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Global Frequency (Comic Book)
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Global Frequency is a short Graphic Novel series by Warren Ellis and drawn by a different artist every issue. It's built around a single idea: if The World Is Always Doomed, then why Hold Out For A Hero? What's stopping us from saving ourselves? Answer: not a damn thing.Our main character is Miranda Zero. She's got a Mysterious, Dark and Troubled Past she's not at all proud of. She knows that modern politics have built a Crapsack World and decided to do something about it.That something is the Global Frequency. Miranda has found and signed on 1001 unique talents from around the world, ranging from athletes to scientists and from cops to hackers. They're called on when the world needs saving, connected to Miranda's home base through a computer genius girl nicknamed "Aleph" who guides them through the mission. The story is fast-paced, with minimum backstory, and each issue features a different group of agents; apart from those who come Back for the Finale in the final issue, Miranda and Aleph are the only recurring characters.They fight crime, Help The Helpless and Save the World with New Media. It's like a wiki. With guns. Some chapters focus on technology, others on politics, and still others on the supernatural. And Anyone Can Die.Malfunctioning Lost Superweapon? They can track him, identify the tech, locate and interrogate the designer and Shoot the Dog if necessary. While The Men in Black are still getting dressed. Runaway Psycho Prototype? They can be on the scene with geeks, badasses and even an inside informant while The Government is still arguing whether or not to just Nuke 'em. Alien Invasion via The Virus? Terrorists Without a Cause? The Plague? The talent is out there to make it go away. Ordinary people can do extraordinary things with the right technology and a fair chance. Agent, You Are On The Global Frequency.A pilot episode for a television adaptation was produced for The WB television network in 2004, aiming for a mid-season premiere in the Spring of 2005. The series executive producer and writer of the pilot was John Rogers (The Core, Catwoman (2004), Transformers, Leverage), with many high-profile names attached on the production staff, including J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5), Diego Gutierrez (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Ben Edlund (Angel, The Tick), and David Slack (Teen Titans). Nelson McCormick (Alias) directed the pilot. A change in network management while the pilot was in production, and subsequent "differing creative visions and network/studio gunk" (as Rogers put it in his blog), resulted in the series not going ahead. The pilot has never been aired or officially released, but gained a cult following after a copy was leaked onto torrent networks several months later.In 2009, The CW ordered another pilot, to be written by Pushing Daisies and Tales from the Crypt veteran Scott Nimerfro. Unfortunately, nothing actually happened, and according to an interview with Ellis in late 2010, the project had once again stalled.In 2014, FOX announced that they are producing a pilot, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Unfortunately they announced in February 2015 that they won't order the pilot due to issues with the script. | |
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Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Miranda Zero, Depending on the Artist: in certain issues, she looks almost exactly like Michelle Forbes, who was later cast as her in the abortive TV pilot. In issue 4, the English gunwoman looks like Kate Moss (something of an in-joke, as Warren Ellis's Stormwatch and The Authority leading character Jenny Sparks was famously visually based on her). In issue 5, the magician Alan Crowe looks exactly like Alan Cumming. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Because aside from Miranda Zero and Aleph, there are no recurring main characters; each issue revolves around a different agent / team. | |
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The Worm Guy | |
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The Worm Guy: In a sense, a whole network of them, though they all get the proper respect for their expertise. | |
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Crashing Through the Harem | |
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Crashing Through the Harem: Gender-inverted in "The Run", where Sita the traceuse takes a shortcut through the filming of a gay porn video. | |
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Mysterious Employer | |
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Mysterious Employer: Miranda Zero. | |
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Feel No Pain | |
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Feel No Pain: Wellfare and the Frenchman, thanks to biofeedback. | |
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And This Is for... | |
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And This Is for...: The Frenchman, at the end of issue #10, after tearing off the Psycho for Hire's arm at the shoulder, beating him to death with it, and stuffing it into his mouth: "And that's for stealing my girlfriend's book on biofeedback." | |
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Artificial Limbs | |
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Artificial Limbs: Explored in the exposition-laden "Big Wheel". Awesomely, even partially enhanced subjects can tear people apart like wet cardboard. Impractical part in 3, 2, 1... | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: The bionic man in issue #2. It's explained in considerable detail that the process he's been through was traumatic enough to damage anybody's mental equilibrium. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: Wellfare's mentioned as eating the fingers and an ear of an operative he killed, though "he couldn't keep the fingers down". | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: A mutual one between the Frenchman and Wellfare that lasts pretty much an entire issue. | |
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Kill Sat | |
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Kill Sat: The threat in "Harpoon" is a constellation of satellites armed with kinetic harpoons, a single shot weapon mostly by virtue of being a fancy orbiting crossbow that fires an artificial diamond at enough speed that the kinetic energy goes off like a nuke when it strikes the ground. | |
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Electric Instant Gratification | |
