History ComicStrip / StarFox

* GladIThoughtOfIt: Fox's "insane" plan to modify the Arwing to survive the Black Hole. After knocking Fox unconscious and sticking him solitary confinement, Falco tells Slippy to get to work on the modifications.

* ReformedCriminal: As a cadet, Fox met a gangster "with enough [[StreetSmart street savvy]] to fill an encyclopedia." Falco wanted to fly, too, so he cleaned up his act and enrolled in the acedemy.

* DangerDeadpan: [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/082ad4f5c4ef019a2c09f1a656075b83/tumblr_nw0ftvBN9u1rkrwaco5_1280.jpg With her Arwing on fire and missing a wing]], [[CasualDangerDialog Fara talks as if everything is peachy keen]], even though her somber facial expression shows plainly that [[ThisIsGonnaSuck she's fully aware of just how bad the damage is]]. She's a test pilot, so it's likely she was [[EmotionSuppression trained this way]]: [[JustifiedTrope her flight data would be of future utility even if she died.]]

* 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 [[BreadEggsMilkAndSquick belch on command]]." Fox's father was justly proud.

* 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's father was justly proud.

* DummiedOut: Fara Phoenix was in early alpha builds of the ''VideoGame/StarFox2'', but she got replaced by two new female characters in later builds. However, ''Star Fox 2'' [[SubvertedTrope was never actually released]] - until 2017, for the SNES Classic.

* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Slippy shows off a photo of his girlfriend "Croakella," who gave him his [[FirstKiss first wart]]. (Aside from the [[HairDecorations red ribbon]] in her hair, she's totally identical to Slippy, much to Falco's dismay)

* TooDesperateToBePicky: Star Fox was explicitly hired due to their skill as pilots, and the fact that Corneria was short on personnel, [[http://66.media.tumblr.com/09943b8f64dd3180c63ef92f55f0bd7a/tumblr_nw0f6jo5jx1rkrwaco4_540.jpg not because they were desirable.]]

* ClosestThingWeGot: Star Fox was explicitly hired due to their skill as pilots, and the fact that Corneria was short on personnel, [[http://66.media.tumblr.com/09943b8f64dd3180c63ef92f55f0bd7a/tumblr_nw0f6jo5jx1rkrwaco4_540.jpg not because they were desirable.]]

* ButHeGetsTheJobDone: Star Fox was explicitly hired due to their skill as pilots, and the fact that Corneria was short on personnel, [[http://66.media.tumblr.com/09943b8f64dd3180c63ef92f55f0bd7a/tumblr_nw0f6jo5jx1rkrwaco4_540.jpg not because they were desirable.]]

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Vixy Reinard and Fox [=McCloud=] Sr. are both dead before the events of the story. [[Spoiler:Andross was wholly responsible. Also, Fox [=McCloud=] Sr. ''isn't'' actually dead.]]

* DiedHappilyEverAfter: Inside the Black Hole, Fox finds himself lost, unable to find a way out. Suddenly, the image of his father appears in front of him, calling out "Junior! Follow me!" Fox flies into a white light at the end of the tunnel. [[Spoiler:He makes it out okay.]]

* CutTheJuice: [[Spoiler:After discovering that Herbert is a battery, Peppy blasts him to smithereens, removing Andross's power supply during his duel with Fox.]]

** Fox [=McCloud=] is already fiercely self-reliant, having already launched his military career, and subsequently wrecked it when he provoked Corneria's powers-that-be to exile him and his friends. This Fox is less [[OnlyInItForTheMoney In It For The Money]] than he is in the reboot, believing that the assets they stole from Andross [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules should be liquidated]] for the benefit [[JustLikeRobinHood of Papetoon's needy downtrodden]]. At the time, this was Nintendo's official stance on his personality, as it's even [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/foxcardfrontback.jpg on his official trading card.]]

