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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Queen Anne is dead and Victoria declines the throne, it is offered to Luther, due to him being a famous hero of the civil war twenty years prior. He turns it down angrily and goes into a rant about how "homo sapiens" always want someone else to tell them what to do and don't want the responsibility of making their own decisions.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Queen Anne is dead and Victoria declines the throne, it is offered to Luther, due to him being a famous hero of the civil war twenty years prior. He turns it down angrily and goes into a brief rant about how "homo sapiens" always want someone else to tell them what to do and don't want the responsibility of making their own decisions.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Queen Anne is dead and Victoria declines the throne, it is offered to Luther, due to him being a famous hero of the civil war twenty years prior. He turns it down angrily and goes into a rant about how "homo sapiens" always want someone else to tell them what to do and don't want the responsibility of making their own decisions.
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** Based on rather scant mentions, "our" universe is apparently where Luther lived for some years around his teens to early twenties.
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* TheSleepless: Queen Anne says she hasn't slept in some twenty years. She keeps going by psychically sucking life energy out of others (which always kills them).
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* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Lord Protector Nathaniel Cromwell, who was severely beaten with his father.
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* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Lord Protector Nathaniel Cromwell, who was severely beaten with by his father.
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Octobriana plays a minor but important supporting role, as a Russian revolutionary superhero. She is also a friend and sometime lover of Luther.
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Octobriana plays a minor but important supporting role, as a Russian revolutionary superhero. She is also a friend and sometime lover of Luther.
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* PuttingOnTheReich: The puritans in ''Adventures'' and the neo-puritans in ''Empire''. Includes things like mass rallies, the use of "Hail Cromwell", and black uniforms with simple crosses.
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* PuttingOnTheReich: The puritans in ''Adventures'' and the neo-puritans in ''Empire''.''Adventures''. Includes things like mass rallies, the use of "Hail Cromwell", and black uniforms with simple crosses. The Excalibur Legion in ''Empire'', with their uniforms.
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* PuttingOnTheReich: The puritans in ''Adventures'' and the neo-puritans in ''Empire''. Includes things like mass rallies, the use of "Hail Cromwell", and black uniforms with simple crosses.
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* ParentalAbandonment: The case for Victoria. Luther retired to another parallel after the end of ''Adventures'', and Anne was warped by the death of Henry, turning into "a hateful bitch" in Victoria's own words. No surprise her reaction to meeting Luther was first to slap him and then to cry in his arms.
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* MysticalWhiteHair: Luther Arkwright, Victoria, and Gabriel Shelley all have white hair, as well as a marked lack of body hair. It is implied that this is the case for most Homo Novus.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Luther again. Kidnapped from the maternity ward by the disruptors, raised by machines, then on the run both from the disruptors and himself until he was found by Rose of parallel 00.30.22.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: Used very frequently; most {{Info Dump}}s are of this form. Together with the streams of consciousness and the anachronic storytelling over multiple timeslines it makes for a very dense work.
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* TheChosenOne: Luther Arkwright himself, the result of a millenia-long genetic breeding program.
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* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Lord Protector Nathaniel Cromwell, who was severely beaten with his father.
* BondageIsBad: Used with Lord Protector Nathaniel Cromwell, who acts out his sexuality by raping royalist girls and by being dominated by women dressed as nuns.
* BondageIsBad: Used with Lord Protector Nathaniel Cromwell, who acts out his sexuality by raping royalist girls and by being dominated by women dressed as nuns.
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Despite not reaching the popular acclaim of ''ComicBook/{{Maus}},'' ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}, or ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen, ''The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'' had a huge influence on the development of the graphic novel. It shows in the first volume of ''Heart of Empire'', which contains fan mail from Creator/MichaelMoorcock, Creator/AlanMoore, Creator/NeilGaiman, and Creator/GarthEnnis.
