History Crossed / TropesTToZ

** [[InsaneAdmiral Leland Barnes]] in ''Grave New World''.

** The man in the penthouse Steve was working as a bodyguard for on C-Day.

* UriahGambit: In the first issue of "Grave New World", one of the children in Captain Barnes' group says that [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist leader]] killed Melissa and Leo, two other members of the group, for breaking his rule against anyone having sex. Another kid protests that Barnes only sent them out on a scavenging mission, with the first kid replying that this is a DistinctionWithoutADifference. The beginning of the next issue shows Melissa and Leo finding a barge loaded with valuable supplies. Melissa wants to use it to get accepted back by Barnes while Leo recognizes that Barnes sent them to die in the first place and never wants to see him again. [[spoiler:This disagreement leads to Melissa striking Leo with a hatchet]].

** Leland Barnes in ''Grave New World''.
** [[TheMafiya Matthias]], a Russian gangster turned Crossed, of ''Conquers All''.

* In ''The Thin Red Line'', during the early hours of the pandemic, outbreaks are mentioned to have taken place in France (specifically in Aix-en-Provence, a suburb of Marseille), Chad, Pakistan and South Africa (specifically Capetown, which got bad enough fast enough that the British Embassy requested permission to evacuate) but none are further elaborated upon.

** Pakistan is mentioned by a white supremacist militia as having been wiped out as well, but it's unclear if this is in fact true. ''The Thin Red Line'' claims India did not retaliate and a former CNN reporter claims to the protagonists of Volume 1 the same.

** The fate of Captain Juneaux's military A-team in the original series. Though a few of them were killed in the emergency landing of their helicopter and Juneaux himself was badly injured, as shown in the flashback, the remainder of the unit survived. Forced by Juneaux to abandon him, their ultimate fate is unknown. However, with their equipment and military training, their odds of survival, at least in the short term, would be better than that of most other survivors.

** The fates of most of the soldiers and civilians Wentz and Land encounter in San Diego aren't shown, and it's unclear if any of them were on the Sea Star or any of the other ships that might have made it out.

* VillainProtagonist: Any Crossed or villain who ends up being the focal character of the story arc qualifies.

** Steve, from ''Homo Superior''.

** [[GeniusBruiser Smokey]], the Alpha Crossed from ''The Quisling'', shows up as the main character in #93-100 of ''Badlands'', with the entire story revolving around him trying to build a new civilization of "Super-Crossed" during C-Day.
** Smokey, Harold and Barnes put the emphasis on the villain part of this more than the protagonist.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity:
** Wentz (before C-Day, and after it as well, although by then he’s less of a villain), [[spoiler: Robbie Greer]] and Bailey, if you see his actions as villainous and not falling under IDidWhatIHadToDo.

** Of course, the alternative put before him was mercy-killing his wife before the Crossed got her, so he tried to take a different option and failed.

** Chapter 24 of the second volume of ''Wish You Were Here'' reveals that [[spoiler:Aoileann's group of Crossed has Seline.]]
** [[spoiler:A crippled Jackson commits suicide]] in Chapter 24 of the third volume in order to prevent the Crossed from either killing him or turning him. And at the very end, it is revealed that [[spoiler:the Gamekeeper still lives.]]

** The anti-survivalist aspect of the story is far from constant, but it comes up repeatedly, from the original series to the "Wish You Were Here" webseries to the "Lesser of Two Evils" arc in Badlands. (In "The Lesser of Two Evils," the group of survivors is explicitly undone by poorly-chosen advice from an {{Expy}} of Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide.) The point that the authors come back to again and again is that rather than being decisively non-human like standard Zombies, the Crossed are just exaggerations of humanity's worst traits ... and those traits will always be lurking inside the fences protecting the would-be "good guys" in an apocalyptic survival scenario.

* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Chanice wants her BloodKnight father Des to spend more time with her, but is rarely willing to admit it. [[spoiler:When Des dies halfway through the final volume, she doesn't take it well]].

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Rab and Don, who don’t agree on anything, ever, according to Shaky (at least until later in the series). Given how little they get along (and how ambitious Don is) it's actually a little surprising that neither ever tries to force the other out of power.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The First Child is a 14-year-old whose first onscreen act is to rape a man after being encouraged by his parents (who ''aren't even'' Crossed), even slapping him for saying he wants to do it instead of doing it.

* UnreliableNarrator: As communications broke down extremely quickly, it's only to be expected that the survivors would have fragmentary and contradicting information about the world at large. One notable example is the fate of Pakistan, as in ''Quisling'' a white supremacist militia tells Oliver (gleefully) that Pakistan was erased in a nuclear holocaust. However, in the original series a person claiming to be a former CNN journalist said that the Indians had not retaliated against the Pakistanis despite New Delhi being nuked. [[spoiler: Which is confirmed in The Thin Red Line.]]

** Shaky does this so many times in ''Wish You Were Here' that recording it all down at once would take the better part of an hour. For context, by inadvertently causing Aoileann to get infected and then not having the courage to put her down he probably dooms more people to death and/or infection than Oliver and Cody combined, and that’s not even counting various minor screw ups and errors or judgment throughout the series.

