Line #18 ComicBook/Shakara


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3	''Shakara'' is a comic from the pages of ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD''.
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5	In this SpaceOpera a mysterious killer robot travels the cosmos to avenge the race that created him and their deaths at the hands of an evil alien alliance known as the Hierarchy. Meanwhile, an alien scientist attempts to track down Shakara to study him.
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7	Expect lots of carnage and planets blowing up.
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9	[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Not to be confused with]] Music/{{Shakira}}.
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11	!!This comic provides examples of:
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13	* AboveGoodAndEvil: When Eva Procopio confronts Overlord [[spoiler:Cinnibar Breneka]] about how he could have gone [[FallenHero from the greatest force of good in the galaxy to the greatest force of evil]], he tells her that he has moved beyond such moral frameworks.
14	* AlasPoorYorick: Some Buggerian mercenaries find Shakara's skull after his apparent destruction by the Hierarchy. They hold it up and taunt him, but of course he's NotQuiteDead.
15	* AliensAreBastards: The many species that make up the Hierarchy are all violent creatures.
16	* TheAlliance: {{Inverted}} -- the Alliance forms to stop [[TheEmpire the Good Empire]] from curtailing their evil ways. [[spoiler:And is secretly being led by the original leader of the Empire.]]
17	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Just about every species within the Hierarchy are evil to the last individual. The Succubi at least have the justification of [[HordeOfAlienLocusts needing to eat other worlds to survive]], but others like the Psicos revel in bullying other species by lording their vast psychic powers over them.
18	* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:Shakara stops his evil counterpart Brenneka's plan to destroy reality in time by trapping both of them inside the [[DoomsdayDevice God Engine]]'s implosion. The evil Hierarchy collapses and peace mostly returns to the cosmos. Then a yellow Shakara (Shakara #1 was red and Brenneka was blue) emerges from a crashed ship in another reality, leaving it ambiguous whether this is a reincarnation of the main Shakara, some combination of him and Brenneka, or a new entity altogether.]]
19	* AssassinsAreAlwaysBetrayed: When Valentine is hired by a FemmeFatale to assassinate a politician, she teleports her associates into the room after he completes the mission to kill him too for being a loose end. He had already planned for this, and kills his contractors before they can do the same to him. He didn't live long enough to write his memoirs by not being CrazyPrepared.
20	* TheAtoner: Dr. Lara Procopio has tried to make up for her role in [[SyntheticPlague engineering the disease]] that was used to destroy the Shakara race through humanitarian missions and dedicating the rest of her life to helping the sick and wounded. When Shakara the Avenger comes to execute her, she admits that it's not meant to excuse what she did and chooses to FaceDeathWithDignity. Shakara notably hesitates to finish her off, only doing so at her own request, since she was the only one of his many victims to show remorse for her part in the genocide, and even then he has a HeroicBSOD over the idea that someone who killed his species could have become so decent in the end.
21	* AuctionOfEvil: After the Earth is destroyed on the first few pages of the comic, [[LastOfHisKind the last human]] (who was stuck on the International Space Station) is captured and brought to an interplanetary slave auction. The slavers only included the PunyEarthling as a novelty item.
22	* BabiesEverAfter: In the epilogue [[spoiler:Eva Procopio is last seen after she got married and had a baby.]]
23	* BadBoss: The Overlord, who murders his followers willy nilly if they do anything to piss him off, and ultimately ends up betraying and murdering all of his allies when they turn on him.
24	* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Downplayed. The Shakara were so resilient that they could withstand the vacuum of space for long stretches of time (whereas most other species will promptly [[ExplosiveDecompression explode]]), but apparently not indefinitely.
25	* BattleCry: The killer robot protagonist only shouts "Shakara!" as he destroys his enemies. This turns out to be the name of his dead species (as well as his own, sort of), who used it in an identical manner.
26	* BlackAndGrayMorality: Shakara is a remorseless [[KillerRobot killing machine]] who has taken billions of lives in his [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge never-ending quest for vengeance]], but his enemies are an alliance of AlwaysChaoticEvil species led by an OmnicidalManiac.
27	* BlankWhiteVoid: The armory that contains the lost superweapons of the Shakara is inside a featureless white pocket dimension that is very reminiscent of the construct program in ''Film/TheMatrix''.
28	* BloodKnight: Warlord Skulka, Supreme Khan of the Xorn Empire, lives only to kill as many as he can manage, as he loves conquering and destroying civilizations more than anything. In truth, he's become bored after he helped with the destruction of the Shakara, once the strongest species in the galaxy, as he doesn't feel anyone can match them.
