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Valérian (Comic Book)
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- 42 referencing feature instances
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Valerian | |
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Valérian (later Valérian et Laureline) is a French comic book series by Jean-Claude Mézières and Pierre Christin published from 1967 to 2010.In the 28th century, Earth is the center of a powerful galactic empire, governed along technocratic lines from its capital Galaxity. The basis of Earth's power and civilization is its mastery of Time Travel, which makes both instantaneous travel and control of history possible. An elite corps of time travel agents has been created so as to maintain order throughout time and space, and Valérian is one of its members.After a trip to the Middle Ages to capture a Mad Scientist who was attempting to alter human history, he met a local girl named Laureline and hired her as his fellow agent.The series has long been suspected to be a key visual influence on Star Wars, which it predates by a decade. It also influenced The Fifth Element, for which Mézières was actually hired to draw some décors and machines.A French-Japanese Animated Adaptation of the series was released in 2007 titled Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline.Speaking of The Fifth Element, Luc Besson directed a Live-Action Adaptation movie of Valerian that came out in 2017, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, starring Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in the main roles. | |
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Dropped link to CortoMaltese: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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Instant Expert | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_13f7da6 | comment |
Instant Expert: 28th century tech includes the ability to upload knowledge directly to the brain, that's how Laureline is able to adapt so quickly. | |
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Expendable Clone | |
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Expendable Clone: Valérian gets lots of these in Sur les terres truqueés. | |
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HilarityEnsues | |
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A short story involves a planet where an anomaly of some kind causes every living organism to shrink once they enter a certain area (other areas make them grow, age faster, or age in reverse. Hilarity Ensues) | |
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| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_17b72e30 | type |
Continuity Porn | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_17b72e30 | comment |
Continuity Porn: The last three volumes of the series bring back numerous characters that had appeared as early as the series' debut. | |
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Advanced Ancient Humans | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_1de9f7f7 | comment |
Advanced Ancient Humans: The first instance of time/space travel was in 2314, prior to that there was a Dark Age period from 1986-2314 where history was lost. Turns out that the U.N. had a stolen scientific archive and pockets of 1986 humanity made use of that to develop super-science technology like disintegrators, limited A.I. robots, forcefields, shrink rays and a non-functioning time machine. It was these ancient 1986 humans that restored civilization. | |
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Humanoid Aliens | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_1e669b8e | comment |
Humanoid Aliens: Most aliens in the comic fit the mold. As the Shingouz put it, "two arms, two legs, one head, it could be anybody". | |
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Can't Take Anything with You | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_207c3447 | comment |
Can't Take Anything with You: A formal rule of time travel, and one respected more in the breach than in the observance. | |
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| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_2207b002 | type |
Ambiguously Brown | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_2207b002 | comment |
Ambiguously Brown: Valerian, probably because Galaxity's civilization was built by survivors from Earth's old age, all mixed together. Laureline, on the other hand, was recruited by Valerian in Medieval Europe and has distinctly European features. Averted in the live action movie. Valerian is unambiguously Nordic. | |
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Dirty Harriet | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_24e48d72 | comment |
Dirty Harriet: In order to approach two Space Pirates, Laureline dresses up as a call girl. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_259d5879 | comment |
Anachronism Stew: One mission sends Valérian to pocket dimensions resembling Earth at various points in history, where the presence of anachronisms is a result of sloppy design by the alien intelligence behind it all. | |
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Haunted Castle | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_25e18c14 | comment |
Haunted Castle: Played with. Inverloch Castle in Scotland is supposed to be haunted, but this is in fact because it houses a time gate. | |
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| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_26f68115 | type |
Art Imitates Art | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_26f68115 | comment |
Art Imitates Art: The last panel◊ of "On the False Earths" depicts Valérian and Laureline enjoying some time off in 19th century France in a scene that recreates the painting Luncheon of the Boating Party by Auguste Renoir. | |
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Landmarking the Hidden Base | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_27d19c47 | comment |
Landmarking the Hidden Base: The New York base of the Time Police is inside the Statue of Liberty. | |
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Only You Can Repopulate My Race | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_2a4deadc | comment |
