Blood Money Boogie

What is Blood Money Boogie? Simply: Violence. Lots and lots of violence. Blood Money Boogie is a Deviant ART-based comic by "Ranfield." It follows the adventures of a male and female mercenary in a unit of mercenaries. And they are hardly heroes. Expect plenty of bloodshed and an equal amount of dark comedy.

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"Sadie: Rookie, we don't rescue kids because we care. We rescue kids because their parents can afford our prices."
 * Ambiguously Brown: Vassily. Half-Russian, half-Afghani, his skin tone is more than a few shades darker than a light tan.
 * Armor Is Useless: Subverted. Horribly subverted, but also lampshaded. Vassily has to wear a plate carrier under his assault vest because he refuses to wear a more "traditional" vest like the rest of the Trading Company.
 * Author Tract: Happens occasionally, mostly regarding the author's dislike of modern "activists."
 * Awesome but Impractical: Vassily likes to wear an M33 assault vest. While stylish, it provides no actual protection, thus necessitating that he wears a plate carrier underneath.
 * Ax Crazy: Sadie. Very much so.
 * Badass: Pretty much everyone in the Trading Company.
 * Badass Grandpa: Uncle Chandy.
 * Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Sort of. Sadie is generally implied to look pretty at best and rarely gets into too many scratches. The Jormungand shooters on the other hand...
 * BFG: The Destroyer.
 * Black and Grey Morality: The free-wheeling mildly-psychopathic-but-still-vaguely-nice Trading Company mercenaries or the white supremacist Jormungand mercenaries?
 * Blood Knight: Sadie.
 * Blue and Orange Morality: Vassily.
 * Boom! Headshot!: Happens occasionally.
 * Break Out the Museum Piece: One of the pair's primary long-range weapons in Somalian Samba is a scoped Mosin-Nagant. Aside from that, much of Vassily's choice in equipment tends to verge on this mostly because he prefers older equipment.
 * Bulletproof Vest: As mentioned, both of them wear vests, and they work. But Vassily is more encumbered thanks to his preference for wearing an assault vest.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: Uncle Chandy.
 * Cannon Fodder: The Somalis militia in the Somalian Samba arc.
 * Casual Danger Dialogue: A good deal of it during the gunfights.
 * Character Blog: Run by a background character, but serves to explain how it all sort of comes together.
 * Cold Sniper: Vassily.
 * Cool Guns: Very much so, although the pair tend to use more exotic equipment more frequently.
 * Dead Baby Comedy: Very much so.
 * Death From Above: The Mi-8 Hip with flechette rockets. Does the term "stapled to the ground" mean anything?
 * Designated Hero: Vassily and Sadie.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Possibly one of the few redeeming factors of the two protagonists.
 * Expy: Somewhat complicated, but Vassily and Sadie are based on old RPG characters who were in turn based on M and Special from Brian Woods's The Couriers.
 * Eye Scream: What happens when Sadie gets her hands on some kebab skewers and the two have to extract some information?
 * Feel No Pain: Vassily.
 * Former Regime Personnel: Jormungand is comprised primarily of old-fashioned Afrikaaners. Likewise, the Trading Company has its own share of Russian and failed state mercenaries.
 * Friendly Sniper: Sadie. Although she's more of a "Psychopathic Sniper" than anything else...
 * Good Old Ways: One of the primary differences between Vassily and Sadie when it comes to choosing dakka. Sadie likes the shiny new things while Vassily displays a general distrust of anything younger than he is.
 * Gorn: As the author likes to point out about his research on wounds and trauma: "I've got pictures!" Blood Money Boogie is not particularly for people with weak stomachs.
 * Grimdark: Passes over straight into Dead Baby Comedy.
 * Gun Porn: The author has noted that it is perfectly possible to construct everything shown in the strips. It's that thorough, and it's not limited to just the weaponry.
 * Gunship Rescue: The Mi-8 Hip.
 * Hero of Another Story: A good number of the Trading Company shooters can pass for this.
 * Hollywood Tactics: Applied really only with the untrained Somali militia and some Jormungand shooters.
 * HSQ: It occurs.
 * Kick the Dog: No witnesses.
 * Kill It with Fire: Molotov cocktails.
 * Knife Nut: Sadie.
 * Meaningful Name: Played with. Vassily al-Rahman is not peaceful, and Sadie Goodheart is a psychopath.
 * Mood Whiplash: Yes.
 * More Dakka: Yes.
 * New Meat: Vassily is introduced with the latest hire, stepping off the chopper.
 * Omnicidal Maniac: Sadie.
 * Pet the Dog: Kind of.
 * Pretty Little Headshots: Only with the Whitney Wolverine considering that it's a .22 LR pistol. Everything else is guaranteed to only occasionally leave dental records.
 * Private Military Contractors: The author goes at length to differentiate between a PMC and the mercenary units that the Trading Company and Jormungand are.
 * Punch Clock Villain: Sadie doesn't particularly care if you were just doing this to pay for your kids' college fund.
 * Reality Ensues: Despite running on Rule of Cool, the series is still very realistic. You deserve that heatstroke for wandering around in the Somalian summer wearing a sweater and well over a hundred pounds of equipment.
 * Retired Badass: Uncle Chandy.
 * Rule of Cool: Yep.
 * Scenery Gorn: Yes, Somalia does look like that.
 * Shout-Out: Occasionally.
 * Uncle Chandy is possibly the most blatant reference.
 * Also, you half expect Uncle Chandy to rip your still-beating heart from your chest while chanting "Kali Ma!"... Yeah, his detailed shots look like Mola Ram.
 * A fairly obscure reference comes in the form of how Vassily has been kitted out, his general loadout sans shemagh looks a lot like the outfit worn by Delta in Black Hawk Down.
 * Jormungand's general appearance looks like the popular "modern PMC" look favored in American airsoft.
 * Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Strongly cynical.
 * Take That: One of the strips is a fourth wall breaking lecture by Vassily about the inherent flaws of activism.
 * The Ladette: Sadie.
 * The Stoic: Vassily.
 * Unflinching Walk: Yep.
 * War Is Hell: Indeed.
 * We Help the Helpless: Subverted as well as something of a Take That, the Trading Company will work for just about anyone if the money's good.


 * Urban Warfare: Much of Blood Money Boogie is slated to deal with it.
 * Word of God: Well, the author/artist is a troper...
 * Your Head Asplode: The Destroyer. It's a sniper rifle that fires autocannon shells. Do the math.