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Written as a deconstruction of the concept of StupidJetpackHitler, the story begins just before the end of WorldWarII in Europe. Days before the Third Reich's defeat, with Russian forces storming into Berlin, a breakthrough is made--the Nazis successfully create superhuman soldiers. With super-strength, bulletproof skin and matter-disrupting energy beams, the "panzermensch" save Hitler's regime from certain collapse, fundamentally changing the nature of warfare in the process. Unable to defeat the panzermensch through conventional means, the Allies are forced to develop superhumans of their own. Things rapidly go downhill for the Nazis and Allies alike.
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Written as a deconstruction of the concept of StupidJetpackHitler, StupidJetpackHitler and of classic superhero tropes, the story begins just before the end of WorldWarII in Europe. Days before the Third Reich's defeat, with Russian forces storming into Berlin, a breakthrough is made--the Nazis successfully create superhuman soldiers. With super-strength, bulletproof skin and matter-disrupting energy beams, the "panzermensch" save Hitler's regime from certain collapse, fundamentally changing the nature of warfare in the process. Unable to defeat the panzermensch through conventional means, the Allies are forced to develop superhumans of their own. Things rapidly go downhill for the Nazis and Allies alike.
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''Uber'' is an ongoing comic book series published by Creator/AvatarPress and written by Creator/KieronGillen, with art by Canaan White.
Written as a deconstruction of the concept of StupidJetpackHitler, the story begins just before the end of WorldWarII in Europe. Days before the Third Reich's defeat, a breakthrough is made--the Nazis have discovered and implemented superhumans.
Things go very downhill from there.
Written as a deconstruction of the concept of StupidJetpackHitler, the story begins just before the end of WorldWarII in Europe. Days before the Third Reich's defeat, a breakthrough is made--the Nazis have discovered and implemented superhumans.
Things go very downhill from there.
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''Uber'' is an ongoing comic book series published by Creator/AvatarPress and written by Creator/KieronGillen, with art by Canaan White.
White. Its first issue appeared in 2013. Like many Avatar Press books, it explores extremely dark themes of bloodshed, depravity and dehumanization using sci-fi and fantasy elements.
Written as a deconstruction of the concept of StupidJetpackHitler, the story begins just before the end of WorldWarII in Europe. Days before the Third Reich's defeat, with Russian forces storming into Berlin, a breakthrough is made--the Nazishave discovered successfully create superhuman soldiers. With super-strength, bulletproof skin and implemented superhumans.
matter-disrupting energy beams, the "panzermensch" save Hitler's regime from certain collapse, fundamentally changing the nature of warfare in the process. Unable to defeat the panzermensch through conventional means, the Allies are forced to develop superhumans of their own. Things rapidly go very downhill from there.
for the Nazis and Allies alike.
Written as a deconstruction of the concept of StupidJetpackHitler, the story begins just before the end of WorldWarII in Europe. Days before the Third Reich's defeat, with Russian forces storming into Berlin, a breakthrough is made--the Nazis
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* BadassArmyBadassArmy: The Nazi "panzermensch" brigades and, later, the British "His Majesty's Humans".
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* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: At one point, Sieglinde uses her matter-warping to create a twisted, alien-looking "bridge" over the Rhine so her soldiers can cross.
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* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: At one point, Sieglinde uses her matter-warping abilities to create a twisted, alien-looking "bridge" over the Rhine so her soldiers can cross.
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* SuperWeight: The "tank" Ubers have moderate superstrength, energy powers and superdurability. The rarer "battleship" Ubers are nigh-invincible {{Flying Brick}}s with "matter disruption" powers that approach RealityWarping (although they can't actually fly).
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* SuperWeight: The "tank" Ubers have moderate superstrength, powerful energy powers beams and superdurability. The rarer "battleship" Ubers are nigh-invincible {{Flying Brick}}s with "matter disruption" powers that approach RealityWarping (although they can't actually fly).
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* Bizarrchitecture: At one point, Sieglinde uses her matter-warping to create a twisted, alien-looking "bridge" over the Rhine so her soldiers can cross.
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* Bizarrchitecture: {{Bizarrchitecture}}: At one point, Sieglinde uses her matter-warping to create a twisted, alien-looking "bridge" over the Rhine so her soldiers can cross.
