History Webcomic / QuantumVibe

** Inigo Montoya and Fezzik from Film/ThePrincessBride [[https://quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2401 are used as disguises]].

** However, later (as Murphy), she goes on and intense one when [[spoiler:Buford is killed]].

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: One example [[https://quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2199 here]].

** We see Diane naked from the waist up in several pages, from the front, complete with details.

* {{Fanservice}}: Nicole winds up showing off to the 'camera' here and there, though never past a PG-13 rating. [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=305 Though this pushes the rating a bit.]] As well, Murphy, who becomes rather generously-endowed by the "Assimulation" arc, [[spoiler:ends up showing quite a bit of cleavage when Eithne initiates sex with her.]]

** Refugees from Venus 23 discover that their language is actually Loonie, though with a funny accent and occasional shift in word meaning. This allows Diana in particular to enter Bubbleopolis society while she learns Portanglo.

* PardonMyKlingon: "Feek" is used in place of a modern four-letter word.
* PointyEars: Nicole has them, though they're usually covered by her hairstyle. Turns out that it was a fad around the time L-5 was established, so many of their descendants have 'em, and it's the source of elf-related slurs for L-5'ers. The similarity between "L-5" and "Elf-hive" hasn't been discussed in canon.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Veronica considers this after [[spoiler:regaining her memories of being wronged by Po Xu-Ke's nephews]], but decides against it after (extensively) calculating that while she has a fairly good chance of achieving her objective, she would certainly not survive the process.

* ShoutOut:

** In the "impromptu autopsy" sequence ([[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=588 starts here]]) we meet a clerk who, it later turns out, [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=598 wants to open a Callahan's Tavern]]. The clerk is not only a [[http://www.spiderrobinson.com/gallery.html dead ringer]] for the author of the [[Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon Callahan's]] series, Creator/SpiderRobinson, but he's also a member of a six-armed humanoid race -- a "[[StealthPun Spyder]]".

* LanguageDrift: Five centuries into the future Loonies (residents of Luna) have developed a dialect that resembles Lolcats. In Venus 23, another 500 years later, most people of "Oz" speak a pidgin of English and Portuguese called "Portanglo".

* NixonMask: Mr. Graves has a holographic mask that is set to [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=181 President Obama]] when we first meet him. Later, he switches to [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=200 Bush]] and [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=219 Clinton]].

** [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=383 One disguised android's true form]] (spoiler alert!) is a dead ringer for ''Anime/EighthMan'' from the '90s remakes.

* LibertariansInSpace: A central plot element, with Libertarian concepts such as asset-based currencies, contract resolution, and individual accomplishment being the key to [[MarySuetopia peaceful, prosperous, humane]] societies, as opposed to Luna's [[DemocracyIsBad increasingly-bureaucratic democracy]] or the [[MegaCorp Mercorps]] that rule Earth, Mars and the Jovian satellites - ''badly''. Each statist society is noted to have a large underclass - Beltapes on Luna, poor people on the Jovian moons. Mars has android ''slaves'', and Earth has '''genetically engineered''' entire subraces in a FantasticCasteSystem; can't have an upper class without a lower class.

* MarySuetopia: An InvokedTrope - Murchada points out that societies provide the greatest good for the greatest number in their dynamic phase, that is, when they have room to expand and resources to spare. Libertarianism (placing the individual before the group) can only be practiced effectively in such a phase. In all other phases, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo necessity]] sacrifices the individual to the group to varying degrees.
-->'''Seamus O Murchada''': ''[[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=191 Centuries of observation have taught me that humans flourish best when they have frontiers to explore and conquer. Keep us bottled up within boundaries long enough and our culture begins to rot and erode, and people become either ennervated or destructive. Then the manic ones eat the tired ones.]]''

* WordSaladLyrics: [[http://quantumvibe.com/strip?page=302 Chari and Prebakar]] take this trope UpToEleven.

* ItsPronouncedTroPay: "O Murchadha" is pronounced "Omurru-koo." Justified by the fact that it's a Gaelic name.

* PoliceBrutality: The Lunan cops beat Nicole so badly she spends the next three days in a healing vat.

* VisualPun: There are a few scattered around. For example [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=31 here,]] we see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Dunn a fish that actually has a use for a bicycle.]]

*** {{Characters/C3PO}} from Franchise/StarWars.

* AuthorTract: The "Luna" arc seems to be turning into a way for the author to show off his libertarian views (not, however, in a particularly uninteresting fashion).

** [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=246 Hari]] [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=347 Copperton]] has a lot of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration William Riker]] in his face and clothes.

** Nicole's mother has a strong resemblance to [[spoiler: Nichelle Nicols]].

* {{Expy}}: Despite his best efforts, Bieser couldn't help but invoke some beloved science fiction characters from other franchises in ''Quantum Vibe'';

* AlternateCalendar: Most of the solar system dates from the Sputnik launch. Huǒxīng has their own calendar using Martian years(roughly twice as long), dating from the Viking 1 landing.

* AuthorTract: The "Luna" arc seems to be turning into a way for the author to show off his Libertarian views. (Not, however, in a particularly uninteresting fashion.)

* [[BizarreAlienBiology Bizarre Transhuman Biology]]: Seamus' botched [[LongevityTreatment rejuvenation]] treatment has [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=211 presented many odd changes]] ''besides'' turning him into an eight-foot tall, four-hundred pound giant. For example, he can [[{{Gasshole}} fart at will]](and has at least [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=41 once]] used that ability to [[{{Fartillery}} clear a room]] so he can privately contact someone). One that annoys him to no end is that each strand of his scalp hair has a single, long ''nerve'' growing in the center - he prefers having short hair, but can't cut it without the aid of a trustworthy anesthesiologist, as cutting it feels like ''cutting off fingers.''
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: For most of the first volume, when Nicole and Seamus have an antagonistic relationship, and the audience is expected to be somewhat suspicious of him, a regeneration error has trapped him in a 250 kg body with a dumpy face and kinky red hair. It's about the time she begins to trust him implicitly that this is fixed, leaving him thin and beautiful with perfect face and hair.
* BerserkButton: Don't call Dr. Seamus O Murchadha "Doctor" (Despite the [[Series/DoctorWho resemblance]]) - [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=81 "I'm a person, not a TITLE!"]]