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''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
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.
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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'Em]]. [[Alien Invasion]] via [[The Virus]]? [[Terrorists Without a Cause]]? [[The Plague]]? The talent is out there to make it go away. Ordinary people can do extraordinary things with the right technology and a [[Jumped At the Call|fair chance]]. Agent, [[Badass Creed|You Are On The Global Frequency.]]
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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=== This comic presents examples of: ===
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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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* [[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.
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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Member 436}} in "Big Wheel".
** And {{spoiler|Dan}} in "Harpoon".
{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Dan}}''': ''All this [[Sealed Evil in
** {{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.
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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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