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8	''Youngblood'' is an early Creator/ImageComics {{comic book}} written by Creator/RobLiefeld, based on a team he had created at the start of his career and planned to do as part of Gary Carlson's anthology series ''Megaton'' in the late 1980s, but put on hold when he got job offers from both Marvel and DC at the same convention. When he revived the concept in the early 1990s, he mixed in some ideas he had for the ComicBook/TeenTitans but never got to use, about a {{superhero}} team funded by the government to do their work, while in their spare time they licence their image and brand to toy and clothing companies. Interestingly it was the first book published under the Image banner, but its first issue was completed in 1991 before Image was officially formed. It was later rebooted by Creator/AlanMoore in ''ComicBook/YoungbloodJudgmentDay'', which is generally regarded as an improvement.
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10	While no individual ''Youngblood'' series has been particularly long-running (the longest lasted 22 issues), the property has never stayed dormant for long. There's been several relaunches, spinoffs and crossovers over the years as well as its characters making frequent appearances as part of the superhero community in other Image publications such as ComicBook/{{Invincible}}, and Image United. A 2008 relaunch written by Creator/JoeCasey elevated the series to levels of adequacy. Unfortunately, this only lasted nine issues.
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12	A new relaunch of the series began in 2012, published by Image comics, along with ''ComicBook/{{Glory}}'', Erik Larsen's run on ''Supreme'', and ''ComicBook/{{Bloodstrike}}''. None lasted very long, and only ''ComicBook/{{Glory}}'' made a lasting impact.
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14	Another relaunch began in May 2017, to [[MilestoneCelebration coincide with the 25th Anniversary]] of both Image and the original ''Youngblood #1''. Written by Chad Bowers with art by Jim Towe, it has Shaft leading a new Youngblood team consisting of [[LegacyCharacter a new Vogue]], Sentinel 2.0, Doc Rocket and [[ComicBook/{{Supreme}} Suprema]]. For tropes pertaining to that series, see [[ComicBook/Youngblood2017 here]].
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16	In 2018, the spinoff ''Bloodstrike'' was also revived, by Michel Fiffe of ''Copra'' fame.
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18	!!This comic book series provides examples of:
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20	* AbortedArc: The 08' series introduced a back-up feature drawn by Liefeld in issue 8, involving Barack Obama assembling up his own Youngblood team. For some reason, issue 9 then totally did away with the ongoing plot, the back up feature taking over entirely and ignoring everything from the last eight issues in favour of an entirely typical Youngblood series. No further issues of the run were made. Curiously, Shaft's narration does bother to explain why Badrock was back in action after suffering injuries earlier in the run. And nothing else.
21	* AdaptationalVillainy: Don King is at one point brought in to promote the team, and is ''delighted'' by the idea of orchestrating a not-so-natural disaster for them to rescue people from.
22	* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The team includes a short, scrappy member with ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}-inspired hair named Bartholomew J. Troll, or simply Troll, who is literally an ancient magical troll.
23	%% * AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Cougar and to a lesser extent, Troll.
24	* AttractiveBentGender: When Photon switches genders from male to female in the 2012 relaunch', she has quite a few admirers, both male and female.
25	%%* BodyBackupDrive: Diehard had this as one of his abilities in the earlier issues.
26	* BadassNormal: In a team of superpowered people, aliens and people genetically altered thanks to SCIENCE, leader and archer Shaft is the non-superpowered member of the lot.
27	%% * {{BFG}}: It is to be expected, being an early 90s Image comic made by Liefeld.
28	* BoisterousBruiser: Badrock is a teenage boy in the body of a giant hulking rock monster, who thinks that being a famous superhero is ''totally awesome''. His enthusiastic attitude about all the crazy action he gets involved in as a part of Youngblood basically makes him sound exactly like a big fan of [[MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age comics]].
29	%% * CaptainErsatz: Most of the characters Liefeld created:
30	%% ** Shaft was clearly ComicBook/GreenArrow's sidekick Speedy from the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans''.
31	%% ** There were MULTIPLE ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}s, like Cougar and Troll.