A monthly ''VideoGame/StarFox'' comic strip, written and 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]] ''[[VideoGame/StarFox1 Star Fox]]'' [[VideoGame/StarFox1 video game,]] with some exclusive characters such as Fara Phoenix, a vixen who becomes the fifth member of the Star Fox team after they save her from [[TheEmpire Venom's Imperial Guard.]] The story follows the team from their days as [[{{Outlaw}} 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.

Despite being made in Japan, the comic was specifically intended for the English-speaking fanbase and was printed entirely in a left-to-right text format like a western comic book. Benimaru Itoh also had a hand in the ''[[http://www.glitterberri.com/star-fox/guidebook-intro/ Star Fox Mission File Printout,]]'' a strategy guide that also depicted an [[AdaptationExpansion expanded]] {{canon}}.

* ChekhovsBoomerang: Herbert.
* 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's father was justly proud.

* CustomUniform: Fara's black Arwing. After it's blown to pieces, she gets a [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]] replacement.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Andross promises to "shatter [Fox's] soul like glass."
** "Rip out their lying lizard tongues!"
* CutTheJuice: Peppy blasts Herbert to smithereens, removing Andross's energy during his duel with Fox.
* DangerDeadpan: Even with her Arwing on fire, [[CasualDangerDialog Fara acts as if everything is peachy keen]]. She's a test pilot, [[JustifiedTrope so it's likely she was trained this way: her flight data would be of future utility even if she died]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: Much like the game it's adapted from, this comic is much darker than the later ''Star Fox'' games and comics. [[FreudianExcuse 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 unless we stop him!"]]
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Vixy Reinard and (allegedly) Fox [=McCloud=] Sr.

* DiedHappilyEverAfter: Inside the Black Hole, Fox finds himself lost, unable to find a way out. Suddenly, the image of his father appears in front of him, calling out "Junior! Follow me!" Fox flies into a white light at the end of the tunnel.

* DividedWeFall: The leaders of Corneria were too scared of Andross, and Fox and his friends were denounced for inciting a rebellion. They fled Corneria and lived as outlaws on Papetoon.

* DummiedOut: Fara Phoenix was in early alpha builds of the ''VideoGame/StarFox2'', but she got replaced by two new female characters in later builds. However, ''Star Fox 2'' [[SubvertedTrope was never actually released]]- until 2017, for the SNES Classic.
* DynamicEntry: At the Papetoon spaceport, Peppy mentions that Slippy is spending the trip in a cryo-mud bath. Later, as the hostage-taken is about to escape, Slippy bursts out of one of the bath tanks. The lid [[ImprovisedWeapon falls on top of the lizard's head]], knocking him out cold.

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

* IWorkAlone: Fara, concerned about Fox, follows him into the Black Hole against his wishes. Needless to say, the rest of the team is in hot pursuit.

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

** Act titles:

* SlaveMooks: Andross's 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's command.

* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Slippy shows off a photo of his girlfriend "Croakella," who gave him his [[FirstKiss first wart]]. (She has [[HairDecorations red ribbon]] in her hair.)

* AdaptationExpansion: It's a canonical retelling and expansion of the original ''[[VideoGame/StarFox1 Star Fox]]''. The comic was able to reveal the Star Fox ''Star Fox'' universe in far greater detail than was possible in the game: in fact, one of the strategy guides in Japan had illustrations by the same artist detailing even more of the game's storyline. However, thanks to VideoGame/StarFox64 being a ContinuityReboot, everything before it's release is CanonDiscontinuity.

** Done to the car of [[spoiler:Fox's parents as well, intended for [=McCloud=] Sr. It [[GoneHorriblyWrong didn't quite end well]] and killed Fox's mother instead.]]

* SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder: Star Fox were [[TheExile already a group of undesirables]] thanks to [[MyCountryTisOfTheeDoISting Fox's political views]]. When they got hired by Corneria as pilots, they were sent off to combat ''by themselves'', with no support of any kind. They won in spectacular fashion, which [[HeroInsurance allowed them to keep their contract]].

