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* "[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2020-04-29 What do you guys eat?]]. (aka- the 'Mundivore' makes his move.)
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* "[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2020-04-29 What do you guys eat?]]. eat?]]" (aka- the 'Mundivore' makes his move.)
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** And as demonstrated by Binnie, [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-06-19 a part of the original self can remain deep inside]], horrified at what the body is doing.
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* Schlock's habit of eating his enemies is usually played for laughs. [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-02-24 Except when it is not.]] This strip could fit in horror story with zero edits.
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* Schlock's habit of eating his enemies is usually played for laughs. [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-02-24 Except when it is not.]] This strip could fit in a horror story with zero edits.
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** And the ultimate tidbit of ''existential dread?'' The Pa'anuri are the answer to [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox Furmi's Paradox.]][[note]] 1: The galaxy is so mind bogglingly big that the odds favor intelligent life evolving on countless other planets. 2: Odds also favor such life evolving millions, maybe billions of years prior to our own. 3: With all that time to advance, multiply and expand, where are they?[[/note]] Essentially, every sufficiently advanced civilization has either a) hid, b) fled, or c) died because of the Pa'anuri... and now they're coming for us.
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** And the ultimate tidbit of ''existential dread?'' The Pa'anuri are the answer to [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox Furmi's Fermi's Paradox.]][[note]] 1: The galaxy is so mind bogglingly big that the odds favor intelligent life evolving on countless other planets. 2: Odds also favor such life evolving millions, maybe billions of years prior to our own. 3: With all that time to advance, multiply and expand, where are they?[[/note]] Essentially, every sufficiently advanced civilization has either a) hid, b) fled, or c) died because of the Pa'anuri... and now they're coming for us.
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* The Pa'anuri themselves are enough to inspire dread on both a personal ''and'' existential level, being essentially [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian horrors]] vindicated by hard science.
** Imagine an invisible monster that seeks out and... [[LudacrisGibs messily disassembles]] any of the power sources your civilization is dependent upon, without any care for the organic beings who were standing nearby or relying on them at the time.
** Then comes the dawning realization that the monster which has hounded your platoon is ''the size of an entire planet.''
** And it gets worse! They aren't just feral beasts acting on instinct; they are fully sapient beings who know ''exactly'' what they are doing. Oh... and they are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil utterly malevolent]] and actively destructive towards all organic life.
** Later, it turns out they're not just sapient, but hyper intelligent enough to outpace the entire Milky Way in an arms race that we never knew existed until it was too late.
** Imagine an invisible monster that seeks out and... [[LudacrisGibs messily disassembles]] any of the power sources your civilization is dependent upon, without any care for the organic beings who were standing nearby or relying on them at the time.
** Then comes the dawning realization that the monster which has hounded your platoon is ''the size of an entire planet.''
** And it gets worse! They aren't just feral beasts acting on instinct; they are fully sapient beings who know ''exactly'' what they are doing. Oh... and they are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil utterly malevolent]] and actively destructive towards all organic life.
** Later, it turns out they're not just sapient, but hyper intelligent enough to outpace the entire Milky Way in an arms race that we never knew existed until it was too late.
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* The Pa'anuri themselves are enough to inspire dread on both a personal ''and'' existential level, being essentially what a [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian horrors]] horror]] would be if vindicated by hard science.
** Imagine an invisible monster that seeks out and...[[LudacrisGibs [[LudacrisGlibs messily disassembles]] any of the power sources your civilization is dependent upon, without any care for the organic beings who were standing nearby or relying on them at the time.
** Then comes the dawning realization that the monsterwhich has hounded hounding your platoon is ''the size of an entire planet.''
** And it gets worse! They aren't just feral beasts acting on instinct; they are fully sapient beingswho know ''exactly'' well aware of what they are doing. Oh... doing, and they are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil utterly malevolent]] and actively destructive towards all organic life.
** Later, it turns out that they're not just sapient, but hyper intelligent enough to outpace the entire Milky Way in an arms racethat we never knew existed until it was too late.
