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* {{Expy}}: Slice resembles [[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine Abslom Daak]] in terms of both appearance and personality. Steve Dillon created the appearances of both characters.
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* CrapsackWorld: [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd The Atomic Wars]] [[AlternateContinuity might not have happened]], but that doesn't make the setting any less unpleasant. The US government is so fragile that its power is rivalled by the {{Mega Corp}}s and when the President gets assassinated, a secret intelligence agency takes over at first until their two top guys get blown up at the end of the first story and the largest MegaCorp takes over "in the interim". Gangs are rampant throughout the nation and are so well funded and armed by the {{Mega Corp}}s that one of them has a ''tank'' built in a chop shop for a heist. Urban decay is rife and New York is effectively a war zone.
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* CantStopTheSignal: The climax of the original story involves the Heroes transmitting the recording of the presidential assassination in order to [[ClearMyName clear their names]]. This requires them to break into Mercury National to hijack the transmission.
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* CutLexLuthorACheck: The {{Mega Corp}}s are multi billion dollar corporations, with Patrice having apparently stolen two billion from Mercury National in the hack he was arrested for. They are able to afford private armies and have a power base rivalling the US government, with Mercury National taking control of the country "in the interim" after taking out The Office. Yet, the Mega Corps are running low level drug operations in various major cities, even putting out subliminal advertising for these drugs.
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* TheUnfought: The nearest the Heroes get to taking on The Office is by killing their assassin as he tries to stop them from broadcasting the truth about the presidential assassination. It's a MegaCorp bomb that ends up doing them in.
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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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* 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]] {{Tranquillizer Dart}}s for [[KillItWithFire magnesium rounds]].
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* IronicNickname: "Hairy" is, in fact, [[BaldOfAwesome bald]].
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* IronicNickname: "Hairy" is, in fact, [[BaldOfAwesome bald]].bald.
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* FailedFutureForecast: The Soviet Union still exists in 2050 here.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The Soviet Union still exists in 2050 here.
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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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* RetiredBadass: 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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* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Subverted. Patrice copies a guard's fingerprints onto a latex glove and his retina onto a blank contact lens to compliment the guard's keycard. Unfortunately, that's not enough for the door in question, which also requires a ''chromosomal'' sample to open. [[DungeonBypass Deacon simply blows the door open instead]].
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* ClearMyName: The Harlem Heroes are framed for killing the president and a large proportion of the original story's latter half is trying to find a way to broadcast the evidence that exonerates them. This is kind of a moot point, since the lot of them escaped from prison for crimes that at least some of them were guilty of in the first place; Slice and Deacon are in for murder, while Silver is a BombThrowingAnarchist. Even Trips and Patrice, while in for "lesser" crimes (grand theft auto and cybercrime respectively), still go along for the ride.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: Warden Offak gets sent to SPC-14 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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* YouHaveFailedMe: Warden Offak gets sent to SPC-14 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.]]]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The fake Heroes used to assassinate the president are implied to have been KilledOffscreen by The Office and the bodies buried to keep the real Heroes as a scapegoat.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The fake Heroes used to assassinate the president are implied to have been KilledOffscreen by The Office and the bodies buried to keep the real Heroes as a scapegoat.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Downplayed. Slice is, as of the original story, thirty years old. During ''Death Sport'', he's shown in a flashback from his younger years minus the PermaStubble and scarring.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder:
** The Office use the Heroes to disrupt MegaCorp gang activity and set them up as fall guys in a presidential assassination in order to take control of the {{Mega Corp}}s and the nation. [[TheStarscream The Mega Corps turn on them when the truth gets out]].
** Slice takes the Heroes to meet an ArmsDealer willing to sell them an EMP generator. The dealer intends to turn the Heroes in for the bounty on their heads, but [[ProperlyParanoid Slice has the sense to not actually trust the guy]] and the Heroes manage to counter ambush his ambush. Slice slits the guy's throat for his trouble.
** The Office use the Heroes to disrupt MegaCorp gang activity and set them up as fall guys in a presidential assassination in order to take control of the {{Mega Corp}}s and the nation. [[TheStarscream The Mega Corps turn on them when the truth gets out]].
** Slice takes the Heroes to meet an ArmsDealer willing to sell them an EMP generator. The dealer intends to turn the Heroes in for the bounty on their heads, but [[ProperlyParanoid Slice has the sense to not actually trust the guy]] and the Heroes manage to counter ambush his ambush. Slice slits the guy's throat for his trouble.
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See the Deader Than Disco cleanup thread: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14654177060A30520700
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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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* {{Cyberpunk}}: The setting is a distinctively cyberpunk dystopia. {{Mega Corp}}s appear as antagonists (though not the main villains), one of the main characters is a hacker, the assassin sent to kill the Heroes has ElectronicEyes, and many characters dress as punks.
