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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book)

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Harlem Heroes is a comic strip run in 2000 AD, created by Tom Tully and Dave Gibbons with the basic concept thought up by Pat Mills. One of the title's launch strips, it focused on an African-American Aeroball team and their quest for the world title in the year 2050. A combination of American Football, Basketball, Boxing, Professional Wrestling and Kung Fu with jetpacks, the sport is quite brutal, with fatalities common.When the Heroes suffer a road accident, they must recruit new players and continue the season.A more violent sequel, known as Inferno, had the Heroes renamed the Harlem Hellcats and participating in the titular Blood Sport.In 1990, Michael Fleisher scripted an In Name Only revival set in an Alternate Continuity (the original is set in the same 'verse as Judge Dredd) focused on a gang of convicts who are nicknamed The Harlem Heroes in prison due to their skill at Aeroball. Because of the sheer number of strips he scripted for 2000 AD (particularly Rogue Trooper), some of his later Harlem Heroes strips appeared years after he left the comic.A 2020s revival, first as a bonus story in a collected edition of the 2000 AD Regened all-ages issues, then in the young adult Mega-City Max one-shot, sees the team now captained by Gem Giant, grandchild of Judge Giant and great-grandchild of John "Giant" Clay.
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Retired Badass
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Retired Badass: Conrad King, a retired former player, rejoins the Heroes after a new medical procedure is able to heal his previously Game-Breaking Injury. He shows off his skills by scoring an Air Strike without a jetpack.
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Anyone Can Die
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Anyone Can Die: Fleisher always kept the number of Heroes at five, no more, no less. Consequently, when Kathleen joins up midway through the first story, Trips dies soon afterwards, and when two new Heroes are added to the roster in "Cyborg Death Trip", Patrice ends up buying it.
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I Was Quite a Looker
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I Was Quite a Looker: Downplayed. Slice is, as of the original story, thirty years old. During Death Sport, he's shown in a flashback from his younger years minus the Perma-Stubble and scarring.
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Calvinball
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Calvinball: Aeroball consists of American Football, Basketball, Boxing, Kung Fu and Pro Wrestling all with jetpacks.
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Graceful Loser
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Graceful Loser: In spite of their pre-game clashes, the Scottish team takes their loss to the Heroes quite well, as the Scots take a liking to the Heroes' determination and toughness.
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Post-Peak Oil
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Post-Peak Oil: Scotland apparently had an oil boom in The '80s. The oil didn't last long and the towns that sprung up to cater for the industry quickly became ghost towns. The abandoned oil rigs were dismantled by locals to make Aeroball arenas.
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Power Limiter
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Power Limiter: Cyborgs are allowed to play Aeroball, but the rules of the game state that their cybernetics have to be powered down to keep their abilities the same as those of regular humans.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: The Atomic Wars might not have happened, but that doesn't make the setting any less unpleasant. The US government is so fragile that its power is rivalled by the Mega Corps and when the President gets assassinated, a secret intelligence agency takes over at first until their two top guys get blown up at the end of the first story and the largest Mega-Corp takes over "in the interim". Gangs are rampant throughout the nation and are so well funded and armed by the Mega Corps that one of them has a tank built in a chop shop for a heist. Urban decay is rife and New York is effectively a war zone.
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Fallen States of America
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Fallen States of America: The U.S. government's power has waned to the point where five Mega Corps rival them for control of the country.
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Blood Sport
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Blood Sport: Slice participates in combat tournaments for extra money, where the combatants attempt to take each other out non-lethally. One of his opponents, sore from the loss, switches out his Tranquillizer Darts for magnesium rounds.
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Spiritual Successor
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Spiritual Successor: Second City Blues is a similar strip with a very similar future sport, except that the team was more of a Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits than the Heroes ever were.
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The Big Rotten Apple
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The Big Rotten Apple: New York is pretty much a war zone in 2109.
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Hollywood Hacking
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Hollywood Hacking: Patrice's main skill is cracking into computer systems. He even manages to blow up Warden Offak's computer during the Heroes' escape.