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* Bizarrchitecture: At one point, Sieglinde uses her matter-warping to create a twisted, alien-looking "bridge" over the Rhine so her soldiers can cross.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: The Nazis are obviously, well... Nazis. But the British spy who made the UK the second nation to get Ubers took part in mass vivisection to help get the information. On the personal level, the individual Ubers on all sides range from honourable patriots to outright psychopaths.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: The Nazis are obviously, well... Nazis. But the British spy who made the UK the second nation to get Ubers took part in mass vivisection to help get the information. On the personal level, the individual Ubers on all sides range from honourable patriots patriots, such as Colossus and Klaudia/Sieglinde, to outright psychopaths.psychopaths, such as Markus.
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* {{Gorn}}: Even by the standards of Avatar Press, this has some extreme gore and BodyHorror. [[spoiler: Colossus' death by having his arms ripped off, his chest blown through, and then finally five hours later a drill pushed through his skull probably wins though, although there's strong competition from the close-up splash page of Sankt getting his face blown off.]]
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* {{Gorn}}: Even by the standards of Avatar Press, this has some extreme gore and BodyHorror. [[spoiler: Colossus' death by having his arms ripped off, his chest blown through, his entire upper body twisted into a modern-art nightmare, and then finally five hours later a drill pushed through his skull probably wins though, although there's strong competition from the close-up splash page of Sankt getting his face blown off.]]
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* SuperWeight: The "tank" Ubers have moderate superstrength and superdurability. The rarer "battleship" Ubers are {{Flying Brick}}s with "matter disruption" powers that approach RealityWarping.
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* SuperWeight: The "tank" Ubers have moderate superstrength superstrength, energy powers and superdurability. The rarer "battleship" Ubers are nigh-invincible {{Flying Brick}}s with "matter disruption" powers that approach RealityWarping.RealityWarping (although they can't actually fly).
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->''"It doesn't matter if Spider-Man's fighting Galactus — Spider-Man will find a way to beat Galactus. Uber isn't that story. Uber is the story that every single time, Galactus will kill Spider-Man.''
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->''"It doesn't matter if Spider-Man's fighting Galactus — Spider-Man will find a way to beat Galactus. Uber isn't that story. Uber is the story that every single time, Galactus will kill Spider-Man.''
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-->''"It doesn't matter if Spider-Man's fighting Galactus — Spider-Man will find a way to beat Galactus. Uber isn't that story. Uber is the story that every single time, Galactus will kill Spider-Man.''
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* MercyKill: Colossus gets one after being horribly mutilated but not killed by Sieglinde.
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''Uber'' is an ongoing comic book series published by Creator/AvatarPress and written by Kieron Gillen, with art by Canaan White.
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''Uber'' is an ongoing comic book series published by Creator/AvatarPress and written by Kieron Gillen, Creator/KieronGillen, with art by Canaan White.
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* AteHisGun: Subverted. [[spoiler: Churchill considers it after Colossus is killed and the Germans take Paris]], but knows he has to live and serve his country.
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* AteHisGun: Subverted. Hitler was about to in the first issue. Also subverted when [[spoiler: Churchill considers it after Colossus is killed and the Germans take Paris]], but knows he has to live and serve his country.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Churchill and Hitler are main characters, and Alan Turing makes an appearance.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Churchill Churchill, Hitler, and Hitler are main characters, Stalin make prominent appearances, and Alan Turing makes an appearance.also turns up.
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* WeHaveReserves: Stalin's approach to developing superheroes. [[spoiler:We don't have time to test hundreds of soldiers to see which of them is capable of adjusting to super-serum! Just give it to them all and we'll get a few super-soldiers, even if 83/84 of them die instantly spraying blood from all their orifices!]]
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Written as a deconstruction of the concept of StupidJetpackHitler, the story takes place just before the end of WorldWarII in Europe. Days before the Third Reich's defeat, a breakthrough is made--the Nazis have discovered and implemented superhumans.
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Written as a deconstruction of the concept of StupidJetpackHitler, the story takes place begins just before the end of WorldWarII in Europe. Days before the Third Reich's defeat, a breakthrough is made--the Nazis have discovered and implemented superhumans.
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* EyeBeams: The crudest and most common use of the "battleships'" matter disruption powers.
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''Uber'' is an ongoing comic book series published by Creator/AvatarPress and written by Kieron Gillen.
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* DeconstructorFleet: As well as StupidJetpackHitler, deconstructs the common superhero comic depiction of abstract "courage", "will", or "righteousness" as outweighing SuperWeight. Go up against a FlyingBrick if you aren't one, and you '''will''' be rapidly smeared across the landscape.
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* {{Gorn}}: Even by the standards of Avatar Press, this has some extreme gore and BodyHorror. [[spoiler: Colossus' death by having his arms ripped off, his chest blown through, and then finally five hours later a drill pushed through his skull probably wins though.]]
