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how many other fault lines/volcanoes/etc. were they keeping tamped down?
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* DeadMansSwitch: Never explicitly shown, but the fact that [[spoiler: the San Andreas Fault around San Francisco becomes active again after The Front Line is taken down]] does make one wonder...
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* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Joshua Carver is this at the beginning.
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* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Joshua Carver is this at the beginning. [[spoiler: Supposedly.]]
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* KillTheParentRaiseTheChild: Josh Carver was raised by [[spoiler: the serial killer that murdered his parents.]] He learned all sorts of... ''interesting'' skills from his new family. [[spoiler: Which is why the government considers him a suitable EvilVsEvil when it comes to The Front Line.]]
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* CompleteImmortality: [[spoiler:Carrick Masterson. He can't age, get killed by external means, but he does feel pain.]]
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* CompleteImmortality: [[spoiler:Carrick Masterson. He can't age, age or get killed by external means, but he does feel pain.]]
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Joshua is actually a serial killer who became an FBI mole sent to infiltrate the Front Line and destroy them from the inside. Charlie Kraft, original member of Front Line who retired in 1985 didn't die six months later but was instead kidnapped by US government and vivisected by an international teams of surgeons for twelve years, so the countries of the world can find what makes FX7 enhanced individuals tick and develop counter measures]].
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Joshua is actually a serial killer who became an FBI mole sent to infiltrate the Front Line and destroy them from the inside. Charlie Kraft, original member of Front Line who retired in 1985 didn't die six months later but was instead kidnapped by US government and vivisected by an international teams of surgeons for twelve years, so the countries of the world can find what makes FX7 enhanced [=FX7=]-enhanced individuals tick and develop counter measures]].
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Joshua is actually a serial killer who became an FBI mole sent to infiltrate the Front Line and destroy them from the inside]].
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Joshua is actually a serial killer who became an FBI mole sent to infiltrate the Front Line and destroy them from the inside]].inside. Charlie Kraft, original member of Front Line who retired in 1985 didn't die six months later but was instead kidnapped by US government and vivisected by an international teams of surgeons for twelve years, so the countries of the world can find what makes FX7 enhanced individuals tick and develop counter measures]].
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* MeaningfulName: Joshua Carver. [[spoiler:Based on his last name, he did exactly that to The Front Line -- that is to say, carving it out. After all, it is what he does best]].
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* MeaningfulName: Joshua Carver. [[spoiler:Based on his last name, he did exactly that to The Front Line -- that is to say, carving it out. After all, it is what he does best]].best. There are Jesus Christ analogies as well: Same initials, Joshua is one possible translation of name Jesus and Jesus's father Joseph was a carpenter, colloquially known as woodcarver]].
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* FlyingBrick: [=FX7=] seems to induce this power set the most, with occasional other powers (Smokestack Lightning has {{Intangibility}} and ShockAndAwe talents, The Operator is a {{Technopath}}). Notably, Redglare ''can't'' fly. Carrick supposedly tweaks [=FX7=] to try and induce other superpowers in his enhanciles as he is, in fact, quite uninterested in standard Flying Bricks:
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* FlyingBrick: [=FX7=] seems to induce this power set the most, with occasional other powers (Smokestack Lightning has {{Intangibility}} and ShockAndAwe talents, The Operator is a {{Technopath}}). Notably, Redglare ''can't'' fly. Carrick supposedly tweaks [=FX7=] to try and induce other superpowers in his enhanciles as he is, in fact, quite is uninterested in standard Flying Bricks:
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* PsychoSerum: [=FX7=] gives superpowers-- but it's a nasty hallucinogen. Worse, the subject's stress hormones need to kick in in a big way to aid the transformation. Carrick has a special room, inspired by UsefulNotes/AleisterCrowley's "la chambre des cauchemars" ("the room of nightmares"), to ensure the subject has a bad trip. The heroes tend to come out deeply traumatized, some turning to other drugs to suppress [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD flashbacks]].
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* PsychoSerum: [=FX7=] gives superpowers-- but it's a nasty hallucinogen. Worse, the subject's stress hormones need to kick in in a big way to aid the transformation. Carrick has a special room, inspired by UsefulNotes/AleisterCrowley's Creator/AleisterCrowley's "la chambre des cauchemars" ("the room of nightmares"), to ensure the subject has a bad trip. The heroes tend to come out deeply traumatized, some turning to other drugs to suppress [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD flashbacks]].
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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The ending of the story. With the exception of [[AndIMustScream Carrick]].]]
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* AntiHero: Joshua, he accidentally kills a mugger to impress the Frontline and [[spoiler: is actually a government SerialKillerKiller]]. Nevertheless he is aware of his flaws (saying his reaction to his accidental murder proves he is not a hero) and do wants to make the world better.
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* VillainProtagonist: Joshua, he accidentally kills a mugger to impress the Frontline and [[spoiler: is actually a government SerialKillerKiller]].
