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{{quote|"''Nothing's easy in Easy Company''"|'''Sgt. Frank Rock'''}}
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* Four-Eyes: Known for his spectacles, and ironically one of the company's best sharpshooters.
During [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|the Silver Age]], Sgt. Rock often had [[Crossover]] stories with DC's other recurring war features, including ''[[The Haunted Tank]]'', Johnny Cloud, and Mademoiselle Marie. Inevitably, Rock eventually met [[Batman]], [[Superman]], and other DC superhero characters - sometimes in stories involving time travel, but sometimes with a "present-day" Rock. He even appeared in DC's quintessential [[Crisis Crossover]], ''[[Crisis
[[Word of God|According to co-creator Bob Kanigher]], Rock died "from the last bullet fired in the last battle on the last day" of fighting in the European Theater of Operations. This "Last Sgt. Rock Story" has never actually been told, but a 2010 story in ''[[DC Universe Legacies]]'' established it as [[Canon]] for the first time.
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* [[Arc Words]]: For the series as whole, "Nothin's ever easy in Easy." There are also often arc words ''within'' one story, repeated like the chorus of a hymn.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: The Iron Major.
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* [[Battle Couple]]: Rock and Mademoiselle Marie. One recent story even hints that Rock was the father of her son.
* [[The Big Guy]]: Bulldozer.
* [[Braids, Beads, and Buckskins]]: Little Sure Shot wears feathers on the back of his helmet, but they're commented on and justified, in that, as a sniper, he needs to be identifiable from a long distance.
* [[Breakout Villain]]: The Iron Major died at the end of his first story, but was popular enough to bring back several times.
* [[Canon
** Of course, General Rock wasn't Rock in that series either. It was hinted to be the still-alive [[Unknown Soldier]].
* [[Cold Sniper]]: Little Sure Shot.
* [[Crisis Crossover]]: Easy Company was involved in ''[[Crisis
* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: Once, Rock assumed the identity of a general who was killed helping him. Before dying, the general explained that he'd always been a [[Desk Jockey]] because he was '''so''' good at logistics that his superiors were never willing to let him do anything else. He'd wanted to be a "real" soldier for once -- but his skills weren't up to combat and it cost his life. The sergeant put on the general's insignia partly because in the current battle it'd make it easier for him to take charge of units that already had officers, and partly to give the dead man the heroic reputation Rock felt his courage deserved. (He had the weird impression that the stars were '''talking''' to him, telling him to use them.) The cover title had "Sgt" crossed out and replaced with "General."
* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: The stories don't glamorize war, presenting it as a hard and dangerous slog... but sometimes they nevertheless make it look cool.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: There are a handful of pre-''Sgt. Rock'' stories featuring soldiers called "Rock" or companies called "Easy" which are not distinctly ''Sgt. Rock'' stories. They were also once referred to as the "Battle-Happy Buzzards" before their better -known sobriquet of the "Combat-Happy Joes".
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