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* StrippedToTheBone: The 32nd issue has Hybrid reduce a bunch of convicts who recently tricked Rom into helping them escape to skeletons.
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* TranslatorMicrobes: Rom's Translator device.
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* TranslatorMicrobes: Rom's Translator device.device enables him to understand any language no matter where he is in the universe.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: The 32nd issue has Mystique pretend to be wounded to lure Rom into a trap.
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* VillainousBreakdown: In the 30th issue, the Metal Master looks on in shock and stammers at his defeat after Rom tells him that his powers couldn't affect a Space Knight due to Space Knights being metal fused with flesh.
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* CanonImmigrant: Everything in the series EXCEPT Rom.
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* CanonImmigrant: Everything in CanonForeigner: Every character ''except'' Rom was created for the series EXCEPT Rom.comic book.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The final fate of one of Rom's early non-Wraith adversaries.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The final fate of Serpentyne, one of Rom's early non-Wraith adversaries.
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* LastOfHidKind: Serpentyne is the last surviving member of the Saurians, a race of lizards mutated into humanoid form by atomic testing who dwelt underground before the Dire Wraiths wiped them out. Serpentyne then made it his mission to exterminate all Dire Wraiths, but ended up dying after clashing with Rom.
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* LastOfHidKind: LastOfHisKind: Serpentyne is the last surviving member of the Saurians, a race of lizards mutated into humanoid form by atomic testing who dwelt underground before the Dire Wraiths wiped them out. Serpentyne then made it his mission to exterminate all Dire Wraiths, but ended up dying after clashing with Rom.
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* HeroicSacrifice: In the eleventh issue, Archie Stryker gives his life to disable the force field preventing Rom from reclaiming his neutralizer.
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* HopeSpot: In the eighth issue, Rom is able to detect faint traces of a heartbeat and a pulse in Artie Packer when he appeared to die in the previous issue and informs Steve and Brandy that Artie may live if he is given medical attention quickly enough. The very next issue has it revealed that Artie didn't make it.
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* LastOfHidKind: Serpentyne is the last surviving member of the Saurians, a race of lizards mutated into humanoid form by atomic testing who dwelt underground before the Dire Wraiths wiped them out. Serpentyne then made it his mission to exterminate all Dire Wraiths, but ended up dying after clashing with Rom.
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* DeadHandShot: A lifeless hand is shown amidst the ruins Rom and his fellow Space Knights investigate in the eighth issue during the flashback of Rom recounting how the Dire Wraiths destroyed planet Angelica.
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* EmpathyDollShot: When Rom recounts how the Dire Wraiths razed planet Angelica in the eighth issue, a doll can be seen among the ruins in the accompanying flashback.
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* DeathWorld: The sorcery-based Dark Nebula, described by Rom as a "seething system of negative suns, shadowed planets, and cold, forbidding ice-worlds", but the kicker is the Dire Wraith homeworld of Wraithworld. Orbiting a black sun of sorcerous energies, which can actually split portions of itself off as soul-devouring shadowy dragon-forms called "Deathwings", Wraithworld itself is a barren world of ash-thick skies, rivers of molten metal, and pouring hypercorrosive acid rain. The Dark Nebula is so deadly that when Galactus tried to eat it in issue #27, the Dark Nebula ''tried to eat Galactus back''. It ultimately ended up in a draw.
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** To the original "The Invaders" TV series.
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** To the original "The Invaders" ''Series/TheInvaders'' TV series.
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* TimeStandsStill: According to the original ''[[ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Book of Weapons, Hardware, and Paraphenalia,]]'' Rom's armor contains countless little "micro-stasis field generators" and its surface is a "malleable stasis field armor 'skin,'" implying that a lot of his armor's indestructibility derives from sections of it being ''frozen in time.''
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* TimeStandsStill: According to the original ''[[ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Book of Weapons, Hardware, and Paraphenalia,]]'' Rom's armor contains countless little "micro-stasis field generators" and its surface is a "malleable stasis field armor 'skin,'" 'skin'," implying that a lot of his armor's indestructibility derives from sections of it being ''frozen in time.''
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* TimeStandsStill: According to the original ''[[ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Book of Weapons, Hardware, and Paraphenalia,]]'' Rom's armor contains countless little "micro-stasis field generators," implying that a lot of his armor's indestructibility derives from sections of it being ''frozen in time.''
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* TimeStandsStill: According to the original ''[[ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Book of Weapons, Hardware, and Paraphenalia,]]'' Rom's armor contains countless little "micro-stasis field generators," generators" and its surface is a "malleable stasis field armor 'skin,'" implying that a lot of his armor's indestructibility derives from sections of it being ''frozen in time.''
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* TimeStandsStill: According to the original ''[[ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Book of Weapons, Hardware, and Paraphenalia,]]'' Rom's armor contains countless little "micro-stasis field generators,'' implying that a lot of his armor's indestructibility derives from sections of it being ''frozen in time.''
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* TimeStandsStill: According to the original ''[[ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Book of Weapons, Hardware, and Paraphenalia,]]'' Rom's armor contains countless little "micro-stasis field generators,'' generators," implying that a lot of his armor's indestructibility derives from sections of it being ''frozen in time.''
