History Webcomic / TheYoungProtectors

A multi-chapter superhero webcomic by author Alex Woolfson and artists Adam [=DeKraker=] [line artist] and Veronica Gandini [colorist]. It can be found [[http://webcomics.yaoi911.com/archive/ete_title_page/ here]]. As of now, the prologue and first two chapters are complete. Somewhat NSFW at times, though ''usually'' nothing gratuitous.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: The way that Annihilator is presented. One one hand, he is a known supervillain (whose alias doesn't exactly inspire confidence in his benevolence) and doesn't seem to have a problem with manipulation. On the other, his evilness is (so far) an InformedAttribute; at worst, he's played some mind games.[[spoiler: He's not so ambiguous now as of the latter half of Chapter 2.]]
** Also, the Platinum Priestess. So far the only strikes against her is that she is on good terms with Annihilator and that Spooky Jones hasn't said anything good about her. [[spoiler:Again, that changes radically by the end of chapter 2 with the whole "selling the Earth to the powers of hell" thing.]]
** [[spoiler: And despite the whole "bargain with hell" thing, both may be leaning back in the middle of chapter 3, as they seem to doing it to gain power to repair the walls of reality. They're willing to sacrifice billions, and they're willing to gain personal perks from the effort - but their choices seem to be limited to "actively sacrifice half the world to Hell" or "do nothing and have the whole planet swallowed by Hell". They also seem to intend to get the sacrificed half back after the deal is done...]]

-->'''Alex:''' Oh, trés meta, Writer Boy. I see what you’re doing there...

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even the bad guys have rules. And one of the is that no one messes with children. [[http://webcomics.yaoi911.com/archive/ete-ch2-page-14/ At least that's what Anni says.]]

* {{Gayngster}}: The Annihilator. [[spoiler: Maybe. It's still not entirely clear whether he's gay or just faking it.]]

** Flyboy, another Caucasian male [[spoiler: Who outed himself to Kyle]]

** Confirmed and Justified during the date in Hong kong; Pummeling an anti-hero while yelling at him not to be a dick.

* SuperSpeed: Annihilator catches a news story where Kyle and the Young Protectors are tending to an arson fire, and makes it to the scene within a few minutes. [[spoiler: Until we find out that he actually [[{{ilied}}was responsible for the fire himself]].]]

* SuperSpeed: Annihilator catches a news story where Kyle and the Young Protectors are tending to an arson fire, and makes it to the scene within a few minutes.

* ShipperOnDeck: It seems like the Platinum Priestess seems to ship Kyle/Annihilator.

** [[spoiler: But that might have been a lie, if the statement of the Platinum Priestess in Chapter 3 is ANY indication...]]

* LoveAtFirstSight: Kyle and Duncan's romance is very abrupt, one encounter in a shady alley and a date in Hong Kong and the Annihilator is already telling Kyle being with him makes him want to try and be a better person, and Kyle, a previously CelibateHero, is asking Duncan to be his first the night of his eighteenth birthday.
** [[spoiler: Invoked and Subverted. Whatever Annihilator's feelings Kyle, his primary interest is in Kyle's unique power.]]

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The Annihilator seems to have no trouble with money, seeing as he can spend over $200 a plate on his RedHeadedHero dinner date. It's implied that at least some of this money came from [[spoiler: robbing Fort Knox]].

** Flyboy, another Caucasian male [[Spoiler: Who outed himself to Kyle]]

** Flyboy, another Caucasian male

** Sppoky spent a year in [[spoiler: Hell. After escaping, he had no memory of his own name or who he was.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kyle's backstory on the discovery of his [[PlayingWithFire fire powers]] is both tragic and [[ADateWithRosiePalms humiliating]].

** [[spoiler: And despite the whole "bargain with hell" thing, both may be leaning back in the middle of chapter 3, as they seem to doing it to gain power to repair the walls of reality. We're probably not gonna know until the very end which side they're on.]]

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Averted with Kyle. (Explained under CelibateHero and BlessedWithSuck)

* {{Invisibility}}: When their first date goes wrong, [[spoiler:Kyle]] is turned invisible.

* StraightGay: Kyle

** SuperStrength: [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom Able to punch]] Kyle several stories into the air ...
** SuperReflexes: ... then [[InASingleBound leap from building to building]] to catch him again.
** SuperSpeed: Catches a news story where Kyle and the Young Protectors are tending to an arson fire, and makes it to the scene within a few minutes.
** InASingleBound: Not quite able to make the leap to Hong Kong, but still ...
** NighInvulnerability: At least to cuts ([[PowerLimiter usually]]), explosions, and fire, as we've seen so far.
** HealingFactor: When he ''does'' take damage he can regenerate from his wounds in around ten minutes time.
** ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The Annihilator seems to have no trouble with money, seeing as he can spend over $200 a plate on his RedHeadedHero dinner date. It's implied that at least some of this money came from [[spoiler: robbing Fort Knox]].

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Annihilator. One one hand, he is a known supervillain (whose alias doesn't exactly inspire confidence in his benevolence) and doesn't seem to have a problem with manipulation. On the other, his evilness is (so far) an InformedAttribute; at worst, he's played some mind games.[[spoiler: He's not so ambiguous now as of the latter half of Chapter 2. Same goes for the Platinum Priestess.]]
** Also, the Platinum Priestess. So far the only strikes against her is that she is on good terms with Annihilator and that Spooky Jones hasn't said anything good about her.

* AntiVillain: Annihilator appears to be a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type I]].

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumour: A temporary swerve into Type 2, when Kyle reveals the first time he discovered he could [[PlayingWithFire play with fire]] was during ADateWithRosiePalms that caused him to accidentally burn down his foster parents' house, Annihilator laughs. Quickly averted, however, when Annihilator realizes Kyle [[DudeNotFunny isn't exaggerating]], and in fact gravely hurt his foster sister and was abandoned by his foster parents after the incident.

* SanityBall: In the most recent chapter, Tsunami seems to be holding it, at least from his own perspective,[[spoiler: since he's the only one of the boys adamantly against their team so much as trying to go up against the Annihiliator and the Platinum Priestess, being pretty convinced they're too inexperienced to do anything but get themselves killed. He feels they should just leave it to the military.]]
* SecretIdentity: Everybody's quite liberal with them, with Kyle calling Fluke "Paul" in public and the Annihilator calling the Platinum Priestess [[AwesomeMcCoolName "Sircea"]] infront of a hero. The Annihilator also has no problem at all revealing his name to Kyle.

* SanityBall: In the most recent chapter, Tsunami seems to be holding it, at least from his own perspective,[[spoiler: since he's the only one of the boys adamantly against their team so much as trying to go up against the Annihiliator and the Platinum Priestess, being pretty convinced they're too inexperienced to do anything up get themselves killed. He feels they should just leave it to the military.]]

* OneOfUs: The author, Alex Woolfson, is a troper and he knows about this page, too.