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[[caption-width-right:300:Glorianna]]
[[http://glorianna.thecomicseries.com/ Glorianna]] is a fantasy/sci-fi comic created by J. Kevin Carrier. It began as a series of self-published minicomics in 1991, and began appearing as a webcomic in 2007. Glorianna is a sword-wielding mercenary, wandering a post-apocalyptic world seeking fortune and adventure.
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!! Glorianna contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Glorianna's [[http://glorianna.thecomicseries.com/comics/309/ father]] actually treats her with callousness to the point that it became one of many factors besides the prophecy of her missing twin sister that led to her CallToAdventure.
* ActionGirl: Glorianna.
* AfterTheEnd: The entire setting is implied to be this with a village built from a hollowed-out airplane and a town inside the remains of a power station being examples of the setting. [[http://glorianna.thecomicseries.com/comics/340 The Hall of the Mountain King]] clearly shows the setting on post-apocalyptic Earth, which was implied to be scientifically advanced before its collapse.
* AmazonBrigade: The priestesses of Ojhal in "Steel".
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Glorianna is forced to marry Portai in "Children of Woe" due to the village's SterilityPlague resulting in captured women being used as [[BreedingSlave breeding stock]], and this being the only other option. [[spoiler: Their union resulted in a daughter, whom Glorianna left her under the care of a priestess]].
* AppeaseTheVolcanoGod: In "The Halls of the Mountain King", [[spoiler: this is a SubvertedTrope with the "volcano" being a one-way portal from a malfunction of an ancient starship's engine connecting between the moon and Earth]].
* AristocratsAreEvil: Vasgor, Lord Claughmoore, and Duke Ludwig ([[spoiler: who just happened to be [[http://glorianna.thecomicseries.com/comics/412 a marooned alien in disguise]], though his lack of ambitions beyond maintaining order of his own domain made him TheLesserOfTwoEvils between the civil war between his [[BitchInSheepClothing power-hungry bride-to-be]] who would likely stage a conquest after securing their holds, and [[RevolutionWillNotBeCivilized discontent peasants]]who would likely start a bloody revolution across the region once the establishment is dealt with]]).
* BarbarianHero: SubvertedTrope. While Glorianna's ChainmailBikini and lack of interest besides fighting and carousing would make her seem like a female version of this trope, her [[http://glorianna.thecomicseries.com/comics/55/ background]] is from a seaside town along with her first employment as a sailor while [[SweetPollyOliver dressing up as a boy]].
* BittersweetEnding: Most storylines feature this.
* BodyguardBabes: Glorianna sometimes gets hired as one.
* BrokenBird: Glorianna is prone to melancholy when she's not fighting or carousing.
* CanonWelding: With J. Kevin Carrier's other work, Webcomic/LadySpectraAndSparky, albeit both Glorianna and Lady Spectra being switched in place during "The Replacement Killer" storyline.
* ChainmailBikini: Her garb of choice, [[http://glorianna.thecomicseries.com/comics/94/ which she took it from an abandoned temple dedicated to a war goddess Ojhal many years ago]]. This comes to bite her in the back in "Steel" which a faction attacked her due to her attire belonging to the Ojhal cult that turned out to be still active in the region she was in.
* TheCharmer: Jandar, Glori's occasional ally / foil / lover.
* ConsequenceCombo: Glorianna is told that she will "never know peace" until she finds her mysterious twin.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Glori sometimes alludes to her difficult childhood due to her abusive father.
* EvilChancellor: Vasgor, in "The Conscience of the King", [[spoiler: who had been manipulating the aging king into funding expensive projects paid by taxation of the villagers, which the combination of embezzlement towards his organization and discontent to stage a coup. At least until Glorianna, Nemi, and Gith put a stop to it.]]
* FantasyGunControl: As the setting is post-apocalyptic, other than [[CargoCult Syons]] who wielded [[http://glorianna.thecomicseries.com/comics/250 modern weaponry]] and [[http://glorianna.thecomicseries.com/comics/267 equipment]], gunpowder weaponry is uncommon among many civilizations to the point that Gloriana had to ask [[http://glorianna.thecomicseries.com/comics/200 an abused orphan on its mere concept]] after being trapped in modern era during "Time Past" storyline.
