History DarthWiki / SweatshirtBrigade

* HasTwoMommies: Todd's maternal grandmother was the daughter of two noblewomen and a male concubine.

The setting is the constructed world of Fibonacci, an [[LostColony abandoned human colony]] world which rebuilt civilization from an extensive library left by one of the colonists. The colonists were able to recreate a technological level close to that of the early 90s up to the late 2000s. Politically, the planet is divided into the [[TheEmpire Meridian Empire]], the [[EagleLand The United]] [[TheFederation Federation]] [[OverlyLongName of the Allied Interdependent League of Democracies]] ([[TakeThat or]] [[FunWithAcronyms UFAILD]]), the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny People's Republic of]] [[MeaningfulName Bufferia]], TheRepublic of Shinar, and TheKingdom of [[VestigialEmpire Concord]].

* DefectorFromDecadence: Todd, Torben's friend, is an immigrant from [[TheEmpire Meridian]] and [[StartingANewLife built a new life for himself in the Federation]]. Although an aristocrat, he is of MixedAncestry and the discrimination he experienced made him resentful of his homeland. [[{{Irony}} He works as a consultant for Meridian cultural affairs and is always described as a Meridian.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Torben and his father don't see eye to eye on a lot of things, but they both share a propensity for snooping around facilities (the colonel being in special ops and Torben an urban explorer).

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Todd is the center of the LoveDodecahedron that emerged among his friends, which includes [[BiTheWay Torben]].

Sweatshirt Brigade is a conworld story project by MasterJayAM, a byproduct of too many hours of TV Tropes coupled with an attempt to deconstruct the EvilOverlordList. The lame title is a working one, but the odds of it becoming its real title are great [[StylisticSuck because it's kind of catchy]]. The series is heavily inspired from [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last Airbender]] and [[Anime/CodeGeass Code Geass]], but got its start [[TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife from TVTropes]].
Warning: Pot holes galore.

The setting is the constructed world of F66, an [[LostColony abandoned human colony]] world which rebuilt civilization from an extensive library left by one of the colonists. The colonists were able to recreate a technological level close to that of the early 90s up to the late 2000s. Politically, the planet is divided into the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Blackheart]] [[TheEmpire Meridian Empire]], the [[TheFederation The United Federation]] [[OverlyLongName of the Allied Interdependent League of Democracies]] ([[TakeThat or]] [[FunWithAcronyms UFAILD]]), the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny People's Republic of]] [[MeaningfulName Bufferia]], TheRepublic of Shinar, and TheKingdom of Madrasah.

The states can correspond roughly to the major powers during World War I, although they are technically a CultureChopSuey based mainly on Western, Latin American, and Islamic nations (as an inversion of Avatar).

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Naturally, the Empire is a genre-savvy "bad-guy-country" ruled by an [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Emperor]] whose idea of good governance is using an [[KillThePoor out of the way shanty town populated by rounded-up poor people]] [[NukeEm as a nuclear weapons test site]].
Anyway, the story is intended to follow a plot arc but be driven forward mainly by a somewhat formulaic (and heavily parodied) take on traditional hero storytelling with the genre savvy cranked up to eleven for both the heroes and the villains.

It takes place during a Cold War setting between the Empire and Federation, where a Federation Colonel is sent on a mission to create and train a foreign legion of saboteurs to destroy [[EvilOverlord the Emperor]]'s main facilities that were, as far as they know, created to aid in a potential conquest of the Federation.

His first recruit was the 18-year-old son of a deceased rebel leader (a friend of his back in the day), who is ironically, a very skilled mechanic in the Emperor's service. Ironically and conveniently, [[LesCollaborateurs he was more than happy to sell his own country out to a foreign power]], mainly because he believed in serving his nation better by overthrowing the corrupt evil overlord and his regime. [[FascistButInefficient Plus, the evil schemes and rampant corruption are costing the Imperial Treasury too much]].

Yes, it employs a FiveManBand, a RagTagBunchOfMisfits who [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin all wear hooded sweatshirts as a uniform]].

[[GadgeteerGenius The mechanic boy]] turned saboteur is the main character of the series. His name? [[TheHero Finbar MacGuffin]].