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Distant Finale
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Distant Finale: Whatever Happened to John "Giant" Clay? establishes that Giant lived in Mega City One until 2126, where he has one final conversation with his grandson before he passes on.
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Fighting the Lancer
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Fighting the Lancer: Deacon punches Slice when the latter points out that if the former had been flying the plane they'd just bailed out of instead of Trips, then every one of them would be dead. Slice pulls a knife and is about to get stabby when Silver breaks the fight up.
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Zeerust
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Zeerust: A trip to a sports museum showed that a car used to win a world championship race in 1993 was a car that was typical looking of 1970s sci-fi.
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Powered Armor
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Silver is no slouch in the department either. During the fight with the assassin, it becomes clear that his Powered Armor is Immune to Bullets, so she slaps a limpet mine on his back while he's distracted with Deacon.
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Flat Character
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Flat Character: Trips doesn't get as much characterisation as the rest of the Heroes, apart from the fact that he is the team's original pilot, is constantly listening to music on a headset, is implied to be a stoner and seems to be The Load, given that he has the lowest killcount and nearly gets the Heroes killed because he crashes their vehicle into the river and almost drowns himself.
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Dropped a Bridge on Him
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: Hairy and Conrad are killed on one of the last panels of the original strip.
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Alternate Continuity
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Alternate Continuity: This version clearly takes place in a 'verse where World War 3 didn't happen and the judge system never took over.
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The Unfought
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The Unfought: The nearest the Heroes get to taking on The Office is by killing their assassin as he tries to stop them from broadcasting the truth about the presidential assassination. It's a Mega-Corp bomb that ends up doing them in.
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You Have Failed Me
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You Have Failed Me: Warden Offak gets sent to SPC-14 by the Office when he sends some thugs to kill the Heroes for ruining his perfect no-escape record. His assistant is given the role for ratting him out.
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Paper-Thin Disguise
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Paper-Thin Disguise: Gruber disguises himself as a member of the Gorgon's Gargoyles. The guy looks very similar to Gruber already. Giant works it out pretty quickly, especially seeing as Gruber still uses his distinctive pattern of speech.
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Combat Pragmatist
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Combat Pragmatist: Slice has a knack for using Improvised Weapons such as credit cards, coffee cups, toothpicks, block-and-tackles, etc. Silver is no slouch in the department either. During the fight with the assassin, it becomes clear that his Powered Armor is Immune to Bullets, so she slaps a limpet mine on his back while he's distracted with Deacon.
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Improvised Weapon
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Slice has a knack for using Improvised Weapons such as credit cards, coffee cups, toothpicks, block-and-tackles, etc.
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Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
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Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Artie Gruber was injured in a match with the Heroes and is rebuilt as a Cyborg. He is insane and obsessed with revenge.
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Fragile Speedster
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Fragile Speedster: The Heroes decline to wear armor, making them more frail than other teams, but quicker especially on the ground.
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Extended Disarming
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Slice is an expert with knives. We even see how many of them he carries during an Extended Disarming.
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The Smurfette Principle
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The Smurfette Principle: Silver Weir, the demolitions expert, is the token female.
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So Last Season
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So Last Season: Literally, in terms of sports seasons. Once Inferno comes on the scene, Aeroball is seen as tame. However, Judge Dredd later establishes that Inferno went too far and lost popularity because spectators were put in too much danger.
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We Have Reserves
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We Have Reserves: The Siberian Wolves are suicidal in their gameplay tactics. It's telling that, in a sport requiring a minimum of seven players, with subs, they have over thirty.
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Armor Is Useless
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Armor Is Useless: The Heroes don't wear armour, unlike other teams. At one point, they use this to their advantage on the ground, as they use their speed on the ground to dodge past the other team.
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Heroic Sacrifice
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Heroic Sacrifice: Trips dies keeping a squadron of Air Force planes off the rest of the Heroes.
