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* AmusingInjuries: One of Roth's fingers gets shot off in a training accident, and it is treated as humorous. Averted with most of the other injuries shown, which are treated seriously.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Neither Steinbech nor Zamora have much claim to the moral high ground. Even the nominally heroic Steiners live in a military dictatorship.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Neither Steinbech nor Zamora have much claim to are really upstanding countries, but the moral high ground. Even former is shown to be less brutal than the nominally heroic Steiners live in latter. [[spoiler: Steinbech holds racist attitudes towards Zamorans, used firebombs on Zamorian Cities during the last war, and during the current war handed power from a freely elected parliament to a military dictatorship.dictatorship. However the Zamorians perform grisly human experiments in an effort to produce super soldiers, assassinated the Steinbech Prime Minister, and attacked Steinbech cities.]]
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Recent updates make clear that the war was in fact Steinbech and Zamora against Boyarov, and it's not clear Steinbech "won."
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* CycleOfRevenge: Steiner originally attacked Zamora for unclear reasons. The Zamorans of today hate them for it, to the point of infiltrating their bases and sabotaging their weapons. This, understandably, annoys the Steiners, and around and around it goes. Roth is nearly killed by a scout who beats him bloody because her family was killed by Steiners when she was eight--never mind that he was twelve at the time, and thus clearly not in any way responsible.
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* CycleOfRevenge: Steiner originally attacked Zamora for unclear reasons. The Zamorans of today hate them for it, still resent Steinbech's actions during the war [[spoiler:against Boyarov]], to the point of infiltrating their bases and sabotaging their weapons. This, understandably, annoys the Steiners, and around and around it goes. Roth is nearly killed by a scout who beats him bloody because her family was killed by she blames Steiners for her family's death when she was eight--never mind that he was twelve at the time, and thus clearly not in any way responsible.
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** The Zamorans are harder to pin down in terms of culture, but the origin of the name points to them being from a counterpart of Spain. (Zamora is a province in Spain, as well as the name of the capital city of said province.)
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** The Zamorans are harder to pin down in terms of culture, but the origin of the name name, as well as place names and characters' names, points to them being from a counterpart of Spain. (Zamora is a province in Spain, as well as the name of the capital city of said province.)
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* PoliceState: When Steinebech enters a state of war, the civilian government steps down and the military takes full control of the country. When Steinebech went back to war against Zamora, the first thing General Eckstein did was have any Zamoran or anyone of Zamoran descent arrested on suspicion of espionage.
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* PoliceState: When Steinebech enters a state of war, the civilian government steps down and the military takes full control of the country. When Steinebech went back to war against Zamora, the first thing General Eckstein did was have any Zamoran or anyone of Zamoran descent arrested on suspicion of espionage.
* TomatoSurprise: The audience is led to believe that the comic begins in the aftermath of a war between Steinbech and Zamora; [[spoiler:in fact, they were on the same side]].
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* WhamLine: Page 378. [[spoiler: "...Dad?"]]
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Steinbech. They won the previous war and imposed some terms, but Zamora has clearly broken whatever treaty they had, is trying to create more super soldiers and is waging a guerrilla war against Steinbech. [[spoiler: As of comic 465 they have assassinated Steinbech's chancelor.]]
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Steinbech. They won the previous war and imposed some terms, but Zamora has clearly broken whatever treaty they had, is trying to create more super soldiers and is waging a guerrilla war against Steinbech. [[spoiler: As of comic 465 they have assassinated Steinbech's chancelor.]]
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* WhamLine: Page 378. [[spoiler: "...Dad?"]]
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Steinbech. They won the previous war and imposed some terms, but Zamora has clearly broken whatever treaty they had, is trying to create more super soldiers and is waging a guerrilla war against Steinbech. [[spoiler: As of comic 465 they have assassinated Steinbech's chancelor.]]Dad?"]]