32	%% ** Bedrock/Badrock was a mixture of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Thing]] and Creator/HannaBarbera's [[WesternAnimation/FredAndBarneyMeetTheThing The Thing]] (being stuck in rock form like the former, but a teenager like the latter).
33	%% *** He was also based on Blok from the Legion of Superheroes.
34	%% ** Diehard was ComicBook/CaptainAmerica with a bit of Deathstroke thrown in.
35	%% ** Vogue was Harlequin (The "Joker's Daughter" Version) visually with ComicBook/BlackWidow's background.
36	%% ** Sentinel was ComicBook/IronMan or possibly ComicBook/WarMachine.
37	%% ** Riptide was Namora.
38	%% ** Knightsabre was Gambit.
39	%% ** Combat was, in a roundabout way, [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Worf]]. (Liefeld's original idea was to make a Khund warrior, but since Khunds are the DC version of the Klingons, a good Khund expy was obviously going to end as Worf.)
40	%% *** Amusingly, Combat's backstory involves him being trained by an [[Franchise/StarTrek Admiral Kh'rk]]
41	%% ** Battlestone, Youngblood's original leader who became Brigade's leader, was ComicBook/{{Cable}}. His brother Cabbot, who led Bloodstrike, was ''also'' Cable. As was Lt. Colonel Bravo introduced in Issue #6.
42	%% ** A recurring villain, Warwolf, was Sabretooth, blatantly so even by Liefeld standards.
43	%% ** Darkthornn is one for Darkseid, with his homeworld of D'Khay being a stand-in for Apokolips.
44	%% ** In fact, [[DolledUpInstallment the team was spawned from a failed]] ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' relaunch Liefeld wanted to do with many of the aforementioned DC characters involved.
45	%% ** Doc Rocket is a [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] [[ComicBook/TheFlash Wally West]] and Suprema is ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}.
46	%% ** The Alan Moore run introduced numerous blatant copies, as part of Moore’s attempt at metatextual analysis, like the [[ComicBook/ChallengersOfTheUnknown Conquerors of the Uncanny]] and [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Bram the Berserker]].
47	* CaptainFishman: Riptide is the water-based heroine. Despite some preview art in comic magazines of the late-80s, she only made her début in ''Youngblood'' (Vol. 1) #1, in the "B-Side" story. Her belated backstory was only revealed during ''[[ComicBook/{{YoungbloodJudgmentDay}} Youngblood: Judgment Day]]'': during a drowning accident, she was given powers by a Sea Witch. However, her backstory is an actual ''fabrication'', inserted into a [[Main/{{RealityWritingBook}} Reality-Altering Book]] by her father.
48	* CastOfExpies:
49	** Rob Liefeld's [[https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-2/ admitted]] that the team was simply a rejected ''Teen Titans'' pitch, right down to the redheaded archer Shaft being Speedy/Arsenal and Diehard being a S.T.A.R. Labs android.
50	** A criticism levelled at Liefeld's output was that a lot of the related super-teams who crossed over with Youngblood, such as Brigade, the Berzerkers and Bloodstrike, featured characters that were the same as Youngblood's members save for a quick costume change.
51	* CatchPhrase: '''YABBA-DABBA-DOOM!''' by ''Bed''rock, before he was renamed ''Bad''rock.
52	* CatFolk: Cougar is a HalfHumanHybrid: his father was the king of an isolated African civilisation of cat people, and his mother is human.
53	* CelebritySuperhero: Liefeld claims he wanted to explore the concept that superheroes would be treated the same way as star athletes or actors. Of course, while Youngblood do endorsements and TV appearances, they also do black ops for the government (how many people in the Phoenix Program could you really call celebrities?).
54	%% * CloudCuckooLander: Johnny Panic, "the world's first post-modern superhero" (though he would later insist he's now ''post'' post modern).
55	* ComicBookTime: The series started around the time of UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar and reflected that. But in a more recent issue, longtime member Vogue mentioned admiring Creator/PamelaAnderson, Creator/JennyMcCarthy, and Creator/ParisHilton as a child.
