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[[File:JD_1970A_01_350_9260.jpg|frame|The ''Jet Dream'' 1970 Annual]]

 

 

 

The original [[Gold Key Comics]] ''[[Jet Dream (Comic Book)|Jet Dream]]'' comic book stories are used as the primary source material for the Jet Dream [[Remix Comic]]. According to the fictional publishing history of the series, the characters were previously the stars of the long-running series ''Thunderbird Squadron''. But in the (nonexistent) final issues of that series, the T-Birds were [[Gender Bender|transformed into ''T-Girls'']] by the biological super-weapon [[Applied Phlebotinum|Virus-X]].

 

The members of Jet Dream, the [[Remix Comic]], are:

* '''Petite ([[Gauls With Grenades|France]])''' -- Formerly the top "Ladies' Man" of the T-Birds, as a woman, the Tiny Tirailleuse is now just as enthusiastically interested in men (and alone among the T-Girls, has no interest whatsoever in women.)

* '''Marlene ([[West Germany]])''' -- One of the West's top scientific minds, she's also one of the strongest women in the world. Apparently unconcerned with and unaffected by her transformation, and for the most part [[Asexuality|uninterested in sex of any kind]]. Apparently.

* '''Ting-a-Ling ([[The British Empire|UK colony of Fiji]])''' -- Princess of a mysterious matriarchal Fiji tribe, Christina Ling was the sole female member of the old Thunderbird Squadron. [[Mysterious Past|But all is not what it seems]] regarding her past....

 

To date, the above five are the only T-Girls, though indications are given that limited doses of a safe, modified version of Virus-X will be given to some of the most qualified members of the Jet Dream Auxiliary Services ([[Wholesome Crossdresser|all of whom work and live as women]].)

An additional title in TG Comics' fictional publishing history was ''My Jet Dream Romance'', a romance comic centered around the romantic lives of both the T-Girls and [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Elle-Boys of the Jet Dream Auxiliary]].

 

 

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* [[Second Law of Gender Bending|2nd Law of Gender Bending]]: The older T-Girls all come to the first form of acceptance at varying rates. However, teen T-Girl Cookie Jarr is quickly excited by the possibilities of being an extremely attractive and [[Anything That Moves|enthusiastically bisexual]] girl, even voicing a desire to remain female instead of taking a hypothetical antidote to Virus-X:

* [[Ace Pilot]]: All of the T-Girls, but Jack Thunder was also a literal "five kill" ace in the Korean War before being transformed into Harmony.

* [[Anchored Ship]]: None of the T-Girls show overt evidence of attraction to each other, but Jet Dream fans appear to have their favorite ships. Editorial responses to letters seem to indicate that these ships will remain anchored, perhaps due to the T-Girls observing military-style fraternization rules.

* [[Anything That Moves]]: While every T-Girl (except for [[Good Bad Girl|man-crazy]] Petite) shows some interest in both men and women, teen T-Girl Cookie Jarr is an ''especially'' enthusiastic bisexual. She loves to dance, and [[G-Rated Sex|will Twist with boys, and Frug with girls]]!

* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: The T-Birds were all transformed into attractive women, but they were also attractive ''men'' beforehand. The exception is Cookie Jarr, a short, skinny boy with glasses who became an extremely attractive girl, to the point that [[Even the Girls Want Her]].

* [[The Big Guy|The Big Girl]]: Marlene is a Class 5 Big Girl, both a genius scientist and T-Girl strongwoman after her sex change.

* [[Bio Augmentation]]: Virus-X gives T-Girls enhanced strength, agility, and endurance in addition to its most obvious effect.

* [[Bi the Way]]: Harmony and Marlene (though not with each other.)

* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Marlene, whose skills at [[For Science!|Doing Science]] are unsurpassed.

* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Jack/Harmony Thunder and Raven Red.

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Marlene, who haff no time for and no interest in der kissing or der romance... or so she says.

* [[Double Entendre]]: The comic is presented in such a way that it ''might'' theoretically have been approved by the [[Comics Code]] Authority circa 1970, if they could buy the basic [[Gender Bender]] premise. Thus, almost all references to sex are veiled ones.

* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Cookie Jarr isn't dumb, but might give that impression to people who aren't fluent in [[Totally Radical]].

* [[Easy Sex Change]]: The Soviet Union, lacking access to Jet Dream's true [[Gender Bender]] processes, uses a surgical sex change procedure that seems to be an improved version of [[Real Life]] techniques, but with added [[Brainwashing]].

* [[Fantastically Indifferent]]: The T-Birds barely lose a step after being involuntarily turned into girls. There are complications and [[Different for Girls|differences]], but they're seldom treated as all ''that'' big a deal.

** Both organizations must deal with the sinister schemes of '''Z'''oned '''E'''xtortion and '''R'''emoval, '''O'''ccidental ('''Z.E.R.O.''')

* [[Gender Bender]]: Main premise of the series.

* [[Good Bad Girl]]: A dedicated and stereotypically French womanizer as a man, Petite is now exclusively and enthusiastically a connoisseur of fine males.

