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A reference to the movie, perhaps? The leader of Galaxity in the comics looks nothing like Hitler.


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%%* HumanoidAliens* HumanoidAliens: Most aliens in the comic fit the mold. As the Shingouz put it, "two arms, two legs, one head, it could be anybody".



%%* LanternJawOfJustice: Valerian has one.

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%%* * LanternJawOfJustice: Valerian has one.one, as befits a Flash Gordon {{Expy}}.



%%* MadScientist: Xombul.

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%%* * MadScientist: Xombul.Xombul, a rogue Technocrat who attempted to overthrow Galaxity or erase it from history twice in the early comics.



* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The leaders of the military Valerian and Laureline belong to. In one scene, the leader and the doctor look way too much like Hitler and Mengele!!!
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** In the ''Birds of the Master'', the Master symbolizes a Totalitarian regime and the Birds the control society, which enslave the population and keep it servile.

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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Averted with Laureline, who, despite being from the Middle Ages, flawlessly adapts to life in the 28th century.

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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Averted with Laureline, who, despite being from the Middle Ages, flawlessly adapts to life in the 28th century. Mnemonic helmets helped.


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* NeuralImplanting: The mnemonic helmets are most often used to get knowledge of local languages, but they can teach all kinds of information.
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* FloodedFutureWorld: Not in the main setting, but "The City of Moving Waters" takes place in a flooded New York in the "dark age" of Earth's near future (1986 - 2314).

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* {{Polyglot}}: Velrian jokes he's becoming one due to the amount of languages he learns with the mnemonic helmets.

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* {{Polyglot}}: Velrian Valerian jokes he's becoming one due to the amount of languages he learns with the mnemonic helmets.



* ShoutOut: Prof. Schroeder in "The City of Moving Waters" looks like the title character of ''The Nutty Professor'', a supporting character in "At the Edge of the Great Void" is named Molto Cortes, a reference to ''ComicBook/CortoMaltese'', and the philosopher Chatelard in "Métro Châtelet, Direction Cassiopeia" is a reference to Gaston Bachelard.

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Prof. Schroeder in "The ''The City of Moving Waters" Waters'' looks like the title character of ''The Nutty Professor'', a Professor''.
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supporting character in "At ''At the Edge of the Great Void" Void'' is named Molto Cortes, a reference to ''ComicBook/CortoMaltese'', and the ''ComicBook/CortoMaltese''.
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philosopher Chatelard in "Métro ''Métro Châtelet, Direction Cassiopeia" Cassiopeia'' is a reference to Gaston Bachelard.



-->'''Leia:''' Nice meeting you here!
-->'''Laureline:''' Oh, we've been around for a long time!

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-->'''Leia:''' Nice meeting you here!
-->'''Laureline:'''
here!\\
'''Laureline:'''
Oh, we've been around for a long time!



* TranslatorMicrobes: The mnemonic helmets can teach you languages from the past and various other skills.
** When travelling to Syrte, Valerian and Laureline sent automatically probes ahead to learn the local language which they then learned through hypno-teaching.

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* TranslatorMicrobes: The mnemonic helmets can teach you languages from the past and various other skills.
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skills. When travelling to Syrte, Valerian and Laureline sent automatically probes ahead to learn the local language which they then learned through hypno-teaching.



* WeCanRuleTogether: Xombul offers Valérian the chance to be his right hand man in conquering and restoring order to 1989s Earth.
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: In "Land with no stars", both sides use giant blimps as a way to transport soldiers

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* WeCanRuleTogether: Xombul offers Valérian the chance to be his right hand right-hand man in conquering and restoring order to 1989s Earth.
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: In "Land In'Land with no stars", Stars'', both sides use giant blimps as a way to transport soldierssoldiers.

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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Valerian, probably because Galaxity's civilization was built by survivors from Earth's old age, all mixed together. Laureline, on the other hand, was recruited by Valerian in Medieval Europe and has distinctly European features.
** Averted in the live action movie. Valerian is unambiguously Nordic.

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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Valerian, probably because Galaxity's civilization was built by survivors from Earth's old age, all mixed together. Laureline, on the other hand, was recruited by Valerian in Medieval Europe and has distinctly European features.
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features. Averted in the live action movie. Valerian is unambiguously Nordic.



* BeardOfEvil: Xombul.

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* CoolOldGuy: "Uncle" Albert.

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* DyingRace: The blue-skinned Masters.

