Line #12 Comicbook/CowboysAndAliens


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cowboys_and_aliens.jpg]]
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3	''Cowboys & Aliens'' is a 100-page Platinum Studios 2006 graphic novel created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley, with penciler Luciano Lima.
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5	The plot follows your typical alien invasion in the wild west, an extraterrestrial species landing in Arizona intending to enslave humanity, but cowboys and native Apache have other plans.
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7	!!Tropes associated with this work:
8	%%* ActionGirl: Verity.
9	* AccidentalPervert: War Hawk comes across Verity bathing in the river while tracking a rabbit.
10	%%* AdventureDuo: Zeke and Verity.
11	* AlienInvasion: The aliens came to Earth by accident as their ship was damaged and forced to crash land. After learning Earth is uncharted and unclaimed, Commander Rado Dar declared the planet is his for the taking.
12	* BadassPreacher: Father Breen has his moments.
13	* BadBoss: Commander Rado Dar is not averse to killing his subordinates when they question his decisions, and declares that he's "not going to waste resources on incompetents", when a bunch of mooks go missing.
14	%%* BattleCouple: Verity and War Hawk become one.
15	%%* CattlePunk
16	%%* CoolOldGuy: Chief Medicine Crow.
17	%%* CoolShades: War Hawk takes a pair off of a dead alien.
18	* DualWielding: Near the climax, the six-armed Gan-Alar wields a rifle in each hand.
19	%%* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion
20	%%* FieryRedhead: Verity
21	* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: The aforementioned pair of CoolShades pinpoint weakpoints in enemies, let you see in the dark, highlight footprints, and other neat stuff.
22	%%* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Kai. [[spoiler:Except her true form is actually more of a mix between this and TheGreys.]]
23	* LightningLash: Verity is quite pleased to steal an alien energy-whip.
24	* MayorPain: Alan Cross is a corrupt mayor of a ghost town who tried to regain his fortune back by illegally selling lands belong to the Apaches to Patrick Breen and his settlers. He then decide to side with the aliens for his own survival. However, Cross is thrown in prison with other human prisoners, who are not happy for his treachery.
25	* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The primary alien mooks have four arms; Gan-Alar has six.
26	* NonNudeBathing: When Verity bathes in the river, she wears a nightgown.
27	* OutdoorBathPeeping: After spotting Verity wading in a river, War Hawk notes that should leave, but can't bring himself to look away as she's "so wondrous".
28	* RaceAgainstTheClock: The heroes has to stop Commander Dar from activating an emergency beacon that would bring his invasion fleet to reinforce his conquest in which 19th century Earth has no chance of winning against.
29	* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: After Alan Cross tells Rado Dar about the plan to blow up the beacon, Dar has him thrown in the brig with the other human prisoners. They are NOT happy with Cross...
30	* SequelHook: The humans have defeated Commander Dar and stopping him from contacting his House fleet from invading Earth. Kai, who is part of a coalition opposed to the Caste warlords, has deemed humanity worthy to join the resistance and has called her allies to come to Earth.
31	* ShoutOut: Verity has a name meaning "truth", a rope-like weapon and is even called "wonderous" at one point, which all combined bring ComicBook/WonderWoman to mind.
32	* TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: The aliens, especially Rado Dar, have this viewpoint (explicitly stated to be a metaphor for Manifest Destiny and the treatment of Native Americans). There's actually a scene where Alan Cross, a white guy, screams "[[ObliviousToHisOwnDescription they don't have the right to do this to us just because they have better guns]]!", [[LampshadeHanging only to be met with]] a DeathGlare from the Apaches.
33	-->'''Rado Dar:''' You could have been part of a glorious civilization. You chose barbarism and savagery.
34	* TakenForGranite: Zeke defeat Rado Dar by firing his Bulkhead Repair Tool that coat Dar in a caulk-like substance which suffocate him to death. His petrified body inadvertently became a counterweight for Kai's makeshift catapult which launched a crate of explosives that destroys the beacon.
35	* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: A group of Apaches greet the aliens led by Dar, who then quickly had them shot.
36	* WorthyOpponent: Rado Dar declares that the humans are this, even going so far as to accept Zeke's challenge of a shoot-out.

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