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* HopeSpot: Servalan has the Liberator outnumbered and outmanouvred, but Tarrant is able to outsmart her. Jarvik comes up with a cunning plan and is given three of the most advanced cruisers to carry it out -- the Liberator is able to destroy all three. Our heroes board the freighter only to be ambushed, but then Avon appears and guns down their ambushers. Success! Nope -- everything up to now was just a distraction for the guards hidden in the cargo.
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* WeNeedADistraction: Jarvik knew Tarrant would suspect something if it was too easy to seize the cargo, [[BadBoss so he sacrificed the three cruisers]].
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* {{Camp}}: Captain Shad, which makes you wonder at the enthusiasm with which he obeys the manly Jarvik's orders.
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* FantasticRacism: Jarvik sacrifices three Federation cruisers just to hide his real plan. He later says that the crew crews didn't count [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman because he only used mutoids]].
*FightingFingerprintFightingFingerprint: Tarrant derides the opening attack formation as unimaginative, but it also tells her that Servalan is the one after them.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Jarvik roars with laughter over Tarrant's chutzpa when he tries to bluff them into surrendering with a tiny clunker of a spaceship.
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** Jarvik is hauled before the President of the Federation after he's heard bad-mouthing her tactics. His response it to announce, "Woman, you're beautiful" and give Servalan a ForcefulKiss. When Servalan orders him sent to the punishment cells, he bangs her guards' heads together, picks up a weapon and points it at Servalan...and then casually puts it aside, saying he's not here to brawl with her minions.
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** Jarvik is hauled before the President of the Federation after he's heard bad-mouthing her tactics. His response it to announce, "Woman, you're beautiful" and give Servalan a ForcefulKiss. When Servalan orders him sent to the punishment cells, [[PutTheirHeadsTogether he bangs her guards' heads together, together]], picks up a weapon and points it at Servalan...and then casually puts it aside, saying he's not here to brawl with her minions.
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* ServileSnarker: Zen -- even Servalan has heard of his impudence.
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* CombatByChampion: Invoked by Servalan.
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* JustPlaneWrong: The spacecraft they salvage is an Apollo-era moonlander. It's mean to be sent by an early Earth expedition, but such a vehicle wouldn't be able to take off from any planet of Earth-like gravity. And it would leave the landing legs behind.
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* TheSwarm: Unfortunately the prop department [[EconomyCast could only afford to build one of them]].
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* LetsSplitUpGang: Cally suggests they split up into two teams. Avon declares IWorkAlone and walks off in a huff. Amazingly, no-one is eaten by the horrible monsters.
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* ExactWords: Servalan has to put our heroes down on a planet with Earth-conditions. If that planet happens to be swarming with hostile fauna, too bad.
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** Tarrant refuses to hand voice command over to Servalan. She orders Dayna shot, and makes it clear she'll work through the crew until someone folds.
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* AttackBackfire: Servalan uses her battle computers to work out what Tarrant will do and lay a trap. Tarrant uses his battle computers to work out what he should do and does the opposite, thereby avoiding the trap.
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* GoodOldWays: Jarvik waxes lyrical about this.
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* RebelRelaxation: Jarvik slouches insolently on a console [[DissonentSerenity while Servalan rants about his incompetence]].
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* ScreenShake: During the space battle.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Servalan
* SpacePirates
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Avon is poking his rock with a technical implement in the foreground, as the others are busy with tactical {{Technobabble}}. It gives off a small explosion and they all turn to him.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Funny Foreground Event]]: Avon is poking his rock with a technical implement in the foreground, as the others are busy with tactical {{Technobabble}}. It gives off a [[EducationThroughPyrotechnics small explosion explosion]] and they all turn to him.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Tarrant's backstory as a former Federation officer, though that may be due to the confusion over the writer's bible on the character.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Tarrant's backstory as a former Federation officer, though that may be due to the confusion over the writer's bible on the character. [[MultipleChoicePast Or he could have been lying.]]