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Ironic Nickname
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Ironic Nickname: "Hairy" is, in fact, bald.
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Canon Welding
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Canon Welding: John "Giant" Clay is the father of the original Judge Giant from Judge Dredd and the references to Mega City One are made.
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Improbable Weapon User
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Improbable Weapon User: Slice manages to kill a guy with his prison ID card. According to his bio, he's also made use of a coffee cup as well.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Deacon is so-called because he's a clean liver. His original crime was a white-collar robbery which he may or may not have been covering for someone else. He's sent down to SPC-14 for strangling an assistant warden. Compared to the things his fellow teammates have done, this is actually quite tame. Slice is an expert with knives. We even see how many of them he carries during an Extended Disarming.
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Conspicuously Public Assassination
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Conspicuously Public Assassination: The President is killed by a group posing as the Harlem Heroes under the auspices of the Office, who plan to have the Mega Corps under their control and take over the country. The largest of these, Mercury National, takes over in the interim when the Office members are assassinated.
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Token Minority
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Token Minority: Unlike the original strip, which had an all African-American cast, Deacon is the only black character in the revival strip.
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
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Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits: The Heroes consist of a former white-collar worker who strangled an assistant warden in a regular prison, an Axe-Crazy former mercenary with a penchant for knife play, a waif with a propensity for blowing stuff up, a genius hacker and a hover car thief with Improbable Piloting Skills who is constantly listening to music on a headset.
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Boxed Crook
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Boxed Crook: The Heroes are pulled out of SPC-14 to disrupt Mega-Corp drug operations in exchange for their freedom.
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Token Evil Teammate
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Token Evil Team Mate: Slice is a former mercenary who knocked over various third world leaders for the Mega Corps before he was considered uncontrollable. He uses an EMP device on an old man with a pacemaker and notes that his fellow heroes are do-gooders. He's also the most memorable member of the cast.
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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_7a9afe0a
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Arms Dealer
 Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_7aeb0635
comment
Slice takes the Heroes to meet an Arms Dealer willing to sell them an EMP generator. The dealer intends to turn the Heroes in for the bounty on their heads, but Slice has the sense to not actually trust the guy and the Heroes manage to counter ambush his ambush. Slice slits the guy's throat for his trouble.
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Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
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comment
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: The Office use the Heroes to disrupt Mega-Corp gang activity and set them up as fall guys in a presidential assassination in order to take control of the Mega Corps and the nation. The Mega Corps turn on them when the truth gets out. Slice takes the Heroes to meet an Arms Dealer willing to sell them an EMP generator. The dealer intends to turn the Heroes in for the bounty on their heads, but Slice has the sense to not actually trust the guy and the Heroes manage to counter ambush his ambush. Slice slits the guy's throat for his trouble.
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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_7c862b8a
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Slashed Throat
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Slashed Throat: The backstabbing Arms Dealer gets on the receiving end of a particularly detailed one (that takes up two panels, no less) courtesy of the resident Blade Enthusiast, Slice.
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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_7e577db
 Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_83442cc3
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EMP
 Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_83442cc3
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EMP: In order to bust into Mercury National's HQ, the Heroes obtain a portable EMP generator about the size of a small suitcase. While it gets them past the alarm system, it breaks down at an inopportune moment when the Heroes are faced with security robots, which is attributed to one last double cross by the Arms Dealer Slice killed when obtaining it.
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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_83442cc3
 Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_928ca2cc
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The fake Heroes used to assassinate the president are implied to have been Killed Offscreen by The Office and the bodies buried to keep the real Heroes as a scapegoat.
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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_928ca2cc
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A Day in the Limelight
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A Day in the Limelight: Slice and Silver got solo stories in Death Sport and Grey Ghost Overflight respectively.
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Shield Bash
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Shield Bash: Sam Mason gets decapitated when two of the Teutonic Titans sandwich him with their shields.
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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_9d723582
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod: In spite of the In Name Only nature of the revival, Artie Gruber appears as the Big Bad of Cyborg Death Trip.
