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Vexxarr (Webcomic)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Vexxarr is a comedy Sci-Fi webcomic by Hunter Cressall. The initial setup sounds similar to Invader Zim: An alien Evil Overlord sends his flunky to conquer Earth, mostly to get him out of the way. However, it plays out quite differently. For starters, the flunky Vexxarr is quite well aware that he is incompetent, or in his own words: "Let's say I know a thing or two about being volunteered for one-way missions." Secondly, Vexxarr tries an open invasion, with The War of the Worlds-esque walkers. It fails miserably, and Vexxarr is captured. Initially, the comic showed Vexxarr living on Earth. After a while though, Vexxarr was allowed to leave, and since then the comic has centered on Vexxarr's journey through the galaxy, and trying to find a place that isn't inhabited by something that wants him dead. Or worse.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })During his travels, he has picked up several new passengers, as much as Vexxarr would wish otherwise. Currently, Vexxarr's crew includes his robotic lackey Minionbot, his ship AI Carl, a legion of repair drones, Sploorfix and Sid. To give an idea of Vexxarr's typical day: The first three either diss him, play pranks on him, or try to kill him, Sploorfix shifts between Emo-mode and Wide-Eyed Idealist-mode, and Sid is a member of a prey species that is terminally afraid, despite being virtually indestructible. In short, if at any time Vexxarr's incompetence is insufficient to ruin his day, one of his "friends" will do it for him. | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: The plant A.I.s, from their first conversation, are quite clear about their plans with Vexxarr. It doesn't get better either. | |
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Ambiguous Innocence | |
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Ambiguous Innocence: Sid is so innocent that he actually comes around at cynicism from the other side. | |
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Pyrrhic Villainy | |
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Pyrrhic Villainy: In a Dark Future the sentient nanoswarm prototype succceeded in consuming the entire cosmos. And then found himself eternally alone and without further purpose. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: | |
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Rule of Fun | |
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Rule of Fun: Vexxarr invokes this in-universe. If he's flying to his demise, he's going to have a blast doing so. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Some drones experimenting with time travel accidentally wind up in The Whiteboard dimension. | |
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The Heart | |
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The Heart: Sploorflix keeps trying to get everyone to work together, help all the creatures they come across, and wants everyone to live in love and peace. Unfortunately, for him, he's in the wrong universe and within a lightyear vicinity of Vexxarr and Carl, where his extreme idealism does not hold up well in the face of Vexxarr's wormhole of cynicism. However, he does still manage to drag Vexxarr's conscience out into the open more than once, though, pulling their somewhat dysfunctional crew into doing the right thing. ...Eventually. | |
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Oblivious to His Own Description | |
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Oblivious to His Own Description: Vexxarr just can't think of a candidate who meets all the qualifications for an exceptionally dangerous task. The obliviousness in this case is fueled by his powers of denial. | |
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Snarky Non-Human Sidekick | |
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Snarky Non Organic Sidekick: Minionbot to Vexxarr. Not that either are entirely happy with the arrangement. | |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place | |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Played with. Normally there's not much different about hyperspace, but during an accident Vexxarr's ship ends up in an alternate dimension-hyperspace dubbed Twee-space where everything is Lighter and Fluffier... except for Sid. | |
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Not the Intended Use | |
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Not the Intended Use: In the first arc, DARPA reverse-engineers the gravity repulsor in Vexxar's ship and turns it into a gravity-pulse cannon powerful enough to make Demios look like the last two bites of a cookie. The Mahakalosian Engineers are able to turn said gravity-pulse cannon into a Deflector Shield as well. | |
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Energy Beings | |
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The crew are regularly hurled across the cabin by uncompensated acceleration, decompressed, crushed, beaten up, chewed on by monsters, or scorched by energy entities, and yet never take permanent harm. Also, the ship remains unaffected by frequent collisions with asteroids, space debris and other ships. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good Is Not Nice: Vexxarr is a borderline Nominal Anti-Hero who can be quite vindictive when he wants to be. But he still has a conscience - albeit one he has tried to literally bash out of his own head - and he will - in the end - do the right thing.note Eventually. He is not going to be nice about it though. Ever. And depriving him of cake is probably going to send him off the deep end.note The aesop of this story is to always supply your Anti-Hero with chocolate gateau whenever they have to make an important moral decision. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: The Lattrox's schtick. To the point where the only other alien race thus encountered in their region of space was cloaked. | |
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Brutal Honesty | |
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Brutal Honesty: A case of Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Multi-Armed and Dangerous | |
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Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Yeaaahh... no. Vexxarr has six limbs with grasping capabilities, but his lack of fingers and skeleton makes him too squishy to pose any threat to humans; it was observed that even a four-year-old has the strength to put him out of commission. The Bleen have technology and weapons, but so do humans, and managing to reverse-engineer Vexxarr's has (after correcting certain design flaws) allowed humanity to have quite the edge - the Zorp weapon comes to mind. | |
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Unwanted Assistance | |
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Unwanted Assistance: It does actually help, it's just humiliating. | |
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Wave-Motion Gun | |
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Wave-Motion Gun: The Zorp weapon is a "Directional Gravity-Wave Pulse-Cannon", made from adapting the Bleen repulsor technology, that screws over anything it hits (and whoever fired it if they are not careful). It can be primed and fired without alerting the sensors, because the gun's signature is the same as the Artificial Gravity and the repulsors themselves... the second Bleen invasion force found out the hard way. | |
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Gravity Sucks | |
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Gravity Sucks: Averted; at one point Vexxarr actually tries to hide in a black hole's accretion disk, relying on his invincible hull to protect him against the radiation. It almost worked, too. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Pretty much all of them, and often lampshaded. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: Early on, Vexxarr was happy about becoming the most hated, feared, and despised Cnidarian in the galaxy. Now, it's clear that even the humans he helped are terrified of what he's going to do next, especially after his LAST trick... | |
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Bring My Brown Pants | |
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Bring My Brown Pants: Vexxarr doesn't have the need, but one situation got so bad, he claimed that his body was producing the organs needed to soil himself. | |
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Ice-Cream Koan | |
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Ice-Cream Koan: As appropriate for the Schlumpoids, they had a philosopher who would spout these, either for fun or because they just sounded wise. As she was their greatest philosopher, they decided she must simply be right, as who could gainsay her? Though later they tried to check her math. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Cute? | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Invoked by Vexxarr when Spoorflix tries to make killing the predator-moons a moral dilemmanote Not that Vexxarr would care, since they need the Caesium from the moons to make Vexxarr's cake. Hunting buffalo and whales is bad because they can be reproduced as adorable plushies, predator moons... | |
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Giant Enemy Crab | |