Only You Can Repopulate My Race: In "Heroes of the Equinox", an alien but human-looking civilization has a single hive mother who must be impregnated anew every generation. Valérian ends up getting the job. | |
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Gratuitous English | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_2e6a41e0 | comment |
Gratuitous English: Often present in the original French version, as well as non-English translations. Sometimes from characters who really have no reason to know any English. | |
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Eternal English | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_30763ed8 | comment |
Eternal English: Averted, Valerian uses a mnemonic helmet to teach himself the local language before he goes back in time. | |
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| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_334e48a1 | type |
After the End | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_334e48a1 | comment |
After the End: The civilization of Galaxity was born of a global catastrophe that destroyed preexisting human civilizations in 1986, when a huge nuclear explosion near the North Pole caused arctic ice shelves to melt, resulting in global warming and a rise in sea levels. | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_35022c20 | comment |
No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Done on purpose in "City of Moving Waters". Valérian and Laureline chance upon a discarded prototype for a time machine, and turn it into a functional one thanks to their 28th-century technological expertise. Once they're done with it, however, they restore it to its previous inoperable state in order to avoid any historical alteration. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_3517000d | comment |
Mad Scientist: Xombul, a rogue Technocrat who attempted to overthrow Galaxity or erase it from history twice in the early comics. | |
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Ludd Was Right | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_3862fa01 | comment |
Ludd Was Right: In "Welcome to Alflolol", the low-tech, environmentally-friendly lifestyle of the natives is depicted as superior to the high-tech, industrial one of the human settlers. However, Alflololians having psychic powers which allow them among other things to space travel without much technology, the Aesop of the story wasn't about technology levels, but lifestyle choices. | |
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Bazaar of the Bizarre | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_39994bd9 | comment |
Bazaar of the Bizarre: Syrte, the greatest market in the empire of a thousand planets sells living stones and telepathic pets among other things. | |
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Solar Sail | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_3a9a910d | comment |
Solar Sail: On boats rather than spaceships but canal boats on Syrte have solar panel sails. | |
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Neural Implanting | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_403c6dbf | comment |
Neural Implanting: The mnemonic helmets are most often used to get knowledge of local languages, but they can teach all kinds of information. | |
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Unicorn | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_404caf13 | comment |
Unicorn: Laureline gets turned into one in the first story. She could talk and read minds in this form. | |
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Allegory | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_471c46f8 | comment |
Allegory: In Heroes of the Equinox, the three champions from three different planets who compete against Valérian are clear allegories of Earth political movements: German/Italian fascism, Soviet communism, and Granola Girl style "spiritual" environmentalism. Through them, Mézières satirizes the sort of politics that don't allow for free thinking, and in the end Valérian wins the contest because he's the only one with a liberal, non-didactic view on how thing should be done. In the Birds of the Master, the Master symbolizes a Totalitarian regime and the Birds the control society, which enslave the population and keep it servile. Also note how the Master's opponents think only of taking its place when they have defeated it. Valérian has to shame them out of the idea. | |
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The Monolith | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_49cd62a0 | comment |
The Monolith: The Wolochs appear as spacefaring black rectangular monoliths. They also happen to be Eldritch Abominations. | |
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| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_4acee1ed | type |
Fish out of Temporal Water | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_4acee1ed | comment |
Fish out of Temporal Water: Averted with Laureline, who, despite being from the Middle Ages, flawlessly adapts to life in the 28th century. Mnemonic helmets helped. | |
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Author Tract | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_4eaa9b84 | comment |
Author Tract: The authors never waste an opportunity to make a political point. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: The very first story involved actual magic, mainly used to turn people into animals, including a Unicorn (with the ability to read minds). While the following stories have their fair share of outlandish alien powers and technologies with very weird effcts, this is the only story where magic as such was featured. This finally gets a callback in In Uncertain Times (2001) when Laureline sends LCF Sat back in time to receive a magical treatment for his fly problem. | |
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Higher-Tech Species | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_4fafed32 | comment |
Higher-Tech Species: Humans are this to most aliens. To put it in perspective, in the story "Empire of a Thousand Worlds", a lost colony ship using centuries outdated tech were able to take over a space-faring empire by impressing the locals with superior Earth medicine and psychology. | |
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Single-Biome Planet | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_515189ab | comment |
