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When ''Creator/{{Acclaim}}'' acquired ownership of Valiant in 1996, they rebooted the comic series with a very different story. Instead of being a FishOutOfTemporalWater BarbarianHero with PoweredArmor, X-O Manowar was now a modern day scientist named Donovan Wylie who bonds with the X-O armor, which the US acquired from Nazi Germany after WWII. Aric briefly appears however in a cameo, where it's established that in this continuity he was never able to escape the Spider Aliens without the X-O armor.
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When ''Creator/{{Acclaim}}'' Creator/{{Acclaim}} acquired ownership of Valiant in 1996, they rebooted the comic series with a very different story. Instead of being a FishOutOfTemporalWater BarbarianHero with PoweredArmor, X-O Manowar was now a modern day scientist named Donovan Wylie who bonds with the X-O armor, which the US acquired from Nazi Germany after WWII. Aric briefly appears however in a cameo, where it's established that in this continuity he was never able to escape the Spider Aliens without the X-O armor.
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In Valiant's original continuity, Aric was a powerful warrior and heir to the throne of the Visigoths, a nomadic tribe in conflict with UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire. That all changed, however, when he was abducted by the Spider Aliens, a race of, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin spider-like aliens]] that forced Aric and other prisoners into slave labor. A chance encounter between the Spider Aliens and [[ComicBook/DoctorSolar Solar]] allowed Aric to grab the control ring for Shanhara, a Manowar Class Armor, in order to return to Earth, only to realize that several centuries have passed thanks to TimeDilation. Now trapped in the present day (aka TheNineties), he befriends Ken Clarkson, a schemer who helps Aric take over as CEO of a corporation called Orb Industries.
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In Valiant's original continuity, continuity starting in 1992, Aric was a powerful warrior and heir to the throne of the Visigoths, a nomadic tribe in conflict with UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire. That all changed, however, when he was abducted by the Spider Aliens, a race of, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin spider-like aliens]] that forced Aric and other prisoners into slave labor. A chance encounter between the Spider Aliens and [[ComicBook/DoctorSolar Solar]] allowed Aric to grab the control ring for Shanhara, a Manowar Class Armor, in order to return to Earth, only to realize that several centuries have passed thanks to TimeDilation. Now trapped in the present day (aka TheNineties), he befriends Ken Clarkson, a schemer who helps Aric take over as CEO of a corporation called Orb Industries.
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When ''Creator/{{Acclaim}}'' acquired ownership of Valiant in 1996, they rebooted the comic series with a very different story. Instead of being a FishOutOfTemporalWater BarbarianHero with PoweredArmor, X-O Manowar was now a modern day scientist named Donovan Wylie who bonds with the X-O armor, which the US acquired from Nazi Germany after WWII. Aric briefly appears however in a cameo, where it's established that in this continuity he was never able to escape the Spider Aliens without the X-O armor.
When ''Creator/{{Acclaim}}'' acquired ownership of Valiant in 1996, they rebooted the comic series with a very different story. Instead of being a FishOutOfTemporalWater BarbarianHero with PoweredArmor, X-O Manowar was now a modern day scientist named Donovan Wylie who bonds with the X-O armor, which the US acquired from Nazi Germany after WWII. Aric briefly appears however in a cameo, where it's established that in this continuity he was never able to escape the Spider Aliens without the X-O armor.
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On September 2016, Venditti's run of ''X-O Manowar'' came to a close, ending at 50 issues.[[note]]Plus an issue #0, an Annual issue and two one-shot specials[[/note]] It was relaunched in 2017 with Creator/MattKindt (the previous writer of the rebooted ''ComicBook/{{Rai}}'' comic) as writer and various artists. This run ended after 26 issues, the last of which was published in 2019. Creator/DennisHopeless succeeded Kindt as writer in 2020, his run lasting 9 issues. A new miniseries created for the character's 30-year anniversary, ''X-O Manowar: Unconquered'', began in 2023, written by Creator/BeckyCloonan with art by Liam Sharp. Of the announced six issues, only three were published; as an apparent result of Valiant Entertainment outsourcing their books to a smaller indie publisher, Alien Books, the book was cancelled midway through.
