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* AccidentalMisnaming: Outliving several times the life expectancy of his species affected Schorl's mind, making him always mix up the names of his subordinates with those of their ancestors (whom Schorl also knew). For instance, he keeps calling his top adviser Halite, while his real name is Quartz.
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** JerkassRealization: ... and the aformentioned speech makes Brianna realize how much of a JerkAss she can be sometimes.
** JerkassRealization: ... and the aformentioned speech makes Brianna realize how much of a JerkAss she can be sometimes.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: When Quartz has a stroke, Schorl is genuinely panicked and sad. The two the have a heartfelt conversation, during which Quartz begs him to change his ways, that ''might'' even be able to make you feel a little empathy for Schorl (even after he orders a complete genocide). Until Schorl ruins it, of course. It lasts one page. The next page, Schorl refuses to listen to reason and, after being sad during a few seconds, he asks Clover to be his new advisor.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: When Quartz Halite (real name: Quartz) has a stroke, Schorl is genuinely panicked and sad. The two the then have a heartfelt conversation, during which Quartz begs him to change his ways, that ''might'' even be able to make you feel a little empathy for Schorl (even after he orders a complete genocide). Until Schorl ruins it, of course. It lasts one page. The next page, Schorl refuses to listen to reason and, after being sad during a few seconds, he asks Clover to be his new advisor.
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* LastSecondChance: Quartz tries one last time to convince Schorl to stop his evil totalitarian ways for the good of the rat people [[spoiler:by pretending to be on the verge of death and having a heartfelt conversation with him.]] When it becomes clear Schorl won't do it, [[spoiler:Quartz defects]].
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* LastSecondChance: Quartz Halite (real name: Quartz) tries one last time to convince Schorl to stop his evil totalitarian ways for the good of the rat people [[spoiler:by pretending to be on the verge of death and having a heartfelt conversation with him.]] When it becomes clear Schorl won't do it, [[spoiler:Quartz defects]].
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The rats are in many ways what might have happened if the Nazis succeeded.
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* AfterTheEnd: The story takes place 50.000 50,000 years after the disappearance of humanity.
* DeathOfPersonality: The neural flare overwrites most of the user's memories. [[spoiler: Immediately after Bray used it the fans started acting like he was dead, followed shortly after by the rest of the cast.]]
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* EvilAlbino: Clover is absolutely one. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with her uncle Quartz, who is implied to have been only ever a PunchClockVillain at worst and later became a DefectorFromDecadence.
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* EvilAlbino: Clover is absolutely one. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with her uncle great-grandfather Quartz, who is implied to have been only ever a PunchClockVillain at worst and later became a DefectorFromDecadence.
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* OutsideContextProblem: From the point of view of the kangaroos and their steampunk-like technology, the rats are this with their futuristic weapons.
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* BrainComputerInterface: Rat Stryders require a full body suit with neural sensors to pilot. [[spoiler: Human mechs only require a small crown, but lemurs are the only extant species capable of piloting them because of their legs.]]
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* BrainComputerInterface: Rat Stryders require a full body suit with neural sensors to pilot. [[spoiler: Human mechs only require a small crown, but lemurs are the only extant existant species capable of piloting them because of their legs.]]
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* FauxAffablyEvil: At first glance, Schorl seems to be rather laid back for an EmperorScientist, even sometimes downright quircky with his tics or his inability to remember his followers' names. But he's also perfectly willing to do genocides against other species and [[spoiler:a cold ManipulativeBastard who uses his people's fear (and uses a signal to amplify their fear) in order to keep his power. When one rat discovers his plan, he kills him without a second-thought]].
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* AfterTheEnd: The story takes place 50.000 years after the disappearance of humanity.
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* AntiVillain: Amethyst is the only first sympathetic rat introduced thus far, introduced. Her friendship with Brianna was genuine and at least ultimately revealed as a [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist who wants to bring back the human race]]. She also claims to feel ashamed when the rats [[spoiler: destroyed Madagascar.]]]] Quartz may qualify too, of the PunchClockVillain variety, [[spoiler:and ultimately has a HeelFaceTurn]].
