History ComicBook / XIII

* 21 - ''The Lure'', 2012 (''L'Appât'')

* 21 - ''The Lure'', (''L'Appât''), scheduled for November 2012

''Mayflower Day'' (2001) by Youri Jigounov and Yves Sente, marks the start of a new series.

''Mayflower Day'' (2001) by Jigounov and Sente, marks the start of a new series.

The series begins with a man found on a shore in Peacock Bay in the East Coast of the United States, suffering from amnesia, and just the tattoo "XIII" on his collarbone to link him to his past. Volumes one through five deal with XIII searching for his identity and his past, only to find himself confronting the "Conspiracy of the XX" which aims to a coup d'état in order to overthrow democracy in the USA. The rest of the series shows him dealing with the remnants of his past, stopping the number I of the Conspiracy once and for all, and facing more and more enemies afterwards, as a public reveal of his past would have very unpleasant consequences for some very powerful men ...

XIII (Thirteen) is a [[CashCowFranchise successful]] [[LongRunner long-running]] FrancoBelgianComics series written and drawn by Belgians Jean Van Hamme and William Vance. The series was initially serialised in 1984 in Spirou and became instantly a hit. It was later published by Dargaud.

The series begins with a man found on a shore in Peacock Bay in the East Coast of the United States, suffering from amnesia, and just the tattoo "XIII" on his collarbone to link him to his past. Volumes one through five deal with XIII searching for his identity and his past, only to find himself confronting the "Conspiracy of the XX" which aims to a coup d'état in order to overthrow democracy in the USA.

XIII (Thirteen) is a [[CashCowFranchise successful]] [[LongRunner long-running]] FrancoBelgianComics series written and drawn by Belgians Jean Van Hamme and William Vance. The series was initially serialised in 1984 in Spirou, and was later published by Dargaud.

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The series begins with a man found on a shore in Peacock Bay in the East Coast of the United States, suffering from amnesia, and just the tattoo "XIII" on his collarbone to link him to his past. Volumes one through five deal with XIII searching for his identity and his past, only to find himself confronting the "Conspiracy of the XX" which aims to a coup d'état in the United States.

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The series begins with a man found on a shore in Peacock Bay in the East Coast of the United States, suffering from amnesia, and just the tattoo "XIII" on his collarbone to link him to his past. Volumes one through five deal with XIII searching for his identity and his past, only to find himself confronting the "conspiracy of the XX" which aims to a coup d'état in the United States.

XIII (Thirteen) is a [[CashCowFranchise successful]] FrancoBelgianComics series written and drawn by Belgians Jean Van Hamme and William Vance. The series was initially serialised in 1984 in Spirou, and was later published by Dargaud.

Adapted in 2003 as a first-person shooter entitled VideoGame/{{XIII}} by Ubisoft, and in 2008 as a two-part miniseries on NBC starring Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer. More recently in 2011 a new adaptation has started in Canada.

Adapted in 2003 as a first-person shooter entitled VideoGame/XIII by Ubisoft, and in 2008 as a two-part miniseries on NBC starring Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer. More recently in 2011 a new adaptation has started in Canada.

Adapted in 2003 as a [[VideoGame/XIII first-person shooter]] of the same name by Ubisoft, and in 2008 as a two-part miniseries on NBC starring Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer. More recently in 2011 a new adaptation has started in Canada.

Adapted in 2008 into to a two-part miniseries on NBC starring Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer. More recently in 2011 a new adaptation has started in Canada.