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Steinbech. They won the previous war and imposed some terms, but Zamora has clearly broken whatever treaty they had, is trying to create more super soldiers and is waging a guerrilla war against Steinbech. [[spoiler: As of comic 465 they have assassinated Steinbech's chancelor.]]
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** [[spoiler:Later becomes a standard unit in the Steinbech military. [[LensmanArmsRace Of course, now Zamora has genetically engineered Volants...]]]]
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A webcomic by Melissa Albino, aka Nalem, ''[[http://www.lighterthanheir.com/ Lighter Than Heir]]'' is about Zeppelin von Schultheiss, a volant girl who's also the daughter of Hemmel Von Schultheiss. Due to being recognized as the daughter of a war hero, Zeppelin didn't take too kindly to anything she did being ignored so when she turned nineteen, she signed up for the military in hopes of becoming an even bigger war hero. With an ego as big as hers, she'll be in for a surprise.
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A webcomic by Melissa Albino, aka Nalem, ''[[http://www.lighterthanheir.com/ Lighter Than Heir]]'' is about the story of Zeppelin von Schultheiss, a volant (flying human) girl who's also tired of living in the shadow of her famous father. Growing up as the only daughter of Hemmel Von Schultheiss. Due to being recognized as the daughter of a deceased war hero, hero left Zeppelin didn't take too kindly to anything she did being ignored with high expectations and a massive chip on her shoulder, so when she turned nineteen, she signed up for the military in hopes of becoming as soon as she could, determined to become an even bigger war hero. hero than he was. With an ego as big as hers, she'll be in for a surprise.
surprise, because the army is not known for catering to the whims of 19 year old girls, even if they are the only daughter of the late, great Major Hemmel Von Schultheiss.
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* AnArmAndALeg: The comic does not shy from showing the horrific effects of military weaponry
* BloodKnight: Zeppelin, shading into TheBerserker after she escapes Doctor Villalobos. Face her in combat and she will kill you, even if she has to sacrifice parts of her own body to do so.
* BloodKnight: Zeppelin, shading into TheBerserker after she escapes Doctor Villalobos. Face her in combat and she will kill you, even if she has to sacrifice parts of her own body to do so.
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* ArtificialLimbs: The Steiners use their mecha technology to replace the limbs that have been blown (or sliced, or burned) off of their soldiers.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Neither Steinbech nor Zamora have much claim to the moral high ground. Even the nominally heroic Steiners live in a military dictatorship.
* BloodKnight: Zeppelin, shading into TheBerserker after she escapes Doctor Villalobos. Face her in combat and she will kill you, even if she has to sacrifice parts of her own body to do so. Already HotBlooded with a hair-trigger BerserkButton and a well-founded hatred for the Zamorans, Zeppelin is teetering on the brink of becoming something much worse. Hertz recognizes the signs even if nobody else does.
* ArtificialLimbs: The Steiners use their mecha technology to replace the limbs that have been blown (or sliced, or burned) off of their soldiers.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Neither Steinbech nor Zamora have much claim to the moral high ground. Even the nominally heroic Steiners live in a military dictatorship.
* BloodKnight: Zeppelin, shading into TheBerserker after she escapes Doctor Villalobos. Face her in combat and she will kill you, even if she has to sacrifice parts of her own body to do so. Already HotBlooded with a hair-trigger BerserkButton and a well-founded hatred for the Zamorans, Zeppelin is teetering on the brink of becoming something much worse. Hertz recognizes the signs even if nobody else does.
* DisappearedDad: Zeppelin is still angry at her father for failing to return. Finding out what actually happened to him is even worse.
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* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Steinebech. They won the previous war and imposed some terms, but Zamora has clearly broken whatever treaty they had, is trying to create more super soldiers and is waging a guerrila war against Steinbech. [[spoiler: As of comic 465 they have assassinated Steinbech's chancelor.]]
