History Series / Lexx

[[caption-width-right:350:The main cast, seasons 2-4.(L-R: 790, Kai, Xev, Stan)]]

** This is rampant on Fire. In particular, while Stan isn't exactly a good person, sentencing him to [[spoiler: spend eternity being beheaded, over and over,]] seems excessive.

*** In Season 1 it's established the the key to the Lexx is transferred from one captain to the next at the point of death, in Season 3 it's established that the most intense of sexual experiences is sufficient, and [[spoiler: Prince disguised as Xev]] spends a big chunk of an episode trying to coax it out of Stan. In Season 4 the fear of impending death (i.e. having a gun pointed at you, or hanging on for dear life above a 50-foot drop), or making out with someone you're really hot for (although the latter primarily happens with Bunny) is enough to cause the transfer. This is strange considering that Stan had been near death countless times and has had sex over the course of the previous seasons, and the key had stayed firmly put.

%%* ConspiracyTheorist: Field Commander Moss.

** Despite Prince's ominous warnings about 'maintaining the balance', Xev insists on blowing up the planet Fire. Prince then hijacks the Lexx and uses it to blow up Water as well, destroying the afterlife forever and condemning every good soul will ever live to nothingness.

** The Divine Order dominates the ''Light'' Universe. Their propaganda insists that the Dark Zone is ''even worse'' due to its chaotic lawlessness. It turns out the propaganda is true.

%%* CityPlanet: The Cluster. The city only covers about a sixth of the surface, but is still massive enough to be completely visible from orbit at all times.

** When people mention that Stan caused the destruction of a hundred Reform Planets, he usually shoots back that it was ''only ninety-four!'' [[note: ...the other six were just allied.]]

%%* CityPlanet: The Cluster.

** When people mention that Stan caused the destruction of a hundred inhabited planets, he usually shoots back that it was ''only ninety-four.''

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* TheNthDoctor: Zev, played by Eva Habermann, dies in the second season and is reborn as Xev, played by Xenia Seeberg. In her pre-love slave appearance, she is played by Lisa Hines.

The show takes UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud's axiom that the sex drive and the death drive are the two main forces controlling human nature: Stanley Tweedle (Brian Downey), security guard (Level 4, the lowest), Zev Bellringer of 3BK (Creator/EvaHabermann in season 1, Creator/XeniaSeeberg in seasons 2-4), a woman who was forcibly converted into a love slave for failing to perform her wifely duties (she's got the looks and the libido, but none of the mental imprinting), Kai (Michael [=McManus=]), an undead assassin, and 790 (Jeff Hirschfield), a robot head (that got the mental conditioning intended for Zev) zoom around the galaxy looking to get laid. They never learn lessons and blow up every planet they visit. Rinse and repeat. Take the fatalism of Wagnerian opera, the budget of a Sega CD game, and the logic (and sometimes acting) of softcore porn, and that's ''Lexx''.

* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: PlayedForLaughs with the ATF. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms exists in RealLife; it is an organization within UsefulNotes/AmericanLawEnforcement with a focused scope of authority. In the show, the bureau operates ''vastly'' beyond this scope.

* DeathBySex: Kai's living reincarnation on Earth had the bad luck to meet Xev as she was experiencing a [[BlackWidow Cluster Lizard mating cycle]].

** [[spoiler: At one point did Kai fulfill the prophecy and the last of the Brunnen-G destroy the Divine Order? Was it the death of the Giga Shadow after the Cleansing? Or Kai using his brace weapon to kill the current host of the Divine Shadow, before he can stop the Lexx from destroying the Divine Order's flagship?]]

* SensualSpandex: The uniform of Gametown's citizens. More or less justified in that the main activity in the town is sports. Unusually, the [[CleavageWindow cleavage windows]] and [[BareYourMidriff bare midriffs]] are standard features of the men's clothing, not just the women's.

* BareYourMidriff: A lot: Zev dresses like this from "Fire and Water" on; midriff-baring outfits are common in Gametown and Boomtown; and the reenactors that the crew encounters in "Brigadoom" portray the Time Prophet this way.

** This leads to a bit of FridgeLogic: How can the entire history of the universe by cyclical and repeat itself exactly, if people sometimes transfer back and forth between the Two Universes? That would only work if both universes were exactly the same age and cycled concurrently, but since [[spoiler: one of them has its Big Crunch in the season 2 finale, and the main characters transfer to the other one, which is still going strong]], the two universes aren't the same age.

The show takes UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud's axiom that the sex drive and the death drive are the two main forces controlling human nature: Stanley Tweedle (Brian Downey), security guard (Level 4, the lowest), Zev Bellringer of 3BK (Creator/EvaHabermann in season 1, Xenia Seeberg in seasons 2-4), a woman who was forcibly converted into a love slave for failing to perform her wifely duties (she's got the looks and the libido, but none of the mental imprinting), Kai (Michael [=McManus=]), an undead assassin, and 790 (Jeff Hirschfield), a robot head (that got the mental conditioning intended for Zev) zoom around the galaxy looking to get laid. They never learn lessons and blow up every planet they visit. Rinse and repeat. Take the fatalism of Wagnerian opera, the budget of a Sega CD game, and the logic (and sometimes acting) of softcore porn, and that's ''Lexx''.