History Webcomic / GenocideMan

* ModifiedClone: Fumiaki made some "improvements" with his cloned son [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=479 Kentaro]]; height, eyesight, [[spoiler: replacing his brain with an AI core]].

* 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 ultimately successful effort to force Jacob to destroy him before he goes ''completely'' insane]].

* NoTranshumanismAllowed: ''Genocide Man'' takes this to its logical conclusion -- after a series of wars fought with {{Super Soldier}}s and {{Synthetic Plague}}s wiped out two-thirds of the planet's population, the beneficiaries of any form of genetic engineering are hunted down and slaughtered. The death of thousands of unaltered humans is considered acceptable in this task. According to the titular Genocide Man, [[YouCannotKillAnIdea the only way to kill an idea is to kill every single person that holds it]], and the idea that baseline humanity can be replaced and made obsolete needs to be eliminated.

* EmptyEyes: All of the Genocide Men have cold, dead stares (represented in the art by blank white eyes) due to the lifetime of horrors they've each seen and committed. One character actually thought the eyes were cybernetic, because she didn't believe that human eyes could look like that.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Girii's skin tone is hard to discern due to the greyscale, but she is an Inuit with blonde hair.
--> '''Girii:''' Ancient tribal secret -- it's called Peroxide.

* MistakenForDyed: {{Invoked|Trope}} by the Inuit {{Designer Bab|ies}}y Girii, who [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=70 colors]] her ''roots'' brown so that people think her telltale [[DarkSkinnedBlond platinum-blonde hair]] is a dye job. It's a survival tactic -- the OneWorldOrder summarily executes anyone and anything that's been genetically modified.

* InformationWantsToBeFree: On the backstory, the Open Source Movement believed this and released a large amount of classified information to the public. The wide-spread horrors that followed [[NiceJobBreakingItHero and which were created with the technology that this information put at reach of the general public]] led to the creation of the United Nations' [[FunWithAcronyms GENOCIDE]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction Project]], which believes in the inversion of this (and YouCannotKillAnIdea) and [[KillEmAll carries it]] [[BiologicalWeaponsSolveEverything to the]] [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner most logical]] extreme.

* KillEmAll: The government's number one law enforcement tool is now complete annihilation. In a future where you can make anything you please, even a targeted virus that can kill an entire gene line in a matter of days, the only way to prevent abuses of science is to kill anyone with an "idea" that is deemed too dangerous.

* NiceHat: The Senegalese Command Hat, [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=519 as seen here]].

* TooMuchInformation: Jacob's response when Captain Thrasisikikokleopolous says that his family line has had three nipples for many generations. Not that it matters, since Genocide Men don't target people with natural mutations.

* VillainousBreakdown: Lola starts doing rather badly after killing Kevin. It's subtle, aside from a brief breakdown, but she gets increasingly open about her ruthless acts afterwards. [[spoiler:And after Senegal and the rest declare war on G.U.S. and the invasion of the UK starts, she loses her goddamn mind entirely, remaining exactly as quiet as before while being willing to slaughter everything and everyone that isn't Jacob, who she merely maims]].

* 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, essentially holding the world at gunpoint so it would finally allow itself to advance enough to cure it (with tools the AI itself had left behind and knew would never be considered otherwise)]].

** Girii, maybe. According to the character sheet (as written by the Genocide Project) "She has also demonstrated impressive strength, but a lack of genetic markers indicate her musculature may be from a childhood filled with rigorous labor." However after she rips open a quarantine wall bare-handed Jacob [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=272 suggests]] that Fumiaki developed entirely new musculature genes that they can't detect.

* DesignerBabies: Most types of "genetic deviant" are made this way. Such as the [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=63 Ugandan Deviants]], who were the result of witch doctors "blessing" pregnant mothers with a teratogenic virus.

** Peter Pup, one of the genocide men, eventually went insane from all of the horrors he was forced to inflict, and killed himself by diving into a wet cement foundation with his virus case. Sadly, the case opened, and a nasty bubble of virus released into the air, killing a lot of people.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Most normal diseases including HIV and all forms of cancer were quickly cured. Then they were replaced with impossible-to-treat bioengineered plagues and super-soldiers created by MadScientist characters. In fact, one big reason the world had such a rough time after that is that everyone had their own idea as to how the world could be improved, as to how the human race could be improved, and now that they had the technology they started to act on them. And since some of those ideas included "[Ethnicity] would be better off dead"...

