History Series / MetalHurlantChronicles

* YouCantFightFate: A Turtle-Sapien prophecy never fails to pass as foretold. [[spoiler:Hondo learns this the hard way.]]

** "Kings Crown" and "Second Son" take place in different locations on the same planet.

** The demon from "Pledge Of Anya"? [[spoiler:An adolescent UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.]]

* TurtlePower: The Turtle-Sapiens from "Master Of Destiny".

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* OutWithABang: In "Three on a Match" the captain of the USS ''Atlanta'' is having very rough sex with one of her crew members. The two of them have TheImmodestOrgasm at literally the exact instant Metal Hurlant collides with her quarters and sets off the ChainReactionDestruction of the ''Atlanta''.

Across the reaches of space, a shard of a once living planet sails through the stars. It is known as Metal Hurlant. This mysterious piece of debris wanders across the galaxy, frequently passing by random planets in its endless travels.

->''The last fragment of a once-living planet. Its body blasted into dust by the madness of its own inhabitants. While its head was cursed to roam aimlessly through time and space, screaming in pain and sorrow. In legend and in fact, it is known as Metal Hurlant''

** In "3 on a Match", one items the maintenance man finds in the escape pod is a copy of ''Metal Hurlant'' magazine.

* CleavageWindow: Kelly Brook's character Scarr in "Master of Destiny" is a space mercenary dressed in a leather catsuit with a boob window.

* ShowingOffTheNewBody: [[spoiler: The King do flexes a lot his new muscles now that he possesses Guillaum's body.]]

* ShowingOffTheNewBody: [[spoiler: The King do flexes a lot his new muscles now he possesses Guillaum's body.]]

-->''The last fragment of a once-living planet. Its body blasted into dust by the madness of its own inhabitants. While its head was cursed to roam aimlessly through time and space, screaming in pain and sorrow. In legend and in fact, it is known as Metal Hurlant''

** As does "Kings Crown" and "Second Son".

* BrainTransplant: [[spoiler:As Guillam from "King's Crown" finds out a little too late, the King Contest is so the corrupt king could get himself a new body.]]
* CassandraTruth: "Shelter Me" opens with a young woman waking up in a bomb shelter with an older man who claims he rescued her from a nuclear attack. It becomes increasingly clear that he was stalking her, obsessed with her resemblance to his deceased wife; she finally figures this out, beats him to near-death, and escapes [[spoiler:into a nuclear-blasted wasteland]].
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: In "3 on a Match" the [[spoiler: rescue ship starts pulling the escape pod in just as the last survivor on board asphyxiates to death. But the guy they tossed overboard survives because he found an O2 tank in the debris.]]

* GainaxEnding: "Second Chance" ends with [[spoiler:the protagonists sucked into a black hole and dumped into what appears to be the Garden of Eden.]]

* {{Irony}}: The debris that pierced the ship in "Three on a Match"? An oxygen tank.
** Many of the stories rely on this, frequently for a plot twist.

* KillingForATissueSample: Addressed in "Loyal Khondor", where Khondor willingly gives his blood and life to save his dying princess, specifying that all the blood is needed. However, it's still played straight since no effort is made to capture the blood and we last see her lapping at his cut throat with a large pool of blood on the ground.

* VirtualRealityInterrogation: [[spoiler: "Back to Reality" is actually the main character's virtual parole hearing.]]

** The Metal Hurlant seems to cause many of the things that happen on the planets it passes, from its psychic screams.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Brad from "Shelter Me". Creepy stalker? Yes. But he ''was'' keeping Jennifer safe from radiation down in his bomb shelter.]]

* HealingHands: "Whiskey in the Jar" has a doctor who develops these when the Hurlant passes overhead. But because of his powers the people of the town start shooting each other for the slightest things knowing that he'll heal them, eventually the sheriff kills him to save the town, but preserves his hands in a jar of whiskey that he drinks whenever he is wounded.

Made its stateside debut on SyFy in April of 2014.

* BrainTransplant: [[spoiler:As Guillam from "Kings Crown" finds out a little too late, the King Contest is so the corrupt king could get himself a new body.]]

* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The protagonist from "Master of Destiny" hears that the Turtle-Sapiens have a book which lists the deaths of every human. He thinks it must be huge, [[spoiler: then the Turtle elder pulls out a small book and explains that it only covers those few humans who make it to their planet, and whom they observe for their own amusement.]]

-->''The last fragment of a once living planet. Its body blasted into dust by the madness of its own inhabitants. While its head was cursed to roam aimlessly through time and space, screaming in pain and sorrow. In legend and in fact, it is known as Metal Hurlant''

English-language Franco-Belgian Sci-Fi miniseries adaption of the ''Metal Hurlant'' anthology comic book, better known in the states as ''Magazine/HeavyMetal''.

English-language Franco-Belgian, Sci-Fi miniseries adaption of the ''Metal Hurlant'' anthology comic book, better known in the states as ''Magazine/HeavyMetal''.

* YouCantFightFate: A Turtle-Sapien prophecy never fails to pass as foretold. [[spoiler:Hondo learns this the hard way.]]

English-language Franco-Belgian, Sci-Fi miniseries adaption of the ''Metal Hurlant'' anthology comic book, better known in the states as ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal''.