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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Kadir manages to reset the multiverse, with Grant and his family alive and well in one reality, a totalitarian state led by Kadir, with only Grant remembering the original timeline. Then this reality splits into one version where Grant rebels, causing his kids to die, and the other where he finally relents and accepts Kadir's rule, finding some kind of happiness. The ending implies the rebellious Grant jumped between the two realities to take his kids back.]]
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* CosmicRetcon: [[spoiler:Kadir manages to strike an unrevealed bargain with Doxta, resetting the multiverse and leaving him in charge of one reality containing the main characters. Grant is the only one apart from him and Chandra who remembers the old timeline.]]
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* HereWeGoAgain: At the end, [[spoiler:Grant's timeline splits again in two realities. Shawn begins to research the pillar in one, while in the second Grant's kids die and he goes in search for them across the realities, with his relationship with Sara deteriorating once again.]]
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''Black Science'' is an ongoing series written by Rick Remender and drawn by Matteo Scalera. It launched in 2013.
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''Black Science'' is an ongoing completed series written by Rick Remender and drawn by Matteo Scalera. It launched in 2013.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Grant was cheating on his wife with Rebecca. Pia implies it's not the first time.
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* BiggerBad: Most of the series conflict revolves around Grant's team trying to fix the pillar and go home. Above that is Mr Block, who financed the pillar's testing and prototyping and intends to use it to dominate the eververse. When he shows up in issue 24 he doesn't disappoint.
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* DropTheHammer: Krolar of the League of Ethical Scientists wields a massive hammer.
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* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Inverted: [[spoiler: the alternate versions of Grant and Sara]] hold this view of the main cast.
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* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: EvilVersusEvil:
** The zirites are a gaseous lifeform that enslaves every species the encounter as hosts. The draln are telepathic millipedes dedicated to the annihilation of all life. Either is an existential threat to life in the multiverse, but they eventually clash with each other.
** Mr Block and his alternate dimension selves are out for economic control of the multiverse. Their headquarters is attacked by Har'Logh the Defiler, a monster out for physical subjugation of the multiverse.
* ExpendableAlternateUniverse:
** Inverted: [[spoiler: the alternate versions of Grant and Sara]] hold this view of the main cast.
** The zirites are a gaseous lifeform that enslaves every species the encounter as hosts. The draln are telepathic millipedes dedicated to the annihilation of all life. Either is an existential threat to life in the multiverse, but they eventually clash with each other.
** Mr Block and his alternate dimension selves are out for economic control of the multiverse. Their headquarters is attacked by Har'Logh the Defiler, a monster out for physical subjugation of the multiverse.
* ExpendableAlternateUniverse:
** Inverted: [[spoiler: the alternate versions of Grant and Sara]] hold this view of the main cast.
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* HoverBike: One of the features of Grant's home dimension after their return is the proliferation of hoverbikes and hovertrikes. Regular cars still exist alongside them.
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* 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...
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Mr Block hits a snag when his alternate self refuses to budge in trade negotiations.
* OutOfGenreExperience: Issue 28 switches to a standard superhero style with the League of Ethical Scientists, purple prose, and hyperbole.
-> '''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!
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Mr Block hits a snag when his alternate self refuses to budge in trade negotiations.
* OutOfGenreExperience: Issue 28 switches to a standard superhero style with the League of Ethical Scientists, purple prose, and hyperbole.
-> '''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!
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* PuppeteerParasite: The zirites are a gaseous lifeform that requires a flesh-and-blood host. Once infected there is no meaningful expression by the original host mind.
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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The materials technology required for the dimensionaut suits would be revolutionary in multiple fields.
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* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Grant's team is equipped with a dimensionaut suit that provides protection against physical damage and hostile environments. And oxygen. And jet boots. And blocks telepathy/telekinesis. Without it their first jump would likely be their last.
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* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: Shawn tries to bond with Pia and Nate by cracking lame dad jokes. The kids can't stand it.
