History ComicBook / WelcomeToTranquility

* MakeMeWannaShout: Sweet Sally might make you ''really'' want to shout, but he could probably do it better.

* AffectionateParody: Throughout the series there are "reprints" of the adventures of the various characters from their youth, portrayed as [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks classic comics from the 1940's and 1950's]]. These include Minxy Millions, KidHero and child millionaire, and the Liberty Squad, who fought the Nazis in World War II. [[{{Deconstruction}} They portray a lot of the problems with these stories]], such as what happens to a KidHero when dementia sets in and what fighting Germans on the Eastern Front will do to a man, but they remain pleasantly nostalgic and fond of the classic style.

* UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks: A young child explains to Pink Bunny that his favorite comic is his favorie because, unlike [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks the old comics his mother lets him read]], in this comic people ''die''. It is not real if nobody dies.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks; the people who fought the Nazis are horribly scarred because of what they experienced, supervillains who fought ''with'' the Nazis have been shunned and hassled all their lives since then, and most characters are struggling to deal with growing old in a world where younger heroes have taken their places.

* UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks: The primary active era of the town's residents, and portrayed [[AffectionateParody rather warmly]] by "reprints" of their adventures during World War II.

* UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks: The setting of the series, with most of the characters having retired from the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]].

''CWelcome To Tranquility'' is an American comic book series created by Creator/GailSimone and Creator/NeilGooge and published by Creator/{{Wildstorm}}. It is set in the fictional California town of Tranquility where {{superhero}}es and {{supervillain}}s, also known as "[[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Maxis]]," have retired and settled down to raise families after their hectic and action-packed youths. Despite the presence of both heroes and villains there is little crime amongst the populace, the heroes have grown old and the villains have either been cleared of their criminal charges or served out their prison time, allowing them to live in (relative) peace. Old rivalries remain, but revolve around traditional aspects of retired life, such as [[SeriousBusiness debating who gets the apples that fall on either side of a property line]].

''ComicBook/WelcomeToTranquility'' is an American comic book series created by Creator/GailSimone and Creator/NeilGooge and published by Creator/{{Wildstorm}}. It is set in the fictional California town of Tranquility where {{superhero}}es and {{supervillain}}s, also known as "[[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Maxis]]," have retired and settled down to raise families after their hectic and action-packed youths. Despite the presence of both heroes and villains there is little crime amongst the populace, the heroes have grown old and the villains have either been cleared of their criminal charges or served out their prison time, allowing them to live in (relative) peace. Old rivalries remain, but revolve around traditional aspects of retired life, such as [[SeriousBusiness debating who gets the apples that fall on either side of a property line]].

* PhysicalGod: We get a lot less detail on their exact powers than in some other comics, but Maximum Man and Astral Man seem to approach these levels. Judge Fury might also be in the league, considering what happens when he and Maximum Man face off, but even he says that he has a serious advantage since Maximum Man is so out of practice. Derek might outshine them all, [[UpToEleven to a rather extreme degree if Sheriff Tommy's worrying is anything to go by]], but he also has not been given specific details for his powers.

** Minxy Millions, adorable child millionaire and inventor who helped win World War II with her aerial inventions and who personally battled the SkyPirate. Unfortunately, that was seventy yeas ago and [[RealityEnsues dementia has begun to set in]].

* RealityEnsues: People get old. You can slow it down, stretch it out and fight it as much as you want, but time moves on and you need to deal with the fact that you can no longer hold the same place in the world you used to.
** Cragg's comic books posit that after being captured by the 'Nazi Giant', he was given an honorable duel against him that led to the loss of his eye. The reality was far different from any comic book. After being captured, the Giant simply tortured Cragg relentlessly (With the implication he was also castrated) and left him for dead.

A [[EnsembleCast large cast]] is composed of both retired Maxis, the children (and grandchildren) of Maxis that have grown up in this Superhero Retirement Community, and the normal amount of civilians to be found in any small town. Sheriff [[ActionGirl Thomasina "Tommy" Lindo]], who [[BadassNormal has no powers]], works to deal with the normal conflicts that arise in any town, but which have the added threat of being carried about by people with an inordinate amount of superpowers. [[BadassGrandpa Alex "Judge" Fury]], the Mayor of Tranquility and hero of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, is also featured along with his wife, [[MsFanservice Suzy "Pink Bunny" Fury]], and Colonel [[ThoseTwoGuys Isaac Cragg and Bad Dog]]. Together they formed the Liberty Squad along with [[FlyingBrick Maximum Man]], [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Astral Man]] and [[ButtMonkey Arnold "Cosmos" Stipple]] before Astral Man was murdered and they all retired to Tranquility.

* BadassGrandpa: The majority of the cast. As a home for retired heroes and villains everybody over the standard retirement age has a history to curl your toes. Half of them fought [[ThoseWackyNazis Hitler]], and the only reason that is not the ''entire'' cast is because the rest of them worked ''with'' Hitler.

* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Pink Bunny might have a few wrinkles, but ain't ''nobody'' gonna say "no".

* WomanAreWiser: Pink Bunny, out of the initial group of retired heroes presented to the readers, seems to have aged the best both physically, mentally, [[spoiler: and morally]] compared to her husband and some of her male friends.

* BigEater: Bad Dog. Also, Henry Hate and Zombie Zeke go on a hedonistic binge when everyone leaves the Mayor Fury's coming home party before any of the food is eaten.

* BrokenBird: Leona Terrell. She gets better though.
* BungledSuicide: [[spoiler:Ajita, a.k.a. Leona, tries killing herself after Tommy informs her that she'll be going to her mother for permission to interrogate Leona about Mr. Articulate's death. When Tommy asks if this may have been a cry for attention, Dr. Steel reveals that Leona drank an entire bottle of cough syrup before cutting two vertical lines on her wrists. She was ''not'' intending to wake up.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: It is not real unless somebody ''dies''.

* GirlFriday: Minxy's sidekick when she was young, Venus. These days Tommy's sister Seresa helps her out. Monxie still calls her Venus.

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler:Ajita got pregnant by her boyfriend, and, fearing what her ultra-religious mother would do to her if she found out, tried to get Mr. Articulate's help in obtaining an abortion.]]
* GoshDangItToHeck: Tommy does this alot. Flashbacks show she had an incredibly foul mouth as a kid (complete with an overflowing swear jar).

* InformedAbility: A rapist has Sheriff Tommy's sister...except he never actually raped anybody or, to the knowledge of the readers, even ''tried'' to rape anybody.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The Sampson Twins come across as crash and brash assholes when they learn about Mr. Articulate's death, but they still lend a hand against Judge Fury when Thomasina offers to let them out of jail and when she mentions that Colette's life is on the line. Thomasina implies that neither of them would allow for an innocent girl to die.
* KidHero: Minxy Millions, adorable child millionaire and inventor who helped win World War II with her aerial inventions and who personally battled the SkyPirate. Unfortunately, that was seventy yeas ago and [[RealityEnsues dementia has begun to set in]].

* NeverMessWithGranny: It's generally not a good idea to mess with a woman who built a plane out of solid gold and got it to fly anyway, even if Minxy may be suffering from Alzheimer's. [[spoiler: Most of the facial damage Derek Fury received was because of Minxy.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Derek tried to kill Thomasina when he learned she was pregnant, because he claims he was horrified at the idea of there being another person like him. His parents stopped him, and although Tommy has said the baby died, in reality she gave it up for adoption. This is played straight, however, when Suzy steps in and kills Derek herself when Alex can't.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: Tommy Lindo's dad disappeared when she was young, but Mayor Fury brought her up like his own child.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: Derek is the one who brought Mr. Articulate back from the dead. Why, we don't know. Thomasina wonders if it might've been his way of saying sorry or for some unexplored attempt at being sadistic. It's entirely likely the first option is possible, but it's also likely he brought Articulate back just to make him watch Tommy die, or vice versa.]]

''ComicBook/WelcomeToTranquility'' is an American comic book series created by Creator/GailSimone and Creator/NeilGooge and published by Creator/{{Wildstorm}}. It is set in the fictional California town of Tranquility where {{superhero}}es and [[{{Supervillain}} supervillains]], also known as "[[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Maxis]]," have retired and settled down to raise families after their hectic and action-packed youths. Despite the presence of both heroes and villains there is little crime amongst the populace, the heroes have grown old and the villains have either been cleared of their criminal charges or served out their prison time, allowing them to live in (relative) peace. Old rivalries remain, but revolve around traditional aspects of retired life, such as [[SeriousBusiness debating who gets the apples that fall on either side of a property line]].

* TheAtoner: Presley used to be the sheriff, until he browbeat a man who he believed had killed his family to the point where the man committed suicide. The next day the real killer was found. If Presley wasn't exaggerating, the experience very nearly drove him to suicide as well, if Tommy hadn't stepped in and given him "a job I don't deserve," resulting in him becoming both fanatically loyal to Tommy and a [[TheDeterminator Determinator]] to boot.

* FaceHeelTurn: What happened to Cosmos in the backstory, when he supposedly betrayed his companions and killed Astro Man. [[spoiler: Turns out he was just a drunk who was convinced by the real killer of Astro Man that he'd killed him]]

* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother To Her Girls]]: Pink Bunny is this to most of her waitresses.
* FauxActionGirl: {{Averted}}. Pink Bunny is defeated with (relative) ease, but the point is also made that she was never a fighter to begin with. She might be as strong as Judge Fury, but without the experience and history to go with her strength there is nothing to set her up as an ActionGirl in the first place.