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Electric Instant Gratification: The cyborg in "Big Wheel" would receive orgasms when he killed people. | |
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Brains and Bondage | |
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Brains and Bondage: The top MIT physicist and expert in wormholes and exotic matter is wearing a gimp mask when he's interrupted by the call of duty. | |
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Bring My Brown Pants | |
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Bring My Brown Pants: Indirectly. In the course of an interrogation, one of the good guys makes a special point of mentioning "...my special axe, with which I did all those terrible things two years ago in Miami. The policeman who found the bodies still wets himself whenever he sees cutlery." Said purely for intimidation value, we hope. | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
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Psycho for Hire: Wellfare. Some of the GF members may also qualify, given their backgrounds and willingness to do practically anything (within reason, that is) to get the job done, most often involving the willingness to kill the bad guys without a second thought. Grushko is probably the stand-out example, but Jill Cabot, Alice April and even Wellfare's arch-nemesis, the Frenchman, all have shades of this as well, while Takashi Sato quit the GF out of fear that he was turning into this. | |
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Husky Russkie | |
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Husky Russkie: Grushko isn't especially muscular, but he's probably the tallest of the Global Frequency's operatives. He describes himself as the large man from your nightmares who murdered your family and destroyed everything you loved. | |
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Dunking the Bomb | |
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Dunking the Bomb: In "The Run," the main character needs to dispose of a bomb that will release a deadly airborne virus in central London. The day is saved when the case is submerged in the Thames: the water pressure keeps the virus from releasing. | |
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Mad Doctor | |
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Mad Doctor: In issue 9, surgeons in a medical research facility became literally Mad Doctors after the leak of an experimental gas. The surgeons' pre-existing fascination with the inside of the human body escalated into fanatical worship, and so... "They went into the wards, where their volunteer patients were. And they used stem-cell technology and bioreactors to make things out of them. And they're all still alive." | |
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You Shall Not Pass! | |
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You Shall Not Pass!: Issue #7, "Detonation": "You're not leaving this room." Delivered twice to the same bad guy. Once posthumously. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Something happened involving the U.S Secretary of Defense in Tacumseh, Ohio that he does not want anyone to know about. Miranda Zero, of course, knows what it was. | |
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Mysterious Past | |
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Mysterious Past: Most people on the Frequency to some degree, but Miranda Zero especially. | |
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I'm Your Worst Nightmare | |
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I'm Your Worst Nightmare: Grushko introduces himself: | |
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands | |
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands: The agents try this on the villain in "Hundred" — using a pump-action shotgun and dual-wielded machine pistols, and they're in too much of a hurry to aim carefully. The guy loses most of his arm from the elbow down. | |
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The Atoner | |
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The Atoner: It's implied several times that Miranda Zero was involved in very bad things in her past and has set up Global Frequency to atone by making the world a better place. Several of the agents with darker pasts and skill sets (usually involving murder and assassination) also appear to have a bit of this going on; the team in "Big Wheel" especially gives off this vibe. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: The second issue features a man who has been engineered into a killing machine. Literally. His body is half gone. He has live orgasms when he kills people. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: The Frenchman on Wellfare. The Frenchman was just told to stop Wellfare, it didn't matter how. Eventually, The Frenchman rips off Wellfare's arm and shoves it down his throat to kill him, all for stealing his girlfriend's book on biofeedback. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: The basic purpose of the Frequency. | |
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Cybernetics Eat Your Soul | |
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Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: In "Big Wheel". Captain Richard Quinn, the Tragic Villain of the piece, is a fully-converted Hollywood Cyborg — a half-dead soldier who'd been basically turned into a walking killing machine by cybernetic alterations. Then he saw his reflection and decided to live up to the role. | |
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Le Parkour | |
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Le Parkour: In the issue "The Run", a traceuse is the only Global Frequency operative who can get to a bomb in time to disarm it. The entire issue apart from the first two and last two pages is devoted to her Parkour run. | |
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Vasquez Always Dies | |
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Vasquez Always Dies: Happens twice in #2 | |
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Government Conspiracy | |
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Government Conspiracy: Deconstructed. Several of the threats that pop up in the series are the result of governments doing naughty things that they shouldn't be doing when no one's looking... however, since these governments can be just incompetent as they can be in Real Life, nine times out of ten they completely fuck everything up and Global Frequency have to swoop in and clean up their messes. On the other hand, conspiracies are often part of the backstories of GF agents. | |