** Imagine an invisible monster that seeks out and...
** Then comes the dawning realization that the monster
** And it gets worse! They aren't just feral beasts acting on instinct; they are fully sapient beings
** Later, it turns out that they're not just sapient, but hyper intelligent enough to outpace the entire Milky Way in an arms race
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* The Pa'anuri themselves are enough to inspire dread on both a personal ''and'' existential level, being essentially [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian horrors]] vindicated by hard science.
** Imagine an invisible monster that seeks out and... [[LudacrisGibs messily disassembles]] any of the power sources your civilization is dependent upon, without any care for the organic beings who were standing nearby or relying on them at the time.
** Then comes the dawning realization that the monster which has hounded your platoon is ''the size of an entire planet.''
** And it gets worse! They aren't just feral beasts acting on instinct; they are fully sapient beings who know ''exactly'' what they are doing. Oh... and they are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil utterly malevolent]] and actively destructive towards all organic life.
** Later, it turns out they're not just sapient, but hyper intelligent enough to outpace the entire Milky Way in an arms race that we never knew existed until it was too late.
** And after ''[[FromBadToWorse that]]'' their armada arrives. Yes, the planetoid sized Abominations have warships. And yes, they are to scale.
** Imagine an invisible monster that seeks out and... [[LudacrisGibs messily disassembles]] any of the power sources your civilization is dependent upon, without any care for the organic beings who were standing nearby or relying on them at the time.
** Then comes the dawning realization that the monster which has hounded your platoon is ''the size of an entire planet.''
** And it gets worse! They aren't just feral beasts acting on instinct; they are fully sapient beings who know ''exactly'' what they are doing. Oh... and they are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil utterly malevolent]] and actively destructive towards all organic life.
** Later, it turns out they're not just sapient, but hyper intelligent enough to outpace the entire Milky Way in an arms race that we never knew existed until it was too late.
** And after ''[[FromBadToWorse that]]'' their armada arrives. Yes, the planetoid sized Abominations have warships. And yes, they are to scale.
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-->'''[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2020-06-20 Trapped Pa'anuri:]]''' This new enemy has all the fast-burning ferocity of baryonic life, ''and'' it has [[GravityMaster all our own power over the shift and shape of space]]. It is not a monster. '''Monster is not enough of a word.'''
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* It's played for laughs and they kind-of had it coming, but Schlock is going around this ship [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2018-04-24 ambushing crewmembers and eating them]]. From the point of view of Uuplechan, they're basically in an Alien style horror movie.
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* It's played for laughs and they kind-of had it coming, but Schlock is going around this ship [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2018-04-24 ambushing crewmembers and eating them]]. From the point of view of Uuplechan, they're basically in an Alien style horror movie.movie.
* "[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2020-04-29 What do you guys eat?]]. (aka- the 'Mundivore' makes his move.)
--> "Because answering questions ''seemed'' harmless...."
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* "[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2020-04-29 What do you guys eat?]]. (aka- the 'Mundivore' makes his move.)
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** Even Schlock himself [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-08-11 admits it.]]
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* The very concept of the ''long-gun'', which makes it possible to destroy a target at any location without prior warning and with no possible defence.
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* The very concept of the ''long-gun'', which makes it possible to destroy a target at any location without prior warning and with no possible defence.defence.
* It's played for laughs and they kind-of had it coming, but Schlock is going around this ship [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2018-04-24 ambushing crewmembers and eating them]]. From the point of view of Uuplechan, they're basically in an Alien style horror movie.
* It's played for laughs and they kind-of had it coming, but Schlock is going around this ship [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2018-04-24 ambushing crewmembers and eating them]]. From the point of view of Uuplechan, they're basically in an Alien style horror movie.
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** The one from 2001 involving the crew fighting a bunch of ''Alien'' style creatures would have been scary enough, but having it ''from the alien children's point of view'' somehow made it even scarier and more depressing. The way Schlock finishes them all off is mild in comparison.
* Schlocktoberfest 2005 -- [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-11-09 Kevyn's assessment of what happened to PFC Adam Monk ]] [[spoiler: after being eaten alive by a megalodon]]; suddenly those healing upgrades don't seem like such a good idea after all....