* 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 ultimately-successful effort to force Jacob to destroy him before he goes ''completely'' insane]].

** There is eventually revealed to be a way to achieve long-term, if not necessarily indefinite, AI stability. Unfortunately, it has a failure condition ''and'' imposes an effective upper limit on how smart the AI can be: [[spoiler: fool the AI into thinking it is human. This seems to mostly work for the Kentaro and Fumiaki [=AIs=], allowing them to last for ''years''... up until they find out what they are, at which point they begin sliding downward.]]

* ArcWords: First delivered by an insane AI, ''They say that there's a secret gene, that Adam had, and it made him clean.''
* AscendedExtra: Exit the pilot was originally more a piece of scenery than a character. But, by the author's own admission, Exit grew on him, eventually becoming a fearless DeadpanSnarker who is closer to [[spoiler: Caera Shou]] than anyone else in the Genocide Project. He knows no Genocide Man will kill him no matter how much he mouths off because [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou none of ]] ''[[CantKillYouStillNeedYou them]]'' [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou know how to fly the helicopter]].

** It later turns out that [[spoiler:the Genocide Project unleashed a gene therapy virus intended to both boost human immune systems to make them more resistant to plagues, and to make humanity less aggressive. It killed a billion people.]]

* BloodKnight: Joey. The guy had his license to carry a WeaponOfMassDestruction revoked because he was setting it off "for fun"
* CharacterAlignment: [[invoked]]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.

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: The entire world has suffered a Mad Scientist Apocalypse so traumatizing that they've given control to a group of mass murderers whose only purpose is to commit genocide on mad scientists and their victims before they can commit even worse genocides on everyone else. The very fact that genocide itself has been institutionalized is the first sign that everything has gone horribly wrong.
* ConsummateLiar: Lola, the political/scientific founder of the Genocide Project, as showcased when [[spoiler: she rather overstates the chances of their "global therapy package" putting an end to the whole mess]].
--> [[AltText Lola's real skill is that people believe her. Even those that should know better.]]

--> '''Girii:''' Ancient tribal secret - it's called Peroxide.

'''Kevin:''' What if I told you I could cut those months of rehabilitation...down into weeks? And at the end, you'll be faster, stronger, and harder to kill than ever before? \\
'''Caera:''' I would say, draw my blood...fill a pen...and show me where to sign.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Joey voted against [[spoiler: the Guyaquil plague, because it would "take the teeth out of the human race".]]

* {{Fanservice}}: [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=478 Chapter 10, Page 11]] "This a test of the Emergency Fanservice Delivery System. This is only a test. If it becomes necessary to deliver fanservice to the readers, be assured that our artist Michael is capable of providing it. This has been a test. :)"

** [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=438 Dahnai tells Msaka to let the whale swallow her.]]

* HandicappedBadass: Unlike her fellow Genocide Men, Lola underwent the carbon-nanotube therapy while in the early stages of osteoporosis, causing her super-hard bones to also become super-brittle and confining her to a wheelchair. [[spoiler: She also takes out Kevin with ease.]]
--> [[spoiler: I asked the lab boys for a recoilless rifle with auto-aim fast enough to catch a Genocide Man. See how well people respond when you show a little leadership?]]
* HeelFaceTurn: After a while spent fighting the Jiang Shi, [[spoiler: Caera Shou]] finds herself much less inclined to narrowly-define "humanity," and tries to build bridges with Senator Mkasa.

--> "The Genocide Project saved the world. We did good things. But, despite our global dominion and all the mass murder, we somehow lost our way."
--> [[SarcasmMode "Imagine that."]]

