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The comic wrapped up its story in December 2013. But, after working on other comics for a few years, Baldwin returned to the Spacetrawler universe to begin a new story in August 2016. This time, Nogg and a brand-new crew of kidnapped humans get drawn into a war between dark planets.

Part two wrapped up in September 2019, but a new story began in October 2019. Emily, while trying to avoid galactic politics, ends up accidentally rescuing a young girl from an alien plot on Earth.

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The comic wrapped up its story in December 2013. But, after working on other comics for a few years, Baldwin returned to the Spacetrawler universe to begin a new story in August 2016. This time, Nogg and a brand-new crew of kidnapped humans get drawn into a war between dark planets.

planets. Part two wrapped up in September 2019, but a new story began in October 2019. Emily, while trying to avoid galactic politics, ends up accidentally rescuing a young girl from an alien plot on Earth.
Earth. This adventure ended in 2023, with part four focusing on an all-new set of characters (human and otherwise) who get caught up in a interstellar body-swapping fiasco.
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* CruelCoyotes: Subverted by Ruddock, a talking coyote who is generally friendly and (tries to be) helpful. He is fond of chasing and eating robot mice though.
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HilarityEnsues. [[BlackComedy As does some darker stuff.]]
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''[[https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/ Spacetrawler]]'' (first page [[https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2010/01/01/spacetrawler-4/ here]]) is a science fiction webcomic by Creator/ChristopherBaldwin, creator of ''Webcomic/{{Bruno}}'', ''Webcomic/LittleDee'', and ''Webcomic/OneWay''.

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''[[https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/ Spacetrawler]]'' (first page [[https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2010/01/01/spacetrawler-4/ here]]) is a science fiction webcomic by Creator/ChristopherBaldwin, creator of ''Webcomic/{{Bruno}}'', ''Webcomic/LittleDee'', and ''Webcomic/OneWay''.
Creator/ChristopherBaldwin.
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* ExpendableClone: A bunch of Dustin's clones are killed out without fanfare.
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* WorthyOpponent: Emily becomes one for Growp. [[spoiler:That's why [[FoeYay he fell in love with her.]]]]

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* WorthyOpponent: Emily becomes one for Growp. [[spoiler:That's why [[FoeYay he fell in love with her.]]]]]]
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* ArtifactTitle: Played with. The original self-contained arc revolves around the titular Spacetrawler technology, but its resolution involves [[spoiler: Spacetrawler drives being banned across the galaxy]]. An explanation is contrived for why the further story arcs Baldwin created when the story was uncancelled still go out under the name ''Spacetrawler'': [[spoiler: the GOB forcibly renames Nogg's ship "Spacetrawler", much to his chagrin, out of pettiness]].
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* HumanoidAliens: Rather few of them actually. Most of them have extra limbs, extra eyes, tentacles, or any other number of unusual alien quirks.

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* HumanoidAliens: Rather few of them actually. Most Even the most human-shaped of them tend to have extra limbs, extra eyes, tentacles, or any other number of unusual alien quirks.

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* GargleBlaster: Limbic Fizzlers seem to serve this purpose in-setting. Not quite as potent or infamous as the ol' Pan-Galactic, but they're described as tasting like heavily caffeinated coffee laced with hallucinogens and turpentine.



* GunsAkimbo: Emily does that a lot.

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* GunsAkimbo: Emily does that this a lot.



* HumanoidAliens: Rather few of them actually.

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* HumanoidAliens: Rather few of them actually. Most of them have extra limbs, extra eyes, tentacles, or any other number of unusual alien quirks.
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* TimeSkip: There's a 19-year jump from the first series to the second, though due to [[LongevityTreatment anti-aging treatments]] the cast haven't aged much.

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** Dimitri and anything that's reasonably compatible.



* MadScientist: Eebs, when given vague instructions to build something, can have some odd ideas. I.e. when Dmitri tells a group of them to construct a means of leaving the hotel without being seen, first they suggest adding legs to the hotel, then they suggest floating it out on a river of lava. Dmitri shoots both of those down, but agrees to the third suggestion: a tunneling machine that also makes beer.