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Despite not reaching the popular acclaim of ''ComicBook/{{Maus}},'' ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}, or ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen, ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', ''The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'' had a huge influence on the development of the graphic novel. It shows in the first volume of ''Heart of Empire'', which contains fan mail from Creator/MichaelMoorcock, Creator/AlanMoore, Creator/NeilGaiman, and Creator/GarthEnnis.
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Despite not reaching the popular acclaim of ''ComicBook/{{Maus}},'' ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}, or ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen, ''The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'' had a huge influence on the development of the graphic novel. It shows in the first volume of ''Heart of Empire'', which contains fan mail from Creator/MichaelMoorcock, Creator/AlanMoore, Creator/NeilGaiman, and Creator/GarthEnnis.
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* EmptyEyes: Used to imply mind control.
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* TheProfessor: Doctor Dee, skilled in both medicine, alchemy, chemistry, astrology, and babble.
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* TheEmpire: The British empire that Anne has created after the end of ''Adventures'' dominates the world and is rotten to the core.
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* OverlyLongName: As many royals, Victoria has this: Mary Victoria Elizabeth Boudicca Miranda Cordelia Arkwright Stuart.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Henry, Luther's and Anne's son, was mortally wounded in the backstory. Instead of accepting his death, Anne tried to save him using her psionic powers, feeding him raw life force. He became an EldritchAbomination with only the desire to die. Only trouble is that the only way it can suicide is by doing a "psychic version of the Big Bang, only in reverse".
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* InnerMonologue: Used frequently from the viewpoint of Luther Arkwright. Often disjointed, and sometimes hard to separate from background [[InfoDump Info Dumps]].
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* OddShapedPanel: Done very liberally. Some examples:
** Overlapping panels
** A single scene covering an entire page, with panels overlaid
** Pages with no panel borders at all, all the "panels" bleed together and form a single whole
** Overlapping panels
** A single scene covering an entire page, with panels overlaid
** Pages with no panel borders at all, all the "panels" bleed together and form a single whole
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* NamesGivenToComputers : W.O.T.A.N. is the supercomputer used on parallel 00.00.00 to keep track of events on other parallels in The Multiverse.
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* CallBack: Many. One of the most prominent is when Victoria wakes up naked on parallell 00.69.05, walks out in public, and garbs herself in a Union Jack flag. Both the event and the poses calls back to when her father Luther did the same in the royalist camp in ''Adventures''.
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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Queen Anne presides over a court of deadly intrigue and decadent orgies. Her closest servants view her absorbing the vitality of her enemies as their "favourite bit".
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ChurchMilitant: The submachine- and shot-gun wielding, motorcycle-riding nuns in ''The Papist Affair''.
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* AfterTheEnd: ''For a Few Gallons More'' in parallel 02.79.10 is set in a world where civilisation collapsed after a bacteria with a psychedelic effect was released after an attack on the research institute. The only people who survived the prolonged and massive psychedelic experiences where those already used to psychedelics.
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''Luther Arkwright'' is the creation of Creator/BryanTalbot. He serves as the main character or an important secondary character in the following of Talbot's works:
* ''The Papist Affair'' (1976)
* ''The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'' (1978-1989, ''Adventures'')
* ''For a Few Gallons More'' (1979)
* ''The Fire Opal of Set'' (1984)
* ''Heart of Empire, or the Legacy of Luther Arkwright'' (1999, ''Empire'')
The main story arc can be found in ''The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'' and ''Heart of Empire''.
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[[folder:The Multiverse of Luther Arkwright]]
* AlternateUniverse: The works are based on the premise of an infinite multiverse of parallel universes or realities which differ with each other in many things. For example, one of the main places where the action in the comic book takes place is a 20th century world where Great Britain is still ruled by a puritan government and a descendant of Oliver Cromwell. In addition, New York is New Amsterdam and the other great powers are the empires of Russia and Germany.
* ArtEvolution: Especially notable between ''The Papist Affair'' and the other stories. ''Heart of Empire'' also used very different techniques than the earlier stories, besides being in full colour.
* CrapsackWorld: The primary parallel of the main story arc, 00.72.87, is dominated by ruthless dictatorial great powers all out to dominate the lesser powers and wreck the other great powers. Then it got worse in ''Heart of Empire''.