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Amethyst. Also, a faction of rats lead by Quartz, a lab rat adviser to Schorl until the destruction of Madagascar, defended the other races from the panicked rat death squads after the twilight shroud went down and evacuated as many as they could to Australia.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Amethyst. Also, a [[spoiler:a faction of rats lead by Quartz, a lab rat adviser to Schorl until the destruction of Madagascar, Madagascar]], defended the other races from the panicked rat death squads after the twilight shroud went down and evacuated as many as they could to Australia.
* TheDogShotFirst: Amethyst starts to use lethal force against the kangaroos only after Lord Brushfire hits her with enough strength to break her armor.
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* ForgottenFallenFriend: A villainous example, PlayedForLaughs. Emperor Schorl's top adviser passes away. Schorl mourns his passing for all of three seconds, and then turns around and offers Clover the adviser's job.
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* ForgottenFallenFriend: A villainous example, PlayedForLaughs. Emperor Schorl's top adviser passes away.away ([[spoiler:or so it seems]]). Schorl mourns his passing for all of three seconds, and then turns around and offers Clover the adviser's job. It's stated that outpassing several times his natural lifespan is affecting his sanity.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Amethyst]] and, later, [[spoiler:a whole faction of rats led by Quartz]] end up defecting from the Rat Empire.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Lord Brushfire was a warrior lord, considered a living god by the kangaroos, who single-handedly unified all Australia under his rule. [[SacrificialLion He's killed off after two pages of screentime in a flashback]], only to return in a few more flashbacks afterwards.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Amethyst]] and, later, [[spoiler:a whole faction of rats led by Quartz]] end up defecting from the Rat Empire.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Lord Brushfire was a warrior lord, considered a living god by the kangaroos, who single-handedly unified all Australia under his rule. [[SacrificialLion He's killed off after two pages of screentime in a flashback]], only to return in a few more flashbacks afterwards.
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* EvilAlbino: Clover is absolutely one. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with her uncle Quartz, who is implied to have been only ever a PunchClockVillian at worst and later became a DefectorFromDecadence.
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* EvilAlbino: Clover is absolutely one. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with her uncle Quartz, who is implied to have been only ever a PunchClockVillian PunchClockVillain at worst and later became a DefectorFromDecadence.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler: Amethyst]] seems to be turning into one.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler: Amethyst]] seems Amethyst. Also, a faction of rats lead by Quartz, a lab rat adviser to be turning into one.Schorl until the destruction of Madagascar, defended the other races from the panicked rat death squads after the twilight shroud went down and evacuated as many as they could to Australia.
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* EvilAlbino: Clover.
* FinalSolution: [[spoiler: Schorl's response to learning that lemurs can use human mechs is to order Madagascar wiped off the map.]]
* ForgottenFallenFriend: A villainous example, PlayedForLaughs. Emperor Schorl's top advisor passes away. Schorl mourns his passing for all of three seconds, and then turns around and offers Clover the advisor's job.
* FinalSolution: [[spoiler: Schorl's response to learning that lemurs can use human mechs is to order Madagascar wiped off the map.]]
* ForgottenFallenFriend: A villainous example, PlayedForLaughs. Emperor Schorl's top advisor passes away. Schorl mourns his passing for all of three seconds, and then turns around and offers Clover the advisor's job.
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* EvilAlbino: Clover.
Clover is absolutely one. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with her uncle Quartz, who is implied to have been only ever a PunchClockVillian at worst and later became a DefectorFromDecadence.
* FailureHero: Bray sees himself as one, which is why he uses the Neural Flare- he feels like it's the only useful thing he can do.
* FinalSolution: [[spoiler: Schorl's response to learning that lemurs can use human mechs is to order Madagascar wiped off the map.]]
]] Later, he orders the same fate for Australia once the Twilight Shroud goes down.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: A villainous example, PlayedForLaughs. Emperor Schorl's topadvisor adviser passes away. Schorl mourns his passing for all of three seconds, and then turns around and offers Clover the advisor's adviser's job.
