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*GoodScarsBadScars: Elise reveals the nasty-looking scar hidden under her EyepatchOfPower, but when she does, the moment signifies character development instead of a turn towards villainy.
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* FanDisservice: Elise's brain chemistry is altered so she gets an endorphin rush when she [[spoiler: she kills people, effectively making killing feel like sex to her. She tells this to Kaluga, who reveals his severe facial tumor to her, and she kisses him.]] [[http://www.therubynation.com/comics/1804916/evil-lulz/ None of this is remotely sexy]].
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*AnachronicOrder: Very much so, with numerous flashbacks, [[DreamSequence dream sequences]], and expository journal entries.
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*EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Gregory, the machine gun-firing cyborg baboon.
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*HairTriggerTemper: Elise is far from the patient type. Some of the villains have pretty sharp tempers of their own too.
*HealingFactor: One of the many powers nanos have.
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*MeaningfulName: The Apex Unit, in which all the members are named after apex predators.
*MediumBlending: An unusual example where the mediums in question are sequential art and text. After each chapter, there is a short interlude, journal, or scrapbook instead of the usual comic intercut with a little comic art.
*MediumBlending: An unusual example where the mediums in question are sequential art and text. After each chapter, there is a short interlude, journal, or scrapbook instead of the usual comic intercut with a little comic art.
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*ShockAndAwe: Duncan has this ability.
*ShoutOut: The comic has numerous references to video games, songs, comics, TV shows, and the like.
*ShoutOut: The comic has numerous references to video games, songs, comics, TV shows, and the like.
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*SpitefulSpit: Elise spits in Moray’s face ostensibly to show she wants nothing to do with him. [[spoiler:As it turns out, she was actually spitting out a device to short out the power.]]
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*SuperStrength: A good number of characters, most notably Ruby.
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* BigBad: Dr. Tori Carcharria, who works mostly behind the scenes and lets her "children" do the dirty work.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: The villain is a mad scientist who uses unwilling test subjects, mostly the very young and very poor, to build her private army of super-soldiers. The heroes are a group of teenagers who are all emotionally broken and willing to kill if needed. The only character who sees any heroism in what they're doing is Elise, who is too naive to know otherwise. Even she's slipped into BloodKnight territory.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: The villain is a mad scientist who uses unwilling test subjects, mostly the very young and very poor, to build her private army of super-soldiers. The heroes are a group of teenagers who are all emotionally broken and willing to kill if needed. The only character who sees any heroism in what they're doing is Elise, who is too naive to know otherwise. Even she's slipped into BloodKnight territory.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Pretty much all of the cast, to varying degrees.
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* JigsawPuzzlePlot: The story forms with scenes and textual ephemera from various points in the timeline, often revealing information out-of-sequence (such as with Elise's brainwashing).
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*BewareTheNiceOnes: Ruby is [[GentleGiant compassionate and gentle]], but she’s also a force to be reckoned with.
*BloodKnight: Elise.
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* CoolShades: Jiro, to conceal his GlowingEyesofDoom[[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing Eyes of Doom]].
*{{Cyborg}}: A baboon cyborg, that is. Comes equipped with a [[MoreDakka machine gun]].
*IDidWhatIHadToDo: Jiro’s justification for [[spoiler:erasing Elise’s memories after she was brainwashed into attacking Ruby and the gang]].
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*SanitySlippage: Elise becomes progressively more unhinged as the story goes on.
*SlasherSmile: Elise does this quite a bit.
*SlasherSmile: Elise does this quite a bit.
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*TenderTears: Ruby does this early on in the comic as part of her [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Establishing Character Moment]].
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* WhamEpisode: The Insomnia Interlude, though it's not apparent until the end.
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* StatuesqueStunner: Elise (5' 10") is a more believable example, Ruby (9' 1") takes it to a fantastic degree.
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* ShutUpHannibal: Delivered by Elise via spit take.
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* NewFirstComics: A continuation of Webcomic/RubysWorld from a different perspective.
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* AxCrazy: Elise slips into this mindset during battle, due to her apparent "programming".
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* SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty: Definitely on the gritty end, due to both the art style and the subject matter.
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* TheBechdelTest: Passed repeatedly, as the cast is two-thirds female.
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* StylisticSuck: Elise's diaries are sloppily handwritten and contain very simple writing, as the character herself is not really a great author.
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* TransformationComic: In that almost all of the main characters have been genetically altered, and most of them cannot pass for normal.
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* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Averted. Those days are in the recent past for Elise, Ruby, and the others.
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* AnxietyDreams: Elise appears to suffer from these, seeing violent and provocative imagery interrupt what would otherwise be straightforward flashbacks.
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* AmericaSavesTheDay: Deconstructed. It's more like "America recruits Ruby and her crew to clean up their mess".
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* CombatTentacles: Moray's body is filled with thousands of razor-sharp nano filaments, but he tends to wield them as large columns that fit this trope.
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* MookDebutCutscene: In the prologue, a Mook overseeing the captive Elise looks at a locket with a picture of his daughter, and wonders if what he's doing to support his family is the right thing. The same Mook is later killed in a very brutal fashion to cover Moray's escape.
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* PunchClockVillain: Beagle's human guards. Crosses over with IneffectualSympatheticVillain , as most of them aren't treated as bad people, and they're basically paid to be cannon fodder against super-soldiers way out of their league.
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* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Presumably Elise suffers from this, thanks to the experiments that gave her those wings.
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Ruby talks to a psychologist towards the end of the prologue.
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* TheRainMan: Jiro, due both to his pre-existing autism and the cybernetic enhancements he received from Beagle.