Single-Biome Planet: Several of them. The most unpleasant one is definitely Zomuk, which is essentially a giant garbage dump for the rest of the galaxy. | |
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Loads and Loads of Races | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_5171abed | comment |
Loads and Loads of Races: Aliens everywhere! Though there are plenty of Rubber Forehead and Human Aliens, there's a lot of bizarre ones as well. | |
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Lotus-Eater Machine | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_5541da8c | comment |
Lotus-Eater Machine: All the humans in the Terran Empire, except for the agents and the Technocrats, are living in a dream world 24/7. The plot of the first Valerian story is catching the rogue Technocrat who sabotaged the Dream Department. | |
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Casual Interstellar Travel | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_56855fa3 | comment |
Casual Interstellar Travel: Justified, since space travel is based on instantaneous teleportation, itself an offshoot technology of Time Travel. In the first issue Valerian is given six minutes to report to Earth from several thousand light-years away and is criticised for being two seconds late. | |
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Flooded Future World | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_5b075cd7 | comment |
Flooded Future World: Not in the main setting, but "The City of Moving Waters" takes place in a flooded New York in the "dark age" of Earth's near future (1986 - 2314). | |
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Space Jews | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_5f45ab38 | comment |
Space Jews: Subverted with the Pearls from planet Mul. Their attire and habitat seem like a combination of Ancient Egyptian, Maasai, and Polynesian. But they do produce pearls (wealth) in large quantities and learn many languages and skills- very reminiscent of the overachieving Jewish stereotype. | |
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Fake Crossover | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_5f76977a | comment |
Fake Crossover: Mézières produced an illustration for Pilote magazine in 1983◊ of Valerian and Laureline meeting Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. | |
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Teleport Spam | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_67e9f779 | comment |
Teleport Spam: In Empire of a Thousand Planets, Valerian does this to destroy the Enlightened's whole fleet by doing rapid-fire space jumps and blasting away with his ship's molecular cannons. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_67e9f779 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_67e9f779 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_67e9f779 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_67f26dcc | type |
Planet of Hats | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_67f26dcc | comment |
Planet of Hats: Several of them, notably the homeworld of the Shingouz. In "Heroes of the Equinox", Valérian is pitted against three champions, each from a different Planet of Hats. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_67f26dcc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_67f26dcc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_67f26dcc | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_6b4f4350 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_6b4f4350 | comment |
Zeppelins from Another World: In'Land with no Stars'', both sides use giant blimps as a way to transport soldiers. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_6b4f4350 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_6b4f4350 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_6b4f4350 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_6bf93fc7 | type |
FanService | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_6bf93fc7 | comment |
Fanservice: Laureline changing clothes are often opportunities to depict her in various states of undress. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_6bf93fc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_6bf93fc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_6bf93fc7 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_75402a71 | type |
Shapeshifting Seducer | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_75402a71 | comment |
Shapeshifting Seducer: The Suffuss are a race of shapeshifting amoeboids that mostly work on Point Central as prostitutes. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_75402a71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_75402a71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_75402a71 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_82accf22 | type |
Gainax Ending | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_82accf22 | comment |
Gainax Ending: "L'Ouvretemps" wraps up the series by deconstructing it. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_82accf22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_82accf22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_82accf22 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_892c6fdc | type |
Space Elves | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_892c6fdc | comment |
Space Elves: The blue-skinned, pointy-eared Masters. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_892c6fdc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_892c6fdc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_892c6fdc | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_8c16c5d | type |
Powers That Be | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_8c16c5d | comment |
Powers That Be: Many stories involve shadowy political or corporate powers, such as The Master in "Birds of the Master", the greedy multinational companies Bellson&Gambler and WAAM in "Metro Chatelet, Direction Cassiopeia" and "Brooklyn Station, Terminus Cosmos", the elusive rulers of Rubanis in "The Circles of Power", and last but not least, the Lords of Hypsis whose influence is subtly behind almost every storyline. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_8c16c5d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_8c16c5d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_8c16c5d | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_8e5c28c | type |
