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* FiveManBand: Most Rough Rider teams have this dynamic while being overseen by a government representative as a higher authority they answer to. Theodore's group played it entirely straight, but the formula mutated as time went on due to the far more controversial members that would join in later decades.
** TheLeader: Theodore Roosevelt
** TheLancer: Harry Houdini with this designation evolving into TheSneakyGuy with the master escape artist being emulated by various spies, thieves, and other infiltration experts.
** TheBigGuy: Jack Johnson. The role eventually transforms into that of TheBrute as there's always one athlete in the succeeding teams who specialises in brute physical force (including, but not limited to, Creator/MikeTyson).
** TheChick: Annie Oakley, a role which gave way to having at least one FemmeFatale per Rough Rider group.
** TheSmartGuy: Thomas Edison. Already a morally murky inventor, this slot morphs interchangeably between EvilGenius and MadScientist vis-a-vis the likes of UsefulNotes/SteveJobs and UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein.
** TheSixthRanger: Monk Eastman. Originally drafted, rejected, and then conscripted again into the team, his membership set a precedent for allowing outright career criminals into the Rough Rider ranks.
** TheLeader: Theodore Roosevelt
** TheLancer: Harry Houdini with this designation evolving into TheSneakyGuy with the master escape artist being emulated by various spies, thieves, and other infiltration experts.
** TheBigGuy: Jack Johnson. The role eventually transforms into that of TheBrute as there's always one athlete in the succeeding teams who specialises in brute physical force (including, but not limited to, Creator/MikeTyson).
** TheChick: Annie Oakley, a role which gave way to having at least one FemmeFatale per Rough Rider group.
** TheSmartGuy: Thomas Edison. Already a morally murky inventor, this slot morphs interchangeably between EvilGenius and MadScientist vis-a-vis the likes of UsefulNotes/SteveJobs and UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein.
** TheSixthRanger: Monk Eastman. Originally drafted, rejected, and then conscripted again into the team, his membership set a precedent for allowing outright career criminals into the Rough Rider ranks.
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* YouFightLikeACow: While battling Jack Johnson, Rasputin delivers the odd insult "You fight like Russian midwife!".
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* MasterOfUnlocking: Unsurprisingly Creator/HarryHoudini fills this role in the original roster of the Riders.
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** TheSmartGuy: Thomas Edison. All ready a morally murky inventor, this slot morphs interchangeably between EvilGenius and MadScientist vis-a-vis the likes of UsefulNotes/SteveJobs and UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein.
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* SecretSocietyGroupPicture: Edison uses the photo-op moment to test out one of his motion picture cameras with the team not really understanding that unlike a regular camera, it's not selective of the moments it captures, polluting the promo with bickering and missed cues.
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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Invoked by Theodore Roosevelt himself when he [[spoiler:blows up Edison's lab]] during the finale of ''Ride or Die'' as he was wary of the man's inventions being used to elevate warfare on a catastrophic scale. Heartbroken over the loss of a lifetime's work and feeling his age, [[spoiler:Edison]] never tried to rebuild his enormous stockpile of high-tech wonder.
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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Invoked by Theodore Roosevelt himself when he [[spoiler:blows up Edison's lab]] during the finale of ''Ride or Die'' as he was wary of the man's inventions being used to elevate warfare on a catastrophic scale. Heartbroken over the loss of a lifetime's work and feeling his age, [[spoiler:Edison]] never tried to rebuild his enormous stockpile of high-tech wonder.wonder.
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* CombatClothing: In #4, Teddy Roosevelt is caught without a weapon, so he whips off his belt and uses the solid gold buckle to knock out General Linares.
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* ImprovisedLockpick: While hanging upside down from a tree, Houdini is able to snap off a twig with his teeth and use it as a shim to manipulate the pawl on his handcuffs.
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* PocketProtector: When General Linares shoots Annie Oakley, the bullet is stopped by a hip flask (a gift from Wild Bill Hickcock) that she has [[VictoriasSecretCompartment stuffed down her cleavage]].
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[[caption-width-right:"THE BIG STICK"]]
->''"You've been looking for a war your whole life, Teddy. Here it is."''
ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen...IN AMERICA!
No, not like [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica that]].
An AlternateHistory comicbook by Adam Glass and Pat Olliffe, Rough Riders follows the exploits of the eponymous group of press ganged adventures as they fight, scheme, and sacrifice to protect their nation, and eventually the world, as the shadow of a mad and macabre 20th Century looms. Said would-be DreamTeam initially consists of:
* UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt: Spitfire politician and vigilante.
* Creator/HarryHoudini: Gifted escape artist and amateur occultist.