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* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Steinebech. Steinbech. They won the previous war and imposed some terms, but Zamora has clearly broken whatever treaty they had, is trying to create more super soldiers and is waging a guerrila guerrilla war against Steinbech. [[spoiler: As of comic 465 they have assassinated Steinbech's chancelor.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: [[GeniusDitz Ada]] [[GadgeteerGenius Fleischer]], [[SatisfiedStreetRat Fritz]] [[BoisterousBruiser Roth]], [[SmallNameBigEgo Zeppelin]] [[FlyingBrick Von Schultheiss]], [[TheStoic Emmerich]] [[NervesOfSteel Hertz]], [[TheHeart Ria]] [[FriendlySniper Klein]], [[TheStoic Hertz]], and [[ButtMonkey Mathis]] [[ActionSurvivor Schultz]].]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: [[GeniusDitz Ada]] [[GadgeteerGenius Fleischer]], [[SatisfiedStreetRat Fritz]] [[BoisterousBruiser Roth]], [[SmallNameBigEgo Zeppelin]] [[FlyingBrick Von Schultheiss]], [[TheStoic Emmerich]] [[NervesOfSteel Hertz]], [[TheHeart Ria]] [[FriendlySniper Klein]], [[TheStoic Hertz]], and [[ButtMonkey Mathis]] [[ActionSurvivor Schultz]].]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:From left toright; [[ButtMonkey Schultz]], right: [[GeniusDitz Ada]] [[GadgeteerGenius Fleischer]], [[SatisfiedStreetRat Fritz]] [[BoisterousBruiser Roth]], [[SmallNameBigEgo Zeppelin]] [[FlyingBrick Von Schultheiss]], [[TheStoic Emmerich]] [[NervesOfSteel Hertz]], [[TheHeart Ria]] [[FriendlySniper Klein]], [[TheStoic Hertz]], and [[SmallNameBigEgo Zeppelin Von Schultheiss]].[[ButtMonkey Mathis]] [[ActionSurvivor Schultz]].]]
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* WalkOnWater: Anyone who's a volant is capable of this due to being buoyant enough not to sink.
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* AnArmAndALeg: The comic does not shy from showing the horrific effects of military weaponry
* BloodKnight: Zeppelin, shading into TheBerserker after she escapes Doctor Villalobos. Face her in combat and she will kill you, even if she has to sacrifice parts of her own body to do so.
* BloodKnight: Zeppelin, shading into TheBerserker after she escapes Doctor Villalobos. Face her in combat and she will kill you, even if she has to sacrifice parts of her own body to do so.
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* TheUnfettered: Doctor Villalobos gleefully experiments on unwilling human subjects
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** [[spoiler: Her disastrous tour of Zamora and finding her father's butchered corpse]] have done a much better job of being this trope.
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Updates every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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* PoliceState: When Steinebech enters a state of war, the civilian government steps down and the military takes full control of the country. When Steinebech went back to war against Zamora, the first thing General Eckstein did was have any Zamoran or people of Zamoran descent arrested on suspicion of espionage.
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* PoliceState: When Steinebech enters a state of war, the civilian government steps down and the military takes full control of the country. When Steinebech went back to war against Zamora, the first thing General Eckstein did was have any Zamoran or people anyone of Zamoran descent arrested on suspicion of espionage.
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* PoliceState: When Steinebech enters a state of war, the civilian government steps down and the military takes full control of the country. When Steinebech went back to war against Zamora, the first thing General Eckstein did was have any Zamoran or people of Zamoran descent arrested on suspicion of espionage.
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* CycleOfRevenge: Steiner originally attacked Zamora for unclear reasons. The Zamorans of today hate them for it, to the point of infiltrating their bases and sabotaging their weapons. This, understandably, annoys the Steiners, and around and around it goes. Roth is nearly killed by a scout who beats him bloody because her family was killed by Steiners when she was eight--never mind that he was twelve at the time, and thus clearly not in any way responsible.
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* {{Hypocrite}}:
** For a country that hates all machines, the Zamorans sure have a lot of guns.
** The scientist in charge of the Zamoran volant project claims that human enhancement is totally different than the technology the Zamorans hate. However, she seems to be a bit sarcastic and just seems to be paying lip service to the idea. She doesn't seem to be Zamoran at all, and even experimented on Steiners in the past.
