History ComicStrip / StarFox

A monthly ''VideoGame/StarFox'' comic strip, illustrated by Benimaru Itoh, was printed in issues 45 to 55 of ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' in 1993. It is an adaptation of the ''[[VideoGame/StarFox1 Star Fox]]'' video game, with some exclusive characters such as Fara Phoenix, a vixen who becomes the unofficial fifth member of the Star Fox team after they save her from Venomian forces. The story follows the team from their days as {{Outlaw}} [[LaResistance resistance fighters]] on Papetoon, to them becoming [[AcePilot an elite Arwing fighter squadron.]] The first issue was published before the actual game was released anywhere in the world, making it the very first glimpse Nintendo players and comic readers alike would see of the Lylat System.

* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: As Andross' power grew on Venom, Fox protested. But, the leaders of Corneria were terrified of Andross, [[Realpolitik so they forced Fox and his friends to flee]] and live as [[{{Outlaw}} outlaws on Papetoon.]]

A monthly ''VideoGame/StarFox'' comic strip, illustrated by Benimaru Itoh, was printed in issues 45 to 55 of ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' in 1993. It is an adaptation of the ''[[VideoGame/StarFox1 Star Fox]]'' video game, with some exclusive characters such as Fara Phoenix, a vixen who becomes the unofficial fifth member of the Star Fox team after they save her from Venomian forces. The story follows the team from their days as [[TheExile outlaw]] [[LaResistance resistance fighters]] on Papetoon, to them becoming [[AcePilot an elite Arwing fighter squadron.]] The first issue was published before the actual game was released anywhere in the world, making it the very first glimpse Nintendo players and comic readers alike would see of the Lylat System.

A monthly ''VideoGame/StarFox'' comic strip, illustrated by Benimaru Itoh, was printed in issues 45 to 55 of ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' in 1993. It is an adaptation of the ''[[VideoGame/StarFox1 Star Fox]]'' video game, with some exclusive characters such as Fara Phoenix, a vixen who becomes the unofficial fifth member of the Star Fox team after they save her from Venomian forces. The story follows the team from their days as [[TheExile exiled]] [[LaResistance Resistance fighters]] on Papetoon, to them becoming [[AcePilot an elite Arwing fighter squadron.]] The first issue was published before the actual game was released anywhere in the world, making it the very first glimpse Nintendo players and comic readers alike would see of the Lylat System.

A monthly ''VideoGame/StarFox'' comic strip, illustrated by Benimaru Itoh, was printed in issues 45 to 55 of ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' in 1993. It is an adaptation of the ''[[VideoGame/StarFox1 Star Fox]]'' video game, with some exclusive characters such as Fara Phoenix, a vixen who becomes the unofficial fifth member of the Star Fox team after they save her from Venomian forces. The story follows the team from their days as [[TheExile exiles]] on Papetoon, to them becoming [[AcePilot an elite Arwing fighter squadron.]] The first issue was published before the actual game was released anywhere in the world, making it the very first glimpse Nintendo players and comic readers alike would see of the Lylat System.

A monthly ''VideoGame/StarFox'' comic strip, illustrated by Benimaru Itoh, was printed in issues 45 to 55 of ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' in 1993. It is an adaptation of the ''[[VideoGame/StarFox1 Star Fox]]'' video game, with some exclusive characters such as Fara Phoenix, a vixen who becomes the unofficial fifth member of the Star Fox team after they save her from Venomian forces. The story follows the team from their days as outlaws on Papetoon, to an elite Arwing fighter squadron. The first issue was published before the actual game was released anywhere in the world, making it the very first glimpse Nintendo players and comic readers alike would see of the Lylat System.

* AdaptationExpansion: It's a canonical retelling and expansion of [[VideoGame/StarFox1 the original ''Star Fox'']]. In fact, one of the strategy guides in Japan had illustrations by the same artist detailing more of the game's storyline. However, thanks to VideoGame/StarFox64 being both a reboot and an AlternateContinuity, everything before it's release is technically CanonDiscontinuity.

