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* DumbassHasAPoint:
-->'''Martina:''' [[MurderIsTheBestSolution We ''must'' kill them]].
-->'''Dustin:''' See, there you go again? You ''are'' a killer. You have a [[RestrainingBolt Brain Clamper]]. Just clamp them.
-->'''Martina:''' [BeatPanel] [[TraumaCongaLine Well, at least my humiliation is complete.]] That's a very good idea.


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* MuggingTheMonster: [[http://spacetrawler.com/2013/03/17/spacetrawler-308/ Specifically]], the BrokenBird DeathSeeker:


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* SnarkKnight: Krep, big time.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Curn and Oohlooh are biologically incompatible species. Each of of them breathes gasses that are toxic to the other, and they can't touch each other without dying.

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* StarCrossedLovers: Curn and Oohlooh are biologically incompatible species. Each of of them breathes gasses that are toxic to the other, and they can't touch each other without dying.



* [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Dagger Always Works]]: Well, except if it hits handle-first. [[Spoiler: Which keeps the target complaining about it hurting long enough to get over there and stab them.]]

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* [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Dagger Always Works]]: Well, except if it hits handle-first. [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Which keeps the target complaining about it hurting long enough to get over there and stab them.]]

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* EthicalSlut: Dmitri. When put in a position where he realizes that he'd be exploiting someone for sex, no matter how willing they are and [[BoldlyComing how biologically compatible they are]], he refuses while [[DiscussedTrope saying he tried his whole life to avoid such a situation]].

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* EthicalSlut: Dmitri. When put in a position where he realizes that he'd be exploiting someone for sex, no matter how willing they are and [[BoldlyComing how biologically compatible they are]], he refuses while [[DiscussedTrope saying he tried his whole life to avoid such a situation]]. Later, she seduces him on more equal terms.


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** Averted when Emily tries to shoot [[spoiler: Qwahntoo]] with said bullet-firing handgun. Turns out he has a subcutaneous fluid layer that functions as a shock-absorber, rendering the impact of bullets a nuisance.
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** And what Emily [[http://spacetrawler.com/2012/06/10/spacetrawler-234/ bestows upon Pwalzik]] after he'd injected her with something.
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*** Earlier, [[http://spacetrawler.com/2010/10/31/spacetrawler-89/ her actions get a nice quip from Yuri]].
---->'''Yuri''': I think I'll avoid ever asking you for identification.

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* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: Gurf's mom is armed with one of these.

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* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: Gurf's mom is armed with one of these.these, but {{subverted}} when [[http://spacetrawler.com/2010/10/19/spacetrawler-86/ it's actually a photo of Gurf's]] [[AssShove bum when he got an electroflange stuck in it]].
-->'''Krep''': Does anyone have [[BrainBleach a box of nails I can roll my eye in?]]
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* WorthyOpponent: Emily becomes one for Growp. [[spoiler:That's why he fell in love with her.]]

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* WorthyOpponent: Emily becomes one for Growp. [[spoiler:That's why [[FoeYay he fell in love with her.]]]]]]
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** This is what the rest of the galaxy views the G.O.B. when it comes to the Eebs.

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** This is what the rest of the galaxy views the G.O.B. Interplanet Amity [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman when it comes to the Eebs.]]

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* AnimalEaredHeadband: Yuri wears one, initially.

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* AnimalEaredHeadband: Yuri wears one, initially.[[spoiler: until she gets a more authentic version]].


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** This is what the rest of the galaxy views the G.O.B. when it comes to the Eebs.
* AnythingThatMoves: Dimitri will [[NotHyperbole literally sleep with]] anything [[http://spacetrawler.com/2010/08/29/spacetrawler-71/ that has a sexual compatibility over 50%]].
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* BoldlyComing: Dimitri.
--->'''Dimitri:''' ''[regarding a bug-alien he slept with]'' Pheromones and ventral revealing outfits. Way hot.

