History Webcomic / EscapeFromTerra

** The Guzman brothers nicknames are [[SesameStreet Bert and Ernie]].

* SettlingTheFrontier: The Colonies.

** The High Commissioner of the UW revenue service looks like a pirate-copy of LexLuthor. His secretary's name is Tessmucker, a play on the Teschmacher, Lex Luthor's accomplice in the movies.

* LongevityTreatment: Rejuvenation treatments are one of many examples of bio- and nanotechnology that are officially banned on Earth. Reggie King and Babbette the elder undergo the treatment on Mars, and the first man on Mars is a great-great-great-grandfather who looks no older than 30.

** Ernie was talking about a "[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kessel_Run Kessel Run]]" (a name for a hyperspace "lane" from StarWars) he made in "less than 12 parsecs".

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** Ernie was talking about a "[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kessel_Run]Kessel Run]]" (a name for a hyperspace "lane" from StarWars) he made in "less than 12 parsecs".

** Ernie was talking about a "[url=http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kessel_Run]Kessel Run[/url]" (a name for a hyperspace "lane" from StarWars) he made in "less than 12 parsecs".

* LongevityTreatment: Rejuvenation treatments are one of many examples of bio- and nanotechnology that are officially banned on Earth. Reggie King and Babbette the elder undergo the treatment on Mars, and the first man on Mars is a great-great-great-grandfather who looks no older than 30.

* TakingYouWithMe: Reggie King wanted to surrender himself to Harris, but pocketed a industrial Pocket Nuke (they used it to crack asteroids, it's 0,1 kilotons strong, because it was not intended to be used as a weapon) to take him down with him.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: "King" Reggie reaction to Butcher Harris' use of a death ray against a civilian target and his demand to surrender himself and his government, even when there's no government to begin with. One of the reasons he's so shocked is not only, that these poor people died, but they died because Butvcher Harris is going after them because of HIS ruse.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: "King" Reggie reaction to Butcher Harris' use of a death ray against a civilian target and his demand to surrender himself and his government, even when there's no government to begin with.

** The High Commissioner looks like a pirate-copy of LexLuthor. His secretary's name is Tessmucker, a play on the Teschmacher, Lex Luthor's accomplice in the movies.

** The High Commissioner looks like a pirate-copy of LexLuthor.

* ClipboardOfAuthority: How Robyn and Sajjan escape the moon penitentiary, currently the page image.

** Tobikuma Kobayashi's private asteroid is called ''TheLittlePrince''.

* AutoDoc: One in every household on Mars and the Belt, illegal on Terra. Have been used to heal someone clinically dead more than once, one one case a shot through the heart.
* BrainComputerInterface: Occipital (bone at base of skull) "occ" computers, with optional Tanglenet transceiver.

* DuelToTheDeath: Legal on Ceres, Guy's cousin Pierre tries to start one after a "misunderstanding" at a gay bar, but backs off after Guy and his opponent's second add a couple of [[http://www.bigheadpress.com/eft?page=818 ridiculous conditions.]]

* GlobalCurrency: The UW uses "continentals" that are [[GlobalCurrencyException worthless in the belt,]] where they typically barter in grams of gold.
* HawaiianShirtedTourist: The UW's last ditch attempt to provoke an incident on Ceres involves a hapless soldier dressed as one.

* SubspaceAnsible: "Tanglenet", like the internet except with quantum entangled particles.

* ThisIsNotMyLifeToTake: At Admiral Harris and the gunnery officer's trial for killing the Rose family Emily, the sole survivor of the massacre, shoots them herself.

* EternalSexualFreedom: In the Belt and on Mars.