Line #7 ComicBook/Flare


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3	Flare is the flagship heroine of Heroic Publishing, an independent comic book publisher in the United States. Her comics were published irregularly from 1988 to 1994, and from 2004 to 2007. Billed as "Comics' Glittering Goddess of Light", Flare is also the glamorous fashion model Teresa Feran. She makes no attempt at a secret identity.
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5	According to her BackStory, Flare is the daughter of a valkyrie who fought on the wrong side in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Her allies include [[TwoFirstNames Donnah Hannah]], alias Lady Arcane, and J.K. Clark, alias the Galloping Galooper. Flare's [[http://www.heroicpub.com/flare/ official site]] features a gallery of covers and pin-up art. She later had a Sunday-only comic strip, distributed by Creators Syndicate.
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8	!!Tropes:
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10	* AirVentPassageway: Raven Gold the party crasher uses one to sneak into Max Krueger's office toward the bottom of [[http://www.heroicmultiverse.com/flare/webcomic/index.php?pn=695 this page]].
11	* AuthorAppeal: Teresa spends a lot of time nearly naked.
12	* BigEater: Flare has complained at least once of not getting a big enough meal at a restaurant.
13	* BodySurf: The Tigress claims to have done this periodically over thousands of years. Her latest victim is [[http://heroicmultiverse.com/flareonline/?id=171 prison psychiatrist Katherine Kaat.]]
14	* CirclingBirdies: A [[http://www.heroicmultiverse.com/flare/webcomic/index.php?pn=978 variation with Arcanna]]. The Dash runs over her while he's trapped in her magical containment sphere, leaving her with circling ''bats''.
15	%%* ClothingDamage
16	%%* CrossOver: To ''Webcomic/SpyingWithLana'', in ''[[http://www.harrington-artwerkes.com/LanaFlare2.htm Spying with Flare]]''.
17	* CrossoverCosmology: The comic pages online in early June 2008 (pages 260ff.) take place on Mount Olympus.
18	-->'''Terri:''' Our adventure with the Champions may ''seem'' like a dream, but you know perfectly well that it actually happened. (ClueFromEd: See ''League of Champions'' #1-3.)
19	-->'''Donnah:''' Aphrodite is real, and so are Pan and Zeus, and all the other surviving Olympians.
20	** Flare herself is the daughter of a Norse Valkyrie and has been identified with the Greek goddess Eos.
21	** In January 2013, Tigress' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastet Bast]] persona [an Egyptian goddess] forcibly switched bodies with Flare's Eos persona.
22	* DarkIsNotEvil: In the "Adventures" in Olympus arc, Aphrodite tells Pan that "Nyx is not evil. But she does hate Eos."
23	* DevolutionDevice: In the story arc "The Secret Invasion of the Gorillas from Outer Space", King Oook uses a "devolutionary ray" to [[http://www.heroicmultiverse.com/flare/webcomic/index.php?pn=847 transform Teresa into a female gorilla]].
24	-->'''Oook:''' Mate with me, Earth woman! Let our union and the offspring that will come of it be a symbol of the joining of our two worlds together!\
25	'''Gorilla!Teresa:''' Well, of course I'll have to think about it.
26	* DoYouWantToCopulate: Part of the characterization of Flare's younger sister Sparkplug. Having been reared in comparative isolation by Nazi exiles, she's shown to be pretty blunt at times about hitting on men not so much out of any particular desire for a relationship as simply for [[DarwinistDesire their "superior" genes]]. (Since like her sister she's still one of the ''good'' guys and thus tries it mainly on superheroes who have their own ideas about that sort of thing, it's mostly played for laughs.)
27	* DrosteImage: The first page of the story [[http://www.heroicmultiverse.com/flare/webcomic/index.php?pn=892 "Cat-Fight!"]] has one in the second panel.
28	* DrowningMySorrows: Flare did this in the "Duel" story, which was a crossover with Eternity Smith.
29	* ExpositionOfImmortality: Tigress claims to have been worshiped in ancient Egypt as the goddess Bast.
30	* EyeColorChange: When Tigress hijacks Flare's body in hope of learning about Teresa's mother, [[http://www.heroicmultiverse.com/flare/webcomic/index.php?pn=204 Teresa's eyes change from blue to green]].
31	* FantasticDrug: Darkdust, which appears to turn people into {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
32	* GenderBender: One of Teresa's peers Philip, has the ability to shapeshift. At one point, to punish him for his part in an attempt to steal her clothes, she forces him to take a female form.
33	%%* GoodThingYouCanHeal
34	* GratuitousGerman: Being the daughter of a Valkyrie who fought on the side of Germany in World War II, Flare's speech is often peppered with German.
35	%%* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Flare herself, as well as her sister.
36	%%* HotWitch: Lady Arcane is one.
37	%%* ImpossibleHourglassFigure
38	* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Teresa often ends up scantly clad without intending to be. One of the short comics sees Lady Arcane give her a ring so that she can instantly summon a costume, but she still ends up naked because she tries to use the ring before they've had a chance to bond it to a costume.
39	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Sparkplug grew up in the same Nazi compound as Flare, and has absorbed a lot of the less politically-correct beliefs therein. This becomes especially clear when she tries to apply for a government clearance and has to deal with a Jewish government liaison.