29	* BrainInAJar: The boss of an intergalactic slave auction is a giant spinal cord and brain stem in a glass.
30	* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: Played with. The world is destroyed at the start of the story and the only human left is an astronaut from the International Space Station. He is killed not long after.
31	* CatFolk: Valentine, a swaggering alien ProfessionalKiller, recalls how he hooked up with a feline FemmeFatale client in his memoirs.
32	* CelestialBody: Void is a sentient humanoid dwarf galaxy who is recruited by Valentine to hunt down Shakara.
33	* CrapsackWorld: The comic takes place in a crapsack ''universe''. In the past, the Shakara Federation ruled the galaxies with an [[KnightTemplar iron fist]], ruthlessly crushing dissent and forcing all other species and civilisation to conform to their own model. Eventually, [[WellIntentionedExtremist Lara Procopio]] released a genetic plague upon them, wiping out the entire species - at which point the alliance backing her started conquering the galaxies and spreading terror, chaos, and genocide across the stars. The last of the Shakara, a liquid being also called Shakara, lives only to see vengeance for its creators, which it accomplishes by committing xenocide on a scale that would be impressive in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' and only comes across as slightly sympathetic because its enemies are worse. [[spoiler:There is another: The greatest Shakara, the one who started the Shakara Federation is actually later revealed to be alive and untouched by the plague. He is also the one who is destroying every inhabited planet in the universe including ''gulp'' Earth.]]
34	* {{Cyborg}}: One of the antagonist races is called the Teknosaurs. And yes, they're a race of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyborg dinosaurs]].
35	* DeathWorld: There's a [[GeniusLoci sentient planet]] that is used as a killing ground by The Hierarchy, as it fights off every intruder by warping the environment to produce things like lighting strikes and earthquakes.
36	* DecoyProtagonist:
37	** The comic begins with a human thinking he's the LastOfHisKind after the Earth is destroyed. He's killed on page 3 by a much larger alien right before the real protagonist, Shakara the Avenger, is introduced.
38	** A later issue introduces two tomb raiders who team up to find the lost treasure of the Shakara homeworld. After facing many perils, they're unceremoniously shot by Buggerian mercenaries.
39	* DittoAliens: Many alien species look like they might as well be clone populations, including the Krull, the Succubi, the Psicos, and even the Shakara themselves.
40	* DoomsdayDevice:
41	** The Succubi harvest worlds by drilling into the core of a planet with the Apocalypse Cores on their [[PlanetSpaceship cosmos crafts]].
42	** The Infinity Engine that the BigBad orders the construction of in the final arc is actually known as the God Engine, a galaxy-sized device that will destroy all of reality and make its creator a God.
43	* EarthShatteringKaboom: Earth is blown up on the very first page of the comic, which then follows battles between various aliens. Plenty of other planets get blown up throughout the comic as well.
44	* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Shakara is the ghostly incarnation of the dead Shakara race sworn to avenge them. The main villain of the comic is Cinnibar Brenneka, an evil Shakara who destroyed his own species. Really more of an inversion; Brenneka not only preceded his GoodCounterpart, but his own FaceHeelTurn is [[CreateYourOwnHero the reason his counterpart came into being]] in the first place.]]
45	* ExplosiveDecompression: An alien scientist confronts the Overlord of The Hierarchy to report that according to his calculations, the Infinity Engine is drawing in way too much power to be an interdimensional portal and looks more like it is actually a weapon that will wipe out every living thing in reality. The Overlord muses that his own species is so resilient that [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace it can easily withstand the vacuum of space]]. He then drops the forcefield of the room-with-a-spaceview that they're in, causing the scientist's head to explode immediately.
46	* FaceDeathWithDignity: Dr. Lara Procopio calmly accepts her execution at the hands of Shakara for her complicity in their genocide by engineering the virus that destroyed them.
47	* FacelessEye: The Psico are extraordinarily powerful telepathic and telekinetic aliens with frail bodies and a floating eyeball for a head. Commander Kreech notes after brainwashing an entire species that he'd laugh if he actually had a proper orifice.
48	* FakeOutOpening: The comic opens with the last survivor of the human race, an astronaut from the International Space Station named [[MajorlyAwesome Major Thorn]], narrating how the Earth was swallowed up by a HordeOfAlienLocusts that came out of nowhere. This clearly sets up a human-centered AfterTheEnd scenario where the plucky wisecracking hero possibly becomes a wandering warrior or freedom fighter against the evil Empire and ultimately prove that HumansAreSpecial. He's [[DecoyProtagonist unceremoniously killed off]] not two pages later, as the plot shifts to its ''real'' story: the war between TheJuggernaut KillerRobot Shakara and the AlwaysChaoticEvil Hierarchy.
