History Series / Lexx

* SpiritualSports: The whole city of Gametown is based around this concept.

* PortalDoor: In order to travel between the two universes, you have to locate one of these.

* InsomniaEpisode: "Patches in the Sky." The Lexx visits a space station because Stan hopes the technology there can help him with the insomnia caused by his [[BadDreams Bad Dreams]].

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Blackpack, a pincer-shaped DisintegratorRay that always seems
awkward to use (and shows consistent SpecialEffectFailure).

* AutoKitchen: I suppose you could call the phallic appendages that extrude tasteless grey paste that.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The Black Pack, a pincer-shaped disintegrator that always seemed to be awkward to use and showed consistent SpecialEffectFailure.

* BlackComedyRape: Quite a lot.
** Revealed to have happened to Stan in the backstory in ''Gigashadow''. It was what broke his will and got him to reveal (part of) the data shipment he was carrying.

* CameBackWrong: 790 was a reasonably contributing member of the crew in season 2, who Zev risked a lot to save. Unfortunately, after a few traumatic reboots and some brain damage, the robotic personality took a turn for the worse.
** Most of the "life-essences" that reincarnate on Earth after the destruction of [[spoiler: Water and Fire]] seem worse for the wear. The living Kai is an incoherent performance artist whose idea of method acting involves stapling up his feet, Bunny has turned into [[TheDitz a complete nitwit]] as well as a cheerleader for President [[NukeEm Nuke 'Em]], Moss is a conspiracy nut who thinks that all numbers which can be multiplied or divided to make the number 6 demonstrate evil, and Lulu (likely the reincarnation of either season-2 Lyekka or the human Lyekka that Stan knew as a teenager) steals the Lexx and releases [[spoiler: Vlad, who had been trapped in a cryopod]].

** His Shadow's realm. Late fees are paid in [[OrganTheft organ donations]] and the government expects religious fanaticism. Also, what can one really say about a regime crazy enough to have built the Lexx in the first place?

** It isn't just His Shadow's realm that's a CrapsackWorld - the ''entire universe'' - well, both of them - definitely apply for this trope.

* CripplingOverspecialization: The ''Lexx's'' only weapon/defense is its WaveMotionGun. This has caused its fair share of problems during the series, most involving unwanted boarders.

* {{Cyborg}}: Kai has been decarbonized, contains "microscopic biomechanical systems," and has metal components in his chest and groin.

* ImmuneToBullets: Kai. On many occasions, enemies fire their Blackpacks at him and are understandably shocked that Kai can NoSell the DisintegratorRay[=s=] without breaking stride.

* JustBeforeTheEnd: Season four is this for Earth. As 790 notes, it's a "class-13 planet" which will almost certainly destroy itself within the year, most likely in an accident caused by scientists researching the Higgs-Boson particle. It doesn't help matters that everyone from Fire and Water has reincarnated on Earth, and most of them [[CameBackWrong Came Back Wrong]]. [[spoiler: 790 himself preempts Earth's anticipated fate by having the Lexx blow up the planet, when he decides that one of Dr. Longbore's students is competition for Kai.]]

* MsFanservice: Xev/Zev. Justified since she was altered to be a "love slave" and meant to look attractive.

* ShinyNewAustralia: Newfoundland, England.

* BrokenBird: Stan is revealed as this in the fourth movie, when we learn how he was made to reveal (part of) what he was carrying. [[spoiler: He was raped, repeatedly, over a relatively prolonged period, by someone who REALLY ENJOYED raping him. Nobody is ever the same after that kind of thing.]]

* CrapsackWorld: His Shadow's realm. Late fees are paid in [[OrganTheft organ donations]] and the government expects religious fanaticism. Also, what can one really say about a regime crazy enough to have built the Lexx in the first place? And this is in the ''Light'' Universe. For a while, it seems like the propaganda about the Dark Zone being worse on account of not having a universe-spanning government is just that; propaganda. It turns out the propaganda is true.

* DepravedHomosexual: The mercenaries in "Giga Shadow", Feppo and Smoor.

* ExtremeLibido: Zev. Her Love Slave transformation gives her an amplified appetite for sex, and the infusion of Cluster lizard makes her especially aggressive in seeking it.

* SapientShip: Lexx can speak directly to its crew, and its hobbies include blowing up planets.

-->'''Kai''': I've killed mothers with their babies. I've killed great philosophers, proud young warriors, and revolutionaries. I've killed the evil, the good, the intelligent, the weak, and the beautiful. But... it's been a while... since I ''slaughtered'' a roomful of petty bureaucrats!

-->'''Kai''': I killed mothers with their babies. I've killed great philosophers, proud young warriors, and revolutionaries. I've killed the evil, the good, the intelligent, the weak, and the beautiful. I have done this in the service of His Divine Shadow and his predecessors, and I have never ''once'' shown any ''mercy''.

* DarkIsEvil: His Divine Shadow is evil. You can tell, because his title has the word "shadow" in it and he and his {{Mooks}} dress [[GoodColorsEvilColors all in black]].

* BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame: Parodied in "ApocaLexx Now." First, a group of long-term [=POWs=], just freed by the Lexx's crew, storms the golf course at an international summit. Then Pope G.G. Rota gets the idea to capture Stan and Priest and aim her balls at gas cans over their heads. The crew of the Lexx never realizes that any of this is outside the rules of the game.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Averted in "Fire and Water." When the Lexx runs out of fuel and food, the crew members utilize cryopods, power-down mode, and, in the case of the Lexx itself, normal sleep to drift until a celestial object draws them into its orbit. Over 4,000 years pass before this happens.

