Hexagon Death Squad

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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

• 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)