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''Blast'' is a 2012 comic by French indie cartoonist Manu Larcenet. The story follows the doomed journey of one Polza Mancini, a homeless drifter who's being held in police custody for unspecified crimes. Polza recounts his life story to a captive audience of two detectives. His travels started when he was exposed to "the blast," a vision of a world without morality or structure. What follows is a dark and esoteric story of one man's descent into inhumanity. [WiP]
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''Blast'' is a 2012 comic by French indie cartoonist Manu Larcenet. The story follows the doomed journey of one Polza Mancini, a homeless drifter and former writer who's being held in police custody for unspecified crimes. At the behest of the detectives questioning him, Polza recounts begins to recount his life story to a captive audience of two detectives. His travels them. It all started when he was exposed to experienced what he calls "the blast," a vision he had of a world without morality or structure. social guidelines. Enamored by the idea of a life without restraint, he decides to abandon civil society to live hedonistically on the fringes of human civilization. What follows is a dark and esoteric story character study of one man's descent into inhumanity. [WiP]
a man who's willingly forsaken his humanity to become a beast.
There are four books in the series, which are titled as such:
There are four books in the series, which are titled as such:
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The blast is an unusual take on this trope. [[StartOfDarkness While the blast compels Polza to adopt a dark new worldview]], he's not even remotely shocked or horrified by what he sees. If anything, he's ''thrilled'' about the possibility of living a life free of morality.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The blast is an unusual take on this trope. [[StartOfDarkness While the blast compels Polza to adopt a dark new worldview]], he's not even remotely shocked or horrified by what he sees. If anything, he's ''thrilled'' about the possibility of living a life free of morality.revelations he experiences.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The blast is an unusual take on this trope. [[StartOfDarkness While the blast compels him to adopt a dark new worldview]], he's not even remotely shocked or horrified by what he sees. If anything, he's ''thrilled'' about the possibility of living a life free of morality.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The blast is an unusual take on this trope. [[StartOfDarkness While the blast compels him Polza to adopt a dark new worldview]], he's not even remotely shocked or horrified by what he sees. If anything, he's ''thrilled'' about the possibility of living a life free of morality.
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* UnreliableNarrator: It's quickly established that Polza tends to withhold information, consciously or otherwise. In the first book, it's revealed that Polza was truncating slightly while discussing the death of his brother Trolezin in a car accident. Polza was the driver and he'd been massively drunk that evening.
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* UnreliableNarrator: It's quickly established that Polza tends to withhold information, consciously or otherwise. In the first book, it's revealed that Polza was truncating slightly while discussing the death of his brother Trolezin in a car accident. The detectives reveal that Polza was the driver and that he'd been massively drunk that evening.evening.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Although Polza portrays himself as being proudly amoral, there are moments where he's morally outraged by the things he sees (not without good reason though).
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** After Polza survives running across a busy highway, he experiences the blast. A full-page illustration shows a humongous moai sitting on the highway, with a lone van approaching. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that this was a police cruiser and that Polza murdered two officers responding to the scene while in his trance. The epilogue shows the same panel [[OnceMoreWithClarity but with Polza standing by himself instead of the moai]].]]
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** After Polza survives running across a busy highway, he experiences the blast. A full-page illustration shows a humongous moai sitting on the highway, with a lone van approaching. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that this was a police cruiser and that Polza murdered two officers responding to the scene while in his trance. The epilogue shows the same panel [[OnceMoreWithClarity but with Polza standing by himself instead to the right of the moai]].]]]]
** At one point Carol is applying make-up on Polza's face to make him look like a skeleton or maybe the grim reaper. She jokingly references a trite saying about how "you don't put on makeup to hide your face, but to reveal its secrets." [[spoiler: Polza is a serial killer. His secret is that death follows in his wake, as if he's the grim reaper.]]
** At one point Carol is applying make-up on Polza's face to make him look like a skeleton or maybe the grim reaper. She jokingly references a trite saying about how "you don't put on makeup to hide your face, but to reveal its secrets." [[spoiler: Polza is a serial killer. His secret is that death follows in his wake, as if he's the grim reaper.]]
* GeniusBruiser: In addition to his intelligence, Polza is a lot stronger and more agile than he looks. At one point the detectives describe him as being more like "a cornered animal that would do anything to survive than some obese couch potato."
* StoutStrength: Polza is surprisingly strong and fleet-footed in spite of weighing three hundred pounds. Throughout the story he's shown to have no problem hiking long distances, sleeping in the wilderness for months on end, and outrunning people chasing him. [[spoiler: He's also strong enough to have repeatedly beat people to death with his bare fists without doing lasting damage to his hands.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: After he learns that he murdered Carol, Polza has a truly apocalyptic break-down. A series of disturbing memories flash before his eyes, culminating in red-tinged images of Carol, Trolezin, and Polza's father.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: After he learns that he murdered Carol, Polza has a truly apocalyptic break-down. A series of disturbing memories flash before his eyes, culminating in red-tinged images of Carol, Trolezin, and Polza's father.his father, all of whom died by his hand.]]
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* WhamLine: A few across the entire story.
** In the second book, [[spoiler: Polza discovers that his associate Jacky has just stabbed a young heroin addict to death. Jacky tells him "she's not my first."]]
** Carol delivers one in book four when [[spoiler: she tells Polza about the true nature of Roland's legal troubles.]]
-->"Is that what he told you? [[spoiler: My dad didn't go to prison for oggling women. He also raped them]]."
* WhamEpisode: The epilogue. [[spoiler: It reveals that Polza was a serial murderer and that he left a trail of bodies during his travels]]
** In the second book, [[spoiler: Polza discovers that his associate Jacky has just stabbed a young heroin addict to death. Jacky tells him "she's not my first."]]
** Carol delivers one in book four when [[spoiler: she tells Polza about the true nature of Roland's legal troubles.]]
-->"Is that what he told you? [[spoiler: My dad didn't go to prison for oggling women. He also raped them]]."
* WhamEpisode: The epilogue. [[spoiler: It reveals that Polza was a serial murderer and that he left a trail of bodies during his travels]]
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** Saint Jacky comes across like this as well [[spoiler: initially]], given that he's an eccentric and cheery drug dealer who lives in a make-shift underground bunker.
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* SanitySlippage: This is a possible explanation for some of the more bizarre things Polza sees (or thinks he sees), such as the dream he has about Carol Oakley long before meeting her. Polza is remarkably candid about it.
-->"I had just been living alone in the woods for over three months, talking to trees, to rocks, getting blackout drunk everyday. You don't think that'd have an effect on your state of mind?"
-->"I had just been living alone in the woods for over three months, talking to trees, to rocks, getting blackout drunk everyday. You don't think that'd have an effect on your state of mind?"
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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Whenever Polza experiences the blast, the world around him is depicted as crude, brightly-colored scribbles that look like they were drawn by a child. It's suggested that this is how he's perceiving specific objects, animals, and people. [[spoiler: What he and the reader don't see are the violent murders he commits while in this trance-like state.]]
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Polza already seems disturbed and unstable even before he discovers the blast. He extremely anti-social, and he routinely abuses booze and drugs. It's briefly mentioned that he'd already been arrested several times prior to the events of the story, with the charges ranging from indecency and drunkeness to assault, the specifics of which are never specified. In spite of all that, Polza is remarkably lucid and articulate. This leads the detectives interrogating him to doubt that he's as "crazy" as he's letting on.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Polza already seems seemed disturbed and unstable even before he discovers discovered the blast. He He's extremely anti-social, and he routinely abuses booze and drugs. It's briefly mentioned that he'd already been arrested several times prior to the events of the story, with the charges ranging from indecency and drunkeness to assault, the specifics of which are never specified. detailed. In spite of all that, Polza is remarkably lucid and articulate.in recounting his life story. This leads the detectives interrogating him to doubt that he's as "crazy" as he's letting on.
