History Webcomic / QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger

* AnAesop: At the end of "The Coldest Equation," the title character sums things up nicely.
-->'''Quinn:''' Space is an unforgiving place. We all rely on each other out here, right down to the very air we breathe. That's why there's no room... for anyone who won't fight ''against'' all odds for every last breath, or for anyone who tries to turn someone else's survival into some cold equation.

%%** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0012/ Page 12]].

* FantasticRacism: Not so much subverted or inverted as turned completely inside out with the W'naybeans, a race of behavioral and cultural mimics (modeled on the real life [[http://youtu.be/t-LTWFnGmeg Mimic Octopus.]]) Their habit of imitating not just other races and ethnicities but other race and ethnic STEREOTYPES caused them a great deal of trouble with various easily offended PC types, but eventually they became so ubiquitous that they are routinely employed in various tourist traps preferentially over the very natives they imitate as being "more authentic." The author's point is that "[[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0071/ nobody seemed to be too upset as long as it was SOMEBODY ELSE being mimicked...]]" Ergo, if seen humorously, both racism AND ethnic hypersensitivity are easy to recognize as ridiculous.

* FlatWhat: Just look at the faces of the three judges [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0132/ here]].

* GenderScoff: Quentyn drives off the PlanetEater by exploding the expelled warp core with torpedoes. When the Troi stand-in asks why he didn't just detonate the core remotely, Quentyn says it was cooler this way, which Ensign Dweebly enthusiastically seconds. She scoffs "Men!"

* GoodRepublicEvilEmpire: Seemingly inverted, the hero works for the "Empire of the Seven Systems" while the Franchise/StarTrek Parody Federation is highly incompetent (and [[StrawmanPolitical socialist]]). But according to WordOfGod the Empire is a parliamentary republic and the emperor is mostly there to look good on TV. IE think less Galactic Empire and more modern day Japan.

%%* PlanetEater: That chants "YOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM" while it's eating.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The Cosmic Being gives a rather severe one to the captain of the Glorious Undertaking, in front of his own crew, outlining every flaw and shortcoming of their civilization, and everything that he has to do to keep their entire civilization from collapsing upon itself. Again.
** Three Seven Systems judges basically outline everything wrong with the Prime Directive, when taken to it's natural conclusion, resulting in the Enterprise {{Expy}} sitting idly by and watching the complete annihilation of a sentient species without bothering to warn them, notify anyone of their impending destruction, or even attempt to divert the comet that was about to destroy them.

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: The assassin manages to eject Quentyn out a hazmat disposal at one point.
-->'''Quentyn:''' ''[narration]'' Ah, the Sapphire Star. Much nicer from the inside.
** More ominously, the "Coldest Equation" arc begins with someone being blown out an airlock ''without'' a low-profile evac suit like Quentyn's.
*** Takes a sharp twist when [[spoiler: we learn that it was a ''self-inflicted'' spacing, done as a HeroicSacrifice]].

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The source of much debate on the cartoonist's own forum. The Kvrk-Chk are made of pure ObviouslyEvil, and they commit a truly [[MoralEventHorizon grotesque]] act of aggression. Even so, it's disconcerting to see the heroic Empire of the Seven Systems unleash a [[ApocalypseHow Class X-2 Apocalypse]] on "one of (the Kvrk-chk's) most heavily populated solar systems."

* RuleOfCool: [[LampshadeHanging Deliberately]] combined with StuffBlowingUp in order to defeat a PlanetEater. A [[OnlySaneMan female]] [[BridgeBunny bridegecrew]] member finds the whole thing [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0037/ exasperating]].