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* InhumanEyeConcealers: Mr. Marsh wears sunglasses to hide his ElectronicEyes.
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''No Hero'' is the second super-hero miniseries from Creator/WarrenEllis at Creator/AvatarPress, and also his second collaboration with artist Creator/JuanJoseRyp. If ''ComicBook/BlackSummer'' is what happened when the superhumans were ''too'' human, this is what happens when they're decide they're above humanity. The series started with issue #0 and lasted for 8 issues, from June, 2008 to September, 2009.
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''No Hero'' is the second super-hero miniseries from Creator/WarrenEllis at Creator/AvatarPress, and also his second collaboration with artist Creator/JuanJoseRyp. If ''ComicBook/BlackSummer'' is what happened when the superhumans were ''too'' human, this is what happens when they're decide they're above humanity. The series started with issue #0 and lasted for 8 issues, from June, 2008 to September, 2009.
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-->'''Carrick:''' I really wanted people to be able to see [Joshua's] face when we present him.
-->'''Ben Chisholm[=/=]Redglare:''' Hasn't got much of a face, boss. Hasn't got much of a skin, full stop. Tragic little guy doesn't even have a dick.
-->'''Carrick:''' Well, I wasn't intending to show that to the press, Benjamin.
-->'''Ben Chisholm[=/=]Redglare:''' Hasn't got much of a face, boss. Hasn't got much of a skin, full stop. Tragic little guy doesn't even have a dick.
-->'''Carrick:''' Well, I wasn't intending to show that to the press, Benjamin.
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-->'''Carrick:''' I really wanted people to be able to see [Joshua's] face when we present him.
-->'''Benhim.\\
'''Ben Chisholm[=/=]Redglare:''' Hasn't got much of a face, boss. Hasn't got much of a skin, full stop. Tragic little guy doesn't even have adick.
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'''Carrick:''' Well, I wasn't intending to show that to the press, Benjamin.
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'''Ben Chisholm[=/=]Redglare:''' Hasn't got much of a face, boss. Hasn't got much of a skin, full stop. Tragic little guy doesn't even have a
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'''Carrick:''' Well, I wasn't intending to show that to the press, Benjamin.
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* DrugsAreBad: This definitely seems to be a message, if not the message, of the story. Boy, does it go out of its way to show why.
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* DrugsAreBad: This definitely seems to be a message, if not the message, of the story. Boy, does it go out of its way to show why.
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* {{Asexuality}}: [[spoiler:Joshua]] realizes this about himself after [[spoiler:losing his penis]].
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* ImmortalityImmorality: [[spoiler: We don't know what Carrick was like before his [=FX7=] enhancement, but there's definitely the sense that his manipulating the world is because since he's going to be living in it for who knows how long, he might as well make it to his liking.]]
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* ImmortalityImmorality: [[spoiler: We don't know what Carrick was like before his [=FX7=] enhancement, but there's except that he was once a chemist and LSD drug dealer during an Early Psychedelic Movement that discovered [=FX7=] by experimenting with drugs and immediately tried to milk it for all it was worth for his own benefit. There's definitely the sense that his manipulating the world is because since he's going to be living in it for who knows how long, he might as well make it to his liking.]]
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* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:Carrick explicitly states that the purpose of the Front Line is selfish as hell. "The more people alive there are, the more people there are to earn money that will eventually be given to me. Also, the more people there are to breed girls whom I will eventually fuck." They save people, shut down Nixon and Vietnam, kept the French from getting nuclear weapons, destroyed Iran's oil reserves to nip terrorism in the bud, etc., because it is good for business. They're assholes of the first degree, but they've made their world better than ours (maybe -- the line about "black states" imply that the US went through an apartheid-like stage at some point). And once Joshua shuts them down on behalf of every government on the planet, everything goes straight to hell.]]
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* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:Carrick explicitly states that the purpose of the Front Line is selfish as hell. "The more people alive there are, the more people there are to earn money that will eventually be given to me. Also, the more people there are to breed girls whom I will eventually fuck." They save people, shut down Nixon and Vietnam, kept the French from getting nuclear weapons, destroyed Iran's oil reserves to nip terrorism in the bud, etc., because it is good for business.business and keeps the world stable for Front Line to control as they please. They're assholes of the first degree, but they've made their world better than ours (maybe -- the line about "black states" imply that the US went through an apartheid-like stage at some point). And once Joshua shuts them down on behalf of every government on the planet, everything goes straight to hell.]]
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* ManInWhite: Carrick always wears white suits, except to the funerals of Judex and Doctor Shift. In contrast, the Levellers and Front Line generally wear black. Joshua ''also'' wears white when he debuts as a super.
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* NecessaryEvil: [[spoiler:The Front Line, for its many wrongs, are at the same time keeping fault lines stable, are behind several aid efforts, and are also insuring economic stability in some parts of the world.]]