* [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]]: J.E.T. T.E.E.N. Boy Booster Phil Philpott is obsessed with this trope.

* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]: The (fictional) publisher of Jet Dream comics limited [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Elle-Boy]] contact with other boys to "D-F-K" (Dance-Flirt-Kiss), and then only for "training purposes." This was apparently in a misguided attempt to pass [[Comics Code]] muster and due to his own idiosyncratic belief that men needed to adopt a [[We Can Rule Together|"Fem Is In!"]] lifestyle to survive in the [[Cloudcuckooland|brave new mostly-female world]] that will ultimately arise from Womens' Lib, sperm banks, test-tube babies, and cloning.

* [[Holding Back the Phlebotinum]]: Jet Dream has developed its own beneficial and voluntary [[Gender Bender|feminization]] treatment, but it's apparently only available in limited amounts for the very best J.E.T. T.E.E.N. recruits. Also, a recruit is not eligible for the treatment until after his 18th birthday. This explains why J.E.T. T.E.E.N.'s [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Elle-Boys]] don't all just become girls, and why there are still many Elle-Boys in the Jet Dream Auxiliary Corps.

* [[If I Can't Have You]]: Raven Red, toward Harmony Thunder. She specifically wants Harmony back ''as a man'' - something [[Genre Savvy|everyone else]] knows to be [[First Law of Gender Bending|impossible]]. If she can't have ''Jack'' Thunder, well....

* [[Jumping the Gender Barrier]]: Inverted. Before her T-Girl transformation, T-Bird Squadron leader Jack Thunder had a [[Dating Catwoman|relationship]] with Raven Red, leader of the [[Amazon Brigade|Dynamic Dare-Dolls]]. Raven Red didn't react well to Harmony's change, due to [[Incompatible Orientation]]. As a result, Raven Red became a [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend]], obsessed with either changing Harmony back into Jack, or [[If I Can't Have You|killing her as a last resort]].

* [[The Millstone]]: Appears to be Phil Philpott's main function on J.E.T. T.E.E.N. missions.

* [[Nebulous Evil Organization]]: Z.E.R.O., replacing the original comic's CIPHER.

* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: The full title of the feature is ''Jet Dream and her T-Girl Counterspies'', inherited from the original comic book feature, ''[[Jet Dream (Comic Book)|Jet Dream]] and her Stunt-Girl Counterspies''. However, in the Remix Comic, "Jet Dream" is the name of the ''organization'', not the lead character, whose name is Harmony Thunder. She's occasionally referred to as "the Jet Dream Queen" as partial [[Justified Trope|justification]], but [[Word of God|in truth]], the title was chosen because photoshopping out the letters "STUN" made for a quick and dirty title change that also fit [[Gender Bender|the main theme of the series]].

* [[Psycho Rangers]]: Raven Red and her Dynamic Dare-Dolls, another all-girl squadron, made up of the national stereotypes not used for Jet Dream's own characters.

* [[Retraux]]: Both [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] and [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] styles are parodied:

** ''Jet Dream'' and sister titles ''It's Cookie!'' and ''My Jet Dream Romance'' are presented as if they were actual comic books published in the late '60s and early '70s by an obscure publisher [[Author Appeal|obsessed with]] [[Gender Bender|male-to-female sex changes]].

* [[Sadly Mythtaken]]: In "The Haunted Copter" and other stories, Athena, goddess of civilization, wisdom, strength, strategy, craft, justice and skill in Greek mythology, is referred to as a "girl warrior of olden times." Who is now a ghost. Haunting an experimental helicopter.

* [[Side-Story Bonus Art]]: "Fashion Pages" and reader-designed costume contests are often parodied.

* [[Skunk Stripe]]: Harmony has a streak of bright red in her otherwise black hair.

* [[Spin-Off]]: The action-oriented ''Jet Dream'' title spawned two spin-offs: ''It's Cookie'', a teen humor comic starring Cookie Jarr, and ''My Jet Dream Romance'', a romance comic.

* [[Teen Superspy]]: Cookie Jarr and the other agents of J.E.T. T.E.E.N. Also Brian Bell of the CIA, and Soviet agents "He-She Svetlana" and Captain Boris Volkov.

* [[Totally Radical]]: Cookie Jarr, the [[Gender Bender|nerdy teen boy turned]] [[Action Girl]], frequently speaks in an indecipherable Bob Haney-esque mish-mash of "teen slang" as imagined by a middle-aged comic book writer circa 1970. She uses/misuses bits of slang [[Anachronism Stew|from anywhere between 1950 and 1970]], as well as some slang never uttered by a single teenaged human being before or since.

** Danger Hair

* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: Jet Dream's (fictional) publisher was an amateur futurist who believed the "traditional" male was doomed by scientific advances that would enable women to live and reproduce without men. He saw [[Wholesome Crossdresser|adopting the ways of females]] while retaining one's inherent male physiology as a way to prepare the young men of America for the brave new female-dominated world of the near future.

 

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