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On September 2016, Venditti's run of ''X-O Manowar'' came to a close, ending at 50 issues.[[note]]Plus an issue #0, an Annual issue and two one-shot specials[[/note]] It was relaunched in 2017 with Creator/MattKindt (the previous writer of the rebooted ''ComicBook/{{Rai}}'' comic) as writer and various artists. This run ended after 26 issues, the last of which was published in 2019. Creator/DennisHopeless succeeded Kindt as writer in 2020, his run lasting 9 issues. A new miniseries created for the character's 30-year anniversary, ''X-O Manowar: Unconquered'', began in 2023, written by Creator/BeckyCloonan with art by Liam Sharp. Of the announced six issues, only three were published; as an apparent result of Valiant Entertainment outsourcing their books to a smaller indie publisher, Alien Books, the book was cancelled midway through.
through. Luckily, it was announced in September that the new publisher would produce the remaining three issues.
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In Valiant's original continuity, Aric was a powerful warrior and heir to the throne of the Visigoths, a nomadic tribe in conflict with UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire. That all changed, however, when he was abducted by the Spider Aliens, a race of, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin spider-like aliens]] that forced Aric and other prisoners into slave labor. A chance encounter between the Spider Aliens and [[ComicBook/DoctorSolar Solar]] allowed Aric to grab the control ring for Shanhara, a Manowar Class Armor, in order to return to Earth, only to realize that several centuries have passed thanks to TimeDilation. Now trapped in the present day (aka TheNineties), he befriends Ken Clarkson, a schemer who helps Aric take over as CEO of a corporation called Orb Industries. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity (and awesomeness) ensues.]]
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In Valiant's original continuity, Aric was a powerful warrior and heir to the throne of the Visigoths, a nomadic tribe in conflict with UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire. That all changed, however, when he was abducted by the Spider Aliens, a race of, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin spider-like aliens]] that forced Aric and other prisoners into slave labor. A chance encounter between the Spider Aliens and [[ComicBook/DoctorSolar Solar]] allowed Aric to grab the control ring for Shanhara, a Manowar Class Armor, in order to return to Earth, only to realize that several centuries have passed thanks to TimeDilation. Now trapped in the present day (aka TheNineties), he befriends Ken Clarkson, a schemer who helps Aric take over as CEO of a corporation called Orb Industries. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity (and awesomeness) ensues.]]
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On September 2016, Venditti's run of ''X-O Manowar'' came to a close, ending at 50 issues.[[note]]Plus an issue #0, an Annual issue and two one-shot specials[[/note]] It was relaunched in 2017 with Creator/MattKindt (the previous writer of the rebooted ''ComicBook/{{Rai}}'' comic) as writer and various artists. This run ended after 26 issues, the last of which was published in 2019. Creator/DennisHopeless succeeded Kindt as writer in 2020, his run lasting 9 issues. A new miniseries created for the character's 30-year anniversary, ''X-O Manowar: Unconquered'', began in 2023, written by Creator/BeckyCloonan with art by Liam Sharp. Of the announced six issues, only three were published; as an apparent result of Valiant Entertainment outsourcing their books to a smaller indie publisher, Alien Books, the book was apparently cancelled midway through.
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On September 2016, Venditti's run of ''X-O Manowar'' came to a close, ending at 50 issues.[[note]]Plus an issue #0, an Annual issue and two one-shot specials[[/note]] It was relaunched in 2017 with Creator/MattKindt (the previous writer of the rebooted ''ComicBook/{{Rai}}'' comic) as writer and various artists. This run ended after 26 issues, the last of which was published in 2019. Creator/DennisHopeless succeeded Kindt as writer in 2020, his run lasting 9 issues. A new miniseries created for the character's 30-year anniversary, ''X-O Manowar: Unconquered'', began in 2023, written by Creator/BeckyCloonan with art by Liam Sharp. Of the announced six issues, only three were published; as an apparent result of Valiant Entertainment outsourcing their books to a smaller indie publisher, Alien Books, the book was apparently cancelled midway through.
