History ComicBook / TheWorldsOfAldebaran

* CelibateHeroine: Alexa is rarely if ever involved in any kind of romance plot, which marks a sharp contrast with [[TheDulcineaEffect Kim]].

* HairColorDissonance: Alexa's very distinctive white hair is repeatedly defined as blonde by other characters.

* TroubledTeen: Lorna White initially presents herself as a sullen, rebellious troublemaker. Having secretly snuck out of the Robert Godard via a reserve vehicle with her friend Erwan, she is found by Kim Keller and the Antares-5 recon team and proceeds to make a nuisance of herself at every turn, namely refusing to help find some food and stirring up drama in order to get [[CelebrityCrush Kim's]] attention. Lynn's abduction and Erwan's death snap Lorna out of it and she is reduced to the terrified little kid she truly is beneath her grumpy exterior, which only gets worse when the team gets back to base and meets [[AbusiveParents Lorna's horrible father]], who just so happens to be the same cultist who tried to rape Mai Lan. [[HopeSpot Lorna gets some respite when Alexa protects her from her father, and even excitedly tells Mai Lan about her new girlfriend]], but her homophobic parents decide to ruin that too. The next time we see Lorna is when the police find her manacled in her parents' bathroom, with several broken teeth and a black eye. By the end you really just want to give the poor kid a hug.

* CassandraTruth: Driss in his first appearance, warning the inhabitants of the DoomedHometown that something bad is comming for them.

* BaldOfEvil: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]]. While not all bald characters are portrayed as villains, such as Jedediah Thornton and the women in his church, baldness seems to serve as a sign of a certain wrongness or anomaly pertaining to the character in question, be it the non-human Tsalterians, Mai Lan whose baldness is caused by a bioloigcal defect (later "fixed" by the Mantrisse) or [[TroubledTeen Lorna]], who starts growing out her hair once she gains some confidence and maturity.

* BeliefMakesYouStupid: According to Sven, this trope can be applying to Jebediah Thornton but also to a large portion of humanity.

* BlessedWithSuck: The longevity and superhuman healing factor bestowed by the Mantrisse certainly ''sounds'' enviable to anyone who hasn't experienced it; the reality of it is shown to be a tad more existentially horrifying. Alexa has a full-on breakdown in ''Betelgeuse'' due to not having physically aged in over a hundred years, while Kim admits that it makes her feel like little more than a test subject.

* SourPrudes: Jedediah Thornton. His unnamed church (read: cult) is full of these to an absurd degree, to the point where the women are made to wear inflatable bodysuits to conceal their figures.

* DwindlingParty: The rescue mission on Antares-5 progressively loses more and more members: One man dies when the pod crash lands. Aninka is wounded and remains comatose for most of the trip (before eventually succumbing to internal bleeding). [[WeHardlyKnewYe Zhou's unnamed friend]] is stung by a venomous sand dwelling crustacean, and later [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Zhou]] absconds with the canoe and is never seen again. [[DeathOfAChild Erwan's death]] is particularly jarring, as he gets entirely drained of his blood by a giant cave dwelling leech, and yet is still isn't as jarring as [[BodyHorror what happens to Lynn]].

** The brothers Liang have shades of this: Zhou is younger and more reckless, as shown by the fact that he stowed away illegally aboard a spaceship. He's belligerent, as seen when he picks a fight with John Nash, and is admonished by Zao for favoring violence as a solution to problems. In the end, Zhou steals the rescue team's boat and leaves, never to be seen again and is presumed dead; Zao is older, more serious and responsible, and actively volunteered to be among the first to travel to Antares-5 knowing full well that, should the colonization project fail, he would be left stranded. He also sticks to his principles, as shown when [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules he tells Elijah Thornton where to stick it]], and is possibly one of the only male characters who ''isn't'' sexually interested in Kim.

** The brothers Liang have shades of this: Zhou is younger and more reckless, as shown by the fact that he stowed away illegally aboard a spaceship. He's belligerent, as shown when he picks a fight with John Nash, and is described by Zao as favoring violence as a solution to problems. In the end, Zhou steals the rescue team's boat and leaves, never to be seen again and is presumed dead; Zao is older, more serious and responsible, and actively volunteered to be among the first to travel to Antares-5 knowing full well that, should the colonization project fail, he would be left stranded. He also sticks to his principles, as shown when [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules he tells Elijah Thornton where to stick it]], and is possibly one of the only male characters who ''isn't'' sexually interested in Kim.

