La Brigade chimérique: Difference between revisions

It's basically the french answer to [[Alan Moore|Alan Moore's]] [[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen|Extraordinary Gentlemen]] and [[Watchmen]]. Its inspiration comes from the idea that the superhero concept has actually its roots in European [[Pulp Magazine|Pulp Litterature]], whose codes and tropes the [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|modern american comic books]] modernized. The work is filled with [[Viewers Are Geniuses|obscure references]] to now-forgotten novels, films and pulp comics ; needless to say, it makes for an interesting reading.

 

 

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* [[Big Bad]] : Mabuse is the main antagonist. Big Brother (that is, Stalin) is one as well.

* [[Bi the Way]] : YMMV about whether Georges Spad counts as an example. The reveal about her past relationship with Palmyre is supposed to play out that way... But then again, Georges Spad dresses in an overly androgynous fashion that was pretty common for bi-curious individuals of that era.

** Félifax, the Tigerman, is also an example.

* [[All Your Powers Combined|By your powers combined]] : Inverted with the titular Chimeric Brigade. The protagonist is powerless on his own, he has to ''divide himself'' into four different entities who have superpowers. It's explained that his superpower is actually to go into his subconscious and attain the jungian archetypes that structure society.

* [[Crapsack World]]

* [[Deconstruction Crossover]] : the comic tries to explain why the superhero myth, which actually had its groundings in pulp european litterature, came ro be forgotten in Europe and completely delegated to American culture. The comic's answer is that the elitism of the so-called "gentleman justicers" is what eventually allowed the Shoah and the other atrocities of [[WW 2]] to happen. European superheroes and supervillains alike decided to completely step out of public affairs out of shame for what they did, and felt that the Americans had the moral upground.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]] : {{spoiler|The Xenobia seems like one at first, but it's only because she's completely confused. When the heroes manage to give her a proper brain, she becomes a perfectly peaceful being who leaves this plane of existence to find its own.}}

** The Vampyre Queen seems a closer match.