History Webcomic / ComboRangers

** Issue #9 of the JBC series features the Superchampion, who looks exactly like Silver Age Comicbook/{{Superman}} except with a C-shield rather than an S-shield. In fact, the whole issue is a tribute to the idealism of UsefulNotes/theSilverAgeOfComicBooks, and many other ersatzes show up.

** Issue #9 of the JBC series features the Superchampion, who looks exactly like Silver Age Comicbook/{{Superman}} except with a C-shield rather than an S-shield.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: General Monte's lieutenant Carolho is a grey mass of eyes with arms and legs, who can throw his eyes at enemies. Every one of his evolutions (which started when he got into a teleporter with an ape monster and they got fused, ''[[Film/TheFly1958 The Fly]]''-style) retained this trait. Also the Deskarga footsoldiers, the Four-Eyed Men.
** What? They should've been called "Three-Eyed Men"? The Four-Eyed Men ''do'' have four eyes! Just don't ask us where the fourth eye is...

* PerpetualPoverty: Became a RunningGag since the loss of the original Combo Base, and even harder in the JBC series, wherein Uncle Combo was shown to be constantly broke and trying to make ends meet.

** The team's first suit is clearly based on DengekiSentaiChangeman. They even have their take on the Power Bazooka.

** Another one is in the fact that Tati's aunt is called April. And which month comes after April? [[Comicbook/SpiderMan May]].

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Fabi's is purple. Also, all the Go Go Riders (except for Pulse, the Pink Rider, whose hair is orange) have color-coded hair (though Flash's flip-flops between blue and orange like Pulse's).

* CelibateHero: Kiko eventually decided that getting a girlfriend is too much of a hassle, because he thinks they eventually get too needy.

* StrictlyFormula: As far as a ''SuperSentai'' parody could go, until story arcs were introduced.

The Combo Rangers' adventures were a huge hit amongst Brazilian Internet users, back in its emerging era in the country during the turn of the 21st Century; so much, in fact, that while ''Revolution'' was rolling, they even got [[ComicBookAdaptation their own comic series]], published by JBC, which lasted 12 issues between 2001 and 2002 (as well as a three-issue miniseries based on the ''Revolution'' series before that), each with their own self-contained story. A second series, published by Panini in 2003, was a bit more mature (both in art and in story) and lasted 10 issues. Since then, the series lay pretty much dormant as Yabu shifted his focus to ''Sea Princesses'' and other personal projects, until he announced, late in 2012, a fundraising campaign for three brand-new ''Combo Rangers'' albums. The R$ 40,000 (about US$ 17K) goal was met in just ''two weeks'' - which goes to show how fond are the memories of the Brazilian Net surfers who followed the Rangers more than ten years before. The first of these albums, ''We Are Heroes'', was released in the 16th Rio de Janeiro Biennial Book Festival, in September 2013, with the other two coming out in the following years. The graphic novel trilogy and most of the print comics have been re-released digitally. The first graphic novel has been released in English through [=iTunes=] and Comixology.

The Combo Rangers' adventures were a huge hit amongst Brazilian Internet users, back in its emerging era in the country during the turn of the 21st Century; so much, in fact, that while ''Revolution'' was rolling, they even got [[ComicBookAdaptation their own comic series]], published by JBC, which lasted 12 issues between 2001 and 2002 (as well as a three-issue miniseries based on the ''Revolution'' series before that), each with their own self-contained story. A second series, published by Panini in 2003, was a bit more mature (both in art and in story) and lasted 10 issues. Since then, the series lay pretty much dormant as Yabu shifted his focus to ''Sea Princesses'' and other personal projects, until he announced, late in 2012, a fundraising campaign for three brand-new ''Combo Rangers'' albums. The R$ 40,000 (about US$ 17K) goal was met in just ''two weeks'' - which goes to show how fond are the memories of the Brazilian Net surfers who followed the Rangers more than ten years before. The first of these albums, ''We Are Heroes'', was released in the 16th Rio de Janeiro Biennial Book Festival, in September 2013, with the other two coming out in the following years. The graphic novel trilogy and most of the comics have been made available through online retailers such as [=iTunes=], Google Play, and Brazil's Amazon Kindle store. The first graphic novel has been released in English through [=iTunes=] and Comixology.

The Combo Rangers' adventures were a huge hit amongst Brazilian Internet users, back in its emerging era in the country during the turn of the 21st Century; so much, in fact, that while ''Revolution'' was rolling, they even got [[ComicBookAdaptation their own comic series]], published by JBC, which lasted 12 issues between 2001 and 2002 (as well as a three-issue miniseries based on the ''Revolution'' series before that), each with their own self-contained story. A second series, published by Panini in 2003, was a bit more mature (both in art and in story) and lasted 8 issues. Since then, the series lay pretty much dormant as Yabu shifted his focus to ''Sea Princesses'' and other personal projects, until he announced, late in 2012, a fundraising campaign for three brand-new ''Combo Rangers'' albums. The R$ 40,000 (about US$ 17K) goal was met in just ''two weeks'' - which goes to show how fond are the memories of the Brazilian Net surfers who followed the Rangers more than ten years before. The first of these albums, ''We Are Heroes'', was released in the 16th Rio de Janeiro Biennial Book Festival, in September 2013, with the other two coming out in the two following years.