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On September 2016, Venditti's run of ''X-O Manowar'' came to a close, ending at 50 issues.[[note]]Plus an issue #0, an Annual issue and two one-shot specials[[/note]] It was relaunched in 2017 with Creator/MattKindt (the previous writer of the rebooted ''ComicBook/{{Rai}}'' comic) as writer and various artists. This run ended after 26 issues, the last of which was published in 2019. Creator/DennisHopeless succeeded him Kindt as writer in 2020.
2020, his run lasting 9 issues. A new miniseries created for the character's 30-year anniversary, ''X-O Manowar: Unconquered'', began in 2023, written by Creator/BeckyCloonan with art by Liam Sharp. Of the announced six issues, only three were published; as an apparent result of Valiant Entertainment outsourcing their books to a smaller indie publisher, Alien Books, the book was apparently cancelled midway through.
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* CargoShip: InUniverse. The Shanhara considers itself beyond bonded to Aric... They are ''wedded''. In the 2017 series, it takes the form of an ring to symbolize their alliance.
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* CargoShip: InUniverse. The Shanhara considers itself beyond bonded to Aric... They are ''wedded''. In the 2017 series, it takes the form of an a ring to symbolize their alliance.
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* GriefInducedSplit: Aric and Sanna had a son who developed leukemia from exposure to the armor's radiation, dying not long after. Sanna blamed Aric for his death, putting an end to their relationship and leading to Aric leaving Earth entirely.
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On September 2016, Venditti's run of ''X-O Manowar'' came to a close, ending at 50 issues.[[note]]Plus an issue #0, an Annual issue and two one-shot specials[[/note]] It was relaunched in 2017 with Creator/MattKindt (the previous writer of the rebooted ''ComicBook/{{Rai}}'' comic) as writer and various artists. Creator/DennisHopeless succeeded him in 2017.
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* BarbarianHero: A very unconventional take on this trope. Take the PoweredArmor from Aric and you have a straight example that fits like a glove as a Visigothic warrior who is considered a barbarian by the Romans, and he has problems adapting to modern civilization.
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* BarbarianHero: A very unconventional take on this trope. Take the PoweredArmor from Aric and you have a straight example that fits like a glove as a Visigothic warrior who is considered a barbarian by the Romans, and he has problems adapting to modern civilization. However, ''with'' the armor, he's one of the most powerful and technologically advanced people on the planet.
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** This is desconstructed as a friend of Aric's blames his brashness for costing them everything and letting the Vine take them captive. And before that, his own uncle Alric chided him for leading his men into battle recklessly. Aric explains that he fights alone and he doesn't really want to lead the men, they follow him because they chose to and it wasn't his intention to lead them to their doom.
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** This is desconstructed [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] as a friend of Aric's blames his brashness for costing them everything and letting the Vine take them captive. And before that, his own uncle Alric chided him for leading his men into battle recklessly. Aric explains that he fights alone and he doesn't really want to lead the men, they follow him because they chose to and it wasn't his intention to lead them to their doom.
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* LeeroyJenkins: In issue #1, Aric's charge against the Vine ship:
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* LeeroyJenkins: In issue #1, #1 of the 2012 series, Aric's charge against the Vine ship:
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** The comic depicted Aric's jealousy towards the Huns for gaining Hungary as their homeland while his Visigothic kin never gained one after 1600 years. Besides the skeptical historical Hungarian nationalist legends, Hungary was established by Magyars who were Finno-Urgic group with no relations to Huns during the Roman times.
** The comic depicted Aric's jealousy towards the Huns for gaining Hungary as their homeland while his Visigothic kin never gained one after 1600 years. Besides the skeptical historical Hungarian nationalist legends, Hungary was established by Magyars who were Finno-Urgic group with no relations to Huns during the Roman times.
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* BarbarianHero: A very unconventional take on this trope. Take the PoweredArmor from Aric and you have a straight example that fits like a glove as a Visigothic warrior who is considered a barbarian by the Romans, and he has problems adapting to modern civilization.
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* CargoShip: InUniverse. The Shanhara considers itself beyond bonded to Aric... They are ''wedded''. In the 2017 series, it takes the form of an ring to symbolize their alliance.