Crystal Spires and Togas | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_8e5c28c | comment |
Crystal Spires and Togas: Galaxity's civilization. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_8e5c28c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_8e5c28c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_8e5c28c | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_91e3910c | type |
Ruins of the Modern Age | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_91e3910c | comment |
Ruins of the Modern Age: "City of Moving Waters" takes place in a flooded, post-apocalyptic New York City. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_91e3910c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_91e3910c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_91e3910c | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_93ed8515 | type |
Set Right What Once Went Wrong | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_93ed8515 | comment |
Set Right What Once Went Wrong: In an interesting dilemma, preventing the apocalypse from taking place might jeopardize the existence of the characters' civilization. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_93ed8515 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_93ed8515 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_93ed8515 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_966b4df0 | type |
Time Police | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_966b4df0 | comment |
Time Police: The corps of agents Valérian and Laureline belong to. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_966b4df0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_966b4df0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_966b4df0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_99be89b5 | type |
Send in the Clones | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_99be89b5 | comment |
Send in the Clones: Expecting a high attrition rate for his mission in "On the False Earths", Valérian was cloned into dozens of short-lived copies. Most of them were expended in one go when the mission manager dressed them up as German soldiers, and sent them to battle in a live-action reenactment of a WW1 trench charge. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_99be89b5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_99be89b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_99be89b5 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_9d6427ec | type |
Time Travel | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_9d6427ec | comment |
Time Travel: The whole point of the series. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_9d6427ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_9d6427ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_9d6427ec | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_a60f7120 | type |
Physical God | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_a60f7120 | comment |
The Trinity of Hypsis seems to potentially go into Physical Gods territory considering the levels of power they possess, especially considering that they are apparently in the lower end of power scale on their home planet, where all the "gods" of the various galatic civilizations seem to reside. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_a60f7120 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_a60f7120 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_a60f7120 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_a68421bb | type |
Animated Adaptation | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_a68421bb | comment |
Animated Adaptation: Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_a68421bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_a68421bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_a68421bb | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_aaa1fa9 | type |
Captain Space, Defender of Earth! | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_aaa1fa9 | comment |
Captain Space, Defender of Earth!: Old example that plays the trope completely straight. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_aaa1fa9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_aaa1fa9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_aaa1fa9 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ac0f4761 | type |
Future Imperfect | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ac0f4761 | comment |
Future Imperfect: Scientists examining a 20th century sewing machine in Xombul's apartment guess that it's a musical instrument or a failed sculpture but Valerian corrects them. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ac0f4761 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ac0f4761 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ac0f4761 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ad4578de | type |
Hollow World | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ad4578de | comment |
Hollow World: The aptly named Country Without Stars. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ad4578de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ad4578de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ad4578de | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_adf58b7a | type |
Knockout Gas | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_adf58b7a | comment |
Knockout Gas: A naturally occuring sleep mist in the swamp in 11th century France. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_adf58b7a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_adf58b7a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_adf58b7a | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b1a7cd14 | type |
Tap on the Head | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b1a7cd14 | comment |
Tap on the Head: All over the place with the worst consequences being the odd headache or lump on the head. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b1a7cd14 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b1a7cd14 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b1a7cd14 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b42e16fb | type |
Feathered Fiend | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b42e16fb | comment |