* FatSlob: As mentioned above, Polza deliberately strove to be filthy, unrefined, and hedonistic while wandering the countryside.
-->"I lived drunk like you've never been. Dirty like you'll never be! So that I would not be repulsive in my smell as well as my looks, I had always made it a point of honor to obey a regime of strict cleanliness... in the forest, I reeked like you can't even imagine!"
-->"I lived drunk like you've never been. Dirty like you'll never be! So that I would not be repulsive in my smell as well as my looks, I had always made it a point of honor to obey a regime of strict cleanliness... in the forest, I reeked like you can't even imagine!"
* SinisterSchnoz: Polza has a comically long nose, which is contrasted by round, stone-like head.
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* TitleDrop: Happens in each book at one point or another.
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* TheAlcoholic: Polza has a long-standing drinking problem that's taken a toll on his physical and mental well-being. He somehow hasn't died from liver failure even though he drinks straight gin everyday and routinely has life-threatening nosebleeds because ''his blood can't coagulate''.
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* TheAlcoholic: Polza has a long-standing drinking problem that's taken a toll on his physical and mental well-being. He somehow hasn't died from liver failure even though he drinks straight gin everyday and routinely has life-threatening nosebleeds because ''his blood can't coagulate''. Polza rationalizes his constant drinking as a tool for self-discovery on his journey, an idea the detectives are immediately skeptical of.
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* NatureIsNotNice: This is part of why Polza loves the beauty of the natural world. Rather than romanticizing it, he appreciates how uncomplicated it is in its harshness and brutality.
-->"The natural world knows no morality, no justice, no free will, no reason, no values, no obligations."
-->"The natural world knows no morality, no justice, no free will, no reason, no values, no obligations."
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* InVinoVeritas: Polza references this trope in the second book while discussing how alcohol has helped him discover who he really is deep down.
-->"Being drunk is not a loss of control. It's a liberation. It's the only way to learn who you are without frightening yourself."
-->"Being drunk is not a loss of control. It's a liberation. It's the only way to learn who you are without frightening yourself."
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* UnreliableNarrator: It's quickly established that Polza tends to withhold information, consciously or otherwise.
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* UnreliableNarrator: It's quickly established that Polza tends to withhold information, consciously or otherwise. In the first book, it's revealed that Polza was truncating slightly while discussing the death of his brother Trolezin in a car accident. Polza was the driver and he'd been massively drunk that evening.
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* BigFun: In a twisted sort of way, Polza often acts like this during his travels. He repeatedly shares his gin with the friendlier people he comes across and makes lively conversation with them. He's very wry and jovial while talking to the detectives, which they rightfully find unnerving.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Polza is implied to have one at the outset of the narrative. It's increasingly delved into as the series progresses.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Polza is implied to have one at the outset of the narrative. It's increasingly delved into as the series progresses.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: At one point Polza meets a Serbian day-laborer named Bojan. Despite barely being able to speak French, he's routinely referred to as a "poet" by the other workers and is shown to be surprisingly erudite if the translating they do is to be believed.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Polza swings back and forth between being this and AffablyEvil. At times he seems like an intelligent, witty, and thoughtful man who has a deep appreciation for nature. But more often than not he shows himself to be a smug and detestable scumbag on top of being violently unstable.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The blast is an unusual take on this trope. [[StartOfDarkness While the blast compels him to adopt a dark new worldview]], he's not even remotely shocked or horrified by what he sees. If anything, he's ''thrilled'' about the possibility of living a life free of morality.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The blast is an unusual take on this trope. [[StartOfDarkness While the blast compels him to adopt a dark new worldview]], he's not even remotely shocked or horrified by what he sees. If anything, he's ''thrilled'' about the possibility of living a life free of morality.
* [[spoiler: {{Patricide}}]]: The epilogue reveals that [[spoiler: Polza murdered his father, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation which is what exposed him to the blast in the first place]].]]
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* VillainProtagonist: Polza is a gleefully amoral and self-interested man who feels no shame for any of the horrible behavior he gets up to.
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* VillainProtagonist: Polza is a gleefully amoral and self-interested man who feels no shame for any of the horrible behavior he gets up to.to.
* WickedCultured: In spite of being a homeless alcoholic, Polza is very poetic and articulate. Given that he used to be a writer, it makes sense for him to have such an erudite demeanor. His tendency to philosophize at length annoys the detectives.
* WickedCultured: In spite of being a homeless alcoholic, Polza is very poetic and articulate. Given that he used to be a writer, it makes sense for him to have such an erudite demeanor. His tendency to philosophize at length annoys the detectives.
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''Blast'' is a 2012 comic by French indie cartoonist Manu Larcenet.
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* FatBastard: Polza's weight is drawn attention to multiple times. It's not just that he's fat, but he's also shown to be a disgusting slob. He doesn't bathe regularly, he wears the same clothes for days on end (which are frequently stained by his own blood and filth), and he eats with his mouth open while literally cramming food down his gullet. Decency is one of many things Polza left behind with the blast.
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* HumanoidAbomination: Instead of a nose or mouth, Polza's father is inexplicably drawn with a massive and gnarled beak. He's the only character in the comic drawn like this and no one draws attention to it. Near the end of his life he barely looks human, with the beak and his emaciated body making him look like an inhuman monster. Polza acts with appropriate fear and trepidation whenever he has visions of his father coming back to haunt him in this form.
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* HumanoidAbomination: Instead of a nose or mouth, nose, Polza's father is inexplicably drawn with a massive and gnarled beak. He's the only character in the comic drawn like this and no one draws attention to it. Near the end of his life he barely looks human, with the beak and his emaciated body making him look like an inhuman monster. Polza acts with appropriate fear and trepidation whenever he has visions of his father coming back to haunt him in this form.
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** Throughout the narrative, Polza is haunted by visions of his skeletal, emaciated father.
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** Throughout the narrative, Polza is haunted by visions of his skeletal, emaciated father. Polza seems to feel an unspecific sense of guilt and horror whenever he thinks about him. [[spoiler: If the epilogue is to be believed, Polza first experienced the blast after murdering him.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's not abundantly clear what the blasts are. Putting aside Polza's quasi-mystical musings, it appears they're either seizures or psychotic breaks from reality. They're usually triggered by significant stress, injury, the use of potent drugs, or unpredictable emotional stimuli.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's not abundantly clear what the blasts are. Polza theorizes that the blast is a gift placed upon him by the universe for becoming a "moai." Putting aside Polza's quasi-mystical musings, it appears they're either seizures or psychotic breaks from reality. They're usually triggered by significant stress, injury, the use of potent drugs, or unpredictable emotional stimuli.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Polza already seems disturbed and unstable even before he discovers the blast. He extremely anti-social, and he routinely abuses booze and drugs. It's briefly mentioned that he'd already been arrested several times prior to the events of the story, with the charges ranging from indecency, In spite of all that, Polza is remarkably lucid and articulate. This leads the detectives interrogating him to doubt that he's as "crazy" as he's letting on.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Polza already seems disturbed and unstable even before he discovers the blast. He extremely anti-social, and he routinely abuses booze and drugs. It's briefly mentioned that he'd already been arrested several times prior to the events of the story, with the charges ranging from indecency, indecency and drunkeness to assault, the specifics of which are never specified. In spite of all that, Polza is remarkably lucid and articulate. This leads the detectives interrogating him to doubt that he's as "crazy" as he's letting on.
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** Throughout the narrative, Polza is haunted by visions of his skeletal, emaciated father.
* HeroicBSOD: Polza undergoes this when he first experiences the blast. [[GoMadFromTheRevelation He comes out of it]] [[FaceHeelTurn a]] [[TheUnfettered changed]] [[StrawNihilist man]].
* HumanoidAbomination: Instead of a nose or mouth, Polza's father is inexplicably drawn with a massive and gnarled beak. He's the only character in the comic drawn like this and no one draws attention to it. Near the end of his life he barely looks human, with the beak and his emaciated body making him look like an inhuman monster. Polza acts with appropriate fear and trepidation whenever he has visions of his father coming back to haunt him in this form.
* HeroicBSOD: Polza undergoes this when he first experiences the blast. [[GoMadFromTheRevelation He comes out of it]] [[FaceHeelTurn a]] [[TheUnfettered changed]] [[StrawNihilist man]].
* HumanoidAbomination: Instead of a nose or mouth, Polza's father is inexplicably drawn with a massive and gnarled beak. He's the only character in the comic drawn like this and no one draws attention to it. Near the end of his life he barely looks human, with the beak and his emaciated body making him look like an inhuman monster. Polza acts with appropriate fear and trepidation whenever he has visions of his father coming back to haunt him in this form.
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: After he learns that he murdered Carol, Polza has a truly apocalyptic break-down. A series of disturbing memories flash before his eyes, culminating in red-tinged images of Carol, Trolezin, and Polza's father.]]
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* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]: [[spoiler: Polza does this [[DespairEventHorizon after learning that he killed Carol]].]]
-- >"I hope the Buddhists are wrong. [[spoiler: I hope I never come back.]]
-- >"I hope the Buddhists are wrong. [[spoiler: I hope I never come back.]]
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* UnreliableNarrator: It's quickly established that Polza tends to withhold information, consciously or otherwise.
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* UnreliableNarrator: It's quickly established that Polza tends to withhold information, consciously or otherwise.otherwise.
* VillainProtagonist: Polza is a gleefully amoral and self-interested man who feels no shame for any of the horrible behavior he gets up to.
* VillainProtagonist: Polza is a gleefully amoral and self-interested man who feels no shame for any of the horrible behavior he gets up to.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's not abundantly clear what the blasts are. They're usually triggered by significant stress, injury, the use of potent drugs, or unpredictable emotional stimuli.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's not abundantly clear what the blasts are. Putting aside Polza's quasi-mystical musings, it appears they're either seizures or psychotic breaks from reality. They're usually triggered by significant stress, injury, the use of potent drugs, or unpredictable emotional stimuli.
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''Blast'' ( is a 2012 comic by French indie cartoonist Manu Larcenet.
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* ''1. Dead Weight''
* ''2. The Apocalypse According to Saint Jacky''
* ''3. Head First''
* ''4. I Hope the Buddhists Are Wrong''
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Polza already seems disturbed and unstable even before he discovers the blast. He's
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Polza already seems disturbed and unstable even before he discovers the blast. He's He extremely anti-social, and he routinely abuses booze and drugs. It's briefly mentioned that he'd already been arrested several times prior to the events of the story, with the charges ranging from indecency, In spite of all that, Polza is remarkably lucid and articulate. This leads the detectives interrogating him to doubt that he's as "crazy" as he's letting on.
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* TheAlcoholic: Polza has a long-standing drinking problem that's taken a toll on his physical and mental well-being. He somehow hasn't died from liver failure even though he drinks straight gin everyday and routinely has life-threatening nosebleeds because ''his blood can't coagulate''.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Polza already seems disturbed and unstable even before he discovers the blast. He's
* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: Moai statues are a recurring symbol in Polza's delusions.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: For all of Polza's vile and amoral behavior, there are certain actions that are too far for him.
** At the end of the second book, [[spoiler: Polza is horrified when he stumbles across Saint Jacky having just raped and murdered a young woman. Polza is visibly shaken and ends up with lingering traumatic memories of the event.]]
