History Webcomic / TheSpecialists

* OldRetainer: He talks with Jack-Be-Nimble when he calls, since his father doesn't take them.

* SoProudOfYou: The butler tells Henry this for himself and his employer, Henry's father. It would help if it were plausible.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Kapitan Deutschland, mainly because he's supposed to be the ultimate Aryan.

* AdventurerArchaeologist - Baron Crossbo-, I mean, Johann Von Schadel

* AncestralWeapon - Subverted. Balmung, the sword of Siegfried is just a sword.

* AtomPunk - Combined with a wee bit of DieselPunk.
* BadassBoast - Max gets one after he [[spoiler:paints a star of David onto the Golem]].

* BadassLongcoat - Mark's signature trenchcoat, [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-39/ which folds out into an SS uniform when he needs to sneak around in Nazi territory!]]
* BadassNormal - Mark again, unlike the other Specialists he hasn't any superpowers.
* BerserkButton - His name is Baron Johann Von Schadel ''not'' Baron Crossbones

* BlondGuysAreEvil - Kapitan Deutschland, mainly because he's supposed to be the ultimate Aryan.
* BreakingTheBonds - When Question Mark offers to release Hartman's bonds "As a peace offering" Hartman calmly just snaps them to prove he could do it at any time.
* TheButcher - Doktor Metzger. No points for guessing what his last name means in English.

* CasanovaWannabe - Henry brags he has the chances, but not the time, and besides, he wants to have higher standards.
* ChestInsignia - Max wants to put a star of David onto the Golem but Hightower and Goetz consider it "Too controversial". [[spoiler: He finds a way around it.]]
* Myth/ClassicalMythology - The OSRD projects that created the first Specialists were codenamed [[SuperSoldier Ares]], [[PsychicPowers Athena]], [[ShockAndAwe Zeus]], [[JetPack Pegasus]] and [[SuperSpeed Hermes]].

* CoatHatMask - ? (Question Mark) ... Kind of. He has the hat and coat down (They can flip out into an SS uniform to boot!) but instead of a mask he just has a [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-41/ creepy shadow over his eyes]].
* CoDragons - Hitler is acquiring a second man who can provide him with ''ubermenschen''.
* DamselInDistress - Lady Liberty, but only in the in-universe comic books, and even then it was a daydream that Max was having so it may not count.
* {{Deconstruction}} - Of WW2 Propaganda comics like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.

* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual - The US have "The Specialists" while the Nazi's call their super-soldiers "Ubermensch"
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength - A rather gruesome example.

* DoNotCallMePaul - Inverted with Baron Crossbones who would rather you call him Johann Von Schadel.

* DrowningMySorrows - Captain Victory
* EvilTwin - Heinrich Lowe/ Kapitian Deutschland is this to Hartman Lowe/ The Brute. Though they look a lot different from each other now ...

* FanBoy - Max for Captain Victory
** AscendedFanBoy - [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-81/ Deconstructed]]. Turns out being a Specialist isn't all it's cracked up to be.
* FiveBadBand - The Ubermensch
** TheEvilGenius - Baron Johann Von Schadel/Baron Crossbones, also seems to be TheDragon to Hitler.
** TheBrute - Konstantin Hirst/Panzer.
** TheDarkChick - Magda Heller/ Die Hexe (The Witch).
** TheSixthRanger - Heinrich Lowe/Kapitain Deutschland.

* FiveManBand - The Specialists
** TheHero - Captain Victory
** TheLancer - Henry /Jack-Be-Nimble, Walter /The Bombardier
** TheBigGuy - Golem (Max's giant robot) and Hartman
** TheSmartGuy - Kate /Lightning Lass, Max
** TheChick - Lady Liberty
** TheSixthRanger - ? (Question Mark), since he isn't officially a member of The Specialists.

** TheHeart - Walter/ The Bombardier

* {{Ghostapo}} - ''and'' StupidJetpackHitler to boot.

* HumongousMecha - Max's robot, The Golem, was intended as this but turned out as PoweredArmour.
* InsistentTerminology - Henry Whitney ''The Third''
* JetPack - Walter/ The Bombardier's got one, along with a lot of miniature explosives.