1 - ''The Day of The Black Sun'', 1984 (''Le jour du soleil noir'')
2 - ''Where the Indian Goes'', 1985 (''Là où va l'Indien'')
3 - ''All the Tears of Hell'', 1986 (''Toutes les Larmes de l'Enfer'')
4 - ''S.P.A.D.S'', 1987
5 - ''Full Red'', 1988 (''Rouge Total'')
6 - ''The Jason Fly File'', 1989 (''Le Dossier Jason Fly'')
7 - ''The Night of August 3rd'', 1990 (''La Nuit du 3 Août'')
8 - ''Thirteen to One'', 1991 (''Treize Contre Un'')
9 - ''For Maria'', 1992 (''Pour Maria'')
10 - ''El Cascador'', 1994
11 - ''Three Silver Watches'', 1995 (''Trois Montres d'Argent'')
12 - ''The Trial'', 1997 (''Le Jugement'')
13 - ''The XIII Mystery: The Investigation'', 1999 (''XIII Mystery : L'Enquête'')
14 - ''Danger to the State'', 2000 (''Secret Défense'')
15 - ''Unleash the Hounds!'', 2002 (''Lâchez les Chiens !'')
16 - ''Operation Montechristo'', 2004 (''Opération Montechristo'')
17 - ''Maximilian's Gold'', 2005 (''L'or de Maximilien'')
18 - ''The Irish Version'', 2007 (''La Version Irlandaise''), drawn by Jean Giraud, to accompany ''The Last Round''
19 - ''The Last Round'', 2007 (''Le Dernier Round'')

The series begins with a man washing up on a shore in Peacock Bay in the East Coast of the United States, suffering from amnesia, and just the tattoo "XIII" on his collarbone to link him to his past. Volumes one through five deal with XIII searching for his identity and his past, only to find himself confronting the "conspiracy of the XX" which aims to a coup d'état in the United States.

Adapted in 2008 into to a two-part miniseries on NBC starring Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer. More recently in 2011 a new adaptation has started in Canada.

Adapted in 2008 into to a two-part miniseries on NBC starring Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer and notably not starring Adam West or David Duchovny. More recently in 2011 a new adaptation has started in Canada.

The series begins with a man washing up on a shore in Peacock Bay in the East Coast of the United States, suffering from amnesia, and just the tattoo "XIII" on his collarbone to link him to his past. Volumes one through five deal with XIII searching for his identity and his past, only to find himself confronting the "conspiracy of the XX" which aims to a coup d'état in the United States.

XIII (Thirteen) is a FrancoBelgianComics series written and drawn by Belgians Jean Van Hamme and William Vance

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->''"[[LaserGuidedAmnesia I can't remember a thing...]]"''
--> -- '''Protagonist/Steve Rowland''', ''XIII''

You wake up on a deserted beach. You have no memory, no identification, and a pounding headache. Your only clues to who you are and why you're there are a blurry flashback, a key to a bank, and the number XIII tattooed on your neck.

Within about two minute, your lifeguard rescuer is shot to pieces. You discover an incredible proficiency with weapons and, after wiping out about a dozen {{Mooks}}, proceed to go about discovering who you are. Unfortunately, as you appear to be a long-dead Army Ranger with a history of heinous crimes and a wife who is a secret spy and who may have betrayed you, fighting for the side of good is no easy task. Especially not with multiple armies of baddies chasing you every step of the way.

Notable largely for its atmospheric CelShading - XIII was originally a Belgian comic book (by writer Jean Van Hamme and artist William Vance), running from 1984 onwards. It keeps the ''bande dessinée'' style -- cutscenes are often divided into 'panels,' footsteps make visible 'tap tap tap's on the screen, people plummeting off cliffs leave a long 'AAAAAAAH!' trailing behind them, and devastating combat gets alternate camera angles through inset panels. Also in general a tightly plotted game, though a bit goofy at times.

Adapted in 2008 into to a two-part miniseries on NBC starring Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer and notably not starring Adam West or David Duchovny.

More recently in 2011 a new adaptation has started in Canada.

