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* AvengingTheVillain: After Lord Shilling dies battling Tomahawk, his sister Lady Shilling adopts the identity of the Hood so she can take revenge on Tomahawk.
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* DeathByMaterialism: In #135, Hawk and his friend Jess go in search of gold, following a TreasureMap that unknowingly leads them into an IndianBurialGround. When Hawk discovers this, he wants to leave, but Jess [[GoldFever becomes obsessed with the acquiring all the gold]], and attempts to drive out Hawk and the party of Indians seeking to bury one of their dead. Ultimately this results in Jess's death as the collapses the cave on top of himself as he attempts to dig out the gold.
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* ColossusClimb: In #92, Tomahawk clambers up a cliff and jumps into the mouth of a giant stone robot. After a trapdoor dups down into the foot, he has to climb up the inside of the robot.
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* StockPunishment: In #92, the citizens of Wildcat's hometown place Tomahawk in the stocks as punishment for bring the war to their pacifist village. This results in him almost being killed by a giant stone robot. (ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext).
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* HerrDoktor: In #103, a German doctor employed by the British experiments on Big Anvil and uses rare African herbs to cause him to transform into a hulking, green-skinned FrankensteinMonster whenever night falls.
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* WeaponTitle: Doubles as a ProtagonistTitle, as it refers to both [[TheyCallHimSword the hero's nickname]] and his WeaponOfChoice.
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* GulliverTieDown: In #102, Tomahawk and Big Anvil are captured by a tribe of [[{{Lilliputians}} Lilliputian-sized tribe of Indians]] who tie then down to the ground.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Lady Shilling, the sister of Tomahawk's Archenemy [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord]] [[EvilBrit Shilling]], adopts the identity of the Hood to avenge herself on Tomahawk after he causes her brother's death.
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* GoldFever: In #135, Hawk and his friend Jess go in search of gold, following a TreasureMap that unknowingly leads them into an IndianBurialGround. When Hawk discovers this, he wants to leave, but Jess becomes obsessed with the acquiring all the gold, and attempts to drive out Hawk and the party of Indians seeking to bury one of their dead. Ultimately this results in Jess suffering a DeathByMaterialism.
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* CriminalAmnesiac: In #110, Tomahawk loses his memory when his skull is creased by a rifle. Captured by the British, Lady Shilling (secretly the Hood) is able to persuade him that he is a Loyalist officer and her fiancée. This leads to the Rangers believing that Tomahawk has turned traitor and attempting to kill him.
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* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Although they were not her only weapon, Miss Liberty would often enter combat by flinging fused powder horns from horseback to confuse and scatter the enemy.
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* BadHabits: In #30, a bandit ambushes a clergyman travelling from Boston to perform a wedding and takes his place so he can infiltrate the settlement and set it up for robbery. In doing so, he inadvertently foils a woman's attempt to stage a RealFakeWedding with Tomahawk.
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* FrankensteinMonster: In "The Frontier Frankenstein" in #103, British troops capture Big Anvil and a [[HerrDokter German scientist]] subjects him to a treatment involving "rare African herbs" which causes him to transform into a hulking green-skinned Frankenstein monster at night. The narration suggests this event might have been Mary Shelley's inspiration to write the novel ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.
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* AmnesiaDanger: In #110, Tomahawk loses his memory when his skull is creased by a rifle. Captured by the British, Lady Shilling (secretly the Hood) is able to persuade him that he is a Loyalist officer and her fiancée. This leads to the Rangers believing that Tomahawk has turned traitor and attempting to kill him.
* CriminalAmnesiac: In #110, Tomahawk loses his memory when his skull is creased by a rifle. Captured by the British, Lady Shilling (secretly the Hood) is able to persuade him that he is a Loyalist officer and her fiancée. This leads to the Rangers believing that Tomahawk has turned traitor and attempting to kill him.
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* {{Lilliputians}}: In #102, Tomahawk and Big Anvil are captured by a tribe of Lilliputian Indians. They are turned loose after Tomahawk saves the life of the chief, and the tribes later saves the Rangers from a dinosaur. (MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.)