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* SeriesContinuityError: Tarrant's backstory as a former Federation officer, though that may be due to the confusion over the writer's bible on the character.
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* FantasticRacism: Jarvik sacrifices three Federation cruisers just to hide his real plan. He later says that the crew didn't count because he only used mutoids.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: A guard is taunting the workers who are going to be left behind on the DeathWorld, when the shuttle leaves without him as well.
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* AbandonedWarehouse: Avon discovers the antique moonlander sitting in an aircraft hanger.
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* DeathWorld
* DidntThinkThisThrough: As they've fleeing the Liberator, Servalan orders Dayna shot. Dayna quickly points out that if they kill her, who operates the teleport?
* DirtyCoward: Servalan could have fought or tried fleeing in the Liberator. Because Zen is telling her the spacecraft is marginally stronger and faster, she teleports off the Liberator.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: As they've fleeing the Liberator, Servalan orders Dayna shot. Dayna quickly points out that if they kill her, who operates the teleport?
* DirtyCoward: Servalan could have fought or tried fleeing in the Liberator. Because Zen is telling her the spacecraft is marginally stronger and faster, she teleports off the Liberator.
* EvilGloating: Jarvik thinks it's unmanly to do this, but has no problem if Servalan wants to indulge herself.
* FriendOrFoe: Captain Shad accidentally shoots Jarvik.
* FriendOrFoe: Captain Shad accidentally shoots Jarvik.
* GiantSpider: Unfortunately it's NightmareRetardant.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Jarvik's soldiers apparently never bothered to search Avon after taking him prisoner. He still has his rock (which could be used to bash someone's head in) and Orac's key, despite the computer being just as valuable as the Liberator.
* GuileHero: It isn't the manly Tarrant who saves the day, but Avon.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Jarvik's soldiers apparently never bothered to search Avon after taking him prisoner. He still has his rock (which could be used to bash someone's head in) and Orac's key, despite the computer being just as valuable as the Liberator.
* GuileHero: It isn't the manly Tarrant who saves the day, but Avon.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: As they've fleeing the Liberator, Servalan orders Dayna shot. Dayna quickly points out that if they kill her, who operates the teleport?
* DirtyCoward: Servalan could have fought or tried fleeing in the Liberator. Because Zen is telling her the spacecraft is marginally stronger and faster, she teleports off the Liberator.
* EvilGloating: Jarvik thinks it's unmanly to do this, but has no problem if Servalan wants to indulge herself.
* FriendOrFoe: Captain Shad accidentally shoots Jarvik.
* GiantSpider: Unfortunately it's NightmareRetardant.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Jarvik's soldiers apparently never bothered to search Avon after taking him prisoner. He still has his rock (which could be used to bash someone's head in) and Orac's key, despite the computer being just as valuable as the Liberator.
* GuileHero: It isn't the manly Tarrant who saves the day, but Avon.
* DirtyCoward: Servalan could have fought or tried fleeing in the Liberator. Because Zen is telling her the spacecraft is marginally stronger and faster, she teleports off the Liberator.
* EvilGloating: Jarvik thinks it's unmanly to do this, but has no problem if Servalan wants to indulge herself.
* FriendOrFoe: Captain Shad accidentally shoots Jarvik.
* GiantSpider: Unfortunately it's NightmareRetardant.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Jarvik's soldiers apparently never bothered to search Avon after taking him prisoner. He still has his rock (which could be used to bash someone's head in) and Orac's key, despite the computer being just as valuable as the Liberator.
* GuileHero: It isn't the manly Tarrant who saves the day, but Avon.
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* WeCanRuleTogether: Jarvik to Servalan.
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* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece
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* GuileHero: It isn't the manly Tarrant who saves the day, but Avon.
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* KickTheDog: In case you think Servalan's entirely lost her edge...
** The captain reports that due to a rich harvest they're carrying too much cargo. He asks permission to dump the excess. Servalan orders him to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness leave the workers behind instead]].
