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Your [[Super Team]] is really popular! So popular, in fact, that [[The Powers That Be]] have decided it deserves a [[Spin-Off]]. What to do? |
Your [[Super Team]] is really popular! So popular, in fact, that [[The Powers That Be]] have decided it deserves a [[Spin-Off]]. What to do? |
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Make a '''West Coast Team''', of course! Take all the offbeat, second-string, and popular guest characters and have them start their ''own'' team, in a separate setting. |
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A '''West Coast Team''' is typically composed of characters with totally different worldviews from their East Coast counterparts, but with a similar team dynamic. They are so named because most American comic books take place in the Northeast, specifically [[Big Applesauce|New York]] or a [[No Communities Were Harmed]] version thereof ([[Superman|Metropolis]], [[Batman|Gotham City]]). Thus, the West Coast Team tends to relocate to the second-biggest US population area -- [[California]]. |
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** The ''[[Great Lakes Avengers]]'' are a [[Joke Character|joke team]] based in Wisconsin, made of all [[Fun Personified]] characters with powers of ''apparently'' [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|dubious]] value (although they tend to [[Weak but Skilled|use teamwork]] to make the best of their abilities,) seemingly playing off the stereotype that "[[Flyover Country]]" is a boring place in which nothing good and interesting happens. They've also been known as the Lightning Rods, the Great Lakes [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]], the Great Lakes Champions, and the Great Lakes Initiative. |
** The ''[[Great Lakes Avengers]]'' are a [[Joke Character|joke team]] based in Wisconsin, made of all [[Fun Personified]] characters with powers of ''apparently'' [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|dubious]] value (although they tend to [[Weak but Skilled|use teamwork]] to make the best of their abilities,) seemingly playing off the stereotype that "[[Flyover Country]]" is a boring place in which nothing good and interesting happens. They've also been known as the Lightning Rods, the Great Lakes [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]], the Great Lakes Champions, and the Great Lakes Initiative. |
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*** Their most iconic member is [[Squirrel Girl]], well-known for defeating Dr. Doom, Thanos and [[Deadpool]] on separate occasions. |
*** Their most iconic member is [[Squirrel Girl]], well-known for defeating Dr. Doom, Thanos and [[Deadpool]] on separate occasions. |
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* ''Justice League Europe'' was a |
* ''Justice League Europe'' was a West Coast Team that, rather than the West Coast, relocated to another ''continent''. |
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** Taking the "[[Great Lakes Avengers]]" gag up a level, there was a one-shot ''Justice League Antarctica'' title. The team was mostly supervillains briefly attempting to reform. |
** Taking the "[[Great Lakes Avengers]]" gag up a level, there was a one-shot ''Justice League Antarctica'' title. The team was mostly supervillains briefly attempting to reform. |
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* Many a |
* Many a West Coast Team exists in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comic. |
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* ''[[Runaways]]'' is sort of a |
* ''[[Runaways]]'' is sort of a West Coast Team to the entire [[Marvel Universe]]; they're very specifically placed in Los Angeles, where there isn't any other super-anything activity. |
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** Justified in that, until recently, the Pride kept everyone else out (except for the aforementioned West Coast Avengers, who apparently don't count) and kept their own actions low-profile (sensible, in a world of superheroes. You kinda wonder why more criminals in comicbook universes don't do this). After {{spoiler|they died}}, other supervillains have been slowly [[Evil Power Vacuum|moving in to take advantage]]. |
** Justified in that, until recently, the Pride kept everyone else out (except for the aforementioned West Coast Avengers, who apparently don't count) and kept their own actions low-profile (sensible, in a world of superheroes. You kinda wonder why more criminals in comicbook universes don't do this). After {{spoiler|they died}}, other supervillains have been slowly [[Evil Power Vacuum|moving in to take advantage]]. |
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*** Naturally, these supervillains have been getting their asses kicked by the Runaways. The fact that everyone still considers Los Angeles a place where nothing super happens only adds to the series's [[Adults Are Useless]] theme. |
*** Naturally, these supervillains have been getting their asses kicked by the Runaways. The fact that everyone still considers Los Angeles a place where nothing super happens only adds to the series's [[Adults Are Useless]] theme. |
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* Washington, DC-based ''[[NCIS]]'' spun-off ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]''. |
* Washington, DC-based ''[[NCIS]]'' spun-off ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]''. |
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* ''[[Law and Order]]'' and its 2010 spin-off ''[[Law & Order: LA|Law and Order LA]]'' |
* ''[[Law and Order]]'' and its 2010 spin-off ''[[Law & Order: LA|Law and Order LA]]'' |
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* [[Stargate SG-1]] had it's |
* [[Stargate SG-1]] had it's West Coast Team in '''another galaxy''' in [[Stargate Atlantis]] |
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== Web Original == |
== Web Original == |