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* ArmorIsUseless: The Heroes don't wear armour, unlike other teams. At one point, they use this to their advantage on the ground, as they use their speed to their advantage.
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* ArmorIsUseless: The Heroes don't wear armour, unlike other teams. At one point, they use this to their advantage on the ground, as they use their speed on the ground to their advantage.dodge past the other team.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Hairy and Conrad]] are killed on one of the last panels of the original strip.
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* RedShirt: Many of the new players and the reserves die over the course of the strip during matches.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler: Ulysses Cord]] is initially warm to the Heroes, [[spoiler: even sponsoring them by getting them new vehicles and equipment]] after their bus crash. His motivation is purely for ratings, however, as [[spoiler: he doesn't like the Heroes' method of fair play]].
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* ShieldBash: Sam Mason gets [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] when two of the Teutonic Titans sandwich him with their shields.
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* JetPack: An integral part of Aeroball. Players fly around the arena in order to score Air Strikes. Zack Harper has an improvised gas powered version when the Heroes first meet him.
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In 1990, Michael Fleisher scripted an InNameOnly revival set in an AlternateContinuity (the original is set in the same 'verse as ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'') focused on a gang of convicts who are nicknamed The Harlem Heroes in prison due to their skill at Aeroball. Because of the sheer number of strips he scripted for ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' (particularly ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper), some of his later Harlem Heroes strips appeared years after he left the comic.
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In 1990, Michael Fleisher scripted an InNameOnly revival set in an AlternateContinuity (the original is set in the same 'verse as ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'') focused on a gang of convicts who are nicknamed The Harlem Heroes in prison due to their skill at Aeroball. Because of the sheer number of strips he scripted for ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' (particularly ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper), ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper''), some of his later Harlem Heroes ''Harlem Heroes'' strips appeared years after he left the comic.
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''Harlem Heroes'' is a comic strip run in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'', created by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons. One of the title's launch strips, it focused on an African-American Aeroball team and their quest for the world title in the year 2050. A combination of American Football, Basketball, Boxing, ProfessionalWrestling and Kung Fu with jetpacks, the sport is quite brutal, with fatalities common.
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''Harlem Heroes'' is a comic strip run in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'', created by Pat Mills Tom Tully and Dave Gibbons.Gibbons with the basic concept thought up by Pat Mills. One of the title's launch strips, it focused on an African-American Aeroball team and their quest for the world title in the year 2050. A combination of American Football, Basketball, Boxing, ProfessionalWrestling and Kung Fu with jetpacks, the sport is quite brutal, with fatalities common.
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In 1990, Michael Fleisher scripted an InNameOnly revival set in an AlternateContinuity (the original is set in the same 'verse as ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'') focused on a gang of convicts who are nicknamed The Harlem Heroes in prison due to their skill at Aeroball. Because of the sheer number of strips he scripted for ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' (particularly ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper), some of his later ''Harlem Heroes'' strips appeared years after he left the comic.
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In 1990, Michael Fleisher scripted an InNameOnly revival set in an AlternateContinuity (the original is set in the same 'verse as ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'') focused on a gang of convicts who are nicknamed The Harlem Heroes in prison due to their skill at Aeroball. Because of the sheer number of strips he scripted for ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' (particularly ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper), some of his later ''Harlem Heroes'' Harlem Heroes strips appeared years after he left the comic.
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* BadassGrandpa: Conrad King, a retired former player, rejoins the Heroes after a new medical procedure is able to heal his previously GameBreakingInjury. He shows off his skills by scoring an Air Strike without a jetpack.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Trips]] dies keeping a squadron of Air Force planes off the rest of the Heroes.
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In 1990, Michael Fleisher scripted an InNameOnly revival set in an AlternateContinuity (the original is set in the same 'verse as ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'') focused on a gang of convicts who are nicknamed The Harlem Heroes in prison due to their skill at Aeroball.
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In 1990, Michael Fleisher scripted an InNameOnly revival set in an AlternateContinuity (the original is set in the same 'verse as ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'') focused on a gang of convicts who are nicknamed The Harlem Heroes in prison due to their skill at Aeroball.