Feathered Fiend: The Birds of the Master. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b42e16fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b42e16fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b42e16fb | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: The creators did a gentle dig at Star Wars in one illustration where Valérian and Laureline meet Luke and Leia (circa Return of the Jedi) in a space bar, with the conversation along the lines of: | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b83aeca9 | type |
Lantern Jaw of Justice | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b83aeca9 | comment |
Lantern Jaw of Justice: Valerian has one, as befits a Flash Gordon Expy. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b83aeca9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b83aeca9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b83aeca9 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b97a2fa7 | type |
Forced Transformation | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b97a2fa7 | comment |
Forced Transformation: Xombul uses magic to turn people into his monster army. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b97a2fa7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b97a2fa7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_b97a2fa7 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bab7fceb | type |
Incredible Shrinking Man | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bab7fceb | comment |
Incredible Shrinking Man: Happens first to Laureline in "The City of Moving Waters". Valérian later ends up temporarily shrunk as well as a side-effect of impregnating an alien hive mother (see below). A short story involves a planet where an anomaly of some kind causes every living organism to shrink once they enter a certain area (other areas make them grow, age faster, or age in reverse. Hilarity Ensues) | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bab7fceb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bab7fceb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bab7fceb | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bc00493f | type |
Precision F-Strike | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: After staying too long in the 1980s, Valérian begins to pick up time-appropriate swear words which he uses with increasing frequency. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bc00493f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bc00493f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bc00493f | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361 | type |
Anti-Hero | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: At first a regular action hero, Valérian grows into more of an anti-hero over time. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bf487e2b | type |
Translator Microbes | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bf487e2b | comment |
Translator Microbes: The mnemonic helmets can teach you languages from the past and various other skills. When travelling to Syrte, Valerian and Laureline sent automatically probes ahead to learn the local language which they then learned through hypno-teaching. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bf487e2b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bf487e2b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_bf487e2b | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_c420a553 | type |
We Can Rule Together | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_c420a553 | comment |
We Can Rule Together: Xombul offers Valérian the chance to be his right-hand man in conquering and restoring order to 1989s Earth. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_c420a553 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_c420a553 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_c420a553 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Prof. Schroeder in The City of Moving Waters looks like the title character of The Nutty Professor. A supporting character in At the Edge of the Great Void is named Molto Cortes, a reference to Corto Maltese. The philosopher Chatelard in Métro Châtelet, Direction Cassiopeia is a reference to Gaston Bachelard. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab | type |
Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: The collective management of both Bellson&Gambler and WAAM, two large multinational firms who tried to make a deal with Space Pirates from the future. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_d525f857 | type |
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_d525f857 | comment |
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: In the first issue, Valerian says Arcturus is several thousand lightyears from Earth but in Real Life it's only 36.7. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_d525f857 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_d525f857 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_d525f857 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_d6dfb832 | type |
Sexually Transmitted Superpowers | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_d6dfb832 | comment |
Sexually Transmitted Superpowers: In "On The Frontiers" the former Spatiotemporal Agent Jal seduces Kristna, an alien of an unnamed race, in a cruiser in order to apropriate of her amazing powers (breathing in the vacuum, Paranormal Gambling Advantage and Hand Blast). Since he's dressing an armor like her, Kristna thinks he's from her race. When she learns he's human, she refuses him because Interspecies Romance is lethal for her race; Jal desperately rapes her and uses his freshly-stolen powers to force the captain of the cruiser ship to give him an escape pod to Earth. He uses his gambling powers to become rich and lead terrorist operations, in order to cause a nuclear war that will restore the timeline and the future he and Valerian have came from. However, he is haunted by his memories of Kristna, and his stolen powers eventually wear off. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_d6dfb832 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_d6dfb832 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_d6dfb832 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997 | type |
Action Girl | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Laureline, she was even introduced saving Valerian by taking his sword and cutting him out of a monster leaf. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_daef39ee | type |
Elaborate Underground Base | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_daef39ee | comment |