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* YouShallNotPass: Invoked by Kadir when he explains [[spoiler: what happened to Ward]]. [[DirtyCoward He's lying his ass off.]]
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* YouShallNotPass: Invoked [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Kadir when he explains [[spoiler: what happened to Ward]]. [[DirtyCoward He's lying his ass off.]]]]
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* KickTheDog: Kadir moves up and down the scale of heroism and villainy over the series. He starts as a transparently evil executive, redeems himself by protecting Grant's kids in his absence, ruins that by [[spoiler:opposing Grant on his return]], then reveals [[spoiler:he's been sabotaging pillars to keep them out of Block's hands]]. To firmly secure his place as a villain he [[spoiler:bribes his way into Grant's cell and beats the hell out of him]].
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* {{Autodoc}}: The shaman carries one. It's a computer that snaps over his wrist that uses various rays to fix anything he asks with a voice-activated AI.
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* SaveBothWorlds: This is the motivation for both [[spoiler: Alternate Grant / Sara]] and [[spoiler: Kadir, of all people]].
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* SaveBothWorlds: This is the motivation SaveBothWorlds:
** Grant cites this as his objective forboth every world but he's usually too caught up in simple survival to carry through.
** [[spoiler: Alternate Grant / Sara]]and cite this when attempting to stop anyone else from using pillar technology.
** [[spoiler:Kadir, Kadir of all people]]. people]] believes that pillars are too dangerous specifically in the hands of Mr Block and spends his energy sabotaging all the research before Block can get to it.
** Grant cites this as his objective for
** [[spoiler: Alternate Grant / Sara]]
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* 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.
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* Fainting: {{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.
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* AlternateUniverse / AnotherDimension: The premise. While the dimensions the team jumps through are all wildly different and alien, there are multiple Grant [=McKays=]. Each of these versions of Grant creates a pillar, the pillar is always sabotaged, [[spoiler: the kids always die, and Kadir is always the saboteur.]]
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* 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.
* AccidentallyBrokeTheMacGuffin: Grant manages to obliterate the forevermids on his arrival in Tarana. This sets off a new quest to recover another MacGuffin to fix the first one.
* AlternateUniverse /AnotherDimension: AnotherDimension:
** The premise. While the dimensions the team jumps through are all wildly different and alien, there are multiple Grant [=McKays=]. Each of these versions of Grant creates a pillar, the pillar is always sabotaged, [[spoiler: the kids always die, and Kadir is always the saboteur.]]]]
** Another theory is that the dimensions where pillar research has been conducted (by Grant or an alternate like him) are the easiest ones for pillars to reach. One set of travelers speaks of following the cracks left by other pillars as easier than jumping somewhere new.
* AccidentallyBrokeTheMacGuffin: Grant manages to obliterate the forevermids on his arrival in Tarana. This sets off a new quest to recover another MacGuffin to fix the first one.
* AlternateUniverse /
** The premise. While the dimensions the team jumps through are all wildly different and alien, there are multiple Grant [=McKays=]. Each of these versions of Grant creates a pillar, the pillar is always sabotaged, [[spoiler: the kids always die, and Kadir is always the saboteur.
** Another theory is that the dimensions where pillar research has been conducted (by Grant or an alternate like him) are the easiest ones for pillars to reach. One set of travelers speaks of following the cracks left by other pillars as easier than jumping somewhere new.
* BiggerBad: Most of the series conflict revolves around Grant's team trying to fix the pillar and go home. Above that is Mr Block, who financed the pillar's testing and prototyping and intends to use it to dominate the eververse. When he shows up in issue 24 he doesn't disappoint.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Kadir's attitude and facial expressions give Carter Burke a run for his money, and Grant is convinced that the man is nothing more than a politicking idiot who'd rather take credit than do any work himself. [[spoiler: He's wrong. While Kadir did sabotage the pillar, he was doing it to keep all the various dimensions from destroying each other.]]