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Required Secondary Powers | |
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Required Secondary Powers: "Big Wheel" goes into disturbing detail about all the bits that usually get glossed over in stories about super-strong cybernetic limbs. | |
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Handy Remote Control | |
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Handy Remote Control: The terrorist leader in "Hundred" has one for setting off the bombs. | |
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Brown Note | |
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Brown Note: The alien memetic virus that takes over people's minds in "Invasive". One of the nastier ones seen in fiction, it suppresses intelligent thought in favor of non-sentient "flocking" programming intended to spread the infection as far as possible. It's implied to be ultimately lethal - a few hours after a geek who browsed SETI@Home too much downloaded it and played it over over the speakers in his apartment, everyone in earshot is crying Tears of Blood. The GF specialist studying it is in similar condition after a few minutes. A slightly less horrific version is seen in "Big Sky" - a bizarre accident that simulated a religious experience, driving an entire town insane. | |
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Grievous Harm with a Body | |
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Grievous Harm with a Body: The Frenchman finished off Lionel Welfare by ripping off his arm and shoving it down his throat. They were both supposed to be Badass Normals. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Member 436 and the sniper in "Big Wheel". Tau in "Detonation". Dan in "Harpoon". Janos Voydan is a non-Global Frequency member example: he moves the gun John Stark was going to shoot him with to make sure the chip in his brain is destroyed. | |
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The Power of Love | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_6a696742 | comment |
The Power of Love: The alien memetic virus that overwrites people is defeated when the symbology expert manages to encode her love for her partner (another woman) in its language. | |
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| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Aleph is named for Jorge Luis Borges' "The Aleph", a point from where the entire universe can be observed simultaenously — just like how Aleph searches the whole world for threats from her Hacker Cave. It also has the narrator lie about the aleph's existence and permit it to be destroyed out of pettiness, which is often the ultimate cause of the threats the Frequency battles. | |
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Full-Conversion Cyborg | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_6cd2fb82 | comment |
Full-Conversion Cyborg: In one issue, a Global Frequency team is sent into a military base to confront a soldier who went insane after seeing what the experiment he volunteered for turned him into: an overpowered, hideous cyborg who only has his eyes, brain, and a few scraps of skin left. He specifically mentions that his penis was replaced with a wire in his cortex that gives him pleasure when he kills. | |
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Awesomeness by Analysis | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_73733868 | comment |
Awesomeness by Analysis: Aleph, who apparently keeps track of the entire Internet 24/7 and organizes, cross-references and prioritizes basically everything that happens in the world to make sure the Frequency's efforts are directed at the right problems. A quantum computer could maybe approach her capacity for parallel processing. A villainous example are Miranda's kidnappers, who've analyzed the Global Frequency's operations so thoroughly that they've calculated down to the second how long they have to try and break her before the heroes kick down the door. Fortunately everybody pulls out the stops enough to beat the clock by one second. | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_7a143509 | comment |
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Takahasi Sato, the protagonist of issue #9, was clearly affected by his past missions for the GF and has to be all but dragged kicking and screaming into another one. | |
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Super Cell Reception | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_7bed2677 | comment |
Super Cell Reception: Operatives on the Global Frequency had really cool phones that appeared to use their own satellite network and give users access to any electronic resource Aleph could hack into. They also had audio/video capabilities that were terribly advanced when the graphic novels came out in 2002, but by 2016 are Boring, but Practical off-the-shelf smartphones. This demonstrates that writers don't need to bypass cell phones to create tension; these geeks kick ass, but they still get into trouble the phones can't gimmick them out of. | |
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Super-Soldier | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_80b57bec | comment |
Super-Soldier: The cyborg from "The Big Wheel". Not a success. | |
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| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_83442cc3 | type |
EMP | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_83442cc3 | comment |
EMP: In "Big Wheel", one of the agents sent against the cyborg is equipped with EMP grenades. It turns out that the cyborg's designers included EMP protection in the design. The grenades are the only armament capable of slowing him down, however. | |
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Badass Boast | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: Miranda Zero explains to a man who's managed to kidnap her how he cannot scare or intimidate her by listing off all of the times she's been injured or tortured in the past few years. | |
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Psychic Powers | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_874176be | comment |
Psychic Powers: Janos Voydan in #1 of the comic was a psychic "apport" who had his powers boosted by Soviet Super Science. | |
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Not Afraid to Die | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_8a2d8868 | comment |
Not Afraid to Die: GF operatives - even the one with seemingly non-violent backgrounds - aren't really phased by little things like "mortal danger" and "imminent death." Then again, it's probably a recruitment requirement. | |