** Tarrant has won and forced Servalan to abandon the Liberator, but as she's leaving she orders Dayna shot.
** The captain reports that due to a rich harvest they're carrying too much cargo. He asks permission to dump the excess. Servalan orders him to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness leave the workers behind instead]].
** Tarrant has won and forced Servalan to abandon the Liberator, but as she's leaving she orders Dayna shot.
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* DeathFromAbove: Even though she's stranded our heroes on a DeathWorld, Servalan decides to drop a couple of plasma bolts on top of them. ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure.
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* NeutralFemale: Cally stands watching as Dayna wrestles with Jarvick. Because of this, he's able to teleport her out of there when the spider creature 'attacks'.
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* {{Phlegmings}}: The spider has the appropriate drool when menacing Dayna. Justified as it's looking to feed on what she's carrying.
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* SchmuckBait: Jarvick tosses his knife at Tarrant's feet, then attacks him when he bends down to pick it up.
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* HelpImStuck: A terrifying GiantSpider [[NightmareRetardant wobbles slowly]] towards [[DamselInDistress Dayna]], who's [[BrokenHeel caught in a flimsy strand of spider web]] in the [[FailedASpotCheck middle of an open field in broad daylight]]. Why she doesn't just unlace her boot and jump free is [[DistressBall not revealed]].
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* BadassBoast: Avon claims he's the only man would could reprogram Zen.
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* BadassBoast: Avon claims he's the only man would could reprogram Zen.
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* FriendOrFoeFriendOrFoe: Captain Shad accidentally shoots Jarvik.
* KeepTheReward: Jarvik is offered command of the Liberator as a reward for capturing it. However he rejects this, saying he'd have stayed in the military if promotion was all he was after. He prefers to be HotConsort to the ruler of the Federation instead.
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* YouWillBeSpare
** When Jarvik appears to have stuffed up the plan, Servalan balks at having him summarily executed, but does order her guards to arrest him for courts martial.
** Servalan takes a shine to Avon's amoral intelligence, and says that if she did shoot the crew one by one to enforce Tarrant's compliance, she might consider sparing him.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt
** When Jarvik appears to have stuffed up the plan, Servalan balks at having him summarily executed, but does order her guards to arrest him for courts martial.
** Servalan takes a shine to Avon's amoral intelligence, and says that if she did shoot the crew one by one to enforce Tarrant's compliance, she might consider sparing him.
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* YouWillBeSpare
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** Servalan takes a shine to Avon's amoral intelligence, and says that if she did shoot the crewone by one one-by-one to enforce Tarrant's compliance, she might consider sparing him.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIthim.
** When Jarvik appears to have stuffed up the plan, Servalan balks at having him summarily executed, but does order her guards to arrest him for
** Servalan takes a shine to Avon's amoral intelligence, and says that if she did shoot the crew
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt
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* QuitYourWhining: When Tarrant gives Avon a WhatTheHellHero for ignoring their crisis, Avon pointedly comments that Tarrant shouldn't have any problem as he's the most tatalented space captain flying the most advanced spaceship in the galaxy. "Or so you keep telling us."
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Jarvik roars with laughter over Tarrant's chutzpa when he tries to bluff them into surrendering with a tiny clunker of a spaceship.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike:
** Subverted; Avon sets a condition that Servalan must beam them down to a planet with earth-like conditions. Servalan sends them down to [[DeathWorld Kairos]].
** The planet Avon retrieves his rock from requires breathing masks.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Does Servalan submit to Jarvik because WomenPreferStrongMen, or is she just enjoying the [[CasualKink novelty of being dominated]] by another boy-toy that she'll discard as soon as his Alpha Male posturing ceases to amuse her? Did she go along with his plan in the first place because she just wanted a scapegoat if Tarrant escaped again?
* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: Tarrant asks for Avon's tactical assessment, only to find he's busy arguing with Orac over his rock.
* BadassBoast: Avon claims he's the only man would could reprogram Zen.