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: BroughtDownToNormal: Grant's intelligence is reduced to average human as part of a desperate bargain.
* 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.
* ComingOfAgeStory: Pia gets one in the background of issue 22. She's completely separated both from her family and homeworld, but she manages to secure a diplomatic alliance and negotiates a long-term peace between warring clans. Then Grant shows up...
* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
** Kadir's attitude and facial expressions give Carter Burke a run for his money, and Grant is convinced that the man is nothing more than a politicking idiot who'd rather take credit than do any work himself. [[spoiler: He's wrong. While Kadir did sabotage the pillar, he was doing it to keep all the various dimensions from destroying each other.]]]]
* CureForCancer: The primary exhibit in Block's investor meeting showcasing his successes from alternate dimensions is a medical device he claims as this.
* 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.
* 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.
* ComingOfAgeStory: Pia gets one in the background of issue 22. She's completely separated both from her family and homeworld, but she manages to secure a diplomatic alliance and negotiates a long-term peace between warring clans. Then Grant shows up...
* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
** Kadir's attitude and facial expressions give Carter Burke a run for his money, and Grant is convinced that the man is nothing more than a politicking idiot who'd rather take credit than do any work himself. [[spoiler: He's wrong. While Kadir did sabotage the pillar, he was doing it to keep all the various dimensions from destroying each other.
* CureForCancer: The primary exhibit in Block's investor meeting showcasing his successes from alternate dimensions is a medical device he claims as this.
* 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.
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* DevilInPlainSight: Kadir is actually [[spoiler: a subversion. Yes, he sabotaged the pillar, but he did so to prevent Grant from unwittingly destroying reality.]]
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* DevilInPlainSight: Kadir is actually [[spoiler: a subversion. Yes, he sabotaged the pillar, but he did so to prevent Grant from unwittingly destroying reality.reality and to keep the pillar out of Block's control.]]
* DismantledMacGuffin: The forevermids are individually powerful artifacts, but together form the omnimid.
* TheDreaded: Even Prince Kor, who can harness cosmic wind into an axe that judges intentions and shatters mountains, fears to approach the witch Doxta. When all three tribes debate whether to retrieve the Oxen Heart the question is whether Doxta will kill ''all'' of them or only ''most'' of them.
* TheDreaded: Even Prince Kor, who can harness cosmic wind into an axe that judges intentions and shatters mountains, fears to approach the witch Doxta. When all three tribes debate whether to retrieve the Oxen Heart the question is whether Doxta will kill ''all'' of them or only ''most'' of them.
* 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.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Doxta's stock threat. Her go-to is removing someone's strongest attribute, like courage or intelligence.
--> '''Doxta:''' Dying is easy. Living with loss is not.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Doxta's stock threat. Her go-to is removing someone's strongest attribute, like courage or intelligence.
--> '''Doxta:''' Dying is easy. Living with loss is not.
* 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...
* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: The shaman says the Native Americans got their high tech from a dimensionaut alien whose ship crash-landed.
* IntoxicationEnsues: Grant drinks the Mountain Queen's gorb'd wine immediately before his formal apology to the convened tribes. His speech turns into a maudlin drunk rant.
* KillerRabbit: Peterson's dimensionauts return a number of fuzzy pets from one foray. One grows to enormous size, sprouts tentacles, and announces itself as Har'Logh the Defiler before slaughtering the team.
* LoveTriangle: Kadir loves Sara loves Grant.
* MacGuffin: The forevermids/omnimid of Tarana, which do something when united. Later, the Oxen Heart necessary to repair them.
* MadScientist: Grant, debatably. He's clearly a genius physicist, but his expression of it is tied to his rejection of all authority figures. While exploring his mind Doxta specifically asked whether his madness caused or held back his genius. Apparently it runs in the family; Grant says his father was diagnosed crazy.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Mr Block keeps both Kadir and Pia quiet by a) giving them a bunch of money and b) threatening to murder Sara if they talk.
