History ComicBook / TheUniques

* MakeMeWannaShout: Shriek has this power.

The Uniques is an ongoing superhero comic book series by husband and wife creative team Comfort Love and Adam Withers. Set in a world where people with superpowers, known as "Uniques" are commonplace, but genuine superheroes are rare, with most having been killed in a Supervillain attack on New York City in 1994. The series focuses on Hope Sage, the daughter of famed superheroes Mentor and Kinetic, who awakens from a two-year coma to find that she's the last psychic alive on the entire planet. As she comes to terms with her parents' deaths in the attack on New York city, she begins assembling her own superhero team to be the beacon of hope people need in these dark times.

The series is organized into 10 issue arcs, referred to as "seasons". The writers have planned for the story to continue for a total of ten seasons, by which point the protagonists will all be in their forties and fifties.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Hope's team, the villains they'll inevitably face, their families, the Teen Force 3, the League of Seven, the Taskforce...

* BadassNormal: Motherboard, her parents, Scout...

* DatingCatwoman: Speed used to date Penelope Zasz back in college, but they broke up. Now she's become one of his enemies, the villainess Pizzazz.

* LoveTriangle: Both Michael and Quake are being set up as potential love interests for Hope.

* ShipTease: Hope gets several moments with both Quake and Michael.

** Telepath begins putting one together in the first season consisting of herself, Kid Quick, Singe, Motherboard, Michael, Scout, and Quake.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Conscience, Hope's little sister, has this as her superpower.

* EnthrallingSiren: Venus has this role, despite being mostly human.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Because Hope and her team were unregistered when they took down the Goth Girls, the evidence they collected against the villains is considered inadmissible, and the Goth Girls are allowed to go free.

* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: In the Uniques universe, the US is currently being presided over by President Harrison and Vice President Hollis Richards.

* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: Newt Gingrich was the US President in the 1990s.

* SecretIdentity: Superhero identities are almost all common knowledge, so only Scout bothers to conceal his. [[spoiler: This turns out to be because he's legally dead, and he and Ghost have gone after enough corrupt politicians to be arrested on sight the moment he registers for his superhero license]].
* SecretKeeper: As of Issue 10, only Hope and Michael know the truth about [[spoiler: Task Force and CALIBRE being brainwashed]].

* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler: Kid Quick and Scout in Issue 10]].
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Countryman puts a gun against his head as he begs Hope to kill him]].

* DeathEqualsRedemption: Subverted. [[spoiler: Countryman and the Task Force were brainwashed pawns of the BigBad, but only Hope and Michael are aware of that, meaning that until the main villain is stopped, they will be remembered as traitors, rather than victims]].

* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler: Shawn convinces Hope to kill him before the BigBad can regain control of his body]].

** Countryman is working for the AncientConspiracy. [[spoiler: Subverted when Issue 6 indicates that he's a ManchurianAgent]]

* KilledOffForReal: Besides everyone who died in the New York disaster, [[spoiler: All members of the Task Force are [sychically killed by the BigBad when they outlive their usefulness after the death of Countryman]].
** Flashbacks in Issue 9 reveal that [[spoiler: Current was killed shortly after the attack on New York]].
* [[LastOfHisKind Last of Her Kind]]: Hope is the last psychic alive after the backlash of the New York attack kills all the others, including her parents. [[spoiler: Or so she believed, with Issue 10 revealing that there's one more, who deliberately orchestrated the attack to kill all the rest]].

* MakeMeWannaShout: Shriek

* ShaggyDogStory: Discussed at the end of Issue 10. [[spoiler: Hope's team, now dubbed New Wave, has saved the life of the President and stopped the brainwashed Task Force's attempted coup of the US government. However, given how unpopular the man is, and that the coup attempt leaked proof of the full extent of his corruption to the press, he's likely to be impeached soon anyway]].

* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler: Hope has to shoot Shawn in order to stop the BigBad]]
* StarterVillain: The Annihilgator serves as one for Hope's team in Issue 4.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler: Jacqueline Pryde]] attempts to discredit teenage superheroes while presenting herself to the public as a humble philanthropist.