* Jack Johnson: The future Galveston Giant, a powerful prize fighter.
* UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison: A gifted and unscrupulous inventor cum businessman.
* Annie Oakley: Famed sharpshooter struggling with the ennui of the WildWest's demise.
* Monk Eastman: Vicious gangster sprung from Blackwell's Island.
As it stands, the series consists of three volumes detailing the history of this band of washed-out and up-and-coming American legends: the peace they lost, the wars they fought, and the fantastic legacy they left behind.
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* AccentuateTheNegative: The curt descriptions for each Rough Rider in ''Nation'' are often highly unflattering, stressing their murky legal histories and various episodes of deviant behaviour (as far as the government saw it).
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: It's heavily implied in ''Nation'' that many of the future members of the Rough Rider cells did not so much volunteer for the team out of a sense of patriotism or moral obligation, but because they were blackmailed by the government.
* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: Each iteration of the Rough Riders is composed of people who are simultaneously extraordinary and distressingly radical, including mobsters, anarchists, and at least one zombie.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Or in the case of poor Colonel George Armstrong Custer, [[spoiler:driven insane by an alien brain parasite only to be shot to death by an alien spaceship.]] At the end of the first volume, [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk]] is possessed by a similar parasite. [[spoiler:Annie Oakley]] has an arguably kinder fate as a [[spoiler:immortal zombie brought back to life by Thomas Edison.]]
* BigGood: Theodore Roosevelt at first, who is later succeeded by his daughter, Alice, who resurrected the Rough Riders initiative and was personally involved with five (she is notably absent in Franklin D. Roosevelt's version) of its teams until her death on February 12, 1980.
* DeathDealer: Houdini has a pack of razor-edged playing cards to use as projectiles in emergencies, but he's not averse to using actual guns if those are in reach.
* DoomedByCanon: Somewhat. A majority of character deaths and survivals happen as they did in recorded history, but a fair amount are faked, occurred much less cleanly, or [[spoiler:were undone by mad science.]] Notably, the Spanish-American War that Theodore tries to prevent with his team happens anyway despite his best efforts.
* FakingTheDead: In this universe, Amelia Earhart's death at sea was faked so that the American government could have her set up a surveillance hub in Asia to spy on the Japanese during the 1930s.
* FiveManBand: Most Rough Rider teams have this dynamic while being overseen by a government representative as a higher authority they answer to. Theodore's group played it entirely straight, but the formula mutated as time went on due to the far more controversial members that would join in later decades.
** TheLeader: Theodore Roosevelt
** TheLancer: Harry Houdini with this designation evolving into TheSneakyGuy with the master escape artist being emulated by various spies, thieves, and other infiltration experts.
** TheBigGuy: Jack Johnson. The role eventually transforms into that of TheBrute as there's always one athlete in the succeeding teams who specialises in brute physical force (including, but not limited to, Creator/MikeTyson).
** TheChick: Annie Oakley, a role which gave way to having at least one FemmeFatale per Rough Rider group.
** TheSmartGuy: Thomas Edison. All ready a morally murky inventor, this slot morphs interchangeably between EvilGenius and MadScientist vis-a-vis the likes of UsefulNotes/SteveJobs and UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein.
** TheSixthRanger: Monk Eastman. Originally drafted, rejected, and then conscripted again into the team, his membership set a precedent for allowing outright career criminals into the Rough Rider ranks.
* HandicappedBadass: Deconstructed. Edison is partially deaf by the time he's recruited. A debilitation he tries to hide despite how being unable to hear people who are just six feet away from him could get him and his teammates killed. Luckily for Thomas, he's often in situations where everyone's shouting at one another.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Jack Johnson is briefly able to keep a swarm of alien insects at bay by boxing it.
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Edison uses the SecretSocietyGroupPicture photo-op moment to test out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDQFx0g0Llc one of his motion picture cameras]] with the team not really understanding that unlike a regular camera, it's not selective of the moments it captures, polluting the promo with bickering and missed cues.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Invoked by Theodore Roosevelt himself when he [[spoiler:blows up Edison's lab]] during the finale of ''Ride or Die'' as he was wary of the man's inventions being used to elevate warfare on a catastrophic scale. Heartbroken over the loss of a lifetime's work and feeling his age, [[spoiler:Edison]] never tried to rebuild his enormous stockpile of high-tech wonder.
[[caption-width-right:"THE BIG STICK"]]
->''"You've been looking for a war your whole life, Teddy. Here it is."''
ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen...IN AMERICA!
No, not like [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica that]].