--> What I saw was genocide, torture, rape and summary execution. Whole cities ''razed'', whole countries ''crushed'' beneath the tracks of our ironclad dreadnoughts and bombed into submission by our skyships.
* TheMultiverse: Primarily explored in ''Adventures'', where Arkwright serves as the primary field agent of Valhalla Nova, and the only of their agents capable of crossing into other parallels.
* SceneryPorn: Both ''Adventures'' and its coloured sequel ''Empire'' had a lot of thought put into the Steam Punk backgrounds, which were usually flooded with references to other issues, Victorian culture, science fiction or random statues of Luther (after he died).
* TouchTelepathy: Used several times. Mind reading is done by touching hand to head, but it appears that it's more of a data dump than reading surface thoughts (though it is implied that another psychic can control the contents of the dump). However, it is possible to implant thoughts without touching.
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[[folder:The Adventures of Luther Arkwright]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Disruptors, the final antagonist in the story.
* AnachronicOrder: A lot of the story is told via flashbacks of Arkwright's past, often jumping to other parallels in the process during the first half. The second half of the story becomes more linear.
* AntiHero: Arkwright kills easily, lies, is sexually promiscuous, and hardly nice. However, as he learns more about himself and comes into his powers, he also changes.
* CoolGuns: The "Armstrong-Siddley 'Royal Albert' Vibro-Beamer":
-->At two yards, its effect on a human torso is comparable to that of a sledgehammer hitting an overripe watermelon.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The goal of the Disruptors.
* FromBadToWorse: Issue 4, ''Black Tuesday'' ends with Charles dead and with him the Ragnarok strategy, the royalists surrounded, and Arkwright lying in a pool of blood. Issue 5, ''The Theatre of Cruelty'', shows the crackdown of all known and suspected royalists, and ends with a dying Arkwright in a torture chamber.
* PregnantBadass: In The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, the heavily pregnant Princess Anne leads her armies into battle against the Cromwellian regime dominating an alternative Britain while just about ready to drop, goes into labour during the battle, gives birth (to twins!), and then gets right back up again and, bare-naked, leads the final climactic charge. The Boudicea-like imagery is not lost or wasted on her or her followers.
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[[folder:Heart of Empire]]
* ArcSymbol: The five-armed spiral.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: When Arkwright appears, he has retreated to a war-ravaged world where he serves as a pacifistic healer and diplomat. Victoria herself chooses to abdicate and turn over power to a democratic government, leaving Albion to explore the world and "to end animosity, to make amends, to facilitate recovery".
* HairAntennae: Victoria has two prominent ones from the top of her forehead.
* SatchelSwitcheroo: Victoria is given a box of migraine medicine by Gabriel, who is quite the accomplished amateur chemist. However, she picks up a box of LSD instead.
* AThreesomeIsHot: Victoria has her first time as a threesome with Gabriel and Ophelia. Queen Anne regularly goes to bed with three of her Irish Guards.
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Anne, Queen of Albion and the British Empire, appears to be this at first. Later, we find out the terrible truth...
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[[folder:Other strands of the multiverse]]
ChurchMilitant: The submachine- and shot-gun wielding, motorcycle-riding nuns in ''The Papist Affair''.
* MoreDakka: Lampshaded in ''The Papist Affair'' when Arkwright exchanges a shotgun for a water-cooled machinegun that he fires from the hip.
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* ''The Papist Affair'' (1976)
* ''The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'' (1978-1989, ''Adventures'')
* ''For a Few Gallons More'' (1979)
* ''The Fire Opal of Set'' (1984)
* ''Heart of Empire, or the Legacy of Luther Arkwright'' (1999, ''Empire'')
The main story arc can be found in ''The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'' and ''Heart of Empire''.
