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Against a backdrop of a future war between two factions, the noble Southers and evil Norts, the comic follows Rogue, a G.I. ([[Super Soldier|Genetic Infantryman]]) and his three comrades' search for the Traitor General, a man in the Souther high command who sold the Southers' battle plans to the Norts, which led to the massacre of all the GIs except Rogue. His comrades are in the form of biochips (onto which a G.I.'s entire personality is downloaded at the time of death for later retrieval) and are named Gunnar (mounted on Rogue's rifle), Bagman (on his backpack) and Helm (on his helmet).

The series was supposedly ended for good in 1996, though the odd spinoff did appear. In 2002, popular writer Gordon Rennie revisited the Rogue continuity with a new series of stories set during the hunt for the Traitor General. This series was well received and Rennie attempted to reboot the continuity for a second time, but was blocked by the editors. He has said he would like to write more stories in the ''Rogue Trooper'' universe, but these would focus on side characters and what's going on elsewhere on Nu Earth.

 

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Venus Bluegenes

* [[Alternate Continuity]]: The video game.

** It's the ending where the major difference occurs.

* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: In the Rogue continuity, the weapons for described as being "las" based, yet they are depicted as ejecting casing like a projectile weapon. A close-up of an cartidge reveals that the bullet has a lense, possible similair to older discriptions of Imperial Guardman's las-gun.

* [[Armchair Military]]: Milli-com, the southern high command operate from a giant space station light years from the war. Oddly for this trope most of them seems to be combat veterans.

* [[Awesome Backpack]]: Bagman in the Rogue continuity.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Gunnar.

* [[Brain Uploading]]: Mostly in the original, though not unseen in newer incarnations.

** Friday attempts suicide, but finds that he's been genetically programmed to be unable to do so.

** And probably most of Friday's adventures, barring ''The War Machine''.

* [[Commie Nazis]]

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: A particularly bad one is the main villain in the Friday continuity.

* [[Death World]]: Nu Earth. Very much Nu Earth.

* [[Elite Mooks]]: Most notably the Kashan Legion. Hard, ruthless bastards who all but annihilated the G.I. Regiment. Granted, they had some help, but that's still pretty [[Badass Normal]].

* [[Fan of the Past]]: A dark version of this trope occurred in the ''[[Rogue Trooper]]'' story "Fort Neuro". Rogue arrived at the titular fort, hoping to find shelter and some time to let the biochips calm down. However, the stress of holding off a Nort siege for years coupled with isolation due to their sanity slipping, causing the four garrisons to degenerate into [[Parodies]] of Napoleonic France, a 50s British seaside resort, a group of disco freaks, and wannabe supermodels. Rogue and the robots eventually managed to knock some sense into them.

* [[Gas Mask Mooks]]: The Norts. Justified in that the horribly toxic atmosphere of Nu Earth makes chem-suits essential for any normal human.

* [[Hopeless War]]: While never directly stated, it is suggested that the Southerns are constantly losing to the numerically superior Norts, leading them to develop wonder weapons like the G.I.'s.

* [[Insert Grenade Here]]: A common way Rogue destroys Nort heavy tanks.

* [[Klingon Promotion]]: Most Nort War Marshals.

* [[The Mole]]: Sister Sledge

* [[The Neidermeyer]]: Major Magnam.

* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Bio-wire, semi-sentient barbed wire which seeks out human targets, punches through their chem-suits, and tears them apart from the inside.

** Also exude flesh eating acid

** More recently, ''The 86ers'' focused on a squadron of pilots based in the Acoma system.

* [[Recycled in Space]]: [[The American Civil War]] with the Southers as the Confederate and the Norts and the Union.

* [[Suicide Attack]]: A Christmas 2010 special had a nort plot to destory the souther's military command with a clone of Rogue which explodes after it is killed.

* [[Tank Goodness]]: The Blackmare Tank. Its main turret is bigger than most whole normal tanks.

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Bland and Brass, body-looters and war profiteers.

* [[Those Wacky Nazis|Those Wacky Norts]]

** Although it's a bit of a moot point, since the three innocent generals are all killed when the Traitor sabotages the satellite they were on. His escape doesn't go as smoothly as planned, leading to the aforementioned disfigurement.

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: All G.I.'s as they aren't given shirts before going into combat.

 

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