Elaborate Underground Base: The Spatio-Temporal relays, scattered throughout time. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_daef39ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_daef39ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_daef39ee | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3 | type |
Bad Future | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3 | comment |
Bad Future: What Xombul almost managed to achieve. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_deb39de3 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e0e750b1 | type |
Shoulder-Sized Dragon | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e0e750b1 | comment |
Shoulder-Sized Dragon: Xombul gets turned into one and stuck in a birdcage at the end of the first story. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e0e750b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e0e750b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e0e750b1 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e11b003d | type |
Translation Convention | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e11b003d | comment |
Translation Convention: It's taken for granted that every species understands every other species's language. Averted: in The country without Stars, an universal translator is evoked; also, both agents use mnemotechnic helmets (first seen in The Bad Dreams),to learn languages when possible before a mission. Due to the characters' job, they soon know enough languages to go around without a need to learn new languages all the time. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e11b003d | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e11b003d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e11b003d | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e43c66bd | type |
Art Evolution | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e43c66bd | comment |
Art Evolution: the art style in the early instalments of the series is markedly more cartoonish. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e43c66bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e43c66bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e43c66bd | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e5d8460d | type |
Unexplained Recovery | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e5d8460d | comment |
Unexplained Recovery: Xombul has escaped in the second story with no explanation why he isn't a Shoulder-Sized Dragon anymore. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e5d8460d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e5d8460d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_e5d8460d | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ee19d278 | type |
Blob Monster | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ee19d278 | comment |
Blob Monster: Multiple: The Suffuss are a polymorphous alien species whose default appearance is that of shapeless blobs. The alien entity simply known as The Master is a huge mass of protoplasm. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ee19d278 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ee19d278 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Valérian (Comic Book) / int_ee19d278 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_f7cf9612 | type |
Neologism | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_f7cf9612 | comment |
Neologism: The name "Laureline", a fairly popular girls' name in France, was invented for the series. | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_f7cf9612 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_f7cf9612 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Polyglot | |
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Polyglot: Valerian jokes he's becoming one due to the amount of languages he learns with the mnemonic helmets. | |
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Artistic License – Economics | |
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Artistic License – Economics: The very existence of the Grumpy Converter from Bluxte necessitates this trope. The creature can multiply any small, precious object hundreds or thousands of times as long as it has enough energy reserves, yet it's treated by everybody as a handy source of currency instead of a highly illegal living forgery machine. Treated as such by everybody at Point Central, where shady deals are the standard operating procedure. Laureline is supposed to keep it secret. Somewhat averted as said animal is VERY rare, EXTREMELY hard to catch, needs a thorough brainwashing by a team of professionals to actually be useful, and it has rather limited reserves. The costs of acquiring, and then keeping one, offsets their economical impacts. It is the most effective alternative to carrying around enough different currencies in a mission, but in the scheme of things doesn't offset economical balances that much. | |
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Weaponized Animal | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_fdacd6ad | comment |
Weaponized Animal: In "Land with no stars", the people of that world go to battle using fire-breathing giant lizards, venom-spitting giant lizards, constrictor snakes blown out of blowpipes and crossbows with scorpions or dragon-flies. | |
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1.0 | |
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SufficientlyAdvancedAliens | |
| Valérian (Comic Book) / int_feb0e2fe | comment |
Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: Played straight in "Ambassador of the Shadows", in which said Shadows are an ancient race with godlike powers; played with in "The Rage of Hypsis", in which the Triune God of Christianity turns out to be three powerful aliens with a bad case of megalomania. The Trinity of Hypsis seems to potentially go into Physical Gods territory considering the levels of power they possess, especially considering that they are apparently in the lower end of power scale on their home planet, where all the "gods" of the various galatic civilizations seem to reside. The fact that they manage to wipe the future of planet Earth from the timeline does imply that they can back their claim of divinity at least to a point. | |
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Valérian (Comic Book) |
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