->''"I took TheAuthority and I stripped out all the plots, logic, character and sanity. (...) It’s an absolute distillation of the superhero genre. No plot lines, characters, emotions, nothing whatsoever. It’s people posing in the street for no good reason. It is people getting kicked, and then exploding. It is a pure comic book, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. And afterwards, [[MadeOfExplodium they will explode]]."''
--->--'''WarrenEllis'''


Warren Ellis & Stuart Immonen's irreverent parody of {{Super Team}}s, which featured five relatively obscure {{Super Hero}}es fighting the forces of H.A.T.E. , a [[HeroesRUs S.H.I.E.L.D-style organization]] who was discovered to be in league with the Beyond Corporation, the current incarnation of their former rivals, [[NebulousEvilOrganization S.I.L.E.N.T.]] ([[FunWithAcronyms Who doesn't love a good acronym]]?)

'''The Team Consisted of:'''
*Monica Rambeau (Formerly known as Captain Marvel and Photon): The leader of the group. She used to lead [[Comicbook/TheAvengers The Avengers]], and reminds her teammates of this fact at every available opportunity.
*Tabitha Smith (formerly known as Boom-Boom & Meltdown): A trailer-trash klepto with the "mutant powers of blwing stuff up and stealing all your stuff" (actual description). Her theft of the Beyond Corporation's Marketing Plan provided the impetus for the team to leave the employ of H.A.T.E.
*Aaron Stack (formerly known as X-51 & Machine Man): A surly, alcoholic, robotic {{Jerkass}}. Ended up as EnsembleDarkhorse for precisely those reasons.
*Elsa Bloodstone: Daughter of a famous monster hunter, she was the series' resident ActionGirl.
*The Captain (Formerly known as CaptainPower, CaptainRon, [[ChurchOfTropology Captain L. Ron]], Captain Universe, Captain Ultra, Captain Avenger, Captain Avalon, CaptainMarvel, Captain ☠☠☠☠, and various others before finally giving up): An idiot from Brooklyn who received his powers from benevolent aliens while drunkenly stumbling home. Subversion of TheGoodCaptain and frequent victim of TheWorfEffect. The only member of Nextwave created specifically for the series.

The series ran for 12 issues, with each story arc being two issues long (although a case can be made for the final arc actually being four issues long). Plot wasn't a high priority, and served mostly as an excuse for the team to beat things up and cause things to explode.

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!!This series provided examples of:

*ActionGirl: Elsa Bloodstone is capable of kicking anything's ass. ''Anything''. Even if it doesn't have an ass.
*AffectionateParody: Imagine every single comic book trope ever created subverted or lampshaded to hell, but adding in tons of RuleofFunny and RuleofCool to it.
*AlternateContinuity: WordOfGod states that the events of this series did not occur in the MarvelUniverse, but references to the series have crept into mainstream Marvel continuity. [[WarrenEllis Alternative W.O.G.]] states that this was the only series taking place in the MarvelUniverse, and all the others featured "Anal Skrulls." (Now that the Marvel U is caught up in ''Secret Invasion'', make of that sentence what you will.)
** A later, more [[SeriousBusiness serious]] Marvel Comic said that the heroes of Nextwave were given FakeMemories, explaining both the inconsistencies in their childhood flashbacks, and all the weirdness and out-of-character behavior that was actually shown in the book.
** From what we've seen, rather than been told: Monica Rambeau showed up in ''MarvelCivilWar'', wearing her Nextwave outfit, but she never had any lines so who knows. Aaron Stack has become a major supporting cast member in ''Ms. Marvel'', wearing his Nextwave outfit, showing behavior totally in line with his portrayal in Nextwave, and then appeared as the hero of ''MarvelZombies 3'' again in full Nextwave mode, and making references to the events of ''Nextwave'' and his memories of his teammates, so it seems that Nextwave ''is'' in continuity now (or at least a frequently mind-scrambled robot's perception of it is).
** There was also a single line in one of the early {{Runaways}} comics, where the Pride were discussing their plans and the "Nextwave Project".
*** Another example comes in an {{X-Men}} Comic where Tabitha throws a tantrum over her defeat at the hands of a nobody supervillain. "Where does she get off blowing me up! I was in X-Force! I was in Nextwave!". Hank is less than impressed.
** The best answer is probably that Nextwave wasn't supposed to be in-continuity, but it was so beloved by creators and fans alike that they put it in anyway.
*** Making the limited series version of an EnsembleDarkhorse.
*BadassLongcoat: The "Nextwave outfit" consists ''only'' of a BadassLongcoat thrown over whatever superhero costume/civilian duds the team members happen to be wearing.
* BeyondTheImpossible: Put it this way: if a ''Nextwave'' animated series were to be made, it would be Western animation's answer to ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. Except funnier.
*{{BFG}}: the extremely... [[FreudWasRight suggestive looking]] Armageddon Horn.
*BiggerOnTheInside: the team aircraft the Shockwave Rider, explicitly kept that way by AppliedPhlebotinum which is later damaged, forcing a hurried bail-out.
*CallingYourAttacks: Monica Rambeau has developed this somewhat {{Animesque}} habit.
-->"MICROWAVE STORM!"
** The Captain also has a special, ultimate attack. It's called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Kick!"]].
*TheCaligula: Dirk Anger. [[AxCrazy Barking mad]], momma's dress-wearing, Russian Roulette-playing Dirk Anger.
*CatchPhrase: "Fleshy one." "Kick.'Splode." "Tick tick tick boom." "My robot brain needs beer."
* CharacterDerailment: Everyone except for The Captain, and he was created for this series. [[TropesAreNotBad But none of us are complaining.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Played with in an issue.
** It had been a long night for the Nextwave Squad. One of them finally had his turn at winning. One even got a Character Moment. You can be damn sure we won't let **** like that happen again!
* CombatStilettos: Elsa Bloodstone.
* CrazyAwesome: this is a series in which out-of-character established superheroes [[AndZoidberg and the Captain]] blow things up while being pursued by a Nick Fury spoof in an airship made from ''submarines welded together''.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: The below mentioned childhood trauma? ''Hilarious.''
** Also, evil beam-shooting Stephen Hawkings getting massacred by the team
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Tabby
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: At least one per issue. Usually more.
* TheDitz: Tabby Smith
-->"I ''hate'' cops! Because, like, cops keep ''arresting'' me and stuff? For ''stealing?'' Like stealing's a ''crime'' or something?"
** Becomes CrazyAwesome when she [[spoiler:defeats Forbush-Man and his mind control powers because she ''[[TooDumbToFool has no mind to control]]''.]]
*DoAnythingRobot: Aaron contains pretty much every conceivable sharp pointy object ever made within his body. Read the trope article and become enlightened.
*{{Expy}}: Dirk Anger, H.A.T.E, and S.I.L.E.N.T are stand-ins for Nick Fury, SHIELD, and HYDRA, respectively. (Warren Ellis wanted to use the originals, but was shouted down. After seeing what he did with them, that's kind of a relief.)