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* TimeStandsStill: According to the original ''[[ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Book of Weapons, Hardware, and Paraphenalia,]]'' Rom's armor contains countless little "micro-stasis field generators,'' implying that a lot of his armor's indestructibility derives from sections of it being ''frozen in time.''
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* EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy: Galador is (well, was until Galactus moved it) in a place called the Golden Galaxy, which never seemed to have much of note in it except Galador itself. It is apparently not very far from the Dire Wraiths' home the Dark Nebula, which is itself identified as a "galaxy," despite only being a nebula with a single star in it.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Rom found himself in such a situation when he had captured a disguised Dire Wraith disguised as a human scientist, but her security staff, unaware of her true nature, had arrived to help her. The Dire Wraith dared him to banish her at the cost that it will appear he killed her and he would likely never be able to convince humanity of the truth. Rom considers this, but since a friend had sacrificed his life to free his main weapon, he cannot have that sacrifice be for nothing. So, he banishes her and prepares to deal with the consequences.
** Happily, her threat turned out to be wrong: Rom is eventually able to convince Humanity's leaders of the truth and they help him.
** Happily, her threat turned out to be wrong: Rom is eventually able to convince Humanity's leaders of the truth and they help him.
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Soon after, Brandy was once again turned human, and the Wraiths magically summoned Wraithworld into Earth's solar system, to power up their evil magics. This proved a mistake when Rom, using a device built by Forge of the Comicbook/XMen that boosted the Neutralizer, was able to banish Wraithworld itself into Limbo, thus robbing ''all'' Wraiths in the universe of their powers. His enemies finally defeated, Rom decided to return to Galador, leaving Brandy behind (since he believed his "humanity" had been destroyed in an earlier story). However, Brandy ran into the [[AGodAmI cosmically-powerful]] Beyonder during the events of the second Secret Wars CrisisCrossover, and asked him to send her to Galador. He did- but she arrived before Rom did, only to find out that a second Generation of Spaceknights, created to protect the planet in the originals' absence, believed themselves superior to normal humans and had killed nearly the planet's entire population! Brandy managed to avoid them long enough to be saved by Rom and the first Spaceknights, but all normal Galadorians were killed, and all the Spaceknights' humanities were destroyed as well. Only Rom's, which it turns out had been hidden, not destroyed, had survived. Rom returned to human form, and stayed with Brandy on Galador to repopulate the planet, protected from space by the good Spaceknights.
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Soon after, Brandy was once again turned human, and the Wraiths magically summoned Wraithworld into Earth's solar system, to power up their evil magics. This proved a mistake when Rom, using a device built by Forge of the Comicbook/XMen that boosted the Neutralizer, was able to banish Wraithworld itself into Limbo, thus robbing ''all'' Wraiths in the universe of their powers. His enemies finally defeated, Rom decided to return to Galador, leaving Brandy behind (since he believed his "humanity" had been destroyed in an earlier story). However, Brandy ran into the [[AGodAmI cosmically-powerful]] cosmically-powerful Beyonder during the events of the second Secret Wars CrisisCrossover, and asked him to send her to Galador. He did- but she arrived before Rom did, only to find out that a second Generation of Spaceknights, created to protect the planet in the originals' absence, believed themselves superior to normal humans and had killed nearly the planet's entire population! Brandy managed to avoid them long enough to be saved by Rom and the first Spaceknights, but all normal Galadorians were killed, and all the Spaceknights' humanities were destroyed as well. Only Rom's, which it turns out had been hidden, not destroyed, had survived. Rom returned to human form, and stayed with Brandy on Galador to repopulate the planet, protected from space by the good Spaceknights.
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* BossTease: InUniverse, ROM was often compared to the Hulk, at which point ROM would inevitably look off pensively and think to himself that one day, he would have to encounter this creature that men call...''The Hulk''." This went on for quite a while, until the Hulk was just about to be sent off to the Crossroads (in ''Incredible Hulk'' #300) so they had to get to the ROM/Hulk fight quickly, squeezed into half an issue of ''Hulk''. [[http://www.the-isb.com/?p=122 Read more here.]]
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* BattleCouple: [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6xoH967aC00/SfMHVXVc5nI/AAAAAAAAR3M/4pWLJIOHPLI/s1600/rom51-3.jpg Rom and Starshine]]
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* BattleCouple: [[http://3.[[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6xoH967aC00/SfMHVXVc5nI/AAAAAAAAR3M/4pWLJIOHPLI/s1600/rom51-3.jpg Rom and Starshine]]
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* RobotWar: One of the later issues is a standalone story where Rom encounters a civilization in a civil war with its own machinery. [[spoiler: Rom tries to broker a peace, but neither side will see reason and they [[DownerEnding end up destroying each other.]]]]
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* RobotWar: One of the later issues is a standalone story where Rom encounters a civilization in a civil war with its own machinery. [[spoiler: Being part man and part machine himself, Rom tries to broker a peace, but [[spoiler:but neither side will see reason and they [[DownerEnding end up destroying each other.]]]]
