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* PlanetTerra: The odd time Earth is mentioned, it's called Terra-Prima. Seems to be common to name colonies after it as Difool's home planet is Terra 2014.
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* BirdPoopGag: Deepo craps on one of the prime minister's goons when rescuing John.
* DisguisedInDrag: John infiltrates the prostitute baby ring by dressing as a pregnant sex worker with Deepo hiding inside the bump.
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: A four-armed bouncers throws John out when he's asking the sex workers why they never have children.
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: A a couple of similar four-armed bouncers throws John out when he's asking mutants or aliens called Kaganu and Loh-Loh work in the sex workers why they never have children.Red Ring as a bouncer and a pump respectively. Difoll gets punched by both.
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* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: An army of specialist robots rebuild the prime minister's house in half an hour after Kolbo-5 rescues John.
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* SonOfAWhore: The prequel reveal John's mother was one. A rare case of the child being on board with it and guiding upper class tourists to her brothel.
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* BodyBackupDrive: The president can have his spirit moved into younger cloned bodies if he's dying or alien bodies idlf the mood takes him.
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: A four-armed bouncers throws John out when he's asking the sex workers why they never have children.
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* ZeroGSpot: Luz De Garra teases John in her anti-g bedchamber but switchs the gravity back on at the last second.
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* CryoPrison: John's father was offered a choice between going into stasis for 30 years or having his memory erased. [[spoiler:He chose the latter.]]
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* EternalRecurrence: The comic ends with [[spoiler:John in a new universe falling from Suicide Alley like he did in the beginning. It was implied he lived through several versions of his life before.]]
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* FantasticGhetto: Mutants on Terra 2014 live in an enclosed ghetto called the G.T.O. which they don't leave until they're 21 because it's legal to kill them before that age.
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* ParentalIncest: John's mother's holographic will in the prequel strongly implies she has been [[spoiler:Animah]] in other lives. Backed up by WordOfGod.
* PettingZooPeople: A lot of mutants look like anthropomorphic animals.
* PettingZooPeople: A lot of mutants look like anthropomorphic animals.
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* ReincarnationRomance: The prequel implies that Animah's soul [[spoiler:knew John in his various lives often as a mother, friend or lover.]]
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* SonOfAWhore: The prequel reveal John's mother was one. A rare case of the child being on board with it and guiding upper class tourists to her brothel.
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* RedLightDistrict: John frequents one on his home planet called the Red Ring.
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* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: John gets the light Incal off a dying Berg.
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* BellyButtonless: The Protoqueen gave birth to 78 billion duplicates of [[spoiler:Difool]]. The only way the Bergs can tell the difference between the original and all the "Jondiffs" is the fact that he has a bellybutton.
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* BirdPeople: The Bergs. It's later revealed that they're all duplicates of their father. The next wave of Berg's look like [[spoiler:Difool]].
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* DittoAliens: The Bergs all look like their father. Their Protoqueen gave birth to billions of duplicates of their father, bird person called Trilys. She later gives birth to billions of [[spoiler:John Difool copies.]]
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* ShapeshiftingSeductor: The Berg Protoqueen reads John's mind and shapeshifts into Animah.
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* ShapeshiftingSeductor: ShapeshiftingSeducer: The Berg Protoqueen reads John's mind and shapeshifts into Animah.
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* SmallUniverseAfterAll: The setting comprises two galaxies. One ruled by humans, the other by the Berg.
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* ShapeshiftingSeductor: The Berg Protoqueen reads John's mind and shapeshifts into Animah.
* SmallUniverseAfterAll: The setting comprises twogalaxies. One galaxies, the Human Galaxy and the Berg Galaxy. Each ruled by humans, the other by the Berg.their titular race/empire.
* SmallUniverseAfterAll: The setting comprises two
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* TwoDSpace: The Berg ships and the Incal surround Technogea in a ring with none above or below it.
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* ExtinctInTheFuture: Deepo impresses Rsimo by using his power to create a rose which was extinct for generations.
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* AntiMatter: The Shadow Eggs are made from it, making them indestructible.
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* NonHumanSidekick: Deepo, Difool's (eventually) talking "concrete seagull".
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* {{Mutants}}: Difool gets chased by a race of large ones living in his planet's lower levels.
* NonHumanSidekick: Deepo, Difool's(eventually) talking "concrete seagull".
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* SubspaceOrHyperspace: Some Berg ships are mentioned leaving hyperspace early on but afterwards subspace is mentioned as the method of FasterThanLightTravel.
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* AssholeVictim:[[spoiler: Iman Horlog and Stirlog. They're totally deserved it for hurting Greyfield's daughter.]]
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* AnimatedAdaptation: Canadian animator, Pascal Blais wanted to direct a movie back in the '80s but it never got past the [[https://youtu.be/c4Vkyzrs1Fk trailer]].
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In November of 2021 it was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DkxB75CNvA announced]] that a live-action film of ''The Incal'' was in the works, to be directed by Creator/TaikaWaititi.
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''The Incal'' (''L'Incal'') is a sci-fi [[ComicBook comic series]] by writer Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky and artist Creator/{{Moebius}} and is the center-piece of the former's ComicBook/MetabaronsUniverse. The project was born out of, and recycled many concepts from, the two's failed attempt to make a film adaption of ''[[Film/JodorowskysDune Dune]]''. Despite Jodorowsky having every major event of the comic planned out beforehand, and the series only being 6 volumes long, it took 8 years to complete.