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* {{Gorn}}: Even by the standards of Avatar Press, this has some extreme gore and BodyHorror. [[spoiler: Colossus' death by having his arms ripped off, his chest blown through, and then finally five hours later a drill pushed through his skull probably wins though.though, although there's strong competition from the close-up splash page of Sankt getting his face blown off.]]
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''Uber'' is an ongoing comic book series published by Avatar Press and written by Kieron Gillen.
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''Uber'' is an ongoing comic book series published by Avatar Press Creator/AvatarPress and written by Kieron Gillen.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Hitler, on a power high with his new super soldiers, orders and enjoys the mass slaughter of POWs.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Hitler, on a power high with his new super soldiers, orders and enjoys the mass slaughter of POWs.[=POWs=].
* OnlySaneMan: General Sankt on the Nazi side. Does not turn out well for him.
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* TheSociopath: Hitler and Markus. The latter slaughters thousand of unarmed POWs with his powers, on the former's orders. Sieglinde even refers to Markus as "the little sadist".
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* TheSociopath: Hitler and Markus. The latter slaughters thousand of unarmed POWs [=POWs=] with his powers, on the former's orders. Sieglinde even refers to Markus as "the little sadist".
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The moment when General Sankt discovers that he's just another DecoyProtagonist.
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* AteHisGun: Subverted, when [[spoiler: Churchill considers it when Colossus is killed]], but knows he has to live and serve his country.
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* AteHisGun: Subverted, when Subverted. [[spoiler: Churchill considers it when after Colossus is killed]], killed and the Germans take Paris]], but knows he has to live and serve his country.
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* BadassNormal: StephanieStephanie. She was the first person to kill an Uber, and later sniped a more powerful one through the eye when he was charging his power, destabilising his powers enough to kill him.
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* MilitarySuperhero: Colossus
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* NamesTheSame: Colossus, who names himself after the supercomputer.
* NeverGetsDrunk: One Uber, Lupin Schultz, laments that he barely gets drunk, despite having just downed seven large steins.
* NeverGetsDrunk: One Uber, Lupin Schultz, laments that he barely gets drunk, despite having just downed seven large steins.
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* AntiHero: Stephanie takes part in brutal experiments as part of being undercover in the German Uber program. And to successfully escape and deliver information vital for the Allies to have a chance in the war, she uses an Allied tank crew as bait for an Uber.
* AteHisGun: Subverted, when [[spoiler: Churchill considers it when Colossus is killed]], but knows he has to live and serve his country.
* BadassArmy
* BadassNormal: Stephanie
* AteHisGun: Subverted, when [[spoiler: Churchill considers it when Colossus is killed]], but knows he has to live and serve his country.
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* CurbStompBattle: Any fight between ordinary soldiers and supersoldiers, or "tank" level soldiers against "battleship" counterparts.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When supersoldiers use their strongest powers.
* GodzillaThreshold: Churchill resists using poison gas and nuclear bombs against the German Ubers.
* {{Gorn}}: Even by the standards of Avatar Press, this has some extreme gore and BodyHorror. [[spoiler: Colossus' death by having his arms ripped off, his chest blown through, and then finally five hours later a drill pushed through his skull probably wins though.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Churchill and Hitler are main characters, and Alan Turing makes an appearance.
** Churchill is even portrayed surprisingly even-handedly, with such characteristics as drunkenly making tactical decisions, talking disparagingly about the British lower classes and battling depression to match his clear heroic leadership.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Hitler, on a power high with his new super soldiers, orders and enjoys the mass slaughter of POWs.
* LargeAndInCharge: All superhumans grow at least an extra foot in height, as well as impressive musculature to match.
* MonumentalDamage: [[spoiler: The Allies destroy the Eiffel Tower to deny the Germans using it as a strategic point.]]
* OhCrap: The American naval commanders, when they figure out that their ships have been destroyed by Japanese Uber frogmen.
* OneManArmy: The "battleship" level supersoldiers, such as Sieglinde, Siegmund and Siegfried; and Patrick "H.M.H. Colossus" O'Connor.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When supersoldiers use their strongest powers.
* GodzillaThreshold: Churchill resists using poison gas and nuclear bombs against the German Ubers.
* {{Gorn}}: Even by the standards of Avatar Press, this has some extreme gore and BodyHorror. [[spoiler: Colossus' death by having his arms ripped off, his chest blown through, and then finally five hours later a drill pushed through his skull probably wins though.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Churchill and Hitler are main characters, and Alan Turing makes an appearance.