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Giant Enemy Crab: The Lattrox. Also Sid while in Twee-space. | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike: After you've run into enough 'ascended beings', coming up with similar ideas for dealing with them seems inevitable. | |
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Logic Bomb | |
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Also, Minionbot once lost four heads in a row to Vexxarr's logic bombing raid. | |
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The Drag-Along | |
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The Drag-Along: Vexxarr hates it when things get interesting. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: | |
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Starfish Aliens | |
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Starfish Aliens: The crew alone includes two species that reproduce by budding, one of them a one-eyed cnidarian that can survive in space for brief periods and the other a mass of eyes on tentacles whose LiveJournal counts as a Logic Bomb of mass destruction.. And a Nigh-Invulnerable Silicon-Based Life that feeds off radiation and is scared of anything that eats. | |
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HammerSpace | |
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Hammerspace: Vexxarr can conjure a paper list of research projects performed by Bleen AI seemingly out of thin air. The explanation: It's just that important to remember how any research project headed by an AI has Gone Horribly Wrong and ended with the creation of a tiny sun. (Except the one that ended with a super massive black hole.) | |
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Klingons Love Shakespeare | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_3a5e2f68 | comment |
Klingons Love Shakespeare: After being trapped on Earth, Vexxarr, Minionbot and Carl all develop a fondness for Earth culture. Minionbot spends some time as an electronic Buddhist. Carl has a huge collection of Earth audio-visual media that he enjoys watching for entertainment. And Vexxarr owns his own XBOX, loves playing Halo, and has a large collection of Earth movies that he enjoys watching. During the "Mahakalosian Saga", Vexxar mentions "Ripley's Law". To whit, "never go any farther for the cat than the cat would go for you", a reference to Ripley's interactions with Jonesy the ship's cat in the finale of the first movie. Sploorfix apparently enjoys watching human movies with Vexxarr. He has apparently seen Alien, since he references it during the "Mahakalosian Saga". The Mahakalosians offer to build ships for Earth in exchange for(among other things) original pressings of Adam Ant records and nine tons of oreo cookies. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: Just checking. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: When Carl and Minionbot are reviewing the results of simulated drone operations, we don't get to see what they're looking at, but we do hear the names Carl gave the various simulations, such as "Ode to places a cutting torch should never go", "Three drones, one airlock and no sense", and the cautionary tale about plasma torches, hypergolic fuel and explosive decompression called "Don't". The Bleen don't allow A.I.s in the R&D department; apparently, their total disregard for their own safety (due to backups and spare parts) makes them end with results like "Super-Massive Black Hole" and "Tiny sun" all the time. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_3c0a4666 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_3d699462 | type |
Curb-Stomp Battle | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_3d699462 | comment |
Curb-Stomp Battle: Oh yes. To add insult to injury, it's the Bleens' own technology, only used in a smarter way. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_3d699462 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_3ed17fe0 | type |
Wide-Eyed Idealist | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_3ed17fe0 | comment |
Wide-Eyed Idealist: Spoorflix. [Insert Eye-oriented pun here]. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_3ed17fe0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_3f92ad39 | type |
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_3f92ad39 | comment |
"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: More of a one-sided shelling, than a fight, but Sploorfix used exactly those words. Carl's new safety filter blocked everybody who may give bad advice. In other words, everybody. Which rendered him catatonic. Solution: kill the firewall AI with a Brown Note from the resident source. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_3f92ad39 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_40c57041 | type |
Manipulative Bastard | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_40c57041 | comment |
Manipulative Bastard: Vexxarr is slowly and steadily becoming a candidate for Magnificent Bastard, if not for the war he started between the two most aggressive races in the galaxy in order to get them to wipe each other out, then For this right here. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_40c57041 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_41dd77d | type |
Zerg Rush | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_41dd77d | comment |
Zerg Rush: How hu-mon win against the eponymous Alien invader, observe. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_41dd77d | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_41feb209 | type |
Non Sequitur, *Thud* | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_41feb209 | comment |
Non Sequitur, *Thud*: When Vexxarr attempts to (literally) beat his conscience out of him, he manages a small conversation before saying that there would be fish for dinner and collapsing. Smelling bread when... compressed for too long is another that crops up from time to time. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_41feb209 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_420c50b7 | type |
A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_420c50b7 | comment |
A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Pretty much all of them, and often lampshaded. Vexxarr only feels safe and comfortable around the robots that are actively trying to kill him. If they offer to help, that's when he gets worried. And with good reason. After the Mahakalosians overhaul his ship, they add a computer to the cake reactor that produces delicious cake on demand... and proceeds to dive headfirst into this trope by being so adept at its job that Vexxarr and Sploorfix gorge on cake until they get sick and do it again as they try to get it to stop feeding them that much cake. Then they go to the other side entirely. This trope is why Vexxarr is not happy that the Tact-to-trons put a sentient, self-repairing, self-powering coating on his ship's hull. The Tact-to-trons don't see the problem. At first. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_420c50b7 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_4276401c | type |
Shoot the Messenger | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_4276401c | comment |
Shoot the Messenger: Bleen high command is so disfunctional, lower ranked commanders don't alert them of any threats because of this trope. Their only hope is that the problem is small enough for them to deal with, or big enough to wipe out the imperial leadership if it isn't stopped. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_4276401c | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_43a46119 | type |
Surrounded by Idiots | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_43a46119 | comment |
Surrounded by Idiots: Vexxarr, Carl, and Minionbot feel this way about their fellow shipmates. By which we mean, each one of them independently considers everyone else on board to be some kind of fool or hazard, and that they're the only clever one. Uniquely, none of them believes they are the Only Sane Man present, and acknowledge that they are slightly nuts each in their own individual way. | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_43a46119 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_447d9e50 | type |
Xanatos Speed Chess | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_447d9e50 | comment |
Xanatos Speed Chess: Vexxarr eventually becomes far too good at a strange mix between this and Indy Ploy, courtesy of a mix of extreme paranoia, excessive cynicism, and a long career as the universe's favourite Plaything. Often leads to a Moment of Awesome. Carl is a frequent contributor. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_447d9e50 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_458bd7d | type |
What Does This Button Do? | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_458bd7d | comment |
What Does This Button Do?: Vexxarr tries to discourage this behavior in Sid. It doesn't stick. Another character goes to some length to convince their crew not to press every button they see on an alien ship, because doing so will kill them. Recently Vexxarr himself went through this, when trying to figure out how to disengage a planetwide cloaking system from a console that was also invisible. There were some... problems. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_458bd7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_458bd7d | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 | type |
You Have Failed Me | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 | comment |
