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* {{Expy}}: Carly Vanders is an expy of both DC's Supergirl and Marvel's Captain Marvel, who respectively have the similar names of Kara Danvers and Carol Danvers and are ''already'' expies of each other. Similar names aside, Kamen America's outfits draw from both Supergirl's AllAmericanFace and Captain Marvel's original MsFanservice LeotardOfPower, and not there's also all 3 parties sharing blond hair. They also possess similar powers.

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* {{Expy}}: Carly Vanders is an expy of both DC's Supergirl and Marvel's Captain Marvel, who respectively have the similar names of Kara Danvers and Carol Danvers and are ''already'' expies of each other. Similar names aside, Kamen America's outfits draw from both Supergirl's AllAmericanFace and Captain Marvel's original MsFanservice LeotardOfPower, and not there's also all 3 parties sharing blond hair. Her previous alias as "Warhen" is a play on Carol's stint as Warbird. They also possess similar powers.
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''[[https://kamenamerica.com/ Kamen America]]'' is a {{superhero}} comic series and the flagship property of Creator/IconicComics.

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''[[https://kamenamerica.com/ Kamen America]]'' is a {{superhero}} comic series and the flagship property of Creator/IconicComics.
Creator/IconicComics. It is written by Mark Pellegrini and illustrated by Tim Lim, together known as [=NINJAINK=].
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+ MsFanservice: Carly herself is this, as her Kamen America outfita, whether it be a tight shirt and small skirt or LeotardofPower, do a great job at showing how busty she is as well and that she's blessed with a shapely rear.

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+ MsFanservice: Carly herself is this, as her Kamen America outfita, whether it be a tight shirt and small skirt or LeotardofPower, do a great job at showing how busty this; she is as well conventionally attractive and that she's blessed often fights in a LeotardOfPower. Moreover, her outfits in general accentuate this for her team, which causes some problems when monsters attack during a fashion show and Sylvia has to run back to the hotel while wearing one of Carly's skimpy outfits so she can get her power armor and deal with a shapely rear.the threat.



* PhenotypeStereotype: Though it's a western superhero comic, the name clue's one in that Kamen America is heavily Manga Influenced as well and therefore Carly's AllAmericanFace, blond hair, blue eyes, tall height and curvy-busty proportions poke at how Japanese audiences stereotypically view Americans.

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* PhenotypeStereotype: Though it's a western superhero comic, the name clue's one in that Kamen America is heavily Manga Influenced as well too (as per the name of the comic), and therefore Carly's AllAmericanFace, blond hair, blue eyes, tall height and curvy-busty general proportions poke at how Japanese audiences stereotypically view Americans.
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Carly Vanders is an all-American girl who wants to use her passion for the arts, particularly fashion design, to help her nation. During a [=USO=] performance for American troops, she's hit by irradiated space debris and given incredible powers. From there she becomes the superheroine known as Kamen America and vows to protect innocent people from all that might threaten them, including a series of villains who also gained powers from the space debris... and some monsters who happen to be much closer to home.

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Carly Vanders is an all-American girl who wants to use her passion for the arts, particularly loves fashion design, design and wants to help her nation. During a [=USO=] performance for American troops, she's hit by irradiated space debris and given incredible powers. From there she becomes the superheroine known as Kamen America and vows to protect innocent people from all that might threaten them, including a series of villains who also gained powers from the space debris... and some monsters who happen to be much closer to home.
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* AllAmericanFace: Carly started out as an ambitious American girl who loves her country, and her superhero outfit incorporates the American flag. Kamen America's innocent looking blond hair and blue eyes also invoke the PhenotypeStereotype of how Americans are percieved to look like in Japan, enriching the {{Animesque}}and Sentai influences the Comic incorporates.

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* AllAmericanFace: Carly started out as an ambitious American girl who loves her country, and her superhero outfit incorporates the American flag. Kamen America's innocent looking blond hair and blue eyes also invoke the PhenotypeStereotype of how Americans are percieved to look like in Japan, enriching the {{Animesque}}and {{Animesque}} and Sentai influences the Comic incorporates.
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* AllAmericanFace: Carly started out as an ambitious American girl who loves her country, and her superhero outfit incorporates the American flag. Kamen America's innocent looking blond hair and blue eyes also invoke the PhenotypeStereotype of how Americans are percieved to look like in Japan, enriching the {{Animesque}}and Sentai influences the Comic incorporates.