* BelligerentSexualTension: Fox and Fara dogfighting in their Arwings.

* [[TheSixthRanger The Fifth Ranger]]: Fara Phoenix.

* NobleMaleRoguishMale: Fox is the noble one, Falco is the rogue. this trope is the source of some [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/a224d06a8948c45c3dea4973dac2a050/tumblr_nw0f0xF4TS1rkrwaco4_1280.jpg major conflict]] between them.

* UnrealisticBlackHole[=/=]OurWormholesAreDifferent[=/=]WarpZone: Created when Andross sabotaged the device Fox [=McCloud=] Sr. was taking into the [[AsteroidThicket Asteroid Belt]]. The Black Hole sucked in fully a third of the Asteroid Belt, and remained in interplanetary space. Unlike real black holes, this one was fully visible as a purplish maelstrom in outer space, and it functioned more as a WarpZone to other locations in the [[SpaceZone Lylat system]].

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This comic is based on the [[VideoGame/StarFox1 original game for the SNES]], but the franchise's ContinuityReboot with ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' provides very different characterizations of the Star Fox team and even the Lylat system itself.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This comic is a tie-in to the [[VideoGame/StarFox1 original ''Star Fox'' game for the SNES]]. Since the franchise was [[ContinuityReboot rebooted]] with ''[[{{VideoGame/StarFox64}} Star Fox 64]]'', there are many different things that fans who got into the series after ''Star Fox 64'' wouldn't recognize. The characterizations of the Star Fox team and even the Lylat system itself are substantially different from their [[SequelDisplacement better-known]] appearances in ''Star Fox 64''.
** Fox [=McCloud=] is already fiercely self-reliant, having already launched his military career, and subsequently wrecked it when he provoked Corneria's powers-that-be to exile him and his friends. This Fox is less [[OnlyInItForTheMoney In It For The Money]] than he is in the reboot, believing that the assets they stole from Andross [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules should be liquidated]] [[JustLikeRobinHood for the benefit of Papetoon's needy downtrodden]]. At the time, this was Nintendo's official stance on his personality, as it's even [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/foxcardfrontback.jpg on his official trading card.]]

** 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 [[UtilityBelt that happens to be]] [[TrickBomb filled with various grenades]]. Later on, when Slippy's voice become more [[VocalDissonance feminine]], his 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.
** In the rebooted continuity, Star Fox is the name of the mercenary team [[FamilyBusiness run by James [=McCloud=], and revived by his son Fox [=McCloud=] after Pigma's betrayal.]] In this continuity, they were initially a group of [[LaResistance freedom fighters]] on Papetoon organized by Fox [=McCloud=] Junior, while [[AdaptationNameChange Fox [=McCloud=] Senior]] was part of the military, and had no mercenary team to speak of.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This comic is based on the original ''[[VideoGame/StarFox1 Star Fox]]'' game for the SNES. Since the franchise was [[ContinuityReboot rebooted]] with ''[[{{VideoGame/StarFox64}} Star Fox 64]]'', there are many different things that fans who got into the series after ''Star Fox 64'' wouldn't recognize. The characterizations of the Star Fox team and even the Lylat system itself are substantially different from their [[SequelDisplacement better-known]] appearances in ''Star Fox 64''.
** Fox [=McCloud=] is already fiercely self-reliant, having already launched his military career, and subsequently wrecking it when he provoked Corneria's powers-that-be to exile him and his friends. This Fox is less [[OnlyInItForTheMoney In It For The Money]] than he is in the reboot, believing that the assets they stole from Andross [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules should be liquidated]] [[JustLikeRobinHood for the benefit of Papetoon's needy downtrodden]]. At the time, this was Nintendo's official stance on his personality, as it's even [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/foxcardfrontback.jpg on his official trading card.]]
** Falco Lombardi is not a {{Bishonen}}, and his head sports more of a feather mohawk than the pointy tip in his usual appearance. All this works to make him more masculine in appearance. One thing that didn't change much about Falco's characterization, was that he is OnlyInItForTheMoney both here and the games, [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules much to Fox's annoyance.]]