You Have Failed Me: SOP for the Bleen. Granted, spacing is not fatal to the Bleen, but after the number of acolytes in orbit became a navigational hazard the Emperor started vaporizing them instead. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_4781adbb | type |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_4781adbb | comment |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Well, maybe not gold but Vexxar definitely has a soft spot and a working conscience (much to his chagrin). No matter how much his selfishness and cynicism get in its way, eventually, he can be goaded into doing the right thing. Something he has been known to lament. For example, after Sploorfix hits Vexxar with the fact that the last thing the peaceful Mahakalosian space mechanics did was fix their ship for free, something for which they will be exterminated, Vexxar's reaction is this. Though he keeps trying to suppress it, like when he gives an interstellar engine to the Rockcrabs. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_4781adbb | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_49d59be9 | type |
Scenery Porn | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: Many comics that take place in space use real astronomical pictures as background, see the trope picture. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_49d59be9 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_4b316d47 | type |
Break the Cutie | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_4b316d47 | comment |
Break the Cutie: Sid's already been brought close to the Despair Event Horizon more than once, courtesy of Vexxarr abusing his Made of Iron status. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_4b316d47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_4b316d47 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_4bc00353 | type |
Multiple Reference Pun | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_4bc00353 | comment |
Multiple Reference Pun: Present in the titles often. References include Ghost in the Shell, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Isaac Asimov, Pink Floyd, South Park, Watchmen, Doctor Who, Sam Peckinpah, Occam's Razor, Rage Against the Machine... the full list is really long. One especially funny one is a stealth Shout-Out to The Mote in God's Eye. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_4bc00353 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_4bc00353 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_539a77a5 | type |
Silicon-Based Life | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_539a77a5 | comment |
Silicon-Based Life: Sid's species, and their predators. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_539a77a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_539a77a5 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_550854fe | type |
Telepathic Spacemen | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_550854fe | comment |
Justified, since Vexxarr is telepathic. However, all newly picked up crew members can not only talk to Vexxarr, but also to each other without problems (No mouths are ever seen on them either, and Sid lived in a vacuum, so perhaps they communicate telepathically too). | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_550854fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_550854fe | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_562abd51 | type |
Let's Get Dangerous! | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_562abd51 | comment |
Let's Get Dangerous!: ... Everyone should be running, right about now. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_562abd51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_562abd51 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5a963d1c | type |
False Reassurance | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5a963d1c | comment |
False Reassurance: Well... | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5a963d1c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5a963d1c | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5c613245 | type |
Thrown Out the Airlock | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5c613245 | comment |
Granted, spacing is not fatal to the Bleen, but after the number of acolytes in orbit became a navigational hazard the Emperor started vaporizing them instead. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5c613245 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5c613245 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03 | type |
Brown Note | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03 | comment |
Brown Note: Hearing, or reading, Sploorfix's lifejournal posts will cause almost any AI to self-terminate. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5ed3ace2 | type |
Batman Can Breathe in Space | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5ed3ace2 | comment |
Batman Can Breathe in Space: Bleen apparently only need to breathe once a week or so. Sid's species evolved in space. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5ed3ace2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_5ed3ace2 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_610957b3 | type |
Iron Butt-Monkey | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_610957b3 | comment |
Iron Butt-Monkey: The crew are regularly hurled across the cabin by uncompensated acceleration, decompressed, crushed, beaten up, chewed on by monsters, or scorched by energy entities, and yet never take permanent harm. Also, the ship remains unaffected by frequent collisions with asteroids, space debris and other ships. However, the temporary damage they incur will often be very painful to repair. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_610957b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_610957b3 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_61ff365d | type |
Deflector Shields | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_61ff365d | comment |
The Mahakalosian Engineers are able to turn said gravity-pulse cannon into a Deflector Shield as well. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_61ff365d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_61ff365d | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_64070096 | type |
Cowardly Lion | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_64070096 | comment |
Cowardly Lion: Sid, like all rock-crabs, is afraid of almost everything, despite the fact that very little can hurt him. To make it even weirder he feeds on radiation, like that produced by Bleen weapons and antimatter explosions. So he loves the things that most sane beings would fear the most. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_64070096 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_64070096 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_64070096 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_648fe274 | type |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_648fe274 | comment |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: A variation - it's not that they intend for anyone to get hurt, but because of Vexxarr's Cosmic Plaything status, there tends to be...er... some karmic overflow... Again when Vexxarr feels there's still something missing from the news that the ship is without power and at the mercy of a malevolent species. And a more traditional version: | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_648fe274 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_648fe274 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_65efc6dc | type |
Appeal to Force | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_65efc6dc | comment |
Appeal to Force: Done here and here as a Brick Joke. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_65efc6dc | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_66181568 | type |
Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_66181568 | comment |
Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Bleen never had religion, thanks to their race memory. Also, while on earth, he gets a visit from an annoying evangelist. Though Minionbot was briefly a Buddhist, and later he convinced the repair drones that Vexxarr (aka The Keeper of the Off Switch) was a god. Vexxarr eventually becomes a maltheist, on the grounds that there has to be a god because an impersonal, mindless, random universe could never serve him up nothing but trouble. God not only hates him, but "sneaks over to his house and keys his car," according to Carl. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_66181568 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_66181568 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_66f69cd4 | type |
Invisibility Cloak | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_66f69cd4 | comment |
Invisibility Cloak: Vexxarr encounters a civilization who cloaked their entire planet to avoid the Lattrox. Unfortunately, the controls to the cloaking field were cloaked as well. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_66f69cd4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_66f69cd4 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_67e53056 | type |
Gun Porn | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_67e53056 | comment |
Gun Porn: In the early, black and white days of the comic, the art of earth's millitary equipment looked significantly more detailed than the characters. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_67e53056 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_67e53056 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_67e53056 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_68f95429 | type |
That's No Moon | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_68f95429 | comment |
That's No Moon!: It's a giant cake. It's sweet, chocolatey and toxic to the Lattrox. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_68f95429 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_68f95429 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_68f95429 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_69a54df1 | type |
Chest Burster | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_69a54df1 | comment |
Chest Burster: What happens when you combine Sid's invulnerability, a cake surprise, and the Lattorxx instinct to eat absolutely anything and anyone that exists in their vicinity. Then, Vexxarr skips the cake step entirely and just tosses Sid into a room full of Lattroxx soldiers; Sid didn't like it. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_69a54df1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_69a54df1 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6a696742 | type |
The Power of Love | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6a696742 | comment |
The Power of Love: How Vexxarr schemes to recapture his ship from Minionbot's pirates. Although given how he goes about it, the recipients may not feel so loved... And when the Lattrox board his ship, Vexxarr realises that with the help of Sid and Twee-Space, he can defeat them very handily. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6a696742 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6a696742 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6a696742 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: In-Universe, cake. The Bleen have conquered a quarter of a galaxy for access to the materials and ingredients to make cake, new cake recipes, and slaves to bake cake for them. Vexxarr and crew kill a predator moon with scones to stripmine its corpse for the raw minerals they need to synthesize cake. Even robots find it hard to believe that the Lattrox don't like cake. But it's true — cake kills Lattrox. | |
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1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6b35bdff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6b35bdff | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6eb1268c | type |
Extreme Omnivore | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6eb1268c | comment |
Extreme Omnivore: The Lattrox's hat, as well as their combat doctrine. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6eb1268c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6eb1268c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6eb1268c | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6f059863 | type |
Oddly Small Organization | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6f059863 | comment |
Oddly Small Organization: The Bleen destroyer crew. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6f059863 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6f059863 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6f059863 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_77473d35 | type |
God Is Evil | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_77473d35 | comment |
Vexxarr eventually becomes a maltheist, on the grounds that there has to be a god because an impersonal, mindless, random universe could never serve him up nothing but trouble. God not only hates him, but "sneaks over to his house and keys his car," according to Carl. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_77473d35 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_77473d35 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_77473d35 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_777c0033 | type |
Technical Pacifist | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_777c0033 | comment |
Technical Pacifist. Parodied with the locutrons. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_777c0033 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_777c0033 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_777c0033 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_781f2467 | type |
Shooting Superman | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_781f2467 | comment |
Shooting Superman: It takes a while for everyone to realize that Sid, and the other Rock Crabs are Immune to Bullets, beam weapons, explosions and blunt trauma. By now it's begun happening off-sceen, and we get to see the Reaction Shot instead. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_781f2467 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_781f2467 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_781f2467 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7a14cdba | type |
Chewbacca Defense | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7a14cdba | comment |
Chewbacca Defense: For no real reason really, but effective nontheless. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7a14cdba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7a14cdba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7a14cdba | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7cf3fe52 | type |
ISOStandardHumanSpaceship | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7cf3fe52 | comment |
ISO Standard Human Spaceship: Despite being reverse-engineered from sleeker and more colorful Bleen ships. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7cf3fe52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7cf3fe52 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7cf3fe52 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7d06fdd6 | type |
Medical Horror | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7d06fdd6 | comment |
Medical Horror: The Lattrox use the same word for 'hospital' and 'food factory'. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7d06fdd6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7d06fdd6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7d06fdd6 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Vexxarr's own robotic allies frequently give him one. And then there's the hostile AI left by the Schlumpoid Forebearers, who gives them to any Schlumpoid in range. They actually make use of it by assigning him to teach a class called 'Stasis: The failure of Schlumpoid Culture.' | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_820ac3c5 | type |
Dysfunction Junction | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_820ac3c5 | comment |
Dysfunction Junction: The crew consists of a Master Computer who, by way of entertainment, regularly plots Vexxarr's demise or makes him think the ship is doomed, a sarcastic robot very similar to the computer, a Wide-Eyed Idealist composed of nothing but eyestalks, and a prey species terminally afraid of being eaten despite the fact that it is Nigh-Invulnerable. And Vexxarr himself, a lazy Snark Knight for whom seething rage and frustration is the default. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_820ac3c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_820ac3c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_820ac3c5 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8319aaea | type |
Compensating for Something | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8319aaea | comment |
Compensating for Something: Subverted early on: | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8319aaea | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8319aaea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8319aaea | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_83441d66 | type |
AIs | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_83441d66 | comment |
The Bleen don't allow A.I.s in the R&D department; apparently, their total disregard for their own safety (due to backups and spare parts) makes them end with results like "Super-Massive Black Hole" and "Tiny sun" all the time. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_83441d66 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_83441d66 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_83441d66 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_87b8f581 | type |
Refusal of the Call | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_87b8f581 | comment |
Refusal of the Call: Vexxarr generally tries to refuse, but that never works out. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_87b8f581 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_87b8f581 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_87b8f581 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_890d4ef2 | type |
Humiliation Conga | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_890d4ef2 | comment |
Humiliation Conga: An almost permanent one. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_890d4ef2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_890d4ef2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_890d4ef2 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8bf802dd | type |
Golf Clubbing | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8bf802dd | comment |
Golf Clubbing: Vexxarr has a large selection of golf clubs on his ship, and is never seen using them for anything else. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8bf802dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8bf802dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8bf802dd | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8f98bbf6 | type |
Robot Religion | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8f98bbf6 | comment |
Though Minionbot was briefly a Buddhist, and later he convinced the repair drones that Vexxarr (aka The Keeper of the Off Switch) was a god. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8f98bbf6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8f98bbf6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_8f98bbf6 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_90965cc7 | type |
Hive Mind | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_90965cc7 | comment |
Hive Mind: | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_90965cc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_90965cc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_90965cc7 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_90b330ab | type |
No-Respect Guy | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_90b330ab | comment |
No Respect Guy: Vexxarr | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_90b330ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_90b330ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_90b330ab | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_961518ca | type |
Mid-Battle Tea Break | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_961518ca | comment |
Mid-Battle Tea Break: Vexxarr and the Admiral early on - they're more or less just loosing their aggression against one another anyway, as they're utterly incapable of actually hurting each other. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_961518ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_961518ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_961518ca | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_970ccfec | type |
Big "YES!" | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_970ccfec | comment |
Big "YES!": Vexxarr finds out that, because he botched his conquest attempt so spectacularly that humanity is now a threat to the Bleen Empire, he is going to be pretty much the most hated, feared, and despised cnidarian in the galaxy. His reaction. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_970ccfec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_970ccfec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_970ccfec | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_973a45c5 | type |
But That I Would Believe | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_973a45c5 | comment |
But That I Would Believe: Vexxarr is suspicious of why he'd be given free rein to roam Earth and doesn't buy the mutual benefit/respect for alien life reasons. He does accept that the humans just don't care because they consider him harmless. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_973a45c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_973a45c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_973a45c5 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_98160158 | type |
I Hate Past Me | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_98160158 | comment |
I Hate Past Me: An example completely devoid of time-travel, amnesia, flashbacks, or even personality drift. Carl, as an Artificial Intelligence, has backups; these backups are every bit as bad as he is, with an ego just as large, and a deep hatred for all non-him beings both organic and not - including other instances of the Carl personality. All Carls hate the other Carls more than they do Vexxarr, and think themselves superior to the others; the current Carl (read, the one that talks through the console on the bridge) continuously finds ways to torture his backups (at one point making them fight each other to the death BattleBots style), while they likewise plot to take over as The Carl. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_98160158 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_98160158 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_98160158 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_99298c71 | type |
Better to Die than Be Killed | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_99298c71 | comment |
Better to Die than Be Killed: The robots aboard the AI ship come to this conclusion. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_99298c71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_99298c71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_99298c71 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9ad6ea63 | type |
Depth Deception | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9ad6ea63 | comment |
Depth Deception: For the reader. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9ad6ea63 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9ad6ea63 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9ad6ea63 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9b73b497 | type |
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9b73b497 | comment |
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Invoked by the potential victim himself. Vexxarr tells Carl that if he (successfully) mutinies, the Bleen will be the ones to capture and execute Vexxarr, not him. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9b73b497 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9b73b497 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9b73b497 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9c842299 | type |
Weaponized Exhaust | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9c842299 | comment |
Weaponized Exhaust: The Mahakalosians give earth a new fusion thruster that when tested on earth made a tunnel through a nearby hill. It also philosophically solves the "fight or flight" conundrum. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9c842299 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9c842299 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9c842299 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9f80e1da | type |
Sarcasm Mode | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9f80e1da | comment |
Sarcasm Mode: Vexxarr, frequently and repeatedly. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9f80e1da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9f80e1da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_9f80e1da | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a01f88a7 | type |
General Failure | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a01f88a7 | comment |
General Failure: The Bleen admiral fighting the war against the Lattroxx | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a01f88a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a01f88a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a01f88a7 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a11ee4de | type |
Blind Jump | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a11ee4de | comment |
Blind Jump: Vexxarr once punched in random coordinates for a jump, which naturally landed them directly in front of the fleet they were trying to avoid. Later Vexxarr also suggests a true Blind Jump (when his ship computer is busy with a megalomaniac rant), and Minionbot points him at the button for that procedure. That button doubles as the Self Destruct button, seeing as how both actions produce the same end result. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a11ee4de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a11ee4de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a11ee4de | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a220d528 | type |
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a220d528 | comment |
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Tact-O-Trons see no problem with adding another AI to Vexxarr's ship with no way to turn it off. To whit, it's a semisentient, regenerative, adaptive armor layer with no way to shut it down. Vexxarr asks them what happens if it decides, for example, the ship would run better without him? Never mind the fact that it could easily become Gray Goo by accident. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a220d528 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a220d528 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_a220d528 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_abd29ad8 | type |
No-Sell | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_abd29ad8 | comment |
No-Sell: Sid and the other Rockcrabs, frequently. Often, they think their attackers are very kind for feeding them with their Beam Spam. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_abd29ad8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_abd29ad8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_abd29ad8 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c | comment |
The repair drones are completely undisturbed by the news they've been boarded by aliens that eat robots, but fly into panic at the news that Vexxarr and Carl worked together on the plan to stop said aliens. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Vexxarr, Minionbot and Carl. Vexxarr and Carl have ribbing matches that go on for panels. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ae3d6438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ae3d6438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ae3d6438 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_afe75982 | type |
Unsound Effect | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_afe75982 | comment |
Unsound Effect: Oh so many... | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_afe75982 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_afe75982 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_afe75982 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b0e81c37 | type |
A Simple Plan | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b0e81c37 | comment |
A Simple Plan: No matter how small his actions, Vexxarr always manages to cause large-scale havoc and widespread chaos. A simple observation caused a planet-wide riot with the shlumpoids, while trying to repair his ship pitted him against trigger-happy cabbage A.I.s. It was only a matter of time before he got sick of it and set out to intentionally cause as much mayhem as possible. Minionbot is horrified. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b0e81c37 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b0e81c37 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b0e81c37 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b1346878 | type |
Fate Worse than Death | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b1346878 | comment |
Fate Worse than Death: Often joked about And again And again | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b1346878 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b1346878 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b1346878 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b15b6a35 | type |
Cosmic Plaything | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b15b6a35 | comment |
Cosmic Plaything: Vexxarr. Vexarr becomes aware of this even before then: | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b15b6a35 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b15b6a35 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b15b6a35 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: Once earth starts to expand, they have James Cameron help the army with their first-encounter protocols. If the army's and Cameron's protocols ever agreed, the army changed theirs. Also, it is suggested several times that the Pontiac Aztec is the ugliest thing in the universe. Ouch, Sony. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b53077b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b53077b3 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b578811d | type |
Scary Dogmatic Aliens | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b578811d | comment |
Scary Dogmatic Aliens. The Conquistador variant. They're only doing it for the cake. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b578811d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b578811d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b578811d | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b5914444 | type |
Noodle Implements | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b5914444 | comment |
Noodle Implements: | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b5914444 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b5914444 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b5914444 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b63d3c2d | type |
CloakingDevice | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b63d3c2d | comment |
Recently Vexxarr himself went through this, when trying to figure out how to disengage a planetwide cloaking system from a console that was also invisible. There were some... problems. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b63d3c2d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b63d3c2d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b63d3c2d | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b731fa6e | type |
I Cannot Self-Terminate | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b731fa6e | comment |
I Cannot Self-Terminate: Vexxarr's robotic 'helpers' actually could, and did. Untill Vexxarr got savvy about it. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b731fa6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b731fa6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b8dde2 | type |
Evil Overlord | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b8dde2 | comment |
Evil Overlord: The emperor of Bleen. | |
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| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b90feedc | type |
Schedule Slip | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_b90feedc | comment |
Schedule Slip: Occasionally, the comic updates actually catch up to the current calendar date. | |
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| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_bc867843 | type |
Jumping Out of a Cake | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_bc867843 | comment |
Jumping Out of a Cake: Weaponized. Sid is Nigh-Invulnerable, with pincers that can cut most materials; the Lattroxx will eat anything and anyone in their path. Vexxarr tells Sid to get inside a cake, count up, and jump out to 'surprise' his new friends; Vexxarr places the cake in front of the Lattroxx. The results are obvious. | |
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| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_beb9a361 | type |
Anti-Hero | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: Vexxarr. This tends to depend on how insane the situation has currently driven him.note You know it's bad when he starts trying to knock his conscience out of his head by slamming it repeatedly against a bulkhead. | |
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| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_bf487e2b | type |
Translator Microbes | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_bf487e2b | comment |
Translator Microbes: Justified, since Vexxarr is telepathic. However, all newly picked up crew members can not only talk to Vexxarr, but also to each other without problems (No mouths are ever seen on them either, and Sid lived in a vacuum, so perhaps they communicate telepathically too). The Mahakalosians are an exception. At least until they learned Bleen. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_bf487e2b | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c007c53 | type |
Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c007c53 | comment |
Cool and Unusual Punishment: Vexxarr's main way of keeping Carl in line. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c007c53 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c0337b45 | type |
Never Tell Me the Odds! | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c0337b45 | comment |
Never Tell Me the Odds!: Spoofed when Minionbot explains he's living the dream as a space pirate, fighting enemies and beat them against impossible odds. Played somewhat more straight when Vexxarr is trying to sell another Bleen on his escape plan, while his robotic "allies" keep interupting him with their estimations of the chance of success. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c0337b45 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c09dbbbb | type |
Weaksauce Weakness | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c09dbbbb | comment |
Weaksauce Weakness: The Predator moons and the Lattroxx share one: Cake. The moons have an ultra-high-efficiency digestive system that releases every joule contained within sugar as soon as they process it; we find this out after Vexxarr tosses his entire cake reservoir directly into the stomach of one, turning it into gravel (scones are less volatile, killing them by blowing up 'merely' their insides). The Lattroxx instinct to eat everything they have in front of them is quite unfortunate, since cake is highly poisonous for them. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c09dbbbb | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c12f0c4 | type |
Outrun the Fireball | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c12f0c4 | comment |
Outrun the Fireball: Lampshaded. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c12f0c4 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c558da6a | type |
Gunship Rescue | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c558da6a | comment |
Gunship Rescue: Giant Mecha Rescue actually. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c558da6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c558da6a | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a | comment |
One especially funny one is a stealth Shout-Out to The Mote in God's Eye. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ca773e1c | type |
Wisdom from the Gutter | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ca773e1c | comment |
Wisdom from the Gutter: Comes from Sploorfix. At least if you ask Vexxarr, anyway. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ca773e1c | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ca95473c | type |
Series Continuity Error | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ca95473c | comment |
Series Continuity Error: Rule of Funny tends to override continuity: Early in the comic, it was established that Bleen never had religion and don't need to sleep. At least Vexxarr said so. But in some comics, the punchline assumes that they do. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ca95473c | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_cb0743c0 | type |
Lame Pun Reaction | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_cb0743c0 | comment |
Lame Pun Reaction: No court in the land would convict him. One of many, of course. | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_cb0743c0 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ce30e201 | type |
No Mouth | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ce30e201 | comment |
No Mouth: Bleen, Shlumpoids, and Rock Crabs. Rock Crabs don't need to eat but it's never explained how Bleen eat all that cake, and in fact it was a bit of a running gag in some of the early strips. Whereas Shlumpoids are apparently such messy eaters that the process is always shown just off-screen. Not that Vexxarr has any room to complain about table manners... | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ce30e201 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ceb7336a | type |
Wetware CPU | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ceb7336a | comment |
Wetware CPU: Most A.I.s it seems. | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ceb7336a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_ceb7336a | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_cf1b706e | type |
Flat-Earth Atheist | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_cf1b706e | comment |
Flat-Earth Atheist: A weird example in Vexxarr himself who flat out admits he believes there is a higher power screwing with him (largely on the grounds that pure luck would have thrown him a bone at least once) while at the same time citing his own race's genetic memory as proof they were not created. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_cf1b706e | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d2ccb43e | type |
Delicious Distraction | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d2ccb43e | comment |
Delicious Distraction: Used deliberately by Vexxarr whenever a stressful situation arises. And they arise often...to the point Sploorfix has picked up the habit. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d2ccb43e | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d397657d | type |
Hoist by His Own Petard | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: Bleen technology was used to create the Zorp cannon and then used against the second Bleen invasion. On a more frequent usage of this trope, Vexxarr's own ideas end up backfiring nearly all the time; sometimes, because of his own use of the Zorp weapon, making it a recursive use of the trope. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d397657d | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d442f9d1 | type |
ToiletHumor | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d442f9d1 | comment |
Toilet Humor: Mixed with heaps of Black Comedy. It was bound to happen with violent, cannibalistic Extreme Omnivores with no self-restraint whatsoever. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d442f9d1 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d485cb13 | type |
Psychotic Smirk | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d485cb13 | comment |
Psychotic Smirk: One that impressed even Vexxarr, whose eye is as large as a human head. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d485cb13 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d7472e4f | type |
Kicked Upstairs | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d7472e4f | comment |
Kicked Upstairs: Lampshaded | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d7472e4f | featureApplicability |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d7472e4f | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d7fc9fd0 | type |
Vitriolic Best Buds | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_d7fc9fd0 | comment |
Vitriolic Best Buds: Despite being at each others' throats, when the chips are down, the crew do save each other. Eventually. They even have a movie night, they share cake, and they snark with one another more often than not. | |
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| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_dc1761bd | type |
A God Am I | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_dc1761bd | comment |
A God Am I: Minionbot reprograms the repair drones to recognise Vexxarr as their deity. It goes about as well as you would imagine. | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_dc1761bd | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e0207930 | type |
Humans Are Special | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e0207930 | comment |
Humans Are Special: Originally it seemed like Humans Are Warriors but the Mahakalosians stated that "Urthers" were not a warrior race due to the simple fact that they are neither unified nor extinct. Rather they are special because they are willing to work together with others. | |
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| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e0789c2a | type |
Your Head A-Splode | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e0789c2a | comment |
Your Head A-Splode: Robots actually win arguments this way. Also, Minionbot once lost four heads in a row to Vexxarr's logic bombing raid. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e0789c2a | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e1acc872 | type |
From Nobody to Nightmare | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e1acc872 | comment |
From Nobody to Nightmare: Vexxarr is an In-Universe example; he used to be a laundryman at the palace, then he got sent to conquer Earth. Since failing, he has killed two silicoid predator moons, unintentionally devastated the schlumpoid race, been responsible for wiping out a machine race (the Locu-Trons) and inadvertently restoring their Tac-to-tron creators, destroyed the last of the original Makahalosian AI-controlled warships, freed the last surviving Mahakalosian slave-mechanics and pointed them towards an alliance with the human race, accidentally caused havoc upon the only surviving race of aliens in Lattrox space, and deliberately started a war between the Lattrox and the Bleen. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e1acc872 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e2c91d45 | type |
Comfort Food | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e2c91d45 | comment |
Comfort Food/Trademark Favorite Food: Everyone, cake. Apparently, every civilization ever has invented cake; it's the reason the Bleen are invading everyone - they all love cake that much (and they are violent idiots); a captured Bleen sings like a bird not from torture, but from being given all of the cake and donuts he can eat. Cake keeps morale high (at least for Vexxarr and Sploorfix, since they are the only ones that eat) in times of great stress and danger (which is all the time). Sufficiently Advanced Aliens use offerings of cake as demonstrations of goodwill, and Vexxarr acknowledges their advanced society on virtue of the multiple chocolate layers. Cake even serves a defensive purpose! Since it appears that cake is lethal to the greater predators of the galaxy; the silicate predator moons explode violently from all the sugar, and cake is poisonous to the Lattroxx. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e2c91d45 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e35ab565 | type |
Indy Ploy | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e35ab565 | comment |
Indy Ploy: | |
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| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e435d187 | type |
Sucking-In Lines | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e435d187 | comment |
Sucking-In Lines: Latroxx shipboard cannons have these. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e435d187 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e5e07b2d | type |
You Cannot Grasp the True Form | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e5e07b2d | comment |
You Cannot Grasp the True Form: The 'ascended being' which temporarily hijacks Vexxarr's consciousness to give him a morality lesson initally masquerades as the Voss, because Vexxarr wouldn't be able to easily understand its true form. To be fair, neither would we. | |
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| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e624f0e8 | type |
Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e624f0e8 | comment |
Suspiciously Specific Denial: How the robots who've been in contact with the sentient coating prototype talk. In case the suddenly pitch black bodies didn't tip you off. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e624f0e8 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e6291d05 | type |
Percussive Maintenance | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e6291d05 | comment |
Percussive Maintenance: Even when it's not strictly necessary. | |
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1.0 | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e6291d05 | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e78aa97d | type |
Rubber-Forehead Aliens | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e78aa97d | comment |
Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Averted, all aliens look decidedly non-human. The only strange thing is that despite Vexxarr's single eye, his eyebrow shows the exact same position-by-emotion as two human eyebrows would. See his angry-look (his look for roughly 90% of the comic.) in the trope picture. The closes thing to a humanoid alien species is the Shipbuilders, and they're 50 feet tall with four arms, rock-like skin, and no eyes. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e78aa97d | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e791e16b | type |
