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Unfortunately, as a result of [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion a recent invasion by the alien Skrulls]], S.H.I.E.L.D. has now been discredited and disbanded. Its replacement, H.A.M.M.E.R., is being run by Norman Osborn, a VillainWithGoodPublicity, and Osborn's managed to get his own representative - the xenophobic bureaucrat Henry Gyrich - appointed as Brand's co-director.
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Unfortunately, as a result of [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008 a recent invasion by the alien Skrulls]], S.H.I.E.L.D. has now been discredited and disbanded. Its replacement, H.A.M.M.E.R., is being run by Norman Osborn, a VillainWithGoodPublicity, and Osborn's managed to get his own representative - the xenophobic bureaucrat Henry Gyrich - appointed as Brand's co-director.
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* {{Facepalm}}: A group of giant rock aliens seeks to avenge the deaths of four noble creatures whom humans had decapitated and put on display... at Mount Rushmore. Once they learn the nature of the error, this trope occurs.
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Set in the shared Franchise/MarvelUniverse, the series is part of the ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' era and centers around the titular GovernmentAgencyOfFiction, its director Abigail Brand, and her boyfriend [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam Hank McCoy]] (better known as the mutant superhero Beast). [[ComicBook/SWORDMarvelComics S.W.O.R.D.]] is the Sentient World Observation and Response Department, a sister agency to ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, and is tasked with diplomacy and defence for extraterrestrial matters. Brand herself is half-mutant and half-alien, a cynical pragmatist who's trying to keep Earth safe while dealing with the aliens in a fair manner.
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Set in the shared Franchise/MarvelUniverse, the series is part of the ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' era and centers around the titular GovernmentAgencyOfFiction, its director Abigail Brand, and her boyfriend [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam [[Characters/MarvelComicsBeast Hank McCoy]] (better known as the mutant superhero Beast). [[ComicBook/SWORDMarvelComics S.W.O.R.D.]] is the Sentient World Observation and Response Department, a sister agency to ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, and is tasked with diplomacy and defence for extraterrestrial matters. Brand herself is half-mutant and half-alien, a cynical pragmatist who's trying to keep Earth safe while dealing with the aliens in a fair manner.
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Set in the shared Franchise/MarvelUniverse, the series is part of the ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' era and centers around the titular GovernmentAgencyOfFiction, its director Abigail Brand, and her boyfriend [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam Hank McCoy]] (better known as the mutant superhero Beast). S.W.O.R.D. is the Sentient World Observation and Response Department, a sister agency to ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, and is tasked with diplomacy and defence for extraterrestrial matters. Brand herself is half-mutant and half-alien, a cynical pragmatist who's trying to keep Earth safe while dealing with the aliens in a fair manner.
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Set in the shared Franchise/MarvelUniverse, the series is part of the ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' era and centers around the titular GovernmentAgencyOfFiction, its director Abigail Brand, and her boyfriend [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam Hank McCoy]] (better known as the mutant superhero Beast). [[ComicBook/SWORDMarvelComics S.W.O.R.D. ]] is the Sentient World Observation and Response Department, a sister agency to ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, and is tasked with diplomacy and defence for extraterrestrial matters. Brand herself is half-mutant and half-alien, a cynical pragmatist who's trying to keep Earth safe while dealing with the aliens in a fair manner.
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* AffablyEvil: Unit is calm, polite and friendly. He's also an ''extremely'' dangerous WellIntentionedExtremist with a CompellingVoice. And he's playing a very long game [[spoiler:which, in the short term, sometimes manifests as ChronicBackstabbingDisorder]].
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* AffablyEvil: Unit is calm, polite and friendly. He's also an ''extremely'' dangerous WellIntentionedExtremist with [[spoiler:with a CompellingVoice. And he's playing a very long game [[spoiler:which, which, in the short term, sometimes manifests as ChronicBackstabbingDisorder]].
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* AffablyEvil: Unit is calm, polite and friendly. He's also an ''extremely'' dangerous WellIntentionedExtremist with a ControllingVoice. And he's playing a very long game [[spoiler:which, in the short term, sometimes manifests as ChronicBackstabbingDisorder]].
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* AffablyEvil: Unit is calm, polite and friendly. He's also an ''extremely'' dangerous WellIntentionedExtremist with a ControllingVoice.CompellingVoice. And he's playing a very long game [[spoiler:which, in the short term, sometimes manifests as ChronicBackstabbingDisorder]].
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* AffablyEvil: Unit is calm, polite and friendly. He's also an ''extremely'' dangerous WellIntentionedExtremist, [[spoiler:which sometimes manifests as ChronicBackstabbingDisorder]].
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* AffablyEvil: Unit is calm, polite and friendly. He's also an ''extremely'' dangerous WellIntentionedExtremist, [[spoiler:which WellIntentionedExtremist with a ControllingVoice. And he's playing a very long game [[spoiler:which, in the short term, sometimes manifests as ChronicBackstabbingDisorder]].