* PapaWolf: Grant was an absentee father up until the pillar experiment went awry. Now he aspires to be one of these to his kids but usually fails.
* MacGuffin: The forevermids/omnimid of Tarana, which do something when united. Later, the Oxen Heart necessary to repair them.
* MadScientist: Grant, debatably. He's clearly a genius physicist, but his expression of it is tied to his rejection of all authority figures. While exploring his mind Doxta specifically asked whether his madness caused or held back his genius. Apparently it runs in the family; Grant says his father was diagnosed crazy.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Mr Block keeps both Kadir and Pia quiet by a) giving them a bunch of money and b) threatening to murder Sara if they talk.
* PapaWolf: Grant was an absentee father up until the pillar experiment went awry. Now he aspires to be one of these to his kids but usually fails.
* SchmuckBait: Peterson's team of dimensionauts returns from a successful foray with a couple of generically-cute fuzzballs. One has a red button on its head. Someone pushes it with lethal results.
* ScienceHero: Grant is a genius at... whatever science the pillar uses. Most of his displays of technical wizardry are based around getting the thing to work. He claims that he's motivated by finding the fix-all technology that multiverse travel offers to help his children, with ForScience as a close second.
* ScienceHero: Grant is a genius at... whatever science the pillar uses. Most of his displays of technical wizardry are based around getting the thing to work. He claims that he's motivated by finding the fix-all technology that multiverse travel offers to help his children, with ForScience as a close second.
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* StoutStrength: Mr Block, when he finally shows up, is both obese and physically able to toss Pia around like a ragdoll.
* TheyCalledMeMad: It's implied that Grant and Shawn's ideas ''could'' have been developed within the scientific community. Instead Grant chose to go outside the system with private investment to get a functional prototype faster. This doubles as a screw-you to the perceived hidebound establishment.
* TitleDrop:
** One in a flashback to the lab, where Block Science has been graffitied to Black Science.
** Grant explicitly refers to the pillar tchnology as Black Science. Other characters do the same.
* TortureCellar: Peterson refers to an armored division kidnapping women from another dimension for Mr Block's "rumpus room". Knowing Block, it probably doesn't have a foosball table.
* UnsuspectinglySoused: Grant takes a sip of the Mountain Queen's wine to steady himself for his formal speech. Turns out the mountain people drink gorb'd wine that is ''fantastically'' strong.
* WeHaveReserves: As Peterson's dimensionaut team is being debriefed one of their specimens breaks free. Despite Peterson's begging Block seals the door and the team is slaughtered. Block calmly orders for the chamber to be cleared and a new team sent out.
* YourCheatingHeart: Grant was cheating on his wife with Rebecca. Pia implies it's not the first time.
* TheyCalledMeMad: It's implied that Grant and Shawn's ideas ''could'' have been developed within the scientific community. Instead Grant chose to go outside the system with private investment to get a functional prototype faster. This doubles as a screw-you to the perceived hidebound establishment.
* TitleDrop:
** One in a flashback to the lab, where Block Science has been graffitied to Black Science.
** Grant explicitly refers to the pillar tchnology as Black Science. Other characters do the same.
* TortureCellar: Peterson refers to an armored division kidnapping women from another dimension for Mr Block's "rumpus room". Knowing Block, it probably doesn't have a foosball table.
* UnsuspectinglySoused: Grant takes a sip of the Mountain Queen's wine to steady himself for his formal speech. Turns out the mountain people drink gorb'd wine that is ''fantastically'' strong.
* WeHaveReserves: As Peterson's dimensionaut team is being debriefed one of their specimens breaks free. Despite Peterson's begging Block seals the door and the team is slaughtered. Block calmly orders for the chamber to be cleared and a new team sent out.
