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Returning home one night to find a highly trained squad of professional killers waiting for him in his living room, Moses brutally kills them all. He recognizes their attack patterns, and realizes that he has been betrayed by his former employers. After grabbing all of the weapons he can carry, he places a phone call in putting himself back on red status, making him an active agent again. He then announces that he will personally kill the men responsible for disrupting his peaceful life, in addition to everybody else working for them who so much as knows his name. |
Returning home one night to find a highly trained squad of professional killers waiting for him in his living room, Moses brutally kills them all. He recognizes their attack patterns, and realizes that he has been betrayed by his former employers. After grabbing all of the weapons he can carry, he places a phone call in putting himself back on red status, making him an active agent again. He then announces that he will personally kill the men responsible for disrupting his peaceful life, in addition to everybody else working for them who so much as knows his name. |
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The book was published under Wildstorm's more writer-driven ''Homage Comics'' imprint. Although it wasn't widely popular, Red met with critical acclaim when it was first published, and became a cult hit. [[Bruce Willis]] also plays the main character in [[ |
The book was published under Wildstorm's more writer-driven ''Homage Comics'' imprint. Although it wasn't widely popular, Red met with critical acclaim when it was first published, and became a cult hit. [[Bruce Willis]] also plays the main character in [[RED (film)|a 2010 film adaptation]], which... on the one hand, appears to play the thing for comedy, and on the other hand, has [[Helen Mirren]] [[Rule of Cool|manning a Ma Deuce]]. And [[Pragmatic Adaptation|Warren Ellis has at least thrown his backing behind it]], on the grounds that the original graphic novel might have hit "44 minutes, if you included a musical number." |
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* [[Mandatory Unretirement]]: He is forced into this when the CIA comes to kill him. |
* [[Mandatory Unretirement]]: He is forced into this when the CIA comes to kill him. |
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* [[Motive Rant]] |
* [[Motive Rant]] |
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* [[Morality Pet]]: His niece. |
* [[Morality Pet]]: His niece. |
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* [[The Movie]]: See [[ |
* [[The Movie]]: See [[RED (film)]]. |
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* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Three professional assassins making a hit on a sixty-year-old man. They were, of course, wrong. |
* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Three professional assassins making a hit on a sixty-year-old man. They were, of course, wrong. |
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* [[Oh Crap]]: At the end, when Beesley is on the phone with Moses thinking he's won, and confidently telling him that unless he stops he will place an order to have Paul's niece murdered. Then they hear a knock on the door behind them, and Moses calmly walks in with his cell phone and a gun having slaughtered the rest of their defenses... during the conversation. The look of sheer terror is priceless. |
* [[Oh Crap]]: At the end, when Beesley is on the phone with Moses thinking he's won, and confidently telling him that unless he stops he will place an order to have Paul's niece murdered. Then they hear a knock on the door behind them, and Moses calmly walks in with his cell phone and a gun having slaughtered the rest of their defenses... during the conversation. The look of sheer terror is priceless. |
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