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* RobotWar: One of the later issues is a standalone story where Rom encounters a civilization in a civil war with its own machinery. [[spoiler: Rom tries to broker a peace, but both sides are unreasonable neither side will see reason and they [[DownerEnding end up destroying each other.]]]]
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* RobotWar: One of the last issues of the series is a standalone story where Rom encounters a civilization in a civil war with its own machinery. [[spoiler: Rom tries mightily to broker a peace, but both sides are unreasonable amd [[DownerEnding end up annihilating each other.]]]]
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* RobotWar: One of the last issues of the series is a standalone story where Rom encounters a civilization in a civil war with its own machinery. [[spoiler: Rom tries mightily to broker a peace, but both sides are unreasonable amd [[DownerEnding end up annihilating each other.]]]]
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* BadassBoast: When soldiers use a flamethrower on Rom.
--> '''Rom:''' I have flown past the stars human, your pale, pitiful fire cannot harm me!
--> '''Rom:''' I have flown past the stars human, your pale, pitiful fire cannot harm me!
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: How bad are the Dire Wraiths? The ''Skrulls'' consider these beings the scum of the universe, hate them even more than the Kree and even aid Earth in attacking a Wraith base.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: How bad are the Dire Wraiths? The ''Skrulls'' consider these beings the scum of the universe, hate them even more than the Kree and even aid Earth in attacking a Wraith base. It certainly helps that the Dire Wraiths are, in fact, an offshoot of their own, so there's bad blood between them helping said animosity.
** When Galactus tries to eat the Dark Nebula, the source of Dire Wraith powers, it makes him sick and nearly kills him. That's right, even a cosmic-level being who devours worlds and who survived the Big Bang can't stand the Dire Wraiths.
** When Galactus tries to eat the Dark Nebula, the source of Dire Wraith powers, it makes him sick and nearly kills him. That's right, even a cosmic-level being who devours worlds and who survived the Big Bang can't stand the Dire Wraiths.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Not anyone from ROM's cast specifically, but rather a major Marvel character who eventually turned good at least partly because of ROM - {{ComicBook/Rogue}} (who was with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants at the time), who kissed ROM to try and steal his powers, and instead absorbed part of his kindness and decency. She was surprised to find that [[GoodFeelsGood she liked it.]] By the end of the issue she was questioning which side she was on, and as a result (and her inability to control her powers), she eventually quit the Brotherhood and joined the X-Men. This is one major example of how ROM's presence in the MCU permanently affected it in a major way.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Not anyone from ROM's cast specifically, but rather a major Marvel character who eventually turned good at least partly because of ROM - {{ComicBook/Rogue}} (who was with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants at the time), who kissed ROM to try and steal his powers, and instead absorbed part of his kindness and decency. She was surprised to find that [[GoodFeelsGood she liked it.]] By the end of the issue she was questioning which side she was on, and as a result (and her inability to control her powers), she eventually quit the Brotherhood and joined the X-Men. This is one major example of how ROM's presence in the MCU Marvel Universe permanently affected it in a major way.way. Unfortunately, since Marvel no longer owns the rights to the character, said HFT has since been retconned in various ways to not include the Spaceknight, but her very first one was as a result of him.
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* MagicVersusScience: Both between the Dire Wraiths and the Galadorians, and between male and female Wraiths. There are a handful of Wraith warlocks, but otherwise male Wraiths are scientifically oriented and females are magically oriented. Happily, there was never a chance of the two disciplines being [[{{Magitek}} combined]]; the two sexes hated each other.
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* MagicVersusScience: Both between the Dire Wraiths and the Galadorians, and between male and female Wraiths. There are a handful of Wraith warlocks, but otherwise male Wraiths are scientifically oriented and females are magically oriented. Happily, there was never a chance of the two disciplines being [[{{Magitek}} combined]]; the two sexes hated each other.other to the point of {{Gendercide}}.
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Wraiths could take on human form for subterfuge and deception.
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Wraiths could take on human form for subterfuge and deception. In fact, this was one of the reasons Rom wasn't looked at kindly at first- his analyzer could detect which people were actually Wraiths, but no one ''else'' could tell, so when he sent them into Limbo, they didn't see a hero taking out vile monsters from space, they saw him vaporizing normal humans seemingly at random.
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* EmergencyPresidentialAddress: The "Prime Director" of the [[HumanAliens Galadorians]] made a public speech announcing the coming invasion by the [[VoluntaryShapeshifting DireWraiths]] and asking for volunteers to be transformed into [[{{Cyborg}} Spaceknights]] to counter it. Rom is the first to volunteer, inspiring a total of 2000 people to do so.
** Years later Rom would met the actual President of the United States (UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan at the time) and expressly compare him to the Prime Director.
** Years later Rom would met the actual President of the United States (UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan at the time) and expressly compare him to the Prime Director.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Wraiths, with one or two exceptions.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Wraiths, with one or two exceptions. They self-identify as evil and revel in it.
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