History Webcomic / GenocideMan

* EvilKnockoff: [[spoiler:During the invasion on Britain, Lola ends up creating half-baked Genocide Men from volunteering soldiers, who get all of the quick boosts but none of the infrastructural changes. The result is extra-quick soldiers about as fast as the real deal, but not quite as strong, and are assured to die eventually due to their lungs bursting apart from the strain. Even in this crappy state they manage to kill about 500 soldiers each, however]].

* * UninhibitedMusclePower: Giri's tribe were engineered to be able to trigger adrenal overclocking at will, the extreme empathy was an unintended side effect, causing Fumiaki to consider them a failure. She can still tear apart a snowmobile [[spoiler:and rip a vault door open not even Jacob thought passable, not to mention it makes her immune to sarin.]]

* AdrenalOverclocking: Giri's tribe were engineered to be able to trigger one at will, the extreme empathy was an unintended side effect, causing Fumiaki to consider them a failure. She can still tear apart a snowmobile [[spoiler: and it makes her immune to sarin.]]

* AdviceBackfire: The first time the audience meets Lola and Kevin, she offers him the advice that "its easier to ask forgiveness than permission" (referring to the recruitment of a new GP agent and how the rest of the GUS might react). He takes the first part (not asking permission) to heart way too well and immediately begins JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope while smugly reminding anyone who objects that he's well within his legal rights as head of the Genocide Project.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Everyone in the Genocide Project who isn't a murderous psychopath fits the criterion, since their mission statement is essentially to commit genocide to prevent it. [[spoiler: The maddened Fumiaki A.I. is a less-defensible version, unleashing a terrifying flesh-melting plague out of some mad belief that murder breeds progress.]]

[[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=40 Genocide Man]] is the story of Jacob Doe, one of the titular Genocide Men, a man tasked with hunting out and destroying dangerous "ideas" in the aftermath of the Open Source Movement, when military secrets became public knowledge, a time period where every possible piece of scientific knowledge was available to everyone, which, among other things, resulted in a ZombieApocalypse in China, the extinction of the Jewish people (and all redheads), and the deaths of two thirds of the world's total population. Ideas can be very dangerous in a future where the technology exists to make even the most terrible ideas a reality. Jacob Doe is 98 years old, and has seen, and done, many terrible things... and his life is about to become much more complicated.

* DogpileOfDoom: [[spoiler:Lola Lamb]] goes out this way, being found under a huge pile of dead Ugandan soldiers when Jacob finally arrives.

* DeathSeeker: Jacob Doe.

* TakingYouWithMe: If a Genocide Man is killed in the field, or if his genocide case is stolen, it releases a horrifically deadly "Retribution virus" to contain the situation by killing everyone around it in a city-sized radius.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill:

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Jacob, when he finds out his contact is an AI, and an incredibly clever one at that. See AIIsACrapshoot above for details on why exactly this isn't good news.

* TooDumbToLive: Crosses with IdiotBall when an otherwise very intelligent character ignores the advise of everyone around, insists that the Genocide Project ''must'' have sent delegates to "negotiate", and rushes to the fence to meet them. No prizes for guessing the first person to be gunned down in the ensuing carnage.

* YouCannotKillAnIdea: The Genocide Project [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=88 thinks they can]], and that [[WellIntentionedExtremist for the sake of making sure the world doesn't goes further into hell]], they ''must''.

* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: Kenshiro]], having provided world leaders around the globe with the technology necessary to help humanity survive, [[spoiler: kills others, bombing many of their capitols, in an effort to force Jacob to destroy him before he goes ''completely'' insane.]]

* CharacterAlignment: An [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=458 alignment chart]] was posted at the end of chapter 9, using "pacifist-conflicted-murderous" as the moral axis.

* VillainProtagonist: the protagonists are trying to overthrow a one-world order that successfully brought about world peace, and though the GenocideProject is a pretty dark shade of grey there hasn't been a single on-screen ally of the viewpoint characters that was anything less than a complete monster. Jacob directly caused the latent flesh-melting plague by intentionally taunting an [[AIIsACrapshoot artificial intelligence]], something that he has stated outright always ends in mass destruction and insanity.
** His primary motivation is also that he's suicidal, and his main redeeming trait is that he doesn't actively intend to take everyone else with him. Usually. That's a really important "usually".

[[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=40 Genocide Man]] is the story of Jacob Doe, one of the titular Genocide Men, a man tasked with hunting out and destroying dangerous "ideas" in the aftermath of the Open Source Movement, when military secrets became public knowledge, a time period where every possible piece of scientific knowledge was available to everyone, which, among other things, resulted in a ZombieApocalypse in China, the extinction of the Jewish people, and the deaths of two thirds of the world's total population. Ideas can be very dangerous in a future where the technology exists to make even the most terrible ideas a reality. Jacob Doe is 98 years old, and has seen, and done, many terrible things... and his life is about to become much more complicated.

* AIIsACrapshoot: A terrifying subversion, as every AI is ''guaranteed'' to go insane after it has been active long enough, and the smarter the AI, the quicker it is. One AI had a sanity-span of ''five minutes'', because they needed him clever enough to figure several people's locations on the fly within seconds of activation.
* AnimalThemeNaming: The five Genocide Men: Jacob Doe, Lola Lamb, Kevin Kidd, Peter Pup, and Joey. Presumably Kevin was going for irony.