History Webcomic / TheSpecialists

* FiveManBand:
** The Specialists
*** TheHero: Captain Victory
*** TheLancer: Henry /Jack-Be-Nimble, Walter /The Bombardier
*** TheBigGuy: Golem (Max's giant robot) and Hartman
*** TheSmartGuy: Kate /Lightning Lass, Max
*** TheChick: Agnes /Lady Liberty
*** TheSixthRanger: ? (Question Mark), since he isn't officially a member of The Specialists.
*** Or maybe Hartmann, as he joins the team later than the others.
*** TheHeart: Walter/ The Bombardier
** The Ubermensch
*** TheEvilGenius: Baron Johann Von Schadel/Baron Crossbones
*** TheDragon: [[spoiler:Anna Ritter]]/Valkyrie. Baron Crossbones qualifies as well, as he seems to fit this role for Hitler.
*** TheBrute: Konstantin Hirst/Panzer.
*** TheDarkChick: Magda Heller/ Die Hexe (The Witch).
*** TheSixthRanger: Heinrich Lowe/The Aryan
*** We don't know a lot about Geist or Max Schnell ... yet.

* StockSuperpowers
** ShockAndAwe: Dr. Kate Smallwood's lightning manipulation backpack ... thingy.
** SuperSpeed: Both teams have one, The Specialists have got former Olympian Henry Whitney III/ Jack-Be-Nimble while The Ubermensch have got Max Schnell.
** IntangibleMan: Geist
** MindOverMatter: Lady Liberty and her telekinetic powers.
** {{Necromancy}}: Baron Crossbones
** SuperStrength: Captain Victory, The Aryan, Panzer, The Golem and Hartmann.

* NotSoDifferent: The Ubermenschen and The Specialists do have a lot in common. Aside from the obvious ... y'know, superpowers. The original projects (bio-engineering for the USA and magic for the Nazis) were ineffective and created very few soldiers, so they moved on to different methods of creating them.
** Then there are Baron Crossbones and Captain Victory preferring their real-life personas rather than the titles given to them in comics and propaganda posters.

* RealityEnsues: What happens when you take a team of superheroes who have been grounded from active duty for years, developed friction as a result of media humiliation and personal grudges/vices, and throw them straight into a heavily fortified complex? Comic books would tell you that they succeeded with no casualties in a roaring first mission accomplished. They did manage to complete the mission with minimal casualties, but all the superheroes manage to either commit at least one war crime or freak out at least once at all the death they're churning. THEN the supervillains show up, CurbStomp the inexperienced Special Squad, and STILL manage to take casualties (both of which are FridgeHorror) because they weren't taking the fight seriously. The team ends up with nightmares.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Baron Crossbo-, I mean, Johann Von Schadel

* BadassNormal: Mark again, unlike the other Specialists he hasn't any superpowers.
* BerserkButton: His name is Baron Johann Von Schadel ''not'' Baron Crossbones

* TheButcher: Doktor Metzger. No points for guessing what his last name means in English.

* DamselInDistress: Lady Liberty, but only in the in-universe comic books, and even then it was a daydream that Max was having so it may not count.

* DrowningMySorrows: Captain Victory

* FakeActionPrologue

** AscendedFanBoy: [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-81/ Deconstructed]]. Turns out being a Specialist isn't all it's cracked up to be.

* HeelRealization: Hartmann is coming to realize this.

* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee

* MadScientist: Dr. Metzger, and too a lesser degree Dr. Smallwood and Max
* MagicVersusScience: See Ghostapo and StupidJetpackHitler

* NaziNobleman: Crossbones

* PublicDomainArtifact: Balmung.
* ReactionShot: When the Specialists meet Hartmann.

* SelfRestraint: Hartmann

* TapOnTheHead

* ThickerThanWater

** Max himself to a lesser extent.

''[[http://thespecialistscomic.com/ The Specialists]]'' is an alternate-history webcomic that [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructs]] the tropes present in many [=WWII=] era propaganda Comics. In this universe the Nazis discovered how to make ''ubermenschen'' using magic -- and are now starting to do so with science as well. UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is still going on in 1946, though the Japanese surrendered after the use of the atomic bomb.