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[[folder:The Multiverse of Luther Arkwright]]
* AlternateUniverse: The works are based on the premise of an infinite multiverse of parallel universes or realities which differ with each other in many things. For example, one of the main places where the action in the comic book takes place is a 20th century world where Great Britain is still ruled by a puritan government and a descendant of Oliver Cromwell. In addition, New York is New Amsterdam and the other great powers are the empires of Russia and Germany.
* ArtEvolution: Especially notable between ''The Papist Affair'' and the other stories. ''Heart of Empire'' also used very different techniques than the earlier stories, besides being in full colour.
* CrapsackWorld: The primary parallel of the main story arc, 00.72.87, is dominated by ruthless dictatorial great powers all out to dominate the lesser powers and wreck the other great powers. Then it got worse in ''Heart of Empire''.
--> What I saw was genocide, torture, rape and summary execution. Whole cities ''razed'', whole countries ''crushed'' beneath the tracks of our ironclad dreadnoughts and bombed into submission by our skyships.
* TheMultiverse: Primarily explored in ''Adventures'', where Arkwright serves as the primary field agent of Valhalla Nova, and the only of their agents capable of crossing into other parallels.
* SceneryPorn: Both ''Adventures'' and its coloured sequel ''Empire'' had a lot of thought put into the Steam Punk backgrounds, which were usually flooded with references to other issues, Victorian culture, science fiction or random statues of Luther (after he died).
* TouchTelepathy: Used several times. Mind reading is done by touching hand to head, but it appears that it's more of a data dump than reading surface thoughts (though it is implied that another psychic can control the contents of the dump). However, it is possible to implant thoughts without touching.
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[[folder:The Adventures of Luther Arkwright]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Disruptors, the final antagonist in the story.
* AnachronicOrder: A lot of the story is told via flashbacks of Arkwright's past, often jumping to other parallels in the process during the first half. The second half of the story becomes more linear.
* AntiHero: Arkwright kills easily, lies, is sexually promiscuous, and hardly nice. However, as he learns more about himself and comes into his powers, he also changes.
* CoolGuns: The "Armstrong-Siddley 'Royal Albert' Vibro-Beamer":
-->At two yards, its effect on a human torso is comparable to that of a sledgehammer hitting an overripe watermelon.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The goal of the Disruptors.
* FromBadToWorse: Issue 4, ''Black Tuesday'' ends with Charles dead and with him the Ragnarok strategy, the royalists surrounded, and Arkwright lying in a pool of blood. Issue 5, ''The Theatre of Cruelty'', shows the crackdown of all known and suspected royalists, and ends with a dying Arkwright in a torture chamber.
* PregnantBadass: In The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, the heavily pregnant Princess Anne leads her armies into battle against the Cromwellian regime dominating an alternative Britain while just about ready to drop, goes into labour during the battle, gives birth (to twins!), and then gets right back up again and, bare-naked, leads the final climactic charge. The Boudicea-like imagery is not lost or wasted on her or her followers.
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[[folder:Heart of Empire]]
* ArcSymbol: The five-armed spiral.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: When Arkwright appears, he has retreated to a war-ravaged world where he serves as a pacifistic healer and diplomat. Victoria herself chooses to abdicate and turn over power to a democratic government, leaving Albion to explore the world and "to end animosity, to make amends, to facilitate recovery".
* HairAntennae: Victoria has two prominent ones from the top of her forehead.
* SatchelSwitcheroo: Victoria is given a box of migraine medicine by Gabriel, who is quite the accomplished amateur chemist. However, she picks up a box of LSD instead.
* AThreesomeIsHot: Victoria has her first time as a threesome with Gabriel and Ophelia. Queen Anne regularly goes to bed with three of her Irish Guards.
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Anne, Queen of Albion and the British Empire, appears to be this at first. Later, we find out the terrible truth...
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[[folder:Other strands of the multiverse]]
ChurchMilitant: The submachine- and shot-gun wielding, motorcycle-riding nuns in ''The Papist Affair''.
* MoreDakka: Lampshaded in ''The Papist Affair'' when Arkwright exchanges a shotgun for a water-cooled machinegun that he fires from the hip.
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