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'''''Global Frequency''''' is a short [[Graphic Novel]] series by [[Warren Ellis]], drawn by several different artists, that ran from December 2002 to August 2004. It's built around a single idea: if [[The World Is Always Doomed]], then why [[Holding Out for
Our main character is Miranda Zero. She's got a [[Mysterious Past|Mysterious]], [[Dark and Troubled Past]] she's not at all proud of. She knows that [[Realpolitik|modern politics]] have built a [[Crapsack World]] and decided to do something about it.
▲''Global Frequency'' is a short [[Graphic Novel]] series by [[Warren Ellis]], drawn by several different artists. It's built around a single idea: if [[The World Is Always Doomed]], then why [[Holding Out for A Hero|Hold Out For A Hero]]? What's stopping us from saving ourselves? Answer: not a damn thing.
That something is the Global Frequency. Miranda has found and signed on 1001 unique talents from around the world, ranging from athletes to scientists and from cops to hackers. They're called on when the world needs saving, connected to Miranda's home base through a computer genius girl nicknamed "Aleph" who guides them through the mission. The story is fast-paced, with minimum backstory, and Miranda and Aleph are the series' only recurring characters.
▲Our main character is Miranda Zero. She's got a [[Mysterious Past|Mysterious]], [[Dark and Troubled Past]] she's not at all proud of. She knows that [[Realpolitik|modern politics]] have built a [[Crapsack World]] and decided to do something about it.
▲That something is the Global Frequency. Miranda has found and signed on 1001 unique talents from around the world, ranging from athletes to scientists and from cops to hackers. They're called on when the world needs saving, connected to Miranda's home base through a computer genius girl nicknamed "Aleph" who guides them through the mission. The story is fast-paced, with minimum backstory, and Miranda and Aleph are the series' only recurring characters.
[[They Fight Crime]], [[We Help the Helpless|Help The Helpless]] and [[Save the World]] with [[New Media]]. It's like a wiki. With guns. Some chapters focus on technology, others on politics, and still others on the supernatural. And [[Anyone Can Die]].
Malfunctioning [[Lost Superweapon]]? They can track him, identify the tech, locate and interrogate the designer and [[Shoot the Dog]] if necessary. While [[The Men in Black]] are still getting dressed. Runaway [[Psycho Prototype]]? They can be on the scene with geeks, [[Badass|Badasses]] and even an inside informant while [[The Government]] is ''still'' arguing whether or not to just [[Nuke
A pilot episode was produced and completed and the show was scheduled to premiere in the Spring of 2005 on the WB television network. The series was executive produced and had a pilot written by John Rogers (''[[The Core]]'', ''[[Catwoman (
It never made it to the air, [[Too Good to Last|sadly]]. The long and short of it was the initial pilot made it onto torrent networks and the sheer speed at which the geeks of the world acquired it [[Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things|pissed off the network]], so they refused to pick it up. In a sense, it died because it really was too good; the sheer brilliance of the pilot prompted too many people to tell the network that they'd seen it and loved it, despite it not being released yet.
In 2009, [[The CW]] ordered another pilot, to be written by ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' and ''[[Tales
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* [[And This Is For]]: Grushko's last words to the body of ''Detonation'''s main antagonist.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Because aside from Miranda Zero and Aleph, there are no recurring main characters; each issue revolves around a different agent / team.
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** Captain Richard Quinn, the [[Tragic Villain]] of the piece, is a fully-converted [[Hollywood Cyborg]] - he doesn't even have ''lungs'' anymore. '''[[And I Must Scream|And He Must Scream]].'''
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* [[Apocalypse How]]: The military's 'die-back' method in ''Harpoon'' is a Class 1.
* [[The Atoner]]: It's implied several times that Miranda Zero was involved in very bad things in her past and has set up Global Frequency to atone by making the world a better place. Several of the agents with darker pasts and skill sets (usually involving murder and assassination) also appear to have a bit of this going on.
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* [[Borrowed Biometric Bypass]]
* [[Brains and Bondage]]: The top MIT physicist and expert in wormholes and exotic matter is wearing a gimp mask when he's interrupted by the call of duty.
