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More specifically, it's the story of "Stem Cell", an [[Ordinary High School Student|Ordinary Teenage Girl]] who wakes up one day with no idea why she's taking part in a raid on a Top-Secret, Quasi-Governmental R&D Project -- or why she's so unnaturally calm about everything -- until she vomits up a component for a [[BFG]] and learns that she's a <s>robot</s> mecha, and the newest agent of Project:Livewire. And it's the story of how she comes to terms with these facts.

 

 

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Alien Blood]]: They bleed a phosphorescent green.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: Livewires absolutely loves this trope. Weapons, targets, and enemies all draw heavily from Marvel comics continuity. In an interview, the author mentions that ruminating about Marvel continuity is what sparked the series.

** The Mannites and Life Model Decoys are both referred to as [[Mechanical Evolution|technological ancestors]] to the current Livewires.

** Technology from the original pyrokinetic android Human Torch is used by both friend and foe.

** A.I.M. (Advanced Idea Mechanics) splinter groups are frequent targets.

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Gothic Lolita

* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: The joke in the second issue where it turns out that Stem Cell's [[Painting the Fourth Wall|thought balloons]] were actually an instant messaging channel -- that the others had been eavesdropping on to evaluate their newest teammate.

* [[Evil Knockoff]]: {{spoiler|The [[Big Bad]] at the end of the series is a hive mind group of rogue Nick Fury Life Model Decoys.}}

* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: {{spoiler|Social is cut to pieces, leaving only the top half of her head to her upper mouth, and Cornfed has most of his body and a portion of his head blown off from below by an BFG. }}

* [[Nanomachines]]: The basis for [[Applied Phlebotinum|Smartware]]

* [[N-Word Privileges]]: Something of a [[Double Subversion]], the Livewires team themselves use the word 'mecha' as slang for other [[A Is]] but take offense to anyone fellow 'mecha' or not referring to one of them as 'robot'.

* [[Secret Project Refugee Family]]

* [[Plucky Girl]]: Social Butterfly.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: "Homebrew," Stem Cell's predecessor as the manufacturer for electronic parts.

* [[Restraining Bolt]]: The Livewires are programmed to be suicidally loyal to the mission of Project Livewire. However, while their loyalty to the project is ironclad, what that project is defined as is not, as their designer notes during a flashback in the final issue.

* [[Robot Girl]]

* [[The Stoic]]: Arguably Hollowpoint Ninja. Gothic Lolita and Cornfed might also qualify if not for the fact that Cornfed, while quite calm, is amicable and polite, and Gothic Lolita's tendency to be both aloof and quirky.

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