Hexagon Death Squad

Hexagon Death Squad is an ongoing webcomic by the troper known as [AOD]. Started in 2008, it stars a six-woman assassination squad and their adventures as they take out "criminals" for a totalitarian Police State world government in an alternate timeline Earth where the Cuban Missile Crisis led to a nuclear war.

The comic can be found here.


 * After the End
 * Alternate History (In the HDS storyline, the world is ruled by the AEGIS police state, which took power after the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into a nuclear war)
 * Amazon Brigade
 * Animesque
 * Anti-Hero (Jennifer Ruiz can be thought of as this.)
 * Art Evolution
 * Attempted Rape (A minor character in Chapter 4, which is followed up by a slight Bodyguard Crush)
 * Big Damn Heroes (The entire squad is just a bunch of Big Damn Heroes)
 * Badass (Virtually every member of Hexagon Death Squad, and a large number of minor characters as well)
 * Badass Longcoat (Coral Tang)
 * Badass Normal (Jenna Ruiz)
 * BFS (Coral wields a claymore and a zweihander. Both are almost as tall as she is.)
 * The Big Guy (Ari, who's basically Kenpachi Zaraki's personality in the body of Kanu Unchou.)
 * Blood Knight (Also Ari Raj)
 * Boobs of Steel (Arundhati Raj)
 * Calling Your Attacks (Done in Chapter 5, where
 * The Chick (Tessaly Stein)
 * City of Adventure (Radioactive crater of adventure!)
 * Cloudcuckoolander (Coral, again)
 * Creepy Twins
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome (Too many to count)
 * Diagonal Cut
 * Eye Scream (Jenna pulls one of these in Chapter 1 in a fight scene against an enemy Mook )
 * Eyes Always Shut
 * Fan Service
 * Flynning
 * Five-Man Band
 * Genki Girl (Allison)
 * The Hero
 * Heroic BSOD (Kaycee has a moment of this after she.
 * Heroic Sociopath (Jenna shows many signs of this.)
 * Hollywood Healing (Somehow Jenna had no bruises on her face, despite being punched in the face by a battle-nurse in Chapter 5)
 * Hot-Blooded (When the blood starts pumping in this comic it runs very hot.)
 * Also, Jason of the local Goldfish Poop Gang is almost an expy of Kamina.
 * High-Pressure Blood
 * I Am Not Left-Handed
 * It Gets Easier (and Kaycee can't stand it)
 * Implausible Fencing Powers
 * Improbable Age (Mostly subverted in that most of the castmembers are 25 and older, with the exception of Kaycee who's really nineteen. No, really! She is!!)
 * Improbable Weapon User (A major character in the Los Angeles arc uses )
 * Karma Houdini (Hexagon Death Squad is so unsubtle about their actions that they can only get away with it because the world is ruled by a Police State whose blessings they receive)
 * Katanas Are Just Better (Subverted in Chapter 2 where )
 * Kill Him Already
 * The Lancer (Allison Swayzee)
 * Made of Iron (Subverted in Chapter 2 as .)
 * Male Gaze (This is very much a "guy's" comic. I mean, c'mon. Pretty girls with swords?)
 * Martial Pacifist (Kaycee adopts an oath against killing because she just can't deal with it.
 * Meganekko (Kaycee Bannon)
 * My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours (Oh God yes.)
 * New Neo City (Los Nuevos Angeles)
 * Out of the Inferno (Coral does this after )
 * Panty Fighter (Subverted, as the HDS women - in general - tend to wear modest, functional clothing.)
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette (Coral, again.)
 * Police State (willing to )
 * Power Limiter (Subverted in Chapter 3, where
 * Psychotic Smirk (Ohh yes Jenna indeed. Very much so.)
 * Race Against the Clock
 * Rain of Arrows (An early villain uses a Machine-Gun Crossbow to achieve this)
 * A Real Man Is a Killer
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni (Allison and Coral)
 * Rule of Cool (The comic practically runs on this trope)
 * Scary Shiny Glasses
 * Schizo-Tech (The universal gun ban allows swords in a modern setting, though they're generally made of space-age materials)
 * Shout-Out (Too numerous to count)
 * Slasher Smile (Both Ari Raj and Jenna)
 * The Smart Guy (Kaycee is a cute lil' genius, she is.)
 * The Stoic (Coral is either the Emotionless Girl or this.)
 * Strange Girl (Good lord, Coral sure fits into a lot of these, doesn't she?)
 * Sword Fight (The world government of the comic was created just so as to justify having sword fights in a modern setting, with a global gun ban.)
 * Took a Level in Badass (Kaycee does this after training for three months to perform a One-Hit-NOT-Kill fencing move.)
 * Twenty Minutes Into the Future (HDS takes place in 2012, despite having nuclear-powered maglev trains.)
 * Weapon of Choice
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist (The main bad guys in the pilot arc are terrorists who support democracy.)
 * In the same arc, the protagonists themselves, for the opposite reason.
 * Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters (Well, it's a Police State after all)