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* [[Back From the Dead]]: Beyond brings back {{spoiler|Dirk Anger}} as a zombie after {{spoiler|he accidentally hanged himself}}.

* [[Badass Boast]]:

'''Aaron''': My robot face is beautiful and will not be kicked by the likes of you fleshy ones. And I don't believe in your God. God is for fleshy ones. I am robot. ''And your God will throw up when he sees what I have done to you''. }}

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: The "Nextwave outfit" consists ''only'' of a [[Badass Longcoat]] thrown over whatever superhero costume/civilian duds the team members happen to be wearing.

* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: Fin Fang Foom has no genitals whatsoever.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't make fun of {{spoiler|[[Lethal Joke Character|Forbush Man]]}}'s hat.

* [[BFG]]: the extremely... [[Freud Was Right|suggestive looking]] Armageddon Horn.

* [[The Caligula]]: Dirk Anger. [[Ax Crazy|Barking mad]], [[Mommy Issues|momma's dress-wearing]], [[Crazy Consumption|sticking-baby-chicks-in-a-blender-and-ingesting-them-intravenously]], [[Russian Roulette]]-playing Dirk Anger.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Monica Rambeau has developed this somewhat [[Animesque]] habit.

** The Captain also has a special, ultimate attack. It's called [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"Kick!"]].

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Dirk Anger, H.A.T.E., and S.I.L.E.N.T. are stand-ins for Nick Fury, SHIELD, and HYDRA, respectively. (Warren Ellis wanted to use the originals, but was shouted down. After seeing what he did with them, that's kind of a relief.)

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Fleshy one." "Kick. 'Splode." "Tick tick tick boom." "My robot brain needs beer."

* [[Character Development]]: Played with in an issue.

* [[Clothing Damage]]: The Captain is indestructible. His clothing isn't. So when he gets shot by a giant gun, guess what happens.

'''Monica''': Because you look so damn stupid. }}

* [[Combat Stilettos]]: Elsa Bloodstone.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Tabby.

* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Lampshaded.

'''Monica''': "Like that matters. X-Men come back more than Jesus." }}

** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] now that Magik '''''is''''' [[Back From the Dead]].

* [[Despair Speech]]: [[Played for Laughs]] with Dirk Anger.

* [[Disability Immunity]]: Tabby when she {{spoiler|defeats Forbush-Man and his mind control powers because she ''[[Too Dumb to Fool|has no mind to control]]''}}.

* [[Dirty Cop]]: Officer Mangel, ''very'' much so.

* [[The Ditz]]: Tabby Smith

* [[Do-Anything Robot]]: Aaron contains pretty much every conceivable sharp pointy object ever made within his body. Read the trope article and become enlightened.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: The Captain isn't a terribly bright guy, but at least he cops to the fact that, for instance, he "can barely speak English." He can also, you know, tear your head off with one hand.

* [[Five-Man Band]]: Monica is [[The Hero]] and Tabitha is [[The Chick]]. Aaron is [[The Smart Guy]] but also the best candidate for [[The Lancer]], while Elsa and The Captain are both [[The Big Guy]] (with Elsa also having shades of [[The Smart Guy]] and [[The Lancer]]).

* [[Flashback Cut]]: Mostly used to illustrate childhood trauma, and almost all totally at odds with established Marvel [[canon]].

"Special Bear's dead." }}

* [[Flying Brick]]: The Captain's powers, which even he refers to as his "generic set of super-hero abilities".

* [[Fun with Acronyms]]

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:

'''Aaron''': Like that's never happened before. }}

* [[Gigantic Gulp]]: Aaron and his barrel full of beer.

* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Tabitha.

* [[Leet Lingo]]: Tabby often uses Net acronyms when speaking out loud. "'Zomg'?"

* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Meet Forbush Man. He wears a pot on his head and red jammies, and is capable of shattering your mind by trapping it in a horrible alternate reality with a different art style.

* [[Looks Like She Is Enjoying It]]: When Dirk Anger accidentally hung himself in his private chamber on the H.A.T.E. Aeromarine, two female attendants listening to his strangled grunts thought he was looking at pornographic websites.

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|Number None, really a baby M.O.D.O.K. in disguise, was the Giant Floating Head Behind The Man for Dirk Anger... And then he turned out to be an underling of Devil Dinosaur}}.

* [[Misfit Mobilization Moment]]: Done '''very''' bluntly for laughs in issue #12:

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Elsa and Tabby. ''Especially'' Elsa.

* [[Narrator]]: The captions served mostly to [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a lampshade]] on the tropes being employed here. The captions also have [[No Fourth Wall]] -- at one point, they pop up to indicate that the current panel showing the Shockwave Rider was inserted precisely so people could crop it out and use it as signature/avatar images on message boards. Ironically, it's remarkably difficult to find a scan of.

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: The third story features such wonderful creations as the man-eating drop bears and samurai robots. Bloodstone destroys an army of the latter with ''a shovel''.

* [[Plant Person]]: Arguably, Beyond's Human Resources operatives, who are based on genetically-modified kelp, grown in gardens, and driven by software. Their level of sentience is suspect, however.

'''Monica''': "I hate broccoli. Let's kill 'em." }}

* [[Power Walk]]: The Nextwave team does this at the end of one comic.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Here's but one example out of many -- Dirk Anger is so depressed (when he's not in a manic episode) that he plays Russian Roulette. A little sad, yes? Now, what if we mentioned he did it sitting atop a giant gun bigger than he is with the barrel twisted around to point at him? Comedy gold.

* [[Robot Buddy]]: Aaron would be a subversion.

'''Aaron''': I am full of very useful devices. }}

* [[Rule of Cool]]: When the aforementioned samurai robots appear, Elsa Bloodstone realizes that her handguns aren't ''nearly'' cool enough to defeat them, so she drops them and fights with only a shovel.

* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: [[Truth in Television|All the time, and usually hitting the bullseye]]. To get an idea, the opening definition of the superhero genre is: [[Cassandra Truth|"HEALING AMERICA BY BEATING PEOPLE UP!"]]

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: One of the Broccoli Men had a very intelligent reaction to Elsa Bloodstone.

* [[Second Law, My Ass]]: Aaron Stack

* [[Secret Identity]]: Averted with a vengeance. Except for The Captain, none of Nextwave really uses their former code-names at all; in Monica's case, this is probably a blessing, since as they point out, there's been ''way'' too many Captain Marvels.

** Keep in mind that the only reason The Captain uses his code name is that ''he can't remember his real name''.

* [[Take That]]: ''Loads.''

* [[Taking You with Me]]: {{spoiler|Zombie}} Dirk Anger attempts to kill the Nextwave squad by [[Ramming Always Works|crashing the Aeromarine into them]]. {{spoiler|He destroys the Shockwave Rider, but fails to kill Nextwave themselves}}.

* [[Toilet Humor]]: Captain America's urine.

** Also:

'''Monica''': Okay. }}

* [[Training From Hell]]: Elsa Bloodstone's monster-hunter training, which includes being thrown into monster pits while she's an ''infant'' with only a spoon to her name.

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: The characters have several flashbacks which totally violate everything we know about the characters (like Monica flash-frying an annoying yappy dog as a kid; she wasn't even supposed to have superpowers then) but they're all so funny we don't really care.

* [[Unsound Effect]]

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Dirk Anger has one that lasts for the ''entire series''.

* [[Will Not Be a Victim]]: Elsa Bloodstone.