** For a country that hates all machines, the Zamorans sure have a lot of guns.
** The scientist in charge of the Zamoran volant project claims that human enhancement is totally different than the technology the Zamorans hate. However, she seems to be a bit sarcastic and just seems to be paying lip service to the idea. She doesn't seem to be Zamoran at all, and even experimented on Steiners in the past.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: There's a ''long'' list.
** Vogel intentionally got the team lost instead of just telling them that he didn't want to show up home with some Steiner medical tech on his arm. This led to them wandering a bombed-out ruin that had become a secret research facility.
** The volants guarding said research facility refused to believe that the team was escorting a Zamoran home, and immediately attacked.
** When they finally got Vogel home, Hertz and Roth went to use the old Steiner radio tower without asking any questions. Vogel would have been able to tell them that it had been repurposed into a military outpost, and was off limits.
** When one of the scouts saw Hertz and Roth approaching, she nearly killed them, assuming they were spies, and refused to listen to anything to the contrary. She later lied to her superiors, claiming Roth fell off the tower instead of admitting she beat him up herself.
** When they're in prison, the prime minister doesn't believe them either--partly because of the scout lying to her, and partly because the Zamoran they claim to be escorting is nowhere to be found. But at least she started by asking why they were in the country.
--->'''Hertz:''' WHY ARE YOU ''THE FIRST PERSON TO ASK THAT!?''
** Hertz managed to get a message back to Steiner before they were arrested, so Austerlitz rolls in like he owns the place, having not even bothered to call ahead and let the Zamorans know he's coming to peacefully extract his men.
** And ''someone'' (possibly the Zamoran prime minister, possibly someone else entirely) is organizing Zamoran youths to infiltrate Steiner and cripple their infrastructure, which is a large part of what started the war.
** Vogel intentionally got the team lost instead of just telling them that he didn't want to show up home with some Steiner medical tech on his arm. This led to them wandering a bombed-out ruin that had become a secret research facility.
** The volants guarding said research facility refused to believe that the team was escorting a Zamoran home, and immediately attacked.
** When they finally got Vogel home, Hertz and Roth went to use the old Steiner radio tower without asking any questions. Vogel would have been able to tell them that it had been repurposed into a military outpost, and was off limits.
** When one of the scouts saw Hertz and Roth approaching, she nearly killed them, assuming they were spies, and refused to listen to anything to the contrary. She later lied to her superiors, claiming Roth fell off the tower instead of admitting she beat him up herself.
** When they're in prison, the prime minister doesn't believe them either--partly because of the scout lying to her, and partly because the Zamoran they claim to be escorting is nowhere to be found. But at least she started by asking why they were in the country.
--->'''Hertz:''' WHY ARE YOU ''THE FIRST PERSON TO ASK THAT!?''
** Hertz managed to get a message back to Steiner before they were arrested, so Austerlitz rolls in like he owns the place, having not even bothered to call ahead and let the Zamorans know he's coming to peacefully extract his men.
** And ''someone'' (possibly the Zamoran prime minister, possibly someone else entirely) is organizing Zamoran youths to infiltrate Steiner and cripple their infrastructure, which is a large part of what started the war.
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* EvilLuddite: Zamorans hate Steiner war machines and seem to dislike technology in general. [[spoiler: [[DoubleStandard Their government doesn't seem to mind using technology to breed or create super soldiers though]]...]]
* LensmanArmsRace: Looks it's heading this way with Zamoran volant super soldiers versus Steiner mechas.
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* WhamLine: Page 378. [[spoiler: "...Dad?"]]Dad?"]]
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Steinebech. They won the previous war and imposed some terms, but Zamora has clearly broken whatever treaty they had, is trying to create more super soldiers and is waging a guerrila war against Steinbech. [[spoiler: As of comic 465 they have assassinated Steinbech's chancelor.]]