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* AnAssKickingChristmas: In ''Tomahawk'' #138, Moon Fawn and Small Eagle get kidnapped by Indian renegades for celebrating Christmas, and it's up to Hawk and Tomahawk to rescue them.
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* BearsAreBadNews: The first time Tomahawk meets his future wife Moon Fawn, he has to save her from a bear attack as she is [[OutdoorBathPeeping bathing in a creek]]. He succeeds in killing the bear using only his tomahawk.
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Tomahawk is a comic book character whose adventures were published by Creator/DCComics during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s as a backup feature in ''Star Spangled Comics'' and ''World's Finest Comics'' and in his own eponymous series. He was created by writer Joe Samachson and artist Edmund Good, and first appeared in ''Star-Spangled Comics'' #69.
Tomahawk was a backup feature in ''Star Spangled Comics'' from his first appearance (June 1947) to issue #130 (July 1952), and in ''World's Finest Comics'' from issue #33 (Mar. 1948) until issue #101 (May 1959). The ''Tomahawk'' series lasted 140 issues, from 1950 to 1972.
Known as either Tom Hawk or Thomas Haukins, depending on which of two versions of his published history the reader prefers, "Tomahawk" was a soldier who served under George Washington in the warfare between the British, French and Iroquois forces during the decades prior to the American Revolutionary War and acquired his nickname due to its resemblance to a trademark weapon of the Iroquois Confederacy's warriors, and to the skill he developed with that weapon.
He subsequently achieved further fame as one of Washington's most capable operatives during the Revolution itself, leading a band of soldiers under the informal nickname of "Tomahawk's Rangers".
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!!''Tomahawk'' provide examples of:
* ArchEnemy: Lord Shilling was Tomahawk's arch-enemy, though he was dead by the time the Rangers came into play.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Tomahawk's arch-enemy was the British spy Lord Shilling.
* ArmyOfTheAges: Tomahawk is dragged through time to become part of one in the 2008 ''The War That Time Forgot'' mini-series.
* AnAxeToGrind: Tomahawk's preferred weapon is his namesake axe.
* TheBerserker: Wildcat. Although originally a member of a pacifist sect, he became a wild man in combat and is the most enthusiastic member when it comes to charging into battle.
* TheBlacksmith: Big Anvil was one before the war, and still sometimes performs smithing duties in the Rangers.
* CallingCard: Lord Shilling's trademark was leaving a single shilling with a hole in the middle after a successful mission.
* CaptainEthnic: Frenchie, a non-superhero example. His thing is that he is French, and it is impossible to forget this -- he even starts wearing a beret after a while.
* CaptainPatriotic: Miss Liberty
* CattleDrive: In ''Tomahawk'' #119, Tomahawk and the Rangers have to drive a herd of steers to besieged Yankee fort that is starving.
* TheChiefsDaughter: Moon Fawn
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After the ReTool that introduced the Rangers, Tomahawk's sidekick Dan Hunter popped up less and less frequently until he disappeared entirely without explanation.
* CombatMedic: Healer Randolph
* DarkerAndEdgier: Received a pretty good Vertigo reimagining in ''Vertigo Visions: Tomahawk''.
* DawnOfTheWildWest: When the book became ''Hawk, Son of Tomahawk'', it focussed on Tomahawk's half-Indian son and was set in the early years of the 19th Century in the American midwest.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Cannonball served this role in training the Rangers, and even in the field he's always barking at them like mad.
* EvilBrit: Lord Shilling, along with numerous one-off villains. Hey, it was the Revolutionary War and the heroes were from the Colonies -- the British ''were'' the bad guys to them.
* HunterTrapper: Tomahawk and Dan Hunter
* IndianMaiden: Moon Fawn, Tomahawk's eventual wife. He first comes across her when she is bathing in a river and saves her from a bear attack. She falls in love with him and he has to prove his worthiness to her father, Chief Grey Elk.
* JustAKid: One issue's backup feature was about Brass Buttons, Stovepipe, and Dan Hunter (none of them even 20 yet) embittered by the other Rangers looking down on them because of their youth. Naturally they end up saving the day later.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Most of the members of the Rangers.