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* HonestJohnsDealership : the Shingouz.
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* LanternJawOfJustice: Valerian has one.

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* %%* LanternJawOfJustice: Valerian has one.



* MadScientist: Xombul.

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* PlanetVille: Rubanis.

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** In the first issue Valerian if given six minutes to report to Earth from several thousand light-years away and is criticised for being two seconds late.

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** In the first issue Valerian if is given six minutes to report to Earth from several thousand light-years away and is criticised for being two seconds late.

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* BlobMonster: The Suffuss are a polymorphous alien species whose default appearance is that of shapeless blobs. Also, the alien entity simply known as The Master is a huge mass of protoplasm.

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The Suffuss are a polymorphous alien species whose default appearance is that of shapeless blobs. Also, the blobs.
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* BlobMonster: The Sufuss are a polymorphous alien species whose default appearance is that of shapeless blobs. Also, the alien entity simply known as The Master is a huge mass of protoplasm.

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* BlobMonster: The Sufuss Suffuss are a polymorphous alien species whose default appearance is that of shapeless blobs. Also, the alien entity simply known as The Master is a huge mass of protoplasm.
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** The entire ending of that story is a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
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Can be read [[https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Valerian-and-Laureline here]].
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* ShapeshiftingSeducer: The Suffuss are a race of shapeshifting amoeboids that mostly work on Point Central as prostitutes.
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** The entire ending of that story is a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

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** The entire ending of that story is a CrowningMomentOfFunny.SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
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Can be read [[https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Valerian-and-Laureline here]].
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The very first story involved actual magic, mainly used to [[BalefulPolymorph turn people into animals]], including a {{Unicorn}} (with the ability to read minds). While the following stories have their fair share of outlandish alien powers and technologies with very weird effcts, this is the only story where magic as such was featured.


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** A short story involves a planet where an anomaly of some kind causes every living organism to shrink once they enter a certain area (other areas make them grow, age faster, or age in reverse. HilarityEnsues)

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CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth: Old example that plays the trope completely straight.

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* CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth: Old example that plays the trope completely straight.


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* SpaceElves: The blue-skinned, pointy-eared Masters.
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* TapOnTheHead: Xombul knocks out the guard at the spatio-temporal relay and has his thugs knock out Valerian before putting him in a cage.

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* TapOnTheHead: Xombul knocks out All over the guard at place with the spatio-temporal relay and has his thugs knock out Valerian before putting him in a cage.worst consequences being the odd headache or lump on the head.
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** When travelling to Syrte, Valerian and Laureline sent automatically probes ahead to learn the local language which they then learned through hypno-teaching.
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* SolarSail: On boats rather than spaceships but canal boats on Syrte have solar panel sails.

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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The leaders of the military Valerian and Laureline belong to. In one scene, the leader and the doctor look way too much like Hitler and Mengele!!!


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* BazaarOfTheBizarre: Syrte, the greatest market in the empire of a thousand planets sells living stones and telepathic pets among other things.


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* WeCanRuleTogether: Xombul offers Valérian the chance to be his right hand man in conquering and restoring order to 1989s Earth.
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* ShoulderSizedDragon: Xombul gets turned into one and stuck in a birdcage at the end of the first story.


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* UnexplainedRecovery: Xombul has escaped in the second story with no explanation why he isn't a ShoulderSizedDragon anymore.
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* FutureImperfect: Scientists examining a 20th century sewing machine in Xombul's apartment guess that it's a musical instrument or a failed sculpture but Valerian corrects them.
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* KnockoutGas: A naturally occuring sleep mist in the swamp in 11th century France.
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* BalefulPolymorph: Xombul uses magic to turn people into his monster army.


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* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The Spatio-Temporal relays, scattered throughout time.
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* {{Polyglot}}: Velrian jokes he's becoming one due to the amount of languages he learns with the mnemonic helmets.


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* TapOnTheHead: Xombul knocks out the guard at the spatio-temporal relay and has his thugs knock out Valerian before putting him in a cage.
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* EternalEnglish: Averted, Valerian uses a mnemonic helmet to teach himself the local language before he goes back in time.


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* TranslatorMicrobes: The mnemonic helmets can teach you languages from the past and various other skills.
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CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth: Old example that plays the trope completely straight.


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* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance: In the first issue, Valerian says Arcturus is several thousand lightyears from Earth but in RealLife it's only 36.7.
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** In the first issue Valerian if given six minutes to report to Earth from several thousand light-years away and is criticised for being two seconds late.

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