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* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Red is Zoie's great-great-mother, who was frozen for two hundred years, rather than her mother.
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* WholePlotReference: One arc has the crew [[Literature/TheDivineComedy rescue Zoe from hell]]; another has [[LightNovel/StarshipOperators the ship taken over by a reality show]]. Yet another does ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.

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* WholePlotReference: One arc has the crew [[Literature/TheDivineComedy rescue Zoe from hell]]; another has [[LightNovel/StarshipOperators [[Literature/StarshipOperators the ship taken over by a reality show]]. Yet another does ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.
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Dewicked trope + ZCE

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* ArtificialGravity
* CatchPhrase: "Shut up, Splink!"

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* %%* CatchPhrase: "Shut up, Splink!"



* GameShowAppearance: How Zortic wins his spaceship.

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall
* LittleGreenMan: Zortic.

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* %%* LittleGreenMan: Zortic.



* OnlySaneWoman: Zoie

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* AccidentalMarriage: [[spoiler:Splink and Kris.]]
* AIIsACrapshoot: Otto the Autopilot, {{expy}} of [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL]]. [[spoiler:And, later, Film/BladeRunner.]]

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* %%* AccidentalMarriage: [[spoiler:Splink and Kris.]]
* %%* AIIsACrapshoot: Otto the Autopilot, {{expy}} of [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL]]. [[spoiler:And, later, Film/BladeRunner.]]



* BareYourMidriff: Captain Bimbo, of course. Zoie on occasion.



* DamselInDistress: ''Don't'' call Zoie this.

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* %%* DamselInDistress: ''Don't'' call Zoie this.



* HumanPopsicle: Captain Brut.

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* SpacePirates

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** In ''Classic'', he intended to win enough money to pay off his student loans. He got a ship instead, and increduolously asks "That's the entire prize!?".

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** In ''Classic'', he intended to win enough money to pay off his student loans. He got a ship instead, and increduolously incredulously asks "That's the entire prize!?".



* LampshadeHanging: The artist depicts the characters hands without individual fingers. This leads to a gag about them only having one huge finger and a thumb.

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* LampshadeHanging: The artist depicts the characters characters' hands without individual fingers. This leads to a gag about them only having one huge finger and a thumb.



* DarkerAndEdgier: A moderate case, but the adventures tend to be more realistic and more than one quirky antagonist becomes a full-scale villain. There is also Zortic's love of Star Trek being explained as being its escape from his parents constant arguing...

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* DarkerAndEdgier: A moderate case, but the adventures tend to be more realistic and more than one quirky antagonist becomes a full-scale villain. There is also Zortic's love of Star Trek being explained as being its escape from his parents parents' constant arguing...
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* WholePlotReference: One arc has the crew [[Literature/TheDivineComedy rescue Zoe from hell]]; another has [[Anime/StarshipOperators the ship taken over by a reality show]]. Yet another does ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.

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* WholePlotReference: One arc has the crew [[Literature/TheDivineComedy rescue Zoe from hell]]; another has [[Anime/StarshipOperators [[LightNovel/StarshipOperators the ship taken over by a reality show]]. Yet another does ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.
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* RingOfPower: Chubby gets tricked into putting on the [[LordOfTheRings One Ring]] - which was coated in Crazy Glue.

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* RingOfPower: Chubby gets tricked into putting on the [[LordOfTheRings [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings One Ring]] - which was coated in Crazy Glue.
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* WholePlotReference: One arc has the crew [[Literature/TheDivineComedy rescue Zoe from hell]]; another has [[Anime/StarshipOperators the ship taken over by a reality show]]. Yet another does TheLordOfTheRings.

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* WholePlotReference: One arc has the crew [[Literature/TheDivineComedy rescue Zoe from hell]]; another has [[Anime/StarshipOperators the ship taken over by a reality show]]. Yet another does TheLordOfTheRings.''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.
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Never Say Die is not an Omnipresent Trope, so aversions aren't listed.


* NeverSayDie: Averted.
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* BrainUploading: When Zortic retrieves his mother from Hell, she doesn't have a body to return to, so she [[MyMotherTheCar inhabits the ship]].

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* BrainUploading: When Zortic retrieves his mother from Hell, she doesn't have a body to return to, so she [[MyMotherTheCar [[Series/MyMotherTheCar inhabits the ship]].

