History Manga / FireForce

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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Karim Flam can safely freeze someone in ice with the goal to unfreeze them for interrogation. He doesn’t realize that his ice also keeps targets medically stable despite apparent mortal wounds.

* NotSoDifferent:
** Shinra and Princess Hibana, after he learns [[spoiler: she and Iris were also the only survivors of a devastating fire.]]
** Shinra and Rekka: they're both "optimistic idiots" who will do anything to "rid the world of fear of flames" [[spoiler: though Rekka's method of turning at children into flame people in search of a "pure flame" and manipulating his subordinates isn't something Shinra approves of]].

** The first time we see Iris and [[AmazonianBeauty Maki]] after the prologue fight is during a ShowerScene with ToplessnessFromTheBack and {{Sideboob}} from both girls as CensorSteam covers their lower bodies. Soon after Maki also shows her AbsoluteCleavage while introducing herself to Shinra.

* JurisdictionFriction: Each Fire Force Company is in charge of certain areas and they really don't like the other groups interfering with their work. Meaning, Company 8 often needs an excuse to get involved without risking a fight.

* PowerIncontinence: First Generation pyrokinetics can't control their flames, leading to spontaneous combustion and subsequently, their transformation into an Infernal. Second and Third Generations have a strong resistance to heat and burning as RequiredSecondaryPowers.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Ogun Montgomery from Company 4 is Shinra and Arthur's previously unmentioned best friend from their school days, which happened pre-series.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: With a cast containing Japanese, Chinese and European names, this is to be expected. Many of the titles and ranks are also changed depending on the translation:

** Jonah's name in the official translation is 'Yona'.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: Ogun from Company 4 can create weapons using his flames.

* SwitchingPOV: Shinra is typically the narrator of the story, Viktor serves this role frequently.

* WeirdMoon: [[spoiler:After Benimaru kills the Demon Double of Hibachi, a second moon created from the attack becomes that of the Smiling Moon from ''Soul Eater''.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Shinra and Princess Hibana, after he learns [[spoiler: she and Iris were also the only survivors of a devastating fire.]]

* RefusalOfTheCall: Benimaru, Captain of Company 7, constantly defers to his second-in-command, Konro. This is because he feels Konro's experienced and responsible approach makes him more qualified. While everyone else sees Benimaru as a leader, he struggles to see himself as such or to trust his own judgement.

* ReligiousHorror: While present early in the story, later arcs really push this element of the series using Catholic imagery and by looking at the corruption and darkness within the church. The main villains being cultists and some ''thing'' beyond humanity they worship promotes this aspect.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Ogun Montgomery from Company 4 is Shinra and Arthur's previously unmentioned best friend from their school days.

* ShipperOnDeck: Iris reveals herself to be this for Shinra x Tamaki and Obi x Hibana.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Shinra and presumably the rest of the country believes the Fire Soldiers are true heroes; various conspiracies, dark hints [[spoiler: like the captain of the First hiding the fact that Shinra's brother might be alive, the killing of an Infernal who wasn't an uncontrollable monster, and the torture/experimentation of a captured Infernal]], and good old-fashioned corruption say otherwise. On the other hand those who witnessed their loved ones being "released" from being an Infernal are usually upset.

* WouldHitAGirl: Shinra literally attempts to beat some sense into Princess Hibana. [[spoiler: Amazingly it works.]] He doesn't hold back against any of his female opponents and doing so would probably get him killed.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler: To an almost ludicrous level when 8th brigade defeats the 5th. They hold a barbecue together, barely an hour later. Hibana also starts regularly hanging out with 8th.]]

* ElementalBaggage: PlayedStraight ''and'' {{averted}}; second generation Pyrokinetics like Maki cannot start their own fires but can control existing fires and have to rely on flints and other starters when none is available. Third generations like Shinra or Arthur, however, are able to create their own fires from nothing, though usually in a specific focused way as opposed to full flames.
* EliteMooks: The Demon Infernals. It demands an explosion strong enough to level a city to defeat them. To put into perspective, these Infernals are so powerful that it took [[TheAce Benimaru]] himself with much effort to actually destroy one and a literal team effort to recreate a ''rail gun'' to destroy another.
* TheEmpire: Tokyo is not the name of the capital city anymore. It is the name of the empire the cast lives within. Also doubles as a TheTheocracy. It's not all that bad as it allowed human civilization to reform and allowed refugees passage upon the Great Disaster.

