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* ALoveToDismember: One character's "girlfriend", Lucille, is a head stolen from a store mannequin.
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* SpiritualAntithesis: The series was created to be a darker answer to ''ComicBook/{{Gen13}}''.
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* VillainProtagonist: The Series. [=DV8=] is an absurdly morally-corrupt team.
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* OedipusComplex: Ivana has spent years cultivating a profound complex in Threshold so that he sees her as both a surrogate mother figure ''and'' a lover, in order to keep control over him.
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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Inverted in issue #5, when Copycat gets trapped in a White Void Room. She's already mad with dissociative identity disorder. Spending time in the void allows her personalities to start integrating.
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* HorrorHippies: The Twist, a small superpowered cult-family run by a Charles Manson expy called Menlove, who pushed his young, impressionable charges to commit subversive crimes ForTheEvulz.
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* RapeMakesYouCrazy: Threshold and Bliss were both subjected to sexual abuse, and are the least mentally-healthy members of the team.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Subverted. Frostbite was raped by Ivana when he was a teenager, and Threshold is repeatedly raped by her in the present, and the series does not gloss over the psychological harm that she's inflicted on them through her actions.
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''[=DV8=]'' was a comic-book series published by Creator/{{Wildstorm}}. A spin-off of ''ComicBook/{{Gen13}}'', it was originally written by Creator/WarrenEllis and drawn by Creator/HumbertoRamos. Later, Mike Heisier took over writing and a string of different artists took over the art.
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''[=DV8=]'' was a comic-book series published by Creator/{{Wildstorm}}. A spin-off of ''ComicBook/{{Gen13}}'', it was originally written by Creator/WarrenEllis and drawn by Creator/HumbertoRamos.by Humberto Ramos. Later, Mike Heisier took over writing and a string of different artists took over the art.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Copycat almost manages to reintegrate the fractured pieces of her psyche while she's trapped in a virtual prison. Alas, her teammates rescue her and the shock of being dragged back into the real world fractures her mind again.
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* SleepingWithTheBoss: Threshold is forced into a sexual relationship with Ivana Baiul early in his tenure as the leader of the team so that she can more easily control him.
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* MercyKill: After the rest of the Twist are killed off by the Deviants, poor Blind Lemon asks that Frostbite just bring their home down on her, because she doesn't expect that she'll survive for very long on her own.
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* SplitPersonality: Copycat has dissociative identity disorder.
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* FaceHeelTurn: Threshold ends up betraying the team and going rogue.
* OedipusComplex: Ivana has spent years cultivating a profound complex in Threshold so that he sees her as both a surrogate mother figure ''and'' a lover, in order to keep control over him.
* ThePollyanna: Freestyle is pretty upbeat despite being a member of the team.
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''[=DV8=]'' was a comic-book series published by Creator/{{Wildstorm}}. A spin-off of ''ComicBook/{{Gen13}}'', it was originally written by Creator/WarrenEllis and drawn by Creator/HumbertoRamos. Later, Mike Heisier took over writing and a string of different artists took over the art.
Following Ivan Baiul's ouster from International Operations, she decides to build her own Gen-Active team, but can only gain access to undesirable Gen-Actives, including feral Evo, alcoholic Powerhaus, and loony Copycat. Since she can't hope to appeal to their better natures, she employs a carrot-and-stick method - those who follow orders get all the access to drugs and sex they could want. Those who rebel... don't. Later, Baiul becomes the new head of I/O, and her "Deviants" are absorbed into the organization.
The original series, often subtitled "[=DV8=] vs. Black Ops", lasted 32 issues. After many fits and starts, a new eight-issue miniseries, ''Gods and Monsters'' by Brian Wood, was published in 2010.
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* TheAlcoholic: Powerhaus drinks heavily when he's not on a mission.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Bliss forces herself on her brother Threshold in an attempt to wean him off of Ivana Baiul's control.
* DysfunctionJunction: Copycat has multiple personalities, Evo and Powerhaus are addicts, Threshold has serious MommyIssues and is sleeping with the boss, Bliss literally screws men to death, and Sublime is suicidal. The only half-way sane person on the team is Frostbite, and even he has his own problems.
* RapeAsBackstory: Bliss was sexually abused by Menlove back when he was still working for I/O, which may be one of the contributing factors to her psychotic misanthropy and hypersexuality. Frostbite also confides to Copycat that he was raped by Ivana Baiul when he was a teenager.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After losing his powers, Frostbite fakes his death so that he can get as far away as possible from Baiul.
* VillainProtagonist: The Series. [=DV8=] is an absurdly morally-corrupt team.
Following Ivan Baiul's ouster from International Operations, she decides to build her own Gen-Active team, but can only gain access to undesirable Gen-Actives, including feral Evo, alcoholic Powerhaus, and loony Copycat. Since she can't hope to appeal to their better natures, she employs a carrot-and-stick method - those who follow orders get all the access to drugs and sex they could want. Those who rebel... don't. Later, Baiul becomes the new head of I/O, and her "Deviants" are absorbed into the organization.
The original series, often subtitled "[=DV8=] vs. Black Ops", lasted 32 issues. After many fits and starts, a new eight-issue miniseries, ''Gods and Monsters'' by Brian Wood, was published in 2010.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Powerhaus drinks heavily when he's not on a mission.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Bliss forces herself on her brother Threshold in an attempt to wean him off of Ivana Baiul's control.
* DysfunctionJunction: Copycat has multiple personalities, Evo and Powerhaus are addicts, Threshold has serious MommyIssues and is sleeping with the boss, Bliss literally screws men to death, and Sublime is suicidal. The only half-way sane person on the team is Frostbite, and even he has his own problems.
* RapeAsBackstory: Bliss was sexually abused by Menlove back when he was still working for I/O, which may be one of the contributing factors to her psychotic misanthropy and hypersexuality. Frostbite also confides to Copycat that he was raped by Ivana Baiul when he was a teenager.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After losing his powers, Frostbite fakes his death so that he can get as far away as possible from Baiul.
* VillainProtagonist: The Series. [=DV8=] is an absurdly morally-corrupt team.