* FantasyKitchenSink: Ninjas, dragons, vampires, you name it.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Glorianna travels to the 21st century in "Time Past" and "The Replacement Killer", which she had to resort to her own sword and baseball bats due to unfamiliarity with firearms. The second storyline emphasized this in this [[http://glorianna.thecomicseries.com/comics/280 strip]]with the settings' DeliberateValuesDissonance (and Glorianna's mercenary mindset) treating prostitution, gambling, and drug trafficking with indifference rather than major crimes in 21st century.
* FortuneTeller: Valangia, the oracle who tells Glorianna that she has a twin out in the world somewhere.
* FutureImperfect: ImpliedTrope, where one comic involved ruins of a power plant being assumed as bones of a demon.
* GentleGiant: Gith
* JumpedAtTheCall: Glori was happy for an excuse to leave the backwater village she grew up in.
* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:Hope, Glori's abandoned daughter]].
* OpeningScroll: The strip begins with one of these.
* NominalHero: Like many SwordAndSorcery protagonists, Glorianna isn't interested in doing good most of the time with her main interest of her adventures being only for monetary reasons. Though she does have moral standards to [[EveryoneHasStandards not work for morally dubious employers (slavers, bandits, and other nefarious figures)]] and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold willing to help people albeit reluctantly]].
* ParentalIncest: The Iron Oasis storyline involved Hassan--a former Harem guard--who took the daughter from one of his multiple wives due to her father--the Caliph of Dharnistan--wishing to take her as his consort. The wife attempted to slay the Caliph but she was killed right in front of her daughter, who went mute from the trauma. [[spoiler: This turned out to be a lie since the daughter herself was the child of the Hassan, who himself was only castrated after his deed was found along with his daughter's tongue being cut. The wife was actually alive and continued the search for her daughter, who was taken by the Hassan along with the treasure, even after the Caliph's death.]]
* ProphecyTwist: It turns out during the final storyline that [[spoiler:the "twins" being sought after by both Glorianna and Hope all series are each other, rather than either of them having a twin sister.]]
* PuppetKing: Arven, in "The Conscience of the King".
* RaisedByOrcs: [[spoiler:Glorianna's daughter Hope, whom she left in the care of an Ojhal priestess before being "rescued" by Syons who later fought against a band of Ojhal cultist]].
* ReallyGetsAround: Glorianna has, shall we say, intimacy issues.
* RoyalBrat: Princess Nemi in "The Conscience of the King", though eventually, she becomes [[spoiler:a PoliticallyActivePrincess]].
* ScavengerWorld: Leftover bits of the 21st century are everywhere, though mostly in ruins.
* ScienceFantasy: Gloriana's magical nature makes it unclear whether it was genuine arcane (demons, necromancy, and dragons) or [[ClarkesThirdLaw misinterpretation of scientific artifacts]] (teleportation, energy emitters, and mind-control devices) in a post-apocalyptic landscape.
* SensualSpandex: In lieu of her ChainmailBikini, she wore a skin-tight outfit from an orphan in [[http://glorianna.thecomicseries.com/comics/195 this strip]] to "fit in" with 21st Century environment.
* SmallSecludedWorld: "The Halls of the Mountain King", [[spoiler: which is actually a [http://glorianna.thecomicseries.com/comics/340 habitat]] on Earth's moon]].
* SterilityPlague: "Children of Woe" involved the female populace of an entire village becoming barren and the new leader herself being a pregnant wanderer who usurped the old leader. [[spoiler: It is hinted that the toxic waste pile at the bottom of the plane may have been the cause of it]].
* {{Stripperiffic}}: A lot of the costumes fall into this category, male and female.
* TeenagePregnancy: [[spoiler: She was at [[http://glorianna.thecomicseries.com/comics/513 her late teenage years]] when she got pregnant by Portai in Children of Woes, though she would be considered as "young adult" by the standards of the setting.]]
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Portai, Gith, Thanaktos, the Mountain King, et. al.
* WalkingTheEarth: Glorianna is constantly on the move, looking for mercenary jobs, questing for her twin, and avoiding lasting relationships.
* [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than She Looks]]: Based on her [[spoiler: daughter being a full-grown woman (probably late teens)]], Glorianna's age would probably around mid-Thirties yet has the same appearance since [[http://glorianna.thecomicseries.com/comics/1 her sixteen years of age]], which is considered as "adult" by the setting.
* YouMeanXmas: In "Solstice", Glori gets an inspirational message from an unidentified jolly fat man.