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* WriterOnBoard: Writer Warren Ellis' well known distaste for the [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks Modern Age]] of comics and UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks is evident, but is funny rather than annoying. It helps that he's deliberately going for humor.

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* WriterOnBoard: Writer Warren Ellis' well known distaste for the [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks Modern Age]] of comics and UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks is evident, but is funny rather than annoying. It helps that he's deliberately going for humor.
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** Also the memorable "[[ComicBook/CivilWar Mark Millar licks goats]]."

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** Also the memorable "[[ComicBook/CivilWar "[[ComicBook/CivilWar2006 Mark Millar licks goats]]."
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* AffirmativeActionGirl: Ellis deliberately wanted obscure heroes for his team, and he wanted it weighted to women (hence why it's not TwoGirlsToATeam, but two ''guys''), and he made the leader a woman of color, something that is almost unheard of in comics. To his credit, they are written as ''characters'' first and genders second.
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* CurbStompBattle: Of the fifteen or so costumed and named characters Number None gathered up, all of them save Forbrush Man were very easily disposed of. Even when it was five against one odds. [[spoiler: shortly afterwards it's revealed they're broccoli people in disguise.]]

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* CurbStompBattle: Of Done ''twice'' in issue #10. First, the fifteen or so costumed and named characters Number None gathered up, all of them save Forbrush Man were very easily disposed of. Even when it was five against one odds. [[spoiler: shortly afterwards it's revealed they're broccoli people villain [[spoiler:Forbush Man]] uses his mental powers to effortlessly incapacitate the team in disguise.]]illusionary realities... only to find that Tabitha {{No Sell}}s his attack because ''[[TooDumbToFool she has no mind]]'' to exploit. She then [[YourHeadASplode detonates his head]], freeing her teammates.
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* TooDumbToFool: In issue #10, [[spoiler:Forbush Man]] traps the team in illusionary realities that exist entirely within their own minds... only to realize too late that Tabitha escaped the ploy because ''she has no mind'' to exploit. She proceeds to [[YourHeadASplode explode his head]].


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* YourHeadASplode: This is how Tabitha defeats [[spoiler:Forbush Man]].

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%%* SternChase

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%%* SternChase* SternChase: Most of the story arcs are variations of this trope -- Nextwave goes somewhere to foil a Beyond Corporation scheme while Dirk Anger and H.A.T.E. are in pursuit.



-->'''Monica''': Aaron, help them. *[[AC:Burst of white noise as Monica turns into 120 pounds of photons]]*

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-->'''Monica''': Aaron, help them. *[[AC:Burst \\
''< burst
of white noise as Monica turns into 120 pounds of photons]]*photons >''



* WillNotBeAVictim: Elsa Bloodstone.

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* WillNotBeAVictim: Elsa Bloodstone.Bloodstone gets ''very'' irate when [[spoiler:Charlie America]] tells her to lie back and allow him to defeat her.

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