** Although Brian Bendis & John Hickman later recycled the idea, making both SHIELD and the goofier version of HYDRA sub-divisions of a larger HYDRA network; presumably, Marvel editors refused the earlier idea not because they were afraid of it... but afraid of Ellis.
*FlashbackCut (mostly used to illustrate childhood trauma, and almost all totally at odds with established Marvel [[{{Canon}} canon]]).
**"...Special Bear?"
*FlyingBrick: The Captain's powers, which even he refers to as his "generic set of super-hero abilities".
*FunWithAcronyms
* TheGoodCaptain: Naturally, The Captain is a spoof of this
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
--> '''Tabby:''' They shot their muck all over meee!\\
'''Aaron:''' Like that's never happened before.
* GirlsNeedRoleModels Averted in that despite the team's gender balance being skewed towards female, none of them are terribly good role models. Monica comes across as a TedBaxter, Tabitha is an IdiotHero and Elsa [[EgomaniacHunter seems to just be there for the killing.]] That said, they're paragons of decency compared to the ''guys.''
* HandsomeLech: [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat "I analyze your every word, identifying subconscious speech patterns]] [[SophisticatedAsHell that betray your poorly hidden lust for my rock-hard robot body..."]] -- If it's possible for a misanthropic robot to be one, Aaron Stack is it.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood - Elsa Bloodstone.
* HumongousMecha - Beyond Corporation's Ultra Samarai Seed turns people into one.
* InfantImmortality - Hilariously subverted with [[spoiler: Baby Modok.]]
* KillerRabbit: Drop bears. "Widdle cuddly bears of DEATH!?"
* KleptomaniacHero: Tabitha.
*MadeOfExplodium: "Oh my God, they '''explode'''. My life has taken on new meaning."
*{{Narrator}}: The Captions served mostly to [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on the tropes being employed here. The captions also have NoFourthWall -- at one point, they pop up to indicate that the current panel showing the Shockwave Rider was inserted precisely so people could crop it out and use it as signature/avatar images on message boards.
*LeetLingo: Tabby often uses Net acronyms when speaking out loud. "'Zomg'?"
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: the third story features such wonderful creations as the man-eating drop bears and samurai robots. Bloodstone destroys an army of the latter with ''a shovel''.
*PowerWalk - The Nextwave team does this at the end of one comic.
*{{Reconstruction}}: Ellis' earlier TheAuthority was basically the JLA without all that pesky ThouShallNotKill nonsense. As indicated by the page quote, Nextwave is pretty much that, except with lots more irreverent parodies of the Marvel universe and [[UnderStatement much more explosions]].
*RefugeInAudacity
*RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: All of the Nextwave cast members (save for The Captain, who was created for the comic). Oh, and [[spoiler:Forbush Man]].
* RobotBuddy: Aaron would be a subversion.
--> '''Aaron:''' I could make you pregnant.\\
'''Elsa:''' Not unless you could do it from over there, Clanky.\\
'''Aaron:''' I am full of very useful devices.
* RuleOfCool: When the aforementioned samurai robots appear, Elsa Bloodstone realizes that her handguns aren't ''nearly'' cool enough to defeat them, so she drops them and fights with only a shovel.
** It is of note that Elsa decided upon this because [[GunsAreWorthless samurai robots beat guns. No question]].
*RuleOfFunny (or CharacterDerailment, depending on who you talk to)
* ShoutOut / TakeThat: "DO YOU THINK THIS LETTER ON MY CHEST STANDS FOR AMERICA?"
** Also the memorable "[[MarvelCivilWar Millar licks goats.]]"
*SenselessViolins - Elsa Bloodstone keeps her arsenal of guns in a guitar case.
*SignatureStyle
*SplashPanel (a page from the penultimate issue is used as an example of the trope)
**More precisely, six pages.
*SternChase
*StuffBlowingUp: Lots of it. Everywhere.
*StylisticSuck The minds of the characters get projected into alternate universes with crappy art and [[{{Wangst}} Wangsty]] writing by [[spoiler:Forbush Man.]]
**The art styles in the Alternate realities are {{Shout outs}} To Paul Pope, Daniel Clowes, Mike Mignola.
*TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Number None, really a baby M.O.D.O.K. in disguise, was the Giant Floating Head Behind The Man for Dirk Anger...and then he turned out to be an underling of Devil Dinosaur]]
*TheUndead: [[spoiler:Dirk Anger's suicidal retirement is not accepted by H.A.T.E.]]
*UnsoundEffect
-->'''Monica:''' Aaron, help them.
*WriterOnBoard: Writer Warren Ellis' well known distaste for superhero comics is evident, but is funny rather than annoying.
**More like distaste for the current age of comics and the DarkAgeofComics. This is just as much an AffectionateParody as it is an insult.
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