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* [[Alternate Company Equivalent]]: The Seven Guns are basically the [[Justice League]].

** Tom Noir: [[Batman]] - [[Crazy Prepared]] Detective (his voice-activation phrase for his powers was "[[Sherlock Holmes|Bakerstreet]]"), with a night motif, considered by everyone to be the one person who could handle John, in spite of John being so much more powerful than Tom.

** Zoe Jump: [[The Flash]] - [[Super Speed]]

** Dominic Atlas Hyde: [[Martian Manhunter]] - [[Super Strength]], shapeshifter, alternate leader.

* [[Bulletproof Human Shield]]: Justified in the case of {{spoiler|Dominic Atlas Hyde}}'s corpse, considering the extent of {{spoiler|his}} body armor. Bullets enter the corpse, but apparently don't exit.

* [[By the Power of Greyskull]]: The Seven Guns use spoken code words to activate their implants.

* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: Zoe claims this is what happened to the rest of the Seven Guns, since they "don't ever switch their enhancements off". However, given the flashbacks seen during the story, one really has to wonder whether maybe they were going already...

* [[Cyborg]]: The Seven Guns get all of their superpowers through cybernetics. Based on the explanations of Angel-One's flight systems, and the "ninja cripple tricks" we see Tom Noir display among many other powers, the Seven Guns apparently have ''extremely'' extensive body-modifications.

* [[Spiritual Antithesis]]: Ellis himself [http://www.avatarpress.com/2007/03/black-summer-warren-ellis-on-the-motives-behind-the-masks/ contrasted] ''Black Summer'' with [[Mark Millar]]'s ''[[Civil War]]'', saying that latter is the [[Lighter and Softer]] vision of a conflict between superheroes and government, and the former is what would [[Reality Ensues|really happen]].

{{quote| '''Ellis''': ''...masked adventurers on the run are not going to be pursued, tricked and trapped by their estranged colleagues. Every last one of them is going to be hunted by the combined forces of the US military structure. It is, to my mind, what would always happen — the streets of America would be secured by soldiers and gun emplacements and helicopters against the threat of the flying superhuman. And for those who think I’m being anti-American, consider this: in Britain, we’d just have the SAS kill them in their beds. You people are young, and have not yet learned how to do business.''}}

** Okay, hold on to your hat. First, it's a [[Shout-Out]] - this is the same way [http://theflash.wikia.com/wiki/Johnny_Quick Johnny Quick] activates his superspeed. Second, she describes it as a [[wikipedia:Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program|Millis Bias field]] activated by [[wikipedia:Observer effect (physics)|mentally completing an equation]]. Only Warren Ellis could take something so ridiculous and make it hard sci-fi.

* [[Take Me to Your Leader]]: John Horus says this when he arrives to speak to some army folks, after getting their attention by dropping a fighter jet in front of their base.

* [[Technopath]]: Tom Noir

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: John Horus