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{{quote|''"Each individual story would follow the same basic theme of the two girl agents faced off against the bad guys, and being graphically slaughtered."''|'''Dave Cheung''', at the first USAC Thread in Gurochan's Artwork Archive.}}
''[[United States Angels Corps]]'' was a commission-based [[Guro]] webcomic made by the artist David Cheung, of ''[[Chugworth Academy]]'' fame. The original premise featured a military group of scantly clad female agents entering in action against a terrorist faction, anywhere, in modern times... '''[[Cruel and Unusual Death|
[[Fan-Speak|Starting as a thread with an open project]] to Dave's fans at Gurochan's website, and eventually moving on to a separate website, the series first introduced four main Angels (their real names in the brackets): [[Blue Eyes|Bikini]] [[Pride|Girl]] (Alex Winters), [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Princess]] (Samantha Appleton), [[She Is All Grown Up|Straw]][[Cute Bruiser|berry]] (Cacie Brennan), and [[Lady of War|Silver]] (Tanya Riley). Following the success of the first comic, new
Due to its main themes and production basis, the comics usually never featured explicit continuity between themselves so as to avert the [[Killed Off for Real]] trope, and only sought to maintain the common background plot
The series ran for about four years through a gallery of single images, several mini-comics and two major releases (one of which remained incomplete) before Dave shutdown the series in favor of his next project, Vanilla Comics. It's the artist's most (in)famous work bar ''Chugworth Academy'', to the point that commissioning and for more of the releases of the series continue long after its end - though far less often and no longer focusing on guro.
As of late 2017, such feedback has lead to the resurgence of the series through the artist's Patreon and the Vanilla Comics Twitter, dropping the guro element to match the new tone of his works - albeit at the cost of dropping the original title (partly due to issues with another webcomic similarly titled "Angel Corps").
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* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]] - Daniel Toshida's blade. In all of his appearances he has shown to be able to cleanly slice a person's entire body.
* [[Acid Pool]] - ''Chemical Plant'' features an entire factory filled with these, and the first Silver's gallery picture presumably takes place on it as well. ''Skinny Dipping'' takes place in the exterior part of another plant.
* [[All There in the Manual]] - As a consequence of the comic's focus, most of the characters' backgrounds, personal life, relationships and such could only be found at discussion posts and the website's own wiki. Nowadays, due to the website's shutdown, most of that info is lost.
* [[All Women Are Lustful]] - Played straight at first with the more sexually active agents of the cast. Later on an [[Applied Phlebotinum]] is introduced with this side effect.
* [[Amazon Brigade]]
* [[Amazonian Beauty]] - So far, Leaf and Peppermint show it, with Leaf being
* [[Animesque]] - Typical of Dave Cheung's artworks.
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]] - Troy Hancock comes up with them all the time.
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* [[Break the Cutie]] - Princess, in ''Chemical Plant''. [[Averted Trope|Fortunately]], unlike other cuties, [[Corrupt the Cutie|she takes it quite well]], but doesn't live long to enjoy much. Averted when the situation is revisited in "Double Team".
* [[Canon Immigrant]] - Cacie Brennan, Mia Kuchiki, Heather Grant, Katrin Simpson, Millia and Sara Bennet, and Emily Marshall all come from several of Dave's previous works.
** Linna Sil becomes this in Vanilla Comic's ''Broken Hilt Inn'', having previously been agent Zodiac.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] - Troy Hancock from Bikini's intro comic. He has her cornered at his gunpoint for the mere pleasure of breaking her down, and the fact that he has [[Oh Crap|the data she retrieved and that he knows her name pretty much emphasizes it]].
** [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]] - Enoki Shigeru invokes it on Nutmeg [[Batter Up|with a baseball bat]], however subverted and overlapping with [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] because we don't actually see any of the talk, but instead given only certain indications.
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* [[Femme Fatale]]
* [[Finagle's Law]] - Imperative in this webcomic.
* [[Fountain Of Expies]] - Princess, to the point the author explicitly admitted that at least three lead girls from Vanilla Comic's were attempts at adapting her to another setting before being tweaked into their current incarnations.
* [[Four Is Death]] - The original main team of girls (S-Class).
* [[Green Eyes]] - The often chosen alternative to the most blue-eyed characters, with Princess and Leaf being the lead.
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** [[Your Mileage May Vary|And maybe, even the reader.]]
* [[Name's the Same]] - Hey, isn't there [[Angels 2200|some other comic]] with "Angels" in the title about a squad of improbably young girls, one of whom is codenamed "Bubblegum"?
** This was part of the reason for the site's shutdown and the drop of the original series name once it got revived for the Vanilla Comic's roster.
* [[Nature Abhors a Virgin]] - Pretty much Princess, part of her [[Cute Clumsy Girl|extra]] [[Nerds Are Sexy|charm]]. Judging by how much you may have read about this comic, [[Virgin Tension|you ''know'' this]] [[Downer Ending|will not end well]].
* [[Nebulous Evil Organisation]] - The Vanguard.
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** Bikini's Intro Comic, when Hancock shows he has the disc she was using as a blackmail.
** Zachary has a less apparent one at the end of Assassination's prologue, when [[Big Bad|his General]] shows that one of the killing team targets was his beloved Princess.
* [[Post-Rape Taunt]] - Most of the villains here do
* [[Quick Draw]] - Leaf against LT in her Intro Comic. [[Downer Ending|Pointless]], [[More Dakka|though]].
* [[Reality Subtext]]: The [[Lighter and Softer]] approach and dropping of the guro element from 2017 onwards at least in part reflect the changes in Dave Cheung's creative direction in real life.
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