49	* FallenHero: The BigBad responsible for most of the destruction was revealed to be [[spoiler:Cinnibar Brenneka, the heroic warrior who built the Shakara empire in the first place]].
50	* FinalBattle: Shakara with his little ship vs. the entire Hierarchy armada as he's racing to stop the BigBad from activating his DoomsdayDevice in time. He uses a World Engine in his possession to turn an entire planet into a spaceship, destroying the entire enemy fleet in one go.
51	* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: Eva Procorpio has become this - while Shakara is undoubtedly the protagonist, the story was primarily told through Eva's narration shortly after she was introduced. Then she started getting more screentime than Shakara.
52	* FounderOfTheKingdom: The former Shakara Federation was founded by Cinnibar Brenaka, the commander of the [[KnightTemplar Order of Avengers]]. A warrior who was MadeASlave and became a gladiator, he was committed to establishing order and justice throughout the universe after witnessing the evil and corruption that plagued other worlds firsthand.
53	* GenocideBackfire: [[spoiler:Cinnibar Brenneka wiped out the Shakara race because he felt they had grown complacent and were no longer avengers. This genocide led to the creation of Shakara, a dedicated avenger. Eva taunts him by pointing out the irony that Brenneka's genocide of the Shakara race created the perfect Shakaran -- only for said Shakaran to be hunting ''him''.]]
54	* GenocideFromTheInside: [[spoiler:Cinnibar Breneka, the noble founder of the Shakara Federation,]] is responsible for its destruction when he united the Shakara's enemies to wipe out his brethren with a SyntheticPlague and destroy his own homeworld.
55	* GeniusLoci: A planet in the Hades system is supposedly used as a prison world by The Hierarchy. In fact it's a living DeathWorld that fights off any intruders as if they were a disease.
56	* GirlsWithMoustaches: The Buggerian women are just as furry as the men.
57	* GoodIsNotNice: The Shakara Federation were ruthless when enforcing their laws, but said laws were fair, charitable, and aimed towards galactic peace. Shakara the Avenger is an AxCrazy KillerRobot, but his rage is entirely focused on the Hierarchy that murdered his entire species and he is deeply, deeply troubled by how violent he himself can be.
58	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Shakara stops Brenneka right when he's about to destroy the universe by infecting him with the Red Death, the very plague Brenneka used to wipe out the Shakarans.]]
59	* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The Succubi are a bee-like hive species who travel all over space with their 'cosmos crafts' to devour entire worlds. [[KillerRobot Shakara the Avenger]] drops by to return the favor.
60	* HorrifyingHero: Shakara is a menacing KillerRobot with glowing red eyes, chains and spikes all over his body, and weapons for hands. In most other stories, he'd probably be either the villain himself or a robot mook for the hero to defeat, but he's simply the instrument of revenge against the evil aliens who wiped out his creators.
61	* HumanitysWake: [[SubvertedTrope There is one last human, Major Thorn]], who [[ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts survived the destruction of Earth due to being on the ISS]]... then [[DoubleSubversion he is killed on the third page]], and the universe becomes a post-human one, although considering [[CrapsackWorld the universe of the setting]], [[PunyEarthling humanity never stood a chance]].
62	* IAmTheNoun: When Valentine wonders how he could kill Shakara considering he's already dead, the robot responds "Not dead. I AM Death!"
63	* IntelligentGerbil: The Teknosaurs are spacefaring [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyborg dinosaurs]] whose behavior is much like real dinosaurs: the carnivores are happy to eat their opponents, for instance.
64	* TheJuggernaut: Nothing can stop Shakara on his quest for revenge. He wipes out whole crowds and destroys alien ships with startling ease, when he's captured his head simply turns into a toothy maw to eat his interrogator's arm, a psychic alien's attempt to mind probe him causes the entire area to explode with the alien catatonic in the center, and to boot he can't even really be hurt because he's not actually corporeal, being the psychic energy of the dead Shakara encased in what is essentially PoweredArmor. The BigBad is also a juggernaut [[spoiler:being the last Shakaran and wearing similar PoweredArmor.]]
65	* KillerRobot: Shakara is a relentless killing machine designed to avenge the destruction of the noble Shakara race at the hands of the coalition of alien empires. He's fucking ''unstoppable'', destroying entire fleets and massacring evil aliens by the ''billions''.