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Steinebech. They won the previous war and imposed some terms, but Zamora has clearly broken whatever treaty they had, is trying to create more super soldiers and is waging a guerrila war against Steinbech. [[spoiler: As of comic 465 they have assassinated Steinbech's chancelor.]]
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* BreakTheHaughty:
** Austerlitz admits that a big part of his DrillSergeantNasty training was supposed to do this for Zeppelin. Despite it failing, he grudgingly lets her graduate from training with the rest. Time will tell if this actually happens.
** Austerlitz admits that a big part of his DrillSergeantNasty training was supposed to do this for Zeppelin. Despite it failing, he grudgingly lets her graduate from training with the rest. Time will tell if this actually happens.
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**BreakTheHaughty: Austerlitz admits that a big part of his DrillSergeantNasty training was supposed to do this for Zeppelin. Despite it failing, he grudgingly lets her graduate from training with the rest. Time will tell if this actually happens.
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** Going by the names and general behavior, the Steiners are obviously German in heritage, with some of them (including Zeppelin) spouting off a few phrases in German from time to time.
** The Zamorans are harder to pin down in terms of culture, but the origin of the name points to them being from a counterpart of Spain. (Zamora is a province in Spain, as well as the name of the capital city of said province.)
* HeroicBSOD: Ria, after sniping someone to save Austerlitz.
** Going by the names and general behavior, the Steiners are obviously German in heritage, with some of them (including Zeppelin) spouting off a few phrases in German from time to time.
** The Zamorans are harder to pin down in terms of culture, but the origin of the name points to them being from a counterpart of Spain. (Zamora is a province in Spain, as well as the name of the capital city of said province.)
* HeroicBSOD: Ria, after sniping someone to save Austerlitz.
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* ScarsAreForever: Hertz has a strange set of scars on his back. [[spoiler:They're from a failed procedure to turn him into a volant. Zeppelin later finds herself injured in the same manner by a similar machine, in an effort to vivisect her and learn more about volants.]]
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: [[spoiler: Zeppelin wakes up (after having being shot down) cocooned inside a steampunk-ish version of this.]]
* SuperSoldier: [[spoiler:It turns out that the Zamorans have been trying to create artificial volants for years. Hertz is an early victim of a failed procedure to do so.]]
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: [[spoiler: Zeppelin wakes up (after having being shot down) cocooned inside a steampunk-ish version of this.]]
* SuperSoldier: [[spoiler:It turns out that the Zamorans have been trying to create artificial volants for years. Hertz is an early victim of a failed procedure to do so.]]
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** Austerlitz admits that a big part of his DrillSergeantNasty training was supposed to do this for Zeppelin. Despite it failing, he grudgingly lets her graduate from training with the rest. Time will tell if this actually happens.
** Austerlitz admits that a big part of his DrillSergeantNasty training was supposed to do this for Zeppelin. Despite it failing, he grudgingly lets her graduate from training with the rest. Time will tell if this actually happens.
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* MildlyMilitary: Played with. The majority of the military does run on fairly tight discipline. The squad of the protagonists...not so much. The military's only concern military brass doesn't seem overly concerned, though. [[spoiler:This is because they are more focused on the possibility of the war re-starting.]]
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* WellDoneDaughterGirl: Zepplin suffers from this bad in regards to her father. What makes it brutal is that he died a war hero when she was a little girl.
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A webcomic by Melissa Albino, aka Nalem, ''[[http://www.lighterthanheir.com/ Lighter Than Heir]]'' is about Zeppelin Von Schultheiss, a volant girl who's also the daughter of Hemmel Von Schultheiss. Due to being recognized as the daughter of a war hero, Zeppelin didn't take too kindly to anything she did being ignored so when she turned nineteen, she signed up for the military in hopes of becoming an even bigger war hero. With an ego as big as hers, she'll be in for a surprise.