* YourCheatingHeart: Grant was cheating on his wife with Rebecca. Pia implies it's not the first time.
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* ApocalypseHow: Multiversal/Physical Annihilation, scaling up to Omniversal. Grant discovers bizarre voids in the multiverse and theorizes they are the result of antimatter universes existing alongside matter universes. [[spoiler: That's fine until a pillar rips into one from the other, allowing antimatter to stream through the cracks in reality all the way back to the pillar's origin universe. Any dimensionaut who travels to enough universes will eventually trigger this for everything they've visited.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: Within the first volume alone, [[spoiler: Ward and Gwen]] get killed off.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Many casualties, but diluted due to the existence of alternate-universe duplicates of the lead characters.
** Within the firstvolume alone, few pages Jen becomes the first dimensionaut casualty to set the stakes.
** [[spoiler:Ward Ward]] later in the first volume.
** With the death of [[spoiler: Grant]] the book pushes into DwindlingParty territory.
** [[spoiler: Rebecca]] meets a final end in the fourth volume.
* ArcSymbol: The dimensionauts adopt a symbol of circle andGwen]] get killed off.two nesting crescents to symbolize the onionlike nature of the eververse. It shows up ''everywhere'' in their travels to alternate realities as holy symbol, war banner, architectural detail, etc.
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** [[spoiler: Rebecca]] meets a final end in the fourth volume.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Rebecca had been sleeping with Grant and [[spoiler: ruined the experiment, leaving him to die and nearly killing everyone else. She then murdered her double in another universe just to live in a world where her brother was alive, marrying a man and having a child. Grant finds the body of that world's Rebecca with the murder weapon. He proceeds to tell the cops who inform Rebecca's brother and husband. Rebecca finds the brother she spent years missing ripping into her as an imposter who killed his beloved sister and her husband taking their child away. She finds Grant in a field as he relates how he's not going to kill her as "this is better." He leaves as police cars race up to arrest Rebecca who knows she can't tell the whole truth and thus has to known as a murderous psychopath hated by the brother and husband she loved.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: LaserGuidedKarma:
** In the first issue Grant impulsively rescues a frog-person slave. On reaching the surface they meet her husband. The husband is grateful for his wife's return and leads his warriors against Grant's pursuers, allowing Grant to escape.
** Rebecca had been sleeping with Grant and [[spoiler: ruined the experiment, leaving him to die and nearly killing everyone else. She then murdered her double in another universe just to live in a world where her brother was alive, marrying a man and having a child. Grant finds the body of that world's Rebecca with the murder weapon. He proceeds to tell the cops who inform Rebecca's brother and husband. Rebecca finds the brother she spent years missing ripping into her as an imposter who killed his beloved sister and her husband taking their child away. She finds Grant in a field as he relates how he's not going to kill her as "this is better." He leaves as police cars race up to arrest Rebecca who knows she can't tell the whole truth and thus has to known as a murderous psychopath hated by the brother and husband she loved.]]
** In the first issue Grant impulsively rescues a frog-person slave. On reaching the surface they meet her husband. The husband is grateful for his wife's return and leads his warriors against Grant's pursuers, allowing Grant to escape.
** Rebecca had been sleeping with Grant and [[spoiler: ruined the experiment, leaving him to die and nearly killing everyone else. She then murdered her double in another universe just to live in a world where her brother was alive, marrying a man and having a child. Grant finds the body of that world's Rebecca with the murder weapon. He proceeds to tell the cops who inform Rebecca's brother and husband. Rebecca finds the brother she spent years missing ripping into her as an imposter who killed his beloved sister and her husband taking their child away. She finds Grant in a field as he relates how he's not going to kill her as "this is better." He leaves as police cars race up to arrest Rebecca who knows she can't tell the whole truth and thus has to known as a murderous psychopath hated by the brother and husband she loved.]]
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* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler: Rebecca does this to an alternate reality version of herself in order to be in a world where her twin brother didn't die years before.]]
