History ComicBook / Animosity

->''Mostly, what we know is this:''
-> ''One day, for no goddamn reason, the Animals woke up.''
->''They started thinking.''
->''They started talking.''
->''They started taking revenge.''
->''We call it the Wake.''
->''It's less dramatic than the Funeral.''

Animosity is a PostApocalyptic {{Xenofiction}} comic book series created and written by Creator/MargueriteBennett and produced by Aftershock Comics, first published in August 2016.

What would happen if every animal in the world [[AmplifiedAnimalAptitude suddenly gained sapience]], and was able to talk and think like a human? Would they live in harmony with us? Would we learn from them? Or would they take revenge [[HumansAreBastards for everything we've done]]? Every species we've driven extinct, every pound of meat we've eaten, every kill a hunter's shot, every bug squashed under foot?

The Wake did just that-- every creature, from dogs and cats and whales to bees and mayflies [[UpliftedAnimal woke up]] one day. Since then, society has collapsed-- animals outnumber humans greatly, and they rule the world. Caught in the middle of all of this is a child from New York City named Jesse Hernandez and her dog Sandor, a bloodhound who loves her more than anything in the world. The two of them, along with a group of animals, are trying to travel to California, where Jesse's half-brother Adam North, her only surviving family member, lives.

Animosity also has two spin-off works: ''Animosity: The Rise'' and ''Animosity: Evolution'', both of which focus on Adam, in a San Francisco ruled over by Wintermute, an ambitious and mysterious canine. The Rise is a completed trilogy, and Evolution is currently ongoing.

!!Animosity contains examples of:

* ArcVillain: [[spoiler: The Dragon for its synonymous arc, and the Headmistress for the "Power" storyline.]]

** Discussed-- several animals without the capability for speech are suddenly able to vocalize, including mayflies and ''clams''.
** Subverted with regards to a Koala living on tofu-- they can only eat eucalyptus due to a specialized digestive system, and as a result, [[spoiler:it's speculated that's part of the reason behind the mutiny at the Animilitary compound.]]
* BabyFactory: [[spoiler: The Walled City is revealed to be one.]]

* CatsAreMean: Inverted, cats are one of the few animals that are always allies to humans and mostly good. Mittens is shown to be way more ethical than Sandor even with his lapse in judgement about the bees, Pallas Cat is a outright NiceGuy, and during the g the first thing an unnamed house cat does is threaten to claw his owner’s abusive husband’s eyes if he lays his hands on her again.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Jesse, poor girl. Sandor's trying to keep her from seeing the horrors of the post-Wake world, including her friends that have been [[spoiler:strung up and eaten by the dragon]] and the fact that her parents are both dead.

* DespairEventHorizon: Zarzammora the goat almost crosses this following [[spoiler:the death of her final family member at the hands of the dragon, following the rest of her family being massacred for meat.]]

* HollywoodAcid: [[spoiler: While the stomach acid of a bearded vulture has a pH of 1 (Battery Acid has a pH close to 0), it's not likely the acid the 'dragon' spits is caustic enough to instantly burn through the wings and skin of a poor stork who it hits.]]
* HumanlikeAnimalAging: Zig-Zagged. Animals age normally for their species after the Wake, but they Woke up with intellectual capabilities roughly equivalent to a human being of the same relative age-- most two-year-old animals are about as functional as a normal human adult. However, Sandor, being a purebred dog, is in danger of dying soon.

** [[spoiler:The American Military lobotomizes Pearl, a member of the Animilitary in order to turn them back into a normal animal. This causes the Animilitary to attack the ohumans.]]

* NoKillLikeOverkill: Sandor disposes of the "dragon" by [[spoiler:force-feeding it a live grenade.]]

* OverpopulationCrisis: Discussed in both this and Evolution-- the rabbits alone would outnumber humanity in months, and now that most animals are reluctant to eat one another due to being sapient, it's going to get worse.

* PredationIsNatural: Zig-Zagged. Most animals seen in the story so far don't want to eat one another, but {{Vegetarian Carnivore}}s just aren't possible.

** The Animilitary is willing to exchange some scientists they've captured for one of their own that the American Military has. However, [[spoiler:when the Military lobotomizes their captive, Mimico order the hostages to be killed.]]

* SapientCetaceans: Even more so after the Wake-- Jesse, Sandor and company use a friendly humpback whale for transportation across water.

** In Issue 2, there's a [[Literature/WatershipDown rabbit counseling their brethren that they must be cunning and full of tricks to survive]], a collective of proselytizing [[Literature/AnimalFarm Animalist Pigs wearing Maoist hats while talking to a horse]], and an [[Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes ape grumbling about his shoddy gun and the damn, dirty-- who sold it to him]].
** In Issue 3, a farmer warn about dogs becoming "nasty" by mentioning about a [[{{Literature/Cujo}} St. Bernard in Castle Rock]].

* TheUnreveal: A group of scientists held hostage by the Animilitary claim to know what caused The Wake, and that it can be reversed. We've not learned what it was.
* VegetarianCarnivore: Zigzagged. Soy and tofu have enough protein in them that carnivores can survive off of them, but Sandor and Pallas [[spoiler:still eat the victims of the Dragon after burying their friends]].

* TheWormThatWalks: Some of the followers of The Dragon are actually [[spoiler:groups of animals that have amalgamated themselves into human shapes, for the sake of luring and killing humans they find to feed to the Dragon.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: Sandor points out to Oscar that The Wake is not like the ZombieApocalypse, as in the movies people can hunt game, but here hunting sentient animals is murder.