* FailureHero: Bray sees himself as one, which is why he uses the Neural Flare- he feels like it's the only useful thing he can do.
* FinalSolution: [[spoiler: Schorl's response to learning that lemurs can use human mechs is to order Madagascar wiped off the map.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: A villainous example, PlayedForLaughs. Emperor Schorl's top
* Jerkass: Brianna admits that she enjoys putting down people around her [[InsufferableGenius to feel more intelligent]]. Bray was a frequent target of this before he used the neural flare. Later, she tries it on Pipa, and gets a short but brutal TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for it.
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* PsychicNosebleed: The panels showing Emperor Schorl's use of the damaged Neural Flare suggest it wasn't a pleasant experience. [[spoiler: Clover gets a small nosebleed the first time whenever she tries reading Schorl's mind.]]
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* ClassicalAntiHero: Brianna is plagued by self doubt as to whether she is doing the right thing, something Clover [[HannibalLecture calls her out on]].
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* MySkullRunnethOver: [[spoiler: A neural flare overwrites the user's brain with the sum total of human knowledge, losing whatever memories they had before. Which is why humans intended it for babies.]]
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* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain: When Brianna first explains the neural flare she claims this was what it did for Emperor Schorl. Though later [[spoiler: Amethyst says that was incorrect, creatures use all of their brains already and the flare downloads the sum total of all human knowledge into the brain.]]
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* TookaLevelinBadass: The lemurs hope that the human mechs will let them do this. [[spoiler: It only makes them a target for the rats, who easily destroy Madagascar.]]
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* TookaLevelinBadass: The lemurs hope that the human mechs will let them do this. [[spoiler: It only makes them a target for the rats, who easily destroy Madagascar.]]
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Bray Stormfront. Lord Brushfire. Kangaroos seem to have a knack for this.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Bray Stormfront. Lord Brushfire. Kangaroos seem to have a knack for this.
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* TotallyRadical: Lemurs, the style extends even to their government programs like MASA (Mad Air Space Aces). It also makes their minds hard to read.
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*IDidWhatIHadToDo: How the rats try to justify enslaving and exterminating entire species to ensure their own safety. No one else buys it.
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* ForgottenFallenFriend: A villainous example, PlayedForLaughs. Emperor Schorl's top advisor passes away. Schorl mourns his passing for all of three seconds, and then turns around and offers Clover the advisor's job.
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* DirtyCoward: Brianna put it best: "Rats can always be trusted to let their cowardice guide their actions. Especially rats who've {{SmugSnake just remembered what it's like to be terrfied!}}"
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* CurbStompBattle: The rats' extreme technological superiority means that they've usually been on the giving end of this sort of fight. [[spoiler: The lemurs manage to pull a few on the rats when they obtain human mechs, against excavation Stryders. Fighting a full Imperial fleet is too much.]]
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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Kangaroos, Lord Brushfire responded to Amethyst's request that they give up their weapons by sending her MiniMecha flying, of course, it got him killed seconds later.
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* DataCrystal: Shortly before their extinction humans started storing data in nigh-indestructible diamond-and-gold circuit boards.
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* RagnarokProofing: For whatever reason humans used up Earth's gold supply making stuff that wouldn't deteriorate over time. [[spoiler: And built some facilities under stasis fields powered by genetically engineered trees, but on most continents they were cracked open by earthquakes. Australia is tectonically stable enough that some have persisted to the "present".]]
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* AnimalsNotToScale: Many "evolved" animals have gotten larger, rats are a couple feet tall for instance. When they find a human-era rat in some ruins Bray is surprised that they used to be so small, and understands why they're afraid of everything.
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* HumongousMecha: The Rats' "Stryders" vary in size from PoweredArmor to colossal. [[spoiler: Humans seem to have built them as well.]]
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* PsychicNosebleed: The panels showing Emperor Schorl's use of the damaged Neural Flare suggest it wasn't a pleasant experience. [[spoiler: Clover gets a small nosebleed the first time she tries reading Schorl's mind.]]
* {{Telepathy}}: Lab rats are descended from human experiments in mind reading, as such they can hear thoughts, even across continents.