* CatFolk: An alien in the ''Survivors'' spin-off.

* CelibateHeroine: Alexa is rarely if ever involved in any kind of romance plot, which marks a sharp contrast with [[TheDulcineaEffect Kim]]_

* CatFolk: An alien in the ''Survivors'' spin-of.

* ChasteHeroine: Alexa is rarely if ever involved in any kind of romance plot, which marks a sharp contrast with [[TheDulcineaEffect Kim]].

* TroubledTeen: Lorna White initially presents herself as a sullen, rebellious troublemaker. Having secretly snuck out of the Robert Godard via a reserve vehicle with her friend Erwan, she is found by Kim Keller and the Antares-5 recon team and proceeds to make a nuisance of herself at every turn, namely refusing to help find some food and stirring up drama in order to get [[CelebrityCrush Kim's]] attention. Lynn's abduction and Erwan's death snap Lorna out of it and she is reduced to the terrified little kid she truly is beneath her grumpy exterior, which only gets worse when the team gets back to base and meets [[AbusiveParents Lorna's horrible father]], who just so happens to be the same cultist who tried to rape Mai Lan. [[HopeSpot Lorna gets some respite when Alexa protects her from her father, and even excitedly tells Mai Lan she has a new girlfriend]], but her parents decide to ruin that too. The next time we see Lorna is when the police find her manacled in her parents' bathroom, with several broken teeth and a black eye. By the end you really just want to give the poor kid a hug.

* ChasteHeroine: Alexa is rarely of ever involved in any kind of romance plot, which marks a sharp contrast with [[TheDulcineaEffect Kim]].

* FishPeople: The aliens, who are hairless and have gills and fins, the latter of which they seem to shed at certain stages.

* TouchedByVorlons:[[spoiler:The few humans who have encountered the Mantrisse have become functionally immortal.]]

* UnevenHybrid: Kim and Sven's daughter Lynn takes noticeably more from her human side than her... [[NoNameGiven alien-fish-person]] side, namely the fact that she does grow hair, unlike the bald aliens, and lacks the odd block shaped nose they all have. Lampshaded when Lynn meets her father, as they both agree it's a good thing she inherited Kim's nose and not Sven's.

* DudeMagnet: Kim. Let's count them, shall we?[[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Marc Sorensen]], [[LikesOlderWomen Hector Albornoz]], [[FriendsWithBenefits Toshiro Matsuda]], [[DoggedNiceGuy lieutenant Steve Hudson]], [[StalkerWithACrush Sven]], [[HospitalHottie Dr Amos Blum]], and Leilah Nakad's son [[{{Fanboy}} Samir]] is a minor one. Oh, and [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Lorna White]].

* DudeMagnet: Kim. Let's count them, shall we? Marc Sorensen, Hector Albornoz, Toshiro Matsuda, lieutenant Steve Hudson, Sven, Dr Amos Blum, and Leilah Nakad's son Samir is a minor one. Oh, and [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Lorna White]].

''The Worlds of Aldebaran'' (''Les Mondes d'Aldébaran'' in French) is a series of Franco-Belgian comics, created by the Brazilian artist Leo, consisting of three main cycles of albums, plus a spin-off one, published by Dargaud. Each of the mains is name after a separate planet colonised by humans and set on it.

* ''Aldébaran'' cycle:

** ''La Créature'' (''The Creature'' – 1998)
* ''Bételgeuse'' cycle:
** ''La Planète'' (''The Betelgeuse Planet'' – 2000)

** ''L'Expédition'' (''The Expedition'' – 2002)

* ''Antarès'' cycle:

* ''Retour sur Aldébaran'' (''Return to Aldebaran'') 5th (and currently last) cycle:

%%** Averted by the last volume of the Bételgeuse cycle: [[spoiler:a sentient [[HumanAliens alien]] from the Mantrisse home-world appears]].

%%** And finally averted with the last volume of the Antarès cycle: [[spoiler:the alien race from the last volume of Bételgeuse make a first contact with humanity]].

