!![[Music/{{Saga}} The Band]]
* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The album cover for [[http://www.music-bazaar.com/album-images/vol10/508/508426/2343751-big/Images-At-Twilight-cover.jpg ''Images At Twilight'']].
** [[http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/306/cover_535103172017_r.jpg ''Silent Knight'']] has an amazing cover as well.
* EpicRiff: Ian Crichton provided a lot of these. As heard in and not limited to "It's Time", "On the Loose", "Goodbye (Once Upon A Time)" and "Giant".
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: To the point where most of Saga's touring these days is around Germany exclusively.
%%* GrowingTheBeard: ''Worlds Apart''.
* SignatureSong: Their most popular song is "On the Loose", which topped at number 3 in the US Mainstream Rock chart.
* {{Squick}}: The alternate cover for [[http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/306/cover_3058111252013_r.jpg ''Pleasure and The Pain'']]
* TearJerker: "Goodbye (Once Upon A Time)", the final track from ''Behaviour''. A song lamenting childhood and written shortly after the death of Michael Sadler's father. A very personal song, it's still enough to well up strong emotions in him to this day during live performances.

!![[ComicBook/{{Saga}} The Comic Book Series]]
* AccidentalAesop: Read as intended, ''Saga'' preaches about the futility of violence, and how being violent will always [[CycleOfRevenge come around to bite you in the ass]]. Unfortunately, it also seems to make a good case that [[TechnicalPacifist pacifism]] will lead to fatal loss of conviction at crucial moments.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Do The Will and Gwendolyn genuinely have feelings for each other? Or is The Will motivated by obsessive lust, and is Gwendolyn stringing him along to help her political ambitions?
* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Not even the creators thought the comic would last more than a couple issues, let alone became one of the [[SleeperHit most acclaimed and financially successful ongoing series of the modern era.]]
* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: Fiona Staples has won a couple of very well-deserved industry awards for her art.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: And a few more times after that.
-->"Just to be clear: your exact words were 'Please shoot it in my twat'."
** What else could you use to describe a full-color, plot-relevant, ''splash page'' of a dragon sucking its own dick?
** "Abortion Town"
* FetishRetardant: ''Everything'' on Sextillion.
* FriendlyFandoms: While the Music/CoheedAndCambria fandom is relatively small, the similarities between the band's comic/album concept ''The Amory Wars'' and ''Saga'' has led to some ''Amory'' fans checking out this series in-between waiting for installments of their own series. They both feature fiercely devoted parents and badass, morally ambiguous bounty hunter antagonists [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]! It kinda helps that both are heavily influenced by ''Star Wars''.
* GeniusBonus: The title of Heist's novel ''The Opposite of War''--which refers to '''sex''', not peace--is a direct allusion to the writings of UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud. Freud believed that sex and warfare were two of humanity's primary means of channeling their inherent aggression, though with completely opposite aims (one devoted to creating life, the other devoted to ending it).
* HilariousInHindsight: Gwendolyn's introduction is very similar to that of [[spoiler: a new ''Star Wars'' character introduced in the Marvel/Disney comics: Sana Solo, Han Solo's previously-unmentioned wife]]. Suddenly, all the ''Star Wars'' comparisons are even funnier.
** Speaking of ''Star Wars'', The Will's rescue and adoption of Sophie reminds one of another [[Series/TheMandalorian cape-wearing mercenary taking a traumatized child under his care]]...
* HoYay:
** Marko and Prince Robot frequently bicker LikeAnOldMarriedCouple even though Marko is "supposed" to do that with Alana.
** Ghüs was apparently helping Prince Robot raise his son Squire on Quietus after the events of Issue 36.
* JerkassWoobie: The Will progressively becomes more and more of a woobie as the comic goes on. Seriously, this guy's whole life is a TraumaCongaLine. The Jerkass part comes from the fact that he's okay with killing children for money.
** Sophie (the former Slave Girl) had a terrible life on Phang and was traumatized by being forced into sex work as a child. However, as she grows she's begun emulating Gwendolyn's arrogance (which leads directly to The Brand's death), and fully swallows Gwendolyn's lies that Marko is an "abusive creep."