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One of [[http://kitfox-crimson.deviantart.com/ Matt Cleaver's]] webcomic projects, [[https://tapastic.com/series/InOurShadow In Our Shadow]] takes place 50,000 years after a hyper-advanced human civilization apparently wiped itself out. In the interceding millennia many species of animal that had grasping appendages evolved rapidly in response to the variety of artifacts left behind by humanity, developing sapience even.
The story opens on Brianna, a numbat, and Bray, a wallaby, escaping from a prison camp run by the highly advanced and xenophobic Rat Empire, who recently conquered Australia seeking human technology. Together they seek a human device called a "neural flare" that Bri believes can save the world from the rats, or seal its fate.
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* AbsoluteXenophobe: Rats are an entire species of {{Dirty Coward}}s who can't feel safe unless every other species is either cowed into submission, either through the "submission signal" broadcast throughout the Northern Hemisphere or brute force, or extinct.
* CurbStompBattle: The rats' extreme technological superiority means that they've usually been on the giving end of this sort of fight. [[spoiler: The lemurs manage to pull a few on the rats when they obtain human mechs, against excavation Stryders. Fighting a full Imperial fleet is too much.]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler: Amethyst]] seems to be turning into one.
* EmperorScientist: Emperor Schorl, ruler of the Rat Empire, used a damaged Neural Flare to enhance his brain power to extreme levels and [[OneManIndustrialRevolution single-handedly]] brought about the rats' technological superiority.
* HumanitysWake: It's not clear how exactly humanity died out, but there was both a nuclear war and an ice age.
* NeglectfulPrecursors: Humanity left their hyper-advanced technology all over the globe, including caches of weapons under stasis fields with only a few intelligence tests locking them up.
* NoSell: Rat point-defense is very good, even if something gets past their lasers they can use gravity manipulation to create small singularities. [[spoiler: While human mechs are apparently just plain invincible.]]
* WeAreAsMayflies: Inverted, most evolved animals don't live much longer than their human-era ancestors, rats have a lifespan of nine years for instance. Schorl's lifespan was extended by the Neural Flare, he's forty-six and getting his subordinates confused with their ancestors already.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Emperor Schorl wants to live forever, but outliving every other member of his species is clearly taking a toll on his sanity.
The story opens on Brianna, a numbat, and Bray, a wallaby, escaping from a prison camp run by the highly advanced and xenophobic Rat Empire, who recently conquered Australia seeking human technology. Together they seek a human device called a "neural flare" that Bri believes can save the world from the rats, or seal its fate.
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* AbsoluteXenophobe: Rats are an entire species of {{Dirty Coward}}s who can't feel safe unless every other species is either cowed into submission, either through the "submission signal" broadcast throughout the Northern Hemisphere or brute force, or extinct.
* CurbStompBattle: The rats' extreme technological superiority means that they've usually been on the giving end of this sort of fight. [[spoiler: The lemurs manage to pull a few on the rats when they obtain human mechs, against excavation Stryders. Fighting a full Imperial fleet is too much.]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler: Amethyst]] seems to be turning into one.
* EmperorScientist: Emperor Schorl, ruler of the Rat Empire, used a damaged Neural Flare to enhance his brain power to extreme levels and [[OneManIndustrialRevolution single-handedly]] brought about the rats' technological superiority.
* HumanitysWake: It's not clear how exactly humanity died out, but there was both a nuclear war and an ice age.
* NeglectfulPrecursors: Humanity left their hyper-advanced technology all over the globe, including caches of weapons under stasis fields with only a few intelligence tests locking them up.
* NoSell: Rat point-defense is very good, even if something gets past their lasers they can use gravity manipulation to create small singularities. [[spoiler: While human mechs are apparently just plain invincible.]]
* WeAreAsMayflies: Inverted, most evolved animals don't live much longer than their human-era ancestors, rats have a lifespan of nine years for instance. Schorl's lifespan was extended by the Neural Flare, he's forty-six and getting his subordinates confused with their ancestors already.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Emperor Schorl wants to live forever, but outliving every other member of his species is clearly taking a toll on his sanity.