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No Sink Hole(s) please


* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Zoie is a Purple-Skinned Space Babe].



* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Purple-Skinned Space Babe]]: Zoie
* [[RobeAndWizardHat Robe and]] OneWayVisor: Splink is [[LimitedWardrobe always seen]] in a comfortable, long robe that hides his legs and feet completely and has ''never'' been seen without his visor, which doubles as an ExpressiveMask. [[spoiler:While his eyes have never been seen in canon, omake scenes hint that the goggles hide EyeScream, although he says it's prosthetics and makeup.]]

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* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Purple-Skinned Space Babe]]: Zoie
* [[RobeAndWizardHat Robe and]] OneWayVisor:
RobeAndWizardHat: A robe and OneWayVisor in this case. Splink is [[LimitedWardrobe always seen]] in a comfortable, long robe that hides his legs and feet completely and has ''never'' been seen without his visor, which doubles as an ExpressiveMask. [[spoiler:While his eyes have never been seen in canon, omake scenes hint that the goggles hide EyeScream, although he says it's prosthetics and makeup.]]



* [[LadyLand Amazon]] SpacePirate [[PirateGirl Girl]]: Captain [[UnfortunateNames Red Bimbo]]
-->'''Captain Bimbo:''' On Amazonia, "Bimbo" means "ingenous warrior"!



* LadyLand: Homeworld of SpacePirate [[PirateGirl Girl]] Captain [[UnfortunateNames Red Bimbo]].
-->'''Captain Bimbo:''' On Amazonia, "Bimbo" means "ingenous warrior"!



* LoanShark: ''Student'' Loan Shark. [[TheMafia The gangster]] Jabba...[[{{Expy}} er]], Chubby the Lump.



* [[LoanShark Student Loan Shark]]: [[TheMafia The gangster]] Jabba...[[{{Expy}} er]], Chubby the Lump.
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* SharedUniverse: Technically, as a result of ''Webcomic/{{Melonpool}}'''s [[CrossOver continuity]], Zortic's adventures take place in the {{Walkyverse}}.

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* SharedUniverse: Technically, as a result of ''Webcomic/{{Melonpool}}'''s [[CrossOver continuity]], Zortic's adventures take place in the {{Walkyverse}}.Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}.
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* PlayboyBunny: Zoie finds herself dressed like this (much to her annoyance) when a tribe of "fake primitives" decides to sacrifice her to [[TheGreatGrapeApe the]] [[Film/KingKong Mugwump]].

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* PlayboyBunny: Zoie finds herself dressed like this (much to her annoyance) when a tribe of "fake primitives" decides to sacrifice her to [[TheGreatGrapeApe [[WesternAnimation/TheGreatGrapeApe the]] [[Film/KingKong Mugwump]].

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* FingerlessHands: The three main members of the cast have these; other aliens sometimes do, but it varies.



* PowerpuffGirlHands: The three main members of the cast have these; other aliens sometimes do, but it varies.
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Trope that doesn\'t exist.


* TheMechanic: Splink
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''Zortic'' is a ScienceFiction {{webcomic}} by Mark Mekkes. The comic focuses on the adventures of Zortic, a LittleGreenMan who's a huge FanBoy for Earth pop culture; through winning a trivia contest, he finds himself the owner and captain of a spaceship. Along with [[OnlySaneMan saner and wiser]] female companion Zoie and [[TheStoic Zen-like]] [[TheMechanic mechanic]] Splink, they set out across the galaxy where they engage in [[AffectionateParody affectionate parodies]], send-ups, and spoofs of all kinds of Earth sci-fi and pop-culture material.

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''Zortic'' is a ScienceFiction {{webcomic}} by Mark Mekkes. The comic focuses on the adventures of Zortic, a LittleGreenMan who's a huge FanBoy for Earth pop culture; through winning a trivia contest, he finds himself the owner and captain of a spaceship. Along with [[OnlySaneMan saner and wiser]] female companion Zoie and [[TheStoic Zen-like]] [[TheMechanic mechanic]] mechanic Splink, they set out across the galaxy where they engage in [[AffectionateParody affectionate parodies]], send-ups, and spoofs of all kinds of Earth sci-fi and pop-culture material.
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* SecurityCling: The bad special effects of ''LostInSpace'' are scary!

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* SecurityCling: The bad special effects of ''LostInSpace'' ''Series/LostInSpace'' are scary!

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