History Creator / MilestoneComics

* AmazonianBeauty: Donner from the Shadow Cabinet, granddaughter of a Nazi scientist who now disavows her family's legacy. Extremely tall and muscular, and in a relationship with the [[SuperSpeed speedster]] [[Ladette Blitzen ]].

* AmazonianBeauty: Donner from the Shadow Cabinet, granddaughter of a Nazi scientist who now disavows her family's legacy. Extremely tall and muscular, and in a relationship with the [[SuperSpeed speedster]] Blitzen.

* Kobalt: A street-level vigilante is compelled to accept a new KidSidekick who is woefully unprepared for the realities of crimefighting.

* ''Kobalt''

In addition to the above-mentioned ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' animated series, Static was featured in a guest-spot in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited''. ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' also features Icon and Rocket as members of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, and Static joins the cast in season two.

* BackForTheFinale: ''Milestone Forever'' brings back some characters who hadn't been seen in a while, such as Rift (who was forgotten as soon as the ''Worlds Collide'' event ended) and Hotstreak (who resurfaces under the new codename Firewheel and hadn't been seen since being shot by Rick Stone in the "What Are Little Boys Mad Of?" arc.

** Deathwish of ''ComicBook/Hardware1993'' became the vigilante that he is after his wife and son were killed in front of him and their rapist/killer proceeded to have his way with him as well before leaving him to die.

Later, Creator/DCComics struck a new deal with Milestone, which folded the Milestone characters into the [[Franchise/TheDCU DC Universe]] proper, as though they had always been there; for example, Static was a member of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans''. The revived version of ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold'' was used to reintroduce the Milestone characters by teaming them up with DC heroes (e.g., Hardware and ComicBook/BlueBeetle, Xombi and ComicBook/TheSpectre). ''Xombi'' became a short-lived 2011 ongoing series, and ''Static Shock'' was an (also short-lived) title in DC's ComicBook/{{New 52}} relaunch. The miniseries ''Milestone Forever'' eventually explained how the two universes had merged; however, how much of the previous history was still in continuity was initially unclear, and even less so with the relaunch.

* GrandFinale: ''Milestone Forever'', which also served as the point where the Milestone Universe was blended into DC Canon. It also ended up being Creator/DwayneMcDuffie's farewell to the characters, as he passed away not long after it was released. In this finale, we see several long-running storylines resolved: [[spoiler:The Blood Syndicate reform, Holocaust dies, Hardware retires and gets married, Rocket eventually takes over the mantle of Icon, and Virgil grows up to become a doctor, retires from Superheroing, and marries Frieda. In the end, Dharma reboots the universe to migrate them into DC Canon.]]

* BleepDammit: The comics typically use scribbles to fill in for the strongest obscenities, but the ''ComicBook/BloodSyndicate'' spinoff miniseries ''My Name is Holocaust'' slips in an instance of Holocaust saying "fuck" uncensored and the ''Deathwish'' spinoff miniseries of ''ComicBook/Hardware1993'' does the same with Marisa Rahm at the end of the third issue.

** ComicBook/{{Static}}'s enemy Hotstreak is so racist that he repeatedly calls the hero a "monkey" and is even shown to be affiliated with a white supremacist group called the Sons of Odin in the "What Are Little Boys Made Of" arc, where he also demonstrates homophobia and calls Static the N-word.

** The "Hunt for Deathwish" arc of ''ComicBook/Hardware1993'' has Cyber-Bwana at one point call Hardware the N-word.

** Iota reveals in the fourth issue of ''Heroes'' that the accident that gave her the power to shrink also killed her husband.

%%* TheChessmaster: Dharma.

** ''Long Hot Summer'', where tensions rose from a newly built area of Dakota City called Utopia Park.

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: Due to Milestone abruptly folding in 1997, Icon, Hardware, and Static all did not get proper finales at the time. In 2001, a limited series was released for Static, "Rebirth of the Cool," to tie into the [[WesternAnimation/StaticShock cartoon airing at the time.]] It wasn't until 2010 that Milestone Forever was released which picked up where the comics left off. [[note]]Milestone Forever #1 completed the last arc that was cut short for Icon, bringing closure to it and the Blood Syndicate. Milestone Forever #2 was comprised as a DistantFinale for both Hardware and Static.[[/note]]

%%* FallenHero: [[spoiler:John Tower]]

** ComicBook/{{Static}}'s enemy Hotstreak is so racist that he repeatedly calls the hero a "monkey" and is even affiliated with a white supremacist group called the Sons of Odin.

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Rocket gets pregnant early on in ''ComicBook/{{Icon}}'' and chooses to keep the baby.

* ''Heroes''

* TokenWhite: Of all the heroes to have their own ongoing title, Kobalt is the only one who is Caucasian.

%%* UniverseBible

%%* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Rift. He's just a mailman, really.