History Comicbook / WildCATS

* ContrivedCoincidence: In episode 4 of the TV Series, Daemonites plan lure Voodoo into a trap by sending her a letter to where she used to live Coincidently, Voodoo quits the team and goes to her old place and finds the letter, despite the place being abandoned.

* WhitholdingTheCure: TAO claims to have the cures for AIDS and all forms of cancer, as well as a genetic patent on a strain of corn that will end world hunger forever. He uses these as bargaining chips when he gets in trouble. [[spoiler:Majestic doesn't care.]]

* StabTheScorpion: When the Black Razor Benito Santini has to shoot shapeshifter Mr Smith, who has disguised as one of the [=WildCATs=], it seems he's going to shoot [[spoiler:Grifter]], but he shoots [[spoiler: Maul]], who was behind him.

* GambitPileup: In episode 5, the Daemonites fails to break-in one of Halo's facility to steal an x-ray device. So they place bug on an old friend of Grifter who's been released from prison. The Daemonites learn that the convict will breach Halo's facility in order to test its security. What the Daemonites don't know is that Jacob knows about the bug and has the Wild C.A.T.S. waiting for the Daemonites, once the convict finished his break-in. However, the convict has been working for the Daemonites all along since they paid for his bail. He then steals the x-ray device and gives to the Daemonites. All this is rendered moot for Helspont, because Jacob swapped the x-ray device for an explosive before the convict made his breach.

Vol. 5 lasted 30 issues (September, 2008-February, 2011). While the series has produced a number of popular characters over the years, its various spin-offs tend to be short-lived. In the 2011 ContinuityReboot of the various titles owned by DC, some of the featured characters of Wildcats were granted solo titles again.

** Warblade not only has claws like ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, but he also had a mysterious past as part of [[CyberForce Cyberdata]], which creates a parallel with Logan's Weapon-X days.

Several millennia ago, two ships crashed on Earth. The crew of one ship were Kherubims, the inhabitants of planet Khera, while the other belonged to the Daemonites from planet Daemon. During all this time, the Daemonites have been possessing human hosts and created the organisation known as the Cabal. Oppossed to them, some Kherubims and halfreed Kherubim descendants form the Wild C.A.T.s (Covert Action Team).

** Warblade was made a villain in ''ComicBook/TheNew52'' when Wildstorm merged with DC.

** Grifter is a LoveableRogue in a BadassLongcoat like Gambit. His guns substitute for Gambit's throwing cards.
** Spartan's general design and "stoic leader" attitude are similar to Cyclops.
** Voodoo had a costume and powers similar to Jean Grey, plus an interest in the stoic leader, but a different personality.
** Warblade not only has claws like Wolverine, but he also had a mysterious past as part of [[CyberForce Cyberdata]], which creates a parallel with Logan's Weapon-X days.
** Zealot was the "ninja" aspect of Psylocke, which turns her more into an ersatz of Elektra. Since her "Hand" equivalent, the Coda, were like Amazons, DC created Artemis, a Zealot ersatz, in WonderWoman.
** A non-X-Men example, Majestic is a pretty blatant copy of Superman's abilities, if not his personality.

* AdaptationalBadass: In the comic, Voodoo's only abilities are telepathy and separating Daemonites from their hosts, making her an important member, but useless in a fight until Zealot gave her some Coda training. In the cartoon, she is given Telekinesis as well, making her a much more dangerous foe right from the beginning.

* AdaptationalBadass: In the comic, Voodoo's only abilities are telepathy and separating Daemonites from their hosts, making her an important member, but useless in a fight until Zealot gave her some Coda training. In the Saturday Cartoon, she is given Telekinesis as well, making her a much more dangerous foe right from the beginning.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Several Kherubims and Daemonites have been historical characters. For example, Emp was Napoleon.

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* BadFuture: Creator/AlanMoore's ''{{Spawn}}[=/WildCATs=]'' miniseries is entirely based on this trope. Spawn and the [=WildCATs=] get thrown into the future where the world is ruled by a tyrannical super-sorcerer and most of our heroes are secretly fighting against him. The twist is that Spawn himself turns out to be the tyrant, having been given the idea by visiting this future in the first place. Our heroes manage to undo the bad future when [[spoiler: Spawn finds out one of the resistance members is actually his ex-wife's daughter, and then she dies a moment later. Spawn promises to never let that happen, which undoes the timeline]].

* BadFuture: AlanMoore's ''{{Spawn}}[=/WildCATs=]'' miniseries is entirely based on this trope. Spawn and the [=WildCATs=] get thrown into the future where the world is ruled by a tyrannical super-sorcerer and most of our heroes are secretly fighting against him. The twist is that Spawn himself turns out to be the tyrant, having been given the idea by visiting this future in the first place. Our heroes manage to undo the bad future when [[spoiler: Spawn finds out one of the resistance members is actually his ex-wife's daughter, and then she dies a moment later. Spawn promises to never let that happen, which undoes the timeline]].

** A non-X-Men example, Majestic is a pretty blatant copy of Superman's abilities, if not his powers.

* BadassAbnormal: Inverted; rather than being a BadassNormal who then gets powers, Grifter has psychic powers, but never uses them[[note]]He was a member of Team 7 before getting his powers, but then he was in a normal context, so doesn't count as Badass Normal[[/note]].

* FamousNamedForeigner: Void's real name is Adrianna Tereshkova, just like Valentina Tereshkova, who was an astronaut just like Adrianna before becoming Void.