The basic formula involves the heroes going to a facility, discussing at length on how to blow it up, launch an attempt to do it that fails, followed by the hero doing one action that turns out to be a {{plan}} that succeeds Or not.

So far, the story is rather indecisive as to whether it's an honest-to-god parody of storytelling conventions and the hero genres, a parodic reconstruction grounded on the RuleOfFun or a dark deconstruction thereof. So far, the setting has been a Crapsaccharine world to say the least; it could go from PhineasAndFerb-style referential humor on one end and black comedy/dark serious drama on the other.


!!This series might contains examples of:

* AffablyEvil: The Emperor is surprisingly level-headed and is kind, if a bit distant, toward his children.
* ActionGirl: Multiple.
* DesignatedHero: Finbar might be this, given that he's by and large a [[LesCollaborateurs collaborator]] with a foreign power.
* DisappearedDad: Finbar's father had been missing and presumably killed in a failed mission to overthrow the Emperor.
* GenreSavvy: The series would be built upon it.
** DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The Emperor and Finbar would have this in spades.
** WrongGenreSavvy: From time to time.
* GenreThrowback: There should be quite a bit, seeing as the civilization in the colony was built from a single person's library.
** The Hero's surname is "MacGuffin."
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Has shades of this and CultureChopSuey
** [[TheEmpire The Blackheart Empire]]'s aesthetic would be heavily based on Imperial Austria and Britain.
** TheFederation is an amaglam of many cultures; its government and organization is a mix of that of Switzerland and the United States. Regional cultures take on different characters.
** TheKingdom Of Madrasah is based on the Islamic Golden Age and has shades of Arab, Ottoman, and Mughal architectural styles.
** Bufferia is an [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny an authoritarian]] [[PuttingOnTheReich Stalinist]] PoliceState typically run by a strongman chancellor from any of the five political parties that control its five provinces, [[CommieNazis but mainly from the socialists and the fascists]].
** [[TheRepublic Shinar]] is a DieselPunk nation with an art-deco aesthetic centered on [[LandOfOneCity an exceptionally large city]] that hearkens to both the [[Literature/TheBible the Tower of Babel]] and Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Many place and city names are named for authors and characters in literature. Those that aren't are usually named after tropes. Some are extracted from the Wiki itself.
* ThePlan: From both the villain and the hero, no less.
* ShiningCity: The Empire and the Federation have these as Capitals.

* GeorgeLucasThrowback: There should be quite a bit, seeing as the civilization in the colony was built from a single person's library.

The basic formula involves the heroes going to a facility, discussing at length on how to blow it up, launch an attempt to do it that fails, followed by the hero doing one action that turns out to be one big, well-planned XanatosGambit that succeeds Or not.

* XanatosGambit: From both the villain and the hero, no less.

Sweatshirt Brigade is a conworld story project by MasterJayAM, a byproduct of too many hours of TV Tropes coupled with an attempt to deconstruct the EvilOverlordList. The lame title is a working one, but the odds of it becoming its real title are great [[StylisticSuck because it's kind of catchy]]. The series is heavily inspired from [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last Airbender]] and [[CodeGeass Code Geass]], but got its start [[TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife from TVTropes]].

** [[TheRepublic Shinar]] is a DieselPunk nation with an art-deco aesthetic centered on [[LandOfOneCity an exceptionally large city]] that hearkens to both the [[TheBible the Tower of Babel]] and Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

** Bufferia is an [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny an authoritarian]] [[PuttingOnTheReich militaristic]] PoliceState typically run by a strongman chancellor from any of the five political parties that control its five provinces, [[CommieNazis but mainly from the socialists and the fascists]].

** Bufferia is an [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny an authoritarian]] [[PuttingOnTheReich militaristic]] PoliceState typically run by a strongman chancellor from any of the five political parties that control its five provinces, [[CommieNazis but mainly the socialists and the fascists]].

** Bufferia is an [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny an openly authoritarian]] [[PuttingOnTheReich militaristic state]] typically run by a strongman chancellor from any of the five political parties that control its five provinces, [[CommieNazis but mainly the socialists and the fascists]].