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* NecessaryEvil: NecessarilyEvil:
** [[spoiler:The Front Line, for its many wrongs, are at the same time keeping fault lines stable, are behind several aid efforts, and are also insuring economic stability in some parts of the world.]]
** [[spoiler:The Front Line, for its many wrongs, are at the same time keeping fault lines stable, are behind several aid efforts, and are also insuring economic stability in some parts of the world.]]
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* AntiHero: Joshua, he accidentally kills a mugger to impress the Frontline and [[spoiler: is actually a government SerialKillerKiller]].
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* VillainProtagonist: Joshua, he accidentally kills a mugger to impress the Frontline and [[spoiler: is actually a government SerialKillerKiller]].
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* HerosFirstRescue: Subverted when Joshua stops a plane from crashing into San Francisco.
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* HerosFirstRescue: Subverted when Joshua stops a plane from crashing into San Francisco.Francisco. [[spoiler: But see Engineered Heroics above...]]
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** #6: Bernie Wrightson's ''House of Secrets'' #92 (also homaged by John Totlebein for ''Saga of the ComicBook/SwampThing'' #33) ([[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/8/8d/House_of_Secrets_v.1_92.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130410164055 Wrightson]], [[http://images.sequart.org/images/Saga-of-the-Swamp-Thing-33.jpg Totlebein]], [[https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/828/w400/828472.jpg?5459402182874871782 Ryp]]) For some reason, this one doesn't credit either Wrightson or Totlebein.
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** #6: Bernie Wrightson's ''House of Secrets'' #92 (also homaged by John Totlebein for ''Saga of the ComicBook/SwampThing'' #33) ([[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/8/8d/House_of_Secrets_v.1_92.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130410164055 Wrightson]], [[http://images.sequart.org/images/Saga-of-the-Swamp-Thing-33.jpg Totlebein]], [[https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/828/w400/828472.jpg?5459402182874871782 [[https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0230/7913/products/NOHERO6AUX_1_1024x1024.jpeg?v=1368163934 Ryp]]) For some reason, this one doesn't credit either Wrightson or Totlebein.
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** #6: Bernie Wrightson's ''House of Secrets'' #92 (also homaged by John Totlebein for ''Saga of the ComicBook/SwampThing'' #33) ([[https://p.dreamwidth.org/f736000fb977/172314-7781053/i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa447/AliceMacher/scans_daily/swampthing33-hos92.png Wrightson]], [[http://images.sequart.org/images/Saga-of-the-Swamp-Thing-33.jpg Totlebein]], [[https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/828/w400/828472.jpg?5459402182874871782 Ryp]]) For some reason, this one doesn't credit either Wrightson or Totlebein.
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** #6: Bernie Wrightson's ''House of Secrets'' #92 (also homaged by John Totlebein for ''Saga of the ComicBook/SwampThing'' #33) ([[https://p.dreamwidth.org/f736000fb977/172314-7781053/i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa447/AliceMacher/scans_daily/swampthing33-hos92.png ([[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/8/8d/House_of_Secrets_v.1_92.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130410164055 Wrightson]], [[http://images.sequart.org/images/Saga-of-the-Swamp-Thing-33.jpg Totlebein]], [[https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/828/w400/828472.jpg?5459402182874871782 Ryp]]) For some reason, this one doesn't credit either Wrightson or Totlebein.
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*** Another #1 alternate: Creator/GilKane's ''The Amazing ComicBook/SpiderGirl'' #4 ([[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/spiderman/images/2/25/TheAmazingSpider-Girl4-NoHero1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140703204638 both images side-by-side]])
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*** Another #1 alternate: Creator/GilKane's Gerry Conway's ''The Amazing ComicBook/SpiderGirl'' #4 ([[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/spiderman/images/2/25/TheAmazingSpider-Girl4-NoHero1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140703204638 both images side-by-side]])Spider-Man'' #129
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** #6: Bernie Wrightson's ''House of Secrets'' #92 (also homaged by John Totlebein for ''Saga of the ComicBook/SwampThing'' #33 ([[https://p.dreamwidth.org/f736000fb977/172314-7781053/i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa447/AliceMacher/scans_daily/swampthing33-hos92.png Wrightson]], [[http://images.sequart.org/images/Saga-of-the-Swamp-Thing-33.jpg Totlebein]], [[https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/828/w400/828472.jpg?5459402182874871782 Ryp]]) For some reason, this one doesn't credit either Wrightson or Totlebein.
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** #6: Bernie Wrightson's ''House of Secrets'' #92 (also homaged by John Totlebein for ''Saga of the ComicBook/SwampThing'' #33 #33) ([[https://p.dreamwidth.org/f736000fb977/172314-7781053/i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa447/AliceMacher/scans_daily/swampthing33-hos92.png Wrightson]], [[http://images.sequart.org/images/Saga-of-the-Swamp-Thing-33.jpg Totlebein]], [[https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/828/w400/828472.jpg?5459402182874871782 Ryp]]) For some reason, this one doesn't credit either Wrightson or Totlebein.
