History ComicBook / BlackScience

* DropTheHammer: Krolar of the League of Ethical Scientists wields a massive hammer.

** [[spoiler: the beings at the center of the eververse]] view the main cast as this because they are [[a simulation]]

** the [[core universe angel version of Grant]] is arguably also this, as he manipulated countless Grant’s into [[destroying the eververse]]

** [[the core Grant]] is this down to T, and everything he’s done has been to this end.

* TheChosenOne: Pia's solo crash landing happened to coincide with that universe's Eucalyptus prophecy. She took advantage of the prophecy to secure political capital and lead negotiations to fulfill it.

* DealWithTheDevil: Doxta the witch will offer you a trade. The terms will be clear up front, but you will only learn what it means by experiencing it.

* DimensionalTraveller: The protagonists.

* HiddenAgendaVillain: Doxta is all over the place. She implies she's actually a guardian of great power doing good to keep it from those who would misuse it. She also implies it amuses her to injure people and watch them deal with it for the rest of their lives. Then she claims she manipulated Grant's arrival so she could steal pillar technology and escape her dimension. While leaving she promises she'll see Grant again...

* OmnicidalManiac: The Draln are a cult of telepathic millipedes on a quest to end all suffering by annihilating all life. This becomes much more achievable if they can get their own pillar...

** The whole multiverse [[spoiler:is created by an advanced society of mantis-like creatures who use it as entertainment, with helmets to experience the lives of any living creature in the multiverse. Their society staggered into a halt after that, as nobody was interesting in anything else. The Grant of this universe eventually decided to create the various versions Grant [=McKay=] across the realities to cause the multiverse to unravel.]]

Grant [=McKay=], former member of the Anarchistic Order of Scientists, has finally done the impossible: He has deciphered black science and punched through the barriers of reality. His invention, the pillar, allows him and his fellow Dimensionauts to leap between worlds at will, taking anything they want for the benefit of their home reality. At least, that was the plan. But when one of Grant's team members sabotages the pillar, causing it to jump to random locations at random times, the group is left stranded in and struggles to survive on, increasingly bizarre and nightmarish worlds.

* AlternateUniverse / AnotherDimension:

-> '''Atomic Fury:''' By the glory of Gorsalt - Loot at the readouts, Sister Napalm!
-> '''Sister Napalm:''' What are those red marks, Atomic Fury?
-> '''Atomic Fury:''' Another ''thirty million'' dimensions lost to infection since I began this sentence! And the plague is heading this way!

** The whole multiverse [[spoiler:is created by an advanced society of mantis-like creatures who use it as entertainment, with helmets to experience the lives of any living creature in the multiverse. Their society staggered into a halt after that, as nobody was interesting in anything else. The Grant of this universe eventually decided to create the various versions Grant McKay across the realities to cause the multiverse to unravel.]]

* {{Fainting}}: Sara gets the emotional version when she is informed that Grant, blamed for multiple murders and kidnapping her children, was seen outside chasing Pia mere moments ago.

* ChekovsGun: Penetrating the onionsphere all the way down to the core to solve the problems the characters face is mentioned in the early issues, but they only get round of doing it in some of the last issues. [[spoiler:It does not go well]].

* AbortedArc: An early issue teased the team penetrating the onionsphere all the way down to the core to solve their problems. It never came up again.