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* RivalTurnedEvil: Thom Broadarrow was a childhood rival to Joshua Brand. He was always jealous of Joshua, especially when Joshua got the girl they both wanted, then abandoned her to leave the reservation; something Thom never managed. When Joshua, returned to the reservation and was granted the power of Wakan Tanka, Thom thought it should have rightfully be his. His jealousy ultimately led to accident that transformed into a monster.
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* TribalFacePaint: Joshua Brand acquires tribal face paint when he transforms into his superpowered form.
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* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: The Nesting Ones do this to Jon Sable in #8; giving him a gun and a single bullet to make things 'sporting'.
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* MercyLead: In #8, the Nesting Ones give Jon Sable a gun with a single bullet and a very short head start before setting out to hunt him through the sewers.
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* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Thom Broadarrow is intensively jealous of Joshua Brand, and thinks the powers of Wakan Tanka should have been his.
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* MixAndMatchCreatures: Thom Broadarrow is exposed to the Circle Sea mutagenic compound and is transformed into a composite of a dozen different creatures found in his taxidermy shop.
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* CannibalLarder: Joshua Brand and Jon Sable find a cannibal larder full of the remains of missing homeless people in the lair of the nestlings in the sewers under New York City.
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* PineappleSurprise: Jon sable pulls this trick in #8: yanking the pin out of one of the grenades on a bandoleer worn by one of the nestlings as he flees their sewer lair.
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* PineappleSurprise: Jon sable Sable pulls this trick in #8: yanking the pin out of one of the grenades on a bandoleer worn by one of the nestlings as he flees their sewer lair.lair.
* TearsOfBlood: Joshua Brand cries tears of blood when he triggers his powers (hence the title). The three tears are transformed into three streaks of warpaint running down his cheek in his superpowered form.
* TearsOfBlood: Joshua Brand cries tears of blood when he triggers his powers (hence the title). The three tears are transformed into three streaks of warpaint running down his cheek in his superpowered form.
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* HumanToWerewolfFootprints: Not a werewolf but another form of transformation. When Jon Sable is tracking Joshua Brand through the sewers, he is confused when Joshua's footprints change from boots to moccasins. This is because Joshua has magically transformed into his costumed identity.
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* WeatherManipulation: One of Joshua's powers. He most commonly uses it to create rain.
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* TheChosenOne: Joshua Brand is the chosen one of Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit of the Sioux; selected to be her champion and defend the balance of nature.
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* DisposableVagrant: In #5 - 8, Joshua Brand and [[JonSableFreelance Jon Sable]] team-up to hunt down a pack of monsters living in the sewers that has been preying on the homeless of New York.
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* WhiteGangBangers: In #6, a gang consisting of two whites and a black attempts to mug Joshua Brand in a MiggingTheMonster moment.
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* WhiteGangBangers: In #6, a gang consisting of two whites and a black attempts to mug Joshua Brand in a MiggingTheMonster MuggingTheMonster moment.
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* WhiteGangBangers: In #6, a gang consisting of two whites and a black attempts to mug Joshua Brand in a MiggingTheMonster moment.
* WhiteGangBangers: In #6, a gang consisting of two whites and a black attempts to mug Joshua Brand in a MiggingTheMonster moment.
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* PineappleSurprise: Jon sable pulls this trick in #8: yanking the pin out of one of the grenades on a bandoleer worn by one of the nestlings as he flees their sewer lair.
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* AnimalThemedSuperBeing: Joshua has the power to call on the abilities of any animal.
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* MotherNature: Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit of the Sioux, who grants Joshua his powers. When it manifests, Wakan Tanka usually takes the form of a sexy Native American woman.
* MuggingTheMonster: A street gang attempts to mug Joshua Brand while he is meditating in Central Park. As Joshua has the power to call on the abilities of any animal, this ends badly for them.
* MuggingTheMonster: A street gang attempts to mug Joshua Brand while he is meditating in Central Park. As Joshua has the power to call on the abilities of any animal, this ends badly for them.
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* MotherNature: Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit of the Sioux, who grants Joshua his powers.
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* CoolBike: Joshua's classic Indian Chief motorcycle.
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* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: The Blood a.k.a. Bar Sinister (who later got their own short-lived series), a group of genetically engineered, super powered human/animal hybrids.
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* LEGOGenetics: The Blood (later known as Bar Sinister) were artificially created human/animal hybrids; each designed to have specific traits from the animal side (wings on the bat hybrid, prehensile feet on the monkey hybrid, etc).
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powers in an attempt to understand them..
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* MagicalNativeAncestry: Joshua once he is granted mystical powers.
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* JusticeByOtherLegalMeans: Joshua Brand is unable to arrest the CorruptCorporateExecutive for various crimes because the victims (genetically engineered lifeforms) are not technically human. So he instead arrests him for violating the Endangered Species Act after he realizes one of the genetically engineered constructs was created using the DNA of a black-footed ferret.
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* JusticeByOtherLegalMeans: Joshua Brand is unable to arrest the CorruptCorporateExecutive for various crimes because the victims (genetically engineered lifeforms) are not technically human. So he instead arrests him for violating the Endangered Species Act after he realizes one of the genetically engineered constructs was created using the DNA of a black-footed ferret.ferret.
* MixedAncestry: Joshua Brand's father was half-Sioux and his mother was Irish.
* MixedAncestry: Joshua Brand's father was half-Sioux and his mother was Irish.
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''Shaman's Tears'' was a comic-book series created by Mike Grell and published by ImageComics.
The comic starred Joshua Brand, the son of a half-Sioux father and an Irish mother, who returns an as adult to the reservation he ran away from as a child. Discovering he mystically possesses the powers of all animals and the Earth itself, he becomes the protector of the planet. The book often dealt with ecological and animal rights issues.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: General Patrick Pending.
* JusticeByOtherLegalMeans: Joshua Brand is unable to arrest the CorruptCorporateExecutive for various crimes because the victims (genetically engineered lifeforms) are not technically human. So he instead arrests him for violating the Endangered Species Act after he realizes one of the genetically engineered constructs was created using the DNA of a black-footed ferret.
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The comic starred Joshua Brand, the son of a half-Sioux father and an Irish mother, who returns an as adult to the reservation he ran away from as a child. Discovering he mystically possesses the powers of all animals and the Earth itself, he becomes the protector of the planet. The book often dealt with ecological and animal rights issues.
!!''Shaman's Tears'' contains examples of:
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: General Patrick Pending.
* JusticeByOtherLegalMeans: Joshua Brand is unable to arrest the CorruptCorporateExecutive for various crimes because the victims (genetically engineered lifeforms) are not technically human. So he instead arrests him for violating the Endangered Species Act after he realizes one of the genetically engineered constructs was created using the DNA of a black-footed ferret.
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