66	* KnightTemplar: The Shakara Federation ruthlessly enforced their own sense of order and justice on the rest of the universe, becoming a mostly benevolent but still oppressive empire. [[spoiler:Cinnibar ended up going so far he decided he was AboveGoodAndEvil and decided the final solution to all evil everywhere was to [[MultiversalConqueror destroy the multiverse and replace it with one made to his specifications]].]]
67	* LargeAndInCharge: [[BloodKnight Warlord Skulka]] of the Xorn Empire seems to tower over all his subjects.
68	* LaserBlade: One of Shakara's most commonly used weapons is a glowing red laser blade [[BladeBelowTheShoulder attached to his arm]], which he'll occasionally [[DualWielding dual wield]].
69	* LastOfHisKind: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Major Thorn]] is a wisecracking astronaut who is the last survivor of the Earth's destruction. He is [[FakeOutOpening killed on page 3]] to make way for the real main character, who it's implied is the last of his ''own'' kind. This is later stated to be the case, [[spoiler: although it turns that ThereIsAnother, and he was the one who destroyed their race in the first place.]]
70	* LivingShip: The Psico Hierarchy travel around in living ships shaped like floating brains, while Shakara's ship is OrganicTechnology that only becomes obvious when it's extremely damaged.
71	* LogicBomb: [[spoiler:Cinnibar Breneka both [[FounderOfTheKingdom created the Shakara Federation]] and [[GenocideFromTheInside destroyed it]].]] He temporarily defuses the computerized hivemind of the Shakara, which was programmed to destroy the enemies of the Shakara, by pointing out that [[spoiler:as the last Shakara]] they’re compelled to serve him.
72	* LongerThanLifeSentence: One of the criminals in Eva Procopio's group of condemned sentients dumped on the prison world is an alien who was sentenced for eternity because he is immortal. He's apparently swallowed by the planet, which is a living DeathWorld, but this [[FridgeHorror leaves some]] [[AndIMustScream food for thought]].
73	* LuredIntoATrap: The Hierarchy use one of the dead Shakara race's lost artifacts to lay a trap for Shakara when he comes to inspect it, sending in a strike force of Teknosaurs, Thornax, and Buggerians.
74	* MartialPacifist: Brother Zengo is the peaceful leader of a monastery who opposes violence, but he's not afraid to dish out a world of hurt when an alien who only wanted to study to learn their martial arts charges him after being told to leave.
75	* TheManBehindTheMan: Oberon Sneer appears to be the nominal leader of the Hierarchy at first. [[spoiler:Cinnibar Breneka, [[FallenHero the former heroic founder]] of the Shakara Federation]] is later revealed to be ruling The Hierarchy from behind the scenes.
76	* MindProbe: The Hierarchy use a mind probe device to scan Eva Procopio's mind after she tries to avoid their questions too much.
77	* MoralityPet: Eva Procorpio ultimately becomes this for Shakara, showing that there's more to him than just killing. [[spoiler:He ensures she survives his suicide attack against the BigBad, telling her to live in peace.]]
78	* MultiBoobage: A shortlived (literally, [[DecoyProtagonist she's shot three pages after being introduced]]) alien tomb raider had six breasts.
79	* MultiversalConqueror: Subverted and played straight. The Overlord orders the construction of the Infinity Engine, a galaxy-sized device that he claims will allow The Hierarchy to conquer other universes. In fact, he means to use it to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy all of reality]], so he can [[InTheirOwnImage rule over the once formed from its remnants.]]
80	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: One of the most awesome enemy races are the Teknosaurs, who as their name implies are cyborg dinosaurs.
81	* NoGravityForYou: When the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Teknosaurs]] lure Shakara into a trap, he deactivates the ArtificialGravity on the ship to kill them one by one in a zero gravity frenzy.
82	* NothingButSkulls: The Overlord is rather amused that the alien tribe he just exterminated had used the Shakaran artifact he was looking for as a place to commit ritual sacrifice in the hopes of warding him off (believing the Overlord to be an angry god), and covered it with a mountain of skulls.
83	* OmnicidalManiac: The Overlord tells his acolytes in The Hierarchy that he is building the Infinity Engine, an InterdimensionalTravelDevice, so that they can [[MultiversalConqueror extend their evil reign through the entire multiverse]]. In fact, its real name is the God Engine, a DoomsdayDevice that will wipe out all of reality and leave only himself to create a new one that he will rule over as God.