** Churchill is even portrayed surprisingly even-handedly, with such characteristics as drunkenly making tactical decisions, talking disparagingly about the British lower classes and battling depression to match his clear heroic leadership.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Hitler, on a power high with his new super soldiers, orders and enjoys the mass slaughter of POWs.
* LargeAndInCharge: All superhumans grow at least an extra foot in height, as well as impressive musculature to match.
* MonumentalDamage: [[spoiler: The Allies destroy the Eiffel Tower to deny the Germans using it as a strategic point.]]
* OhCrap: The American naval commanders, when they figure out that their ships have been destroyed by Japanese Uber frogmen.
* OneManArmy: The "battleship" level supersoldiers, such as Sieglinde, Siegmund and Siegfried; and Patrick "H.M.H. Colossus" O'Connor.
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* TheSociopath: Hitler and Markus. The latter slaughters thousand of unarmed POWs with his powers, on the former's orders. Sieglinde even refers to Markus as "the little sadist".
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* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler: Patrick O'Connor aka H.M.H. Colossus has a brother called Eammon, fighting in the Pacific theatre. So the Allies have found another soldier who may be able to become as powerful.]]
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* AlienSpaceBats: The Nazis develop superpeople. Even more so, they did it via ImportedAlienPhlebotinum.
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* AnyoneCanDie: There are no main characters because of this trope.
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* AnyoneCanDie: There are no main characters because of this trope. Anybody who looks as if they might be developing into an audience-identification figure will almost certainly die horribly very quickly.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: The Nazis are obviously, well... Nazis. But the British spy who made the UK the second nation to get Ubers took part in mass vivisection to help get the information. On the personal level, the individual Ubers on all sides range from honourable patriots to outright psychopaths.
* {{Gorn}}: Even by the standards of Avatar Press, this has some extreme gore and BodyHorror.
* {{Gorn}}: Even by the standards of Avatar Press, this has some extreme gore and BodyHorror.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Gruesomely demonstrated when one of the British Ubers-under-construction decides to show off his superstrength before he's become superdurable - when he flexes his muscles they rip themselves right off his skeleton.
* SceneryGorn: The opening section set during the fall of Berlin, and then even more so when we see the results of Hitler unleashing his "battleships" on Paris.
* SceneryGorn: The opening section set during the fall of Berlin, and then even more so when we see the results of Hitler unleashing his "battleships" on Paris.
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* StupidJetpackHitler: Written as a deconstruction of the idea--the Nazis having superweapons or super soldiers is ''a very bad thing''.
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* StupidJetpackHitler: Written as a deconstruction of the idea--the shallower works suggesting that World War II with superheroes and mad science would have been WAY COOL--the Nazis having superweapons or super soldiers is ''a very bad thing''.
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* AnyoneCanDie: There are no main characters because of this trope.
* BackFromTheBrink: The supersoldiers cause this for the Axis powers.
* BackFromTheBrink: The supersoldiers cause this for the Axis powers.
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* ShownTheirWork: Gillen wrote a 25,000-word world bible. He notes he was so deep in research that at one point his German friends found him with a map of 1945 Berlin and pile of Nazi biographies, World At War on TV, and listening to Richard Wagner.
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-->''"It doesn't matter if Spider-Man's fighting Galactus — Spider-Man will find a way to beat Galactus. Uber isn't that story. Uber is the story that every single time, Galactus will kill Spider-Man.''
''Uber'' is an ongoing comic book series published by Avatar Press and written by Kieron Gillen.
Written as a deconstruction of the concept of StupidJetpackHitler, the story takes place just before the end of WorldWarII in Europe. Days before the Third Reich's defeat, a breakthrough is made--the Nazis have discovered and implemented superhumans.
Things go very downhill from there.
!!This comic contains examples of:
* RealityEnsues
* StupidJetpackHitler: Written as a deconstruction of the idea--the Nazis having superweapons or super soldiers is ''a very bad thing''.
* SuperSoldier: The Ubers.
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''Uber'' is an ongoing comic book series published by Avatar Press and written by Kieron Gillen.
Written as a deconstruction of the concept of StupidJetpackHitler, the story takes place just before the end of WorldWarII in Europe. Days before the Third Reich's defeat, a breakthrough is made--the Nazis have discovered and implemented superhumans.
Things go very downhill from there.
!!This comic contains examples of:
* RealityEnsues
* StupidJetpackHitler: Written as a deconstruction of the idea--the Nazis having superweapons or super soldiers is ''a very bad thing''.
* SuperSoldier: The Ubers.
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