* BrandishmentBluff
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jarvik objects to Dayna getting shot as a KickTheDog.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Avon is poking his rock with a technical implement in the foreground, as the others are busy with tactical {{Technobabble}}. It gives off a small explosion and they all turn to him.
--> '''Avon:''' [[OutOfCharacterMoment Sorry.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: As they've fleeing the Liberator, Servalan orders Dayna shot. Dayna quickly points out that if they kill her, who operates the teleport?
* DirtyCoward: Servalan could have fought or tried fleeing in the Liberator. Because Zen is telling her the spacecraft is marginally stronger and faster, she teleports off the Liberator.
* EvilGloating: Jarvik thinks it's unmanly to do this, but has no problem if Servalan wants to indulge herself.
* FriendOrFoe
* GiantSpider: Unfortunately it's NightmareRetardant.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Jarvik's soldiers apparently never bothered to search Avon after taking him prisoner. He still has his rock (which could be used to bash someone's head in) and Orac's key, despite the computer being just as valuable as the Liberator.
* HoYay: The unintended result of an episode full of Alpha Male posturing and contempt for women that ends up with Tarrant and Jarvik rolling around in the grass on top of each other.
* IdiotPlot
** Servalan hears a construction worker is badmouthing her. Instead of dispatching the secret police to rearrange his brainwaves, she invites him to the control room to smirk at his opinion.
** Servalan sends Jarvik down to fight Tarrant. Ostensibly it's to recover the teleport bracelets, but they're shown to have plenty of spares, and they're useless once the Liberator leave orbit. Why didn't he go down to retrieve Orac's key, which Avon is stated to still have in his possession? This would also mean that Avon was never searched in the first place, despite the need to check him for weapons or computer equipment he could have used to escape captivity.
* IRejectYourReality: Jarvik pleads with Servalan to believe her own eyes rather than what Zen is telling her. When Zen offers a possible explanation (the lander is just a holographic projection designed to hide the spacecraft's true nature) she decides to run.
* IrrevocableOrder: Avon uses this to enforce a provision to their surrender.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou
* InsultToRocks: Avon thinks even the rock is [[SurroundedByIdiots smarter than his colleagues]].
* ItAmusedMe: Why Servalan sends down Jarvik to fight Tarrant and retrieve the teleport bracelets as a BattleTrophy (she can prevent Zen beaming them up by moving Liberator out of orbit, and there's no shortage of spare bracelets on the ship). However Avon quickly realises that Jarvik's presence means that the Liberator will blast them as soon as he beams up (Servalan can just target where he's been with a couple of plasma bolts).
* {{Narm}}: Three words. Brian the Spider. Oh, you wanted a little more detail? The episode called for a terrible alien life-form that makes Kairos uninhabitable for most of the year. The special-effects department delivered a giant orange snail with legs, which wobbled oh-so-slowly towards our heroes as the otherwise scarily competent Dayna forgot how to use her own legs. (For this and other reasons, this episode is often seen as SoBadItsGood by fans.)
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Servalan could have just taken the Liberator and her man-toy and left, she'd have won as the lander could only get them off the planet.
** The guard kills Jarvik while trying to shoot Dayna. "Kill me and who operates the teleport?"
* ARareSentence: Avon smugly listens to Orac admit the Sophron is (by a 'marginal' degree) more rational that it is.
* RatedMForManly
* RefugeInAudacity:
** Jarvik is hauled before the President of the Federation after he's heard bad-mouthing her tactics. His response it to announce, "Woman, you're beautiful" and give Servalan a ForcefulKiss. When Servalan orders him sent to the punishment cells, he bangs her guards' heads together, picks up a weapon and points it at Servalan...and then casually puts it aside, saying he's not here to brawl with her minions.
** Our heroes bluff Servalan into fleeing. While Avon and Villa are equally motivated to self-preservation as Servalan, they have nothing to lose so are willing to risk everything for victory.