* LaResistance - The French resistance show up briefly.

* MadScientist - Dr. Metzger, and too a lesser degree Dr. Smallwood and Max
* MagicVersusScience - See Ghostapo and StupidJetpackHitler
* MeaningfulName - Max's robot is called "The Golem" he's Jewish and built it to fight Nazis.

* NaiveNewcomer - The ''ubermenschen'' are properly introduced through the arrival of the Baron's new secretary.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast - Apart from Baron Crossbones, Panzer (as in Tank), Hexe (Witch) and Geist (Ghost). "Mad Doktor Metzger"'s testing facility is called ''"The Asylum"''.
* NaziNobleman - Crossbones
* NobleBigot - Jack-Be-Nimble ... probably, he's not been that "Noble" yet but he ''is'' one of the good guys.
* NotSoDifferent - The Ubermenschen and The Specialists do have a lot in common. Aside from the obvious ... y'know, superpowers. The original projects (bio-engineering for the USA and magic for the Nazis) were ineffective and created very few soldiers, so they moved on to different methods of creating them.

* OldRetainer - He talks with Jack-Be-Nimble when he calls, since his father doesn't take them.
* PlayAlongPrisoner - Hartmann. Then, LaResistance doesn't kill him out of hand.
* PoweredArmor - The Golem is probably the straightest example though Jack-Be-Nimble's running suit is technically one as well.
* PublicDomainArtifact - Balmung

* SandInMyEyes - "It's just allergies,"
* SelfRestraint - Hartmann
* SherlockScan - Mark deduces that Hartmann was a Nazi from his posture, the fact he refuses a cigarette and because only a loyal Nazi would be allowed to become a Superhuman.

* SoProudOfYou - The butler tells Henry this for himself and his employer, Henry's father. It would help if it were plausible.

** ShockAndAwe - Dr. Kate Smallwood's lightning manipulation backpack ... thingy.
** SuperSpeed - Both teams have one, The Specialists have got former Olympian Henry Whitney III/ Jack-Be-Nimble while The Ubermensch have got Max Schnell.
** IntangibleMan - Geist
** MindOverMatter - Lady Liberty and her telekinetic powers.
** {{Necromancy}} - Baron Crossbones
** SuperStrength - Captain Victory, Kaptain Deutschland, Panzer and Hartmann.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS - The official way to spell Question Mark's name is with a "?" symbol.
* {{Superhero}} - Deconstructed so very much ...
* SurvivorGuilt - Captain Victory over "PROJECT: ARES" and Lightning Lass over "PROJECT: ZEUS"

* TheyHaveTheScent - The unlucky guard dogs sent after Hartman ...

* WellDoneSonGuy - Henry. Even though his father doesn't take his calls himself.

* WreckedWeapon - When Hartmann is shot at, he breaks the gun in half.
* WolfMan - The result of Doctor Metger's first experiment.

* {{Deconstruction}} - Of WW2 Propaganda comics like CaptainAmerica.

** Hartmann has a rather more literal and defensible one: he loses control when he's in danger, and is disgusted with the violence he meets out in self-defense.

* ClassicalMythology - The OSRD projects that created the first Specialists were codenamed [[SuperSoldier Ares]], [[PsychicPowers Athena]], [[ShockAndAwe Zeus]], [[JetPack Pegasus]] and [[SuperSpeed Hermes]].

** Walter, or the Bombardier, is TheRocketeer,
** Luke, Captain Victory, is CaptainAmerica,
** Henry, Jack-Be-Nimble, is TheFlash.

** AscendedFanBoy - [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-81/ Brutally deconstructed]]. Turns out being a Specialist isn't all it's cracked up to be.

** Don't forget the Prometheus Reactor that powers the Golem!

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Goes hand in hand with the deconstruction, often with (accurately-portrayed) racism.

** We don't know a lot about Geist or Max Schnell ... yet.

** Interestingly done, too, while the first five Ubermensch (Crossbones, Geist, Hexe, Panzer and Schnell) are powered by magic and the occult Doctor Metzger's working on super-soldiers with science.