* AlienSky: Aldébaran-4 has two moons, Antarès-5 has five of them.

* CensorshipBureau: On Aldébaran, state censors are assigned to newspapers.

* CoolAirship: The double zeppelin in ''La Créature'' probably qualifies. The album before also has a very cool-looking military zeppelin.

* EldritchAbomination: The Mantrisse appears as this. It certainly has no ill-will towards humans, it simply doesn't realise they are any different from other forms of life. One of the [[spoiler:Bételgeuse ones even has tentacles of sorts.]]

* ForbiddenZone: The giant swamps strike fear in all Aldébaran inhabitants, and no one dares go there or even fly over them.

* InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace: Weirdly averted on Aldébaran. Even though representatives of all races have been living perfectly mixed for a century on Aldébaran, and that extends to tiny villages where the same small gene pool has existed for nearly all that time, there's no evidence of intermixing whatsoever.

** In the third and last episode of ''Retour sur Aldébaran'' it's revealed that [[spoiler:a precursor species modified proto-humanoids to help them evolve and then seeded them on different planets all over the galaxy. It is unknown if the species was from Earth or from a different planet, so it's not actually certain where "human-like intelligent life" originated yet.]]
* NoMusicAllowed: Music is forbidden by the corrupt government of Aldébaran.

* SceneryPorn: Especially on Bételgeuse. Often as a backdrop for fauna porn.

* SingleSpecimenSpecies: The mantrisse, [[spoiler: at least in the first cycle. Later it turns out that it wasn't native to Aldébaran, and there are more on other worlds.]]

* TroubledTeen: Lorna White initially presents herself as a sullen, rebellious troublemaker whose parents are fervent partisans of Jedediah's cult. Having secretly snuck out of the Robert Godard via a reserve vehicle with her friend Erwan, she is found by Kim Keller and the Antares-5 recon team and proceeds to make a nuisance of herself at every turn, namely trying to stir up drama in order to get [[CelebrityCrush Kim's]] attention. Erwan's death snaps Lorna out of it and she is reduced to the terrified kid she truly is beneath her grumpy exterior, which only gets worse when the team gets back to base and meets [[AbusiveParents Lorna's horrible father]].

* TroubledTeen: Lorna White initially presents herself as a sullen, rebellious and closeted troublemaker whose parents are fervent partisans of Jedediah's cult. Having secretly snuck out of the Robert Godard via a reserve vehicle with her friend Erwan, she is found by Kim Keller and the Antares-5 recon team and proceeds to make a nuisance of herself at every turn, namely trying to stir up drama in order to get [[CelebrityCrush Kim's]] attention. Erwan's death snaps Lorna out of it and she is reduced to the terrified kid she truly is beneath her grumpy exterior, which only gets worse when the team gets back to base and meets [[AbusiveParents Lorna's horrible father]].

* TroubledTeen: Lorna White initially presents herself as a sullen and rebellious troublemaker whose parents are fervent partisans of Jedediah's cult. Having secretly snuck out of the Robert Godard via a reserve vehicle with her friend Erwan, she is found by Kim Keller and the Antares-5 recon team proceeds to make a nuisance of herself at every turn, namely trying to stir up drama in order to get [[CelebrityCrush Kim's]] attention. Erwan's death snaps Lorna out of it and she devolves into a terrified kid.

* TroubledTeen: Lorna White.

%%* TheTrickster: Monsieur Pad regularly shows ImmortalImmaturity.

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Mai Lan is one in-universe. She's introduced in ''Betelgeuse'' book 1 happily walking around topless despite being probably in her late teens. The "innocent" part has somewhat gone by ''Antares'', where Mai Lan is now in her twenties and more brazen, in her pursuit of Marc most especially.

** The brothers Liang have shades of this: Zhou is younger and more reckless, as shown by the fact that he stowed away illegally aboard a spaceship; Zao is older, more serious and responsible, and actively volunteered to be among the first to travel to Antares-5 knowing full well that, should the colonization project fail, he would be left stranded. He also sticks to his principles, as shown when [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules he tells Elijah Thornton where to stick it]], and is possibly one of the only male characters who ''isn't'' sexually interested in Kim.