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You can read the whole thing [[http://www.therubynation.com here.]]
]] It also has its own [[http://rubynation.wikispaces.com/ Wiki.]]
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* BattleCouple: Ruby and Jiro.
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A sequel of sorts to [[Ruby’s World RubysWorld]] by Neil Kapit, Ruby Nation is a long-form story-driven webcomic that intentionally deconstructs many tropes of the young adult superhero narrative. The characters around Elise, most of whom starred in Ruby’s World, are just out of high school, horribly scarred by their experiences, and grudgingly devoted to saving a world that doesn’t seem to want the help. Elise herself is more optimistic, but whether that’s due to a genuinely good heart, a complete lack of experience, or something entirely different has yet to be determined.
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A sequel of sorts to [[Ruby’s World RubysWorld]] [[RubysWorld Ruby's World]] by Neil Kapit, Ruby Nation is a long-form story-driven webcomic that intentionally deconstructs many tropes of the young adult superhero narrative. The characters around Elise, most of whom starred in Ruby’s World, are just out of high school, horribly scarred by their experiences, and grudgingly devoted to saving a world that doesn’t seem to want the help. Elise herself is more optimistic, but whether that’s due to a genuinely good heart, a complete lack of experience, or something entirely different has yet to be determined.
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Elise Sasaki-Garcia is a 17-year-old girl who’s a huge fan of anime and young adult fantasy. Having woken up with metal wings on her back, she and her friend Ruby Harrison (who has been similarly transformed, in her case into a nine-foot-tall giantess) appear to be living out one of those stories, having joined other post-human teenagers in the fight against the twisted experiments of Beagle Labs. But Elise doesn’t remember how she got her wings, and the truth about her transformation may spoil her fantasy, if not her entire existence.
A sequel of sorts to [[Ruby’s World RubysWorld]] by Neil Kapit, Ruby Nation is a long-form story-driven webcomic that intentionally deconstructs many tropes of the young adult superhero narrative. The characters around Elise, most of whom starred in Ruby’s World, are just out of high school, horribly scarred by their experiences, and grudgingly devoted to saving a world that doesn’t seem to want the help. Elise herself is more optimistic, but whether that’s due to a genuinely good heart, a complete lack of experience, or something entirely different has yet to be determined.
You can read the whole thing [[http://www.therubynation.com here.]]
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* ActionGirl: Elise and Ruby.
* AllThereInTheManual: The main action is supplemented by in-universe textual ephemera like therapy transcripts and diary pages, all of which go a long way towards fleshing out the characters' backstories.
* AnimalMotifs: All of Beagle's super-soldiers use code-names based on animals. There's Moray, two as-yet-unknown characters called Kaluga and Ratel, and apparently they refer to Elise as Bateleur.
* AmazonianBeauty: Ruby.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: The villain is a mad scientist who uses unwilling test subjects, mostly the very young and very poor, to build her private army of super-soldiers. The heroes are a group of teenagers who are all emotionally broken and willing to kill if needed. The only character who sees any heroism in what they're doing is Elise, who is too naive to know otherwise.
* BreakTheCutie: Happened to the cast in the previous strip, seems to be where Elise is headed.
* ChildSoldiers: Beagle tends to use the very young for their experiments.
* CrapSackWorld
* DecoyProtagonist: Ruby.
* TheDragon: Moray.
* GenkiGirl: Elise.
* HairDecorations: Elise's barrette, Ruby's butterfly clips.
* NaiveNewcomer: Elise.
* Nakama: The cast established one prior to Elise's arrival, and she thinks herself part of their group. Whether she is depends on who you ask.
* Nanomachines: The source of virtually all super-powers in this universe.
A sequel of sorts to [[Ruby’s World RubysWorld]] by Neil Kapit, Ruby Nation is a long-form story-driven webcomic that intentionally deconstructs many tropes of the young adult superhero narrative. The characters around Elise, most of whom starred in Ruby’s World, are just out of high school, horribly scarred by their experiences, and grudgingly devoted to saving a world that doesn’t seem to want the help. Elise herself is more optimistic, but whether that’s due to a genuinely good heart, a complete lack of experience, or something entirely different has yet to be determined.
You can read the whole thing [[http://www.therubynation.com here.]]
Tropes in this Webcomic
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* ActionGirl: Elise and Ruby.
* AllThereInTheManual: The main action is supplemented by in-universe textual ephemera like therapy transcripts and diary pages, all of which go a long way towards fleshing out the characters' backstories.
* AnimalMotifs: All of Beagle's super-soldiers use code-names based on animals. There's Moray, two as-yet-unknown characters called Kaluga and Ratel, and apparently they refer to Elise as Bateleur.
* AmazonianBeauty: Ruby.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: The villain is a mad scientist who uses unwilling test subjects, mostly the very young and very poor, to build her private army of super-soldiers. The heroes are a group of teenagers who are all emotionally broken and willing to kill if needed. The only character who sees any heroism in what they're doing is Elise, who is too naive to know otherwise.
* BreakTheCutie: Happened to the cast in the previous strip, seems to be where Elise is headed.
* ChildSoldiers: Beagle tends to use the very young for their experiments.
* CrapSackWorld
* DecoyProtagonist: Ruby.
* TheDragon: Moray.
* GenkiGirl: Elise.
* HairDecorations: Elise's barrette, Ruby's butterfly clips.
* NaiveNewcomer: Elise.
* Nakama: The cast established one prior to Elise's arrival, and she thinks herself part of their group. Whether she is depends on who you ask.
* Nanomachines: The source of virtually all super-powers in this universe.