84	* OneLastJob: When Karnak tries to convince [[ProfessionalKiller Valentine D'Eath]] to go out of retirement to destroy Shakara, Valentine lampshades it, noting that he's heard that line a million times before.
85	* PardonMyKlingon: The comic uses 'frukk' on occasion, in exactly the way it sounds like it should.
86	* PlanetSpaceship:
87	** The Succubi [[HordeOfAlienLocusts hive species]] travel around in cosmos crafts that are about the size of a small planet.
88	** Shakara himself uses a World Engine to transform an entire planet into a guided rocket, using it to blast through an alien fleet.
89	* PleasurePlanet: Euphoriax is a spatial city that sits on the edge of a nebula made of alcohol, which they collect to serve to their customers in addition to the other pleasures on offer.
90	* ProfessionalKiller: Valentine D'Eath is an assassin with all the exaggeration inherent to a gonzo SpaceOpera scifi setting.
91	* PoweredArmor: Shakara's robotic body is actually ''very'' advanced armor that is powered by the spiritual energy of the dead Shakara.
92	* PowerFist: The appropriately named Fist is an alien mercenary whose body is about 50% giant fist that he uses to punch through pretty much anything.
93	* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Oberon Sneer crushes an anti-Hierarchy guerrilla movement by planting fake images in the soldiers' minds and turn them against each other. He forces the survivor to shoot himself with his own gun.
94	* PsychicBlockDefense: When Oberon Sneer tries to read Shakara's mind, he gets way more than he bargained for. The entire area explodes and it disables every psychic on the planet. Sneer is sitting in ground zero, mindlessly gibbering only one word: "Shakara".
95	* PunyEarthlings: After the Earth is harvested by a HordeOfAlienLocusts, the last human is captured and brought to a slave market. The sellers only included the puny earthling as a novelty because he's the LastOfHisKind. After getting too snarky with a much bigger alien his head is immediately crushed.
96	* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: The Overlord laughs maniacally while massacring all of his former allies in The Hierarchy after they discover his betrayal.
97	* RaceAgainstTheClock: In the climax Shakara has to stop the BigBad from activating his universe-destroying DoomsdayDevice before it's too late. At the same time, [[YourDaysAreNumbered he's also dying of the same disease]] that wiped out its creators.
98	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Shakara's eyes glow a bright red, and he's an unstoppable killing machine on a revenge-driven quest of death and destruction.
99	* RedOniBlueOni: The title character has full red eyes and is, in fact, a completely red liquid being in a suit of {{powered armour}}; he is also insane, reckless, and driven exclusively by rage and hatred. This stands in stark contrast to Cinnibar Brenneka, hero of the Shakara, who was always very stoic, rational, and driven by a higher calling. He also had blue eyes and body markings. [[spoiler:The final reveal is a different example; Shakara the Avenger is driven by rage and hate over genuine pain and is capable of understanding that he isn't a good person, Cinnibar is sociopathic and can only see his warmonger ideals, believing he is entirely right to destroy his race for not being what he felt they should be.]]
100	* ReincarnateInAnotherWorld: [[spoiler:After Shakara defeats the BigBad once and for all in a HeroicSacrifice, in the last panels an alien ship crashes down on a planet in another reality where a yellow Shakara emerges from the ashes.]]
101	* SacrificialLamb: The last human in the universe is a prominent figure for the comic's first few pages, recounting how he alone survived the complete destruction of Earth aboard the International Space Station. Sadly, he's not the main character.
102	* SelfDuplication: Phaze is an alien assassin who can summon an infinite amount of AlternateUniverse counterparts of herself.
103	* SequelHook: [[spoiler:After Shakara's HeroicSacrifice to destroy Cinnibar Breneka and the universe returning to a state of relative peace, the last pages show a new yellow-colored Shakara crash-landing on a planet in another reality.]]
104	* SerialEscalation: The comic opens with the Earth being destroyed by the Hierarchy and Shakara subsequently laying waste to their fleets. The comic gets increasingly batshit from there, culminating with a final battle against the BigBad and his acolytes before he wipes out all of reality. Knowingly embraced by the writers, [[WordOfGod who noted]] that they tried to make every new issue bigger than than the previous.
105	* SexyCatPerson: The comic featured a minor female character from a species of CatFolk who tries to betray the assassin Valentine D'Eath after [[FemmeFatale sleeping with him]].