56	* CorporateSponsoredSuperhero: A sub-theme in the series was based on Liefeld's hypothesis that superheroes in real life would be treated just as celebrities and athletes are. Exactly who is sponsoring them depends on the run (as they started out as government sponsored before the events of ''Judgment Day'' led to their funding being pulled and the team gaining a private benefactor).
57	* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Diehard has been a cyborg since the ''40''s, but in one of the later series he undergoes a series of upgrades to better perform his duties and comes out of the experience behaving much less human.
58	* DarkAgeOfSupernames: Typically regarded as one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s:
59	** Deathshot, Riptide, Badrock, Combat, Psi-Fire, Psylence (sometimes Psilence), Bloodwulf, Diehard, Wylder.
60	** Badrock was initially called a more mild name, "Bedrock," whose CatchPhrase was "Yabba Dabba Doom!" Lawyers from a [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones certain Stone Age town]] resulted in Liefeld and his studio renaming him Badrock, thus invoking this trope.
61	** Of course, some members' names are fairly muted in comparison: Chapel, Shaft, Cougar, Troll, Vogue, and Brahman, for instance.
62	* DarkerAndEdgier: Being a product of the Dark Age of Comics (late-1980s to mid-1990s), this is a given. Some examples:
63	** In ''Youngblood'''s debut issue, in the flipbook story, one of their members telekinectically pops the head of a Saddam Hussein stand-in on the page, and the panel only shows blood gushing from his head.
64	** A more drastic example occurs in ''Youngblood'' #10: Chapel confronts Spawn (the man he killed) about the latter's pact with devil-like Malebolgia. Then, in the next pages, Chapel [[spoiler:shoots himself in the head, blood, brain matter and bone fragments exploding forth from his head.]]
65	* DoubleSidedBook:
66	** ''Youngblood'' #1 includes two stories, flipped 180 degrees from each other. One story features Youngblood's "Home Team", which deals with domestic threats, while the other features the "Away Team", which deals with international threats.
67	** After a long delay, ''Youngblood'' #5 eventually came out as the flip-side to the similarly-delayed ''Brigade'' #4.
68	%% * DysfunctionJunction: Youngblood is, infamously, one of the least stable teams in comic history. Badrock and Troll once got into a deadly battle over ''who got to be on a cereal box''.
69	%% * EvilVersusEvil: From a cynical perspective, you could easily look at all of Youngblood's fights as this, or at the very least BlackAndGrayMorality, especially in the early issues.
70	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Troll the [[OurTrollsAreDifferent troll.]]
71	* EyesAlwaysShut: Everyone, though technically the eyes are "open", but black slits of shadow so they can't be seen, giving the impression they're clamped shut as tight as possible.
72	* TheFaceless: Diehard was first seen unmasked on-panel ''ten years'' after his debut.
73	* FadSuper: Youngblood was, of course a team of [[NinetiesAntiHero Nineties Anti Heroes]]. But, a gimmick in the original run is that they were also celebrities, living in [[HorribleHollywood Herowood]] and having to deal with paparazzi and tabloid journalism, which was then transitioning from pseudoscience and conspiracy theories to lurid celebritymania.
74	* FacialHorror: Chapel got repaid for role in Al Simmons's death and transformation into ComicBook/{{Spawn}} (until it was retconned that Jessica Priest was the real killer) by Spawn ripping off the skin of his face where he wore his skull-themed facepaint.
75	%% * FlyingBrick: Suprema, a CaptainErsatz of ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}.
76	* GenderBender:
77	** In 1995, Creator/ImageComics decided to cash in on their "target demographic" by temporarily turning many of their heroes into heroines, a period known as "Extreme Babewatch". This event started in ''Youngblood'', where ComicBook/{{Glory}}'s nemesis Diablolique takes revenge on her enemy (and on men as a whole) by changing every man Glory had ever met into a woman. The event lasted only a month and didn't have much to carry on plot wise, but it occurred through much of image's then-current lines, dramatically raising the amount of fanservice. As was the point.
