History ComicBook / Revival

* OffModel: One reviver severs his left arm during breakout from containment. Its gruesome stub is consistently depicted until issue 41, when it abruptly regenerates between pages for two panels.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Louise Cale is an experienced military administrator who fights a ninja assassin hand-to-hand to a stalemate.

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Ibrahim Ramin]] is feeding information to the CIA.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Em is an unregistered reviver murdered the night of the Revival incident. Keeping Em's secret and investigating her murder drive Dana for the rest of the series.

** Multiple kinds of LoveTriangle. See below:
*** Thang Vang reveals she stole from her former employer.
*** The Hine stepsiblings [[spoiler:are having an affair and murdered their father to finance it]].
*** The Check brothers [[spoiler:murdered their transgender father]].
*** Wayne Cypress [[spoiler:was drunk the night he crashed his motorcycle, killing his wife]].

** Multiple kinds of LoveTriangle, see below.
** Thang Vang reveals she stole from her former employer.
** The Hine stepsiblings [[spoiler:are having an affair and murdered their father to finance it]].
** The Check brothers [[spoiler:murdered their transgender father]].
** Wayne Cypress [[spoiler:was drunk the night he crashed his motorcycle, killing his wife]].

** Issue 23: [[Spoiler:Em is pregnant.]]

** Issue 41: [[spoiler:Lester Majak is revealed to be Em's murderer.]] This one is especially notable in that it starts the final arc, instead of being at the end of the previous one.

* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler:Martha "Em" Cypress]]

--->'''Doctor:''' He has ''second'' and ''third'' degree burns over a hundred percent of his body. Normally, burns that deep destroy the nerve, and are considered [[FeelNoPain "low to no pain"]]. But due to his state of reanimation, [[BlessedWithSuck he's constantly regenerating nerve tissue]]. Conversely, the damage is such that the process of healing we've seen on other revivers has been abated. Essentially, this man is trapped in a state of ''perpetual burning''. He's in an induced coma because being conscious and outside that chamber? It would be a ''living hell'', in the most literal form of the word I can conceive of.

* FireKeepsItDead: Immolation seems to be one of the only things that can keep a Reviver from coming back to life. Jesse Blackdeer is an exception to a point, as he revived mid-cremation.

* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Dana takes a short field trip to New York City at one point, in an attempt to track down a reviver who'd escaped the quarantine zone. When she finds him, he's decided to make money as an open buffet for experimental rich people, who hope to gain his immortality by eating his flesh. Unfortunately for them, the reviver's also poisoned the ''hell'' out of himself.]]

--->'''Doctor''' He has ''second'' and ''third'' degree burns over a hundred percent of his body. Normally, burns that deep destroy the nerve, and are considered [[FeelNoPain "low to no pain"]]. But due to his state of reanimation, [[BlessedWithSuck he's constantly regenerating nerve tissue]]. Conversely, the damage is such that the process of healing we've seen on other revivers has been abated. Essentially, this man is trapped in a state of ''perpetual burning''. He's in an induced coma because being conscious and outside that chamber? It would be a ''living hell'', in the most literal form of the word I can conceive of.

** [[spoiler:The Check brothers]]
** [[spoiler:Anders Hine]]
** [[spoiler:Aaron Weimar]]
** [[spoiler:Rose and Jesse Blackdeer]]
** [[spoiler:Jeannie Gorski]]
** [[spoiler:May Tao]]
** [[spoiler:Blaine Abel]]
** [[spoiler:Diane and Ken Dillisch]]
** [[spoiler:Rhodey Rasch]]
** [[spoiler:Janae and Jacob Cale]]
** [[spoiler:Lester Majak]]

* FireKeepsItDead: Immolation seems to be one of the only things that can keep a Reviver from coming back to life.

* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler:Martha Cypress]]

* ToiletPaperSubstitute: Holt uses this to show disrespect to Wayne's trespassing ticket

** [[spoiler:A reviver escapes the quarantine on a bus.]]

** [[spoiler:A reviver is pregnant.]]

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Every US soldier killed across the series is male except for Big Tina. Civilian deaths include females.

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''Revival'' is a "rural noir" comic book published by Creator/ImageComics, written by Tim (''ComicBook/HackSlash'') Seeley and drawn by Mike Norton. It ran for 47 issues, from 2012 to 2017, as well as one crossover issue with ''Chew''.