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!!Examples:

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking : The XX Conspiracy Leaders are all capable of taking an inhuman amount of bullets before dying. General Standwell and The Mongoose in particular verge into ThatOneBoss territory, due to being able to cut you to pieces in seconds while requiring several clips of bullets to die themselves. Unfortunately, this does ''not'' apply to your unarmed, easily killed ally General Carrington (see EscortMission below).
** General Carrington (when not unarmed) is a bit of a badass in cutscenes, however.
* BadassGrandpa: The Mongoose (the XX Conspiracy's TheDragon) is an evil version of this, being a supremely skilled assassin and the game's very difficult final boss.
** General Carrington and Steve Roland, too.
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Walter Sheridan]]
* CutsceneIncompetence: [[spoiler: The end of the game.]]
* DepravedDentist
* TheDragon: The Mongoose
* EscortMission: Protecting Carrington out of Emerald Base.
* EyepatchOfPower: How the one-eyed Standwell is a perfect shot with the least accurate gun in the game is beyond me.
* FranchiseKiller: Dead on arrival, unfortunately.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Besides the obvious one of XIII/[[spoiler: Jason Fly]], several of the SPADS are voiced by Crispin Freeman.
** Not to mention AdamWest as Carrington.
* HostageSituation: If you sneak up on an unsuspecting individual, you can grab them and shuffle around with them. Enemies won't shoot at you if you're pointed right at them with the hostage, and you can even shoot past your hostage.
** At one point, a nurse tells you to take her hostage to get past the guards, since she found out about Johannsenn (and was locked in a room with a zombie to die. Okay, so it was a retarded patient, but...)
* ImmuneToBullets: The Attack Chopper boss is vulnerable only to [=RPGs=].
* IndecisiveMedium: The main gimmick of the game is that it's like a comic book.
* InLoveWithTheMark
* MadeOfIron: The Mongoose. And not just in the game, but in the comics as well.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Johannsenn.
* NoEnding: The game adapts the first five volumes of a 19 volume comic so it has a CliffHanger ending to lead into the sequel that never came due to disappointing sales.
* NoExportForYou: {{Averted}}, thanks to {{Cinebook}}. To date they have the first eight volumes out, with the 19th to be released in 20[[StealthPun 13]].
* NoFlowInCGI: The game developers had to cut the Afro-style major Jones' hair.
* NoGearLevel: Escaping from Plain Rock Penitentary.
* NoSidepathsNoExplorationNoFreedom
* SlapYourselfAwake: XIII slices his palm while drugged on a sinking ship to stay awake.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Prior to the game's release, someone from a review magazine once asked a developer for this game in an interview, "How are you supposed to pronounce the protagonist's name: 'X-I-I-I', or '[[CriticalResearchFailure Eight]]'?" The developer's response was to [[BeatPanel blink a few times]] and reply, "You're supposed to pronounce it 'Thirteen'."
* StandardFPSGuns: Although there are a few changes, including the harpoon gun for fighting underwater, and the bazooka's secondary attack (bonking people over the head with rockets). The rest stay the same, though you can dual wield pistols and sub-machine guns.
* StealthBasedMission: Too many to count, including infiltrating Emerald Base, infiltrating the Sanctuary (which is actually 3 consecutive stealth missions), infiltrating the Patriot, and infiltrating SSH1.
* StillbornFranchise: Both the game and the television series.
* TapOnTheHead: Ashtrays, bottles, chairs, brooms, just about whatever came to hand knocked out anyone good.
** BoomHeadshot: A comic book-style freeze frame insert panel will pop up whenever you get a one-hit-takedown (ranged or melee.) Especially satisfying if you stick something ''through'' their head like a crossbow bolt or glass shard.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Well, his life ain't easy.
* TimedMission
* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation, HollywoodHacking, MagicFloppyDisk .. all surprisingly averted in the live action adaption, which contains a surprisingly accurate IP renewal scene, use of ''Opera'' as a web browser, a micro SD card... however it does have a HighlyVisiblePassword, subverted a bit in that the card with the password is actually a trap with no useful data on it, and would destroy itself after 3 failed login attempts. ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish is lampshaded, in that the password is ''Cuttlefish''.
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