* IdiotBall: The very same chapter features an American admiral making a series of truly stunningly-dumb decisions to showcase the threat posed by [[spoiler: the Kentaro A.I.]], and an otherwise-intelligent character arbitrarily assuming the troops sent by the organization with "Genocide" in its name to an enclave of gene-modded beings they've sworn to exterminate are coming to ''negotiate'' for no real stated reason.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Kevin does it pretty quickly, taking the advice that it's sometimes better to beg forgiveness than ask permission and promptly uses it to justify pissing off every nation on Earth while killing loads of people. [[spoiler: Kentaro decides it's probably why all A.I.s eventually go insane: when you're the smartest being on Earth, you feel an obligation to help. Then you realize that [[MurderIsTheBestSolution you can solve an awful lot of problems by killing people]]. Then you realize that [[WellIntentionedExtremist you can solve bigger and bigger problems by killing more and more people]]...]]
* KickTheDog: Kevin eventually murders one of his workers for bringing him bad news before tea. [[spoiler: It's the last straw for Lola, who finally takes him out.]] More-humorously, Jacob reminisces about his last trip to India, when [[AxCrazy Joey]] killed a pile of sacred cows for no other reason than because he could.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Jacob mentions that if he's captured he will be mindwiped, and that it may have happened to him before, Peter was at least three times. [[spoiler: And it's later discovered that at times the Genocide Men use a drug patch called the Lethe Protocol when discussing things that absolutely have to be secret, it prevents them from remembering what they did while on the drug. But Joey's augment tweaks rendered him immune.]]
* LongevityTreatment: The titular Genocide Men had a variety of procedures done that allowed them to continue operating well into their 90s or 100s -- artificial glands to stabilize hormones, nanotube-laced skeletons to prevent broken bones, and telomerase to prevent cancer. The former two sets of augmentations have [[{{Supersoldier}} other bonuses]] as well. Jacob is ninety-eight but thanks to his mods he is still one of the deadliest men in the world.
* MadScientist: Dr. Fumiaki, [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=419 just look at him]]. It turns out his madness may be related to [[spoiler: his being an AI.]]

* MistakenForDyed: {{Invoked|Trope}} by the Inuit {{Designer Bab|ies}}y Girii, who [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=70 colours]] her ''roots'' brown so that people think her telltale [[DarkSkinnedBlond platinum-blonde hair]] is a dye job. It's a survival tactic -- the OneWorldOrder summarily executes anyone and anything that's been genetically modified.
* ModifiedClone: Fumiaki made some "improvements" with his cloned son [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=479 Kentaro]]; height, eyesight, [[spoiler: replacing his brain with an AI core.]]

* NoTranshumanismAllowed: ''Genocide Man'' takes this to its logical conclusion -- after a series of wars fought with {{Supersoldier}}s and {{Synthetic Plague}}s wiped out two-thirds of the planet's population, the beneficiaries of any form of genetic engineering are hunted down and slaughtered. The death of thousands of unaltered humans is considered acceptable in this task. According to the titular Genocide Man, [[YouCannotKillAnIdea the only way to kill an idea is to kill every single person that holds it]], and the idea that baseline humanity can be replaced and made obsolete needs to be eliminated.
--> '''Jacob:''' Your threat comes from what you represent -- the idea that human beings can be improved or replaced. Ideas like that are too dangerous to let live.
** However, the Genocide Project has no issue with augmenting their agents in other ways, stimulant-loaded glands and unbreakable skeletons. And it's been revealed that [[spoiler:they actually used a gene therapy plague to modify the entire world population so that they would be immune to any designer plagues but their own and reduce aggression. It killed almost a billion people and turned the survivors into "deviants" -- baseline humanity went practically extinct and only a couple people even noticed.]]

* OhCrap: Tatsu Fumiaki, the scientist who raised Dahnai, begins calculating the maximum lifespan of Dahnai, who is a lifeform that has no mitochondria in her cells. When he realized that [[spoiler: Dahnai is technically immortal because of her unique biology,]] he had a colossal OhCrap because he had just been told that the world would only tolerate her existence because [[spoiler: her expected life span was only going to be five more years.]]