* FiveBadBand: The Ubermensch
** TheEvilGenius: Baron Johann Von Schadel/Baron Crossbones
** TheDragon: [[spoiler:Anna Ritter]]/Valkyrie. Baron Crossbones qualifies as well, as he seems to fit this role for Hitler.
** TheBrute: Konstantin Hirst/Panzer.
** TheDarkChick: Magda Heller/ Die Hexe (The Witch).
** TheSixthRanger: Heinrich Lowe/The Aryan
*** We don't know a lot about Geist or Max Schnell ... yet.
* FiveManBand: The Specialists
** TheHero: Captain Victory
** TheLancer: Henry /Jack-Be-Nimble, Walter /The Bombardier
** TheBigGuy: Golem (Max's giant robot) and Hartman
** TheSmartGuy: Kate /Lightning Lass, Max
** TheChick: Agnes /Lady Liberty
** TheSixthRanger: ? (Question Mark), since he isn't officially a member of The Specialists.
*** Or maybe Hartmann, as he joins the team later than the others.
** TheHeart: Walter/ The Bombardier

''[[http://thespecialistscomic.com/ The Specialists]]'' is an alternate-history webcomic that [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructs]] the tropes present in many [=WWII=] era propaganda Comics. In this universe the Nazis discovered how to make ''ubermenschen'' using magic -- and are now starting to do so with science as well. WorldWarII is still going on in 1946, though the Japanese surrendered after the use of the atomic bomb.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of WW2 Propaganda comics like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.

** SuperStrength: Captain Victory, The Aryan, Panzer and Hartmann.

* SunkCostFallacy: Dr. Smallwood describes the continuation of the Specialist program as a result of this.
-->'''Dr. Smallwood:''' In the end, the only thing that saved the project was that they'd already spent so much money and they wanted something to show for it.

* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: The US have "The Specialists" while the Nazi's call their super-soldiers "Ubermensch"

** TheEvilGenius: Baron Johann Von Schadel/Baron Crossbones, also seems to be TheDragon to Hitler.
** TheDragon: [[spoiler:Anna Ritter]]/Valkyrie.

** TheChick: Lady Liberty

* PublicDomainArtifact: Balmung

* CaptainPatriotic: Kapitain Deutschland, a villainous example. And Captain Victory, an American Example.

* EvilTwin: Heinrich Lowe/ Kapitian Deutschland is this to Hartman Lowe/ The Brute. Though they look a lot different from each other now ...

** TheSixthRanger: Heinrich Lowe/Kapitain Deutschland.

** SuperStrength: Captain Victory, Kaptain Deutschland, Panzer and Hartmann.

''[[http://thespecialistscomic.com/ The Specialists]]'' is an alternate-history webcomic that [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructs]] the tropes present in many [=WWII=] era propaganda Comics. In this universe the Nazis discovered how to make ''ubermenschen'' using magic -- and are starting to do so with science. WorldWarII is still going on in 1946, though the Japanese surrendered after the use of the atomic bomb.

** Interestingly done, too, while the first five Ubermensch (Crossbones, Geist, Hexe, Panzer and Max Schnell) are powered by magic and the occult Doctor Metzger's working on super-soldiers with science.

** It's implied that Heinrich used to be Hartman's GoodTwin (Um ... Good-er).

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Ox and Schnell]]. Though the latter's a dick.

* SandInMyEyes: "It's just allergies,"

** To elaborate, Max and Henry earn their first kills (and feel sick), Agnes has a mental breakdown while she's shielding soldiers which also breaks her shield, Hartmann loses control AGAIN and his pummeled by his twin brother, Kate freaks out from PTSD while fighting zombies, Walter was possessed by Geist and almost killed someone, and Luke lost his best friend. On the villains' side, Geist had a brush with oblivion and Panzer discovered that his partner Schnell was killed horribly. The others didn't actively participate and are sociopathic enough to survive this.

* WarIsHell: EVERYONE who fought in the asylum battle is shellshocked to some degree.

* AncestralWeapon: Subverted. Balmung, the sword of Siegfried is just a sword.
** [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted, Crossbones is doing ''something'' to it.]]

* RealityEnsues: What happens when you take a team of superheroes who have been grounded from active duty for years, developed friction as a result of media humiliation and personal grudges/vices, and throw them straight into a heavily fortified complex? Comic books would tell you that they succeeded with no casualties in a roaring first mission accomplished. They did manage to complete the mission with minimal casualties, but all the superheroes manage to either commit at least one war crime or freak out at least once at all the death they're churning. THEN the supervillains show up, CurbStomp the inexperienced Special Squad, and STILL manage to take casualties because they weren't taking the fight seriously. The team ends up with nightmares.

* RealityEnsues: What happens when you take a team of superheroes who have been grounded from active duty for years, developed friction as a result of media humiliation and personal grudges/vices, and throw them straight into a heavily fortified complex? They all manage to either commit at least one war crime or freak out at least once at all the death they're churning. THEN the supervillains show up, CurbStomp the inexperienced Special Squad, and STILL manage to take casualties because they weren't taking the fight seriously.