78	** In the 2012 relaunch, Photon, formerly a male character, becomes Lady Photon. Photon’s race apparently switches genders every seven years.
79	* GenreDeconstruction: The series tries to answer the question "What if superheroes were real?" The answer? They'd basically be reality TV stars. The series deals with similar themes found in ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'', such as the use of corporate sponsors and the pressures of stardom that a hero might encounter in the real world. A shocking number of the "heroes" are also shown to be outright assholes, especially in later volumes that tried to comment on the NinetiesAntiHero tropes that the title initially played straight.
80	* GroinAttack: Famously, [[RussianReversal Diehard's groin attacks YOU.]]
81	%% * HealingVat: A female team member recovers from a bullet wound injury in a healing vat.
82	* HulkMashUp: Badrock is an {{Expy}} of both The Hulk and The Thing--the two big men of Marvel. He is a massive behemoth made of a rock-like mineral with an exaggerated muscular physique and is by far the strongest member of the Youngblood team. In reality, he's a teenage boy who was given superpowers by mistake and still very much has the mentality of a teenager--a {{glory seek\|er}}ing, [[CasanovaWannabe skirt-chasing]] ThrillSeeker. When he gets angry, he's pretty much a stone Hulk.
83	* HeroicBuild: While bodybuilder builds are normal within superhero comics, Youngblood's original run pushed the boundaries of what constituted a heroic physique, with even "small" heroes having improbably large frames. In introducing the team, the narration also alludes to PowerLevels in [[MusclesAreMeaningful mostly direct proportion to size and stature]].
84	* InvisibleBowstring: Actually {{justified\|trope}} for Shaft. His bow is based upon alien anti-gravity technology, therefore nullifying the need for a string. Presumably the point of this is making it easier to store and maintain.
85	* LawyerFriendlyCameo:
86	** An issue that was "dedicated to the memory of Joe Schuster" had [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] and ComicBook/LoisLane appear as reporters.
87	** In ''Youngblood Strikefile'' #8, Clark Kent opens his shirt, revealing a Superman logo.
88	** ''Youngblood: Bloodsport'' #1 opens with [[https://afghanant.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/gay-wolverine-gay-cyclops.jpg Seahawk and Battlestone getting blowjobs]] from ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}.
89	* LegacyCharacter: Jeff Terrell was the original Shaft, but ended up being replaced by a government-appointed successor immediately after quitting the team. Jeff's former teammates take great pleasure in referring to the newbie as "Not-Shaft" in order to get under his skin.
90	%% ** Doc Rocket, the daughter of the original Doc. There was also a RedeemingReplacement for Sentinel in the 2008 series, Sentinel 2.0. The 2012 relaunch also has Shaft quitting the team and getting replaced by a government-appointed successor.
91	%% * LighterAndSofter: Alan Moore's run.
92	* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Johnny Panic discovers his father is Darius Dax, the world's most prolific villain]].
93	* MerchandiseDriven:
94	** According to Creator/RobLiefeld, he almost had a deal for a cartoon on Creator/FoxKids, which would've been created for the sole purpose of promoting an action figure line from Mattel. When Fox signed an exclusive deal with [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] (thus killing Liefeld's cartoon in the cradle), Mattel dropped the idea for the toy line.
95	** In-universe. Shaft would have to meet with the toy company to go over his action figures planned for the year. Four variants for 1993, and Badrock's gonna collect em all!
96	* MilitaryRankNames: Colonel Bravo, father of Shaft.
97	%% * MostCommonSuperpower
98	* MysteriousPast: Showdown's past and identity are virtually unknown. The only known facts about her is that she was a former student of Bloodpool academy, and became friends with Brahama. She later on left and became an assassin.
99	%% * NinetiesAntiHero: Initially playing this trope as straight as an arrow, later runs thoroughly deconstructed the people that would be part of such a team, as well as the public's perception of them.
100	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
101	** The first issue feature the dictator Hassan Kussein (who's most definitely ''not'' Saddam Hussein) getting his head exploded.