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Unfortunately, as a result of [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion a recent invasion by the alien Skrulls]], S.H.I.E.L.D. has now been discredited and disbanded. Its replacement, H.A.M.M.E.R., is being run by Norman Osborn, a VillainWithGoodPublicity, and Osborn's managed to get his own representative - the xenophobic bureaucrat Henry Gyrich - appointed as Brand's co-Director.
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* CompellingVoice: [[spoiler:Unit's held in a maximum security cell with anti-subliminal fields. As soon as they're turned off, his voice can control anyone who hears him speak. This is represented by his SpeechBubbles shifting to white text on black backgrounds]].
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** [[spoiler:When Unit's able to use his CompellingVoice, it's portrayed with white text on black speech bubbles]].
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** When Brand speaks in Skrull, she gets green speech bubbles. When she speaks in Kree, they're blue.
** [[spoiler:When Unit's able to use his CompellingVoice, it's portrayed with white text on black speech bubbles]].
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-->'''Unit:''' Let me slip into something more comfortable... ''[Unit's face blurs and shifts, becoming a Drenx face]'' Well, more comfortable for you.
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-->'''Unit:''' Let me slip into something more comfortable... ''[Unit's ''[His face blurs and shifts, becoming a Drenx face]'' face]'' Well, more comfortable for you.
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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: When Unit meets the Drenx, his head and face shift from his human features to Drenx. He even discusses the change in these terms.
-->'''Unit:''' Let me slip into something more comfortable... ''[Unit's face blurs and shifts, becoming a Drenx face]'' Well, more comfortable for you.
-->'''Unit:''' Let me slip into something more comfortable... ''[Unit's face blurs and shifts, becoming a Drenx face]'' Well, more comfortable for you.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Beast and Unit, implied to be the two smartest beings in the series, start a game of chess during one conversation. Just to reinforce their intelligence, they're mentally keeping track of it, with no need for pieces or a board.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Beast and Unit, implied to be the two smartest beings in the series, start a game of chess during one conversation. Just to reinforce their intelligence, they're mentally keeping track of it, with no need for pieces or a board.board.
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** Death's Head gets pale yellow speech bubbles with jagged tails, representing his robotic voice.
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** Death's Head gets pale yellow speech bubbles with jagged tails, representing his robotic voice.
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* DrowningMySorrows: At the start of the series, Lockheed is miserable and drunk following the apparent death of his best friend [[Characters/MarvelComicsKittyPryde Kitty Pryde]] in ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen''. Sydren tries to snap him out of it, with little success.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Beast and Unit, implied to be the two smartestcharacters beings in the series, start a game of chess during one conversation. Just to reinforce their intelligence, they're mentally keeping track of it, with no need for pieces or a board.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Beast and Unit, implied to be the two smartest
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Unit assists Gyrich against Brand, but betrays him to the Drenx. He then assists the Drenx before betraying them to Brand and Beast. All of this is justified by his WellIntentionedExtremist aims]].
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''S.W.O.R.D.'' (subtitled ''No Time to Breathe'' for the collected edition) is a 2009 series from Creator/MarvelComics, written by Creator/KieronGillen with art by Steven Sanders and Craig Yeung, and color art by Matt Wilson.
Set in the shared Franchise/MarvelUniverse, the series is part of the ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' era and centers around the titular GovernmentAgencyOfFiction, its director Abigail Brand, and her boyfriend [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam Hank McCoy]] (better known as the mutant superhero Beast). S.W.O.R.D. is the Sentient World Observation and Response Department, a sister agency to ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, and is tasked with diplomacy and defence for extraterrestrial matters. Brand herself is half-mutant and half-alien, a cynical pragmatist who's trying to keep Earth safe while dealing with the aliens in a fair manner.
Unfortunately, as a result of [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion a recent invasion by the alien Skrulls]], S.H.I.E.L.D. has now been discredited and disbanded. Its replacement, H.A.M.M.E.R., is being run by Norman Osborn, a VillainWithGoodPublicity, and Osborn's managed to get his own representative - the xenophobic bureaucrat Henry Gyrich - appointed as Brand's co-Director.
Gyrich has a very different plan for S.W.O.R.D., and Brand and her allies will hate it. But that's not a problem, as Gyrich has a plan for ''them'' as well - and they're going to like that part even less...
The first issue was released November 11, 2009. The series ended with #5.
A SequelSeries of sorts, also called [[ComicBook/SWORD2020 S.W.O.R.D.]], was released in 2020 as part of the [[ComicBook/XMenTheKrakoanAge Krakoan Age]]. It focuses on Brand again, as leader of a revived S.W.O.R.D. that's controlled by the new mutant nation of Krakoa, not human governments.
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!!''S.W.O.R.D.'' (2009) contains the following tropes:
* AffablyEvil: Unit is calm, polite and friendly. He's also an ''extremely'' dangerous WellIntentionedExtremist, [[spoiler:which sometimes manifests as ChronicBackstabbingDisorder]].
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Beast and Unit, implied to be the two smartest characters in the series, start a game of chess during one conversation. Just to reinforce their intelligence, they're mentally keeping track of it, with no need for pieces or a board.