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* LiterallyShatteredLives: Whilst no freezing or petrification is involved, any 'laser' set to kill tends to disintegrate victims into a bunch of little chunks that look vaguely like they might once have been that person.
* MadScientist: Eebs, when given vague instructions to build something, can have some odd ideas. I.e. when Dmitri tells a group of them to construct a means of leaving the hotel without being seen, first they suggest adding legs to the hotel, then they suggest floating it out on a river of lava. Dmitri shoots both of those down, but agrees to the third suggestion: a tunneling machine that also makes beer. [[spoiler:Turns out to be pretty convenient to be deep underground when the unclamped Eebs torch the surface.]]



* MatterReplicator: Ships have on-board replicators, which can manufacture ''anything'' from gathered space debris.

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* MatterReplicator: Ships have on-board replicators, which can manufacture ''anything'' from gathered space debris. Unfortunately whilst food and drink looks the part, it doesn't always have the right taste or texture.


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** To elaborate; [[spoiler:Some Eebs are raised to know ''only'' spacetrawling, drugged into subservience, never educated in any way, shape, or form. Once they reach a certain point, their brains are then extracted and used as the 'core' of a spacetrawler. Even then, they have a limited lifespan and need to be replaced every few years. All the other Eebs are "just" brainclamped.]]


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* ThemeNaming: All Eebs are (Colour)-(Number); Red-9, Cardinal-62, etc.
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** It immediately transpires that Choan had bugs on ''King'', so heaven forfend if those two ever either joined forces or fought one another.
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Part two wrapped up in September 2019, but a new story began in October 2016. Emily, while trying to avoid galactic politics, ends up accidentally rescuing a young girl from an alien plot on Earth.

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Part two wrapped up in September 2019, but a new story began in October 2016.2019. Emily, while trying to avoid galactic politics, ends up accidentally rescuing a young girl from an alien plot on Earth.
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* IncapableOfDisobeying: The Eebs are an incredibly intelligent and telekinetic species with no willpower to speak of. This lack led to the greater galactic community labeling them non-sentient and enslaving them. [[spoiler: However, it's not their natural state, they're brain-clamped.]]
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--->'''Dimitri:''' ''[to a bartender]'' His next drink's on me.
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* BeingGoodSucks: Lampshaded [[https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2017/07/17/071717-crint-refugees/ in the second series]].
-->'''Groterix''': "Empathy." I wouldn't want to live without it, but it often gives you the shit end of the stick, doesn't it?
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* HypocriticalHumor: From the second series, [[https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2017/05/15/051517-leaders-convene/ we have this statement from Nogg after having abducted the various planetary leaders]] to force peace talks.
-->'''Nogg''': But I hope you can all at least admit that your war needs to stop. That the use of force is a bad path that gets you nowhere. (''BeatPanel'') Right?\\
'''Avnerix''': She'd reply, but your thugs knocked her unconscious.
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** In the second series, [[spoiler: Reemp kidnaps Martina's half-brother to test a dangerous symbiotic weapon that can't be removed. The weapon ends up killing him almost ''immediately'' after he finishes installing it]]

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** In the second series, [[spoiler: Reemp kidnaps Martina's half-brother to test a dangerous symbiotic weapon that can't be removed. The weapon ends up killing him almost ''immediately'' ''[[https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2016/10/26/102616-jabby/ immediately]]'' after he finishes installing it]]it, as both Mauricio and Jabby agreed that [[KarmicDeath what Reemp did was wrong]].]]
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* SmartJerkAndNiceMoron: Nogg's two main followers are Gurf, who's kind but dumb as a brick--and Krep, member of an alien species who bred stupidity out of themselves generations ago, which had the side-effect of making them all sarcastic jerkasses.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Pierrot does this, capping it with a [[spoiler:BigDamnKiss]]. And it is EPIC.

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* BigDamnHeroes: Pierrot does this, capping it with a [[spoiler:BigDamnKiss]].[[spoiler:TheBigDamnKiss]]. And it is EPIC.

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