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* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler: Rebecca does this to an alternate reality version of herself in order to be in a world where her twin brother didn't die years before.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Rebecca had been sleeping with Grant and [[spoiler: ruined the experiment, leaving him to die and nearly killing everyone else. She then murdered her double in another universe just to live in a world where her brother was alive, marrying a man and having a child. Grant finds the body of that world's Rebecca with the murder weapon. He proceeds to tell the cops who inform Rebecca's brother and husband. Rebecca finds the brother she spent years missing ripping into her as an imposter who killed his beloved sister and her husband taking their child away. She finds Grant in a field as he relates how he's not going to kill her as "this is better." He leaves as police cars race up to arrest Rebecca who knows she can't tell the whole truth and thus has to known as a"murderous imposter.murderous psychopath hated by the brother and husband she loved.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Rebecca had been sleeping with Grant and [[spoiler: ruined the experiment, leaving him to die and nearly killing everyone else. She then murdered her double in another universe just to live in a world where her brother was alive, marrying a man and having a child. Grant finds the body of that world's Rebecca with the murder weapon. He proceeds to tell the cops who inform Rebecca's brother and husband. Rebecca finds the brother she spent years missing ripping into her as an imposter who killed his beloved sister and her husband taking their child away. She finds Grant in a field as he relates how he's not going to kill her as "this is better." He leaves as police cars race up to arrest Rebecca who knows she can't tell the whole truth and thus has to known as a
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'''''Black Science''''' is an ongoing series written by Rick Remender and drawn by Matteo Scalera. It launched in 2013.
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Black science is an ongoing series written by Rick Remender and drawn by Matteo Scalera. It launched in 2013.
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 between a series of increasingly bizarre and nightmarish worlds, struggling for survival.
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 between a series of increasingly bizarre and nightmarish worlds, struggling for survival.
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* {{Expy}}: Kadir for one [[Series/LostInSpace Dr. Zachery Smith]], a DirtyCoward and[[spoiler: saboteur, who ultimately becomes a more heroic character as time goes on.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Kadir for one [[Series/LostInSpace Dr. Zachery Smith]], a DirtyCoward and[[spoiler: and [[spoiler: saboteur, who ultimately becomes a more heroic character as time goes on.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Kadir for one [[Series/LostInSpace Dr. Zachery Smith]], a DirtyCoward and[[spoiler: saboteur, who ultimately becomes a more heroic character as time goes on.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: Within the first volume alone, [[spoiler: Ward and Grant [=McKay=]]] get killed off.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Within the first volume alone, [[spoiler: Ward and Grant [=McKay=]]] Gwen]] get killed off.
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Grant dies at the end of the sixth issue, with Kadir taking over the role afterwards.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Subverted. Grant seemingly dies at the end of the sixth issue, with Kadir taking over the role afterwards.afterwards - until Grant gets back.]]
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* YouShallNotPass: Invoked by Kadir when he explains [[spoiler: what happened to Ward]]. [[DirtyCoward He's lying his ass off.]]
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* YouShallNotPass: Invoked by Kadir when he explains [[spoiler: what happened to Ward]]. [[DirtyCoward He's lying his ass off.]]
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Kadir might be a {{dirty coward}}. He might be an unbelievably [[SmugSnake smug]] {{corrupt corporate executive}}. But he's decent enough to [[spoiler: push Grant out of the way of an ax and take the blow himself, despite being in a knock-down fistfight with the man himself at the time, and then agree to take care of Grant's kids when it's clear he's going to die.]]
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Black science is an ongoing series by Rick Remender launched in 2013.
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, the group is left stranded between a series of increasingly bizarre and nightmarish worlds, struggling for survival.
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, the group is left stranded between a series of increasingly bizarre and nightmarish worlds, struggling for survival.
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Black science is an ongoing series written by Rick Remender and drawn by Matteo Scalera. It launched in 2013.
