Die-Cut vs G-Force is a 1993 comic book miniseries from the Marvel UK imprint of Marvel Comics. It's written by John Freeman and illustrated by John Royle and Tim Perkins, with color art by Euan Peters.
The story is set in the shared Marvel Universe, with most of the characters linked to other Marvel UK books.
Die-Cut is a robot-hating antihero, an alien genius with a huge blade grafted to one arm. He can cut through anything, including spacetime itself.
Professor Daniel Jones is a physicist who's studying wormholes and superstring theory. He's just joined Mys-Tech, a nefarious organisation led by evil, immortal sorcerers, who are now sending him through an artificial wormhole with a squad of their "Warhead" mercenaries. They've kitted him out in what's basically a hi-tech superhero suit for the occasion, to help keep him alive.
Jones - who's not yet the titular G-Force - and Die-Cut are about to cross paths for the first time. An encounter that will end with them saving the Earth (and a few other worlds) from an army of Cyberdrones and a sentient bomb.
The first issue was released September 21, 1993.
Die-Cut vs G-Force includes the following tropes:
- Assimilation Plot: Acquiring the long-lost gestalt bomb ("the primary artefact") and the activator will allow the Cyberdrones to start assimilating their organic victims instead of just killing them.
- The Chessmaster: The Time Guardian is manipulating events to guide Daniel towards his future as G-Force.
- Hive Mind: The Cyberdrones have a robotic hive mind. Anyone they assimilate is connected to it.
- Miss Exposition: Duran, one of the civilians caught up in the slaughter on Hskelos, recognises Die-Cut and immediately spends a whole page explaining his history to her friend Salba. A page later her role in the story ends.
- The Mole: Daniel's been warned about Mys-Tech and he's infiltrating them, not loyal to them.
- People Puppets: The activator takes control of Die-Cut's body, but not his mind. He's still able to speak when under its control.
- Robot War: The Cyberdrones have been fighting other races for several million years. At the start of the story they drop out of the sky over Hskelos and start killing the population.