** Randall from Volume One, by setting the seeds for Cindy’s group to go to Alaska -which led them to encounter Horsecock and Ann Cooke- then getting infected and attacking their paramedic.

** The fate of Captain Juneaux's military A-team in the original series. Though a few of them were killed in the emergency landing of their helicopter and he himself was badly injured, as shown in the flashback, the remainder of the unit survived. Forced by Juneaux to abandon him, their ultimate fate is unknown. However, with their equipment and military training, their odds of survival, at least in the short term, would be better than that of most other survivors.

** A few members of Cody's group (notably the passengers in Karen's car) aren't actually seen being killed or infected on screen, although their odds aren't good.
** For a nonhuman example, most of the survivors who reached Cody's bunker came their by car, yet there's no sign of those cars in the next issue, when they have to abandon the bunker and only people who can drive stick can serve as getaway drivers for the classic cars that were stored in the bunker since before C-Day.

-->'''Rab''': Och-- It's not that you're ''selfish'' exactly... it's more that you'll always act from the point ay view of the ''self''-- Y'know? It's different. You cannae ''share''. You cannae ''empathise''. You cannae even ''conceive'' of a world that wouldnae ''benefit'' from having ''you'' in it.

*** Harry all but states that by the time he and his team have met Father Dennis and his charges five years post C-Day, the British government and military have ceased to exist, with any continuity of government facilities and military bases long overrun. Even if Gerry or any of the men of his squadron are alive and uninfected, its unlikely they are still acting as soldiers of the British Army anymore. Same applies to all the personnel in Brown's bunker.

* TechnicianVsPerformer: Shaky and Tabitha interestingly zigzag this in their first conversation. Tabitha clearly enjoys making artwork, with a very performer-esque demeanor, but she often writes over her (very good) old drawings without showing them to anyone, and claims that art doesn't have to be seen to matter. Shaky is generally more clinical and detached when it comes to his work, and says [[BitingTheHandHumor: he isn't a real artist because he only wrote comic books for money]]. But he also admits that his art, particularly his diary, probably matters to him because he wants people to read it and know about him, which is a mentality better suited for a performer than a technician.

* UncertainDoom: The bunker from ''The Thin Red Line'' arc is still operational by the end of the story arc and [[spoiler: most of]] the personnel inside left alive and uninfected. However, it is shown that the facility's perimeter is littered with Crossed corpses, indicating that the Crossed have located it. Based on prior history of the Crossed, more will be attracted by the gunfire. By the time of ''The Fatal Englishman'' arc five years later, Harry states that the British government and military are essentially defunct, with no bases left. Like Darwin from ''Psychopath'' said:

* UndignifiedDeath: The series has quite a few (often combined with CruelAndUnusualDeath), especially on the covers, but a notable one which the Crossed don't participate in is Wentz's henchman/porno actor Donnie. When Land arrives at Wentz's mansion looking for Wentz's crew, he finds everyone gone or infected except for a half-naked Donnie. After realizing that [[PapaWolf Land]] is there to avenge his daughter, Donnie goes [[AintTooProudToBeg from saying that Wentz and the others are in Catalina and might be dead]] to saying that [[JerkassHasAPoint a guy like Land could survive this if he just heads for the hills rather than going after people who might get killed anyway]] to [[NightmareFetishist talking about how Land can repopulate the Earth by impregnating as many women as possible]] and [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating at the mental image]] at which point [[BatterUp Land smashes his head in with a baseball bat]].

* UncertainDoom: The bunker from ''The Thin Red Line'' arc is still operational by the end of the story arc and [[spoiler: most of]] the personnel inside left alive and uninfected. However, it is shown that the facility's perimeter is littered with Crossed corpses, indicating the Crossed have located it. Based on prior history of the Crossed, more will be attracted by the gunfire. By the time of ''The Fatal Englishman'' arc five years later, Harry states that the British government and military are essentially defunct, with no bases left. Like Darwin from ''Psychopath'' said:

* UncertainDoom: The bunker from ''The Thin Red Line'' arc is still operational by the end of the story arc and [[spoiler: most of]] the personnel inside left alive and uninfected. However, it is shown that the facility's perimeter is littered with Crossed corpses, indicating the Crossed have located it. Based on prior history of the Crossed, more will be attracted by the gunfire. Like Darwin from ''Psychopath'' said:

* UncertainDoom: The bunker from The Thin Red Line arc is still operational by the end of the story arc and [[spoiler: most of]] the personnel left alive and uninfected. However, it is shown that the facility's perimeter is littered with Crossed corpses, indicating the Crossed have located it. Like Darwin from Psychopath said: "The Crossed overrun anything that stands still."

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* YankTheDogsChain: Very often. One of the worst examples is in the Gavin Land arc, when a mother trying to defend her children with just a rolling pin gets a HopeSpot when soldiers arrive at the house, only to realize that they're infected.