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A [[Silver Age]] [[Comics|comic book]] hero, originally published by [[Gold Key Comics]] in the 1960's. He was revived by [[Valiant Comics]] in the 1990's, and has appeared sporadically under other publishers' banners since then. Most recently, the title has been revived by [[Dark Horse Comics]] and is being written by [[Jim Shooter]], who had been the head of Valiant back in the day.
The original full title was ''Magnus Robot Fighter: [[The Future|4000 A.D.]]'' In the far future, man has grown lazy and decadent, and is dependent on a huge labor force of robots for his wants and needs. The robots are programmed never to harm humans, but an increasing number of rogues are showing signs of rebellion. One robot, named [[Robot Names|1A,]] still loyal to humanity but sufficiently "rogue" to be able to think outside the box, sees that a [[Robot War]] is coming and wants to prevent it. He adopts an orphaned child named Magnus and raises him in a secret undersea base, where he educates him and trains him to be the greatest martial artist the world has ever seen—good enough to defeat a standard metal robot with his bare hands, without resorting to any technology at all. 1A then sends Magnus out into the
A third side in the conflict is the "gophs," the humans who live in the squalid slums beneath the "milespires" where the upper classes of humanity live. The human/robot conflict is literally over their heads for the most part, but they will obviously suffer along with everyone else if a [[Robot War]] comes.
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We also get to see some of the world beyond North Am, most notably Japan, home to the hero Rai who then gets his own spin-off comic. Magnus's world is also fully incorporated in the the Valiant [[The Verse|universe,]] crossing over with its other titles either by time travel or by the presence of long-lived characters like Gilad the Eternal Warrior.
So it goes for a while, and then [[
A new series from [[Dark Horse Comics]] recently began, written by Jim Shooter.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Leeja in the Valiant version. Also Tekla.
* [[Alien Invasion]]
* [[Badass Normal]]: Magnus, originally—but during Valiant's company-wide [[Crisis Crossover|crossover]] "Unity," this was [[
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Slagger, a big tough Goph whom Magnus befriends.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: Rai's two sons.
* [[Crossover]]: Regularly, with the other Valiant characters. More notably, it crossed over once with ''[[
* [[Crapsack World]]: The Valiant version certainly had [[Dark Age|elements of this,]] but the Dark Horse version seems, well, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|darker.]]
* [[Crystal Spires and Togas]]: Milespire culture.
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* [[Dark Horse Comics]]
* [[Evil Luddite]]: Derkaiser. {{spoiler|Magnus himself might count as well when he takes the decision to destroy every single robot.}}
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Fantastic Fighting Style]]
* [[Fantastic Racism]]
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* [[Robot Republic]]: The {{spoiler|sadly short-lived}} city of Synchron.
* [[Robotic Spouse]]: Grandmother is 1A's girlfriend.
* [[Shout
* [[Space Clothes]]
* [[
* [[Transhuman Aliens]]: The Starwatchers.
* [[Valiant Comics]]
* [[Wrong Side of the Tracks]]: The Goph Levels.
* [[Zeerust]]: In a good way. Everything at the start of the Valiant series has the same art design as the 60's version, from the robots to the buildings to the costumes. It meshes very nicely with the [[Raygun Gothic]] visual look of
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