History Webcomic / Terinu

* BleachedUnderpants: Mild example. ''Terinu'' was intended from the start to be a PG-13 comic, but Hewitt has occasionally dabbled in racier pics of the characters, usually of Matt/Terinu or Rufus/Melika.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Terinu especially, given the structure of his feet, but Ninetta has no excuse.

* HasTwoMommies: Four really. His biological mother whomever she may be, Mavra Chan, Melika and Leeza. The latter two are the only ones likely to cooperate in raising him though.

* BareYourMidriff: Gwen is particularly guilty of this, though pretty much every female in the main cast shows a little belly in the gallery pics.

* GenocideBackfire: The reson why Terinu is still around, possibly combined with HiddenElfVillage.

'''Lady Mavra Chan''': Self-styled SpacePirate noble, with an emphasis on the "Pirate" over the "Noble".

'''Leeza Blake''': A civilian starship engineer and daughter of the Fleet Admiral Erwin Blake. Her mom was StuffedInTheFridge sometime before the story began. Currently she's Terinu's legal guardian.

'''Ru Ofanius "Rufus" Brushtail''': A [[BeastMan vulpine]] star fighter pilot/mercenary/hidden noble. In other words a born swashbuckler.

* BeastMan: The Vulpine.

'''Ru Ofanius "Rufus" Brushtail''': A [[FunnyAnimal vulpine]] star fighter pilot/mercenary/hidden noble. In other words a born swashbuckler.

* PettingZooPeople: The Vulpine.

* FanDisservice: Seeing Gwen in her {{Fetish Fuel}} exotic dancer outfit, in front of two very ''tall'' aliens who make her look ten instead of fifteen years old.

'''Matt Townsend''': Terinu's best friend [[spoiler:and possibly his lover, if you believe the fans]] in the universe.

'''Leeza Blake''': A civilian starship engineer and daughter of the Fleet Admiral Erwin Blake. Her mom was StuffedInTheFridge sometime before the story began. Currently she's Terinu's legal guardian. Unknown, even to her, is that [[spoiler:she's Terinu's "Master"]]

'''Admiral Erwin Blake''': Chief of the United Systems Alliance fleet and determined to hunt down and kill Terinu to preserve the Alliance's safety. This makes for rather awkward relations with his daughter Leeza [[spoiler: especially after he tossed her in jail]].

Following a long hiatus the comic's website is offline as of February 2017.

* {{Badass}}: Rufus, being the AcePilot. Subverted slightly in that he readily admits Melika is a ''better'' pilot.

* ShoutOut: Mavra Chan is named for Mavra Chang, a mercenary and pirate from Creator/JackChalker's ''WellWorld'' series.

* FantasticRacism: There are some notable entries. The Varn to pretty much everyone Non-varn with the possible exception of the Ardactavians. The humans to the Ferin. The space pirates, particularly Mavra Chan's group, to everyone non-pirate. The Ardactavians, particularly Titalia, to everyone mamalian to the point she feels OppresedByTheirExistence, and thinks her people are entitled to enslave or exterminate them all, anything less is the Ardactavians groveling and scraping for scraps.

* FalseFlagOperation: Titalia used this tactic ''twice'', in major GambitRoulette fashion. First, she unleashes a vulpine specific genetically-engineered lethal virus intended to force the vulpine race to return to Ardactivian slavery or face extinction by spreading the illness through a third party. When this is thwarted by Terinu and Gwen, who not only took the cure data literally out of Titalia's hands but broadcast it to the Alliance before being ''recaptured,'' Titalia then goes with her "backup plan" of [[spoiler: murdering her mother and framing the Alliance for it by forcing Gwen into a cyber-suit to shut down Ardactivan border defensees. Cementing her claims is the fact that Admiral Blake's black ops squad is tresspassing in Ardactivan territory while trying to exterminate Terinu.]]
* FantasticCasteSystem: The Vulpine skirt this, dividing themselves into Farmer Lord (the Rulers), Military (the Fighters) and Commoner (everybody else). Fortunately there's some give to the system, with Commoners able to marry up into the Farmer Lord class, usually by gaining recognition during their mandantory military service.

* HasTwoMommies: Four really. His biological mother whomever she may be, Mavra Chan, Melika and Leeza. The latter two are the only ones likely to cooperate raising him though.

* TautologicalTemplar: The Varn race, as a whole. They are all so utterly convinced that, thinking they're descended from gods, they are invariably good people, so ''everything'' they do is good, regardless of the consequences. Enslaving entire sentient species, completely destroying life-bearing planets, slaughtering innocents in the '''billions''', is simply the unavoidable price of "improving" the lives of their victims, and taking a species able to generate bio-electricity, and making them sentient ''before'' reducing them to living batteries for their technology, and treating them as pets, is universally considered improving the lot in life of said species. When Gwen gets a face to face chat with the Gene Mage, she not only chews him out for it but adamantly ''suggests'' that maybe all the sentient species the Varn have brutalized, especially humanity, might actually have a better chance of finding enlightenment on their own merits, instead of being rounded up and forcefully enslaved into it. The Gene Mage's reaction is equal parts disgust and fury that this pitiably ignorant UngratefulBitch just doesn't understand the Varn's "noble intentions" and never will.

* WouldHurtAChild: Mavra and Brutal Brooks, most definitely.

* BigBadDiumvirate: The Varn Gene Mage, Titalia.

* FalseFlagOperation: Titalia used this tactic ''twice', in major GambitRoulette fashion. First, she unleashes a vulpine specific genetically-engineered lethal virus intended to force the vulpine race to return to Ardactivian slavery or face extinction by spreading the illness through a third party. When this is thwarted by Terinu and Gwen, who not only took the cure data literally out of Titalia's hands but broadcast it to the Alliance before being ''recaptured,'' Titalia then goes with her "backup plan" of [[spoiler: murdering her mother and framing the Alliance for it by forcing Gwen into a cyber-suit to shut down Ardactivan border defensees. Cementing her claims is the fact that Admiral Blake's black ops squad is tresspassing in Ardactivan territory while trying to exterminate Terinu.]]

* BigBad: The Varn Gene Mage.

* DistressedDude: Terinu, frequently, given his status as both the hero ''and'' the MacGuffin.

* FalseFlagOperation: Titalia used this tactic ''twice''. In major GambitRoulette fashion. First, she unleashes a vulpine specific genetically-engineered lethal virus intended to force the vulpine race to return to Ardactivian slavery or face extinction by spreading the illness through a third party. When this is thwarted by Terinu and Gwen, who not only took the cure data literally out of Titalia's hands but broadcast it to the Alliance before being ''recaptured,'' Titalia then goes with her "backup plan" of [[spoiler: murdering her mother and framing the Alliance for it by forcing Gwen into a cyber-suit to shut down Ardactivan border defensees. Cementing her claims is the fact that Admiral Blake's black ops squad is tresspassing in Ardactivan territory while trying to exterminate Terinu.]]