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* {{Animesque}}: While the main comic is ''not'' a Japanese Manga, its artstyle invokes Manga and Anime designs as per the page's cover image just as much as it does from western superhero comics. ''Kamen America'' also markets itself heavily to Japanese audiences as well thanks to its familiar style, official Japanese translations, and its title of "''Kamen'' America" that shows it draws from ''Sentai'' series as well. Both fan and official art produced by the comic's Japanese audiences as well as additional promotional media made by Japan therefore looks indistinguishable from how the main comic is drawn.


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* {{Expy}}: Carly Vanders is an expy of both DC's Supergirl and Marvel's Captain Marvel, who respectively have the similar names of Kara Danvers and Carol Danvers and are ''already'' expies of each other. Similar names aside, Kamen America's outfits draw from both Supergirl's AllAmericanFace and Captain Marvel's original MsFanservice LeotardOfPower, and not there's also all 3 parties sharing blond hair. They also possess similar powers.


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+ MsFanservice: Carly herself is this, as her Kamen America outfita, whether it be a tight shirt and small skirt or LeotardofPower, do a great job at showing how busty she is as well and that she's blessed with a shapely rear.


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* PhenotypeStereotype: Though it's a western superhero comic, the name clue's one in that Kamen America is heavily Manga Influenced as well and therefore Carly's AllAmericanFace, blond hair, blue eyes, tall height and curvy-busty proportions poke at how Japanese audiences stereotypically view Americans.
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Eight issues of ''Kamen America'' have been released as of September 2023, as well as a couple of crossover issues with some of Iconic Comics' other properties. There are also two webcomic spinoffs of the series, [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/kamen-america-the-web-series/list?title_no=638597 Kamen America: The Web Series]] and [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/kamen-academy-カメンアカデミー/list?title_no=781656 Kamen Academy]], as well as some Japanese [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXAOEJuKmR/ doujinshi]].

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Eight issues of ''Kamen America'' have been released as of September 2023, as well as a couple of crossover issues with some of Iconic Comics' other properties. There are also two webcomic spinoffs of the series, [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/kamen-america-the-web-series/list?title_no=638597 Kamen America: The Web Series]] and [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/kamen-academy-カメンアカデミー/list?title_no=781656 Kamen Academy]], as well as and some Japanese [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXAOEJuKmR/ doujinshi]].
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Eight issues of ''Kamen America'' have been released as of September 2023, as well as a couple of crossover issues with some of Iconic Comics' other properties. There are also two webcomic spinoffs of the series: [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/kamen-america-the-web-series/list?title_no=638597 Kamen America: The Web Series]] and [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/kamen-academy-カメンアカデミー/list?title_no=781656 Kamen Academy]].

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Eight issues of ''Kamen America'' have been released as of September 2023, as well as a couple of crossover issues with some of Iconic Comics' other properties. There are also two webcomic spinoffs of the series: series, [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/kamen-america-the-web-series/list?title_no=638597 Kamen America: The Web Series]] and [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/kamen-academy-カメンアカデミー/list?title_no=781656 Kamen Academy]].
Academy]], as well as some Japanese [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXAOEJuKmR/ doujinshi]].
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* HighSchoolAU: The second web series, Kamen Academy, functions as this: it sets all the main characters as students in the same high school.
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Eight issues of ''Kamen America'' have been released as of September 2023, as well as a couple of crossover issues with some of Iconic Comics' other properties.

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Eight issues of ''Kamen America'' have been released as of September 2023, as well as a couple of crossover issues with some of Iconic Comics' other properties. \n There are also two webcomic spinoffs of the series: [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/kamen-america-the-web-series/list?title_no=638597 Kamen America: The Web Series]] and [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/kamen-academy-カメンアカデミー/list?title_no=781656 Kamen Academy]].
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* GoodShepherd: Carly's priest, Father Blatter, is depicted as being compassionate and caring towards his congregation. He's also revealed to be [[spoiler:part of the Vatican's combat exorcist program, though he may have retired from that.]]

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* GoodShepherd: Carly's priest, Father Blatter, Blatty, is depicted as being compassionate and caring towards his congregation. He's also revealed to be [[spoiler:part of the Vatican's combat exorcist program, though he may have retired from that.]]
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* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Carly has to fight these on a somewhat regular basis. Misha started as an employee of one before she defected and joined the Kamen Corps, and Hare Trigger (who shows up in one of the crossovers with ComicBook/BlackHops) ran one.

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* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Carly has to fight these on a somewhat regular basis. Misha started as an employee of one before she defected and joined the Kamen Corps, and Hare Trigger (who shows up in one of the crossovers with ComicBook/BlackHops) ran one.
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* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Carly has to fight these on a somewhat regular basis. Misha started as an employee of one before she defected and joined the Kamen Corps, and Hare Trigger (who shows up in one of the crossovers with Comic/BlackHops) ran one.

