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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Given Veronica Kelly's abilities, the NSA decides that the best way to kill her is by poisoning a meal when she eats as a local restaurant. It works.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Given Veronica Kelly's abilities, the NSA decides that the best way to kill her is by poisoning a meal when she eats as at a local restaurant. It works.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Given Veronica Kelly's abilities, the NSA decides that the best way to kill her is by poisoning a meal when she eats as a local restaurant. It works.
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* HiredToHuntYourself: Jennifer Swann is trying to build powered armor for the NSA's Project Spitfire, so that they can hunt and kill superhumans. After years of stalled progress, Swann easily manages to fix the armor's technical problems shortly after the White Event, realising that this is because she's just become a superhuman herself.
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The first arc, illustrated by Creator/SalvadorLarroca with color art by Jason Keith, focuses on four of the people who've been transformed by the event, each one a reinvention of one of the key characters from the New Universe line.
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The first arc, illustrated by Creator/SalvadorLarroca with color art by Jason Keith, focuses on four of the people who've been transformed by the event, each one a reinvention of one of the a key characters character from the New Universe line.
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] is the 1950s Cipher, empowered by the Fireworks. He built a prototype Iron Man suit to escape from North Vietnam. And then the NSA [[BoomHeadshot killed him]] out of fear that he'd meet the other two 1950s superhumans.
* DeathByOriginStory: Ken Connell's girlfriend Madeline Felix, who's CollateralDamage when the Star Brand is transmitted to Connell while they're both asleep. The overflow incinerates her.
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** [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] is the 1950s Cipher, empowered by the Fireworks. He built a prototype Iron Man suit to escape from North Vietnam. And then the NSA [[BoomHeadshot killed him]] out of fear that he'd meet the other two 1950s superhumans.
** In the original New Universe, Madeline Felix (more often known by her nickname, "Debbie the Duck") is a regular supporting character for the first year or more, eventually dying in childbirth after the events of ''ComicBook/ThePitt''. In ''newuniversal'' she's immediately killed when Connell receives the Starbrand power.
* DeathByOriginStory: Ken Connell's girlfriend Madeline Felix, who's CollateralDamage when theStar Brand Starbrand is transmitted to Connell while they're both asleep. The overflow incinerates her.
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** In the original New Universe, Madeline Felix (more often known by her nickname, "Debbie the Duck") is a regular supporting character for the first year or more, eventually dying in childbirth after the events of ''ComicBook/ThePitt''. In ''newuniversal'' she's immediately killed when Connell receives the Starbrand power.
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* BoomHeadshot: In ''1959'', NSA agents Voight and Swann debrief a cheerful [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] after his escape from North Vietnam. And then Voight shoots him in the head.
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* DiagonalCut: Tensen applies two, in an x-shape, to one of the men who shot him. He doesn’t fall apart until after the second swing.
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* MookHorrorShow: John Tensen, empowered as Justice, tracks the men who shot him to a darkened warehouse. There's a speech from the shadows, telling them he's there. And then he cuts them to pieces.
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The first arc, illustrated by Salvador Larroca Creator/SalvadorLarroca with color art by Jason Keith, focuses on four of the people who've been transformed by the event, each one a reinvention of one of the key characters from the original New Universe.
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* CanonWelding: Starr the Slayer and Len Carson were characters from a one-off fantasy story in ''Chamber of Darkness'' with no clear connection to the shared Marvel Universe, unlike the ''newuniversal'' versions.
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In ''Chamber of Darkness'' Len Carson was a pulp author writing about a (supposedly) fictional barbarian hero, Starr the Slayer. In ''newuniversal'' he's field director of the archaeological dig unearthing the ruins of Zardath, Starr's city.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Professor Jennifer Swensen of the New Universe's ''Codename: Spitfire'' becomes ''newuniversal'''s Doctor Jennifer Swann. Warren Ellis explained that this was because the original comics had too many similar surnames: Swensen, Tensen (Justice) and Remsen (the original Nightmask, who's replaced by Izanami Randall for ''newuniversal'').
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* AdaptationNameChange: Professor Jennifer Swensen of the New Universe's ''Codename: Spitfire'' becomes ''newuniversal'''s Doctor Jennifer Swann. Swann, as Warren Ellis explained felt that this was because the original comics had too many similar surnames: Swensen, Tensen (Justice) and Remsen (the original Nightmask, who's replaced by Izanami Randall for ''newuniversal'').
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* AdaptationNameChange: Professor Jennifer Swensen of the New Universe's ''Codename: Spitfire'' becomes ''newuniversal'''s Doctor Jennifer Swann. Warren Ellis explained that this was because the original comics had too many similar surnames: Swensen, Tensen (Justice) and Remsen (the original Nightmask, who's replaced by Izanami Randall for ''newuniversal'').
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It quickly becomes clear that this isn't a purely random occurrence - it's been orchestrated by something alien. And, unknown to the public, the American government is very aware that it's not the first time this has happened.
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It quickly becomes clear that this isn't a purely random occurrence - it's been orchestrated by something alien. And, unknown to the public, the American government is very aware that it's not this isn't the first time this has happened.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Back in 1959, NSA agent Phillip Voight shot Robbins' and Kelly's baby, acting in the belief that superhuman powers can be inherited.
