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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...

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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!! Tropes:

* 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.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Bocce encounters a pack of weird alien wolves. He doesn't even need to tame them to play catch (and BigDamnHeroes).
* 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...
* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler: Sky and her "sisters"]] may be these. We really don't know yet.
* AsteroidMiners: Ril and Roka have a hideout in an abandoned asteroid mine.
* {{Bandito}} InSpace: The [[ParodiedTrope hilariously inept]] green guys at the beginning of "The Snow Job". They even have the hats!
* 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.
-->'''Bar owner''': Hey! Who's gonna pay for my window?!
* BarrierWarrior: One frequent use of Bocce's shapeshifting [[PowerFist power arm]] is creating shields.
* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Climax of ''The Snow Job''
* 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.
* TheBigGuy: In the Brimia crew, the role is shared between [[GentleGiant Bennesaud]] and [[CuteBruiser Sky]].
* BigDamnHeroes: In ''The Snow Job'', Bocce rides an alien-dog-pulled sled right into the climactic battle to save his friends.
* BinocularShot: A [[ShoutOut star]]-[[Franchise/StarWars warsy]] one [[http://runnersuniverse.com/2009/12/snow-job-ch-02-pg-06/ here]].
* BoardingParty: Our heroes, when scavenging the ''Tique Amara''. Also a tactic favoured by pirates.
* {{Bookends}}: The gang having dinner in ''The Snow Job''.
* BountyHunter: They exist and are likely to target the gang, so Grissom says.
* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: The Ulon Dosi, native to Ciceron, have very much this sort of aesthetic, along with quite a lot of [[BadassNative badassitude]].
* CasualInterplanetaryTravel: Our heroes are broke and search for work by travelling on a spaceship.
* TheCaptain: [[TheChainsOfCommanding Roka]].
* CasualDangerDialogue: Cember, Ril and Bennes tease each other, joke and make bets while fighting.
* CattleDrive: ''The Snow Job'' consists of driving Ciceron yak. [[spoiler: Ostensibly.]]
* [[CityPlanet City Planetoid]]: Oniaka city station. Vaguely inspired by India, according to WordOfGod.
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Line]]: Several, in ''The Snow Job''.
* ChromeChampion: [[spoiler: The [[ArtificialHuman blue]] [[OneGenderRace girls]], Sky among them, are able to turn into these at will, complete with SuperStrength.]]
* CloakingDevice: Standard [[SpacePirates pirate]] trick.
* TheConscience: Bocce, for Roka mostly.
* 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]].
* 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.
* DeflectorShields: Common on ships (essential in Space Battles) as well as around individuals ("body shells").
* TheDon: Called "dhama" in this universe. The Brimia crew, being crooks, deal with them more than they probably ought to.
* [[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.]]
%% * DramaticGunCock
* EffortlessAmazonianLift: [[spoiler: Silver]] Sky has no trouble lifting Bocce.
%% * EscapePod: Plot point. More than once.
* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: Bennesaud throws a rock.
-->'''Ril''': You missed!\\
'''Bennesaud''': I did?\\
An avalanche ensues
* ExactWords: [[spoiler: The end of ''Snow Job'']]. They were supposed to bring back forty ''heads'' of cattle...
-->'''Dhama Hes''' (upon being given literally just the heads): Very clever.
* ExtendedDisarming: [[http://runnersuniverse.com/2009/10/snow-job-ch-01-pg-17/ Ril]], the WalkingArmory:
--> They put weapons on the table.\\
'''Doorkeeper''': All your weapons.\\
[[TriggerHappy Ril]] puts another weapon on the table.\\
'''Doorkeeper''': And the buckle knives.\\
Ril puts them on the table. Doorkeeper just stares. Ril puts another knife on the table. Doorkeeper keeps staring.\\
'''Roca''' Do you want to just meet us inside??
* EvilIsHammy: There is a BlackAndGreyMorality in effect, but still... Hamron seems [[ChewingTheScenery starved for the scenery]].
* 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]]
* 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.
* FantasticSlurs: "Horn-Beak" is one for Ril's species.
* TheFightingNarcissist: Hamron the Handsome, dreaded [[SpacePirates pirate]] and ladies' man.
* FlashbackNightmare: Roka has an understated one, with [[SilenceIsGolden no dialogue]], to drive his SurvivorGuilt home.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Brimia crew, besides leukine [[NiceGuy Bocce]] and Sky, who [[AmnesiacsAreInnocent doesn't know herself yet]], consists of:
** sanguine: Cember: the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Candy]] [[BoisterousBruiser Bandit]] and FunPersonified who [[LeapAndFire looks good in firefights]]
** 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}}
** melancholic: Roka: very smart, analitical and [[ConsummateProfessional serious]], [[TheReliableOne responsible]], [[TheLeader levelheaded captain]] with hints of StepfordSnarker
** phlegmatic: Bennesaud: GentleGiant, quiet and reliable, [[TheStrategist smart, but not bragging about it]], relaxes by reading
* FireBreathingWeapon: Flamethrowers are used in ''The Snow Job'', to deadly effect.