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* FightingForAHomeland: When Alric discovers Visigoth's descendants in the Vine homeworld, his primary motivation is to find a home for his people, relocating where Dacia used to be in modern-day Romania.
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* FightingForAHomeland: When Alric discovers Visigoth's descendants in the Vine homeworld, his primary motivation is to find a home for his people, relocating where Dacia used to be in modern-day Romania. Aric expresses resentment that his rivals the Huns managed to form a home of their own in Hungary while practically nothing remains of his people except museum artifacts. They are ultimately relocated to America in exchange for his work with the government.
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* HandicappedBadass: Aric briefly becomes one before his bonding to Shanhara as he gets his hand chopped off by his Vine slavemasters, yet he succeeds in pulling off a slave revolt where he kills several aliens with just one hand. After bonding with the armor, his chopped off hand is regenerated.
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* HandicappedBadass: Aric briefly becomes one before his bonding to Shanhara as he gets his hand chopped off by his Vine slavemasters, yet he succeeds in pulling off a slave revolt where he kills several aliens with just one hand. After bonding with the armor, his chopped off hand is regenerated. In the 2017 series, he is this trope again when he renounces the armor and as such loses his regenerated limb. That doesn't stop him from becoming a successful soldier of fortune in an alien planet.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: [[spoiler:Aric discovers upon returning to Earth in the 2017 series, his estranged wife Sanna has married Volo and had a child with him]].
* HerHeartWillGoOn: [[spoiler:Aric discovers upon returning to Earth in the 2017 series, his estranged wife Sanna has married Volo and had a child with him]].
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* OutOfContextVillain: At first, Aric's greatest enemies are the Romans. Then he and his squad come across the Vine. [[spoiler:Later followed by the Torment]].
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* OutOfContextVillain: OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:The reason behind Aric's exile at the start of the 2017 series; in the intervening time between the two series, him and Sanna had a son but he developed leukemia due to radiation exposure from the armor and died soon after. She blamed Aric for their son's death and since he simply couldn't hand the armor to someone on Earth, he chose to depart from it altogether]].
* OutsideContextVillain: At first, Aric's greatest enemies are the Romans. Then he and his squad come across the Vine. [[spoiler:Later followed by the Torment]].
* OutsideContextVillain: At first, Aric's greatest enemies are the Romans. Then he and his squad come across the Vine. [[spoiler:Later followed by the Torment]].
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* AwfulTruth: To the Vine's perspective at least. [[spoiler:The priest finds out that the prophecy of Shanhara bonding with a Vine and leading them to greatness is a farce created by the Vine Council. Shanhara cannot and will not bond with any Vine members, but it will bond with humans]].
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* AwfulTruth: To the Vine's perspective at least. [[spoiler:The priest finds out that the prophecy of Shanhara bonding with a Vine and leading them to greatness is a farce created by the Vine Council. Shanhara cannot and will not bond with any Vine members, but it will bond with humans]].humans or any other race, and their religion has been pretty much fabricated]].
* ChallengingTheChief: Aric becomes king of the former Visigoth slaves in Loam and takes them to Earth. However, the former leader of the group Volo is pretty resentful of this whole affair. He eventually challenges Aric for their leadership in a one-on-one fight without armor, and Aric wins. However, instead of killing him, Aric spares Volo saying they shouldn't fight among themselves and earns the latter's respect and friendship.
* ChallengingTheChief: Aric becomes king of the former Visigoth slaves in Loam and takes them to Earth. However, the former leader of the group Volo is pretty resentful of this whole affair. He eventually challenges Aric for their leadership in a one-on-one fight without armor, and Aric wins. However, instead of killing him, Aric spares Volo saying they shouldn't fight among themselves and earns the latter's respect and friendship.
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* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:The Vine becomes unexpected allies to Aric to fight the Torment, the creatures from Loam's distant past that enslaved them]].
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Aric had a wife called Deirdre whom he was dedicated to rescuing, but unfortunately she is long dead by the time he returns to Earth. He finds love again when he falls in love with Sanna, a Visigoth slave girl from Loam.