* SmoochOfVictory: Villa and Dayna share a Hug of Victory after destroying a Federation warship.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: Well when the ''better'' of the two alien creatures seen is modeled by a rock...
* StarfishAliens:
-->'''Avon''': This happens to be the most sophisticated lifeform that it has ever been my good fortune to come across. Present company ''not'' excepted.
-->'''Tarrant''': Life? But it looks like...
-->'''Avon''': A rock. Yes. Well, when you live on the permanent dark side of a planet, nobody cares too much what you look like.
* TakingTheBullet: Albeit an accidental version.
* QuitYourWhining: When Tarrant gives Avon a WhatTheHellHero for ignoring their crisis, Avon pointedly comments that Tarrant shouldn't have any problem as he's the most ta
* SkewedPriorities
-->'''Tarrant:''' That thing has warped your reason, Avon; it has even warped your notorious instinct for looking after Number One.
* SuddenlyShouting: "You can GET IT OFF THE GROUND!"
* WorthyOpponent: Jarvik and Tarrant feel this towards each other. Averted by Avon who cuts short Tarrant's post-mortem praise. "He was just another Federation thug."
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: Tarrant bluffing Servalan into fleeing.
* YouGotSpunk
-->'''Jarvik:''' You fight well, but you're still a woman. ''(Dayna tries to knee him in groin)'' Not quite a lady...
* YouWillBeSpare
** When Jarvik appears to have stuffed up the plan, Servalan balks at having him summarily executed, but does order her guards to arrest him for courts martial.
** Servalan takes a shine to Avon's amoral intelligence, and says that if she did shoot the crew one by one to enforce Tarrant's compliance, she might consider sparing him.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike:
** Subverted; Avon sets a condition that Servalan must beam them down to a planet with earth-like conditions. Servalan sends them down to [[DeathWorld Kairos]].
** The planet Avon retrieves his rock from requires breathing masks.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Does Servalan submit to Jarvik because WomenPreferStrongMen, or is she just enjoying the [[CasualKink novelty of being dominated]] by another boy-toy that she'll discard as soon as his Alpha Male posturing ceases to amuse her? Did she go along with his plan in the first place because she just wanted a scapegoat if Tarrant escaped again?
* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: Tarrant asks for Avon's tactical assessment, only to find he's busy arguing with Orac over his rock.
* BadassBoast: Avon claims he's the only man would could reprogram Zen.
* BrandishmentBluff
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Jarvik objects to Dayna getting shot as a KickTheDog.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Avon is poking his rock with a technical implement in the foreground, as the others are busy with tactical {{Technobabble}}. It gives off a small explosion and they all turn to him.
--> '''Avon:''' [[OutOfCharacterMoment Sorry.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: As they've fleeing the Liberator, Servalan orders Dayna shot. Dayna quickly points out that if they kill her, who operates the teleport?
* DirtyCoward: Servalan could have fought or tried fleeing in the Liberator. Because Zen is telling her the spacecraft is marginally stronger and faster, she teleports off the Liberator.
* EvilGloating: Jarvik thinks it's unmanly to do this, but has no problem if Servalan wants to indulge herself.
* FriendOrFoe
* GiantSpider: Unfortunately it's NightmareRetardant.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Jarvik's soldiers apparently never bothered to search Avon after taking him prisoner. He still has his rock (which could be used to bash someone's head in) and Orac's key, despite the computer being just as valuable as the Liberator.
* HoYay: The unintended result of an episode full of Alpha Male posturing and contempt for women that ends up with Tarrant and Jarvik rolling around in the grass on top of each other.
* IdiotPlot
** Servalan hears a construction worker is badmouthing her. Instead of dispatching the secret police to rearrange his brainwaves, she invites him to the control room to smirk at his opinion.
** Servalan sends Jarvik down to fight Tarrant. Ostensibly it's to recover the teleport bracelets, but they're shown to have plenty of spares, and they're useless once the Liberator leave orbit. Why didn't he go down to retrieve Orac's key, which Avon is stated to still have in his possession? This would also mean that Avon was never searched in the first place, despite the need to check him for weapons or computer equipment he could have used to escape captivity.