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* FleshAndBombs: In ''1959'' the government uses Veronica Kelly's body, treated so that she still looks alive at first glance, to lure Lester Robbins into the blast radius of their bombs. Whether or not the body is wired up with explosives, or just the house, is left unclear.
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* OfCorpseHesAlive: Played for drama in ''1959''. Veronica Kelly's corpse is sitting in her house when Robbins returns, looking lifelike from a distance. It's been set up by the government to lure him into a FleshAndBombs trap.
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->''"This is a paradigm shift. The universe sends a Justice, to maintain order. A Cipher, for the technological leap. A Nightmask, for the consciousness shift. And a Starbrand, for defence."''
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* ShoutOut: Archaeologist Len Carson mentions ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids'' when talking about sleeping through the White Event.
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* ''newuniversal: 1959'' is written by Creator/KieronGillen and illustrated by Gregg Scott and Kody Chamberlain, with color art by Val Staples. It tells the story of the US government's reaction to the known three superhumans created by the previous celestial event, the "Fireworks" of 1953.
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* ''newuniversal: 1959'' is written by Creator/KieronGillen and illustrated by Gregg Scott and Kody Chamberlain, with color art by Val Staples. It tells the story of the US government's reaction to the three known three superhumans created by the previous celestial event, the "Fireworks" of 1953.
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* ComicBookTime: Very much averted. The series is specifically set in 2006 and puts timestamp captions on most major events.
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* UncertainDoom: The last published issue of ''shockfront'' ends with Magniconte in a room with a briefcase bomb - which detonates and does major damage to the building. Unless he was teleported out, or has a ''significant'' level of invulnerability (both of which are entirely possible, in this context) he's likely to be dead.
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* IncrediblyObviousBomb: When the 1950s Nightmask, Lester Robbins, returns to Veronica Kelly's house in the ''1959'' one-off, the bomb is the government's left there is very visible. But by then it's too late.
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* UncertainDoom: The last published issue of ''shockfront'' ends with Magniconte in a room with a briefcase bomb - which detonates and does major damage to the building. Unless he was teleported out, or has a ''significant'' level of invulnerability (both of which are entirely possible, in this context) he's likely to be dead.
* UncertainDoom: The last published issue of ''shockfront'' ends with Magniconte in a room with a briefcase bomb - which detonates and does major damage to the building. Unless he was teleported out, or has a ''significant'' level of invulnerability (both of which are entirely possible, in this context) he's likely to be dead.
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On March 2 2006, the White Event occurs. For a moment, the night sky over the Western Hemisphere turns white. And in its wake a handful of people are transformed into something more than human.
It quickly becomes clear that this isn't a purely random occurrence - it's been orchestrated by something alien. And, unknown to the public, the American government is very aware that it's not the first time this has happened.
The first arc, illustrated by Salvador Larroca with color art by Jason Keith, focuses on four of the people who've been transformed by the event, each one a reinvention of one of the key characters from the original New Universe.
Unlike the original New Universe, the ''newuniversal'' story is immediately connected to the main Franchise/MarvelUniverse, positioned as an alternate world with versions of existing Marvel characters as some of the supporting cast.
The initial arc is followed by two one-off historical specials with different creative teams:
* ''newuniversal: 1959'' is written by Creator/KieronGillen and illustrated by Gregg Scott and Kody Chamberlain, with color art by Val Staples. It tells the story of the US government's reaction to the known three superhumans created by the previous celestial event, the "Fireworks" of 1953.
* ''newuniversal: conqueror'' is written by Creator/SiSpurrier, with art by Eric Nguyen and color art by John Rauch. Almost five thousand years ago there was another White Event. The superhumans that it created built a city in what's now Latvia - and then things went wrong.
After the two one-offs, the main series resumed, renumbered and renamed ''newuniversal: shockfront'', with Ellis returning as writer and Steve Kurth and Andrew Hennessy as the artists, with color art by Chris Chuckry.
The ''shockfront'' series started to expand the scope to a wider cast of superhumans, but abruptly went on hiatus after the second issue, when Warren Ellis lost all scripts and notes due to a computer crash. The series never resumed and was, eventually, formally cancelled by Marvel.
Some elements of ''newuniversal'''s premise were later incorporated into the main Marvel Universe (alongside other concepts taken directly from the original New Universe books), most notably as part of Creator/JonathanHickman's run on [[ComicBook/TheAvengersJonathanHickman The Avengers]] and Creator/AlEwing's run on [[ComicBook/TheUltimates2015 The Ultimates]].
The first issue of ''newuniversal'' was released December 6 2006. The last issue (#2) of ''newuniversal: shockfront'' was released June 11 2008.
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* CutShort: The series was cancelled midway through the second ''Shockwave'' arc after Warren Ellis lost all notes and scripts due to a computer crash (several of the other projects he was working on were cancelled in the same way).
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Jack Magniconte, who doesn't realise that he now has SuperStrength, accidentally tears an opponent in half during a charity football game.
* IncrediblyObviousBomb: When the 1950s Nightmask, Lester Robbins, returns to Veronica Kelly's house in the ''1959'' one-off, the bomb is the government's left there is very visible. But by then it's too late.
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