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3 | In a galaxy far, far away, a RagtagBunchOfMisfits are scraping by, smuggling not-necessarily-legal things to not-necessarily-legal places, whith an occasional firefight along the way. Then one day, a MysteriousWaif who alternates between being shy and [[ActionGirl kicking much ass]] drops into their lives... |
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5 | No, Sean Wang's ''[[https://runnersuniverse.com/ Runners]]'' is ''not'' ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. Not even inspired by ''Firefly'' (see [[http://runnersuniverse.com/faq/ author's account]]). But there are similar ''Star Wars'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] [[SpaceWestern western]] vibes there. |
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7 | !! Tropes: |
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9 | * ActionGirl: Sky is more than able to pull her own weight in everyday operations of the RagtagBunchOfMisfits. She makes a point once by bending a spoon, EffortlessAmazonianLift is not a problem to her and she generally contributes most by her SuperStrength. |
10 | * AllAnimalsAreDogs: Bocce encounters a pack of weird alien wolves. He doesn't even need to tame them to play catch (and BigDamnHeroes). |
11 | * AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Sky has no idea who she is or where she's from. She's also sweet (despite her TheBigGuy role in the group), kind and naive. Almost like she ReallyWasBornYesterday... |
12 | * ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler: Sky and her "sisters"]] may be these. We really don't know yet. |
13 | * AsteroidMiners: Ril and Roka have a hideout in an abandoned asteroid mine. |
14 | * {{Bandito}} InSpace: The [[ParodiedTrope hilariously inept]] green guys at the beginning of "The Snow Job". They even have the hats! |
15 | * BarBrawl: The brawl [[http://runnersuniverse.com/2009/06/bad-goods-ch-04-pg-03/ starts in the bar]], but [[ChaseScene gets out to the street]] pretty quickly. |
16 | -->'''Bar owner''': Hey! Who's gonna pay for my window?! |
17 | * BarrierWarrior: One frequent use of Bocce's shapeshifting [[PowerFist power arm]] is creating shields. |
18 | * BattleAmongstTheFlames: Climax of ''The Snow Job'' |
19 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Bocce, the sweet, friendly guy who welcomes Sky into the team despite others' misgivings or indifference, will give in to RevengeBeforeReason at the mere mention of Kaagan-Vas. They killed his father. |
20 | * TheBigGuy: In the Brimia crew, the role is shared between [[GentleGiant Bennesaud]] and [[CuteBruiser Sky]]. |
21 | * BigDamnHeroes: In ''The Snow Job'', Bocce rides an alien-dog-pulled sled right into the climactic battle to save his friends. |
22 | * BinocularShot: A [[ShoutOut star]]-[[Franchise/StarWars warsy]] one [[http://runnersuniverse.com/2009/12/snow-job-ch-02-pg-06/ here]]. |
23 | * BoardingParty: Our heroes, when scavenging the ''Tique Amara''. Also a tactic favoured by pirates. |
24 | * {{Bookends}}: The gang having dinner in ''The Snow Job''. |
25 | * BountyHunter: They exist and are likely to target the gang, so Grissom says. |
26 | * BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: The Ulon Dosi, native to Ciceron, have very much this sort of aesthetic, along with quite a lot of [[BadassNative badassitude]]. |
27 | * CasualInterplanetaryTravel: Our heroes are broke and search for work by travelling on a spaceship. |
28 | * TheCaptain: [[TheChainsOfCommanding Roka]]. |
29 | * CasualDangerDialogue: Cember, Ril and Bennes tease each other, joke and make bets while fighting. |
30 | * CattleDrive: ''The Snow Job'' consists of driving Ciceron yak. [[spoiler: Ostensibly.]] |
