Line #15 ComicBook/MASK


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3	Spinning out of Creator/IDWPublishing's ''[[ComicBook/Revolution2016 Revolution]]'' event, ''M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand'' details the adventures of the titular team in their quest to stop V.E.N.O.M. The book's an updated telling of the ''{{WesternAnimation/MASK}}'' cartoon from the 80s, launched as part of the ComicBook/HasbroComicUniverse. The origins are tellingly a lot different and begin with the BigBad, Miles "Mayhem" Mannheim. Miles served with Joe Colton of ''Franchise/GIJoe'' fame, and [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} when aliens]] [[ComicBook/RomIDW began appearing]] on Earth, Miles was put in charge of M.A.S.K.- a team with transforming vehicles reverse-engineered from the captured Decepticon Triple-Changer Blitzwing. Among the recruits was Matt Trakker, a rebellious youth who's turned to the army to hopefully straighten himself out. Matt and his friends go along with Miles's plans in their hope to protect Earth. Miles, being evil, secretly worked to sell the human race out to [[ComicBook/MicronautsIDW Baron Karza]] and sought to rule Earth for himself. After Karza's initial defeat, Miles and his agents go rogue, forming V.E.N.O.M. leaving Matt and his friends to lead M.A.S.K. to stop him.
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5	Kicking off in 2016, the series is helmed by writer Brandon Easton and artists Tony Vargas and Jordi Escuin.
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7	Not to be confused with ''ComicBook/TheMask''.
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10	!!Tropes in ''M.A.S.K.''
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12	* AdaptationalHeroism: Bruno largely comes across as the most moral of the future V.E.N.O.M. recruits when they're all in basic training, he even saves Matt's life once. After his FaceHeelTurn, Matt regards him with more sympathy than the others and Bruno's disfigurement is supposed to invoke tragedy for the character.
13	* BigBad: Miles Mayhem, the leader of V.E.N.O.M. has set most of the plot in motion. He's killed Matt's father, starting the enmity with him and Matt, created the vehicles and seeks to take over the world.
14	* TheBrute: Bruno, with the biggest vehicle and penchant for violence is V.E.N.O.M.'s muscle.
15	* {{Jerkass}}: Sly Rax. In a team full of killers, war criminals, and Bruno, Sly stands out because he's an asshole. He's perhaps the least heinous of V.E.N.O.M. but he's a slimy weasel nonetheless. During the look into the Villains' backstories, Bruno and Vanessa are humanized, but Sly is largely the same asshole he's always been.
16	* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Whenever Miles seems to be hitting on a soft point or potential PetTheDog, he'll just upend it and show himself to be an utter bastard. His fatherly relationship with Matt's a ruse as he killed Matt's father, any friendship with Joe is thrown out when we learn Miles knew and approved of Joe being replaced by a Dire-Wraith, even Miles's attempts at playing himself off as a WellIntentionedExtremist give way to him just being a power hungry dictator wannabe.
17	* SmallRoleBigImpact: Blitzwing has a minuscule role in the series and even in the Transformers comics at large, but he is what made M.A.S.K. and V.E.N.O.M. possible.

Context ComicBook / MASK