Aeroball. Because of the sheer number of strips he scripted for ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' (particularly ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper), some of his later ''Harlem Heroes'' strips appeared years after he left the comic.
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* MeaningfulRename: The Harlem Heroes become the Harlem Hellcats during the events of ''Inferno''.
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* TokenEvilTeamMate: [[AntiHero Slice]] is a former [[HiredGuns mercenary]] who knocked over various third world leaders for the {{Mega Corp}}s before he was considered [[AxeCrazy uncontrollable]]. He uses an EMP device on an old man with a pacemaker and notes that his fellow heroes are doo-gooders. [[EnsembleDarkhorse He's also the most memorable member of the cast]].
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* TokenEvilTeamMate: [[AntiHero Slice]] is a former [[HiredGuns mercenary]] who knocked over various third world leaders for the {{Mega Corp}}s before he was considered [[AxeCrazy uncontrollable]]. He uses an EMP device on an old man with a pacemaker and notes that his fellow heroes are doo-gooders.do-gooders. [[EnsembleDarkhorse He's also the most memorable member of the cast]].
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* BloodSport: Aeroball is quite a rough game, with fatalities fairly common, as it expected where jetpacks are involved. Inferno cranks this UpToEleven.
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* DeaderThanDisco: In-universe, Aeroball becomes this when Inferno comes onto the sports scene, as people are looking for a greater thrill. A ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' strip establishes that by 2080, Inferno had this happen to it as well because it was too dangerous, even for spectators.
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* BloodSport: Slice participates in combat tournaments for extra money, where the combatants attempt to take each other out non-lethally. One of his opponents, [[SoreLoser sore from the loss]], switches out his [[StunGuns tranq darts]] for [[KillItWithFire magnesium rounds]].
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Second City Blues'' is a similar strip with a very similar future sport, except that the team was more of a RagTagBunchOfMisfits than the Heroes ever were.
* RagTagBunchOfMisfits: The Heroes consist of a former white-collar worker who strangled an assistant warden in a regular prison, an AxeCrazy former mercenary with a penchant for [[KnifeNut knife play]], [[TheChick a waif]] with a propensity for [[StuffBlowingUp blowing stuff up]], a [[TheSmartGuy genius]] [[HollywoodHacking hacker]] and a [[FlyingCar hover car]] thief with ImprobablePilotingSkills who is constantly listening to music on a headset.
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* UniversalDriversLicense: Trips can drive or fly almost any vehicle. [[spoiler: When he dies, Deacon takes over his role as pilot.]]
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* UniversalDriversLicense: Trips can drive or fly almost any vehicle. [[spoiler: When he dies, Deacon takes over his role as pilot.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: Warden Offak gets killed by the Office when he sends some thugs to kill the Heroes for ruining his perfect no-escape record. [[KlingonPromotion His assistant is given the role for ratting him out.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: Warden Offak gets killed by the Office when he sends some thugs to kill the Heroes for ruining his perfect no-escape record. [[KlingonPromotion His assistant is given the role for ratting him out.]]
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* ExtendedDisarming: The Heroes are cornered by a rival gang, who order them to drop their weapons. [[KnifeNut Slice]] empties an unholy number of knives out of his pockets in the process and even then [[ImprobableWeaponUser he isn't finished]].
* ExtendedDisarming: The Heroes are cornered by a rival gang, who order them to drop their weapons. [[KnifeNut Slice]] empties an unholy number of knives out of his pockets in the process and even then [[ImprobableWeaponUser he isn't finished]].
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* TokenMinority: Unlike the original strip, which had an all African-American cast, [[TheLeader Deacon]] is the only black character in the revival strip.
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* TokenMinority: Unlike the original strip, which had an all African-American cast, [[TheLeader Deacon]] is the only black character in the revival strip.strip.
* UniversalDriversLicense: Trips can drive or fly almost any vehicle. [[spoiler: When he dies, Deacon takes over his role as pilot.]]
