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As of 2011, Checkmate has been taken over again by Max Lord, who was resurrected at the end of ''[[Blackest Night]]'', and is now a rogue organization. Time will tell where Checkmate's fortune lies.
 
Outside of comics, Checkmate has also appeared in ''[[Smallville]]'' and the ''[[Green Lantern (Filmfilm)|Green Lantern]]'' movie.
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=== ''[[Checkmate]]'' provides examples of the following tropes: ===
 
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* [[Action Girl]]: Black Thorn, Sasha Bordeaux, Jessica Midnight, and Fire.
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Sasha's nanomachines generate a metal arm after her original is amputated by Chang Tzu.
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* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: All of the Kings and Queens in Vol. 2, except Amanda Waller.
* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: Jonah McCarthy.
* [[Stat-O-Vision]]: Sasha sees everything like this, as a consequence of her OMAC infection. [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?|It causes her to angst a little bit.]] One reason she's attracted to Mr. Terrific is that his powers prevent her from seeing him this way.
* [[Romantic Two -Girl Friendship]]: Sasha and Jessica Midnight. It was implied that Jessica was a lesbian.
 
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