102	** And then there's the character Kirby, who's essentially Creator/JackKirby's head planted on a roided-up ComicBook/{{Cable}} body.
103	%% * OneManArmy: Shaft and Chapel. Interestingly, they're the only two unpowered members of the original team.
104	* OvertOperative: Youngblood, the premiere super-team, does covert black ops for the US government and regularly reports to the Pentagon and the White House. Members also have their own toy lines, make talk show appearances, and do other "celebrity" things that make no sense for covert government agents.
105	* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Played with in the relaunch. The heroes are briefly lead to believe that they won't be fighting crime any more. The government assures them that this won't be the case (though it's still not necessarily all real).
106	* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: The second and third issues gave one of the flip-sides to ''ComicBook/{{Shadowhawk}}'' and ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'', respectively. The fourth issue featured a prelude to ''ComicBook/{{Pitt}}'', but without the flip-book format.
107	* PluckyComicRelief: Troll basically introduces himself as being the comic relief of the team. In-universe, it causes his popularity to skyrocket.
108	%% * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Combat being a Worf rip-off has this going for him.
109	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Troll is thousands of years old, however much he'd like to keep it a secret.
110	* {{Remaster}}: For a hardcover release, Youngblood issues 1-5 were completely re-written (and we mean '''completely''') by Joe Casey, with pages re-organized and plots completely overhauled to make it pass across as moderately coherent. Colors were also redone to remove the tackiness of Brian Murray's less thought out color schemes.
111	* ReplacementScrappy: In-universe, the second Shaft. His teammates call him "not-Shaft", refusing to accept him as a genuine replacement for the original.
112	* SharedUniverse: Youngblood has ties to virtually every major Image title in some form or another. Chapel is the man who iced Al Simmons and sent him on the road to becoming ComicBook/{{Spawn}}. The team guest-starred in the original ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm miniseries. Doc Rocket and Johnny Panic both owe their existence entirely to Moore's ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'' - they didn't appear directly but are related to characters introduced therein. Diehard ''did'' appear in ''Supreme'', as a member of the [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Allies of Justice (along with Superpatriot from ''ComicBook/SavageDragon''). And Suprema and Twilight, the series' Supergirl and Robin stand-ins, were members of the team during Moore's run.
113	%% * ShouldersOfDoom
114	* SelfMutilationDemonstration: A member once cut off his own arm when asked what powers he had.
115	* SkiResortEpisode: The series has an issue where Badrock has to fight an enemy while [[BusmansHoliday on vacation]] in Aspen.
116	* SpinOff: Liefeld's creation become something of a mini-franchise for a time during the time period:
117	** Apart from the short-lived main title ''Youngblood'' (11 issues, from #0 to 10), there were also satellite books like the longer-lived ''Team Youngblood'' (lasting 22 issues), ''Youngblood: Strikefiles'' (with meagre 11 issues), and specials/one-shots ''Youngblood Yearbook'' and ''Youngblood Battlezone''.
118	** Youngblood members Badrock and Vogue had mini-series focused on them, released around the height of ''Youngblood'''s popularity: ''Violator Vs. Badrock'' and ''Badrock & Company'', and self-titled ''Vogue'' mini-series, respectively.
119	* SpockSpeak: The Occupant from Creator/AlanMoore's run talks like this. It's even {{Lampshaded}}:
120	-->'''Occupant (while in possession of ComicBook/{{Suprem\|e}}a)''': This must be perfect residence. None better. Has [[EyeBeams head-rays]]. Good for [[KillAllHumans cleaning]]...
121	-->'''Big Brother''': "Cleaning" as in eradicating people, right? Whoa man, that's cold. Makes you sound real alien and inhuman...you ''Franchise/StarTrek'' sounding mother***!
122	* TheStraightAndArrowPath: [[MeaningfulName Shaft]], used a high-tech gravity-catapult longbow because he thought it [[RuleOfCool looked cooler]] than a gun. In later series, he's not above using guns depending on the situation, but still strongly prefers the bow because he considers it to be irrevocably his "thing".