31 | * [[CityPlanet City Planetoid]]: Oniaka city station. Vaguely inspired by India, according to WordOfGod. |
32 | * [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Line]]: Several, in ''The Snow Job''. |
33 | * ChromeChampion: [[spoiler: The [[ArtificialHuman blue]] [[OneGenderRace girls]], Sky among them, are able to turn into these at will, complete with SuperStrength.]] |
34 | * CloakingDevice: Standard [[SpacePirates pirate]] trick. |
35 | * TheConscience: Bocce, for Roka mostly. |
36 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The Candy Bandit, natch. Cember is a quippy, funny, flamboyant, not very threatening-looking alien guy who can [[ImprobableAimingSkills can shoot through a fingertip-sized opening]]. |
37 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Bocce's lost his [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest father]] in a pirate raid, Bennes [[spoiler: used to work for a dhama, until something was demanded of him that he dissaproved of]], a bit of Roka's is shown in his FlashbackNightmare. |
38 | * DeflectorShields: Common on ships (essential in Space Battles) as well as around individuals ("body shells"). |
39 | * TheDon: Called "dhama" in this universe. The Brimia crew, being crooks, deal with them more than they probably ought to. |
40 | * [[spoiler: DoubleCaper]]: Dhama Hes couldn't have been lying, [[VillainsNeverLie suave buisinessman that he is]], [[BlatantLies could he]]? [[spoiler: He didn't technically - he just neglected to tell the protagonists that the stolen cattle wasn't his to begin with.]] |
41 | %% * DramaticGunCock |
42 | * EffortlessAmazonianLift: [[spoiler: Silver]] Sky has no trouble lifting Bocce. |
43 | %% * EscapePod: Plot point. More than once. |
44 | * ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: Bennesaud throws a rock. |
45 | -->'''Ril''': You missed!\ |
46 | '''Bennesaud''': I did?\ |
47 | An avalanche ensues |
48 | * ExactWords: [[spoiler: The end of ''Snow Job'']]. They were supposed to bring back forty ''heads'' of cattle... |
49 | -->'''Dhama Hes''' (upon being given literally just the heads): Very clever. |
50 | * ExtendedDisarming: [[http://runnersuniverse.com/2009/10/snow-job-ch-01-pg-17/ Ril]], the WalkingArmory: |
51 | --> They put weapons on the table.\ |
52 | '''Doorkeeper''': All your weapons.\ |
53 | [[TriggerHappy Ril]] puts another weapon on the table.\ |
54 | '''Doorkeeper''': And the buckle knives.\ |
55 | Ril puts them on the table. Doorkeeper just stares. Ril puts another knife on the table. Doorkeeper keeps staring.\ |
56 | '''Roca''' Do you want to just meet us inside?? |
57 | * EvilIsHammy: There is a BlackAndGreyMorality in effect, but still... Hamron seems [[ChewingTheScenery starved for the scenery]]. |
58 | * FanFilm: The DAVE School has prodused two animated shorts based off of Bad Goods. One in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXC405pZxr0/ 2006]], the other in [[https://vimeo.com/131686356/ 2015]] |
59 | * FantasticDrug: Crush. Very addictive, and naturally the [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer mob is selling it and not taking "no" for an answer]]. Double duty as a [[StuffBlowingUp Fantastic Explosive]]. GoingColdTurkey will kill you gruesomely. |
60 | * FantasticSlurs: "Horn-Beak" is one for Ril's species. |
61 | * TheFightingNarcissist: Hamron the Handsome, dreaded [[SpacePirates pirate]] and ladies' man. |
62 | * FlashbackNightmare: Roka has an understated one, with [[SilenceIsGolden no dialogue]], to drive his SurvivorGuilt home. |
63 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Brimia crew, besides leukine [[NiceGuy Bocce]] and Sky, who [[AmnesiacsAreInnocent doesn't know herself yet]], consists of: |
64 | ** sanguine: Cember: the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Candy]] [[BoisterousBruiser Bandit]] and FunPersonified who [[LeapAndFire looks good in firefights]] |
65 | ** choleric: Ril: [[HairTriggerTemper gruff]] Knife Nut, [[LeaderWannabe frustrated over not running the ship]], does not think things through, [[TriggerHappy loves guns as much as he loves knives]], bit of a {{Troll}} |
66 | ** melancholic: Roka: very smart, analitical and [[ConsummateProfessional serious]], [[TheReliableOne responsible]], [[TheLeader levelheaded captain]] with hints of StepfordSnarker |
67 | ** phlegmatic: Bennesaud: GentleGiant, quiet and reliable, [[TheStrategist smart, but not bragging about it]], relaxes by reading |
68 | * FireBreathingWeapon: Flamethrowers are used in ''The Snow Job'', to deadly effect. |
69 | * GameBreakingInjury: A broken leg, to be exact, which confines [[spoiler: Bocce]] to the ship at the end of ''Damaged Goods'' and for a part of ''The Snow Job'' because [[HealingMagicIsTheHardest healing technology is expensive]]. |
70 | * TheGunslinger: Cember. Ril, while quite TriggerHappy, just doesn't have the flair. |
71 | * HandCannon: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for Bennesaud, whose usual guns are tiny (in proportion to [[GentleGiant him]]). |
72 | * TheHeart: [[TokenGoodTeammate Bocce]]. |
73 | * HeelRealization: Roka actively avoids having one. He tells Bocce so after the gang finds clues of [[spoiler: SuperHumanTrafficking they might be committing]]. |
74 | -->'''Roka''': It's not our job to know. |
75 | * HonestJohnsDealership: The anglefishman sells ships on Oniaka. He's basically [[VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland Stan]] InSpace. |
76 | * HumanoidAliens: Many flavours, one with vestigial radial symmetry. Bocce could [[HumanAliens pass for human]] (if not for the arm, but it's not a trait of his species). Sky is a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe. |
77 | * IdentityAmnesia: Sky is introduced having no idea who she is, where she comes from, or what, indeed, is her name. It's Bocce who names her "Sky". [[spoiler: It's quite possible that she ReallyWasBornYesterday ans has nothing to remember in the first place]]. |
78 | * IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Baso's initiation into Kaagan-Vas consists of [[spoiler: killing his own father and sister]]. He has absolutely [[PlayedForDrama no problem with that]]. |
79 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: Cember can shoot through a fingertip-sized opening. He's so sure of this he makes large bets on his own skill and casually wins them. |
80 | * InertialDampening: Trumped by RuleOfFunny, otherwise played straight. |
81 | * IntimidationDemonstration: [[http://runnersuniverse.com/2009/10/snow-job-ch-01-pg-13/ Pacifies Ril]]. Makes Roka grumble about how much forks cost. |
82 | %% * IronicEchoCut: Happens every now and again. |
83 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Ril in ''The Snow Job'', protesting the fact they didn't get paid. Again. And are completely broke: |
84 | -->'''Ril''': THAT'S IT! I can't DO this!! I can't believe we TOOK the beetles!\ |
85 | '''Roka''': What was I SUPPOSED to do, Ril?! They couldn't PAY us!\ |
86 | '''Ril''': We can't LIVE like this, Roka!! |
87 | %% * KnowledgeBroker: Dhama Hes believes knowledge is power. |
88 | * LastNameBasis: Ril only ever refers to Cember as "Cember" once. Every other time it's "Kogi". |
89 | * LuredIntoATrap: The gang, having missed the significance of the ChekhovsGun a couple of pages earlier, walks right into [[http://runnersuniverse.com/2010/02/snow-job-ch-02-pg-24/ this one]]... OhCrap |
90 | * MacGuffinSuperPerson: [[spoiler: An ''entire shipload'' of possible {{Human Weapon}}s...]] |
91 | * MexicanStandoff: How we meet [[spoiler: Grissom]]. |
92 | * MistakenForJunkie: While Keyla needs crush for research (on curing [[AddledAddict addicts]]), her father [[TearJerker forms conclusions of his own]]. |
93 | * MinorInjuryOverreaction: Harmon. It would be sad, if it wasn't [[PlayedForLaughs so hilarious]]. |
94 | -->'''Harmon''': My beautiful face! |
95 | * NighInvulnerability: [[spoiler: Silver Sky]]. Also quite [[SuperStrength strong]]. |
96 | * OffBridgeOntoVehicle: In the ''Damaged Goods''. Less than graceful, but at least no-one got hurt. |
97 | * OldFriend: Grissom, to Ril and Roka. |
98 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Why Roka is in the business. |
99 | * OpiumDen: The ruined village of Ulon Dosi (ruination in this case caused by most of the population being addicted to crush). |
100 | * PerpetualPoverty: Money's tight for Brimia crew. This is a source of tension. Especially when they don't get paid. Again. |
101 | * PowerFist: Bocce has some sort of [[EnergyBeings blue energy]] [[ArtificialLimbs arm]]. That shapeshifts. Very handy. |
102 | * RetiredOutlaw: Grissom, at least for now. |
103 | * [[ReducedToRatburgers Reduced to Root Beetles]]: In ''The Snow Job''. Cember actually likes them, though. |
104 | * RevengeBeforeReason: Harmon has an issue to set with the Brimia crew. Also, if you're [[SpacePirates Kaagan-Vas]], keep as far away from [[BewareTheNiceOnes Bocce]] as possible. |
105 | * TheRustler: There's a gang of these on Ciceron. The gang gets hired to rustle a herd of cattle back from them. |
106 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[http://runnersuniverse.com/2011/01/snow-job-ch-04-pg-23/ Not their fight]]. |
107 | * ShoutOut: Flying out of Oniaka. [[Franchise/StarWars Millenium Falcon, anyone?]] |
108 | * SnowballFight: The crew play a bit upon arrival on Ciceron, where it's very snowy. |
109 | * SnowMeansDeath: Frozen-to-death guy in the establishing shot of Ciceron. |
110 | * SpaceClothes: Refreshingly [[AvertedTrope averted]] for everyone except Sky, the one person able to pull modest FutureSpandex off. The rest of the crew dresses more like Han Solo. |
111 | %% * SpaceElves: The Jondhi seem to be HiddenElfVillage kind of people. |
112 | * SpaceFighter: Ships like ''Khorusya Brimia'' have one or two "Mosquitos" for discrete landings and dogfights. |
113 | * SpacePolice: In Jondhi space (Space Navy? Space Coast Guard?) - they give our heroes some trouble. |
114 | * SpacePirates: At least two distinct groups, Harmon's one comes complete with a BoardingParty as their favoured tactic. The Kaagan-Vas seem to be AlwaysChaoticEvil. |
115 | * StabTheSalad: In their very first scene, Cember's fully intending to kick Roka's ass [[spoiler: in a cardgame]]. |
116 | * StandardStarshipScuffle: ''Khorusya Brimia'' vs. SpacePirates, with dogfighting and [[Franchise/StarWars star-warsy]] ExplosionsInSpace |
117 | * StreetSmart: None of the crew is exactly dumb: Roka and Bennes are [[TheStrategist tacticians]], Ril gets to play the mechanic, Bocce got into the crew because he thinks on his feet, and Cember's a good shot and experienced in fights. |
118 | %% * [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Superpowered Blood Knight Side]]: [[spoiler: Silver Sky]] |
119 | * SuperSoldier: [[spoiler: The blue-silver girls, most probably.]] |
120 | * TheSyndicate: The Six Tal'Dhamas organize the crime in this universe. |
121 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Cember and Bennesaud, best pals since having been on the same pirate crew. |
122 | * TokenHuman: Bocce (or {{Human Alien|s}}, since there seems to be no Earth around). |
123 | * UsedFuture: Not really future, more like a galaxy far, far away. But still. |
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