The show takes UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud's axiom that the sex drive and the death drive are the two main forces controlling human nature: Stanley Tweedle, security guard (Level 4, the lowest), Zev Bellringer or 3BK, a woman who was forcibly converted into a love slave for failing to perform her wifely duties (she's got the looks and the libido, but none of the mental imprinting), Kai, an undead assassin, and 790, a robot head (that got the mental conditioning intended for Zev) zoom around the galaxy looking to get laid. They never learn lessons and blow up every planet they visit. Rinse and repeat. Take the fatalism of Wagnerian opera, the budget of a Sega CD game, and the logic (and sometimes acting) of softcore porn, and that's ''Lexx''.

The show takes UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud's axiom that the sex drive and the death drive are the two main forces controlling human nature: A security guard (Level 4, the lowest), a woman who was forcibly converted into a love slave for failing to perform her wifely duties (she's got the looks and the libido, but none of the mental imprinting), an undead assassin, and a robot zoom around the galaxy looking to get laid. They never learn lessons and blow up every planet they visit. Rinse and repeat. Take the fatalism of Wagnerian opera, the budget of a Sega CD game, and the logic (and sometimes acting) of softcore porn, and that's ''Lexx''.

* PlantAliens: Lyekka's race.

We open in the [[DarkWorld alternate]] "Light Universe", which is ruled by His Divine Shadow. He claims to protect the Light Universe from the evils of the "Dark Universe", but it's later revealed that the Dark Universe is our universe. He converts a giant insect into an unstoppable killing machine called the Lexx. This thing is like a '69 Mustang which he's been restoring, and he can't wait to use it. Then a quartet of idiots somehow steal the deadliest weapon ever made from the most evil being to ever exist, and now must run for their lives.

* GhostPlanet: The Brunnen-G evacuated their original planet thousands of years ago. The only person they are known to have left behind was one particularly obnoxious poet, who created holographic versions of himself that haunt the Memory Bank.

* HillbillyHorrors: Parodied with Vermal, the Golleans' home planet. It's a feud-plagued, xenophobic backwater where the greatest known entertainment seems to involve stringing people over small bonfires, to the sound of repetitive, vaguely Appalachian-ish music.

* IronicEcho: "Oink." (ItMakesSenseInContext.)

* DisposableSexWorker: The villain of the episode "Luvliner" thinks nothing of vaporizing the eponymous space brothel's employees on a whim. Not much later, an employee of a pleasure cruiser is murdered by [[spoiler: the grand prosecutor]] to demonstrate that she's turned on by killing people. Despite the entire episode taking place on the pleasure cruiser, no other workers show up to protest or seek revenge.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: No one seems to notice that the President of the United States has a very noticeable German accent.

* OnlyOneName: Kai. He does sometimes add, "Last of the Brunnen-G" to it, though.

* ParentalIncest: Very, very heavily implied to be going on between Pa Gollean and his daughter Sissy in "White Trash".

* ShotgunWedding: Very nearly happens to Stan and Sissy in "White Trash", after they are caught in bed together by Sissy's father.

* TestosteronePoisoning: Parodied in "Love Grows". After swapping genders, Stan and the male {{space trucker}}s become absurdly meek, while Xev and the sole female SpaceTrucker become women-obsessed, chauvinistic {{jerk|ass}}s.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Poet Man from "Super Nova".

* StarfishRobots: The pilot movie has a small dragonfly-like robot bomb.

* SeriousBusiness: The TV ratings in ''Lafftrack'' resulted in a war, which then resulted in the annihilation of two races.

* SpeechImpediment: Bog from "Eating Pattern" has a fairly bad stutter.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: The Gigashadow talks too much for its own good.

* AsteroidMiners: A flashback in "Mantrid" reveals that one of these [[SealedEvilInACan woke up]] [[spoiler: a survivor of the Insect Civilization]]. In "Patches in the Sky," Stan threatens to blow up a planet of robotic manganese-miners in 60 seconds unless they tell him something that improves his mood. [[spoiler: They do, but unfortunately, Stan neglects to make sure the Lexx stops its countdown.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Early on in "Gigashadow" Stanley asks the Lexx if it can sift things out of what it eats. Later, it rescues Stanley by eating the ship he's on.

* ChildEater: Cluster Lizards prove to be this in the PilotMovie. Kinda not a problem, since the kids were all the cream of the crop ''chosen'' by His Divine Shadow who probably would have been like outer space Hitler Youth or something.

* ComedicSociopathy: A feature of many of the series villians.
* ComputerizedJudicialSystem: The unnamed rail assisted holographic court with a judge, a defense hologram that switches to an executioner hologram at sentening, and a prosecutor hologram that doubles as a BloodSport announcer, decided by a MentalPictureProjector instead of a jury and with several 790 series bailiffs.

* CurseCutShort: An example of this occurs in one of 790's attempts at Xev-centric poetry:

* DeadlyEuphemism: In the second episode, "Super Nova", the place the group lands at stores countless people's memories, and makes references of the "Burst of Life", making it sound like some kind of celebration of life and good experiences. Poet Man (an independent hologram played by Tim Curry) clarifies that it's "burst" as in "bubble burst" or "balloon burst"... and, as it turns out, the place outright murders people by slicing them in half, then storing a thin cutout along with an extracted memory record.

* DisasterDominoes: The automated judicial system from "I Worship His Divine Shadow" goes from small mistakes to large disasters from Stanley flicking away a smart incendiary grenade the size and shape of a bug.

* HurlItIntoTheSun: How the pirates in "Luvliner" plan to destroy Kai.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Poetman from "Super Nova".
* SmarmyHost / [[DepravedKidsShowHost Depraved Host]]: The host on the TV planet in "Lafftrack".