* UniversalDriversLicense: Trips can drive or fly almost any vehicle. [[spoiler: When he dies, Deacon takes over his role as pilot.]]
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* AlternateContinuity: This version clearly takes place in a 'verse where WorldWar3 didn't happen and the [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd judge system]] never took over.
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* WeHaveReserves: The Siberian Wolves are suicidal in their gameplay tactics. It's telling that, in a sport requiring a minimum of seven players, with subs, they have ''over thirty''.
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** Deacon is so-called because he's a clean liver. His original crime was a white-collar robbery which he may or may not have been covering for someone else. He's sent down to SPC-14 for strangling an assistant warden. Compared to the things his fellow teammates have done, this is actually quite tame.
** Slice is an expert with [[KnifeNut knives]]. We even see how many of them he carries during an ExtendedDisarming.
** Deacon is so-called because he's a clean liver. His original crime was a white-collar robbery which he may or may not have been covering for someone else. He's sent down to SPC-14 for strangling an assistant warden. Compared to the things his fellow teammates have done, this is actually quite tame.
** Slice is an expert with [[KnifeNut knives]]. We even see how many of them he carries during an ExtendedDisarming.
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* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: The President is killed by a group posing as the Harlem Heroes under the auspices of the Office, who plan to have the {{Mega Corp}}s under their control and take over the country. The largest of these, Mercury National, takes over in the interim when the Office members are assassinated.
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* HollywoodHacking: [[TheSmartGuy Patrice]]'s main skill is cracking into computer systems. He even manages to blow up Warden Offak's computer during the Heroes' escape.
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* TokenEvilTeamMate: [[AntiHero Slice]] is a former [[HiredGuns mercenary]] who knocked over various third world leaders for the {{Mega Corp}}s before he was considered [[AxeCrazy uncontrollable]]. He uses an EMP device on an old man with a pacemaker and notes that his fellow heroes are doo-gooders. [[EnsembleDarkhorse He's also the most memorable member of the cast]].
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* IronicNickname: "Hairy" is, in fact, [[BaldOfAwesom bald]].
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* IronicNickname: "Hairy" is, in fact, [[BaldOfAwesom [[BaldOfAwesome bald]].
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Slice manages to kill a guy with his prison ID card. According to his bio, [[OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement he's also made use of a coffee cup as well]].
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* CyberneticEatYourSoul: Artie Gruber was injured in a match with the Heroes and is rebuilt as a {{Cyborg}}. He is insane and obsessed with revenge.
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* CyberneticEatYourSoul: CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Artie Gruber was injured in a match with the Heroes and is rebuilt as a {{Cyborg}}. He is insane and obsessed with revenge.
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* BrainInAJar: Louis Mayer survives the team's bus crash, but his body is damaged beyond healing. His brain is extracted and survives in a jar, which is later given thrusters with which he can move around. He gets smarter as a result of being only a brain.
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* CanonWelding: John "Giant" Clay is the father of the original Judge Giant from ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' and the references to Mega City One are made.
* CyberneticEatYourSoul: Artie Gruber was injured in a match with the Heroes and is rebuilt as a {{Cyborg}}. He is insane and obsessed with revenge.
* CyberneticEatYourSoul: Artie Gruber was injured in a match with the Heroes and is rebuilt as a {{Cyborg}}. He is insane and obsessed with revenge.
* TheGimmick: Each team has a specific [[GangOfHats hat]]; For example, the Heroes are based on the Harlem Globetrotters, Gorgon's Gargoyles are all cyborgs, the Teutonic Titans are dressed as knights, the Baltimore Bulls are all cops, the Bushido Blades wear Samurai armour and so forth.
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* CanonWelding: John "Giant" Clay is the father of the original Judge Giant from ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' and the references to Mega City One are made.
* TheGimmick: Each team has a specific [[GangOfHats hat]]; For example, the Heroes are based on the Harlem Globetrotters, Gorgon's Gargoyles are all cyborgs, the Teutonic Titans are dressed as knights, the Baltimore Bulls are all cops, the Bushido Blades wear Samurai armour and so forth.