* MemeticMutation: [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/imagecomics/images/0/09/Lying_Cat_Saga_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150328025426 LYING]]. It's become a popular reaction image for when you think someone is, well, lying.
* {{Moe}}: Ghus is so adorable it's ''unfair''.
* {{Misblamed}}: Issue #12 wasn't for sale on the iOS version of digital comics storefront Comixology due to two panels depicting gay oral sex on Prince Robot IV's screen. People originally pinned this on Apple forbidding it, but it turned out that Comixology forbid it based on their interpretation of the Apple rules. Apple then said that they never banned it, and the comic was reinstated.
* NightmareFuel: Marko losing it and trying to slaughter a group of soldiers after he mistakenly believes they hurt Alana.
** The gas we see in a flashback that causes its victims to ''[[LudicrousGibs explode]]''. Prince Robot had to watch a poor medic who got caught in it without a gas mask burst apart at the seams, splattering blood all over him.
* OneSceneWonder: Thus far, King Robot has directly appeared in the comic exactly ''once'', and this meeting with [[AntiVillain Prince Robot]] ''perfectly'' encapsulates his son's FreudianExcuse and goes a long way towards foreshadowing the Prince's CharacterDevelopment.
* SignatureScene: Marko and Alana's post-sex argument in issue 11 seems to be frequently cited as "''Saga'' in a nutshell". Not surprising given that it has some of the comic's funniest lines.
** [[spoiler: Marko and Hazel's reunion.]]
** The scene where Sophie is snuggling up with Lying Cat. Sophie starts talking about how her time as a prostitute has made her broken and gross and it's all her fault, and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments the cat replies "Lying." Sophie hugs the cat tightly.]]
* {{Squick}}: The series isn't afraid to engage in this from time to time.
** The giant that Marko and Klara encounter in issue 7 and 8 has a pair of gigantic, prominent, and hairy testicles. This is not figurative. They are ''literal'' huge dangling monster balls that take up maybe twenty percent of a splash-page. Vaughan's script for his first appearance has been released, showing that Vaughan actually apologized to Staples for making her draw it.
%% ** Damn near ''everything'' on Sextillion.
** The Will's preferred means of attack seems to be bisecting people. The Lying Cat has been shown eating the skin off a victim's face.
** The close up of Prince Robot's wife giving birth.
** Marko cutting his new baby's umbilical cord... with his ''teeth.''
** [[SarcasmMode Of course you wanted to see]] that full-color splash page of the male dragon sucking its own penis, right? What do you mean, ''no?''
** The plentiful amount of [[LudicrousGibs exploding]] [[YourHeadAsplode heads]] in the series. Bonus points to the pimp who the Will does this to with his ''bare hands''.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: By issue 54 the series has become borderline misery porn. [[spoiler: New villain Ianthe gloats about [[KickTheDog killing and turning poor Sweet Boy into a rug?]] Okay, well, that's ''Saga'' for you, I guess. Then comes the abortion storyline which at least tries to handle the obviously dark subject matter respectfully in its own bizarre way. Oh, Ianthe is taunting Doff with homophobic slurs before [[BuryYourGays killing him?]] Not cool at all, but having a "no one is safe" policy makes the series exciting right? Well not even two issues later fan favorite Sir Robot is decapitated by The Will, who then kills Marko the very next issue just in time for the series to go on a three-and-a-half year-long hiatus. By this point many readers are more exhausted than shocked and killing off characters both minor and major in such a fashion comes off as gratuitous and even mean-spirited instead of serving the greater story.]] And then [[spoiler:Sophie gets killed off, meaning even ''children'' are just grist for the mill at this point, and it starts to seem like nothing good could possibly come out of the continuing plot anymore]].
* UglyCute: The Lying Cat.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Issue 48 has Hazel talk about fidget spinners, which was already a pretty dated fad by 2017. It sticks out even more so given the SpaceOpera setting.
* TheWoobie: Prince Robot, especially as we learn his backstory. Also Sophie, the slave girl who's literally introduced being forced into child prostitution. Even after being freed, she cannot quite shake off the mentality that The Will is her master.
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