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* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Carly has to fight these on a somewhat regular basis. Misha started as an employee of one before she defected and joined the Kamen Corps, and Hare Trigger (who shows up in one of the crossovers with Comic/BlackHops) ComicBook/BlackHops) ran one.

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''[[https://www.iconiccomics.com/shop Kamen America]]'' is a {{superhero}} comic series and the flagship property of Creator/IconicComics.

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!!This comic !!''Kamen America'' contains the following tropes:tropes:



* EngineeredHeroics: [[spoiler:Carly's arch nemesis Vermillion Masquerade turns out to be her best friend Vicki... who secretly worked with Lansky to create monsters which Carly could fight and defeat. This benefitted Lansky, who merchandised both the monsters and the heroes, and it also helped Carly by giving her a chance to showcase her heroics. Of course, when Carly found out about this, she was extremely unhappy.]]

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* EngineeredHeroics: [[spoiler:Carly's arch nemesis Vermillion Masquerade turns out to be her best friend Vicki... who secretly worked with Lansky to create monsters which that Carly could fight and defeat. This benefitted Lansky, who merchandised both the monsters and the heroes, and it also helped Carly by giving her a chance to showcase her heroics. Of course, when Carly found out about this, she was extremely unhappy.]]



* LegacyCharacter: {{Deconstructed}}. Sylvia turns down the opportunity to usurp Carly's superhero identity, stating that the identity of 'Kamen America' isn't defined by a uniform or set of powers. Instead, she declares that the hero identity is instead uniquely Carly's on account of all the good deeds and heroic work Carly had done while using that name.

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* LegacyCharacter: {{Deconstructed}}. Sylvia turns down the opportunity to usurp Carly's superhero identity, stating that the identity of 'Kamen America' isn't defined by a uniform or set of powers. Instead, she declares that the hero hero's identity is instead uniquely Carly's on account of all the good deeds and heroic work Carly had done while using that name.



* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:Cynthia presents herself as a righteous activist who is using her resources to protect people, and she's widely beloved for it, but she's actually a villainous monster.]]

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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:Cynthia presents herself as a righteous activist who is using her resources to protect people, and she's widely beloved for it, but she's actually a villainous monster.]]]]

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* LegacyCharacter: {{Deconstructed}}. Sylvia turns down the opportunity to usurp Carly's superhero identity, stating that the identity of 'Kamen America' isn't defined by a uniform or set of powers. Instead, she declares that the hero identity is instead uniquely Carly's on account of all the good deeds and heroic work Carly had done while using that name.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: This series is close to the 'idealism' side of the scale. The heroes are generally able to stop and, often, even redeem the villains without having to make moral compromises.

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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: This series is close to the 'idealism' side of the scale. The heroes are generally able to stop and, often, and even redeem the villains without having to make moral compromises.

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Carly Vanders is an all-American girl who wants to use her passion for the arts, particularly fashion design, to help her nation. During a [=USO=] performance for American troops, she's caught in a meteor shower and given incredible powers. From there she becomes the superheroine known as Kamen America and vows to protect innocent people from all that might threaten them, including a series of villains who also gained powers from the meteor shower... and some monsters who happen to be much closer to home.

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Carly Vanders is an all-American girl who wants to use her passion for the arts, particularly fashion design, to help her nation. During a [=USO=] performance for American troops, she's caught in a meteor shower hit by irradiated space debris and given incredible powers. From there she becomes the superheroine known as Kamen America and vows to protect innocent people from all that might threaten them, including a series of villains who also gained powers from the meteor shower...space debris... and some monsters who happen to be much closer to home.


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* RadiationInducedSuperpowers: Carly, Misha, Kimiko, and [[spoiler:Vicki Kaminski]] all develop these as a result of being struck by debris from a space probe that had been contaminated by Venus radiation. Sylvia also develops these after spending long periods of time wearing a suit of powered armor that had radioactive particles in it.
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* ACatCalledDog: Carly's pet, named Badger, is actually a capybara.

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* ACatCalledDog: ADogNamedCat: Carly's pet, named Badger, is actually a capybara.
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* ADogCalledCat: ACatCalledDog: Carly's pet, named Badger, is actually a capybara.
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* ADogCalledCat: Carly's pet, named Badger, is actually a capybara.
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''Kamen America'' is a {{superhero}} comic series and the flagship property of Creator/IconicComics.

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''Kamen America'' ''[[https://www.iconiccomics.com/shop Kamen America]]'' is a {{superhero}} comic series and the flagship property of Creator/IconicComics.