* MercyKill: Infernals are former humans permanently and randomly turned into insane monsters that exist in perpetual, maddening agony from their uncontrollable flames and are effectively immortal. As there is no known cure for the transformation, a Fire Soldier's duty is to kill these creatures both to protect the public from their pain-induced super powered rampages and to end their suffering. While the cast agree that death is preferable to the agony of being an Infernal, the full moral implications of Fire Soldiers effectively being government-mandated executioners is a matter of much in-universe debate.

* NebulousEvilOrganisation - Haijima Industries hasn't done much in the story, but they are distrusted by most people within the Fire Force and the majority of their employees are {{Mad Scientist}}s.

** Not as abandoned as it first appears, [[spoiler: there was a regiment of assassins living in the Netherworld to sever the state.]]

* AndIMustScream: Infernals are fully aware of what is happening to them and once the transformation ends, they exist in constant pain and burn until they are killed. Also, Infernals don't age, so they ''have'' to be killed for the pain to stop. Some of them have survived since the cataclysm. ''They have been burning to death for 250 years''.

** Tamaki Kotatsu is known to get into {{fanservice}}y situations due to her [[CuteClumsyGirl clumsiness]] usually having a NakedFreakOut over it, to the point its a RunningGag.

** During a confrontation with Giovanni, Vulcan unintentionally ruins Ōbi's mockery of the other captain, leading to Ōbi recreating the last scene of Manga/AshitaNoJoe.

** The commander of Company 7 an X in only one eye, [[spoiler:this shows he's a hybrid between 2nd and 3rd generation fire powers]].

** [[spoiler:Lisa is actually a member of the cult and has been living with Vulcan so she can find the key to the Amaterasu power plant. She seems to have a HeelFace turn but decides at the last second not to go with Vulcan when they're rescued by Licht]]

** The demon that killed Shinra's mother and brother is explained in Chapter 89.

* DarkestHour: [[spoiler: Chapter 253 presents this in detail with the world undergoing the Second Cataclysm, with parts of the world being burned in massive flames, reality turning insane, the citizenry praying for mercy and reacting in horror at the possible end of civilization, and Infernal Dopplegangers now pouring into the world. The Special Fire Force is overwhelmed and Shinra is nowhere to be found.]]

* EmpireWithADarkSecret: As more is revealed this seems more and more likely. [[spoiler:It appears that the power source for the entire empire is fuelled by HumanSacrifice. Also, the Church is hiding the truth behind its foundation.]]

* HeroWithBadPublicity: Shinra genuinely wants to be a hero but being a pyrokinetic with a demonic grin combined with the fiery deaths of his mother and baby brother isn't helping.
* {{Hellfire}}: It is hinted the Adolla Burst might be this, as the dimension it comes from, Adolla, is referred to be probably Hell or maybe Heaven.

* NayTheist: With the Evangelist being treated like a divine being, a lot of the Fire Force count. [[spoiler: Burns and Five-Two are explicitly acknowledged her as God and then spend the rest of their lives working against it.]]

* ReligiousHorror: While present early in the story, later arcs really push this element of the series using Catholic imagery and by looking at the corruption and darkness within the church. The main villains being cultists and some ''thing'' beyond humanity promotes this aspect.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Ogun Montgomery from Company 4 is Shinra and Arthur's perviously unmentioned best friend from their school days.

** Princess Hibana is a collection of bad habits. Her claims that BeliefMakesYouStupid and her use of [[FurAndLoathing fur]] are examples of this, as are her StrawNihilist and StrawAtheist tendencies. [[StrawHypocrite She's basically a nun-in-title-only]], seeing as she's a money-hungry sadistic "scientist" in revealing clothes. [[spoiler: She was "less than enthusiastic" about prayer to begin with and eventually rips off her cross and burns it]]; while she disregards God and salvation, she also thinks she's "special" because [[spoiler: she (and Iris) were spared from the fire, despite her not being terribly devout before]].
** The Cultist in Company 1 is the total opposite of Hibana. [[spoiler: Rekka also serves to show that BeliefMakesYouStupid, as he kills at least 7 seven children, turning them into Infernals because he sincerely believes it'll help his "master" and give the children the power to overcome the flames (if it doesn't kill them).]]

* YourMindMakesItReal: [[spoiler: Its eventually revealed that Adolla is shaped by the Collective Unconscious of man, and that the main difference between the people and the Doppelgangers that live there is that the Doppelgangers act like how the public sees that indivudal.]]