* TheGimmick: Each team has a specific [[GangOfHats hat]]; For example, the Heroes are based on the Harlem Globetrotters, Gorgon's Gargoyles are all cyborgs, the Teutonic Titans are dressed as knights, the Baltimore Bulls are all cops, the Bushido Blades wear Samurai armour and so forth.
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* CanonWelding: John "Giant" Clay is the father of the original Judge Giant from ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' and the references to Mega City One are made.
* TheGimmick: Each team has a specific [[GangOfHats hat]]; For example, the Heroes are based on the Harlem Globetrotters, Gorgon's Gargoyles are all cyborgs, the Teutonic Titans are dressed as knights, the Baltimore Bulls are all cops, the Bushido Blades wear Samurai armour and so forth.IronicNickname: "Hairy" is, in fact, [[BaldOfAwesom bald]].
* TheGimmick: Each team has a specific [[GangOfHats hat]]; For example, the Heroes are based on the Harlem Globetrotters, Gorgon's Gargoyles are all cyborgs, the Teutonic Titans are dressed as knights, the Baltimore Bulls are all cops, the Bushido Blades wear Samurai armour and so forth.
* TheBigRottenApple: New York is pretty much a war zone in 2109.
* ExtendedDisarming: The Heroes are cornered by a rival gang, who order them to drop their weapons. [[KnifeNut Slice]] empties an unholy number of knives out of his pockets in the process and even then [[ImprobableWeaponUser he isn't finished]].
* ExtendedDisarming: The Heroes are cornered by a rival gang, who order them to drop their weapons. [[KnifeNut Slice]] empties an unholy number of knives out of his pockets in the process and even then [[ImprobableWeaponUser he isn't finished]].
* ContinuityNod: In spite of the InNameOnly nature of the revival, [[spoiler: Artie Gruber]] appears as the BigBad of ''Cyborg Death Trip''.
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* InNameOnly: None of the original main characters appear and the characters are only named the Harlem Heroes due to the fact that they're good at Aeroball.
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* InNameOnly: None of the original main characters appear and the characters are only named the Harlem Heroes due to the fact that they're good at Aeroball.Aeroball.
* TokenMinority: Unlike the original strip, which had an all African-American cast, [[TheLeader Deacon]] is the only black character in the revival strip.
* TokenMinority: Unlike the original strip, which had an all African-American cast, [[TheLeader Deacon]] is the only black character in the revival strip.
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* FragileSpeedster / GlassCannon: The Heroes decline to wear armour, making them more frail than other teams, but quicker especially on the ground.
* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The Soviet Union still exists in 2050 here.
* CanonWelding: John "Giant" Clay is the father of the original Judge Giant from ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' and the references to Mega City One are made.
* TheGimmick: Each team has a specific [[GangOfHats hat]]; For example, the Heroes are based on the Harlem Globetrotters, Gorgon's Gargoyles are all cyborgs, the Teutonic Titans are dressed as knights, the Baltimore Bulls are all cops, the Bushido Blades wear Samurai armour and so forth.
* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The Soviet Union still exists in 2050 here.
* CanonWelding: John "Giant" Clay is the father of the original Judge Giant from ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' and the references to Mega City One are made.
* TheGimmick: Each team has a specific [[GangOfHats hat]]; For example, the Heroes are based on the Harlem Globetrotters, Gorgon's Gargoyles are all cyborgs, the Teutonic Titans are dressed as knights, the Baltimore Bulls are all cops, the Bushido Blades wear Samurai armour and so forth.
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* TheAlcatraz: Subterranean Penal Colony 14, where all prisoners are in for life. The Heroes try to escape and almost make it too. They only get out when The Office offers them a job.
* BoxedCrook: The Heroes are pulled out of SPC-14 to disrupt MegaCorp drug operations in exchange for their freedom.