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* ArchEnemy: The entire Vine race is this for Aric. He personally vows to destroy each and single one of them for his enslavement.
* DarkMessiah: Aric becomes this for the some members of the Vine after bonding with the Shanhara armor, since he is considered their messianic figure but he is also consumed with hatred and fury for enslaving him and his people.
* DarkMessiah: Aric becomes this for the some members of the Vine after bonding with the Shanhara armor, since he is considered their messianic figure but he is also consumed with hatred and fury for enslaving him and his people.
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* ArchEnemy: The entire AwfulTruth: To the Vine's perspective at least. [[spoiler:The priest finds out that the prophecy of Shanhara bonding with a Vine race is this for Aric. He personally vows to destroy each and single one of leading them for his enslavement.
to greatness is a farce created by the Vine Council. Shanhara cannot and will not bond with any Vine members, but it will bond with humans]].
* DarkMessiah: Aric becomes this for the some members of the Vine after bonding with the Shanhara armor, since he is considered their messianic figure but he is also consumed with hatred and fury for enslaving him and his people. [[spoiler:Even after the prophecy is revealed to be a fluke, he still fulfills the role of saving them eventually]].
* DarkMessiah: Aric becomes this for the some members of the Vine after bonding with the Shanhara armor, since he is considered their messianic figure but he is also consumed with hatred and fury for enslaving him and his people. [[spoiler:Even after the prophecy is revealed to be a fluke, he still fulfills the role of saving them eventually]].
* FightingForAHomeland: When Alric discovers Visigoth's descendants in the Vine homeworld, his primary motivation is to find a home for his people, relocating where Dacia used to be in modern-day Romania.
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** This is desconstructed as a friend of Aric's blames his brashness for costing them everything and letting the Vine take them captive. And before that, his own uncle Alric chided him for leading his men into battle recklessly. Aric explains that he fights alone and he doesn't really want to lead the men, his men they follow him because they chose to.to and it wasn't his intention to lead them to their doom.
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* OutOfContextVillain: At first, Aric's greatest enemies are the Romans. Then he and his squad come across the Vine.
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* OutOfContextVillain: At first, Aric's greatest enemies are the Romans. Then he and his squad come across the Vine. [[spoiler:Later followed by the Torment]].
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** This is desconstructed as a friend of Aric's blames his brashness for costing them everything and letting the Romans capture
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* DarkMessiah: Aric becomes this for the Vine people after bonding with the Shanhara armor, since he is considered their messianic figure but he is consumed with hatred and fury for enslaving him and his people.
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* DarkMessiah: Aric becomes this for the some members of the Vine people after bonding with the Shanhara armor, since he is considered their messianic figure but he is also consumed with hatred and fury for enslaving him and his people.
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* InsectoidAliens: The Vine are a mix of this with [[{{Planimal}} plants]] with their heads resembling ants.
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* LastOfHisKind: Aric is the last still surviving Visigoth in present day. Subverted when its revealed that the Vine kept several of his people as slaves in their home planet Loam.
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* ArchEnemy: The entire Vine race is this for Aric. He personally vows to destroy each and single one of them for his enslavement.
* DarkMessiah: Aric becomes this for the Vine people after bonding with the Shanhara armor, since he is considered their messianic figure but he is consumed with hatred and fury for enslaving him and his people.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Alexander Dorian is a Vine plantling that rebels against his superiors when they decide to invade and destroy Earth because he is fond of his native planet.
* FantasticRacism: The Vine look down on humans as animals and one of the reasons that their warrior cast want to destroy Shanhara instead of preserving it is that they are outraged it would have picked a human instead of them.
* DarkMessiah: Aric becomes this for the Vine people after bonding with the Shanhara armor, since he is considered their messianic figure but he is consumed with hatred and fury for enslaving him and his people.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Alexander Dorian is a Vine plantling that rebels against his superiors when they decide to invade and destroy Earth because he is fond of his native planet.
* FantasticRacism: The Vine look down on humans as animals and one of the reasons that their warrior cast want to destroy Shanhara instead of preserving it is that they are outraged it would have picked a human instead of them.