* [[Break Them
* [[Brown Note]]: The alien memetic virus that takes over people's minds.
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]:
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* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: The Frenchman on Wellfare. The Frenchman was just told to stop Wellfare, it didn't matter how. Eventually, The Frenchman rips off Wellfare's arm and shoves it down his throat to kill him, all for stealing his girlfriend's book on biofeedback.
* [[Electric Instant Gratification]]: The cyborg from above would receive orgasms when he killed people.
* [[Everything Is Online]]: Aleph plays it straight to some degree, but it's subverted by the cult intending to blow up building in [[Land Down Under|Sydney]] - as they're all geeks, they put their demands on their website and no-one has seen them, except for Aleph digging for trouble.
* [[Feel No Pain]]: Wellfare and the Frenchman, thanks to biofeedback.
* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]: ''Harpoon'' unites the series' biggest badasses into one team, including Grushko and Alice April.
* [[Grievous Harm
* [[Hacker Cave]]: Aleph's den, from where she runs the Global Frequency.
* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?]]: In the unaired pilot, after the female lead reels off a very lengthy list of her academic qualifications, all acquired at a very young age (she's no older than thirty), the male lead makes a joke about how she mustn't have found much time for a life in the process. She gets surprisingly touchy and insists at length that she did, ending with the [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|unconvincing and unsolicited information]] that she "had boyfriends". The clear implication is that she's still a virgin.
* [[Heroes Unlimited]]:
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Member 436}} in "Big Wheel".
** And {{spoiler|Dan}} in "Harpoon".
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** {{spoiler|Tau}} in "Detonation".
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: One episode brings in Alan Crowe who claims to be a magician -- as in, a real one. He asserts that magic is "a psychological discipline." One of the other characters makes a sneering comment. Alan, amused, points out she's a parapsychologist, and as such can't exactly claim to be part of the rational orthodoxy herself. She's less amused by this.
** Even worse when you consider that Alan is correct - real-world magic ''is'' all about exploiting psychological "loopholes" in human perception to appear to do the impossible, and is a legitimate field, both as entertainment and research. Parapsychology, on the other hand, is (at least so far) only a pseudoscience with no proof or evidence supporting it.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Wellfare's mentioned as eating the fingers and an ear of an operative he killed, though "he couldn't keep the fingers down".
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* [[Mysterious Employer]]: Miranda Zero.
* [[Mysterious Past]]: Most people on the Frequency to some degree, but Miranda Zero especially.
* [[No
* [[Noodle Incident]]: In the unaired pilot, something happened involving the U.S Secretary of Defense in Tacumseh, Ohio that he does not want anyone to know about. Miranda Zero, of course, knows what it was.
** Mr. Grushko also seems to have a few of these in his past. Witnesses are still traumatized. In one case, Grushko's descriptions give one a hint of the flavour of the noodles, as it were.
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* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Wellfare.
* [[Red Right Hand]]: Used as a symbol by the terrorists in issue 7.
* [[Soviet Superscience]]: Way out in Siberia, a nuclear warhead is ready to drop though a wormhole and land in San Francisco if a sleeper agent opens that hole with his brain. After years in his head, the mechanism is starting to corrode. This may not end well.
* [[Super Soldier]]: The cyborg from "The Big Wheel". Not a success.
* [[Tears of Blood]]: People under the influence of the alien memetic virus display this.
* [[Telecom Tree]]: The Global Frequency, a network of people specialising in all sorts of things that could, and do, [[Save the World]] - or at least millions of lives.
* [[Teeth
* [[The Power of Love]]: {{spoiler|The alien memetic virus that overwrites people is defeated when the symbology expert manages to encode her love for her partner (another woman) in its language.}}
* [[The Worm Guy]]: In a sense, a whole network of them, though they all get the proper respect for their expertise.
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* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: The biofeedback technology that The Frenchman and Wellfare are said to use is based on very real technology with similar applications. (That is, increasing strength and blocking out pain, not ripping off people's arms)
** This is more or less the point of most of the series, really: scary but largely plausible science.
* [[Voice
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Issue #7, "Detonation": "You're not leaving this room." Delivered twice to the same bad guy. {{spoiler|Once posthumously.}}
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