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 between a series of increasingly bizarre and nightmarish worlds, struggling for survival.
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 between a series of increasingly bizarre and nightmarish worlds, struggling for survival.
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* AlternateUniverse / AnotherDimension: The premise. While the dimensions the team jumps through are all wildly different and alien, there is ''always'' a Grant [=McKay=], there is ''always'' a pillar, [[spoiler: the kids always die, and Kadir is always the saboteur.]]
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* AlternateUniverse / AnotherDimension: The premise. While the dimensions the team jumps through are all wildly different and alien, there is ''always'' a are multiple Grant [=McKay=], there is ''always'' [=McKays=]. Each of these versions of Grant creates a pillar, the pillar is always sabotaged, [[spoiler: the kids always die, and Kadir is always the saboteur.]]
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Kadir's attitude and facial expressions give Carter Burke a run for his money, and Grant is convinced that the man is nothing more than a politicking idiot who'd rather take credit than do any work himself. [[spoiler: He's wrong. While Kadir did sabotage
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Kadir's attitude and facial expressions give Carter Burke a run for his money, and Grant is convinced that the man is nothing more than a politicking idiot who'd rather take credit than do any work himself. [[spoiler: He's wrong. While Kadir did sabotagesabotage the pillar, he was doing it to keep all the various dimensions from destroying each other.]]
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* SlidingScaleLongName: ''Far'' on the cynical side.
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* SlidingScaleLongName: SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: ''Far'' on the cynical side.
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* GenreDeconstruction: Of 1960's sci-fi adventures like ''Series/LostInSpace'' and ''Weird Science''.
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* SlidingScaleLongName: ''Far'' on the cynical side.
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* IGaveMyWord: One of [[spoiler: Kadir's]] few principles.
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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, the group is left stranded between a series of increasingly bizarre and nightmarish worlds, struggling for survival.
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Grant McKay, [=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, the group is left stranded between a series of increasingly bizarre and nightmarish worlds, struggling for survival.
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* AlternateUniverse / AnotherDimension: The premise. While the dimensions the team jumps through are all wildly different and alien, there is ''always'' a Grant McKay, there is ''always'' a pillar, [[spoiler: the kids always die, and Kadir is always the saboteur.]]
* AnyoneCanDie: Within the first volume alone, [[spoiler: Ward and Grant McKay]] get killed off.
* AnyoneCanDie: Within the first volume alone, [[spoiler: Ward and Grant McKay]] get killed off.
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* AlternateUniverse / AnotherDimension: The premise. While the dimensions the team jumps through are all wildly different and alien, there is ''always'' a Grant McKay, [=McKay=], there is ''always'' a pillar, [[spoiler: the kids always die, and Kadir is always the saboteur.]]
* AnyoneCanDie: Within the first volume alone, [[spoiler: Ward and GrantMcKay]] [=McKay=]]] get killed off.
* AnyoneCanDie: Within the first volume alone, [[spoiler: Ward and Grant
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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, the group is left stranded between a series of increasingly bizarre and nightmarish worlds.
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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, the group is left stranded between a series of increasingly bizarre and nightmarish worlds.
worlds, struggling for survival.
* AnyoneCanDie: Within the first volume alone, [[spoiler: Ward and Grant McKay]] get killed off.
* PetTheDog: Kadir agrees to [[spoiler: make sure Grant's kids get home safely.]]
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* SlasherSmile: Kadir.Kadir, repeatedly.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Grant was cheating on his wife with Rebecca.
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Black science is an ongoing series by Rick Remender launched in 2013.
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, the group is left stranded between a series of increasingly bizarre and nightmarish worlds.
!This series provides examples of:
* AlternateUniverse / AnotherDimension: The premise. While the dimensions the team jumps through are all wildly different and alien, there is ''always'' a Grant McKay, there is ''always'' a pillar, [[spoiler: the kids always die, and Kadir is always the saboteur.]]