* MasterOfDisguise: Lord Shilling
* MixedAncestry: ''Hawk, Son of Tomahawk'' was the son of the Caucasian Tomahawk and the Apache Moon Fawn.
* NiceHat: Stovepipe's silk hat is his most prized possession, as it was a gift from the Rangers after the one he previously wore was damaged beyond repair.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Tomahawk's Rangers, who were essentially a Revolutionary War version of ComicBook/SgtRock's Easy Company. The members included the immensely strong Big Anvil; the dandy Brass Buttons; Cannonball, who was Tomahawk's [=2IC=]; acrobatic French sailor Frenchie; black CombatMedic Healer Randolph; sniper Long Rifle; Stovepipe who was the son of a general and carried a small arsenal in his stovepipe hat; and Wildcat, a Quaker pacifist who turned into a berserker in combat.
* {{Ranger}}: [[CaptainObvious Tomahawk's Rangers]]
* RealFakeWedding: In ''Tomahawk'' #31, a woman attempts to trick Tomahawk into marrying her by staging the wedding in a play about his life (where she has talked him into playing himself). It fails when the preacher she sent for from Boston turns out to be a bandit in disguise and has no authority to marry anyone.
* RepetitiveName: Hawk, son of Tomahawk. Especially if his given name really is Hawk, as his father's surname is Hawk.
* {{Retool}}: Tomahawk had two retools towards the end of its run. First, the comic was changed from "hey kids isn't Davy Crockett cool?" to "the ComicBook/HowlingCommandos in the Revolutionary War", with Tomahawk gaining a colorful supporting cast and a direct affiliation with the Continental Army. After about five years of that, the book (retaining the same title and numbering) jumped forward some 40 years and focused on Tomahawk's son Hawk, with the still-living Tomahawk being Hawk's mentor/sidekick. "Hawk, son of Tomahawk" didn't last too long, as the book was canceled within a year of Hawk's introduction.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker:
** Tomahawk has this ability, unerringly following a trail invisible to everyone else across a dinosaur-infested jungle in ''The War That Time Forgot'' mini-series.
** Supposedly the Rangers all have similar abilities due to Tomahawk's training, but this proves an InformedAbility that none of them ever really shows off.
* ScoobyDooHoax:
** In ''Tomahawk'' #106, the Royalist forces take advantage of Tomahawk's supposed death to create a "ghost" Tomahawk which they use to attempt to lure the Rangers into an ambush.
** The Amish or Quaker or whatever community that Wildcat was once part of built a giant man-powered stone robot to scare both sides of the Revolutionary War away from their land. Yes, you read all that correctly.
* SergeantRock: Tomahawk was this to the Rangers.
* {{Sidekick}}: Dan Hunter to Tomahawk, very much in the tradition of a superhero sidekick
* SouthernFriedPrivate: Kaintuck Jones. He's from the Kentucky backwoods and that's about it.
* TheSquad: Tomahawk's Rangers
* TheyCallHimSword: They call him Tomahawk!
* TipisAndTotemPoles: ''Tomahawk'' is set in the original 13 colonies during the American War of Independence, yet many of the tribes shown have totem poles, a Pacific West Coat tradition.
* ToCatchHeroesHireVillains: One of the Crown's more successful plots against Tomahawk and the Rangers involved pardoning notorious criminals -- giant strongman Bull, agile thief the Fly, a Native tracker called "the Indian", vicious pirate Captain Salt, and peerless gunman the Highwayman. They easily capture all the Rangers, including Tomahawk himself, though Tomahawk manages to lead an escape as their execution looms.
* TradingBarsForStripes: An issue of ''Tomahawk'' saw the title character assigned to lead a six-man team of infamous criminals pressed into service for the Continental Army. At first, each plotted to kill Tomahawk and escape (and two of them actually tried it). [[spoiler:Three of them died on the ensuing mission, each in such a [[HeroicSacrifice heroic fashion]] that the remaining three vowed to be good guys from that point on.]]
* WeaponizedHeadgear: Stovepipe kept a small arsenal of weapons, explosives and other items inside his hat.
