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3	'''The Long Tomorrow''' is a comic book short story by writer Dan O' Bannon and Creator/{{Moebius}}. The story was serialized into two parts for French sci-fi magazine ''Metal Hurlant'' (known as ''Magazine/HeavyMetal'' in the US). The creators developed the comic while working on the failed Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky ''Dune'' project. The two would later work on ''Film/{{Alien}}'' together.
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5	Private Investigator Pete Club in a distant future on a space colony is hired by a beautiful wealthy woman to retrieve a special item for her from a dangerous side of the city. However, that turns out to be the least of Club's worries as he's dragged into a plot of interplanetary espionage and murder.
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7	''The Long Tomorrow'' is noted as a highly influential work on late 70's-80's sci-fi, seen as a major TropeMaker for CyberPunk and its aesthetics. The art design directly influenced ''Film/BladeRunner'' and Creator/GeorgeLucas directly copied a robot's design in the story for the look of the probe droid for ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack.''
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10	!!There are a million tropes in the city. This was twelve of them.
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12	* BrainInAJar: [[spoiler: The MacGuffin is the President's brain in a jar inside the suitcase.]]
13	* ChaseScene: Club chases an assassin who tried to kill him through the city.
14	* CityNoir: Moebius's architecture in this story was a major influence on noir-flavored sci-fi afterwards, especially ''Film/BladeRunner''.
15	* CyberPunk: One of the earliest examples.
16	* FemmeFatale: Dolly Vook Von Katterbar is a pretty straightforward one. [[spoiler: Except also a FemmeFataleSpy. Also, a shape shifting alien.]]
17	* FilmNoir: The story borrows a lot of elements.
18	* FriendOnTheForce: Lieutenant 3 who also happens to be a robot like everyone else on the force.
19	* GoodIsNotNice: Club ultimately does the right thing but that doesn't mean he won't kill someone when threatened.
20	* HardboiledDetective: Pete Club.
21	* InLoveWithTheMark: [[spoiler: Dolly tries to convince Pete she fell in love with him as he prepares to kill her after it's revealed she's the Arcturian spy. Whether she actually did or not, Club doesn't buy it and kills her.]]
22	* LaserBlade: Some criminals have laser knives called quiver shivs.
23	* MaleFrontalNudity: Complete with an erection and cum.
24	* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The presumably alien thug that tries to mug Pete had four.
25	* ProfessionalKiller: One tries to kill Club who then chases the assassin through the city.
26	* ScrewYourself: [[spoiler:Dolly]] tries to stop Pete from killing her by saying she can turn into any lover he wants, including a duplicate of himself.
27	* ShapeshiftingSeducer: [[spoiler:Dolly]], the Arcturian attempts to sway Pete with offers of doing this.
28	* StarfishAliens: The Arcturians.
29	* StuffedInAFridge: Dolly is brutally murdered as soon as Club gets the MacGuffin. [[spoiler: Except it's a robot double.]]
30	* VoluntaryShapeshifter: The Arcturians.
31	* WeaponizedExhaust: Pete gives the assassin who tries to kill him a chance to survive by making him run across a spaceport launchpad, but he gets killed by the exhaust of a spaceship taking off.

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