Hexagon Death Squad
Hexagon Death Squad is an ongoing webcomic by the troper known as [AOD]. Started in 2008, it stars a six-woman assassination squad and their adventures as they take out "criminals" for a totalitarian Police State world government in an alternate timeline Earth where the Cuban Missile Crisis led to a nuclear war.
The comic can be found here.
Tropes used in Hexagon Death Squad include:
- After the End
- Alternate History (In the HDS storyline, the world is ruled by the AEGIS police state, which took power after the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into a nuclear war)
- Amazon Brigade
- Animesque
- Anti-Hero (Jennifer Ruiz can be thought of as this.)
- Art Evolution
- Attempted Rape (A minor character in Chapter 4, which is followed up by a slight Bodyguard Crush)
- Big Damn Heroes (The entire squad is just a bunch of Big Damn Heroes)
- Badass (Virtually every member of Hexagon Death Squad, and a large number of minor characters as well)
- Badass Longcoat (Coral Tang)
- Badass Normal (Jenna Ruiz)
- BFS (Coral wields a claymore and a zweihander. Both are almost as tall as she is.)
- The Big Guy (Ari, who's basically Kenpachi Zaraki's personality in the body of Kanu Unchou.)
- Blood Knight (Also Ari Raj)
- Boobs of Steel (Arundhati Raj)
- Calling Your Attacks (Done in Chapter 5, where Kaycee utterly defeats a wasteland bandit with her Finishing Move, but gives its name after she's done.
- The Chick (Tessaly Stein)
- City of Adventure (Radioactive crater of adventure!)
- Cloudcuckoolander (Coral, again)
- Creepy Twins
- Crowning Moment of Awesome (Too many to count)
- Diagonal Cut
- Eye Scream (Jenna pulls one of these in Chapter 1 in a fight scene against an enemy Mook )
- Eyes Always Shut
- Fan Service
- Flynning
- Five-Man Band
- Genki Girl (Allison)
- The Hero
- Heroic BSOD (Kaycee has a moment of this after she steals Jenna's thunder by stabbing the Big Bad in the back at the climax of the last Fight Scene in that chapter.
- Heroic Sociopath (Jenna shows many signs of this.)
- Hollywood Healing (Somehow Jenna had no bruises on her face, despite being punched in the face by a battle-nurse in Chapter 5)
- Hot-Blooded (When the blood starts pumping in this comic it runs very hot.)
- Also, Jason of the local Goldfish Poop Gang is almost an expy of Kamina.
- High-Pressure Blood
- I Am Not Left-Handed
- It Gets Easier (and Kaycee can't stand it)
- Implausible Fencing Powers
- Improbable Age (Mostly subverted in that most of the castmembers are 25 and older, with the exception of Kaycee who's really nineteen. No, really! She is!!)
- Improbable Weapon User (A major character in the Los Angeles arc uses bladed yo-yo's)
- Karma Houdini (Hexagon Death Squad is so unsubtle about their actions that they can only get away with it because the world is ruled by a Police State whose blessings they receive)
- Katanas Are Just Better (Subverted in Chapter 2 where Allison, the resident dual-katana wielder, is taken out in a fight without ever landing a blow)
- Kill Him Already
- The Lancer (Allison Swayzee)
- Made of Iron (Subverted in Chapter 2 as Allison takes four arrows to her gut and is out of commission for the next three months as she recovers.)
- Male Gaze (This is very much a "guy's" comic. I mean, c'mon. Pretty girls with swords?)
- Martial Pacifist (Kaycee adopts an oath against killing because she just can't deal with it.
- Meganekko (Kaycee Bannon)
- My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours (Oh God yes.)
- New Neo City (Los Nuevos Angeles)
- Out of the Inferno (Coral does this after surviving a car crash while standing atop a humvee that EXPLODES. Oh, and did I mention that she just CHOPPED THE ROOF OPEN WITH A GIGANTIC SWORD?!)
- Panty Fighter (Subverted, as the HDS women - in general - tend to wear modest, functional clothing.)
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette (Coral, again.)
- Police State (willing to sacrifice a few hundred people to get a few "terrorists")
- Power Limiter (Subverted in Chapter 3, where Arundhati just flat out lies that she was fighting without holding back.
- Psychotic Smirk (Ohh yes Jenna indeed. Very much so.)
- Race Against the Clock
- Rain of Arrows (An early villain uses a Machine-Gun Crossbow to achieve this)
- A Real Man Is a Killer
- Red Oni, Blue Oni (Allison and Coral)
- Rule of Cool (The comic practically runs on this trope)
- Scary Shiny Glasses
- Schizo-Tech (The universal gun ban allows swords in a modern setting, though they're generally made of space-age materials)
- Shout-Out (Too numerous to count)
- Slasher Smile (Both Ari Raj and Jenna)
- The Smart Guy (Kaycee is a cute lil' genius, she is.)
- The Stoic (Coral is either the Emotionless Girl or this.)
- Strange Girl (Good lord, Coral sure fits into a lot of these, doesn't she?)
- Sword Fight (The world government of the comic was created just so as to justify having sword fights in a modern setting, with a global gun ban.)
- Took a Level in Badass (Kaycee does this after training for three months to perform a One-Hit-NOT-Kill fencing move.)
- Twenty Minutes Into the Future (HDS takes place in 2012, despite having nuclear-powered maglev trains.)
- Weapon of Choice
- Well-Intentioned Extremist (The main bad guys in the pilot arc are terrorists who support democracy.)
- In the same arc, the protagonists themselves, for the opposite reason.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters (Well, it's a Police State after all)