40	* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: When she crossed over with ''Flare'', [[Webcomic/SpyingWithLana Lana the spy]] posed as a maid so she could get the drop on J. Reginald Butte, who had invited Flare to his party.
41	* KidnappedScientist: In the [[http://www.heroicmultiverse.com/flare/webcomic/index.php?pn=500 crossover comic]] between ''Flare'' and ''Webcomic/SpyingWithLana'', the two heroines work together to rescue a Belorussian scientist from the CorruptCorporateExecutive J. Reginald Butte.
42	%%* LightIsGood
43	* LumberMillMayhem: In the Sparkplug story "Buzz Off!", Sparkplug is lured to a sawmill where she and her reporter friend are [[http://www.heroicmultiverse.com/flare/webcomic/index.php?pn=713 endangered by an evil logger called the Barkmeister]].
44	%%* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Clara Whitworth, alias Madame Destiny, has expressed this view.
45	* MrsHypothetical: Sparkplug [[http://www.heroicmultiverse.com/flare/webcomic/index.php?pn=615 ponders this]] after assuming her civilian identity of florist Olga Gottmann:
46	-->'''Olga:''' Olga Hunter? Olga Gottmann Hunter? Mrs. Donald Gottmann-Hunter. I wonder how many children he will want.
47	* MyLittlePhony: [[http://www.heroicmultiverse.com/flare/webcomic/index.php?pn=533 "Dolf and the Pretty Pony]]", supposedly written and illustrated by Flare and her sister when they were little girls.
48	* NakedFreakOut: Flare has one after Damian Pomegranate [[http://www.heroicmultiverse.com/flare/webcomic/index.php?pn=178 spritzes her with a green liquid]] that [[TheNudifier dissolves her entire costume, including her gloves, cape and boots]]. He mistakenly believed that [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman her powers came from her costume]]; since that wasn't the case, all he achieved was to get an eyeful before Flare recovered her composure and knocked him out.
49	* TheNudifier: Damian Pomegranate hits Teresa with a green liquid in [[http://www.heroicmultiverse.com/flare/webcomic/index.php?pn=178 "Flare's Lost Costume"]], which leaves her stark naked.
50	* PretendPrejudice: Sparkplug was [[RaisedByOrcs raised by]] [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi war criminals]], and if asked will proudly declare her racial superiority, but she'll save anyone of any race, work with heroes of any race, she does nothing to promote her beliefs and actively avoids contact with Neo-Nazis and white supremacists; in fact, she feels ''sorry'' for those "not fortunate enough" to be born Aryan.
51	* PseudoRomanticFriendship: In the earliest Flare stories, Lady Arcane comes off less like Flare's loyal friend and more like her doting girlfriend, frequently reminding Flare that she loves her and bemoaning how Flare doesn't open herself up to her.
52	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Olga, in her Sparkplug identity, delivers one on page 653:
53	-->'''Olga:''' Did it ever occur to you what it is that inspires such universal hatred among men?\
54	'''Man:''' Why don't you ''tell'' me?\
55	'''Olga:''' It's a failure to recognize differences between people as what they are! They are not badges of superiority or inferiority - moral or otherwise. They are merely ''differences!'' I admit that I recognize them, but you are a self-righteous hypocrite!
56	* SecretIdentity: Although Flare doesn't have a secret identity, her younger sister, Sparkplug, wears a black wig as florist Olga Guttmann. Even so, IntrepidReporter Jimmy Dooley recognized Olga as Sparkplug the moment he first entered her flower shop, and still calls Sparkplug by her real name over her objections.
57	* SexyCatPerson: Tigress, whose usual {{Stripperific}} tiger-print costume includes thigh boots and fingerless gloves. She once claimed to have been worshiped in ancient Egypt as the goddess Bast.
58	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Nyx has been shown on the beach wearing only the lower part of a thong bikini.
59	* ShamuFu: The page image for the trope depicts Flare [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot hitting a gorilla with a shark]]...a gorilla ''in a spacesuit''...while standing in a dinosaur's mouth...wearing high heels...being stared at by a robot... with [=UFOs=] and a nuclear explosion in the background.
60	* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Aphrodite in the "Adventures in Olympus" arc, notable in that the most beautiful person to exist has this combination of color, and is in fact often portrayed as a redhead in art, especially Pre-Raphaelite and Neoclassicism.
61	* SmokingHotSex: [[http://www.heroicmultiverse.com/flare/webcomic/index.php?pn=666 Max and Nicolette]] are shown doing this over four pages.
62	* StatuesqueStunner: Flare and Lady Arcane again, as well as the Greek goddesses. They're all very tall and beautiful.
63	* StylisticSuck: The "Dolf" stories Teresa and Olga wrote and illustrated for each other as little girls. When Flare reads one of those stories to a group of children at a public library, it becomes a FracturedFairyTale.
64	%%* SuperHero
65	* TakeANumber: Flare [[http://www.heroicmultiverse.com/flare/webcomic/index.php?pn=34 imagines burglars doing this]] after she reads that a house is robbed every 15 seconds.
66	* WouldHitAGirl: Darkon is all too eager to attack Flare with his darkness power.
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