!!Animosity: the Rise and Animosity: Evolution contain examples of:
* ApocalypseHow: Compared to the rest of the world, San Francisco only has a city-wide societal disruption-- "only" 144,000 dead in the transition, while Paris is overtaken by Rats, Chicago gets bombed, and New Dehli burns.
* AnArmAndALeg: Wintermute's front left leg and eye get blasted off by another dog in issue one of Evolution.
* ArtificialLimbs: Wintermute intends to eventually possess proper hands, as we see at the end of The Rise. By the end of issue 1 of Evolution, she gets what she wants.

* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: Inverted ''hard'' in Issue 1 of The Rise, where we see a pod of dolphins post-Wake attacking a boat, butchering its passengers, saying that they want human women, and tearing the flipper off of a sea lion. They're essentially AlwaysChaoticEvil.

* InterspeciesRomance: Between Adam and [[spoiler:Wintermute, where it is eventually hinted that Adam's loyalty to Wintermute was partially out of genuine romantic love for Wintermute, though Adam feared openly showing any kind of affection to Wintermute such as petting her.]] [[spoiler:Wintermute]] is shown to reciprocate his love, by her [[spoiler:[[DyingDeclarationOfLove secret dream/message]] programmed into Adam's cybernetic Animata upgrades where she rips off her own skin to take her possibly ideal humanoid form, and laments that this was the only way for them to share a true 'kiss'. During their final night together before Wintermute was executed, she calls Adam her [[AffectionateNickname 'sweetheart']].]]
* {{Interquel}}: Currently set about one month after the Wake, where as the story of the main comic starts up about a year after.
* KindlyVet: Adam North-- at least, he was before the Wake.

** Several places are named after various creators or pieces of media featuring intelligent animals-- the [[{{WesternAnimation/Zootopia}} Hoppswilde Hotel]], [[Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia The Lewis Building]], and [[Literature/HisDarkMaterials Pullman Hospital]] are just a few that show up.

* WholePlotReference: Animals gaining intelligence and disrupting human society was also a feature in [[https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Wave Brain Wave]] by [[https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson Poul Anderson]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Discussed-- several animals without the capability for speech are suddenly able to vocalize, including mayflies and ''clams''.

* {{Lobotomy}}: [[spoiler:The American Military lobotomizes Pearl, a member of the Animilitary in order to turn them back into a normal animal. This causes the Animilitary to attack the ohumans.]]

* PrisonerExchange: The Animilitary is willing to exchange some scientists they've captured for one of their own that the American Military has. However, [[spoiler:when the Military lobotomizes their captive, Mimico order the hostages to be killed.]]

** In Issue 2, there's a [[Literature/WatershipDown rabbit counseling their brethren that they must be cunning and full of tricks to survive]], collective of proselytizing [[Literature/AnimalFarm Animalist Pigs wearing Maoist while talking to a horse]], and an [[Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes ape grumbling about his shoddy gun and the damn, dirty-- who sold it to him]].

* SeldomSeenSpecies:
** Augusta, Julia, Octavia, and Septicemia, the four [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_rat kangaroo rat]] sisters.
** Mr. Kazi seems to be an unusually large [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_mata Mata Mata]] turtle.

* SeldomSeenSpecies:
** Pallas, the medic of the group, is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallas%27s_cat Pallas Cat]], who Woke up in a lab where they were testing their immune system.
** The "dragon" that the group encounters after leaving the Animiltary compound is actually [[spoiler: a[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture Bearded Vulture]].]]
** A pangolin acts as a spiritual leader, discussing whether or not animals have souls according to various belief systems.

** In Issue 2, there's a [[Literature/WatershipDown rabbit counseling their brethren that they must be cunning and full of tricks to survive]], collective of proselytizing [[Literature/AnimalFarm Animalist Pigs wearing Maoist hats]], and an [[Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes ape grumbling about his shoddy gun and the damn, dirty-- who sold it to him]].

* WholePlotReference: Animals gaining intelligence and disrupting human society was also a feature in [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Wave Brain Wave] by [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson Poul Anderson]

* SwallowedWhole: [[spoiler:Almost all of the Kangaroo Rat sisters. Thankfully, the snake that ate them gets decapitated and cut open before any real harm is done.]]

** In Issue 2, there's a [[Literature/WatershipDown rabbit counseling their brethren that they must be cunning and full of tricks to survive]], collective of proselytizing [[Literature/AnimalFarm Animalist Pigs wearing Maoist hats]], and an [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes ape grumbling about his shoddy gun and the damn, dirty-- who sold it to him]].

** In Issue 2, there's a collective of Communist Pigs, a reference to Literature/AnimalFarm.

** Several places are named after various creators or pieces of media featuring intelligent animals-- the [[{{Disney/Zootopia}} Hoppswilde Hotel]], [[Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia The Lewis Building]], and [[Literature/HisDarkMaterials Pullman Hospital]] are just a few that show up.

** Sandor is named after the character from Literature/GameOfThrones.

* {{Lobotomy}}: [[spoiler:The American Military lobotomizes Pearl, a member of the Animilitary in order to turn them back into a normal animal. This causes the Animilitary to attack the humans.]]

Animosity is a PostApocalyptic {{Xenofiction}} comic book series created and written by Marguerite Bennett and produced by Aftershock Comics, first published in August 2016.

Animosity also has two spin-off works: Animosity: The Rise and Animosity: Evolution, both of which focus on Adam, in a San Francisco ruled over by Wintermute, an ambitious and mysterious canine. The Rise is a completed trilogy, and Evolution is currently ongoing.

** Several places are named after various creators or pieces of media featuring intelligent animals-- the [[{{Film/Zootopia}} Hoppswilde Hotel]], [[Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia The Lewis Building]], and [[Literature/HisDarkMaterials Pullman Hospital]] are just a few that show up.

* {{Lobotomy}}: [[spoiler:The American Military lobotomizes a member of the Animilitary in order to turn them back into a normal animal. This causes the Animilitary to attack the humans.]]