History ComicBook / Nextwave

* VitriolicBestBuds: The whole team are half a hair away from tearing each other's faces off most times, except... well, [[SubvertedTrope no except]]. They permanently, ''vehemently'' hate each other, but are united in their enmity with H.A.T.E., and work pretty well together (it's also likely that no other team will touch them with a 10-foot pole).

* VitrioicBestBuds: The whole team are half a hair away from tearing each other's faces off most times, except... well, [[SubvertedTrope no except]]. They permanently, ''vehemently'' hate each other, but are united in their enmity with H.A.T.E., and work pretty well together (it's also likely that no other team will touch them with a 10-foot pole).

* GloryDays: Did you know Monica Rambeau used to lead ComicBook/TheAvengers?

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Elsa Bloodstone. Her father forced her into a pit to fight ancient monsters. (Elsa was an infant at the time.) Later on, unbeknownst to her mother, he forced Elsa to study monsters under the tutelage of a robotic iron maiden named Hate Mother.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: "[[AC:Nextwave]]...are in your room and touching your stuff."

** The famous "Mark Millar Licks Goats" cover right here in the page picture. There's an urban legend that editors discouraged the use of the word "flick" in comics, because when written in capital letters, if the ''L'' and the ''I'' overlap, you get "fuck." Now notice that there's just enough space out of sight on Aaron's sign for the letter ''F'' and you get...

You can be damn sure we won't let ☠☠☠☠ like '''that''' [[StatusQuoIsGood happen again]].

You can be damn sure we won't let ☠☠☠☠ like '''that''' happen again.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The members of ''Nextwave'' may be appear to be neurotic, incompetent jerks, and well they are. But they're good fighters when pointed in the right direction.

* BiTheWay: Monica says that all of ComicBook/TheAvengers hit on her. Including ComicBook/TheWasp.
** But ''not'' [[WordOfGay Captain America...]]

* MonsterModesty: Fing Fang Foom's shorts are a subject of extensive derision.

* DrivenToSuicide: Dirk Anger makes repeated suicide attempts, but never quite manages to pull it off.

* InfantImmortality: Subverted with [[spoiler: Baby Modok]].
** But played straight with Elsa, who somehow survived fighting at least two monsters ''before even being able to talk''.

** The famous "Mark Millar Licks Goats" cover right here in the page picture. There's an urban legend that editors discouraged the use of the word "flick" in comics, because when written in capital letters, if the ''L'' and the ''I'' overlap, you get, well, "☠☠☠☠" Now notice that there's just enough space out of sight on Aaron's sign for the letter ''F'' and you get...

* SanityBall: Usually juggled between Monica and Elsa, with Aaron taking some occasional turns. The Captain and Tammy, not so much.

-->I've reinvented suicide as a group activity. Go me. We must all burn.

-->'''Dirk''': I have re-invented suicide as a group activity. Go me.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Very subtle, and bordering on FridgeBrilliance, but in issue #9, Elsa notes that the team should be seeing "[[spoiler:devil dinosaurs]] tearing up the landscape." Two issues later, [[spoiler: we learn that Devil Dinosaur is the mastermind behind S.I.L.E.N.T.]]

WarrenEllis and Stuart Immonen's irreverent parody of {{Super Team}}s, which featured five relatively obscure {{Super Hero}}es fighting the forces of H.A.T.E., a [[HeroesRUs S.H.I.E.L.D-style organization]] who were discovered to be in league with the Beyond Corporation, the current incarnation of their former rivals, [[NebulousEvilOrganization S.I.L.E.N.T.]] ([[FunWithAcronyms Who doesn't love a good acronym]]?)

-->'''WarrenEllis''': "It is people getting kicked, and then exploding. It is a pure comic book, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. And afterwards, they will explode."

** There are also some elements of SelfDeprecation: there's a lot of spoofing of ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'', ''ComicBook/GlobalFrequency'', ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' and other Ellis team books.

* Retirony: Subverted. Officer Mangel is introduced just a few days from retirement... and then proves to be such a colossal asshole and CorruptCop that the harm he experiences is [[AssholeVictim clearly deserved]], rather than a fate designed to gain audience sympathy.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The members of ''Nextwave'' maybe appear to be neurotic, incompetent jerks, and well they are. But they're good fighters when pointed in the right direction.
* CurbStompBattle: Of the fifteen or so costumed and named characters Number None gathered up, all of them save Forbrush Man were very easily disposed of. Even when it was five against one odds.
* DeathIsCheap: DicussedTrope

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Tabby.

** In fairness, they turn out to be [[spoiler: Broccoli People dressed up as superheroes]], so it makes sense that they give the Nextwave crew little trouble.
* DeathIsCheap: Lampshaded.

** HilariousInHindsight now that Magik ''is'' BackFromTheDead.

* RuleOfCool: When the aforementioned samurai robots appear, Elsa Bloodstone realizes that her handguns aren't ''nearly'' cool enough to defeat them, so she drops them and fights with only a shovel.[[GunsAreWorthless Samurai robots beat guns, no question]].

* RuleOfCool: When the aforementioned samurai robots appear, Elsa Bloodstone realizes that her handguns aren't ''nearly'' cool enough to defeat them, so she drops them and fights with only a shovel.
** It is of note that Elsa decided upon this because [[GunsAreWorthless samurai robots beat guns. No question]].

** The Captain's origin is a Bizarro version of the origin of Franchise/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner.