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* DeathFakedForYou: Mal does this repeatedly
** In the Pilot he messes with Simon
-->'''Mal''': Kaylee's dead
''(Simon rushes down to the infirmary to see Kaylee smiling and happy)''
-->'''Simon''': That man's ''psychotic!''
** In the Pilot he also shoots Dobson in the face and dumps him on the planet, resulting in his employers and the crew of Serenity believing he died until he returns in the comics to ambush them.
** He chucks Jubal Early to his presumed death, though WordOfGod confirms that Early lives. Despite this Early has yet to reappear in the comics and the crew still believe he's dead several years later.
** In the Pilot he messes with Simon
-->'''Mal''': Kaylee's dead
''(Simon rushes down to the infirmary to see Kaylee smiling and happy)''
-->'''Simon''': That man's ''psychotic!''
** In the Pilot he also shoots Dobson in the face and dumps him on the planet, resulting in his employers and the crew of Serenity believing he died until he returns in the comics to ambush them.
** He chucks Jubal Early to his presumed death, though WordOfGod confirms that Early lives. Despite this Early has yet to reappear in the comics and the crew still believe he's dead several years later.
* {{Expy}}: Jubal Early is explicitly confirmed by WordOfGod to be one to [[Franchise/StarWars Boba Fett]]. This is more apparent in his ship's design, but even his outfit has clear elements of Boba Fett's iconic armor plates stitched into its design.
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** In the comics, Dobson from the pilot episode appears again. He did not die and he holds a grudge about our intrepid crew because he lost his eye in his encounter with them.
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** In the comics, Dobson from receives one courtesy of Mal in the pilot episode appears again. He did not die Pilot. His return in the comics includes an EyepatchOfPower and he holds a grudge about our intrepid crew because he lost verbal acknowledgement of his eye in his encounter with them.reduced
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** The [[MegaCorp Blue Sun corporation]] crops up a lot in logos, advertisements and billboards in the background, as well as one of Jayne's t-shirts; [[Creator/JossWhedon Whedon]] has said the show was cancelled before this could be explored.
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** The [[MegaCorp Blue Sun corporation]] crops up a lot in logos, advertisements and billboards in the background, as well as one of Jayne's t-shirts; [[Creator/JossWhedon Whedon]] has said the show was cancelled before this could be explored. The film [[spoiler: confirms they're the ones who mutilated and tortured River in hopes of creating super assassins for the Alliance government]]
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** Mal returns to rescue River from being burned at the stake in the TropeNamer for BigDamnHeroes in Safe.
** Gender inverted when Zoe first saves her husband from being tortured by a Mafia don, then stages an armed rescue of Mal in War Stories.
** Mal is willing to risk his entire crew being arrested harboring a fugitive if it means saving Kaylee from a gunshot wound in the Pilot.
** Simon ruined his entire life doing this for River, including blowing most of his fortune just developing the mechanisms to infiltrate where she was being kept.
** River inverts this for her brother in Objects In Space, organizing an entire plan to get the hyperlethal Bounty Hunter who is aboard the ship into a position where Mal can kill him in a SingleStrokeBattle
** Mal and the entire crew decide to help a random brothel owner and her employees simply because they're friends of Inara's in Heart of Gold
** Inara herself pulls this for Mal, willing to sacrifice her own independence to save his life in Shindig.
** Zoe refuses to leave Mal to die alone and ends up saving both him and Serenity in Out Of Gas.
** Exploited in The Message, where Tracy mails his corpse to his old war buddy Mal in hopes of having it returned to his family for burial.
** GenderInverted again when Inara uses her clout as a Companion to rescue Mal and Zoe from being detained in The Train Job.
** Affirmed by Mal at the end of Safe that he will always do this
-->'''Simon''': Yea but you don't even like me, so why'd you come back for us?
-->'''Mal''':[[PapaWolf You're on my crew.]] Why we still talking about this?
** Gender inverted when Zoe first saves her husband from being tortured by a Mafia don, then stages an armed rescue of Mal in War Stories.
** Mal is willing to risk his entire crew being arrested harboring a fugitive if it means saving Kaylee from a gunshot wound in the Pilot.
** Simon ruined his entire life doing this for River, including blowing most of his fortune just developing the mechanisms to infiltrate where she was being kept.
