Nothing-Man is a superhero comic created by John Rhodes and co-written by Rhodes and N.S. Kane. It is published by Rhodes' Hyperverse Comics and crowdfunded via Kickstarter.
Once, Zane was set to become the world's greatest hero Hyperious, but his jealous brother Supremous infected him with a virus that turned him into the supervillain Insidious instead. As Insidious, he committed countless horrible acts before the government managed to bring him down, leaving him an amnesiac... which left the government with no way to stop Supremous when he went rogue alongside an army of other Hyperoids. Abandoned in the wilderness, Zane must join forces with a group of rogue Hyperoids like Diana and Firecracker in order to take down his older brother and save Paradise City.
This miniseries has a number of spin-offs, including Fat Girl and The Last Owling.
This series contains examples of:
- Amnesiac Hero: At the start of the series, Zane has no memory of who he is. He doesn't even know his real name until several issues in.
- Big Brother Bully: Zane's twin brother Heath was always cruel to him and their sister Hannah when they were growing up. As Supremous, he's only gotten worse.
- Boom, Headshot!: This is how Supremous finally dies, with Nothing-Man blasting him in the head.
- Clothing Damage: Firecracker frequently ends up naked, or close to it, because her powers burn most of the clothing from her body. In the seventh issue, Diana finally makes her a fire-resistant costume, but it still doesn't last very long.
- Death by Childbirth: Hera Webb, the mother of both Hyperious and Supremous, died giving birth to their little sister Hannah, who grew up to be Chaotika.
- Depraved Bisexual:
- Firecracker cheerfully ogles both Hyperious and Diana. She eventually ends up falling for Diana.
- The Coalition has fed Chaotika false memories of wild nights of drinking and debauchery with both men and women to cover up their experiments on her.
- Differently Powered Individuals: In the Hyperverse, Hyperoids are god-like humanoids with superpowers. There's also Hyprids, who are the product of Hyperoids breeding with regular humans.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: The only person Heath Webb ever genuinely loved was his mother Hera. Her death while giving birth to his sister Hannah was his Start of Darkness.
- Eye Beams: In the final issue, the newly-christened Nothing-Man blasts off Supremous' head with eye beams.
- Fiery Redhead: Subverted with Firecracker, whose hair is only red when she's using her powers; otherwise it's purple. On the other hand, she does have the requisite hot temper.
- Heel–Face Turn: In the final issue, Chaotika decides to help out the heroes against Supremous and rallies the other Coalition supers to her side.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the finale, the Coalition launches a bomb strong enough to kill all Hyperoids in the area, as well as anyone else in the state. To save everyone, Nothing-Man intercepts the bomb and flies it out of the atmosphere, saving everyone but killing himself in the process.
- An Ice Person: Wynter, one of the Coalition goons, has ice powers.
- Kill It with Fire: Firecracker burns Stormchild alive in revenge for the latter torturing her.
- Legacy Hero: The original Hyperious was Zane and Heath's father. Zane was supposed to succeed him, but Heath got jealous and infected him with a virus that turned him into the supervillain Insidious.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Firecracker's real name remains unknown until the penultimate issue. It's Danielle.
- Restraining Bolt: The only thing keeping Chaotika under the Coalition's control is an implant in her forehead that controls her and feeds her false memories to cover up the Coalition's experiments on her.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: In the final issue, after the battle has been won and the surviving hyperoids and hyprids are making a temporary truce, Firecracker decides to burn Stormchild alive, because she hasn't forgotten how Stormchild tortured her and Diana and doesn't trust anyone who would switch sides so easily.
- Self-Made Orphan: Supremous killed his father on his way up the ranks.
- Sequel Hook: The final issue sets up a new series, Hellcats.
- Spin-Off: This series spawned a number of spin-off miniseries, including Fat Girl and The Last Owling.