* AdaptationExpansion: It's a canonical retelling and expansion of ''[[VideoGame/StarFox1 the original Star Fox]]''. In fact, one of the strategy guides in Japan had illustrations by the same artist detailing more of the game's storyline. However, thanks to VideoGame/StarFox64 being both a reboot and an AlternateContinuity, everything before it's release is technically CanonDiscontinuity.

* AdaptationExpansion: It's a canonical retelling and expansion of ''[[VideoGame/StarFox1 the original Star Fox]]''. In fact, one of the strategy guides in Japan had illustrations by the same artist detailing more of the game's storyline. However, thanks to [[VideoGame/StarFox64 Star Fox 64] being both a reboot and an AlternateContinuity, everything before it's release is technically CanonDiscontinuity.

* AlternateContinuity: A retelling of the SNES version of ''Star Fox''. One of two, in fact, as one of the strategy guides in Japan had illustrations by the same artist detailing a separate but similar canon to the game storyline.

* {{Fanservice}}: Fara has a very visible cameltoe under her jumpsuit.

* [[Main/Fanservice Fanservice]]: Fara has a very visible cameltoe under her jumpsuit.

* Fanservice: Fara has a very visible cameltoe under her jumpsuit.

* DistressedDude: Poor Slippy gets nabbed by Andross in Act 6.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Much like the game it's adapted from, this comic is much darker than both the later Star Fox games and the later comics. [[FreudanExcuse Andross' parents were killed in a military accident,]] Fox's mother is [[KilledOffForReal unambiguously killed]] with [[ExternalCombustion a car bomb,]] [[MurderByMistake meant for his father,]] and at one point the characters restrain Fox because [[SelfDestructiveCharge "he's beyond reason]] [[SenselessSacrifice and he'll kill himself."]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: More so than the games. There is no euphemism for the car bomb Andross used and the characters arrest Fox because "he's beyond reason and he'll kill himself."
** Fara had very visible cameltoe under her jumpsuit.

** Falco Lombardi was not a {{Bishonen}}, and his head sported more of a feather mohawk than the pointy tip in his usual appearance. All this accomplished to make him more masculine in appearance. It was specifically ''this'' incarnation of Falco that was {{Expy}}ed as Eric Bradley Hawthorne in ''TheClassMenagerie'' ([[HilariousInHindsight also]] AmbiguouslyGay). One thing that didn't change much about Falco's characterization, was that he was OnlyInItForTheMoney both here and the games, [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules much to the annoyance]] of this incarnation of Fox.

* [[TheSixthRanger The Fifth Ranger]]: Fara Phoenix. The developers of ''VideoGame/StarFox2'' even intended to [[CanonImmigrant include her as a playable character]], but she ended up being replaced by Miyu and Fay.

* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Fox - They NeverFoundTheBody of his father, but Fox's mom Vixy was confirmed to be (accidentally) killed by Andross.

* FauxActionGirl: Fara flies alongside Star Fox but due to [[DamselInDistress getting kidnapped]] she doesn't always show the skill that such a position would imply.

* FauxActionGirl: Fara flies alongside the Star Fox team but due to [[DamselInDistress getting kidnapped]] she doesn't always show the skill that such a position would imply.

* [[TheSixthRanger The Fifth Ranger]]: Fara Phoenix. The developers of ''VideoGame/StarFox2'' even intended to [[CanonImmigrant include her as a playable character]], but she ended up being replaced by Miyu and Fay.

* AirVentPassageway: Inside Andross' base, Slippy and Peppy manage to break into Venom's control center via a vent.

* BatmanColdOpen: Fox and his desperadoes shooting down one of Andross' ships in the prologue.

** Fox gets even more furious upon finding out that [[spoiler:Andross killed his mother with a car bomb meant for his father, and that his father being lost in the Black Hole was the result of Andross' sabotage of his ship]].