** [[TheRepublic Shinar]] is a DieselPunk nation centered on [[LandOfOneCity an exceptionally large city]] that hearkens to both the [[TheBible the Tower of Babel]] and Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Many place and city names are named for authors and characters in literature. Those that aren't are usually named after tropes. Some are extracted from the Wiki itself.

** TheKingdomOfMadrasah is based on the Islamic Golden Age and has shades of Arab, Ottoman, and Mughal architectural styles.
* ShiningCity: The Empire and the Federation have this.

The basic formula involves the heroes going to a facility, discussing at length on how to blow it up, an attempt to do it that almost fails, and the hero doing one action that turns out to be one big, well-planned XanatosGambit. Or not.

The setting is the constructed world of F66, an abandoned human colony world which rebuilt civilization from an extensive library left by one of the colonists. The colonists were able to recreate a technological level close to that of the early 90s up to the late 2000s. Politically, the planet is divided into the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Blackheart]] [[TheEmpire Meridian Empire]], the [[TheFederation The United Federation]] [[OverlyLongName of the Allied Interdependent League of Democracies]] ([[TakeThat or]] [[FunWithAcronyms UFAILD]]), the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny People's Republic of]] [[MeaningfulName Bufferia]], TheRepublic of Shinar, and TheKingdom of Madrasah.

Yes, it employs a FiveManBand, a RagTagBunchOfMisfits who [[CaptainObvious all wear hooded sweatshirts as a uniform]].

So far, the story is rather indecisive as to whether it's an honest-to-god parody of storytelling conventions and the hero genres, a parodic reconstruction grounded on the RuleOfFun or a dark deconstruction thereof. So far, the setting has been a Crapsaccharine world to say the least that could go from PhineasAndFerb-style referential humor on one end and black comedy/dark serious drama on the other.

Naturally, the Empire is a genre-savvy "bad-guy-country" ruled by an Emperor whose idea of good governance is using an [[KillThePoor out of the way shanty town populated by rounded-up poor people]] [[NukeEm as a nuclear weapons test site]].

The states correspond roughly to the major powers during World War I, although they are technically a CultureChopSuey based mainly on Western, Latin American, and Islamic nations (as an inversion of Avatar). Naturally, the Empire is a genre-savvy "bad-guy-country" ruled by an Emperor whose idea of good governance is using an [[KillThePoor out of the way shanty town populated by rounded-up poor people]] [[NukeEm as a nuclear weapons test site]].

Anyway, the story is intended to follow a plot arc but be driven forward mainly by a somewhat formulaic (and heavily parodied) take on traditional hero storytelling with the genre savvy cranked up to eleven for both the heroes and the villains. It takes place during a Cold War setting between the Empire and Federation, where a Federation Colonel is sent on a mission to create and train a foreign legion of saboteurs to destroy [[EvilOverlord the Emperor]]'s main facilities that were, as far as they know, created to aid in a potential conquest of the Federation.

I'd fill this up to be more descriptive, but I've work in the morning.

The setting is the constructed world of F66, an abandoned human colony world which rebuilt civilization from an extensive library left by one of the colonists. The colonists were able to recreate a technological level close to that of the early 90s up to the late 2000s. Politically, the planet is divided into the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Blackheart]] [[TheEmpire Meridian Empire]], the [[TheFederation The United Federation]] [[OverlyLongName of the Allied Interdependent League of Democracies]] ([[TakeThat or]] [[FunWithAcronyms UFAILD]]), the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny the People's Republic of]] [[MeaningfulName Bufferia]], TheRepublic of Shinar, and TheKingdom of Madrasah.

Sweatshirt Brigade is a conworld story project by MasterJayAM, a byproduct of too many hours of TV Tropes coupled with an attempt to deconstruct the EvilOverlordList. The lame title is a working one, but the odds of it becoming its real title are great [[StylisticSuck because it's kind of catchy]]. The series is heavily inspired from [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last Airbender]] and [[CodeGeass]], but got its start [[TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife from TVTropes]].

[[GadgeteerGenius The mechanic boy]] turned saboteur is the main character of the series. His name? [[TheHero Finbar]] [[MacGuffin]].