An AlternateHistory comicbook by Adam Glass and Pat Olliffe, Rough Riders follows the exploits of the eponymous group of press ganged adventures as they fight, scheme, and sacrifice to protect their nation, and eventually the world, as the shadow of a mad and macabre 20th Century looms. Said would-be DreamTeam initially consists of:
* UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt: Spitfire politician and vigilante.
* Creator/HarryHoudini: Gifted escape artist and amateur occultist.
* Jack Johnson: The future Galveston Giant, a powerful prize fighter.
* UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison: A gifted and unscrupulous inventor cum businessman.
* Annie Oakley: Famed sharpshooter struggling with the ennui of the WildWest's demise.
* Monk Eastman: Vicious gangster sprung from Blackwell's Island.
As it stands, the series consists of three volumes detailing the history of this band of washed-out and up-and-coming American legends: the peace they lost, the wars they fought, and the fantastic legacy they left behind.
----
* AccentuateTheNegative: The curt descriptions for each Rough Rider in ''Nation'' are often highly unflattering, stressing their murky legal histories and various episodes of deviant behaviour (as far as the government saw it).
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: It's heavily implied in ''Nation'' that many of the future members of the Rough Rider cells did not so much volunteer for the team out of a sense of patriotism or moral obligation, but because they were blackmailed by the government.
* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: Each iteration of the Rough Riders is composed of people who are simultaneously extraordinary and distressingly radical, including mobsters, anarchists, and at least one zombie.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Or in the case of poor Colonel George Armstrong Custer, [[spoiler:driven insane by an alien brain parasite only to be shot to death by an alien spaceship.]] At the end of the first volume, [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk]] is possessed by a similar parasite. [[spoiler:Annie Oakley]] has an arguably kinder fate as a [[spoiler:immortal zombie brought back to life by Thomas Edison.]]
* BigGood: Theodore Roosevelt at first, who is later succeeded by his daughter, Alice, who resurrected the Rough Riders initiative and was personally involved with five (she is notably absent in Franklin D. Roosevelt's version) of its teams until her death on February 12, 1980.
* DeathDealer: Houdini has a pack of razor-edged playing cards to use as projectiles in emergencies, but he's not averse to using actual guns if those are in reach.
* DoomedByCanon: Somewhat. A majority of character deaths and survivals happen as they did in recorded history, but a fair amount are faked, occurred much less cleanly, or [[spoiler:were undone by mad science.]] Notably, the Spanish-American War that Theodore tries to prevent with his team happens anyway despite his best efforts.
* FakingTheDead: In this universe, Amelia Earhart's death at sea was faked so that the American government could have her set up a surveillance hub in Asia to spy on the Japanese during the 1930s.
* FiveManBand: Most Rough Rider teams have this dynamic while being overseen by a government representative as a higher authority they answer to. Theodore's group played it entirely straight, but the formula mutated as time went on due to the far more controversial members that would join in later decades.
** TheLeader: Theodore Roosevelt
** TheLancer: Harry Houdini with this designation evolving into TheSneakyGuy with the master escape artist being emulated by various spies, thieves, and other infiltration experts.
** TheBigGuy: Jack Johnson. The role eventually transforms into that of TheBrute as there's always one athlete in the succeeding teams who specialises in brute physical force (including, but not limited to, Creator/MikeTyson).
** TheChick: Annie Oakley, a role which gave way to having at least one FemmeFatale per Rough Rider group.
** TheSmartGuy: Thomas Edison. All ready a morally murky inventor, this slot morphs interchangeably between EvilGenius and MadScientist vis-a-vis the likes of UsefulNotes/SteveJobs and UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein.
** TheSixthRanger: Monk Eastman. Originally drafted, rejected, and then conscripted again into the team, his membership set a precedent for allowing outright career criminals into the Rough Rider ranks.
* HandicappedBadass: Deconstructed. Edison is partially deaf by the time he's recruited. A debilitation he tries to hide despite how being unable to hear people who are just six feet away from him could get him and his teammates killed. Luckily for Thomas, he's often in situations where everyone's shouting at one another.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Jack Johnson is briefly able to keep a swarm of alien insects at bay by boxing it.
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Edison uses the SecretSocietyGroupPicture photo-op moment to test out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDQFx0g0Llc one of his motion picture cameras]] with the team not really understanding that unlike a regular camera, it's not selective of the moments it captures, polluting the promo with bickering and missed cues.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Invoked by Theodore Roosevelt himself when he [[spoiler:blows up Edison's lab]] during the finale of ''Ride or Die'' as he was wary of the man's inventions being used to elevate warfare on a catastrophic scale. Heartbroken over the loss of a lifetime's work and feeling his age, [[spoiler:Edison]] never tried to rebuild his enormous stockpile of high-tech wonder.