* CutTheJuice: Peppy blasts Herbert to smithereens, removing Andross' energy during his duel with Fox.

** In the games, Star Fox is the name of Fox's mercenary team, which was later revealed to be founded by his father. In the comic, they're a group of freedom fighters.
** In both the game and comic, Andross' forces are almost all lizards, which are the natives of Venom. While we do see lizards in Andross's forces in ''Star Fox 64'', there are also mammals and other types of creatures.
** In both the game and comic, the Arwing was an experimental Cornerian fighter, but General Pepper did not have time to train pilots experienced enough to handle them so he hastily hired Star Fox for the job. In ''Star Fox 64'' onwards, the Arwing is instead a custom combat ships that are essentially Star Fox's trademark from the beginning.
** In the comic, Fox [=McCloud=] Sr. is presumed dead because Andross sabotaged a bomb that generated a Black Hole, which actually trapped him in some sort of alternate reality. In the game, Fox's then-unnamed father was last seen in the artificial Black Hole created by Andross's experiments, but going there reveals that it's a dimensional warp. In later games, James [=McCloud=] and the original Star Fox team (including Peppy Hare and Pigma Dengar) went to Venom to investigate strange activity, but Pigma betrayed them, leaving only Peppy to limp home.

* TheEmpire: This version of Andross is explicitly said to rule an empire, with friends and foes alike referring to him as "[[TheEmperor Emperor]]" Andross.

* TheExile: As per the SNES game, Andross was stranded on Venom. In a [[RuleOfDrama dramatic]] twist, the Star Fox team fled to Papetoon after being "dangerous radicals" on Corneria.
** Fox [=McCloud=] and his companions were originally {{Ace Pilot}}s in the [[RedShirtArmy Corneria Defense Force]]. But after the incident that created the [[UnrealisticBlackHole Black Hole]] and caused his father's disappearance, Fox and his friends protested. Cornerian leadership was terrified of Andross's growing power on Venom, and exiled the crew to Fox's ancestral home planet Papetoon to try to avoid Andross's wrath. [[FromBadToWorse It didn't work]], and Venom soon conquered Papetoon and invaded Corneria, turning the latter into a tense warzone while Fox and his friends spent the next few years just trying to hide and survive. At the beginning of the main story, General Pepper suspended their exile and they smuggled themselves back to Corneria.

* FunWithAcronyms: The full designation of the iconic spacecraft is "SFX Arwing", which probably means "'''S'''pace '''F'''ighter, E'''x'''perimental".
* GenerationXerox[=/=]IAmXSonOfY: Fox [=McCloud=] is always being compared to his missing father Fox [=McCloud=] Sr., and in {{Flashback}}s Fox Sr. looks practically identical to his adult son. (This was before the later games gave James his CoolShades.)

* HisNameIs: General Pepper starts to reminisce about Fox Senior way back in Chapter 3, but is interrupted by Andross shattering the windows.

* HypnoTrinket: Andross' transmitters.

* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: In Andross' lair, a {{force field}} goes up right after Fox's Arwing flies through an entryway. The others are left behind.

** General Pepper isn't the only character who likes lollies. At the start of Act.6, we see a freighter [[TheCaptain captain]] enjoying one -- the Captain [[AdvertisingCampaigns is an owl]].

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Fara cockily compares one of Andross' carriers to a trash compacter. "Time to take out the garbage!" (she gets shot down immediately.)

** Andross' monster, Duodora, is clearly just a two-headed, green, [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} King Ghidorah]]- made more obvious through the "Duo" prefix, meaning "Two."

* SlaveMooks: Andross' lizard henchmen. The majority return to civilian life once Venom is destroyed; the remaining few are still under the Telekinetic Amplifier's thrall.

* SssssnakeTalk: All of the lizards and reptiles under Andross' command.

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: The Venomian Army is composed of Lizardmen which are under the influence of a very powerful MindControl device. After Andross' first defeat, most of the Lizardmen are glad to be free from his control while a few are still loyal to him.