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* HandicappedBadass: Aric briefly becomes one before his bonding to Shanhara as he gets his hand chopped off by his Vine slavemasters, yet he succeeds in pulling off a slave revolt where he kills several aliens with just one hand. After bonding with the armor, his chopped off hand is regenerated.
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In Valiant's original continuity, Aric was a powerful warrior and heir to the throne of the Visigoths, a nomadic tribe in conflict with TheRomanEmpire.UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire. That all changed, however, when he was abducted by the Spider Aliens, a race of, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin spider-like aliens]] that forced Aric and other prisoners into slave labor. A chance encounter between the Spider Aliens and [[ComicBook/DoctorSolar Solar]] allowed Aric to grab the control ring for Shanhara, a Manowar Class Armor, in order to return to Earth, only to realize that several centuries have passed thanks to TimeDilation. Now trapped in the present day (aka TheNineties), he befriends Ken Clarkson, a schemer who helps Aric take over as CEO of a corporation called Orb Industries. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity (and awesomeness) ensues.]]
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issues.[[note]]Plus an issue #0, an Annual issue and two one-shot specials[[/note]] It was relaunched in 2017 with Matt Kindt as writer and various artists.
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* LeeroyJenkins: In issue #1, Aric's charge against the Vine ship:
-->'''Visigoth Soldier:''' There is no telling how many legionnaires hide inside that behemoth. We should exercise caution.\\
''[Aric throws his spear at one of the Vine knights]''\\
'''Aric:''' ''[charging]'' '''[[BattleCry GIVE THEM NO QUARTER]]!'''\\
'''Same Visigoth Soldier:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Or we could attack now]].
-->'''Visigoth Soldier:''' There is no telling how many legionnaires hide inside that behemoth. We should exercise caution.\\
''[Aric throws his spear at one of the Vine knights]''\\
'''Aric:''' ''[charging]'' '''[[BattleCry GIVE THEM NO QUARTER]]!'''\\
'''Same Visigoth Soldier:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Or we could attack now]].
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* OutOfContextVillain: At first, Aric's greatest enemies are the Romans. Then he and his squad come across the Vine.
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When it comes down to comic book universes, one character usually serves as the company mascot. Creator/DCComics has both ComicBook/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Batman}}. Creator/MarvelComics has ComicBook/SpiderMan. Creator/ImageComics, ComicBook/{{Spawn}}. When it comes to Creator/ValiantComics, that flagship title belongs to '''Aric of Dacia''', otherwise known as '''X-O Manowar'''.
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When it comes down to comic book universes, at least one character usually serves as the company mascot. Creator/DCComics [[Creator/DCComics DC]] has both ComicBook/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Batman}}. Creator/MarvelComics [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] has ComicBook/SpiderMan. Creator/ImageComics, [[Creator/ImageComics Image]], ComicBook/{{Spawn}}. When it comes to Creator/ValiantComics, though, that flagship title belongs to in the hands of '''Aric of Dacia''', otherwise better known as '''X-O Manowar'''.
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* LaserBlade: X-O is able to generate one, which he likes to use when he's not blasting people in the face.
* LongRunner: At 50 issues, it is the longest-running title that Valiant has ever (and, given their track record, will ''ever'' be) produced.
* MechanicalLifeforms: Shanhara, and by extension all of the Manowar armors, is a strange combination of an alien plant and a borderline-sentient machine.
* LongRunner: At 50 issues, it is the longest-running title that Valiant has ever (and, given their track record, will ''ever'' be) produced.
* MechanicalLifeforms: Shanhara, and by extension all of the Manowar armors, is a strange combination of an alien plant and a borderline-sentient machine.
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When it comes down to comic book universes, one character usually serves as the company mascot. Creator/DCComics has both ComicBook/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Batman}}. Creator/MarvelComics has ComicBook/SpiderMan. Creator/ImageComics, ComicBook/{{Spawn}}. When it comes to Creator/ValiantComics, that flagship title belongs to '''Aric of Dacia''', otherwise known as '''X-O Manowar'''.