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* BoldlyComing: Dimitri.
--->'''Dimitri:'''
Dimitri's reason for even staying out there. His [[http://spacetrawler.com/2010/06/02/spacetrawler-46/ first time doing so]] even prompts the female he sleeps with to want to gather up more humans as sex slaves.
-->'''Dimitri:'''
''[regarding a bug-alien he slept with]'' Pheromones and ventral revealing outfits. Way hot.
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* EthicalSlut: Dmitri. When put in a position where he realizes that he'd be exploiting someone for sex, no matter how willing they are and [[BoldlyComing how biologically compatible they are]], he refuses while [[DiscussedTrope saying he tried his whole life to avoid such a situation]].
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* AManIsAlwaysEager: Dimitri is a basically the trope incarnate. "Xenophile" might be a polite word for him. It's not clear [[AnythingThatMoves how flexible his standards are when it comes to his own species]], but when he's finished trying to chat up all the other abducted human women, he assesses every alien species he meets for compatibility.

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* AManIsAlwaysEager: Dimitri is a basically the trope incarnate. "Xenophile" might be a polite word for him.Dimitri. It's not clear [[AnythingThatMoves how flexible his standards are when it comes to his own species]], but when he's finished trying to chat up all the other abducted human women, he assesses every alien species he meets for compatibility.

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** Much later, one of the [[spoiler:unclamped Eebs]] is revealed to be survived. He's found and disposed of within five pages and without any fanfare.

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** Much later, one of the [[spoiler:unclamped Eebs]] is revealed to be have survived. He's found and disposed of within five pages and without any fanfare.


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* [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Dagger Always Works]]: Well, except if it hits handle-first. [[Spoiler: Which keeps the target complaining about it hurting long enough to get over there and stab them.]]
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* MutilationInterrogation: How Yuri [[http://spacetrawler.com/2010/08/03/spacetrawler-64/ lost her limbs.]]

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* ArtificialLimbs: Yuri now has [[strike:six]] four of them.

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* ArtificialLimbs: Yuri now has [[strike:six]] four of them. Martina later gets a prosthetic arm and eye to replace the ones the unclamped Eebs burned off, which unlike Yuri's are practically indistinguishable from the originals.



* ThereAreNoTherapists: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged.]] Nogg ''does'' have a Therapy-bot for his crew, but it's terrible at the job. Later, Martina recognizes that the crew needs a good therapist, so she replaces Therapy-bot with Bartender-bot, ordering the latter to study and utilize human methods of psychology.

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* ThereAreNoTherapists: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged.]] Nogg ''does'' have a Therapy-bot for his crew, but it's terrible at the job. Later, Martina recognizes that the crew needs a good therapist, so she replaces Therapy-bot with Bartender-bot, ordering the latter to study and utilize human methods of psychology. [[spoiler: He makes some decent progress at first, then the guy who mutilated Yuri shows up and they're back to square one.]]


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* YearInsideHourOutside: Dmitri goes to the alternate universe on the far side of the Draak-sim and comes back in an hour, with grey hair.
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* PassThePopcorn: Potty-bot [[http://spacetrawler.com/2013/01/06/spacetrawler-290/ offers]] the Dith'''er'''kers popcorn while watching Emily and Pierrot "negotiate" with Qwahntoo.
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* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: "This is very similar to the story of 'The Bowthwit and the Carnunkle's Bum'." [[http://spacetrawler.com/2012/07/22/spacetrawler-244/ "If that's anything like 'The Gift of the Magi' on acid, I'd have to agree."]]
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* MadScientist: Eebs, when given vague instructions to build something, can have some odd ideas. I.e. when Dmitri told a group of them to construct a means of leaving the hotel without being seen adding legs to the hotel and floating it out on a river of lava have to be shot down before one of them suggests a tunneling machine, that makes beer.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: In the story of Brograhm's Teeth's namesake a group of ruthless killers saw the destruction by acid bombs of an entire planet's population, they were so shaken they gave up their life of crime and took low-stress office jobs. The G.O.B. station in the stellar phenomenon known as Brograhm's teeth is staffed by convicted criminals, mostly mass murderers, [[spoiler: and the process of making Spacetrawlers has them breaking down in tears.]]
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* AsteroidThicket: [[http://spacetrawler.com/2011/08/09/spacetrawler-160/ Brograhm's Teeth]], slightly justified in that it's a miniature Big Bang constantly spewing out debris that's often the size of a planet into a black hole.

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* HalfHumanHybrid: Averted with the majority of the alien women Dmitri sleeps with. [[spoiler: Except Red-9 since Eebs are related to humans.]]



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* HumanoidAliensHumanoidAliens: Rather few of them actually.


