Hexagon Death Squad is an ongoing webcomic by the troper known as [AOD]. Started in 2008, it stars a six-woman assassination squad and their adventures as they take out "criminals" for a totalitarian Police State world government in an alternate timeline Earth where the Cuban Missile Crisis led to a nuclear war.
The comic can be found here.
Tropes
- Alternate History: In the HDS storyline, the world is ruled by the AEGIS police state, which took power after the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into a nuclear war.
- Anti-Hero: Jennifer Ruiz can be thought of as this.
- Attempted Rape: A minor character in Chapter 4, which is followed up by a slight Body Guard Crush.
- BFS: Coral wields a claymore and a zweihander. Both are almost as tall as she is.
- Big Damn Heroes: The entire squad is just a bunch of Big Damn Heroes.
- The Big Guy: Ari, who's basically Kenpachi Zaraki's personality in the body of Kanu Unchou.
- Calling Your Attacks: Done in Chapter 5, where Kaycee utterly defeats a wasteland bandit with her Finishing Move, but gives its name after she's done.
- Eye Scream: Jenna pulls one of these in Chapter 1 in a fight scene against an enemy Mook.
- Heroic BSoD: Kaycee has a moment of this after she steals Jenna's thunder by stabbing the Big Bad in the back at the climax of the last Fight Scene in that chapter.
- Hollywood Healing: Somehow Jenna had no bruises on her face, despite being punched in the face by a battle-nurse in Chapter 5.
- Hot-Blooded: When the blood starts pumping in this comic it runs very hot.
- Also, Jason of the local Goldfish Poop Gang is almost an expy of Kamina.
- Improbable Age: Mostly subverted in that most of the castmembers are 25 and older, with the exception of Kaycee who's really nineteen. No, really! She is!!
- Improbable Weapon User: A major character in the Los Angeles arc uses bladed yo-yo's
- Karma Houdini: Hexagon Death Squad is so unsubtle about their actions that they can only get away with it because the world is ruled by a Police State whose blessings they receive.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Subverted in Chapter 2 where Allison, the resident dual-katana wielder, is taken out in a fight without ever landing a blow.
- Made of Iron: Subverted in Chapter 2 as Allison takes four arrows to her gut and is out of commission for the next three months as she recovers.
- Male Gaze: This is very much a "guy's" comic. I mean, c'mon. Pretty girls with swords?
- Martial Pacifist Kaycee adopts an oath against killing because she just can't deal with it.
- New Neo City: Los Nuevos Angeles.
- Out of the Inferno: Coral does this after surviving a car crash while standing atop a humvee that EXPLODES. Oh, and did I mention that she just CHOPPED THE ROOF OPEN WITH A GIGANTIC SWORD?!
- Panty Fighter: Averted, as the HDS women - in general - tend to wear modest, functional clothing.
- Police State: Willing to sacrifice a few hundred people to get a few "terrorists"
- Power Limiter: Subverted in Chapter 3, where Arundhati just flat out lies that she was fighting without holding back.
- Rain of Arrows: An early villain uses a '''Machine-Gun''' Crossbow to achieve this.
- Schizo Tech: The universal gun ban allows swords in a modern setting, though they're generally made of space-age materials.
- The Smart Guy: Kaycee is a cute lil' genius, she is.
- The Stoic: Coral is either the Emotionless Girl or this.
- Sword Fight: The world government of the comic was created just so as to justify having sword fights in a modern setting, with a global gun ban.
- Took a Level in Badass: Kaycee does this after training for three months to perform a One-Hit-NOT-Kill fencing move.
- 20 Minutes into the Future: HDS takes place in 2012, despite having nuclear-powered maglev trains.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: The main bad guys in the pilot arc are terrorists who support democracy.
- In the same arc, the protagonists themselves, for the opposite reason.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Well, it's a Police State after all.