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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e
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We Can Rebuild Him
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We Can Rebuild Him: Artie Gruber is rebuilt as a Cyborg, but the process drives him insane and he seeks revenge on the Heroes.
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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_9f9540ae
 Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check: The Mega Corps are multi billion dollar corporations, with Patrice having apparently stolen two billion from Mercury National in the hack he was arrested for. They are able to afford private armies and have a power base rivalling the US government, with Mercury National taking control of the country "in the interim" after taking out The Office. Yet, the Mega Corps are running low level drug operations in various major cities, even putting out subliminal advertising for these drugs.
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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969
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MegaCorp
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Mega-Corp: The trope is actually referred to by name in this work. A group of them rival the US government in terms of influence and The Office tells the Heroes that their plan is to disrupt this. In reality, The Office overthrows the government and brings the Mega Corps under their influence. They assassinate The Office heads and the largest company, Mercury National, assumes control of the country.
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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_aa8dcc21
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Red Shirt
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Red Shirt: Many of the new players and the reserves die over the course of the strip during matches.
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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_ac2094ca
 Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_b905c10c
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The Alcatraz
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The Alcatraz: Subterranean Penal Colony 14, where all prisoners are in for life. The Heroes try to escape and almost make it too. They only get out when The Office offers them a job.
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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_b905c10c
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Jive Turkey
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Jive Turkey: It's a strip from The '70s with an African-American cast, so this kind of dialogue is to be expected. It's lampshaded with the phrase "Cut the jive talk and let's play Aeroball."
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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_b9a22821
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The Gimmick
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The Gimmick: Each team has a specific hat; For example, the Heroes are based on the Harlem Globetrotters, Gorgon's Gargoyles are all cyborgs, the Teutonic Titans are dressed as knights, the Baltimore Bulls are all cops, the Bushido Blades wear Samurai armour and so forth.
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Failed Future Forecast
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Failed Future Forecast: The Soviet Union still exists in 2050 here.
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Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_bb40e7e0
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Clear My Name
 Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_bc3cb7ff
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Clear My Name: The Harlem Heroes are framed for killing the president and a large proportion of the original story's latter half is trying to find a way to broadcast the evidence that exonerates them. This is kind of a moot point, since the lot of them escaped from prison for crimes that at least some of them were guilty of in the first place; Slice and Deacon are in for murder, while Silver is a Bomb Throwing Anarchist. Even Trips and Patrice, while in for "lesser" crimes (grand theft auto and cybercrime respectively), still go along for the ride. There's also the matter of the number of people they kill along the way, be it gang members or corporate security, the latter of which are Punch Clock Villains at worst.
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Blade Enthusiast
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Blade Enthusiast: Slice favours knives and carries a ridiculous number of them around at any one time.
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Anti-Hero
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Anti-Hero: The Heroes are this on paper: Each of them has a shady past with a particular specialisation and a criminal conviction to match. In practice, Slice is the only one who embodies this trope in any way with his Combat Pragmatist tendencies, psychotic behaviour and his use of an EMP on an old man with a pacemaker.
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Appropriated Appellation
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Appropriated Appellation: The Heroes are given the nickname in prison by the other inmates because they get good at Aeroball.
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I Know Madden Kombat
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I Know Madden Kombat: The Heroes use Aeroball jetpacks in battle. Slice even manages to take down a vehicle with a ball. It's subverted in Death Sport, where the jetpack Slice uses was designed for stadium use and is useless outdoors due to turbulence.
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 Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_c9f5efdb
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Standardized Leader
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Standardized Leader: This is about the only notable trait that Deacon has. Supposedly, he's morally the best of them, but in practice, barring Slice, they're all too upstanding for a bunch of people who got locked up for life. Slice even asks at one point "who died and anointed [Deacon] pope?" when Deacon makes a decision.
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Corrupt Corporate Executive
 Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab
comment
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Ulysses Cord is initially warm to the Heroes, even sponsoring them by getting them new vehicles and equipment after their bus crash. His motivation is purely for ratings, however, as he doesn't like the Heroes' method of fair play.