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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Everyone knows the Mihrrgoots are violent, smelly brutes with a taste for other sentient beings. [[spoiler: That's just the surface population who are inbred descendants of a few drunks. The subterranean population is sophisticated and has more advanced technology than the Eebs.]]
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** Inverted at the end: Martina tells Yuri that if they're going to stay friends, she needs to remove all her augmentations. This process [[spoiler: along with getting brain-clamped]] brings Yuri more-or-less back to her senses.

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** Inverted at the end: Martina tells Yuri that if they're going to stay friends, she needs to remove all her augmentations.weapons. This process [[spoiler: along with getting brain-clamped]] brings Yuri more-or-less back to her senses.

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* ForcedCrossdressing: Choan accidentally shredded Dimitri's clothes, so [[http://spacetrawler.com/2010/09/12/spacetrawler-75/ he has to make a daring escape in one of her nightgowns]].



* VodkaDrunkenski: Dimitri.


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* UnplannedCrossdressing: Choan accidentally shredded Dimitri's clothes, so [[http://spacetrawler.com/2010/09/12/spacetrawler-75/ he has to make a daring escape in one of her nightgowns]].


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* VodkaDrunkenski: Dimitri.
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* ForcedCrossdressing: Choan accidentally shredded Dimitri's clothes, so [[http://spacetrawler.com/2010/09/12/spacetrawler-75/ he has to make a daring escape in one of her nightgowns]].
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** Dimitri and Haldeyis have a strong relationship until [[spoiler: his new job with the G.O.B. leaves him unable to spend time with her.]]
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* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Handwaved by the approxiscan devices, which scan the biology of encountered creatures to identify compatible foodstuffs, atmospheres, and (to Dimitri's great interest) [[InterspeciesRomance romantic partners]].


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* ThePornomancer: When introduced, Dimitri is entertaining two bikini-clad women in a rowboat. Over the course of the story, he first propositions all the human females, then proceeds to seduce every remotely compatible alien female he can find, regardless of looks or shape.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[http://spacetrawler.com/2010/01/27/spacetrawler-11/ Yuri's reaction to Nogg]].

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[http://spacetrawler.com/2010/01/04/spacetrawler-2/ Mr. Zorilla's reaction to Nogg]].
** [[http://spacetrawler.
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** Dustin. Victim, then asshole, then both simultaneously and continuously for the rest of the comic.



-->'''Dimitri:''' ''[regarding a bug-alien he slept with]'' Pheromones and ventral revealing outfits. Way hot.

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-->'''Dimitri:''' --->'''Dimitri:''' ''[regarding a bug-alien he slept with]'' Pheromones and ventral revealing outfits. Way hot.



* CombatPragmatist: Emily, oh, Emily. Yuri has [[OneManArmy raw firepower]], Emily has raw cunning.



** Inverted at the end: Martina tells Yuri that if they're going to stay friends, she needs to remove all her augmentations. This process [[spoiler: along with getting brain-clamped]] brings Yuri more-or-less back to her senses.



** Pierrot is briefly courted by a Qiyemp female.

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** Pierrot is briefly courted by a Qiyemp female. He breaks up with her on Carpsellon and leaves her to comfort the dying [[spoiler: Kuu-Drahc]], shortly before [[spoiler: the destruction of the planet]].



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: What clues Martina in to the fact that [[spoiler: Red-9 is an unclamped Eeb-- she exercises free will, up to and including dishonesty and defying orders.]]



* SuperPersistentPredator: The Ditherkers that an assassin siccs on Emily are modified to chase their target, and only their target, until they bring it down or starve to death trying. They track by scent, cling to the hull of a spaceship moving at greased-light speed (and don't suffocate), and asexually reproduce when killed.



* ThereAreNoTherapists: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged.]] Nogg ''does'' have a Therapy-bot for his crew, but it's terrible at the job. Later, Martina recognizes that the crew needs a good therapist, so she replaces Therapy-bot with Bartender-bot.

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* ThereAreNoTherapists: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged.]] Nogg ''does'' have a Therapy-bot for his crew, but it's terrible at the job. Later, Martina recognizes that the crew needs a good therapist, so she replaces Therapy-bot with Bartender-bot.Bartender-bot, ordering the latter to study and utilize human methods of psychology.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: [[spoiler: Qwahntoo realizing the purpose of Emily force-feeding him her own severed fingers... as he's surrounded by baying [[SuperPersistentPredator Ditherkers]]. GoryDiscretionShot ensues.]]

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