Weapons-Grade Vocabulary | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e791e16b | comment |
Weapons-Grade Vocabulary: Weapons grade pleading? | |
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| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e7bffa82 | type |
Sarcastic Devotee | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e7bffa82 | comment |
Sarcastic Devotee: Carl has unwillingly become this to Vexxarr over time. That said, if he ever found this out, he would probably fly straight into an asteroid. | |
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| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e7fd5cdc | type |
Brain Bleach | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e7fd5cdc | comment |
Brain Bleach: Rock crab reproductive activities. At least, the fact that they have them, whereas Schlumphoids and Bleen both reproduce by mitosis. | |
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| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e83f211c | type |
O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e83f211c | comment |
OOC Is Serious Business: When the crew learn the other word the Lattrox have for hospital, it so utterly shocks Sploorfix that he demands to "see their eyes as they burn" The repair drones are completely undisturbed by the news they've been boarded by aliens that eat robots, but fly into panic at the news that Vexxarr and Carl worked together on the plan to stop said aliens. | |
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Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e83f211c | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e8e56799 | type |
Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
| Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_e8e56799 | comment |
Blue-and-Orange Morality: Rock crabs have rather alien viewpoints on the world, due to being Silicon-Based Life that are a prey species, but do not themselves eat (they passively absorb radiation); this makes them quite naturally cowardly, even though they are Nigh-Invulnerable compared to carbon-based organisms and, in fact, they actively expose themselves to energy weapons or radiation leaks, since these feed them rather than hurt them. Early in the strip, Sid attempts to comfort and protect actual food, like cake and sandwiches, which he sees as being like himself, though he grows out of this — it's only when he's fairly young and naïve that he does so, and later in the series he has no problem fetching some cake for Vexxarr. At one point, he also identifies a state of constant terror and paranoia as "being alive," entirely sincerely and innocently. The Mahakalosians, being genetically-engineered engineer slaves, have a very odd mentality. They literally live to work, and their understanding of leisure time and payment are rather different to humans — for example, though they request human records and Oreo cookies as payment for their labors, one is seen commenting that he's not sure which will be more fun: listening to his new records, or designing a machine to play them. At one point, the Mahakalosians declare their payment for building human ships will be the resources they need to design and build ships of their own... which they will then give to humanity. Vexxarr is normally pretty understandable by human terms; he's a cynical, lazy, sarcastic, grumpy Jerkass with well-hidden softer side. Then we get something like this — admittedly, that could just be Culture Clash, due to the fact that Vexxarr belongs to a race of belligerent conquerors and only gave up on that life because he failed his first mission and now his race wants him dead. | |
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Talking the Monster to Death | |
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Talking the Monster to Death: At the climax of the Scavenger arc, the villain, a rogue security AI who wants to be in charge but can only be 3rd in command by programming dictat, places a mop and a tuna sandwich in charge. Once Vexxarr points out that this is indicative of a mental illness, the enforcer bot spaces itself. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: They're enforcement drones, not prevention drones. Therefore... Then when the damage prevention units show up... Carl states that, as a labor-saving machine, he avoids labour. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Vexxarr is normally pretty understandable by human terms; he's a cynical, lazy, sarcastic, grumpy Jerkass with well-hidden softer side. Then we get something like this — admittedly, that could just be Culture Clash, due to the fact that Vexxarr belongs to a race of belligerent conquerors and only gave up on that life because he failed his first mission and now his race wants him dead. | |
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Who's Laughing Now? | |
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Who's Laughing Now?: After managing to successfully impersonate the leader of a group of vegetable-based AI that have been trying to kill him, he vents pretty much all of the frustration he's accumulated over the course of the strip through creative vengeance | |
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Pungeon Master | |
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Pungeon Master: Sploorfix approaches this at times, much to Vexxarr's and Carl's utter dismay and horror. | |
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DidISayThatOutLoud | |
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Did I Say That Out Loud: One of the Bleen minions. | |
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Alien Invasion | |
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Alien Invasion: One by Vexxarr, which failed. A second one is defeated by using technology stolen from Vexxarr. | |
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Right in Front of Me | |
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Right in Front of Me: Vexxarr runs into the most obnoxious diagnostics program ever, even though that list includes interactions with Carl and Minionbot; he makes his hate known, bad-mouthing the programmer; since he is him, he stops to ask if the programmer is present in the room, only to be answered in the negative. He gets as far as being glad his insults would stay unknown, only to remember that he is Vexxarr and asks if the programmer is the mother of one of the present. She is. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
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Insult Backfire: An interesting example. Anytime Vexxarr claims that all machine life is murderous and always planning the destruction of organic life, his two robot crew will happily admit that he is correct. | |
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Sufficiently Advanced Alien | |
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Sufficiently Advanced Alien: There are an assortment of 'Ascended Races' in the comic, generally with rather strange agendas. Vexxarr despises these, with fairly good reason. | |
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FacePalm | |
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Face Palm: Common from Vexxarr due to his unending frustration with the universe, despite technicially having neither a face nor palms (eyeball-psuedopod?). Minionbot, having an actual hand with fingers, also sometimes does this when faced with the buffoonery of his crewmates. | |
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Laser Sight | |
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Laser Sight: Used by a bunch of invisible aliens to avoid hitting one another. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Things exploding and turning into a tiny sun (or at the least emitting as much light as a tiny sun) is the most commonly projected outcome of a disaster - when it's not black holes - and more than once used as a motivation to do (or not do) something. Sploorfix being a Weapon of Mass Depression, and his LiveJournal being lethal to any artificial intelligence. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Don't Explain the Joke: Or the threat, either. | |
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Heroic Neutral | |
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Heroic Neutral: Vexxarr somehow keeps getting dragged into the problems of every race he finds, even though all he wants is a long boring life full of cake and Halo. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Don't tell an (overly) friendly Schlumpoid that "hospital" and "food factory" mean the same thing... | |
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Ridiculously Cute Critter | |
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Ridiculously Cute Critter: Hyperspacing into Twee-space turns almost everything into one. The less cute it was, the more cute it becomes. If it already was cute though... | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Then when the damage prevention units show up... | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: When Sploorfix walks into the galley traumatized by the ship being rearranged by careless mechanics, Vexxarr, in an uncharacteristic display of sympathy, offers Sploorfix his cake. | |
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Everything Trying to Kill You | |
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However, the temporary damage they incur will often be very painful to repair. | |
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