* Schlocktoberfest 2005 -- [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-11-09 Kevyn's assessment of what happened to PFC Adam Monk ]] [[spoiler: after being eaten alive by a megalodon]]; suddenly those healing upgrades don't seem like such a good idea after all....
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* Weaponized Blood Nannites are [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-10-14 cruel]], probably qualify as a WMD, and certainly cause [[http://www.[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-10-14 com/2012-10-21 nightmares]].
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* When your combat medic admits to having trouble distinguishing [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-12-01 left limbs from right limbs]].
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* The very concept of the ''long-gun'', which makes it possible to destroy a target at any location without prior warning and with no possible defence.
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* Peri snaps her fingers and Elf casually [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-11-30 rips a prisoner's arms off]]. Admittedly, he had it coming but it is still brutal.
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* Peri snaps her fingers and Elf casually [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-11-30 rips a prisoner's arms off]]. Admittedly, he had it coming but it is still brutal.brutal.
* When your combat medic admits to having trouble distinguishing [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-12-01 left limbs from right limbs]].
* When your combat medic admits to having trouble distinguishing [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-12-01 left limbs from right limbs]].
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** Not to mention one of her very first acts after getting back in control of the ship was to make a [[GravityMaster gravitic]] grab for Thurl (who put her in [[AndIMustScream sensory deprivation to start with]]) and [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-12 slowly twist his head off at the neck]].
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** Not to mention one of her very first acts after getting back in control of the ship was to make a [[GravityMaster gravitic]] grab for Thurl (who put her in [[AndIMustScream sensory deprivation to start with]]) and [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-12 slowly twist his head off at the neck]].neck]].
* Peri snaps her fingers and Elf casually [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-11-30 rips a prisoner's arms off]]. Admittedly, he had it coming but it is still brutal.
* Peri snaps her fingers and Elf casually [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-11-30 rips a prisoner's arms off]]. Admittedly, he had it coming but it is still brutal.
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** Not to mention one of her very first acts after getting back in control of the ship was to make a [[GravityMaster gravitic]] grab for Thurl (who put her in [[AndIMustScream sensory deprivation to start with]]) and [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-12 slowly twist his head off at the neck.neck]].
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* Hearing [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-22 this]] out of your now-crazed shipmind.
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** Not to mention one of her very first acts after getting back in control of the ship was to make a [[GravityMaster gravitic]] grab for Thurl (who put her in [[AndIMustScream sensory deprivation to start with]]) and slowly twist his head off at the neck.
** Not to mention one of her very first acts after getting back in control of the ship was to make a [[GravityMaster gravitic]] grab for Thurl (who put her in [[AndIMustScream sensory deprivation to start with]]) and slowly twist his head off at the neck.
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** Some more in-universe use during the Tough's stint in Haven Hive. Anyone that's watched Schlock [[EatenAlive get to work when unarmed]] tends to be terrified into submission, to the point one hostage demanded to be treated as a bullet shield instead.
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* We finally get our first look at a [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-16 Pa'anuri]].
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*Hearing [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-22 this]] out of your now-crazed shipmind.
*Hearing [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-22 this]] out of your now-crazed shipmind.
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* Laz-R-Us/Redhack. You are now an immortal being... and a deep-black intelligence agency now has a backdoor into your brain. They have absolutely no qualms wiping your mind clean and installing a copy of a sadistic sociopath in your head for whatever purpose they need. Worse, if the gestalt of your mind is fresh enough, there's a good chance the violent monster that replaced you can successfully pretend to ''be'' you... and if that fails, they can just transform into an armored monstrosity and kill ''everything you have ever known and loved'' to keep their cover.
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* [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-10-24 As if Schlock wasn't disturbing enough.]]
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* Illustrated in-universe in [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-03-25 this strip]].
* Schlock and Ennesby [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-05-13 find out where abductees on a station have gone]].
* Schlock and Ennesby [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-05-13 find out where abductees on a station have gone]].
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* Illustrated in-universe in [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-03-25 this strip]].
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Weaponized Blood Nannites are [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-10-14 cruel]], probably qualify as a WMD, and certainly cause [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-10-14 nightmares]].nightmares]].
*Illustrated in-universe in [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-03-25 this strip]].
*Illustrated in-universe in [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-03-25 this strip]].
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