* SelfRestraint -- Hartmann

* {{Superhero}}

* TalkAboutTheWeather: Henry thinks Agnes's coming out means more than wanting to do this.

* HairOfGold - Lady Liberty.

* EyesOfGold - Hartmann's.

* EvilTwin - Heinrich Lowe/ Kapitian Deutschland is this to Hartman Lowe/ The Brute.

* CaptainPatriotic: Kapitain Deutschland, a villainous example.

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Meanwhile in America Maksim Finklestein is a young, super-clever teenager. His uncle Ida has connected him to General Hightower of the OSRD and given him a grant to create "The Golem" a heavily armed robot war machine. However, with time pressing and Max unable to program the robot's artificial brain to do anything other than talk and fall over he's forced to convert it into a suit of PoweredArmour instead.

These two men join forces with Captain Luke Jansen (Captain Victory), Agnes Deveraux (Lady Liberty), Dr. Kate Smallwood (Lightning Lass), 1st Lieutenant Walter Jones (The Bombardier) and Henry Whitney III (Jack-Be-Nimble) the only surviving test subjects of failed military experiments. But are they superheroes? Or just propaganda tools?

** [[spoiler: DoubleSubverted, Crossbones is doing ''something'' to it]]

* BadassBoast - Max gets one after he [[spoiler: paints a star of David onto the Golem]].
-->- '''Max:''' "But you know... I didn't come here to hide. I came to fight. You with me?"

*** Or maybe Hartmann as he joins the team later than the others.

** Interestingly done too, while the first five Ubermensch (Crossbones, Geist, Hexe, Panzer and Schnell) are powered by magic and the occult Doctor Metzger's working on super-soldiers with science.

-->- '''?:''' Julien wasn't kidding, [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-40/ you really are a brute.]]
* MadScientist - Docot Metzger, and too a lesser degree Dr. Smallwood and Max

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast - Apart from Baron Crossbones, Panzer (As in Tank), Hexe (Witch) and Geist (Ghost). "Mad Doktor Metzger"'s testing facility is called ''"The Asylum"''.

* NotSoDifferent - The Ubermenschen and The Specialists do have a lot in common. Aside from the obvious ... y'know superpowers. The original projects (Bio-engineering for the USA and magic for the Nazi's) were ineffective and created very few soldiers so they moved on to different methods of creating them.
** Then there's Baron Crossbones and Captain Victory preferring their real-life persona's rather than the titles given to them in comics and propaganda posters.
* OldRetainer - Who talks with Jack-Be-Nimble when he calls, since his father doesn't take them.

-->-'''Hartmann:''' Smart.
-->-'''Question Mark:''' Well I ''am'' in the intelligence business.

** SuperSpeed - Both teams have one, The Specialists have got former Olympian Henry Whitney III/ Jack-Be-Nimble while The Ubermensch've got Max Schnell.

* MeaningfulName - Max's robot is called "The Golem" he's Jewish and built it to fight Nazi's.

** TheBigGuy - Golem (Max's giant robot), and probably Hartmann/ The Brute when he actually joins the team.

* CasanovaWannabe - Henry brags he has the chances, but not the time, and besides, he wants to have higher standards.

-->- '''Mark:''' Julien wasn't kidding, [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-40/ you really are a brute.]]

In Germany a scientist known as "Mad Doctor Metzger" runs a facility known as "The Asylum" where he experiments on twins to create new, genetically engineered Ubermenschen. Hartman Lowe is the first experiment for the test, he turns into a BeastMan and Metzger orders him to be executed. He escapes, runs off into the forest and hides out in France where he's picked up by ? (Question Mark, or just Mark).

** SuperSpeed - Max Schnell and Jack-Be-Nimble

* PoweredArmor - The Golem is probably the straightest example though Jack-Be-Nimble's running suit is a good one too.

* SherlockScan - Mark deduces that Hartmann was going to be an Ubermensch because he carries himself like a soldier and because only a loyal Nazi would be allowed to become a Superhuman.