123	%% * {{Stripperiffic}}
124	* TakeThat: The first issue of Mark Millar's ''Youngblood: Bloodsport'' has two members of the titular superhero team receiving oral sex from gay {{cosplay}}ers dressed as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}.
125	* TechnicolorNinjas: The villainess Showdown wears a purple and green suit, along with a long flowing headband. Yet she is stealthy as she is deadly.
126	* TokenEvilTeammate: Psi-Fire, easily the most amoral member of either team. In the first issue, he makes dictator [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Hassan]] [[UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein Kussein]]'s [[YourHeadASplode head explode]] and his teammates react with "Oh no, not again." Very soon into the ''Team Youngblood'' comic he makes an outright FaceHeelTurn.
127	%% * TooManyBelts
128	* {{Transplant}}: Cougar was a Liefeld's creation... for his [[https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-102/ then run]] in ''The New Mutants'' (early-1990s), but his introduction never saw print.
129	* TrappedInTVLand: The Televillain goes on a rampage using the miracle of [=TiVo=] and ends up trapping a recent addition to the team on the set of Oprah. Shaft and Cougar go after her and briefly end up on a number of different shows, including a rerun of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.
130	* TrickArrow: Shaft plays with the trope. His arrows are the standard pointy variety, but he has a trick bow that doesn't require a string. (According to the tech manual, it uses focused ''artificial gravity'' to fire the arrows.) During Creator/AlanMoore's run, Golden Age hero Waxman tried to get Shaft to consider using trick arrows, giving examples of older archer heroes who used them. [[spoiler:Not one of which had survived the experience]].
131	* TwoferTokenMinority: Big Brother from Alan Moore's run, a paraplegic black kid.
132	* UnbuiltTrope: Creator/RobLiefeld comics often (always) involve NinetiesAntiHeroes dropping down to an enemy base and getting into violent arguments with each other during the mission. Funny, then, that the first issue featured a "hero" doing just that - and accidentally killing his ally with a superpowered punch, before quickly [[FaceHeelTurn turning heel]] to give the main characters someone to hunt down. If that had happened in a later issue, or in a parody, it'd have been a subversion.
133	* WeightWoe: As an example of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Shaft apparently had an eating disorder during the team's first volume, and was very self conscious about his weight. The seventh issue included a NightmareSequence where he gorges himself and becomes obese. Strangely, this is one of the most original storylines created by Creator/RobLiefeld, as it's virtually impossible to find comic books about male characters with eating disorders. This plot wasn't seen again in Shaft's later appearances.
134	* WestCoastTeam: The series had a "Home" team and an "Away" team. Their premiere issue infamously featured stories concerning both teams, but... how to put this... One story is upside-down relative to the other? The "Away" team's story is read by flipping the book over and reading from what would normally be the back cover.
135	%% ** Later "Youngblood" and "''Team'' Youngblood".
136	%% * WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: Invoked in the most recent revival, where the team was reformed and given a reality TV show.
137	* WolverinePublicity: Badrock. He is an oddity in that his solo series was short-lived and he's much better known for Youngblood, but he was the star of the ''Marvel Team Up''-like ''Badrock and Company'' and has had many crossover minis -- including ones with Wolverine ''and'' Grifter!
138	* WolverineWannabe: Bartholomew J. Troll is one of the most obvious and blatant Wolverine expies, being a short, hairy man with wild spiky hair with animalistic agility and combat skills who is much older than he looks. In personality, however, he's a comic relief character and much more of a... well... {{troll}}, as opposed to Wolverine's somber attitude.
139	* WritingAroundTrademarks: In the team's first appearance, Badrock's codename was "Bedrock". Liefeld decided to change the name to avoid confusion with the setting of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' (after a visit from Creator/HannaBarbera's lawyers.)
140	* WrittenSoundEffect: The series uses "[=eepBeep=]" for the sound of a beeping wrist communicator.
141	* YoungerThanTheyLook: Badrock is a 12 foot tall rock monster. At the start of the original series he's in his very early teens.
142	%% * YourHeadAsplode: A Saddam Hussein analogue suffers this fate in the first issue.

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