History YMMV / QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger

** Vindicated? IRL, A historical survey of over seven hundred(!) fiat currencies. Alphabetically. (They started in the "A"s and quit when they were only halfway through the "B"s. Nothing so repetitive as human stupidity.) '' Every single one of them collapsed.'' Hyperinflation, sweeping poverty, complete implosion of the economy.. what happened to pre WWII Germany.
The average lifespan of a fiat currency is five MONTHS, and that's only because of rare outliers. The british pound has lasted for 300 years as a fiat currency-- but has lost 98% of its value (or rather had 98% of its value funneled into the hands of bankers and politicians.) The American Dollar, by way of comparison, has been fiat for about 45, and has already lost 95%. Fiat currency generates great prosperity in the same way that giving a teenager an unlimited credit card for the weekend generates a bitchin' party.

** Gets outright ridiculous in the Kallifrax arc - the comic basically assumes that economics theories that have been vindicated for decades on Earth would somehow lead to societal collapse, and [[UnfortunateImplications the genocidal Kallifrax subculture that gets nuked is a pretty obvious]] {{Expy}} [[StrawmanPolitical of Iran]].

* {{Anvilicious}}: While the comic raises some points about The Federation, it does get grating after a while and seems to offer absolutely no points showing the good things that they do, making them a strawman to beat upon.

* MartyStu: The main character. He's nearly unbeatable; smarter and saner than almost anyone else; and never, ever wrong, no matter what.
** Of course, unlike his ancestor, Quentyn had to go through a rigorous training program to become a ranger. It's stated in the opening that rangers are essentially considered elite professionals: best trained, best equipped, the cream of the crop of all the forces of the empire. They have to be in order to operate pretty much independently for extended periods in potentially hostile environments. It helps if you consider the main character as the sci-fi equivalent of a Green Beret, a Navy Seal, or a Spetsnaz.

* {{Anvilicious}}: While the comic raises some points about The Federation, it does get grating after a while and seems to offer absolutely no points showing the good things that they do, making them a strawman to beat upon. Of course, this is because they suck.

* {{Anvilicious}}: While the comic raises some points about The Federation, it does get grating after a while and seems to offer absolutely no points showing the good things that they do, making them a strawman to beat upon.

* MoralEventHorizon: Whatever the ambassadors did, [[InUniverse the Confidantine considers it]] [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgivable]] enough to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness stretch her oath]] [[TheOathBreaker of secrecy]]), and it appears [[http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00096.html Quentyn agrees]].

* MartyStu: The main character. He's [[TheAce unbeatable]], all knowing, smarter and saner than anyone else, who is never, ever wrong, no matter what.
** More accurately, he's better, smarter, and saner ''than the crew of the Star Ship Enterprise''--- which is not so much lowering the bar as outright laying it on the floor.
** Also he's not unbeatable, as the meeting with the assassin shows he's not a lux adept, that makes his ancestor was far more skilled than he is despite being the bottom of the class. It's not that he's unstoppable it's just that the standards have dropped.
** Also unlike his ancestor, the main character had to go through a rigorous training program to become a ranger, and it's stated in the opening that rangers are essentially considered elite professionals: Best trained, best equipped, the cream of the crop of all the forces of the empire. They have to be in order to operate pretty much independently for extended periods of time in potentially hostile environments. They don't give a ranger badge to just any fool who applies. It helps if you consider the main character as the Sci Fi equivalent of Green Beret, Navy Seal, or a Spetsnaz.
* MoralEventHorizon: Whatever the ambassadors did, [[InUniverse the Confidantine considers it]] [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgiveable]] (Unforgivable enough to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness stretch her oath]] [[TheOathBreaker of secrecy]]) and it appears [[http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00096.html Quentyn agrees]].
* NightmareFuel: The AndIMustScream fate of the [[http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00091.html neural templates]]

** Also he's not unbeatable, as the meeting with the assasin shows he's not a lux adept, that makes his ancestor was far more skilled than he is despite being the bottom of the class. It's not that he's unstoppable it's just that the standards have dropped.

* MoralEventHorizon: Whatever the ambassadors did, [[InUniverse the Confadantine considers it]] [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgiveable]] (Unforgivable enough to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness stretch her oath]] [[TheOathBreaker of secrecy]]) and it appears [[http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00096.html Quentyn agrees]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Whatever the ambassadors did [[InUniverse the Confadantine considers it]] [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgiveable]] (Unforgivable enough to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness stretch her oath]] [[TheOathBreaker of secrecy]]) and it appears [[http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00096.html Quentyn agrees]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Whatever the ambassadors did [[InUniverse the Confadatine considers it]] [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgiveable]] and it appears [[http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00096.html Quentyn agrees]].

* NightmareFuel: The AndIMustScream fate of the [[http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00091.html neural templates]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: The Kvrk-Chk. Was destroying an inhabited system too much, or the only way to make a hyper-carnivorous, ScaryDogmaticAliens species stop trying to eat people long enough to make them listen to reason?
** Mind you, given that the Kvrk-Chk declared war first, it's a case of {{Combat Pragmatist}}s giving the ProudWarriorRace a taste of what ''[[RealityEnsues real]]'' war is like. [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} "Yeah, we suck at close combat. It's a shame you'll never get there."]] Besides, the Kvrk-Chk are considered a horde of alien locusts with ExplosiveBreeder tendencies, with an extreme monoculture that stamps out all individuality. So, you wiped out 100 billion bugs? Well, there will be ten times that number born in the next 20 years, and if you've met one Kvrk-Chk, you've met every Kvrk-Chk.
** Here's something else to put things in perspective: the only reason that there's any debate on the Kvrk-Chk is because they are sentient. If they were non-sentient life-forms that committed their atrocities out of pure feral instinct, no one would bat an eye at wiping them out even if it demanded wiping out several systems using a stellar lance, as long as the HordeOfAlienLocusts was stopped. After all, no one wants to be eaten by bugs, and you can't negotiate with a non-sentient lifeform. However, since they are sentient, all this discussion and debate occurs, despite the fact that they declared a war of annihilation on every sentient species in the universe, and have no compunctions against eating and killing (in that order) other sentient beings, even, or especially, unarmed and defenseless ones. While you can argue that they are a product of their original environment, that doesn't change the fact that as a species, they chose to treat all other sentient species as chatty food. The only real difference between the Kvrk-Chk and a non-sentient species with the same biology is that, if you hit them with a big enough hammer, they'll realize that maybe all-out war isn't a good idea with a technologically more advanced species.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The Kvrk-Chk. Was destroying an inhabited system too much, or the only way to make a hyper-carnivorous, ScaryDogmaticAliens species stop trying to eat people long enough to make them listen to reason?
** Mind you, given that the Kvrk-Chk declared war first, it's a case of {{Combat Pragmatist}}s giving the ProudWarriorRace a taste of what ''[[RealityEnsues real]]'' war is like. [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} "Yeah, we suck at close combat. It's a shame you'll never get there."]] Besides, the Kvrk-Chk are considered a horde of alien locusts with ExplosiveBreeder tendencies, with an extreme monoculture that stamps out all individuality. So, you wiped out 100 billion bugs? Well, there will be ten times that number born in the next 20 years, and if you've met one Kvrk-Chk, you've met every Kvrk-Chk.
** Here's something else to put things in perspective: the only reason that there's any debate on the Kvrk-Chk is because they are sentient. If they were non-sentient life-forms that committed their atrocities out of pure feral instinct, no one would bat an eye at wiping them out even if it demanded wiping out several systems using a stellar lance, as long as the HordeOfAlienLocusts was stopped. After all, no one wants to be eaten by bugs, and you can't negotiate with a non-sentient lifeform. However, since they are sentient, all this discussion and debate occurs, despite the fact that they declared a war of annihilation on every sentient species in the universe, and have no compunctions against eating and killing (in that order) other sentient beings, even, or especially, unarmed and defenseless ones. While you can argue that they are a product of their original environment, that doesn't change the fact that as a species, they chose to treat all other sentient species as chatty food. The only real difference between the Kvrk-Chk and a non-sentient species with the same biology is that, if you hit them with a big enough hammer, they'll realize that maybe all-out war isn't a good idea with a technologically more advanced species.

** Also unlike his ancestor, the main character had to go through a rigorous training program to become a ranger, and it's stated in the opening that rangers are essentially considered elite professionals: Best trained, best equipped, the cream of the crop of all the forces of the empire. They have to be in order to operate pretty much independently for extended periods of time in potentially hostile environments. They don't give a ranger badge to just any fool who applies. It helps if you consider the main character as the Sci Fi equivalent of Green Beret, Navy Seal, or a Spetsnaz.

** Mind you, given that the Kvrk-Chk declared war first, it's a case of {{Combat Pragmatist}}s giving the ProudWarriorRace a taste of what ''[[RealityEnsues real]]'' war is like. [[Warhammer40K "Yeah, we suck at close combat. It's a shame you'll never get there."]] Besides, the Kvrk-Chk are considered a horde of alien locusts with ExplosiveBreeder tendencies, with an extreme monoculture that stamps out all individuality. So, you wiped out 100 billion bugs? Well, there will be ten times that number born in the next 20 years, and if you've met one Kvrk-Chk, you've met every Kvrk-Chk.

** Mind you, given that the Kvrk-Chk declared war first, it's a case of {{Combat Pragmatist}}s giving the ProudWarriorRace a taste of what ''[[RealityEnsues real]]'' war is like. [[Warhammer40K "Yeah, we suck at close combat. It's a shame you'll never get there."]] Besides, the Kvrk-Chk are considered a horde of alien locusts with ExplosiveBreeder tendencies, with an extreme monoculture that stamps out all individuality. So, you wiped out 100 billion bugs? Well, there will be ten times that number born in the next 20 years, and if you've met one Kvrk-Chk, you've met every Kvrk-Chk.

** Mind you, given that the Kvrk-Chk declared war first, it may be less a case of the Empire giving the Kvrk-Chk a taste of what a real war with the empire is like. [[Warhammer40K "Yeah, we suck at close combat. Too bad you'll never make it there."]] Besides, the Kvrk-Chk are considered a horde of alien locusts with ExplosiveBreeder tendencies, with an extreme monoculture that stamps out all individuality. So, you wiped out 100 billion bugs? Well, there will be ten times that number born in the next 20 years, and if you've met one Kvrk-Chk, you've met every Kvrk-Chk.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The Kvrk-Chk. Was destroying an inhabited system too much, or the only way to make a hyper-carnivorous, ScaryDogmaticAlien species stop trying to eat people long enough to make them listen to reason?

** More accurately, he's better, smarter, and saner ''than the crew of the Star Ship Enterprise''--- which is not so much lowering the bar as outright laying it on the floor.

* MartyStu: The main character. He's [[TheAce unbeatable]], all knowing, smarter and saner than anyone else, who is never, ever wrong, no matter what.