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'90s Anti-Hero
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'90s Anti-Hero: Slice falls inside this category. He's Axe-Crazy, very fond of knives, worked as a mercenary doing infiltration work and assassination work for the Mega Corps prior to meeting his fellow Heroes in prison, and is something of a Combat Pragmatist. A notable interaction early into the story has the Heroes break up a drug operation in New York and destroy the drugs, during which Slice suggests instead selling the drugs themselves. Despite this and his occasional clashes with Deacon, he remains a member of the team.
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Morally Bankrupt Banker
 Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_dbab18ef
comment
Morally Bankrupt Banker: Mercury National's main income stream is financial services. They also have a private army and are powerful enough to rival the US Government and, while they're not responsible for the deaths of the president and his entire cabinet, they do take advantage of the Heroes' broadcast of the real assassination video to take out The Office and fill the power vacuum "in the interim".
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 Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_dd797c1c
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Universal Driver's License
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Universal Driver's License: Trips can drive or fly almost any vehicle. When he dies, Deacon takes over his role as pilot.
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 Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_df410b77
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Decoy Protagonist
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Decoy Protagonist: Deacon is The Leader of the Heroes, but it's Slice and Silver who get the most characterisation, especially seeing as how they both got solo stories.
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 Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_e5421161
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Expy
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Expy: Slice resembles Abslom Daak in terms of both appearance and personality. Steve Dillon created the appearances of both characters.
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Meaningful Rename
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Meaningful Rename: The Harlem Heroes become the Harlem Hellcats during the events of Inferno.
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 Harlem Heroes (Comic Book) / int_e8123047
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Borrowed Biometric Bypass
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Borrowed Biometric Bypass: Subverted. Patrice copies a guard's fingerprints onto a latex glove and his retina onto a blank contact lens to compliment the guard's keycard. Unfortunately, that's not enough for the door in question, which also requires a chromosomal sample to open. Deacon simply blows the door open instead.
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Wooden Katanas Are Even Better
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Wooden Katanas Are Even Better: The Bushido Blades use them in gameplay.
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Jet Pack
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Jet Pack: An integral part of Aeroball. Players fly around the arena in order to score Air Strikes. Zack Harper has an improvised gas powered version when the Heroes first meet him.
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Non-Protagonist Resolver
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Non-Protagonist Resolver: The two guys in charge of The Office are the Big Bad Duumvirate of the first story, yet they wisely keep their hands as clean as possible, preferring to use middlemen to do their dirty work. After they turn the Heroes loose, they don't have any contact with them again, remaining The Unfought until the end of the story, when the Mega Corps turn on them and promptly have them killed by way of a bomb hidden in a package that's supposed to contain their monthly cut of drug profits.
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One-Steve Limit
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One-Steve Limit: Averted. Two characters named Sam appear as Red Shirts on the team and there are two characters named Artie; Artie Gruber and the pilot of the Heroes' roadliner.
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The Starscream
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The Starscream: The Office, ostensibly working as a covert division of the U.S. government against the Mega Corps' drug operations, betrays the president and has him assassinated, and negotiate with the companies. The Mega Corps subsequently betray them and have their leaders blown up.
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Brain in a Jar
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Brain in a Jar: Louis Mayer survives the team's bus crash, but his body is damaged beyond healing. His brain is extracted and survives in a jar, which is later given thrusters with which he can move around. He gets smarter as a result of being only a brain. In Inferno, he's given a new robotic body.
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Can't Stop The Signal
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Can't Stop The Signal: The climax of the original story involves the Heroes transmitting the recording of the presidential assassination in order to clear their names. This requires them to break into Mercury National to hijack the transmission.
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Cyberpunk
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Cyberpunk: The setting is a distinctively cyberpunk dystopia. Mega Corps appear as antagonists (though not the main villains), one of the main characters is a hacker, the assassin sent to kill the Heroes has Electronic Eyes, and many characters dress as punks.
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