** River inverts this for her brother in Objects In Space, organizing an entire plan to get the hyperlethal Bounty Hunter who is aboard the ship into a position where Mal can kill him in a SingleStrokeBattle
** Mal and the entire crew decide to help a random brothel owner and her employees simply because they're friends of Inara's in Heart of Gold
** Inara herself pulls this for Mal, willing to sacrifice her own independence to save his life in Shindig.
** Zoe refuses to leave Mal to die alone and ends up saving both him and Serenity in Out Of Gas.
** Exploited in The Message, where Tracy mails his corpse to his old war buddy Mal in hopes of having it returned to his family for burial.
** GenderInverted again when Inara uses her clout as a Companion to rescue Mal and Zoe from being detained in The Train Job.
** Affirmed by Mal at the end of Safe that he will always do this
-->'''Simon''': Yea but you don't even like me, so why'd you come back for us?
-->'''Mal''':[[PapaWolf You're on my crew.]] Why we still talking about this?
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''Firefly'''s life story is an interesting one: despite its early cancellation, it became a runaway cult hit, the DVD series spawning media including a feature film titled ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' and various comics and books. A full list of media can be found on the [[Franchise/{{Firefly}} Franchise page]].
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''Firefly'''s life story is an interesting one: despite its early cancellation, it became a runaway cult hit, the DVD series spawning media including a feature film titled ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' ''Film/Serenity2005'' and various comics and books. A full list of media can be found on the [[Franchise/{{Firefly}} Franchise page]].
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* BittersweetEnding / DistantFinale: The short story "Take the Sky" included in the ''Firefly: Still Flying'' companion book. Set 20 years after ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', whether it leans towards bitter or sweet depends on which character you focus on. Of course, there is always the chance that [[spoiler: it [[AllJustADream all takes place in Mal's head]] in a split second before he faces the Operative for the final time]], but it is ambiguous enough to speculate on. And there might be foreshadowing.
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* BittersweetEnding / DistantFinale: The short story "Take the Sky" included in the ''Firefly: Still Flying'' companion book. Set 20 years after ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', ''Film/Serenity2005'', whether it leans towards bitter or sweet depends on which character you focus on. Of course, there is always the chance that [[spoiler: it [[AllJustADream all takes place in Mal's head]] in a split second before he faces the Operative for the final time]], but it is ambiguous enough to speculate on. And there might be foreshadowing.
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** In the ''Firefly'' 10th anniversary special "Browncoats Unite", Alan Tudyk recalls sending the button from this episode to Joss Whedon with a note quoting his line (paraphrased): "When your miracle gets here, just push this button to call us back." It turned out that this happened while Joss was fighting for ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' to get the green light.
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** In the ''Firefly'' 10th anniversary special "Browncoats Unite", Alan Tudyk recalls sending the button from this episode to Joss Whedon with a note quoting his line (paraphrased): "When your miracle gets here, just push this button to call us back." It turned out that this happened while Joss was fighting for ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' ''Film/Serenity2005'' to get the green light.
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* FlyingCutlerySpaceship: The Reaver ships in both the series and [[Film/{{Serenity}} the film]] are covered in jagged metal spikes, looking like they were slapped together from scrap metal. The Reavers also enjoy splattering blood like paint on their hulls and stringing half-eaten corpses to their bows.
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* FlyingCutlerySpaceship: The Reaver ships in both the series and [[Film/{{Serenity}} [[Film/Serenity2005 the film]] are covered in jagged metal spikes, looking like they were slapped together from scrap metal. The Reavers also enjoy splattering blood like paint on their hulls and stringing half-eaten corpses to their bows.
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: The Reavers. River averts it, though the crew thinks this is the case when she slashes Jayne (really going after the Blue Sun logo on his T-shirt). Her sudden assassin-ness in the bar in ''[[Film/{{Serenity}} Serenity]]'' is due to her government conditioning, not her insanity.
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: The Reavers. River averts it, though the crew thinks this is the case when she slashes Jayne (really going after the Blue Sun logo on his T-shirt). Her sudden assassin-ness in the bar in ''[[Film/{{Serenity}} Serenity]]'' ''Film/Serenity2005'' is due to her government conditioning, not her insanity.