* BazaarOfTheBizarre: The dimension the team lands in during issue 4 features one.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Kadir's attitude and facial expressions give Carter Burke a run for his money, and Grant is convinced that the man is nothing more than a politicking idiot who'd rather take credit than do any work himself. [[spoiler: He's wrong. While Kadir did sabotage
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Grant dies at the end of the sixth issue, with Kadir taking over the role afterwards.]]
* DevilInPlainSight: Kadir is actually [[spoiler: a subversion. Yes, he sabotaged the pillar, but he did so to prevent Grant from unwittingly destroying reality.]]
* DimensionalTraveller: The protagonists.
* DirtyCoward: Kadir [[spoiler: leaves Ward to die, then tells everyone that Ward tried to pull a YouShallNotPass]].
* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Inverted: [[spoiler: the alternate versions of Grant and Sara]] hold this view of the main cast.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: No one in the comic is purely good or evil.
* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: The pillar.
* {{Irony}}: Grant, the inventor of the pillar, [[spoiler: dies when he is crushed by a giant pillar.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Grant's FatalFlaw.
* {{Jerkass}}: Kadir and Grant are both not very nice people.
* LastRequest: While dying, [[spoiler: Grant asks Kadir to make sure that his children get home safely. Kadir agrees.]]
* RealityBreakingParadox: What [[spoiler: Alternate Grant and Sara]] want to avoid.
* SaveBothWorlds: This is the motivation for both [[spoiler: Alternate Grant / Sara]] and [[spoiler: Kadir, of all people]].
* SlasherSmile: Kadir.
* SmugSnake: Kadir again.
* YouShallNotPass: Invoked by Kadir when he explains [[spoiler: what happened to Ward]]. [[DirtyCoward He's lying his ass off.]]
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, the group is left stranded between a series of increasingly bizarre and nightmarish worlds.
!This series provides examples of:
* AlternateUniverse / AnotherDimension: The premise. While the dimensions the team jumps through are all wildly different and alien, there is ''always'' a Grant McKay, there is ''always'' a pillar, [[spoiler: the kids always die, and Kadir is always the saboteur.]]
* BazaarOfTheBizarre: The dimension the team lands in during issue 4 features one.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Kadir's attitude and facial expressions give Carter Burke a run for his money, and Grant is convinced that the man is nothing more than a politicking idiot who'd rather take credit than do any work himself. [[spoiler: He's wrong. While Kadir did sabotage
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Grant dies at the end of the sixth issue, with Kadir taking over the role afterwards.]]
* DevilInPlainSight: Kadir is actually [[spoiler: a subversion. Yes, he sabotaged the pillar, but he did so to prevent Grant from unwittingly destroying reality.]]
* DimensionalTraveller: The protagonists.
* DirtyCoward: Kadir [[spoiler: leaves Ward to die, then tells everyone that Ward tried to pull a YouShallNotPass]].
* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Inverted: [[spoiler: the alternate versions of Grant and Sara]] hold this view of the main cast.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: No one in the comic is purely good or evil.
* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: The pillar.
* {{Irony}}: Grant, the inventor of the pillar, [[spoiler: dies when he is crushed by a giant pillar.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Grant's FatalFlaw.
* {{Jerkass}}: Kadir and Grant are both not very nice people.
* LastRequest: While dying, [[spoiler: Grant asks Kadir to make sure that his children get home safely. Kadir agrees.]]
* RealityBreakingParadox: What [[spoiler: Alternate Grant and Sara]] want to avoid.
* SaveBothWorlds: This is the motivation for both [[spoiler: Alternate Grant / Sara]] and [[spoiler: Kadir, of all people]].
* SlasherSmile: Kadir.
* SmugSnake: Kadir again.
* YouShallNotPass: Invoked by Kadir when he explains [[spoiler: what happened to Ward]]. [[DirtyCoward He's lying his ass off.]]
