: This version of [[UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} Iran's]] Ayatollah Khomeini (named only as "the Ayatollah", but clearly drawn as Khomeini) has acquired paranormal mind control powers.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: This version of [[UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} Iran's]] Ayatollah Khomeini (named only as "the Ayatollah", but clearly drawn as Khomeini) has acquired paranormal mind control powers.powers.
* InternalReveal: The Pittsburgh claim on the tape is a lie, orchestrated as a FalseFlagOperation by [[spoiler:Colonel Oort]]. Previous comics (e.g. ''ComicBook/StarBrand'' and ''ComicBook/ThePitt'') revealed to readers that Pittsburgh was accidentally destroyed when Ken Connell tried to neutralise the Star Brand.
* InternalReveal: The Pittsburgh claim on the tape is a lie, orchestrated as a FalseFlagOperation by [[spoiler:Colonel Oort]]. Previous comics (e.g. ''ComicBook/StarBrand'' and ''ComicBook/ThePitt'') revealed to readers that Pittsburgh was accidentally destroyed when Ken Connell tried to neutralise the Star Brand.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade This version of [[UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} Iran's]] Ayatollah Khomeini (named only as "the Ayatollah", but clearly drawn as Khomeini) has acquired paranormal mind control powers.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade HistoricalVillainUpgrade: This version of [[UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} Iran's]] Ayatollah Khomeini (named only as "the Ayatollah", but clearly drawn as Khomeini) has acquired paranormal mind control powers.
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In parallel, the army's paranormal profiler, Keith Remsen (previously known as ''ComicBook/{{Nightmask}}'') is tasked with stopping a murderous deserter who slipped through his screening process. Harlan Mook, a teleporter with explosive powers, is now leaving a trail of carnage across the world.
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In parallel, the army's paranormal profiler, Keith Remsen (previously known as ''ComicBook/{{Nightmask}}'') is tasked with stopping a murderous deserter who slipped through his screening process. Harlan Mook, a teleporter with explosive powers, is now leaving a trail of carnage across the world.world.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade This version of [[UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} Iran's]] Ayatollah Khomeini (named only as "the Ayatollah", but clearly drawn as Khomeini) has acquired paranormal mind control powers.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade This version of [[UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} Iran's]] Ayatollah Khomeini (named only as "the Ayatollah", but clearly drawn as Khomeini) has acquired paranormal mind control powers.
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The series centres around a squad of superhuman ("paranormal") American soldiers , sent overseas on a mission that threatens to spiral into WorldWarIII.
Published in a double-length prestige format, it serves as a GrandFinale for the wider setting of ComicBook/TheNewUniverse, a shared world unrelated to the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. It's also a sequel of sorts to the New Universe's previous prestige format one-offs, ''ComicBook/ThePitt'' and ''ComicBook/TheDraft''.
In ''The Pitt'', a paranormal completely annihilated UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}, abruptly pivoting the New Universe away from its initial "the world outside your window" approach. In ''The Draft'' a shaken American government, still unable to identify the Pittsburgh attacker, started conscripting paranormals into the United States Army.
''The War'' follows events after the American government receives a video claiming responsibility for the Pittsburgh attack. The tape, directly supplied to the President by the Soviet Premier, suggests that the USA was targeted for backing the wrong side in the [[UsefulNotes/{{Mozambique}} Mozambican Civil War]] and includes an explosive demonstration of paranormal powers.
The US Army's Paranormal Force, led by new character Major Kathi Blizzard and Captain Jack Magniconte (formerly the lead of ''ComicBook/KickersInc''), is dispatched to South Africa to investigate and take necessary action. Things swiftly go ''very'' wrong for them.
In parallel, the army's paranormal profiler, Keith Remsen (previously known as ''ComicBook/{{Nightmask}}'') is tasked with stopping a murderous deserter who slipped through his screening process. Harlan Mook, a teleporter with explosive powers, is now leaving a trail of carnage across the world.