** Falco Lombardi was not a {{Bishonen}}, and his head sported more of a feather mohawk than the pointy tip in his usual appearance. All this accomplished to make him more masculine in appearance. It was specifically ''this'' incarnation of Falco that was specifically {{Expy}}ed as Eric Bradley Hawthorne in ''TheClassMenagerie'' ([[HilariousInHindsight also]] AmbiguouslyGay). One thing that didn't change much about Falco's characterization, was that he was OnlyInItForTheMoney both here and the games, [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules much to the annoyance]] of this incarnation of Fox.

* ChekhovsBoomerang: Herbert I.

* FauxActionGirl: Fara is a full member of the Star Fox team but due to [[DamselInDistress getting kidnapped]] she doesn't always show the skill that such a position would imply.

* PunnyName: Fara Phoenix's surname is pronounced "fennecs".

* RobotBuddy: Herbert I and II.

* TheSixthRanger: Fara Phoenix. The developers of ''VideoGame/StarFox2'' even intended to [[CanonImmigrant include her as a playable character]], but she ended up being replaced by Fay and Miyu.

'''Falco;''' Yahoo! [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Papetoon pancakes!]]

* ExternalCombustion: Vixy Reinard's death was because of a car bomb rigged for Fox Sr. Not to be outdone, Andross rigged Fox Sr.'s Arwing to blow.

** In both the game and comic, the Arwing was an experimental Cornerian fighter, but General Pepper could not get a pilots experienced enough to use them so he hastily hired Star Fox for the job. In ''Star Fox 64'' onwards, the Arwing is instead a custom combat ships that are essentially Star Fox's trademark from the beginning.
** In the comic, Fox [=McCloud=] Sr. died because Andross sabotaged a bomb, trapping him in some sort of alternate reality. In the games, it is later revealed that James [=McCloud=] and the original Star Fox team (including Peppy Hare and Pigma Dengar) went to Venom to investigate strange happenings, but Pigma betrayed them, leaving Peppy to limp home.

** Fox McCloud was already fiercely self-reliant, having already launched his CDF career, and subsequently wrecking it (for a time) when he provoked Corneria's powers-that-be to exile him and his friends. This Fox was less [[OnlyInItForTheMoney In It For The Money]] than his usual series' incarnation, believing that the assets they stole from Andross [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules should be liquidated]] [[JustLikeRobinHood for the benefit of Papetoon's needy downtrodden]].

** Slippy Toad was notable for having no gender confusion possible, being unambiguously male and boyish (reflecting his deep baritone voice in the original game), all the while constantly wearing a bead necklace. Later on, when Slippy's sound become more [[VocalDissonance feminine]], his appearance was made more masculine in contrast, and his trademark necklace had to go. Slippy also had a constant [[SpeechImpediment stutter]], and periodically punctuated his lines with "ribbit" -- which vanished entirely from his rebooted persona.

* ChildProdigy: Young Fox was in the best of his class at the academy. "He could fly circles around a flea, endure days of gravity training, recite the Cornerian Constitution backwards and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers belch on command]]." Fox Sr. was justly proud.

* CutTheJuice: Peppy blasts Herbert to smitherreens, removing Andross' energy during his duel with Fox.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Fox Sr. and Vixy.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This comic is based off of the original ''Star Fox'' game for the SNES, and the unreleased ''Star Fox 2''. There are many things different that fans who got into the series after ''64'' wouldn't recognize (which makes sense- ''Star Fox 64'' was meant as a ReplacementSequel for the original).
** "Star Fox," in the later series, is the name of Fox's mercenary team, which was founded by James [=McCloud=]. In the comic, they're a group of freedom fighters.
** In the comic, Andross' forces are all lizards. While we do see lizards in Andross' forces in 64, there are also mammals and other types of creatures.
** In the comic, James (Fox [=McCloud=] Sr.) died because Andross sabotaged a bomb, trapping him in some sort of alternate reality. In the games, James and the original Star Fox team (including Peppy and Pigma) went to Venom to investigate strange happenings. Pigma betrayed the team and killed James, leaving Peppy to limp home.

