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Line 16: ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== ''Elephantmen'' provides examples of: ===~~ * [[Action Girl]]: Yvette in ''War Toys'', Vanity Case with her Wing Chun skills, and most recently Blackthorne with her [[Gun Fu]]. * [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Started with the Hip Flask advertisements. * [[Art Shift]]: Due to the number of artists contributing to the series. Ladronn is the regular ''Hip Flask'' artist, and Moritat was the regular ''Elephantmen'' artist until issue 18. Now there are several different artists rotating on the book. * [[~~BFG~~Big Freaking Gun]]: Pretty much any of the weapons carried by the Elephantmen during the War. * [[~~Bio Punk~~Biopunk]] * [[Canned Orders Over Loudspeaker]]: ''"You are not God's children! God made you weaker than man! MAPPO made you strong! You will defend MAPPO to your last breath!"'' * [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: The mothers of the Elephantmen, in a variant of [[Death Byby Childbirth]]. Basically, Nikken kidnapped them, implanted them with hybrid embryos, placed them -- naked -- in nightmarish robotic contraptions, waited until their bellies were practically bursting from the sheer size of the baby, then cut them open and tossed their bodies in a mass grave. * [[Cyberpunk ~~With~~with a Chance of Rain]]: The Los Angeles of 2259 is much more polluted than it is today, and it rains much more frequently as a result. British-born creator Richard Starkings says that the main reason for all the rain is that Englishmen in LA always miss the rain. * [[Designer Babies]]: How the Elephantmen are created. * [[Doorstopper]]: Some of the collected volumes are quite hefty. Line 30: * [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Trench, a police officer and a Zebra. * [[Fantastic Racism]]: Many humans hate the Elephantmen, and call them a variety of [[Fantastic Slurs\|slurs]], the most common being "munt" and "monkey." There is a thriving black market in Elephantman parts. * [[Flash Back]]: Used quite a bit. In issue #0 ("See the Elephant"), Savannah's innocent remarks [[Flashback Echo\|trigger]] dark memories for Ebony. Some stories are [[Whole -Episode Flashback\|set entirely in the past.]] * [[The Future Is Noir]] * [[Gunship Rescue]]: In ''War Toys Volume 1'', French freedom fighter Yvette is cornered on the roof of a cathedral by several Elephantmen. Then three or four Red Chinese gunships appear and open up on the Elephantmen with [[More Dakka]]. Subverted, because {{spoiler\|the gunships are shot down by the Elephantmen, crash into the cathedral roof, and kill everyone except Yvette who miraculously survives}}. * [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Obadiah Horn and Sahara. * [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: Miki. She is well aware of her beauty ("Just because I'm super-hot doesn't mean I'm not super-smart"), but not always the effect her physical form has on men. In issue #18, she removes her work shirt - which has a transparent window down the front - and dons a t-shirt ''fresh out of the freezer.'' All in front of Tiny, one of the mechanics at the Skycab company. The poor guy tries not to look, but doesn't quite have the self-control. * [[Interspecies Romance]]: Horn and Sahara. Line 51: * [[Stripperiffic]]: Miki's Skycab uniform is skintight and includes a see-through window down the middle of the shirt. * [[Theme Naming]]: People named after deserts, Elephantmen named after Old Testament figures, co-workers named after portable objects (Hip Flask, Vanity Case)... Starkings really likes this trope. * [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Obadiah Horn and Sahara. She's a tall, slim, curvy African goddess, and he's a rhino-human hybrid. * [[Uterine Replicator]]: Once removed from their mothers' wombs, baby Elephantmen spend time in fluid-filled pods. * [[War Is Hell]] * [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]]: This is kind of the whole point of the Elephantmen as characters. They were created from human and animal DNA as "war toys," but they are as intelligent as any human and capable of very human reasoning, emotions and desires. Many of the munt-haters consider them subhuman, animals, and hate them for it. * [[You Do NOT Want to Know]]: When [[Mad Scientist]] Nikken created his [[Super Soldiers]] he got away with it by people turning a blind eye in exchange for [[Bread and Circuses\|promises of cures, ballgames, etc.]] Line 61: [[Category:Image]] [[Category:Elephantmen]] [[Category:Comic ~~Book~~Books]]