* WeaponTombstone: In ''Tomahawk'' #106, the Rangers think Tomahawk is killed in an avalanche. They mark his resting place with his tomahawk and coonskin cap.
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Miss Liberty was a Revolutionary War heroine who wore a costume modeled after the Star and Stripes, making her (in-universe) the earliest flag-based costumed adventurer.
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Tomahawk was a backup feature in ''Star Spangled Comics'' from his first appearance (June 1947) to issue #130 (July 1952), and in ''World's Finest Comics'' from issue #33 (Mar. 1948) until issue #101 (May 1959). The ''Tomahawk'' series lasted 140 issues, from 1950 to 1972.
Known as either Tom Hawk or Thomas Haukins, depending on which of two versions of his published history the reader prefers, "Tomahawk" was a soldier who served under George Washington in the warfare between the British, French and Iroquois forces during the decades prior to the American Revolutionary War and acquired his nickname due to its resemblance to a trademark weapon of the Iroquois Confederacy's warriors, and to the skill he developed with that weapon.
He subsequently achieved further fame as one of Washington's most capable operatives during the Revolution itself, leading a band of soldiers under the informal nickname of "Tomahawk's Rangers".
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!!''Tomahawk'' provide examples of:
* ArchEnemy: Lord Shilling was Tomahawk's arch-enemy, though he was dead by the time the Rangers came into play.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Tomahawk's arch-enemy was the British spy Lord Shilling.
* ArmyOfTheAges: Tomahawk is dragged through time to become part of one in the 2008 ''The War That Time Forgot'' mini-series.
* AnAxeToGrind: Tomahawk's preferred weapon is his namesake axe.
* TheBerserker: Wildcat. Although originally a member of a pacifist sect, he became a wild man in combat and is the most enthusiastic member when it comes to charging into battle.
* TheBlacksmith: Big Anvil was one before the war, and still sometimes performs smithing duties in the Rangers.
* CallingCard: Lord Shilling's trademark was leaving a single shilling with a hole in the middle after a successful mission.
* CaptainEthnic: Frenchie, a non-superhero example. His thing is that he is French, and it is impossible to forget this -- he even starts wearing a beret after a while.
* CaptainPatriotic: Miss Liberty
* CattleDrive: In ''Tomahawk'' #119, Tomahawk and the Rangers have to drive a herd of steers to besieged Yankee fort that is starving.
* TheChiefsDaughter: Moon Fawn
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After the ReTool that introduced the Rangers, Tomahawk's sidekick Dan Hunter popped up less and less frequently until he disappeared entirely without explanation.
* CombatMedic: Healer Randolph
* DarkerAndEdgier: Received a pretty good Vertigo reimagining in ''Vertigo Visions: Tomahawk''.
* DawnOfTheWildWest: When the book became ''Hawk, Son of Tomahawk'', it focussed on Tomahawk's half-Indian son and was set in the early years of the 19th Century in the American midwest.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Cannonball served this role in training the Rangers, and even in the field he's always barking at them like mad.
* EvilBrit: Lord Shilling, along with numerous one-off villains. Hey, it was the Revolutionary War and the heroes were from the Colonies -- the British ''were'' the bad guys to them.
* HunterTrapper: Tomahawk and Dan Hunter
* IndianMaiden: Moon Fawn, Tomahawk's eventual wife. He first comes across her when she is bathing in a river and saves her from a bear attack. She falls in love with him and he has to prove his worthiness to her father, Chief Grey Elk.
* JustAKid: One issue's backup feature was about Brass Buttons, Stovepipe, and Dan Hunter (none of them even 20 yet) embittered by the other Rangers looking down on them because of their youth. Naturally they end up saving the day later.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Most of the members of the Rangers.
* MasterOfDisguise: Lord Shilling
* MixedAncestry: ''Hawk, Son of Tomahawk'' was the son of the Caucasian Tomahawk and the Apache Moon Fawn.
