History ComicBook / TheLosers

* DyingMomentOfAwesome:[[spoiler:Cougar.]]

* ObnoxiousInLaws: In the movie Wadeclaims to be fine with killing some goons who know too much even though one is his brother-in0law.

** SociallyAwkwardHero: He also tries (and fails) to pick up women at the worst possible times. Like when Aisha is cleaning her gun. Or when an EMT is helping him from the wreckage of a truck crash (supposedly). Or while stealing data from a highly secure office building.

* {{Adorkable}}: Jensen (at least in the movie).

* FingerGun: [[{{Adorkable}} Jensen]] in the last part of the movie's office infiltration scene.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: Gleefully subverted. Stegler offers the remaining Losers a job in a black ops unit he’s putting together to take out the remainders of Max’s organisation, but they grin and tell him to fuck off.

* BringIt: Aisha is told 100 men will be sent to stop her. Her response is “Send them.” She then shoots one in the head and says “99.”

* ChekhovsGun: The team chases Max’s forces out of Pripyat, forcing the latter to leave behind their final nuke, so naturally the Losers snatch it up to avoid it falling into the wrong hands, only for it to vanish while in storage. It returns with Fahd in the finale [[spoiler:and is used by Cougar to blow up Max’s oil rig with him in it.]]

* DrugsAreBad: The first time the Losers meet Max, he's smoking opium in a drug trafficking town in the tribal region of Afghanistan. He even offers Clay some. Many of Max’s endeavours are also paid for by drug-smuggling.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Oh man, where to start? The men who [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill call in an airstrike on the team]] when they have grenades, [[ForTheEvulz just 'cause,]] only to find that Jensen reconfigured the strike’s coordinates to on top of themselves? Or the Arab militant who accidentally fires an RPG in the air and doesn't notice until too late that it's coming back down? Or...you know what, just expect there to be a lot of them, complete with OhCrap and ThisIsGonnaSuck moments.

* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: During the London arc, Jensen and Cougar invade a decommissioned [=WW2=] missile platform where an audacious guy named Dave has declared himself king, knowing he’s in international waters and thus untouchable. The narrative at that point is more focused on the fact that Roque has returned, but this turns out to be {{Foreshadowing}} Max’s endgame.

--> '''Max:''' What the hell was that?
--> '''Wade:''' You gave me "the nod".
--> '''Max:''' A "hit him in the face" nod, not a "throw him off the roof" nod!
--> '''Wade:''' I thought that's what you wanted.
--> '''Max:''' At most, at most, that was a "break his fingers" nod! Jesus, Wade, the man was a scientific genius! Granted, [[YouAreFat his weight]] signaled some impulse control issues, but that's no reason to [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk throw his fat ass]] off 57 floors.

* PutOnABus: Roque disappears from the story after the airport fight in Texas during the book’s first arc, and he is presumed dead by the team. [[TheBusCameBack He returns in the London arc.]]
* TheQuietOne: Cougar. It’s even Lampshaded when they sneak aboard Roque’s boat, as he was the one Clay trusted most to go unnoticed and let the rest out of a cargo container where they had to hide.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: A core theme of the series. This black ops team WILL defy their orders to do the right thing. Disobeying orders to save some children from certain death is how their story started. Interestingly, it causes conflict within the team as well. When Clay and Aisha are considering sacrificing a rescue helicopter’s crew to follow Roque to Max, Pooch protests in horror, and Cougar slips away to attacked Roque outright and blow that plan. Clay chews him out for disobeying orders, apparently unaware of the irony.

* UniversalDriversLicense: Pooch’s specialty is exfiltration, which leads to him operating almost every conceivable vehicle. Cars, trucks, helicopters, boats, and at one stage even a tilt-a-rotor.

* DuctTapeForEverything: Pooch uses it to assemble an improvised RPG.
--> '''Pooch''': I'm the black Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}!

* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: During the London arc, Jensen and Cougar invade a decommissioned WW2 missile platform where an audacious guy named Dave has declared himself king, knowing he’s in international waters and thus untouchable. The narrative at that point is more focused on the fact that Roque has returned, but this turns out to be {{Foreshadowing}} Max’s endgame.

* BadassGrandpa: Stegler. Never mentioned how old he is, but he's noted as being a bit of a dinosaur around the CIA offices.

--> '''Pooch''': I'm the black Series/MacGyver!

* MrFanservice: The whole goddamn team. ([[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Including Aisha.]])

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Dear god, just about every volume has at LEAST one.

* The Faceless: Max, in the comics. He only shows up in cameos until the end, but always obscured in some way. Even in Clay's flashback to the Afghanistan mission that doomed the team, he's obscured by a thick cloud of smoke.

* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: To Clay, Roque’s betrayal is felt just as much, if not more, than what Max did to the team.

* TheQuietOne: Cougar

* WoundedGazelleGambit: An old favourite of the team and one of the first things we seen them do - posing as military in distress in order to hijack the rescue helicopter. The team are incensed when [[SixthRangerTraitor Roque]] uses the idea for his own aims much later to hijack a rescue ship.

* DrugsAreBad: The first time the Losers meet Max, he's smoking opium in a drug trafficking town in the tribal region of Afghanistan. He even offers Clay some.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Oh man, where to start? The men who [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill call in an airstrike on the team]] when they have grenades, [[ForTheEvulz just 'cause?]] Or the Arab militant who accidentally fires an RPG in the air and doesn't notice until too late that it's coming back down? Or...you know what, just expect there to be a lot of them, complete with OhCrap and ThisIsGonnaSuck moments.

* There's a ShoutOut to the original comic in the comics; Clay shares a surname with one of the original Losers, and he mentions that his grandfather was in World War II. Pooch is named after the dog kept by Gunner and Sarge of the original squad, as well.

** SociallyAwkwardHero: He also tries (and fails) to pick up women at the worst possible times. Like when Aisha is cleaning her gun. Or when an EMT is helping him from the wreckage of a truck crash (supposedly).

---> '''Max:''' Granted, his weight indicated some impulse control issues, but that's no reason to throw his fat ass off 7 stories.

--> '''Max:''' Yes, a "punch him in the face" nod, not a "throw him off the roof" nod!

--> '''Max:''' No, no, at most, that was a "break his fingers" nod! Jesus, Wade, the man was a scientific genius! Granted, [[YouAreFat his weight]] indicated some impulse control issues, but that's no reason to [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk throw his fat ass]] off 50 stories.

-->'''Roque:''' Gee, I hope they don't see us sitting in this bright yellow Pinto.\\

--> '''Max:'''No, no, at most, that was a "break his fingers" nod! Jesus, Wade, the man was a scientific genius! Granted, [[YouAreFat his weight]] indicated some impulse control issues, but that's no reason to [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk throw his fat ass]] off 50 stories.

--> '''Max:'''No, no, at most, that was a "break his fingers" nod! Jesus, Wade, the man was a scientific genius! Granted, [[YouAreFat his weight]] indicated some impulse control issues, but that's no reason to [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk throw his fat ass]] off a roof.

--> '''Max:'''No, no, at most, that was a "break his fingers" nod! Jesus, Wade, the man was a scientific genius! Granted, [[YouAreFat his weight]] indicated some impulse control issues, but that's no reason to [[[Jerkass throw his fat ass]]] off a roof.

---> '''Max:''' What the hell was that?
---> '''Wade:''' You gave me "the nod".
---> '''Max:''' Yes, a "punch him in the face" nod, not a "throw him off the roof" nod.