History WebAnimation / SpaceKing

* SurroundedByIdiots: High Command does not have a high opinion of the Star Defenders' intelligence, treating them more like insolent and stupid teenagers than legions of bloodthirsty and psychotic super soldiers.

* AlasPoorVillain: Bryce is part of a genocidal organization and he helps his allies attack the Alien Queen but when he's killed by her he has a somewhat heartfelt moment with the Captain before he succumbs to his injuries.

* AssholeVictim: The Captain and Hatemonger are killed off but given they were genocidal xenophobic psychopaths (who were also massive jerks to their own teammates) and the Alien Queen was genuinely reasonably and trying to care for her children, their deaths are entirely karmic.

* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: When facing the Alien Queen, the Star Defenders charge her from two directions, with Hatemonger serving as a distraction so the Captain and Bryce don't get enthralled be her boobs again. Hatemonger gets killed within five seconds, prompting the other two to panic and retreat back behind pillar.

* CharacterDevelopment: The Captain of the Star Defenders reclaimer squad begrudgingly learns a degree of temperance, and how to respect the thoughts and feelings of his battle brothers, even bringing himself to be more open about how much he actually values them. And so he [[spoiler:dies a better man]] than he started the episode as.

** The pilot begins following a boy taken for conversion into a Star Defender, undergoing the enhancement process and being deployed into his first battle with a special assignment from High Command. Then his drop pod gets shot down, at which point we meet up with the Captain and the reclaimer squad. Grievously wounded, he manages to re-enter the plot just long enough to drag himself to the Captain and deliver a message before [[WeHardlyKnewYe bleeding out]]. [[spoiler:He reappears one last time when Captain offers up one of his globules to the female alien.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: The blue alien king may have been overpowered by the much larger Star Defenders, mercilessly beaten, interrogated and had a dubious translator device jammed into his skull, but the moment his foes don't have him physically restrained he pulls a gun and fires one last defiant blast right into the Captains crotch.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The Captain gets so furious that he attempts to call in a Genocide Bomb to kill all 20 billion aliens on the planet they're on...purely because the dying alien king shot him in the crotch and ''slightly chipped'' his armor.

* KarmicDeath: The Captain is killed shortly after he threw a grenade at the Alien Queen and her children, even after the Alien queen returned the Space King's essence back to the relic. Had he just left her alone she wouldn't have attacked him and caused his death.

* MinorInjuryOverreaction: The alien king chipping a tiny piece off his armor causes the Captain to drop a Genocide Bomb on their world, which will wipe out all 20 billion inhabitants.
* MistakenForGay: The captain assumes Hatemonger is gay because he was the only one unaffected by the Female Alien's gigantic... weapons. Hatemonger denies this by saying [[FantasticRacism he just hates aliens]], no matter how attractive they are.

* NoKillLikeOverkill: The Captain has a bad habit of dropping Genocide Bombs at the drop of a hat to the repeated chagrin of both his squad mates and High Command.

* OhCrap: The Captain retracts his visor to show us his horrified expression when he hears from High Command that the planet he's genociding in an all-out war isn't even the right one.

* StupidEvil: The Captain hates Aliens so much he is willing to genocide an entire planet which gets him reprimanded for wasting resources especially since the planet wasn't their original target. He also throws a bomb at the alien after she kept her end of the bargain and was planning on staying out of their way, leading to her attacking him and causing his death.

* VillainProtagonist: The Star Defenders are a bunch of genocidal psychopaths, the Captain being the most dickish of the bunch.
* WideEyedIdealist: Bryce, relative to the other legionnaires anyway. He's more likely to counsel against unnecessarily excessive violence, even if he thinks its pretty sweet, and likes suggesting innovative or unorthodox strategies. His armor even has [[PuppyDogEyes bigger eyes]] to hammer home his more innocent nature.

-->'''High Command''': You're in so much trouble! Not only do you have one of the worst artifact recovery rates of any reclaimer squad in the galaxy, now you're wasting precious geno-bombs too!... Space King will return to us when we've proven our worth! It's no wonder Space King left. Hell, I'd have left too I had you as my sons! Going around the galaxy, doing nothing important...

-->'''High Command'': You're in so much trouble! Not only do you have one of the worst artifact recovery rates of any reclaimer squad in the galaxy, now you're wasting precious geno-bombs too!... Space King will return to us when we've proven our worth! It's no wonder Space King left. Hell, I'd have left too I had you as my sons! Going around the galaxy, doing nothing important...

-->'''High Command'': You're in so much trouble! Not only do you have one of the worst artifact recovery rates of any reclaimer squad in the galaxy, now you're wasting precious geno-bombs too!... Space King will return to us when we've proven our worth! It's no wonder Space King left. Hell, I'd have left too I had you as my sons!

** Bryce seems to be the team's main tech guy, inventing a translating device in addition to having an upgraded weapon comapred to the rest of the Legionaires. He was also the first member to suggest that they need to negotiate with the Alien Queen rather than trying to win a fight they couldn't.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech; High command chews out the Space Defenders for being incompentent.
-->'''High Command'': You're in so much trouble. Not only do you have one of the worst artifact recovery rates of any reclaimer squad in the galaxy, now you're wasting precious geno-bombs too!... Space King will return to us when we've proven our worth! It's no wonder Space King left. Hell, I'd have left too I had you as my son!

* {{Expy}}: Given this is a parody of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' a lot of the characters resemble the characters from there.
* Both the Space King and the High Command are based off the Emperor of Mankind, the Space King being a living legend the Legionaires venerate and the High Command being a skeletal figure bolted to a wall connect to a bunch of tubes which is the current state of the Emperor of Mankind.

* NonMaliciousMonster: The Alien only wanted to negotiate with the Legionaires to bring herself and her children back to the dimension her kin was from. She only attacks them once they attack her first, and even gives back the soul of the Space King back into the aftifact. Not that it stops Captain from attacking her afterwards.

* TheSmartGuy: Hatemonger is mentioned to have a fascination with statistics, is well-studied enough to know the history and nature of the artifact they find, and is quick to deduce potential threats or difficulties for his comrades. He's also the natural choice for interrogating capture foes, but being that he's still a [[PsychopathicManchild Legionnaire]], his idea of "interrogating" is punching his captive in the face and screaming questions at them in a language they don't speak.

* YourAnswerToEverything: Captain's response to any personal indignity or battlefield obstacle is to drop a genocide bomb on it.

** Chestnut's Legion is based off the Apothecaries given his green and white color scheme and recovering the Globules from fallen Legionaires like how the Apothecaries recover gene-seeds from dead Space Marines
** The Noseless blue aliens the Legionaires fought in the beginning resemble the Tau.

** The metal men whose souls remain trapped in their bodies are a clear reference to the Nekrons.

* DefiantToTheEnd: The alien king may have been overpowered by the much larger Star Defenders, mercilessly beaten, interrogated and had a dubious translator device jammed into his skull, but the moment his foes don't have him physically restrained he pulls a gun and fires one last defiant blast right into the Captains crotch.

* AndIMustScream: In "Captain's Sweatshop", Captain went over how he would crush a species of metal men whose souls remain trapped in their bodies regardless of the abuse they get. He demonstrated this by crushing one of them with giant mallets, then stated that it's a method that he uses to make the aglets for the promotional hoodies. Shortly afterwards the camera zooms into one of said aglets, which was letting out a faint screaming sound.