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Trope name is Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale, not any of its subpages. Discussion here.


* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance: In the first issue, Valerian says Arcturus is several thousand lightyears from Earth but in RealLife it's only 36.7.

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* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance: SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: In the first issue, Valerian says Arcturus is several thousand lightyears from Earth but in RealLife it's only 36.7.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Laureline has red hair and a [[FieryRedhead personality to match]].
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2 French authors, French publisher. Nothing Belgian here.


''Valérian'' (later ''Valérian et Laureline'') is a French-Belgian comic book series by Jean-Claude Mézières and Pierre Christin published from 1967 to 2010.

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''Valérian'' (later ''Valérian et Laureline'') is a French-Belgian French comic book series by Jean-Claude Mézières and Pierre Christin published from 1967 to 2010.

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Baleful Polymorph was renamed per TRS


* BalefulPolymorph: Xombul uses magic to turn people into his monster army.



* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The very first story involved actual magic, mainly used to [[BalefulPolymorph turn people into animals]], including a {{Unicorn}} (with the ability to read minds). While the following stories have their fair share of outlandish alien powers and technologies with very weird effcts, this is the only story where magic as such was featured.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The very first story involved actual magic, mainly used to [[BalefulPolymorph [[ForcedTransformation turn people into animals]], including a {{Unicorn}} (with the ability to read minds). While the following stories have their fair share of outlandish alien powers and technologies with very weird effcts, this is the only story where magic as such was featured.


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* ForcedTransformation: Xombul uses magic to turn people into his monster army.
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* SexuallyTransmittedSuperpowers: In "On The Frontiers" the former Spatiotemporal Agent Jal seduces Kristna, an alien of an unnamed race, in a cruiser in order to apropriate of her amazing powers (breathing in the vacuum, ParanormalGamblingAdvantage and HandBlast). Since he's dressing an armor like her, Kristna thinks he's from her race. When she learns he's human, she refuses him because InterspeciesRomance is lethal for her race; Jal [[MoralEventHorizon desperately rapes her]] and uses his freshly-stolen powers to force the captain of the cruiser ship to give him an escape pod to Earth. He uses his gambling powers to become rich and lead terrorist operations, in order to cause a nuclear war that will restore the timeline and the future he and Valerian have came from. However, he is haunted by his memories of Kristna, [[spoiler: and his stolen powers eventually wear off.]]
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When was Laureline ever "presented to the audience as not particularly attractive", per the trope description?


* SheCleansUpNicely: Laureline is fond of fancy outfits.

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%% * SheCleansUpNicely: Laureline is fond of fancy outfits.
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** Also note how the Master's opponents think only of taking its place when they have defeated it. Valérian has to shame them out of the idea.
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** This finally gets a callback in ''In Uncertain Times'' (2001) when Laureline sends LCF Sat back in time to receive a magical treatment for his fly problem.

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