History ComicBook / TheDNAgents

The comic originally ran for 24 issues from 1983-1985. Later that year it was picked up for another 17 issues as "The New [=DNAgents=]," although it was a direct continuation of the previous storyline, and not a reboot. Crossfire and Surge also had their own individual spinoff books. In 1986 a sourcebook for use with the TabletopGame/VillainsAndVigilantes role-playing game was released (Eclipse Comics also having run a mini-series based on the RPG that year), covering the material from the first 20 issues of the main series and the spinoff books out by then.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The second series ended with Krell facing the fact that the agents were too human to control and too powerful to be left running around the way they were. Their energy was drained leaving them nothing but lifeless mannequins in cold storage, even though Rainbow turned out to be pregnant with Crossfire's child.]]

* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: The agents never went by anything but their codenames even when they attended college to learn how to blend in with humans better.

The comic originally ran for 24 issues from 1983-1985. Later that year it was picked up for another 17 issues as "The New [=DNAgents=]," even though it was a direct continuation of the previous storyline. Crossfire and Surge also had their own individual spinoff books. In 1986 a sourcebook for use with the TabletopGame/VillainsAndVigilantes role-playing game was released (Eclipse Comics also having run a mini-series based on the RPG that year), covering the material from the first 20 issues of the main series and the spinoff books out by then.

* AuthorTract: Became this sometimes. An issue of ''Crossfire'' (which, it should be pointed out again, was about superhuman corporate espionage) was seriously an extended angry diatribe about Mark Evanier's well-known grievances with the ExecutiveMeddling of kids cartoons.

* TheWorfEffect: New villains would always show how tough they were by punching Tank through a wall.

* TheWorfEffect: People would always show how tough they were by punching Tank through a wall.

The comic originally ran for 24 issues from 1983-1985. Later that year it was picked up for another 17 issues as "The New [=DNAgents=]," even though it was a direct continuation of the previous storyline. Crossfire and Surge also had their own individual spinoff books. In 1986 a sourcebook for use with the TabletopGame/VillainsAndVigilantes role-playing game was released (Eclipse Comics also having run a mini-series based on the RPG), covering the material from the first 20 issues of the main series and the spinoff books out by then.

* MistakenForPedophile: In an issue of ''Crossfire'', Rainbow tries to get enough money to help the agents become independent from their corporate masters by posing for a nude photo shoot. Crossfire gets her out of her contract by pointing out that while she has the body and mind of a woman in her 20's she was born in a tank and is technically only seven years old, so a nude photo spread of her is kiddie porn ([[ProtagonistCenteredMorality although the comic overlooks how by that logic Crossfire himself is a child molester for being in a sexual relationship with her...]]).

* Rainbow: The TeamMom and a telepath who could create intricate illusions. As time wore on [[PowerIncontinence it was rarely when she actually wanted to]], however.

* AuthorTract: Became this sometimes. An issue of ''Crossfire'' was seriously an extended angry diatribe about Mark Evanier's well-known grievances with the ExecutiveMeddling of kids cartoons.

* TheGeneralissimo: The Commander, clone-hating dictator of a [[{{Bulungi}} fictional South African nation]]. And decked out in PoweredArmor that makes Tank look puny.

** In an extremely amusing turn, Surge's own foil was a guest-star hero actually named Lancer, making Lancer TheLancer ''to'' TheLancer!

* MultipleChoicePast: Lancer, the self-proclaimed strongest man in the world, never told the same origin story about where his powers came from twice.

* TheGeneralissimo: The Commander, clone-hating dictator of a fictional South African nation. And decked out in PoweredArmor that makes Tank look puny.

* {{Fanservice}}: Certainly wasn't shy about showing off its cast's bodies. Both Amber and Rainbow's outfits BareYourMidriff and include booty shorts, and Surge's uniform showed a male version of NavelDeepNeckline to display bare chiseled pecs and abs. Reprinted collections of the comics in the 2000s were even remastered to make the fanservice more evident.

* TheChick: Amber, who looks and acts like a young girl finding her place in the world (somewhat moreso than the other agents, that is).