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Soviet Superscience | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_8c625f4c | comment |
Soviet Superscience: The threat in issue #1. Way out in Siberia, a nuclear warhead is ready to drop though a wormhole and land in San Francisco if a sleeper agent opens that hole with his brain. After years in his head, the mechanism is starting to corrode. This may not end well. | |
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| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_8d407165 | type |
Human Architecture Horror | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_8d407165 | comment |
Human Architecture Horror: The ninth issue deals with surgeons building flesh altars out of people. Who are still alive. | |
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Voice with an Internet Connection | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_8e81e57f | comment |
Voice with an Internet Connection: Aleph's job. | |
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Heroes Unlimited | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_912ca714 | comment |
Heroes Unlimited: The series is like this from the outset. | |
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Apocalypse How | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_91e894b4 | comment |
Apocalypse How: The military's 'die-back' method in Harpoon threatens planetary-scale death and societal disruption. | |
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Back for the Finale | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_931fc523 | comment |
Back for the Finale: The final issue, Harpoon, unites the series' biggest badasses into one team, including Grushko and Alice April, against a planetary-scale threat. | |
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| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_99a12edd | type |
Cyborg | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_99a12edd | comment |
Cyborg: Deconstructed and subverted in "Big Wheel", pointing out the extensive and conspicuous modifications it would take to make a real cyborg. It was so hard, in fact, that most people who underwent the procedure had psychotic breaks, and were intended more as non-nuclear WMDs than foot soldiers. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_9c8701b5 | comment |
A Day in the Limelight: "Aleph" is one for the titular character as she's not merely Mission Control in that story, as she has to fend off invaders to the Global Frequency central headquarters. | |
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Sex Is Violence | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_9e0d0926 | comment |
Sex Is Violence: The cyborg in "Big Wheel" has been wired to receive sexual pleasure when he kills people. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: Aleph's reaction when the full scope of the problem becomes apparent in "Harpoon". "We are so fux0r3d." | |
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| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_b01abe4f | type |
Catchphrase | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: Aleph's "[insert name here], you're on the Global Frequency." When people doubt that Miranda Zero is a real name, she responses with "It's the only one you're getting." | |
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Master of Your Domain | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_b0740635 | comment |
Master of Your Domain: the biofeedback techniques used by Welfare and The Frenchman to beat the pulp out of each other. The Frenchman turns out to be better at it. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: One issue brings in Alan Crowe who claims to be a magician — as in, a real one. He asserts that magic is "a psychological discipline." One of the other characters makes a sneering comment. Alan, amused, points out she's a parapsychologist, and as such can't exactly claim to be part of the rational orthodoxy herself. She's less amused by this. Even worse when you consider that Alan is correct - real-world magic is all about exploiting psychological "loopholes" in human perception to appear to do the impossible, and is a legitimate field, both as entertainment and research. Parapsychology, on the other hand, is (at least so far) only a pseudoscience with no proof or evidence supporting it. | |
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| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_beaf66d0 | type |
Telecom Tree | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_beaf66d0 | comment |
Telecom Tree: The Global Frequency, a network of people specialising in all sorts of things that could, and do, Save the World - or at least millions of lives. Though only a couple of agents are actively involved in any particular crisis, there are a few times when the call goes out to all 1,001 members for any help they can provide (notably the the last issue of the series). | |
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Mission Control | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_bebf0356 | comment |
Mission Control: Aleph was born to be the ultimate Mission Control; she's a "superprocessor" — someone who can "handle any number of separate input processes while performing multiple complex tasks and running deductive strings." One issue features the obligatory "Baddies Invade Base" story. | |
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| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_bf110089 | type |
Break Them by Talking | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_bf110089 | comment |
Break Them by Talking: The terrorist who kidnaps Miranda Zero in issue 8 attempts to do this, with no measurable success. | |
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Badass Bookworm | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_c3478f1d | comment |
Badass Bookworm: Aleph. Yep, she kicks ass in a gunfight too. | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_c3648b87 | comment |
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: As Global Frequency draws in people from all walks of life, some on the right side of the law and others from the wrong side, this trope tends to pop up whenever, say, a police officer is forced to work with a criminal for the common good. The various governments and militaries of the world tend to have this attitude to Global Frequency as well; it's clear that they resent the hell out of having a bunch of unorthodox and unofficial civilians both completely upstage them and have to uncover and sort out their messes, but are frequently given no other option but to cooperate. To say that Takahashi Sato is not too thrilled to receive a call to action in issue #9 would be an understatement of the year. While he does eventually take the job he threatens to kill Aleph if she ever contacts him again after it's done. | |
