History ComicBook / YoungbloodImageComics

%% ** Bedrock/Badrock was a mixture of [[Franchise/FantasticFour The Thing]] and Creator/HannaBarbera's [[WesternAnimation/FredAndBarneyMeetTheThing The Thing]] (being stuck in rock form like the former, but a teenager like the latter).

* TrickArrow: Shaft plays with the trope. His arrows are the standard pointy variety, but he has a trick bow that doesn't require a string. (According to the tech manual, it uses focused ''artificial gravity'' to fire the arrows.) During Creator/AlanMoore's run, GoldenAge hero Waxman tried to get Shaft to consider using trick arrows, giving examples of older archer heroes who used them. [[spoiler:Not one of which had survived the experience]].

* WolverineWannabe: Bartholomew J. Troll is one of the most obvious and blatant Wolverine expies, being a short, hairy man with wild spiky hair with animalistic agility and combat skills who is much older than he looks. In personality, however, he's a ComicRelief character and much more of a... well... {{troll}}, as opposed to Wolverine's somber attitude.

''Not to be confused with any [[Film/{{Youngblood}} movie]] of the same name, the musical [[Music/FallOutBoy The Young Blood Chronicles]], or the webcomic ''Webcomic/YoungBlood2018''

''Not to be confused with any [[Film/Youngblood movie]] of the same name, the musical [[Music/FallOutBoy The Young Blood Chronicles]], or the webcomic ''Webcomic/YoungBlood2018''

''Not to be confused with the 1986 [[Film/{{Youngblood}} movie]] of the same name, the musical [[Music/FallOutBoy The Young Blood Chronicles]], or the webcomic Webcomic/YoungBlood.''

* AbortedArc: The 08' series introduced a back-up feature drawn by Liefeld in issue 8, involving Barack Obama assembling up his own Youngblood team. For some reason, issue 9 then totally did away with the ongoing plot, the back up feature taking over entirely and ignoring everything from the last eight issues in favour of an entirely typical Youngblood series. No further issues of the run were made. Curiously, Shaft's narration does bother to explain why Badrock was back in action after suffering injuuries earlier in the run. And nothing else.

* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The team includes a short, scrappy member with ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}-inspired hair named Bartholomew J. Troll, or simply Troll, who is literally is an ancient magical troll.

* DarkseidDuplicate: Darkthorn was created to serve as an antagonist for Youngblood, being a physically imposing conqueror who rules his one planet of D'khay. [[BrightIsNotGood His costume is more brightly colored]] than Darkseid's, using gold and purple instead of blue and gray.

''Not to be confused with the 1986 movie of the same name or [[Music/FallOutBoy The Youngblood Chronicles.]]''

* WolverineWannabe: Bartholomew J. Troll is one of the most obvious and blatant Wolverine expies, being a short, hairy man with wild spiky hair with animalistic agility and combat skills. In personality, however, he's a ComicRelief character and much more of a... well... {{troll}}, as opposed to Wolverine's somber attitude.

%% * LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: More like, "Loads And Loads And Loads And Loads And Loads And Loads And Loads And Loads And Loads And Loads And Loads Of Characters", and many of them blatant ripoffs of other characters, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} in particular.

%% * GroinAttack: Famously, [[RussianReversal Diehard's groin attacks YOU.]]

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Troll ''wasn't'' this trope, until Creator/AlanMoore retconned him into being, literally, a centuries-old [[OurTrollsAreDifferent troll.]]

* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The team includes a short, scrappy member with ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}-inspired hair named Bartholomew J. Troll, or simply Troll. Creator/AlanMoore later established via RetCon that Troll literally is an ancient magical troll.

* SharedUniverse: Youngblood has ties to virtually every major Image title in some form or another. Chapel is the man who iced Al Simmons and sent him on the road to becoming Comicbook/{{Spawn}}. The team guest-starred in the original ComicBook/WildCATs miniseries. Doc Rocket and Johnny Panic both owe their existence entirely to Moore's ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'' - they didn't appear directly but are related to characters introduced therein. Diehard ''did'' appear in ''Supreme'', as a member of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Allies of Justice (along with Superpatriot from ''ComicBook/SavageDragon''). And Suprema and Twilight, the series' Supergirl and Robin stand-ins, were members of the team during Moore's run.

* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The team includes a short, scrappy member with Franchise/{{Wolverine}}-inspired hair named Bartholomew J. Troll, or simply Troll. Creator/AlanMoore later established via RetCon that Troll literally is an ancient magical troll.

** ''Youngblood: Bloodsport'' #1 opens with [[https://afghanant.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/gay-wolverine-gay-cyclops.jpg Seahawk and Battlestone getting blowjobs]] from Franchise/{{Wolverine}} and Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}.

* HeroicBuild: While bodybuilder builds are normal within superhero comics, Youngblood's original run pushed the boundaries of what constituted a heroic physique, with even "small" heroes having improbably large frames. In introducing the team, the narration also alludes to PowerLevels in mostly direct proportion to size and stature.

** In the 2012 relaunch, Photon, formerly a male character, becomes Lady Photon. Their race apparently switches genders every seven years.

** According to Creator/RobLiefeld, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen he almost had a deal]] for a cartoon on Creator/FoxKids, which would've been created for the sole purpose of promoting an action figure line from Mattel. When Fox signed an exclusive deal with [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] (thus killing Liefeld's cartoon in the cradle), Mattel dropped the idea for the toy line.

''Youngblood'' is an early Creator/ImageComics {{comic book}} written by Creator/RobLiefeld, based on a team he had created at the start of his career and planned to do as part of Gary Carlson's anthology series ''Megaton'' in the late 1980s, but put on hold when he got job offers from both Marvel and DC at the same convention. When he revived the concept in the early 1990s, he mixed in some ideas he had for the ComicBook/TeenTitans but never got to use, about a {{superhero}} team funded by the government to kill indiscriminately and have no obvious sense of morals. Interestingly it was the first book published under the Image banner, but its first issue was completed in 1991 before Image was officially formed. It was later rebooted by Creator/AlanMoore in ''ComicBook/YoungbloodJudgmentDay'', which is generally regarded as an improvement.