106	* SpaceBattle: On many occasions Shakara will take on entire enemy space fleets with nothing but his (very advanced) sturdy little ship. Sometimes he got more creative: he destroyed one fleet by trapping it in range of a supernova, another by plunging them into a black hole, and another by ''turning a whole planet into a giant rocket and blasting his way through''.
107	* SplashOfColor: The entire comic is in black and white, with only a few characters having colored highlights. Shakara is Red, Valentine D'eath is Green, and Cinnibar is Blue. [[spoiler:The new Shakara in the comic's final page is Yellow]].
108	* SyntheticPlague: The Shakara Federation was wiped out by an engineered disease known as the Red Death. Its creator had noble intentions in doing so because of the ruthless order that the Shakara imposed on the rest of the universe, but became TheAtoner when the alliance that funded her plunged it back into an age of chaos and tyranny.
109	* TakingYouWithMe: After Shakara sabotages the [[DoomsdayDevice Apocalypse core]] on the Succubi starship, sending them crashing down onto the planet [[PlanetLooters they were in the process of harvesting]], their commander orders the creature responsible found. He knows that they're already doomed because the planet is about to explode anyway, he just wants the consolation of killing him first.
110	* TelepathicSpacemen: The Psico Collective are one of the most powerful species in the universe due to their innately vast psychic and telekinetic powers. Their bodies are very frail, but their floating eye-shaped heads can combine into a HiveMind.
111	* TemptingFate: The frog-alien commander who oversaw the convicts dumped on the sentient DeathWorld by The Hierarchy crashes down on the planet along with his crew after Shakara intervenes. He just ''has'' to boast that surviving for a few hours after they transmit their DistressSignal should be a walk in the park. Obviously, they all die within seconds.
112	* ThereIsAnother: Shakara is believed to be the last living member of the Shakara, but it turns out there is another survivor. [[spoiler:Cinnibar Brenaka, the heroic founder of the Shakara Federation, who destroyed his own species and is now leading the Hierarchy in secret.]]
113	* ThongOfShielding: Eva Procorpio rarely has anything more than a miniscule thong between her belly and mid-thigh.
114	* TimeParadox: The fellow members of The Hierarchy that the Overlord was planning on betraying go back in time to stop him before he can carry out his plan. He compliments their ingenuity but mocks their attempt, pointing out that this would only create a temporal paradox that would result in an alternate timeline, it wouldn't stop what they've already seen him do in the future. However, even that rests on the assumption that [[CurbStompBattle he could be killed to begin with]].
115	* UnrealisticBlackHole: Towards the end, the title character rigs the Museum of War to trap the BigBad's soldiers that pursue him. The weapons he use are black hole bombs, each of which creates a black hole about the size of a basketball when it detonates, and immediately sucks up his pursuers.
116	* UnusualEuphemism: The comic features 'frukk', as in "Oh, frukk!" and "Get that frukker!"
117	* AVillainNamedKhan: One of the alien emperors that Shakara has set his sights on is a violent BloodKnight named Warlord Skulka, Supreme Khan of the Xorn Empire.
118	* WarForFunAndProfit: There is a planet designed to be a total warzone and hired out by a corrupt MegaCorp to different factions who want to kill each other without having to destroy their own infrastructure.
119	* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:Cinnibar Brenaka notes that Shakara is essentially everything he ever wanted his race to be, claiming that if they had been more like him he wouldn't have wiped them out. He asks Shakara to serve him. Shakara of course refuses.]]
120	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Dr. Lara Procopio was convinced to design the [[SyntheticPlague Red Death virus]] to wipe out the Shakara only because of the merciless way that they had [[KnightTemplar imposed their own rigid sense of order on the rest of the universe]], and she thought it would be better off without them. She became TheAtoner when the alliance that originally opposed the Shakara proved to be far worse than them.
121	* WorldInTheSky: Eva Procorpio lives in a floating villa on (?) the planet Terraqueouis, a world which seems to consist entirely of floating villas.
122	* YouKilledMyFather: Mother in this case. Eva hunted Shakara because he killed her mother Dr. Lara Procorpio. Shakara defies the HiveMind that controls him to spare her because she is an innocent who had nothing to do with the genocide of the Shakara. Eva ultimately relents when she sees a recording of her mother's confession of her complicity in the genocide. From that point on she becomes Shakara's ally.
123	* YourDaysAreNumbered: Shakara is already dying because he's infected with the Red Death, the same disease that wiped out its creators and whose destruction by their enemies he is sworn to avenge. In the last issues this becomes a RaceAgainstTheClock as Shakara tries to stop the BigBad from destroying all reality before he expires.
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