Protagonist: Human woman don’t build deadly obstacle courses for men who want to have sex with them!
Gluuduu: Then what do you do instead?
Protagonist: We buy the women drinks and tell them they look pretty.
Gluuduu: How strange.
Gluuduu: Then what do you do instead?
Protagonist: We buy the women drinks and tell them they look pretty.
Gluuduu: How strange.
The Accidental Space Spy
is a webcomic by Øyvind Thorsby. It is a farce that also explores evolutionary biology by using unusual aliens as examples. The comic began in early 2011 and ended in 2013. It was originally hosted on Webcomics Nation, and later on Comic Fury after the former site shut down.
Tropes:
- Ax-Crazy: One of the alien species agents have to interview becomes more and more aggressive as they get older. Upon reaching a certain threshold at a senior age, they start speaking nonsense and become extremely violent.
- Beast Man: Some crew on the Petrevolt’s ship, such as commander Harp and agent Rum, are this. The protagonist passes up a chance at romance with agent Shim because he thinks she might be a biologically incompatible alien.
- Bittersweet Ending: Ben, Shim, and Athena succeeded at saving the tjargellos, but now ACH and Petrevolt will want them dead for sure, forcing the trio to go on a run. The girls could've stayed with Ben on Earth, but as Shim points out they are too alien-looking to fit in, forcing them to separate forever.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: For starters, Dunkirk can easily remove his body parts and insert new ones.
- Did Not Get the Girl: Ben had to let Shim go because she wouldn't fit in Earth's society due to her alien looks.
- Earpiece Conversation: Party guests are forbidden to carry electronics, so to communicate, the protagonist hides inside the alien’s ear and dispenses advice from there. This is possible because the alien species is much larger than humans are.
- Gender Bender: Datimas are born female, but can become male if they are successful.
- Mistaken for Special Guest: Tjargellos at the president’s party are expecting a translator for a diplomat, and an interior decorator. Trinketjuice must pose as both at different times as an excuse for being in the president’s bedroom.
- My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: While Trinketjuice is posing as a translator, she has to use a special device to talk with the scthrahnxian ambassador. Naturally, her sentences end up nonsensical, except for the last one which also offends the representative.
- Playing Cyrano: The protagonist and Athena need to use reference books to advise an alien on proper etiquette for each situation she encounters, so she can convince the guards that she is high-class enough to be admitted to the inner hall of the president’s party.
- Polyamory: Datima males have more than one wife.
- The Symbiote: One of the alien spies has this, the real body is just a oval. Rest of the parts such as hands, eyes, etc were parasites but later adopted to mutual status.
- Walking Spoiler: At least half of species that play a major role in the plot fall under this, since quirks of their biology and/or society are used to progress the story.