* 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]].
* TheGunslinger: Cember. Ril, while quite TriggerHappy, just doesn't have the flair.
* HandCannon: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for Bennesaud, whose usual guns are tiny (in proportion to [[GentleGiant him]]).
* TheHeart: [[TokenGoodTeammate Bocce]].
* HeelRealization: Roka actively avoids having one. He tells Bocce so after the gang finds clues of [[spoiler: SuperHumanTrafficking they might be committing]].
-->'''Roka''': It's not our job to know.
* HonestJohnsDealership: The anglefishman sells ships on Oniaka. He's basically [[VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland Stan]] InSpace.
* 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.
* 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]].
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Baso's initiation into Kaagan-Vas consists of [[spoiler: killing his own father and sister]]. He has absolutely [[PlayedForDrama no problem with that]].
* 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.
* InertialDampening: Trumped by RuleOfFunny, otherwise played straight.
* IntimidationDemonstration: [[http://runnersuniverse.com/2009/10/snow-job-ch-01-pg-13/ Pacifies Ril]]. Makes Roka grumble about how much forks cost.
%% * IronicEchoCut: Happens every now and again.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Ril in ''The Snow Job'', protesting the fact they didn't get paid. Again. And are completely broke:
-->'''Ril''': THAT'S IT! I can't DO this!! I can't believe we TOOK the beetles!\\
'''Roka''': What was I SUPPOSED to do, Ril?! They couldn't PAY us!\\
'''Ril''': We can't LIVE like this, Roka!!
%% * KnowledgeBroker: Dhama Hes believes knowledge is power.
* LastNameBasis: Ril only ever refers to Cember as "Cember" once. Every other time it's "Kogi".
* 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
* MacGuffinSuperPerson: [[spoiler: An ''entire shipload'' of possible {{Human Weapon}}s...]]
* MexicanStandoff: How we meet [[spoiler: Grissom]].
* MistakenForJunkie: While Keyla needs crush for research (on curing [[AddledAddict addicts]]), her father [[TearJerker forms conclusions of his own]].
* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Harmon. It would be sad, if it wasn't [[PlayedForLaughs so hilarious]].
-->'''Harmon''': My beautiful face!
* NighInvulnerability: [[spoiler: Silver Sky]]. Also quite [[SuperStrength strong]].
* OffBridgeOntoVehicle: In the ''Damaged Goods''. Less than graceful, but at least no-one got hurt.
* OldFriend: Grissom, to Ril and Roka.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Why Roka is in the business.
* OpiumDen: The ruined village of Ulon Dosi (ruination in this case caused by most of the population being addicted to crush).
* PerpetualPoverty: Money's tight for Brimia crew. This is a source of tension. Especially when they don't get paid. Again.
* PowerFist: Bocce has some sort of [[EnergyBeings blue energy]] [[ArtificialLimbs arm]]. That shapeshifts. Very handy.
* RetiredOutlaw: Grissom, at least for now.
* [[ReducedToRatburgers Reduced to Root Beetles]]: In ''The Snow Job''. Cember actually likes them, though.
* 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.
* TheRustler: There's a gang of these on Ciceron. The gang gets hired to rustle a herd of cattle back from them.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[http://runnersuniverse.com/2011/01/snow-job-ch-04-pg-23/ Not their fight]].
* ShoutOut: Flying out of Oniaka. [[Franchise/StarWars Millenium Falcon, anyone?]]
* SnowballFight: The crew play a bit upon arrival on Ciceron, where it's very snowy.
* SnowMeansDeath: Frozen-to-death guy in the establishing shot of Ciceron.
* 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.
%% * SpaceElves: The Jondhi seem to be HiddenElfVillage kind of people.
* SpaceFighter: Ships like ''Khorusya Brimia'' have one or two "Mosquitos" for discrete landings and dogfights.
* SpacePolice: In Jondhi space (Space Navy? Space Coast Guard?) - they give our heroes some trouble.
* 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.
* StabTheSalad: In their very first scene, Cember's fully intending to kick Roka's ass [[spoiler: in a cardgame]].
* StandardStarshipScuffle: ''Khorusya Brimia'' vs. SpacePirates, with dogfighting and [[Franchise/StarWars star-warsy]] ExplosionsInSpace
* 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.
%% * [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Superpowered Blood Knight Side]]: [[spoiler: Silver Sky]]
* SuperSoldier: [[spoiler: The blue-silver girls, most probably.]]
* TheSyndicate: The Six Tal'Dhamas organize the crime in this universe.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Cember and Bennesaud, best pals since having been on the same pirate crew.
* TokenHuman: Bocce (or {{Human Alien|s}}, since there seems to be no Earth around).
* UsedFuture: Not really future, more like a galaxy far, far away. But still.
* WretchedHive: The ironically named [[SpaceStation Free Kespa]].