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4 | [[caption-width-right:300:Ant-Woman just had a bit too much redundancy for her.]] |
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6 | -> ''"I invented ''Ant'' in jail in 1996. I was convicted of robbery and sentenced to one year and probation. The event was a turning point in my life. I used to draw portraits and hot chicks on envelopes for commissary. One day around day #6 of 358, I was depressed about where my choices in life put me. I was looking out the barred window and a single ant crawled in from the outside of my window seal. I said to myself 'Man, I wish I were an ant! Then I could crawl right out of this place and start my life all over!' Well, I couldn't pull that one off, so I decided to make a homemade comic book about it. It got around and I had a little audience with my cellmates. Really built up my confidence about drawing. That's when I realized that one day I could be a comic book artist. I sent out my first submission from the county jail. I hope one day my story can be an inspiration to anybody out there who has a dream."'' |
7 | -->-- '''Mario Gully''' |
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9 | ''Ant'' is a current superhero comic series written and drawn by Mario Gully. |
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11 | Hannah Washington is an 8-year-old African-American girl who gets picked on and ridiculed on a daily basis. To escape this torment, Hannah creates the Ant, an alter-ego derived from stories she wrote in her diary. As her name implies, the Ant is a superheroine who has all the strengths (but none of the weaknesses) of an actual ant. |
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13 | As time passes and Hannah grows up, however, it's discovered that she actually ''is'' the Ant. That, and all the childhood issues she's been dealing with are actually past memories, non-existent... or something like that. |
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15 | Already somewhat unstable due to being in a mental institution, Hannah chooses to don the mantle of the Ant and discover how she came to pass, as well as taking on some supervillains along the way. |
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17 | The series received a {{Reboot}} in 2021, with Mario Gully handing over art and writing duties to [[Comicbook/SavageDragon Erik Larsen]]. |
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20 | !!The Ant comics contain examples of: |
21 | * ActionGirl: Hannah can pack quite the punch, and her Ant abilities make her even tougher. |
22 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: As a girl, Hannah was bullied by her peers at school. This contributes partially to why she imagined herself as the Ant. |
23 | * AnimalMotifs: Obviously, Hannah's is the ant. She has SuperStrength (like how an ant can lift three times its weight), can crawl on walls, wears a red suit with antennae, and can "fix" said suit by consuming sugar. Also counts as AnimalThemedSuperbeing. |
24 | * ClingyCostume: Justified. Hannah's ant costume isn't spandex, but a gathering of nanobots that form to her body, and will simply grow back even when she rips them apart. |
25 | * CreepyGood: Ant has quite the scary face and is ''very'' ruthless, but is a heroine through and through. |
26 | * {{Crossover}}: She's teamed up with Comicbook/{{Savage Dragon}} and Comicbook/{{Spawn}} in the 2021 reboot. |
27 | * EnemyMime: Jessica Mime, who dresses (quite loosely) as a mime and has a sort of "mime power" in the form of gauntlets that allow her to make various shapes in the air out of HardLight. She's an obnoxious loudmouth even by non-mime standards, though. |
28 | * {{Foil}}: The Arachnid is this to the Ant. Like the Ant, the Arachnid is a red-skinned superbeing with an insectoid [[AnimalMotifs Animal Motif]]. But the former's a [[MsFanservice curvaceous superheroine]], while the latter's a [[{{Gonk}} hideous supervillain]]. |
29 | * GoodThingYouCanHeal: Hannah has healing abilities thanks to the Ant suit. |
30 | * ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Adult Hannah, which the artists tend to accentuate with plenty of [[BoobsAndButtPose Boobs-And-Butts Poses.]] |
31 | * MindScrew: It's unclear whether the Ant is either Hannah's imaginary persona, or an actual person, but the story lends credence to both ideas. |
32 | * MsFanservice: Definitely. Hannah covers a [[MostCommonSuperpower lot]] [[HartmanHips of the]] [[BoobsAndButtPose tropes]] associated with this. |
33 | %% * NighInvulnerability: Ant's suit makes her incredibly durable, but her outfit can be destroyed after taking significant damage. |
34 | * OneWordTitle |
35 | %% * PowerUpFood: Ant can regain her suit by consuming sugar. |
36 | %% * SassyBlackWoman: She used to be a mild example of this, but {{Flanderization}} made this a straighter example. |
37 | %% * SuperArmor: Her Exoskeleton Variation, Hannah's exoskeleton is strong, but it breaks off easy. It can be reconstructed by Hannah consuming sugar. |
38 | * WallCrawl: As an ant-themed superhero, Hannah can do this. Plenty of the covers demonstrate this ability of hers. |
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