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Charles Atlas Superpower | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_ca04edd6 | comment |
Charles Atlas Superpower: The biofeedback technique featured in issue #10 extends into this territory. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_cb70651c | comment |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: "Big Sky" revolves around the appearance of a spectral, otherworldly being referred to as an 'Angel', which is powerful enough which drives the entire population of an isolated Norwegian coastal town mad. The team eventually discover a mundane explanation involving the burning down of a local church and resonance around local rock formations which caused sensory overload — but then, after they've identified this explanation, one of them floats the possibility that the appearance of a real angel might have similar effects involving similar probabilities. | |
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Hacker Cave | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_d35d77e0 | comment |
Hacker Cave: Aleph's den, from where she runs the Global Frequency. | |
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| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_d83f3588 | type |
Depending on the Artist | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_d83f3588 | comment |
Depending on the Artist: Aleph's ethnicity appears to change by the issue. She initially appears to be East Asian, then another issue has her as white, a third has her as Ambiguously Brown, then back to Asian. | |
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| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_da75a16f | type |
Monumental Battle | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_da75a16f | comment |
Monumental Battle: The climax of "The Run" is a downplayed example (it's not so much a battle as a brief fist-fight), taking place at the top of the London Eye. | |
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Action Girl | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Miranda Zero, Aleph, quite a few female GF operatives and their female opponents... | |
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| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_db38d6ca | type |
Torture Technician | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_db38d6ca | comment |
Torture Technician: Appears to be Mr. Grushko's speciality. | |
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Famous-Named Foreigner | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_e08ada88 | comment |
Famous-Named Foreigner: Danny Gulpilil, the Aboriginal-Australian talent in "Hundred". | |
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Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_e08ada88 | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_e567510d | type |
Determinator | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_e567510d | comment |
Determinator: Lau | |
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| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_e8123047 | type |
Borrowed Biometric Bypass | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_e8123047 | comment |
Borrowed Biometric Bypass: Subverted; while storming a secret prison, Miranda Zero is completely prepared to get past the retinal scanner, but runs into trouble when it turns out to be a password-protected scanner. | |
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Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today? | |
| Global Frequency (Comic Book) / int_eddb470c | comment |
Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?: Agent 555 Dr. Katrina Finch reels off a very lengthy list of her academic qualifications, all acquired at a very young age (she's no older than thirty), so the male lead makes a joke about how she mustn't have found much time for a social life in the process. She gets surprisingly touchy and insists at length that she did, ending with the unconvincing and unsolicited information that she "had boyfriends". The clear implication is that she's still a virgin. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: The biofeedback technology that The Frenchman and Wellfare are said to use is based on very real technology with similar applications. (That is, increasing strength and blocking out pain, not ripping off people's arms.) This is more or less the point of most of the series, really: scary but largely plausible science. | |
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Tears of Blood | |
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Tears of Blood: People under the influence of the alien memetic virus display this. | |
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Everything Is Online | |
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Everything Is Online: Aleph plays it straight to some degree, but it's subverted by the cult intending to blow up a building in Melbourne - as they're all geeks, they put their demands on their website and no one has seen them, except for Aleph digging for trouble. | |
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Orbital Bombardment | |
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Orbital Bombardment: "Harpoon" features the threat of kinetic spears, weapons designed to be dropped from satellites, heat up on re-entry, and strike the ground with the force of a tactical nuke, and as hot as the edge of the sun. | |
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Staring Kid | |
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Staring Kid: As Sita scales the London Eye in "The Run", she's spotted by a little Indian girl, who excitedly tells her father, "Daddy, look! Spider-Man's a girl, and she's just like us!" | |
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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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Some of the GF members may also qualify, given their backgrounds and willingness to do practically anything (within reason, that is) to get the job done, most often involving the willingness to kill the bad guys without a second thought. Grushko is probably the stand-out example, but Jill Cabot, Alice April and even Wellfare's arch-nemesis, the Frenchman, all have shades of this as well, while Takashi Sato quit the GF out of fear that he was turning into this. | |
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