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A webcomic by Melissa Albino, aka Nalem, ''[[http://www.lighterthanheir.com/ Lighter Than Heir]]'' is about Zeppelin Von von Schultheiss, a volant girl who's also the daughter of Hemmel Von Schultheiss. Due to being recognized as the daughter of a war hero, Zeppelin didn't take too kindly to anything she did being ignored so when she turned nineteen, she signed up for the military in hopes of becoming an even bigger war hero. With an ego as big as hers, she'll be in for a surprise.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: Of many things.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: Of many things.
DrillSergeantNasty: Sergeant Austerlitz, who is actually a decorated veteran. In an interesting twist, it doesn't fully work in instilling discipline in the squad of the protagonists (see MildlyMilitary). [[spoiler:Then again, this is possibly due to the saboteur and spy who had infiltrated their squad.]]
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* MildlyMilitary: Played with. The majority of the military here whips back and forth from does run on fairly tight discipline. The squad of the protagonists...not so much. The military's only concern
* TheMole: It becomes very clear early on that there is one on the training grounds. [[spoiler:It turns out to be Kurt Grunwald, who not only feigned beingbugshit crazy to exceptionally casual, and makes sure to stay far clear of ideas broken by the training, but is also secretly a volant like "discipline". It makes for a more amusing story that way.Zepplin.]]
* TheMole: It becomes very clear early on that there is one on the training grounds. [[spoiler:It turns out to be Kurt Grunwald, who not only feigned being
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* CerebusSyndrome: Even in its more violent and dramatic bits, the strip stays relatively lighthearted - until Zeppelin [[spoiler:is vivisected, then finds her father's corpse]], at which point [[TwoLinesNoWaiting all the plotlines]] start to get very dark, very fast.
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** [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jerks With A Heart Of Gold]]: Roth when Fleischer's around.
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** [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jerks With A Heart Of Gold]]: Roth when Fleischer's around.around, Austerlitz due to actually wanting to create great soldiers ([[ComedicSociopathy doesn't stop him from taking amusement in other's pain.]])
* MoodWhiplash: After [[spoiler: getting treated to seeing whatever's left of her dad]], we cut immediately to a flashback of an adorable Zeppelin celebrating her fifth birthday.
* MoodWhiplash: After [[spoiler: getting treated to seeing whatever's left of her dad]], we cut immediately to a flashback of an adorable Zeppelin celebrating her fifth birthday.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Our main cast from left to right; [[LovableCoward Schultz]], [[GeniusDitz Fleischer]], [[SelfMadeOrphan Roth]], [[TheHeart Klein]], [[TheStoic Hertz]], and [[SmallNameBigEgo Zeppelin Von Schultheiss]].]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: Our main cast from left to right; Schultz, [[LovableCoward Schultz]], [[GeniusDitz Fleischer]], [[SelfMadeOrphan Roth]], [[TheHeart Klein]], [[TheStoic Hertz]], and [[SmallNameBigEgo Zeppelin Von Schultheiss]].]]
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Since they all enter training camp.
* {{Jerkass}}:Zeppelin.
Roth and Austerlitz, Hertz to an extent, but Zeppelin is the main offender.
** [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jerks With A Heart Of Gold]]: Roth when Fleischer's around.
* {{Steampunk}}: Some influences are there, such as the machines they pilot and the metallic armcast.cast.
* WalkOnWater: Anyone who's a volant is capable of this due to being buoyant enough not to sink.
* WhamLine: Page 378 [[spoiler: ...Dad?]]
* {{Jerkass}}:
** [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jerks With A Heart Of Gold]]: Roth when Fleischer's around.
* {{Steampunk}}: Some influences are there, such as the machines they pilot and the metallic arm
* WalkOnWater: Anyone who's a volant is capable of this due to being buoyant enough not to sink.
* WhamLine: Page 378 [[spoiler: ...Dad?]]
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* {{Jerkass}}: Zeppelin.
* {{Steampunk}}: Some influences are there, such as the machine they pilot.