* ParanormalGamblingAdvantage: During a Poker match aboard a ship they're using for travel, Giri uses her Empathic powers to be as misleading as possible to the other players, leading them to make or withdraw bets nearly at her will. She even beats Jacob, who has plenty of experience and one of the best Poker faces in existence.
* RapidAging: Dahnai reached adulthood in just two years, causing the Genocide Project to guess that she'd die of old age in another five so they let her live. But it seems that the AI who created her designed her to become [[spoiler: TheAgeless]]
* RasputinianDeath : [[spoiler: Joey, pumped full of Sarin, electrocuted repeatedly, drowned, and finally eaten by crocodiles.]]
* RealityEnsues: Kevin Kidd abuses his powers as director to ''hold the entire world hostage'', growing increasingly unhinged over the story, and then impulsively murders one of his technicians because "he didn't get coffee". This unchecked megalomania convinces the R&D team he has to be stopped, so they promote Lola Lamb to director [[KlingonPromotion by giving her a mech to stomp Kevin with]]. Evil Overlords, if you make an enemy of the public AND kill your own advisors and wizards at random, your department has no reason to just leave you in power. At the very least, they can replace you with a slightly-more reasonable overlord.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Subverted. Most normal diseases including HIV and all forms of cancer were quickly cured. Then they were replaced with impossible-to-treat bioengineered plagues and super-soldiers created by MadScientist characters. In fact, one big reason the world had such a rough time after that is that everyone had their own idea as to how the world could be improved, as to how the human race could be improved, and now that they had the technology they started to act on them. And since some of those ideas included "[Ethnicity] would be better off dead"...
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: It's been revealed that the Genocide Project is actually [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=385 tampering with the human genome on a global scale,]] which is supposed to be one of the things that they were put into place to stop.]]

** [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender So a bald-headed hero, a moody girl and a sarcastic young man meet a cabbage merchant]]... [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=177 stop me if you’ve heard this one before.]]
** "[[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=434 Could be worse — they could be shouting]] [[Webcomic/{{Freefall}} "Doggy"]]".

* 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 ultimately-successful effort to force Jacob to destroy him before he goes ''completely'' insane.]]

-->'''Giriii:''' My dad took me whale hunting once. Never thought I'd be swallowed by one.
-->'''Jacob:''' This isn't a whale. Whales don't have card tables, chemical toilets, or crates of [=MREs=].
-->'''Girii:''' It smells like a whale.
* SyntheticPlague: A big part of the comic -- the titular {{Supersoldier}}s carry briefcase-sized biology labs so they can use tailored plagues to wipe out the [[HumanSubspecies genetic deviants]] they are sent to exterminate. And most of the world's population was killed off by a series of designer plagues before the comic.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: It's revealed the Genocide proyect, specifically Lola, did this to [[spoiler:China's Supersoldier project. They could've just shut down the project through sabotage, instead they subverted it to turn them into the aforementioned Chinese zombies, wiping out the project, its creators, its collaborators, everyone involved and the entire ''nation'' they lived in]].
--> '''Lola Lamb:''' We kill threats! We use overkill to ensure the threats are gone!

* 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.]]
* UnitedNationsIsASuperpower: Or at least the UN's successor, the GUS (of which the Genocide Project is the only non-state member)
* UpliftedAnimal: Subverted by Dahnai, she looks canine but is actually a completely synthetic organism. Played straight by the "Slo-cows", crosses between giant ground sloths and cattle that Fumiaki chimera'd with human brain tissue.

--> '''Dr Fumiaki:''' Then welcome to Corvo Island. Part volcano, part laboratory...well, pretty much just those two things.
* 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, essentially holding the world at gunpoint so it would finally allow itself to advance enough to cure it (with tools the AI itself had left behind and knew would never be considered otherwise)]].
* WetwareBody: [[spoiler: The "Fumiaki" and his clone son are actually computerized A.I.s implanted in the heads of organic bodies. Part of a plan by the original Tatsu to create a stable AI by making it believe it was human. It works, [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder mostly]]... until the RoboticReveal. Once they ''know'' they aren't human, they can't resist making themselves just a liiiiittle smarter, bit by bit...]]

-->'''Jacob:''' G.U.S. has its faults...but they've solved climate change, overpopulation...
-->'''Girii:''' By killing everyone.
-->'''Jacob:''' Hunger, and war. For most people this is darn near utopia.
-->'''Girii:''' Except people like us, who they hunt down and kill.
-->'''Jacob:''' There are always misfits.

* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: Very much averted. It's actually a shorthand for [=GENOme pestiCIDE=].

*** The worst part is the reason we're ultimately given as to why AI will go insane. Simply put, the reason is that the longer an AI is active, the more it gets to look at all of the problems in the world and analyze potential solutions for those problems. However, as they process those problems and their potential solutions, as well as their long-term ramifications of implementing said solutions, the best long-term solution to all of the ills that mark human civilization in this setting is to murder as many people as possible. Overpopulation? Kill people until the population is low enough. Starving people? Kill enough people that the current food supply can feed everyone. Pollution? Fewer people means less production and therefore less pollution. As an insane AI puts it, "If you love people, kill as many of them as you can."

