Cochise: This is your plan, Swan? We seriously gonna try an' spring Ajax?
Swan: No. We are going to spring him.
Swan: No. We are going to spring him.
The Warriors: Jailbreak is a four-issue comic book series written by Erik Henriksen and published by Dynamite Comics. It serves as a sequel to the Cult Classic movie The Warriors.
Taking place a few month after the events of the movie, the comic follows what happened to the Warriors after the events of the movie and sees them coming up with a plan to bust Ajax from prison.
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- A Day in the Limelight: Rembrandt gets considerable focus here, being the one who gets Swan to decide to spring Ajax out, and getting his own subplot involving his art teacher.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The flashback at the beginning shows Swan was chosen by Cleon to be his war-chief after he defeated Ajax in a fist fight to decide who it would be.
- Bittersweet Ending: The Warriors succeed in springing Ajax out (along with two of the Riffs) and while many of their members may have been injured, no one has died. Ajax accepts Swan as Warchief, Rembrandt chooses to stay with the Warriors and declines an offer from his art teacher, though he vows to keep pursuing art and Mercy moves back to Coney and rekindles her relationship with Swan. However, although they worked together to pull off the jailbreak, Masai's dialogue to Swan indicates he now sees the Warriors as a threat and points out that any form of unification ultimately died with Cyrus.
- Enemy Mine: The Warriors team up with the Gramercy Riffs to bust Ajax out, as the Riffs also have two of their own locked up in the same detention center. Emphasized at the end, when Masai declines Swan's proposal that they stay aligned like Cyrus had envisioned.
Masai: You should know better than anybody that Cyrus is dead. And whatever dreams he had died with him.
- Honor Before Reason: Swan never liked Ajax and Ajax never had much respect for Swan, but even though it's a massive risk Swan decides to spring him from prison, because Warriors "never leave another Warrior behind."
- The Lancer: Cochise seems to have taken the role of second-in-command now that Swan is the leader of the Warriors, as he's the one Swan entrusts to lead the second group during the jailbreak.
- Posthumous Character: Cleon and Cyrus are both dead at this point, but it's shown they still left impressions behind on multiple characters.
- Rousing Speech:
- Swan delivers one at the Warriors' war council to get them pumped up to spring Ajax.
- Masai gives one once the Riffs and Warriors meet up outside the detention center. Swan also gives another, much shorter one after Masai is finished.
- Two-Faced: Unable to paint his face while in prison, the Baseball Fury Ajax gets put next to decides to mutilate half his face with a pair of scissors as an alternative to "war paint."
- Villain Protagonist: It's not like how it was in the movie where the Warriors were wrongly framed and just wanted to make their way back home. Here, they're willfully conspiring to break one of their own out of prison, who was arrested for forcing himself on an undercover cop.