More details on the upcoming albums, and the series in general, can be seen [[http://comborangers.com.br/ here]] (in Portuguese).

The story starts in [[CityOfAdventure Cidade]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment City]], where five nine-year-old kids are drafted by a retired hero, the Mighty Combo, to fight the good fight against the invading aliens of the Deskarga Empire, led by the terrible General Monte and his army of monsters. As the children fight on, their bonds of friendship and sense of justice grow stronger and stronger, allowing them to defeat enemy after enemy, ultimately saving the world from destruction [[spoiler:at the cost of their lives.]]

* ShoutOut: They were especially bad about this in the first series, with various characters from different media popping up in cameos ([[Franchise/SailorMoon Sailor Venus]] as a TV reporter, for example), as well as a few other things, like the Combomobile's license plate being "BeverlyHills90210". Not to mention the fact that Super Macacaloiro is a [[Franchise/DragonBall Super Saiyan]] pastiche.

-->'''A:''' Stop right there, [insert random insult here]!
-->'''B:''' Who said that?

* ShoutOut: They were especially bad about this in the first series, with various characters from different media popping up in cameos ([[Franchise/SailorMoon Sailor Venus]] as a TV reporter, for example), as well as a few other things, like the Combomobile's license plate being "BeverlyHills90210". Not to mention the fact that Super Macacaloiro is a [[DragonBall Super Saiyan]] pastiche.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Fabi's is purple. Also, all the Go Go Riders (except for Pulse, the Pink Rider, whose hair is orange) have color-coded hair (though Flash's flip-flops between blue and orange like Pulse's).
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Chronologically speaking, Combo should be around his [=50s=]/[=60s=]; however, his superhuman physiology prevent him from physically aging any further than in his heyday in TheSixties.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: General Monte's lieutenant Carolho is a grey mass of eyes with arms and legs, who can throw his eyes at enemies. Every one of his evolutions (which started when he got into a teleporter with an ape monster and they got fused, ''Film/TheFly''-style) retained this trait. Also the Deskarga footsoldiers, the Four-Eyed Men.

The Combo Rangers' adventures were a huge hit amongst Brazilian Internet users, back in its emerging era in the country during the turn of the 21st Century; so much, in fact, that while ''Revolution'' was rolling, they even got [[ComicBookAdaptation their own comic series]], published by JBC, which lasted 12 issues between 2001 and 2002 (as well as a three-issue miniseries based on the ''Revolution'' series before that), each with their own self-contained story. A second series, published by Panini in 2003, was a bit more mature (both in art and in story) and lasted 8 issues. Since then, the series lay pretty much dormant as Yabu shifted his focus to ''Sea Princesses'' and other personal projects, until he announced, late in 2012, a fundraising campaign for three brand-new ''Combo Rangers'' albums. The R$ 40,000 (about US$ 17K) goal was met in just ''two weeks'' - which goes to show how fond are the memories of the Brazilian Net surfers who followed the Rangers more than ten years before. The first of these albums was released in the 16th Rio de Janeiro Biennial Book Festival, in September 2013, with the other two coming out in the two following years.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Ken for Tati, Maya for Luke. The latter isn't played as much as the former, though.

* HealingHands: Luke

--> '''Luke:''' We met in my future. You're known there as a great heroine, you know?\\

** TheBigGuy: Lisa, who defeated the Yellow Crystal Warrior by herself in a fit of rage and whose power is said to rival Fox's

** SixthRanger: Luke, who would go on to become TheChick while Sara would become the SixthRanger

** TheLancer: Ken
** TheBigGuy: Kiko, for lack of a better choice (he's pretty laid back and not any stronger than the others)
** TheSmartGuy: Lisa

** SixthRanger: Luke

* InsufferableGenius: Maya won't let you forget that she's the prettiest, smartest, best fighter girl around. Even though she has no superpowers.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The first three episodes of ''Revolution'' are animated, and the cast features some well-known voice actors in Brazilian cartoons and anime:
** Fox (Fábio Lucindo) is [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]] and [[DragonBall Kuririn]];
** Lisa (Fátima Noya) is [[DragonBall child Gohan]] and [[RanmaOneHalf female Ranma Saotome]];
** Tati (Marli Bortoletto) is [[Anime/SailorMoon Usagi Tsukino's]] original voice;
** Uncle Combo (Marcelo Campos) is [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]] and [[Anime/YuGiOh Yugi Mutou]];
** Cardman (Gilberto Baroli) is [[SaintSeiya Gemini Saga/Kanon]].

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Some of the computer/cable TV references in the dialogue look incredibly dated when they're read again a decade later (like in ''Zero'', where a girl smitten with Luke asks for his ICQ number as he saves her).

** Blue's and White's are pretty straightforward (MacOS and Windows, respectively)

** Tati (Marli Bortoletto) is [[SailorMoon Usagi Tsukino's]] original voice;

* ShoutOut: They were especially bad about this in the first series, with various characters from different media popping up in cameos ([[SailorMoon Sailor Venus]] as a TV reporter, for example), as well as a few other things, like the Combomobile's license plate being "BeverlyHills90210". Not to mention the fact that Super Macacaloiro is a [[DragonBall Super Saiyan]] pastiche.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Luke

** Uncle Combo (Marcelo Campos) is [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]] and [[YuGiOh Yugi Mutou]];