* {{Steampunk}}: Some influences are there, such as the machine they pilot.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Our main cast from left to right; Schultz, Fleischer, Roth, Klein, Hertz, and Zeppelin Von Schultheiss]]
A webcomic by Nalem, ''[[http://www.lighterthanheir.com/ Lighter Than Heir]]'' is about Zeppelin Von Schultheiss, a volant girl who's also the daughter of Hemmel Von Schultheiss. Due to being recognized as the daughter of a war hero, Zeppelin didn't take too kindly to anything she did being ignored so when she turned nineteen, she signed up for the military in hopes of becoming an even bigger war hero. With an ego as big as hers, she'll be in for a surprise.
Updates every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
A webcomic by Nalem, ''[[http://www.lighterthanheir.com/ Lighter Than Heir]]'' is about Zeppelin Von Schultheiss, a volant girl who's also the daughter of Hemmel Von Schultheiss. Due to being recognized as the daughter of a war hero, Zeppelin didn't take too kindly to anything she did being ignored so when she turned nineteen, she signed up for the military in hopes of becoming an even bigger war hero. With an ego as big as hers, she'll be in for a surprise.
Updates every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Our main cast from left to right; Schultz, Fleischer, Roth, Klein, Hertz, [[GeniusDitz Fleischer]], [[SelfMadeOrphan Roth]], [[TheHeart Klein]], [[TheStoic Hertz]], and [[SmallNameBigEgo Zeppelin Von Schultheiss]]
Schultheiss]].]]
A webcomic by Melissa Albino, aka Nalem, ''[[http://www.lighterthanheir.com/ Lighter Than Heir]]'' is about Zeppelin Von Schultheiss, a volant girl who's also the daughter of Hemmel Von Schultheiss. Due to being recognized as the daughter of a war hero, Zeppelin didn't take too kindly to anything she did being ignored so when she turned nineteen, she signed up for the military in hopes of becoming an even bigger war hero. With an ego as big as hers, she'll be in for a surprise.
Updates every Monday, Wednesday andFriday.Friday.
!!''Lighter Than Heir'' contains examples of:
Jerkass: Zeppelin.
A webcomic by Melissa Albino, aka Nalem, ''[[http://www.lighterthanheir.com/ Lighter Than Heir]]'' is about Zeppelin Von Schultheiss, a volant girl who's also the daughter of Hemmel Von Schultheiss. Due to being recognized as the daughter of a war hero, Zeppelin didn't take too kindly to anything she did being ignored so when she turned nineteen, she signed up for the military in hopes of becoming an even bigger war hero. With an ego as big as hers, she'll be in for a surprise.
Updates every Monday, Wednesday and
!!''Lighter Than Heir'' contains examples of:
Jerkass: Zeppelin.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Our main cast from left to right; Schultz, Fleischer, Roth, Klein, Hertz, and Zeppelin Von Schultheiss]]
A webcomic by Nalem, ''[[http://www.lighterthanheir.com/ Lighter Than Heir]]'' is about Zeppelin Von Schultheiss, a volant girl who's also the daughter of Hemmel Von Schultheiss. Due to being recognized as the daughter of a war hero, Zeppelin didn't take too kindly to anything she did being ignored so when she turned nineteen, she signed up for the military in hopes of becoming an even bigger war hero. With an ego as big as hers, she'll be in for a surprise.
Updates every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
[[caption-width-right:350: Our main cast from left to right; Schultz, Fleischer, Roth, Klein, Hertz, and Zeppelin Von Schultheiss]]
A webcomic by Nalem, ''[[http://www.lighterthanheir.com/ Lighter Than Heir]]'' is about Zeppelin Von Schultheiss, a volant girl who's also the daughter of Hemmel Von Schultheiss. Due to being recognized as the daughter of a war hero, Zeppelin didn't take too kindly to anything she did being ignored so when she turned nineteen, she signed up for the military in hopes of becoming an even bigger war hero. With an ego as big as hers, she'll be in for a surprise.
Updates every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