* ElaborateUndergroundBase: [=Star Fox's=] [[HomeBase hideout]] on Papetoon.

* ExternalCombustion: Fox's mother Vixy Reinard's death was because of a car bomb rigged for James. Not to be outdone, Andross rigged James' Arwing to blow.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The starship which saved Fox Sr. can only manifest in our reality as a SpaceWhale.

* GenerationXerox[=/=]IAmXSonOfY: Fox [=McCloud=] is always being compared to his missing father Fox [=McCloud=] Sr., and in {{Flashback}}s Sr. looks practically identical to adult Junior. (This was before the ''64'' ContinuityReboot gave ''James'' [=McCloud=] his trademark CoolShades.)

* HisNameIs: General Pepper starts to reminisce about Fox Sr. way back in Chapter 3, but is interrupted by Andross shattering the windows.

* LeeroyJenkins: Fara makes ready to polish off an Attack Carrier, but as Fox warns, she's badly outmatched.

** Andross losing contact with his Dodora. Whoops.

* ParentalBonus: When first told about General Pepper, Fox recalls him being a sergeant. In case this is [[StealthPun too stealthy]], it is reused and expanded upon when Pepper explains James and Andross's backstory, ending with the revelation that he was unable to help because he was only a sergeant at the time. Complete with a picture of him and his associates, resembling [[SgtPeppersShoutOut a certain album cover]].

A monthly ''VideoGame/StarFox'' comic strip, illustrated by Benimaru Itoh, was printed in issues 45 to 55 of ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' in 1993. It is an adaptation of the [[VideoGame/StarFox1 original Star Fox]], with some exclusive characters not currently seen in any of the games to date; one such character was Fara Phoenix, a vixen who becomes the unofficial fifth member of Star Fox after they saved her from Venomian forces. The story followed the Star Fox team as they went from outlaws on Papetoon, to an elite Arwing fighter squadron. It is notable in that the first issue was published before the video game was released anywhere in the world, making it the very first glimpse Nintendo players and comic readers alike would see of the Lylat System.

A monthly ''VideoGame/StarFox'' comic strip, illustrated by Benimaru Itoh, was printed in issues 45 to 55 of ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' in 1993. It was a sort of background covering of events in the original Star Fox, with some exclusive characters not currently seen in any of the games to date. One such character was Fara Phoenix, a vixen who becomes the fifth member of Star Fox after they saved her from Venomian forces. The story followed the Star Fox team as they went from outlaws on Papetoon, to an elite Arwing fighter squadron. Fox, Falco, and Andross were the only 3 characters whose backgrounds were fully explained in the story.

* NeverFoundTheBody: The sabotage that created the [[UnrealisticBlackHole Black Hole]] which sucked Fox [=McCloud=] Sr. into it. [[Spoiler: He lived.]]

* PercussivePrevention: Falco expresses concern that Fox is "beyond reason" and that unless they stop him from going into the Black Hole, he'll kill himself. Better knock his lights out, then. *cracks knuckles* Falco almost decks him a third time, when the others remind him that putting Fox in solitary confinement is a more sensible option. Fox later [[LaserGuidedKarma returns the favor!]] [[spoiler: Falco's real motive is revealed a few pages later, when he tries to steal Fox's Arwing to go make history himself.]]

** Slippy Toad was notable for having no ViewerGenderConfusion whatsoever, being unambiguously male and boyish (reflecting his deep baritone voice in the original game), all the while constantly wearing a bead necklace. Later on, when Slippy's sound become more [[VocalDissonance feminine]], his appearance was made more masculine in contrast, and his trademark necklace had to go. Slippy also had a constant [[SpeechImpediment stutter]], and periodically punctuated his lines with "ribbit" -- which vanished entirely from his rebooted persona.