** 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 [[UtilityBelt that happens to be]] [[TrickBomb filled with various grenades]]. Later on, when Slippy's sound become more [[VocalDissonance feminine]], his appearance was made more masculine in contrast, and his 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.

** In both the game and comic, Andross' forces are almost all lizards, which are the enslaved natives of Venom. While lizards are seen in Andross' forces in ''Star Fox 64'', the lizards are apparently outnumbered by primates, and appear to be willing participants.
** In both the game and comic, Arwings are new, [[SuperPrototype experimental]] Cornerian-developed fighters, 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'' and onward, [[{{Retcon}} Arwings are custom high-tech combat ships that have been synonymous with Star Fox from the start.]]
** In the game, and the comic, Fox [=McCloud=] Sr. is presumed dead because Andross designed a gravity bomb that generated a massive artificial Black Hole, which actually trapped him in some sort of [[AlternateUniverse alternate reality]], which Fox used as a WarpZone to reach Venom. Inside, Fox found [[DerelictGraveyard a graveyard of lost ships.]] While the game's description of the black hole is very simplified, going there in-game reveals it to be a ship graveyard and warp zone that can indeed reach Venom. In later games, James [=McCloud=] and the original Star Fox team (including Peppy Hare and Pigma Dengar) were sent to Venom to investigate strange activity, but Pigma betrayed them, leaving only Peppy to limp home.

* TheExile: As per the games, Andross was stranded on Venom. In a [[RuleOfDrama dramatic]] twist, the Star Fox team fled to Papetoon after being deemed "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, [[{{Realpolitik}} 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 war zone while Fox and his friends spent the next few years as [[LaResistance freedom fighters]], trying to hide and survive while [[JustLikeRobinHood occasionally stealing from Andross' forces and distributing the goods to Papetoon's inhabitants]]. At the beginning of the main story, General Pepper suspends their exile and they smuggle themselves back to Corneria.

* JustLikeRobinHood: The story begins with Fox and co. irking out a meager living [[TheExile in exile]] on Papetoon, raiding Andross's scows to give aid to Papetoon's oppressed people. Peppy lampshades this by comparing them to Robin Hood.

* KeepTheReward: Following Fara's rescue, Mr. Phoenix's valet comes over to inform Fox that Mr. Phoenix is ''very'' grateful. His teammate'' eyes light up with dollar signs. Fox, remembering his uncomfortable stay in a cargo pod... asks for First Class tickets.

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

* SingleBiomePlanet: Here, the whole planet Titania is merely a "freezer" with "the best [[OneProductPlanet frozen yogurt]] in the system!"

* TemptingFate: Fox is warned not to attempt one of his "famous last-second rescues" (as the lizard puts it) when Slippy ambushes him from behind.

* ButHeGetsTheJobDone: Star Fox was explicitly hired due to their skill as pilots, and the fact that Corneria was short on personnel, [[http://66.media.tumblr.com/09943b8f64dd3180c63ef92f55f0bd7a/tumblr_nw0f6jo5jx1rkrwaco4_540.jpg not because they were desirable]].

Despite being made in Japan, the comic was specifically intended for the English-speaking fanbase and was printed entirely in a left-to-right text format like a western comic book. Benimaru Itoh also had a hand in the ''[[http://www.glitterberri.com/star-fox/guidebook-intro/ Star Fox Mission File Printout]]'', a strategy guide that also depicted an [[AdaptationExpansion expanded]] {{canon}}.

* TrainingAccident: Fara boast that she's "been flying since [she] was a kit," and challenges Fox to a race. Peppy notices they're headed the wrong way, though. Back at base, General Pepper is alerted that two Arwings have entered Imperial Space.