History ComicBook / RogueTrooper

Most recently, the comic was adapted into a video game by [[Creator/{{Rebellion}} Rebellion Developments]], who currently also publish ''2000 AD'' and have the rights to most of its characters. ''VideoGame/RogueTrooper: Quartz Zone Massacre'' was released on the UsefulNotes/{{PS2}}, UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}, and {{PC}} in 2006, and again on the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} in 2009. Though it features the characters and premise of the ''Rogue'' continuity, the story is very different, and much of the technology has been altered to make the game play "more fun."

A film adaptation [[https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/15/17574074/rogue-trooper-movie-duncan-jones-teaser is in the works]] with Creator/DuncanJones set to direct.

** The "Dolls", or female-model Genetic Infantrymene, get Fantastic ''Sexism'' to go alongside the same Fantastic Racism as their male counterparts. Despite having been engineered to fulfill stealth-based missions as scouts, assassins, saboteurs and commandos, the Dolls were all redirected into non-combatant rolls as glorified secretaries and nurses due to the sexism of Milli-Comp. They were also prohibited from engaging in relationships with their male GI counterparts, but despite this were subject to frequent sexual harassments from human superiors. Even their distinguishing identifier was the moniker "Dolls".

* TheFederation: Southers seems to fit this mold as a counterpoint to Nort's TheEmpire, despite sharing the same authoritarian mentality as them. %%Furthermore, many Southers' militaries also seem to be diverse that also included large non-humans among their staff compared to human-exclusive military of Norts. --This sentence is ungrammatical and I do not understand what it is referring to. Please edit for legibility.

-->[[spoiler:'''Venus Bluegenes:'''] "They were weak, Rogue... ''weak!'' I was the only G.I. on board and there were only enough emergency rations to support ''one'' person. But the others wanted to ''share'' the rations. So I killed them and dumped their bodies in the lagoon. Don't you see, Rogue? We G.I.s are the ''future''. We're ''ultra-humes''. It was only ''logical'' that ''I'' should be the one to ''live''."

* SoleSurvivor: Rogue and Friday were both this in their respective battles (as was the old soldier waiting to die whom Rogue encountered).
** [[spoiler:Venus Bluegenes ''made'' herself this in the Caliban Island incident; though she was one of several Souther troops who survived crashing on the island, she killed the human survivors to keep all the rations for herself.]]

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Norts from the original continuity.

* ICannotSelfTerminate: In the Rogue continuity, Rogue encounters a interesting version of the trope, a super soldier prototype (a predecessor of himself) waiting out in the wilderness to die a death of old age, seeing it as dignified and declaring that "suicide ain't my style". Rogue subsequently [[spoiler:holds off a Nort assault force in order to give the old man his wish, the narrative stating openly that it's something he wants for himself one day.]]
** Friday attempts suicide, but finds that he's been genetically programmed to be unable to do so.
* {{Canon Immigrant}}: Helm's hacking abilities were first seen in the game, but he uses them in comics published later.

* {{Crossover}}:
** A rather infamous example is the crossing over of both continuities into the one universe with the explanation that there were two Nu-Earths. It all got rather messy.
** The Friday continuity crossed over into ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' by means of TimeTravel. This one might be still canon, at least in the ''Judge Dredd'' universe, Dredd encounters a FlawedPrototype GI on New Sidona.

* DistantFinale: ''Mercy Heights'' had a character who resembled Rogue named Tor Cyan. "Remembrance Day" told an edited version of the Quartz Zone Massacre, which tied both strips together. Cyan is shown to be watching the footage and leaves Rogue's battered biochip at a memorial site on Nu Earth, which has had its environment restored to inhabitable and is now abloom with the same blue flowers that Rogue finds. Whether this is still canon is unknown.

* {{Spinoff}}: A couple, notably ''Venus Bluegenes'', which follows the female GI of the same name, and ''Mercy Heights'', about a GI ambulance driver.

* ActionGirl: Venus Bluegenes. [[spoiler: Though she can fall into DarkActionGirl due to having murdered surviving Southers out of survival on an island]].
* AlternateContinuity: The video game, up to a point. It follows the original Rogue continuity reasonably closely -- a lot of the locations are there, though in a different order. It's the ending where the major difference occurs.
** The Friday version was supposed to be this until the two continuities were merged.
* AlternateUniverse: A WhatIf strip: what if Gunner had survived the Quartz Zone Massacre instead of Rogue? [[spoiler: He uses Souther troops as decoys. They later kill him, Rogue and the rest of the team, leaving his skeleton in the sand.]]

* ArchnemesisDad: Technically, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Clavel]] is this to Friday, as Clavel used his own DNA as the base for the GI programme.

* BloodKnight: Gunnar.

** Gunner himself managed to regain a new body, complete with {{Telekinesis}}, in one of the stories. [[spoiler: Sadly, it turned out that Mill-Com had indoctrinated his mind into killing Rogue. Though he returned to a chip on the rifle with his new ability after being "killed" by a jammed gun.]]

* DeTerminator: Rogue travels all over Nu Earth hunting down the Traitor General and will not let an entire world at war get in his way.

* TheFederation: Southers seems to fit this mold as a counterpoint to Nort's TheEmpire despite sharing same authoritarian mentality as them. Furthermore, many Southers' militaries also seem to be diverse that also included large non-humans among their staff compared to human-exclusive military of Norts.

* RecycledInSpace: UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar with the Southers as the Confederate and the Norts and the Union.

* SmartGun: What Gunnar became due to his biochip being inserted into a rifle.

* SuperSoldier: Many, most notably Rogue and Friday.

* AbnormalAmmo: In the Rogue continuity, the weapons are described as being "las" based, but they are depicted as ejecting casing like projectile weapons. A close-up of a cartridge reveals that the bullets have lenses, which is somewhat similar to older descriptions of Imperial Guardman's las-gun.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Bland and Brass, body-looters and war profiteers.

A film adaptation [[https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/15/17574074/rogue-trooper-movie-duncan-jones-teaser is in the works]] with Duncan Jones set to direct.

Most recently, the comic was adapted into a video game by [[Creator/{{Rebellion}} Rebellion Developments]], who currently also publish ''2000 AD'' and have the rights to most of its characters. ''Rogue Trooper: Quartz Zone Massacre'' was released on the UsefulNotes/{{PS2}}, UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}, and {{PC}} in 2006, and again on the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} in 2009. Though it features the characters and premise of the ''Rogue'' continuity, the story is very different, and much of the technology has been altered to make the game play "more fun."