Eight issues of ''[[https://www.iconiccomics.com/shop Kamen America]]'' have been released as of September 2023, as well as a couple of crossover issues with some of Iconic Comics' other properties.

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Eight issues of ''[[https://www.iconiccomics.com/shop Kamen America]]'' ''Kamen America'' have been released as of September 2023, as well as a couple of crossover issues with some of Iconic Comics' other properties.
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Eight issues of ''[[https://www.iconiccomics.com/shop Kamen America]] have been released as of September 2023, as well as a couple of crossover issues with some of Iconic Comics' other properties.

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Eight issues of ''[[https://www.iconiccomics.com/shop Kamen America]] America]]'' have been released as of September 2023, as well as a couple of crossover issues with some of Iconic Comics' other properties.
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* RedemptionDemotion: [[spoiler:Vicki loses most of her powers after she finally surrenders to the Kamen Corps and begins her process of redemption.]]
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''Kamen America'' is a {{superhero}} comic series and the flagship property of Creator/IconicComics.

Carly Vanders is an all-American girl who wants to use her passion for the arts, particularly fashion design, to help her nation. During a [=USO=] performance for American troops, she's caught in a meteor shower and given incredible powers. From there she becomes the superheroine known as Kamen America and vows to protect innocent people from all that might threaten them, including a series of villains who also gained powers from the meteor shower... and some monsters who happen to be much closer to home.

Eight issues of ''[[https://www.iconiccomics.com/shop Kamen America]] have been released as of September 2023, as well as a couple of crossover issues with some of Iconic Comics' other properties.

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!!This comic contains the following tropes:
* AddictionPowered: Downplayed, but Kimiko reveals that her water-based powers can work on the water in alcohol too. Thus, if there's no water around, she can make do in a pinch by drinking alcohol and going from there.
* AlphaBitch: Carly originally saw Sylvia as this, since Sylvia was wealthy, popular, and somewhat insensitive towards Carly herself. This was compounded after Sylvia was given a suit of PoweredArmor which let her become a 'rival' hero to Carly. The two got over it and were eventually able to team up.
* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:Vicki, Carly's best friend since childhood, is revealed to be the villainous Vermillion Masquerade, the arc villain for the first four issues.]]
* ElementalPowers: Several of the Kamen Corps have them, including Misha (who has fire powers) and Kimiko (who has water ones).
* EngineeredHeroics: [[spoiler:Carly's arch nemesis Vermillion Masquerade turns out to be her best friend Vicki... who secretly worked with Lansky to create monsters which Carly could fight and defeat. This benefitted Lansky, who merchandised both the monsters and the heroes, and it also helped Carly by giving her a chance to showcase her heroics. Of course, when Carly found out about this, she was extremely unhappy.]]
* EvilMatriarch: [[spoiler:Sylvia's mother Cynthia is one of the arc villains of issues 5-8.]]
* GoodShepherd: Carly's priest, Father Blatter, is depicted as being compassionate and caring towards his congregation. He's also revealed to be [[spoiler:part of the Vatican's combat exorcist program, though he may have retired from that.]]
* MakingASplash: Kimiko's powers let her control and use water as a weapon.
* OccidentalOtaku: Bandit Okami is a Hispanic guy who is absolutely obsessed with anime and manga.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Carly has to fight these on a somewhat regular basis. Misha started as an employee of one before she defected and joined the Kamen Corps, and Hare Trigger (who shows up in one of the crossovers with Comic/BlackHops) ran one.
* PrivilegedRival: Sylvia starts off as one of these, thanks to her family's immense wealth.
* SadistTeacher: Downplayed. While Wormwood isn't truly sadistic, she's certainly disrespectful and cruel to Carly and Vicki, belittling their interests and insisting they develop different ones. Near the end of her life, she realizes she was wrong and apologizes.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: This series is close to the 'idealism' side of the scale. The heroes are generally able to stop and, often, even redeem the villains without having to make moral compromises.
* SmoothTalkingTalentAgent: Lansky, the depraved talent agent whom Carly ultimately fires, is one of these.
* StopBeingStereotypical: Wormwood is adamant that Carly and Vicki are 'wrong' for liking stereotypically feminine interests such as fashion and art, and she tries to push them to have more 'masculine' interests like sports. By the end of her life, though, it's indicated that she mellowed out.
* {{Toku}}: The henchmen in the second arc, the Zenerengers, are modeled off of these.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:Cynthia presents herself as a righteous activist who is using her resources to protect people, and she's widely beloved for it, but she's actually a villainous monster.]]

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