** Even Captain Cobra and Mongoose Man, otherwise enemies to the death who will engage in decades long arguments over apples falling on one side of the fence or other will put aside their differences to fight [[spoiler:a {{Satan}} {{expy}}]]

* HypocriticalHumor: One of the Samson Brothers refers to Mr Articulate as a "loquacious fop", despite speaking YeOldeButcheredEnglish.

* JerkassGenie: [[spoiler: Freddy Beasel]] really goes the extra mile in his DealWithTheDevil. He gave Zeke eternal youth, then shot the wheels off Zeke's motorcycle, resulting in a forty plus mile an hour face-plant into the road. Then he ''brags'' about it to Zeke.

* [[LikeASonToMe Like A Daughter To Me]]: Mayor Fury and Sheriff Lindo are practically father and daughter, which makes what happens all the harder.

* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Tommy and Mr. Articulate]].

* TheRealHeroes: An [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. The town sheriff, traditionally "The Real Hero," explains that "[[ImNotAHeroIm I'm just the sheriff]]" and the rest of the town is composed of real heroes, powered and non-powered alike.

* SophisticatedAsHell: The Sampson Twins. One of them speaks YeOldeButcheredEnglish, the other talks like a modern frat boy.

* CaptainErsatz: Maximum Man is clearly the Wildstorm version of [[{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]], being a small mortal who transforms into a magically powered flying brick with a magic word. The twist? Maximum Man is a tiny old man rather than a child/teenager, and he transforms in a column of magical fire rather than lightning. He's also considered the "Mightiest Maxi" alive, according to Majestic.

* DontCallMePaul: Sweet Sally ''really'' hates it when people call him by his birth name, Kevin.

* BungledSuicide: [[spoiler: Ajita, a.k.a. Leona, tries killing herself after Tommy informs her that she'll be going to her mother for permission to interrogate Leona about Mr. Articulate's death. When Tommy asks if this may have been a cry for attention, Dr. Steel reveals that Leona drank an entire bottle of cough syrup before cutting two vertical lines on her wrists. She was ''not'' intending to wake up.]]

* BrokenBird: Leona Terrell. She gets better though.
* ByThePowerOfGrayskull: '''''HECATEAN!'''''

* FacialHorror: [[spoiler: Emoticon's face was mutilated by his grandfather, a former supervillain, when Emoticon was a teenager.]]

** Even Captain Cobra and Mongoose Man, otherwise enemies to the death who will engage in decades long arguments over apples falling on one side of the fence or other will put aside their differences to fight [[spoiler: a {{Satan}} {{expy}}]]

A [[EnsembleCast large cast]] is composed of both retired Maxis, the children (and grandchildren) of Maxis that have grown up in this Superhero Retirement Community, and the normal amount of civilians to be found in any small town. Sheriff [[ActionGirl Thomasina "Tommy" Lindo]], who [[BadassNormal has no powers]], works to deal with the normal conflicts that arise in any town, but which have the added threat of being carried about by people with an inordinate amount of superpowers. [[BadassGrandpa Alex "Judge" Fury]], the Mayor of Tranquility and hero of WorldWarII, is also featured along with his wife, [[MsFanservice Suzy "Pink Bunny" Fury]], and Colonel [[ThoseTwoGuys Isaac Cragg and Bad Dog]]. Together they formed the Liberty Squad along with [[FlyingBrick Maximum Man]], [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Astral Man]] and [[ButtMonkey Arnold "Cosmos" Stipple]] before Astral Man was murdered and they all retired to Tranquility.

The original volume, twelve issues long, was published in 2007 and 2008 before it went on hiatus, returning in 2010 for a planned six issue limited series. A part of the Wildstorm Universe, ''Welcome to Tranquility'' is unique in its relative disconnect from other series set in the same [[SharedUniverse universe]]. ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' are mentioned on occasion, and ''ComicBook/{{Gen 13}}'' guest stars in the second arc of the original series, but the majority of the story remains independent.

* {{Wildstorm}}: It is part of the Wildstorm shared universe, which is itself part of the larger Franchise/DCUniverse since ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', but remains primarily independent from other series. Since the ending of the second series, the Wildstorm imprint was discontinued, though several characters and concepts have since been incorporated into the ComicBook/{{New 52}}.
* WorldWarII: From all we have heard it seems like the Liberty Squad won it single-handedly...except for Colonel Cragg.

''ComicBook/WelcomeToTranquility'' is an American comic book series created by GailSimone and NeilGooge and published by Creator/{{Wildstorm}}. It is set in the fictional California town of Tranquility where {{superhero}}es and [[{{Supervillain}} supervillains]], also known as "[[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Maxis]]," have retired and settled down to raise families after their hectic and action-packed youths. Despite the presence of both heroes and villains there is little crime amongst the populace, the heroes have grown old and the villains have either been cleared of their criminal charges or served out their prison time, allowing them to live in (relative) peace. Old rivalries remain, but revolve around traditional aspects of retired life, such as [[SeriousBusiness debating who gets the apples that fall on either side of a property line]].