Line #42 Webcomic/XDragoon


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2	[[caption-width-right:200:Rocky and Renata.]]
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4	A Portuguese-to-English Shonen-style webcomic by the artist known as Felipe Marcantonio.
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6	Two young dragons from the planet Gan-Mah, named Rocky and Alfred, are stowing away on a space ship to convince the leader of their planet, Emporer Krad, to abort this resource-wasting mission.
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8	Instead, they end up having to contend with a criminal bruiser named Crusher and a whole host of robotic warriors.
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10	Forced to flee the ship, they end up crash-landing on our planet, Earth.
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12	Meanwhile, in the nearby city of San Janery, a young girl named Renata wakes up after having a vivid dream about a dragon. Convinced that it was just a dream, she goes about her normal day, fails at a surprise exam, and ends up getting ambushed by the neighborhood hoodlums, where she proceeds to [[BadassNormal kick their asses with her self-defense training.]]
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14	However, one of the thugs pulls out a knife. Not prepared to fight against sharp weaponry, Renata flees to a nearby alleyway, ending up in a dead-end.
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16	Just went she thinks she's done for, the thug is scared off by the appearance of a "giant lizard." Renata realizes that it's the dragon from her dream, and at first, she is terrified... until the dragon extends his hand in peace.
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18	Thus do the adventures of ''X Dragoon'' begin.
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20	You can read this webcomic [[https://tapas.io/series/XDragoon-The-Series/info here.]]
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23	!!Tropes in this webcomic:
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25	* ActionGirl: Thais is the wife of a famous wrestler and she shows it.
26	* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Emperor Krad's entire goal for flying to Earth and seeking the [=XGem=] is to bring his late wife back to life.]]
27	* AerithAndBob: You have Rocky and Alfred and Berry and Emperor Krad and Renata and Illusion...
28	* BadassNormal:
29	** Renata to an extent, though she is still just a schoolgirl who knows self defense martial arts. This doesn't prevent her from disabling a dragon 10x her size with a [[GroinAttack cheap shot]], though.
30	** Also Thais. Despite showing up late in the comic, she's proven that her fighting skills are on par with the dragons, sans the ability to manipulate energy.
31	* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Several of the dragons. The rest of them [[TheOneWhoWearsShoes wear]] [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal sandals]].
32	* BerserkButton: The characters have a few.
33	** Do not tease Philip about his lips if you value your life.
34	** Do not call Alfred short. Just don't, please.
35	*** Averted in that Alfred's "width" is actually a pride point of his. Teasing him about this results in an InsultBackfire.
36	* ColorCodedCharacters: Each dragon is a completely different color, from the blue Rocky to the purple Alfred to the red Philip to the orange Berry.
37	** Exaggerated with [[spoiler:Rocky and Richer; with the exception of eye color, all Chosen Bearers of the [=XGem=] look the same.]]
38	* DecemberDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Between Master Fei and Natasha.]]
39	* FanGirl: Ms. Cristina is this for dragons. To a very scary level. She got uber-obsessive over a chibi SKETCH of one.
40	* FauxActionGirl: Barely Averted. Though Renata's a BadassNormal who gets captured or rendered useless a few times, she's not an action girl.
41	* HeelFaceTurn: Phillip, after Berry told him about Krad's real reason for coming to Earth. There are two others in the later Casulo arc, both of whom are {{Androcles Lion}}s.
42	* KamehameHadoken: Rocky's Burst Spark is this, though any dragon with sufficient training can fire their energy, often with vastly different manifestations, including flower petals.
43	* MacGuffin: The [=XGem=]. A powerful artifact from Gan-Mah that acts like a power amplifier, not to mention a few abilities of its own, including a [[spoiler:crystalline SuicideAttack]].
44	* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: [[spoiler:Rocky]], to the point where his father [[spoiler:murdered his mother]] and [[AbusiveParent abused him physically and verbally]] until he finally abandoned him.
45	* MarshmallowHell: Ms. Cristina subjects Rocky to this several times. He quickly gains a phobia of her excessive bosom.
46	** Alfred, meanwhile, thinks of this as Marshmallow Heaven and has admitted he would not mind dying in this way.
47	* MechaMooks: Dr. Scar built quite a few of these for Krad.
48	* TheMole: [[spoiler:Turns out, Dr. Scar was actually a Morph, and had been manipulating Krad from the beginning.]]
49	* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Lance starts with a very heavy pirate accent (in the English version, at least) which quickly diminishes from that point onward until he's speaking mostly normally with the occasional archaic English word.
50	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: In this universe, they are bipedal creatures with many different features and can manipulate their own energy.
51	** Combined with [[spoiler:ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself when Rocky's "costume" is considered awesome... except that it doesn't have wings.]]

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