In Valiant's original continuity, Aric was a powerful warrior and heir to the throne of the Visigoths, a nomadic tribe in conflict with TheRomanEmpire. That all changed, however, when he was abducted by the Spider Aliens, a race of, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin spider-like aliens]] that forced Aric and other prisoners into slave labor. A chance encounter between the Spider Aliens and [[ComicBook/DoctorSolar Solar]] allowed Aric to grab the control ring for Shanhara, a Manowar Class Armor, in order to return to Earth, only to realize that several centuries have passed thanks to TimeDilation. Now trapped in the present day (aka TheNineties), he befriends Ken Clarkson, a schemer who helps Aric take over as CEO of a corporation called Orb Industries. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity (and awesomeness) ensues.]]
On May 2012, X-O ushered in a brand new era of the Valiant universe with a new series by Robert Venditti and Cary Nord. Aric's origin remains mostly the same, except the Spider Aliens have been replaced by the Vine, a plant-worshiping race capable of communing with each other through a collective consciousness. Inciting a revolt with the other prisoners, Aric once again manages to steal away Shanhara, the Vine's most sacred relic, and once again returns home to find himself in present-day Earth. However, Aric leaves far more destruction in his wake in his battles with the Vine, and his growing tensions with modern society are what lead up to the events of ''Unity''. He also served as the central figure in ''Armor Hunters'', a CrisisCrossover where the Earth was invaded by the titular Armor Hunters, a band of mercenaries dedicated to exterminating all Manowar armors.
On September 2016, ''X-O Manowar'' will finally come to a close, ending at 50 issues.
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!!The relaunched X-O Manowar contains examples of the following:
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Aric, natch.
** The rescued Visigoths also count. Because of this, the entire revived Dacia is essentially a Fish ''Bowl'' Out of Water.
* HiveMind: The Vine's collective consciousness allows them to function like this.
* PoweredArmor: The Manowar armors in a nutshell.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Armor Hunters are right in that a Manowar armor can eventually take over its host if it becomes damaged enough. Their mistake comes from thinking the armors are thus an uncontrollable virus and treating them as such.
In Valiant's original continuity, Aric was a powerful warrior and heir to the throne of the Visigoths, a nomadic tribe in conflict with TheRomanEmpire. That all changed, however, when he was abducted by the Spider Aliens, a race of, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin spider-like aliens]] that forced Aric and other prisoners into slave labor. A chance encounter between the Spider Aliens and [[ComicBook/DoctorSolar Solar]] allowed Aric to grab the control ring for Shanhara, a Manowar Class Armor, in order to return to Earth, only to realize that several centuries have passed thanks to TimeDilation. Now trapped in the present day (aka TheNineties), he befriends Ken Clarkson, a schemer who helps Aric take over as CEO of a corporation called Orb Industries. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity (and awesomeness) ensues.]]
On May 2012, X-O ushered in a brand new era of the Valiant universe with a new series by Robert Venditti and Cary Nord. Aric's origin remains mostly the same, except the Spider Aliens have been replaced by the Vine, a plant-worshiping race capable of communing with each other through a collective consciousness. Inciting a revolt with the other prisoners, Aric once again manages to steal away Shanhara, the Vine's most sacred relic, and once again returns home to find himself in present-day Earth. However, Aric leaves far more destruction in his wake in his battles with the Vine, and his growing tensions with modern society are what lead up to the events of ''Unity''. He also served as the central figure in ''Armor Hunters'', a CrisisCrossover where the Earth was invaded by the titular Armor Hunters, a band of mercenaries dedicated to exterminating all Manowar armors.
On September 2016, ''X-O Manowar'' will finally come to a close, ending at 50 issues.
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!!The relaunched X-O Manowar contains examples of the following:
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Aric, natch.
** The rescued Visigoths also count. Because of this, the entire revived Dacia is essentially a Fish ''Bowl'' Out of Water.
* HiveMind: The Vine's collective consciousness allows them to function like this.
* PoweredArmor: The Manowar armors in a nutshell.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Armor Hunters are right in that a Manowar armor can eventually take over its host if it becomes damaged enough. Their mistake comes from thinking the armors are thus an uncontrollable virus and treating them as such.