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* TheMovie: ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', the BigDamnMovie.
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* TheWarJustBefore: The Unification War, which ended in an Alliance victory only six years before the series begins. The two cast members who fought for the Independent Faction, Mal and Zoe, are still bitter about it, and the movie ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' and ExpandedUniverse material such as ''ComicBook/SerenityLeavesOnTheWind'' indicate that things may be building up to a revolution.
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* TheWarJustBefore: The Unification War, which ended in an Alliance victory only six years before the series begins. The two cast members who fought for the Independent Faction, Mal and Zoe, are still bitter about it, and the movie ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' ''Film/Serenity2005'' and ExpandedUniverse material such as ''ComicBook/SerenityLeavesOnTheWind'' indicate that things may be building up to a revolution.
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** Jayne knocks River down when she slashes his chest in ''[[Recap/FireflyE09Ariel Ariel]]'', but since this is a clear-cut case of self-defense and he visibly doesn't use deadlier means that were available to him, no one holds it against him. [[EverybodyHasStandards He may be reluctant to do this]] in less lethal circumstances, since he tries to restrain her with a bear hug instead when she goes berserk in the Maidenhead Bar in [[Film/{{Serenity}} the movie]].
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** Jayne knocks River down when she slashes his chest in ''[[Recap/FireflyE09Ariel Ariel]]'', but since this is a clear-cut case of self-defense and he visibly doesn't use deadlier means that were available to him, no one holds it against him. [[EverybodyHasStandards He may be reluctant to do this]] in less lethal circumstances, since he tries to restrain her with a bear hug instead when she goes berserk in the Maidenhead Bar in [[Film/{{Serenity}} [[Film/Serenity2005 the movie]].
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** The whole crew in "Trash". This one also counts as a XanatosGambit, since the crew would have gotten away with it whether [[IHaveManyNames YoSaffBridge]] had turned on Mal or not.
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** The whole crew in "Trash". This one also counts as a XanatosGambit, since the crew would have gotten away with it whether [[IHaveManyNames YoSaffBridge]] [=YoSaff=] Bridge had turned on Mal or not.
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* [[spoiler:LoveInterestTraitor: An episode has Mal being (unintentionally) married to a young woman for a reward. But she turns out to be a con artist, intent on killing the crew (by leaving them to die) and selling their ship. Her appearance in a later episode reveals this to be her standard operating procedure: seduce, steal, leave 'em for dead, repeat...]]
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* [[spoiler:LoveInterestTraitor: An LoveInterestTraitor: [[An episode has Mal being (unintentionally) married to a young woman for a reward. But she turns out to be a con artist, intent on killing the crew (by leaving them to die) and selling their ship. Her appearance in a later episode reveals this to be her standard operating procedure: seduce, steal, leave 'em for dead, repeat...]]
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Whedon's script for ''Film/AlienResurrection'' involved an amoral crew of mercenaries and a partially insane woman, subject of mysterious scientific experiments as part of a government weapons project, with preternatural abilities. Sound familiar?
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* Jayne asking Book about masturbation when he says his celibacy vow leads him to direct his energy elsewhere.
** And from the movie...
--> '''Kaylee''': Goin' on a year now I ain't had nothin' twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries!
** And from the movie...
--> '''Kaylee''': Goin' on a year now I ain't had nothin' twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries!
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* TheFirstSuperheroes: River Tam is most likely the first really powerful psychic in the Verse, since she's a unique prototype SuperSoldier who escaped from a top secret lab. Too bad that the technology for training PsychicPowers is still very crude and involves brain surgery and other cruel and invasive experimentation resulting in madness.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Most of the crew is gunning for Simon and Kaylee to get together. Especially Mal and Inara.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Most of the crew is gunning for Simon and Kaylee to get together. Especially Mal and Inara.Inara, who themselves get shipped by damn near everyone else in turn.
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*** Simon later gets to play it straight with Jayne when the latter is temporarily paralyzed to prevent him aggravating a bad bruise to his spine. Simon points out the many ways it would be comically easy for him, as the ship's doctor, to kill Jayne and get away with it, only to end with saying that he simply doesn't want to do that and hopes Jayne will just leave him alone. Jayne listens to all of this in comically appalled horror.