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''The Incal'' (''L'Incal'') is a sci-fi [[ComicBook comic series]] by writer Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky and artist Creator/{{Moebius}} and is the center-piece of the former's ComicBook/MetabaronsUniverse. The project was born out of, and recycled many concepts from, the two's failed attempt to make a [[Film/JodorowskysDune film adaption adaption]] of ''[[Film/JodorowskysDune Dune]]''.''Literature/{{Dune}}''. Despite Jodorowsky having every major event of the comic planned out beforehand, and the series only being 6 volumes long, it took 8 years to complete.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Unlike the one he undergoes in ''The Incal'', the horrors that befall Difool in ''Before the Incal'' aren't nearly as funny.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Unlike the one he undergoes in ''The Incal'', the horrors that befall Difool in ''Before the Incal'' aren't nearly as funny. The whole story is about how John becomes the cynical, distrustful, bitter man we met at the beginning of ''The Incal''.
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* AuthorTract: The series is largely a disquisition of Jodorowsky's "Psychomagic" belief system.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: A number of important cast members in ''Final Incal'' appear to come out of nowhere despite being familiar to Difool, as they were introduced in ''Before the Incal''.
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''The Incal'' (''L'Incal'') is a sci-fi [[ComicBook comic series]] by writer Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky and artist Creator/{{Moebius}} and is the center-piece of the former's ComicBook/MetabaronsUniverse. The project was born out of, and recycled many concepts from, the two's failed attempt to make a film adaption of ''Film/{{Dune}}''. Despite Jodorowsky having every major event of the comic planned out beforehand, and the series only being 6 volumes long, it took 8 years to complete.
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''The Incal'' (''L'Incal'') is a sci-fi [[ComicBook comic series]] by writer Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky and artist Creator/{{Moebius}} and is the center-piece of the former's ComicBook/MetabaronsUniverse. The project was born out of, and recycled many concepts from, the two's failed attempt to make a film adaption of ''Film/{{Dune}}''.''[[Film/JodorowskysDune Dune]]''. Despite Jodorowsky having every major event of the comic planned out beforehand, and the series only being 6 volumes long, it took 8 years to complete.
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* SpiritualPredecessor: Like [[Film/{{Dune}} its inspiration]], a lot of this series' ideas ended up being reused in other works, most notably ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' and ''Film/TheFifthElement''.
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* SpiritualPredecessor: Like [[Film/{{Dune}} [[Franchise/{{Dune}} its inspiration]], a lot of this series' ideas ended up being reused in other works, most notably ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' and ''Film/TheFifthElement''.
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* JerkWithAHeartofGold: John Difool,Luz.
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John Difool is a low-ranking private investigator in the slums of the dystopian planet Terra 2014. After escaping the aftermath of a butchered job, he encounters a Borg, a member of an once imperial alien race that has now passed into myth. The Borg reveal that it had been looking for him and entrusts him with a mystical object, the Light Incal. This naturally makes Difool the target of multiple interplanetary factions that seek to use the artifact's powers for their own goals, not the least of which include the Incal itself.
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John Difool is a low-ranking private investigator in the slums of the dystopian planet Terra 2014. After escaping the aftermath of a butchered job, he encounters a Borg, Berg, a member of an once imperial alien race that has now passed into myth. The Borg reveal Berg reveals that it had been looking for him and entrusts him with a mystical object, the Light Incal. This naturally makes Difool the target of multiple interplanetary factions that seek to use the artifact's powers for their own goals, not the least of which include the Incal itself.
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* DeusExMachina: The Incal has a tendency to bail the heroes out when their task proves insurmountable, but it's quite iffy on when it lends its help.
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* DeusExMachina: In-universe. The Incal has a tendency to bail the heroes out when their task proves insurmountable, but though it's quite iffy on when it lends its help.
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* TarotMotifs: [[WordOfGod According to Jodorowsky]] Difool (and Deepo) is the Fool trump, Solune is a combination of the Sun and the Moon trumps, the Emperoress is a combination of the Emperor and Empress trumps. [[MeaningfulName The names said it all really.]] The Techno-Pope is also meant to correspond with the Hierophant trump and the Technos' tower with the Tower trump. Strangely the ThemedTarotDeck based on the original series was a French-style one and thus didn't utilize the symbolism Jodorowsky based the characters on. There was however an Italian-style one based on Final Incal, but it was only available as a promotional item at Comic-con 2014.
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** [[WordOfGod According to Jodorowsky]] Difool (and Deepo) is the Fool trump, Solune is a combination of the Sun and the Moon trumps, the Emperoress is a combination of the Emperor and Empress trumps. [[MeaningfulName The names said it all really.]] The Techno-Pope is also meant to correspond with the Hierophant trump and the Technos' tower with the Tower trump. Strangely the ThemedTarotDeck based on the original series was a French-style one and thus didn't utilize the symbolism Jodorowsky based the characters on. There was however an Italian-style one based on Final Incal, but it was only available as a promotional item at Comic-con 2014.
** [[WordOfGod According to Jodorowsky]] Difool (and Deepo) is the Fool trump, Solune is a combination of the Sun and the Moon trumps, the Emperoress is a combination of the Emperor and Empress trumps. [[MeaningfulName The names said it all really.]] The Techno-Pope is also meant to correspond with the Hierophant trump and the Technos' tower with the Tower trump. Strangely the ThemedTarotDeck based on the original series was a French-style one and thus didn't utilize the symbolism Jodorowsky based the characters on. There was however an Italian-style one based on Final Incal, but it was only available as a promotional item at Comic-con 2014.
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* PettingZooPeople: Kill Wolfhead, who resembles a dog despite his name in the English translation, and a few others. The sequel and prequel reveal that they are actually genetically modified humans.
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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove:[[spoiler: Luz tearfully confesses her feelings for Difool after he performs a HeroicSacrifice in ''Final Incal''. It helps in bringing him BackFromTheDead.]]
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Happens to Difool and Luz at the end of ''Final Incal,'' as they're taken by the Light and Dark Incal to "help spread love throughout the universe."]]