** In the fourth book, [[spoiler: Polza is similarly shocked at discovering that Roland is a serial rapist rather than a mere peeping tom. Having been raped himself, Polza understandably doesn't take this revelation well.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}
** When Polza happens upon Jacky [[spoiler: standing over his most recent victim]], Jacky ominously tells him that "we're the same."
** After Polza survives running across a busy highway, he experiences the blast. A full-page illustration shows a humongous moai sitting on the highway, with a lone van approaching. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that this was a police cruiser and that Polza murdered two officers responding to the scene while in his trance. The epilogue shows the same panel [[OnceMoreWithClarity but with Polza standing by himself instead of the moai]].]]
** While living with the Oakleys, the police visit the household to ask questions about a murder in the area. Polza and the Oakleys assume that the murder in question was performed by [[spoiler: Jacky]], who they likewise assume has blamed Polza for the crime. [[spoiler: As it turns out, the police were investigating the deaths of the officers Polza murdered on the highway. Polza was indeed the culprit.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's not abundantly clear what the blasts are. They're usually triggered by significant stress, injury, the use of potent drugs, or unpredictable emotional stimuli.
* UnreliableNarrator: It's quickly established that Polza tends to withhold information, consciously or otherwise.
* TheAlcoholic: Polza has a long-standing drinking problem that's taken a toll on his physical and mental well-being. He somehow hasn't died from liver failure even though he drinks straight gin everyday and routinely has life-threatening nosebleeds because ''his blood can't coagulate''.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Polza already seems disturbed and unstable even before he discovers the blast. He's
* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: Moai statues are a recurring symbol in Polza's delusions.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: For all of Polza's vile and amoral behavior, there are certain actions that are too far for him.
** At the end of the second book, [[spoiler: Polza is horrified when he stumbles across Saint Jacky having just raped and murdered a young woman. Polza is visibly shaken and ends up with lingering traumatic memories of the event.]]
** In the fourth book, [[spoiler: Polza is similarly shocked at discovering that Roland is a serial rapist rather than a mere peeping tom. Having been raped himself, Polza understandably doesn't take this revelation well.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}
** When Polza happens upon Jacky [[spoiler: standing over his most recent victim]], Jacky ominously tells him that "we're the same."
** After Polza survives running across a busy highway, he experiences the blast. A full-page illustration shows a humongous moai sitting on the highway, with a lone van approaching. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that this was a police cruiser and that Polza murdered two officers responding to the scene while in his trance. The epilogue shows the same panel [[OnceMoreWithClarity but with Polza standing by himself instead of the moai]].]]
** While living with the Oakleys, the police visit the household to ask questions about a murder in the area. Polza and the Oakleys assume that the murder in question was performed by [[spoiler: Jacky]], who they likewise assume has blamed Polza for the crime. [[spoiler: As it turns out, the police were investigating the deaths of the officers Polza murdered on the highway. Polza was indeed the culprit.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's not abundantly clear what the blasts are. They're usually triggered by significant stress, injury, the use of potent drugs, or unpredictable emotional stimuli.
* UnreliableNarrator: It's quickly established that Polza tends to withhold information, consciously or otherwise.
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->"I was suspended between earth and sky, brought into the world for a second time. I was weightless... [[FatBastard me!]] It was all so clear. I Ssaw the world as it truly is, not as I had percieved it. And not only was I part of it, but I was of its very nature... its origin. I glimped a limitless world, cleansed of all morality... and it was magnificent."
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->"I was suspended between earth and sky, brought into the world for a second time. I was weightless... [[FatBastard me!]] It was all so clear. I Ssaw saw the world as it truly is, not as I had percieved it. And not only was I part of it, but I was of its very nature... its origin. I glimped a limitless world, cleansed of all morality... and it was magnificent."
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-->--[[VillainProtagonist Polza]] [[StrawNihilist Mancini]]
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''Blast'' is a 2012 indie comic by Manu Larcenet.