* IRejectYourReality: Jarvik pleads with Servalan to believe her own eyes rather than what Zen is telling her. When Zen offers a possible explanation (the lander is just a holographic projection designed to hide the spacecraft's true nature) she decides to run.
* IrrevocableOrder: Avon uses this to enforce a provision to their surrender.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou
* InsultToRocks: Avon thinks even the rock is [[SurroundedByIdiots smarter than his colleagues]].
* ItAmusedMe: Why Servalan sends down Jarvik to fight Tarrant and retrieve the teleport bracelets as a BattleTrophy (she can prevent Zen beaming them up by moving Liberator out of orbit, and there's no shortage of spare bracelets on the ship). However Avon quickly realises that Jarvik's presence means that the Liberator will blast them as soon as he beams up (Servalan can just target where he's been with a couple of plasma bolts).
* {{Narm}}: Three words. Brian the Spider. Oh, you wanted a little more detail? The episode called for a terrible alien life-form that makes Kairos uninhabitable for most of the year. The special-effects department delivered a giant orange snail with legs, which wobbled oh-so-slowly towards our heroes as the otherwise scarily competent Dayna forgot how to use her own legs. (For this and other reasons, this episode is often seen as SoBadItsGood by fans.)
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Servalan could have just taken the Liberator and her man-toy and left, she'd have won as the lander could only get them off the planet.
** The guard kills Jarvik while trying to shoot Dayna. "Kill me and who operates the teleport?"
* ARareSentence: Avon smugly listens to Orac admit the Sophron is (by a 'marginal' degree) more rational that it is.
* RatedMForManly
* RefugeInAudacity:
** Jarvik is hauled before the President of the Federation after he's heard bad-mouthing her tactics. His response it to announce, "Woman, you're beautiful" and give Servalan a ForcefulKiss. When Servalan orders him sent to the punishment cells, he bangs her guards' heads together, picks up a weapon and points it at Servalan...and then casually puts it aside, saying he's not here to brawl with her minions.
** Our heroes bluff Servalan into fleeing. While Avon and Villa are equally motivated to self-preservation as Servalan, they have nothing to lose so are willing to risk everything for victory.
* SmoochOfVictory: Villa and Dayna share a Hug of Victory after destroying a Federation warship.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: Well when the ''better'' of the two alien creatures seen is modeled by a rock...
* StarfishAliens:
-->'''Avon''': This happens to be the most sophisticated lifeform that it has ever been my good fortune to come across. Present company ''not'' excepted.
-->'''Tarrant''': Life? But it looks like...
-->'''Avon''': A rock. Yes. Well, when you live on the permanent dark side of a planet, nobody cares too much what you look like.
* TakingTheBullet: Albeit an accidental version.
* QuitYourWhining: When Tarrant gives Avon a WhatTheHellHero for ignoring their crisis, Avon pointedly comments that Tarrant shouldn't have any problem as he's the most ta
* SkewedPriorities
-->'''Tarrant:''' That thing has warped your reason, Avon; it has even warped your notorious instinct for looking after Number One.
* SuddenlyShouting: "You can GET IT OFF THE GROUND!"
* WorthyOpponent: Jarvik and Tarrant feel this towards each other. Averted by Avon who cuts short Tarrant's post-mortem praise. "He was just another Federation thug."
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: Tarrant bluffing Servalan into fleeing.
* YouGotSpunk
-->'''Jarvik:''' You fight well, but you're still a woman. ''(Dayna tries to knee him in groin)'' Not quite a lady...
* YouWillBeSpare
** When Jarvik appears to have stuffed up the plan, Servalan balks at having him summarily executed, but does order her guards to arrest him for courts martial.
** Servalan takes a shine to Avon's amoral intelligence, and says that if she did shoot the crew one by one to enforce Tarrant's compliance, she might consider sparing him.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt