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* MegaCorp: The trope is actually referred to by name in this work. A group of them rival the US government in terms of influence and The Office tells the Heroes that their plan is to disrupt this. In reality, The Office overthrows the government and brings the Mega Corps under their influence. [[TheStarscream They assassinate The Office heads and the largest company, Mercury National, assumes control of the country]].
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* StandardizedLeader: This is about the only notable trait that Deacon has. Supposedly, he's morally the best of them, but in practice, barring Slice, they're all too upstanding for a bunch of people who got locked up for life. Slice even asks at one point "who died and anointed [Deacon] pope?" when Deacon makes a decision.
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* GenreSavvy: After the Heroes are betrayed by the ArmsDealer they try to buy an EMP generator from, Slice is told that his choice of friends stinks but at least he has the sense not to trust them.
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* GracefulLoser: In spite of their pre-game clashes, the Scottish team takes their loss to the Heroes quite well, as the Scots take a liking to the Heroes' determination and toughness.
* PaperThinDisguise: Gruber disguises himself as a member of the Gorgon's Gargoyles. The guy looks very similar to Gruber already. Giant works it out pretty quickly, especially seeing as Gruber still uses his distinctive pattern of speech.
* PostPeakOil: Scotland apparently had an oil boom in TheEighties. The oil didn't last long and the towns that sprung up to cater for the industry quickly became ghost towns. The abandoned oil rigs were dismantled by locals to make Aeroball arenas.
* PostPeakOil: Scotland apparently had an oil boom in TheEighties. The oil didn't last long and the towns that sprung up to cater for the industry quickly became ghost towns. The abandoned oil rigs were dismantled by locals to make Aeroball arenas.
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* {{Zeerust}}: A trip to a sports museum showed that a car used to win a world championship race in 1993 was a car that was typical looking of 1970s sci-fi.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Two characters named Sam appear as {{Red Shirt}}s on the team and there are two characters named Artie; Artie Gruber and the pilot of the Heroes' roadliner.
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* AppropriatedAppellation: The Heroes are given the nickname in prison by the other inmates because they get good at Aeroball.
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* DistantFinale: ''Whatever Happened to John "Giant" Clay?'' establishes that Giant lived in [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Mega City One]] until 2126, where he has one final conversation with his grandson before he passes on.
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* 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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* PowerLimiter: Cyborgs are allowed to play Aeroball, but the rules of the game state that their cybernetics have to be powered down to keep their abilities the same as those of regular humans.
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* WeCanRebuildHim: Artie Gruber is rebuilt as a {{Cyborg}}, but the process drives him insane and he seeks revenge on the Heroes.
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* FlatCharacter: Trips doesn't get as much characterisation as the rest of the Heroes, apart from the fact that he is the team's [[spoiler: original]] pilot, is constantly listening to music on a headset, is implied to be [[TheStoner a stoner]] and seems to be TheLoad, given that he has the lowest killcount and nearly gets the Heroes killed because he crashes their vehicle into the river and almost drowns himself.
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* TheStarscream: The Office, ostensibly working as a covert division of the U.S. government against the Mega Corps' drug operations, betrays the president and has him assassinated, and negotiate with the companies. The Mega Corps subsequently betray them and have their leaders blown up.
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* AntiHero: The Heroes are this on paper: Each of them has a shady past with a particular specialisation and a criminal conviction to match. In practice, Slice is the only one who embodies this trope in any way with his CombatPragmatist tendencies, psychotic behaviour and [[TokenEvilTeamMate his use of an EMP on an old man with a pacemaker]].
* GenreSavvy: After the Heroes are betrayed by the ArmsDealer they try to buy an EMP generator from, Slice is told that his choice of friends stinks but at least he has the sense not to trust them.
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* 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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* YouHaveFailedMe: Warden Offak gets killed sent to SPC-14 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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* FragileSpeedster / GlassCannon: The Heroes decline to wear armour, making them more frail than other teams, but quicker especially on the ground.
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* RagTagBunchOfMisfits: After their bus accident, the surviving Heroes must reform the team and pull together enough players to compete again. Their initial lineout against the Baltimore Bulls consist of the three survivors, one older player out of retirement due to a new bone grafting technique, a hotshot rookie kid drafted from the skyslums of Harlem and two reserve players that had been loaned out to another team.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Slice and Silver got solo stories in ''Death Sport'' and ''Grey Ghost Overflight'' respectively.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Silver Weir, the demolitions expert, is the token female.
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* KnifeNut: [[MeaningfulName Slice]] favours knives and carries [[HyperSpaceArsenal a ridiculous number of them]] around at any one time.
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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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* 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. In ''Inferno'', he's given a new robotic body.