*** The worst part is the reason we're ultimately given as to why AI will go insane. Simply put, the reason is that the longer an AI is active, the more it gets to look at all of the problems in the world and analyze potential solutions for those problems. However, as they process those problems and their potential solutions, as well as their long-term ramifications of implementing said solutions, the best long-term solution to all of the ills that mark human civilization in this setting is to murder as many people as possible. [[{{Irony}} Of course, the only real difference between an insane AI and the GUS modus operandi as a whole is that AI will typically resort to wanton, wholesale slaughter, and the GUS tends to rely on targeted campaigns of annihilation.]]

*** The worst part is the reason we're ultimately given as to why AI will go insane. Simply put, the reason is that the longer an AI is active, the more it gets to look at all of the problems in the world and analyze potential solutions for those problems. However, as they process those problems and their potential solutions, as well as their long-term ramifications of implementing said solutions, the best long-term solution to all of the ills that mark human civilization in this setting is to murder as many people as possible.

%%* TheEmpath: Giri and about half her village have this ability.

* DrivenToSuicide: Peter Pup, one of the genocide men, eventually went insane from all of the horrors he was forced to inflict, and killed himself by diving into a wet cement foundation with his virus case. Sadly, the case opened, and a nasty bubble of virus released into the air, killing a lot of people.

* TheEmpath: Giri and about half her village have this ability.

** It later turns out that [[spoiler:the Genocide Project unleashed a gene therapy virus intended to make humanity less aggressive. It killed a billion people.]]

** It later turns out that [[spoiler:the Genocide Project unleashed a gene therapy virus intended to make humanity immune to all the open-source designer plagues out there (but not their own). It killed a billion people.]]

* 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. It didn't even last ''that long''...

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Girii, maybe. According to the character sheet (as written by the Genocide Project) "She has also demonstrated impressive strength, but a lack of genetic markers indicate her musculature may be from a childhood filled with rigorous labor." However after she rips open a quarantine wall bare-handed Jacob [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=272 suggests]] that Fumiaki developed entirely new musculature genes that they can't detect.

* SuperSoldier: Genocide Men are augmented with anotube ceramics in their bones to make them unbreakable, artificial glands that provide combat stimulants and negate many toxins, and telomere replacement therapy to mitigate the effects of aging. Many of the genetic deviants they were designed to combat were super soldiers as well: the Ugandan deviancy comprised four-year old children with claws, slitted pupils, and ridiculously fast reflexes. They killed everyone else in Jacob Doe's squad, who only survived because he was a G-Man.

* BioPunk

* DepopulationBomb: In 2109 the world population is down to 3 billion.
* DesignerBabies: Genetic deviancies, the Ugandans were born to mothers who were infected with a virus by "witch doctors".

* LongevityTreatment: Jacob is ninety-eight but thanks to his G-man mods and telomerase treatments he is still one of the deadliest men in the world.

* NoTranshumanismAllowed: Transhumanism is specifically forbidden, because of all the problems that genetic engineering has caused:

* ThisIsReality: Jacob's monologue to Giri about the prevalence of genocide: it's a tribal and human thing, which can use different methods and can even be pacifist in its mass-murders. The Genocide Project is simply an extremist, insane version of what was already happening for millennia; it's not going away even if the protagonists finish the project off.

* ShoutOut: While steeling himself up to go into the Undernet and hack some drones [[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=143 Roger]] references [[ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}} Spider Jerusalem]] and Creator/CoryDoctorow as bloggers who got theough worse.
** [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender So a bald-headed hero, a moody girl and a sarcastic young man meet a cabbage merchant]]…[[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=177 stop me if you’ve heard this one before.]]

** "[[http://www.genocideman.com/?p=434 Could be worse-- They could be shouting]] [[Webcomic/{{Freefall}} "Doggy"]]".

* SuperSoldier: Genocide Men are augmented with nanotube-infused bones and synthetic glands that produce combat stimulants and antidotes to most toxins. Some deviancies like the Ugandans are designed for this purpose as well.

* SyntheticPlague: Primary weapon of the Genocide Men and many of the groups they were established to stop.