* NiceHat: Stovepipe's silk hat is his most prized possession, as it was a gift from the Rangers after the one he previously wore was damaged beyond repair.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Tomahawk's Rangers, who were essentially a Revolutionary War version of ComicBook/SgtRock's Easy Company. The members included the immensely strong Big Anvil; the dandy Brass Buttons; Cannonball, who was Tomahawk's [=2IC=]; acrobatic French sailor Frenchie; black CombatMedic Healer Randolph; sniper Long Rifle; Stovepipe who was the son of a general and carried a small arsenal in his stovepipe hat; and Wildcat, a Quaker pacifist who turned into a berserker in combat.
* {{Ranger}}: [[CaptainObvious Tomahawk's Rangers]]
* RealFakeWedding: In ''Tomahawk'' #31, a woman attempts to trick Tomahawk into marrying her by staging the wedding in a play about his life (where she has talked him into playing himself). It fails when the preacher she sent for from Boston turns out to be a bandit in disguise and has no authority to marry anyone.
* RepetitiveName: Hawk, son of Tomahawk. Especially if his given name really is Hawk, as his father's surname is Hawk.
* {{Retool}}: Tomahawk had two retools towards the end of its run. First, the comic was changed from "hey kids isn't Davy Crockett cool?" to "the ComicBook/HowlingCommandos in the Revolutionary War", with Tomahawk gaining a colorful supporting cast and a direct affiliation with the Continental Army. After about five years of that, the book (retaining the same title and numbering) jumped forward some 40 years and focused on Tomahawk's son Hawk, with the still-living Tomahawk being Hawk's mentor/sidekick. "Hawk, son of Tomahawk" didn't last too long, as the book was canceled within a year of Hawk's introduction.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker:
** Tomahawk has this ability, unerringly following a trail invisible to everyone else across a dinosaur-infested jungle in ''The War That Time Forgot'' mini-series.
** Supposedly the Rangers all have similar abilities due to Tomahawk's training, but this proves an InformedAbility that none of them ever really shows off.
* ScoobyDooHoax:
** In ''Tomahawk'' #106, the Royalist forces take advantage of Tomahawk's supposed death to create a "ghost" Tomahawk which they use to attempt to lure the Rangers into an ambush.
** The Amish or Quaker or whatever community that Wildcat was once part of built a giant man-powered stone robot to scare both sides of the Revolutionary War away from their land. Yes, you read all that correctly.
* SergeantRock: Tomahawk was this to the Rangers.
* {{Sidekick}}: Dan Hunter to Tomahawk, very much in the tradition of a superhero sidekick
* SouthernFriedPrivate: Kaintuck Jones. He's from the Kentucky backwoods and that's about it.
* TheSquad: Tomahawk's Rangers
* TheyCallHimSword: They call him Tomahawk!
* TipisAndTotemPoles: ''Tomahawk'' is set in the original 13 colonies during the American War of Independence, yet many of the tribes shown have totem poles, a Pacific West Coat tradition.
* ToCatchHeroesHireVillains: One of the Crown's more successful plots against Tomahawk and the Rangers involved pardoning notorious criminals -- giant strongman Bull, agile thief the Fly, a Native tracker called "the Indian", vicious pirate Captain Salt, and peerless gunman the Highwayman. They easily capture all the Rangers, including Tomahawk himself, though Tomahawk manages to lead an escape as their execution looms.
* TradingBarsForStripes: An issue of ''Tomahawk'' saw the title character assigned to lead a six-man team of infamous criminals pressed into service for the Continental Army. At first, each plotted to kill Tomahawk and escape (and two of them actually tried it). [[spoiler:Three of them died on the ensuing mission, each in such a [[HeroicSacrifice heroic fashion]] that the remaining three vowed to be good guys from that point on.]]
* WeaponizedHeadgear: Stovepipe kept a small arsenal of weapons, explosives and other items inside his hat.
* WeaponTombstone: In ''Tomahawk'' #106, the Rangers think Tomahawk is killed in an avalanche. They mark his resting place with his tomahawk and coonskin cap.
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Miss Liberty was a Revolutionary War heroine who wore a costume modeled after the Star and Stripes, making her (in-universe) the earliest flag-based costumed adventurer.
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