* FallenStatesOfAmerica: The U.S. government's power has waned to the point where five {{Mega Corp}}s rival them for control of the country.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: The Heroes use Aeroball jetpacks in battle. Slice even manages to take down a vehicle with a ball. It's subverted in ''Death Sport'', where the jetpack Slice uses was designed for stadium use and is useless outdoors due to turbulence.
* BoxedCrook: The Heroes are pulled out of SPC-14 to disrupt MegaCorp drug operations in exchange for their freedom.
* FallenStatesOfAmerica: The U.S. government's power has waned to the point where five {{Mega Corp}}s rival them for control of the country.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: The Heroes use Aeroball jetpacks in battle. Slice even manages to take down a vehicle with a ball. It's subverted in ''Death Sport'', where the jetpack Slice uses was designed for stadium use and is useless outdoors due to turbulence.
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In 1990, Michael Fleisher scripted an InNameOnly revival set in an AlternateContinuity (the original is set in the same 'verse as ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'') focused on a gang of convicts who are nicknamed The Harlem Heroes in prison due to their skill at Aeroball.
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In 1990, Michael Fleisher scripted an InNameOnly revival set in an AlternateContinuity (the original is set in the same 'verse as ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'') focused on a gang of convicts who are nicknamed The Harlem Heroes in prison due to their skill at Aeroball.
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!!The original strip provides examples of:
* ArmorIsUseless: The Heroes don't wear armour, unlike other teams. At one point, they use this to their advantage on the ground, as they use their speed to their advantage.
* {{Calvinball}}: Aeroball consists of American Football, Basketball, Boxing, Kung Fu and Pro Wrestling all with jetpacks.
* JiveTurkey: It's a strip from TheSeventies with an African-American cast, so this kind of dialogue is to be expected. It's arguably lampshaded with the phrase "Cut the jive talk and let's play Aeroball."
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* InNameOnly: None of the original main characters appear and the characters are only named the Harlem Heroes due to the fact that they're good at Aeroball.
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!!The original strip provides examples of:
* ArmorIsUseless: The Heroes don't wear armour, unlike other teams. At one point, they use this to their advantage on the ground, as they use their speed to their advantage.
* {{Calvinball}}: Aeroball consists of American Football, Basketball, Boxing, Kung Fu and Pro Wrestling all with jetpacks.
* JiveTurkey: It's a strip from TheSeventies with an African-American cast, so this kind of dialogue is to be expected. It's arguably lampshaded with the phrase "Cut the jive talk and let's play Aeroball."
!!TheNineties revival provides examples of:
* InNameOnly: None of the original main characters appear and the characters are only named the Harlem Heroes due to the fact that they're good at Aeroball.
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A [[BloodierAndGorier more violent]] sequel, known as ''Inferno'', had the Heroes renamed the Harlem Hellcats and participating in the titular DeathSport.
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BloodSport.
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''Harlem Heroes'' is a comic strip run in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'', created by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons. One of the title's launch strips, it focused on an African-American Aeroball team and their quest for the world title in the year 2050. A combination of American Football, Basketball, Boxing, ProfessionalWrestling and Kung Fu with jetpacks, the sport is quite brutal, with fatalities common.
When the Heroes suffer a road accident, they must recruit new players and continue the season.
A [[BloodierAndGorier more violent]] sequel, known as ''Inferno'', had the Heroes renamed the Harlem Hellcats and participating in the titular DeathSport.
In 1990, Michael Fleisher scripted an InNameOnly revival set in an AlternateContinuity (the original is set in the same 'verse as ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'') focused on a gang of convicts who are nicknamed The Harlem Heroes in prison due to their skill at Aeroball.
When the Heroes suffer a road accident, they must recruit new players and continue the season.
A [[BloodierAndGorier more violent]] sequel, known as ''Inferno'', had the Heroes renamed the Harlem Hellcats and participating in the titular DeathSport.
In 1990, Michael Fleisher scripted an InNameOnly revival set in an AlternateContinuity (the original is set in the same 'verse as ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'') focused on a gang of convicts who are nicknamed The Harlem Heroes in prison due to their skill at Aeroball.
