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** It doesn't help that he's also sometimes seen to have gone too far in trying to pile on the negative qualities onto the Abh Empire's rivals so they [[DesignatedHero look better by comparison]]. The deeply unfortunate decision to base United Mankind on Japanese World War II propaganda about Americans almost begs the audience to compare the Abh Empire to Imperial Japan rather than the SpaceRomans the author probably intended them to be. Through that lens things like Midgrat choosing to side with the Empire because the Alliance were a bunch of arrogant assholes about their governmental structure and eating cats look like [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a super-whitewashed portrait of the Imperial Japanese conquest of Korea]]. Far from the light-handed leadership of the Abh, were promptly subjected to cultural genocide and occasional near-slavery as the Japanese military machine used their country as an advance base to begin aggressively expanding into Asia because of a greed for glory, resources, and territory under a fig-leaf of anti-colonialism and high-minded ideals about world peace... which also immediately draws to mind unfortunate and hopefully-unintended comparisons to the Abh.
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** It doesn't help that he's also sometimes seen to have gone too far in trying to pile on the negative qualities onto the Abh Empire's rivals so they [[DesignatedHero look better by comparison]]. The deeply unfortunate decision to base United Mankind on Japanese World War II propaganda about Americans almost begs the audience to compare the Abh Empire to Imperial Japan rather than the SpaceRomans the author probably intended them to be. Through that lens things like Midgrat choosing to side with the Empire because the Alliance were a bunch of arrogant assholes about their governmental structure and eating cats look like [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a super-whitewashed portrait of the Imperial Japanese conquest of Korea]]. Far from the light-handed leadership of the Abh, Koreans were promptly subjected to cultural genocide and occasional near-slavery as the Japanese military machine used their country as an advance base to begin aggressively expanding into Asia because of a greed for glory, resources, and territory under a fig-leaf of anti-colonialism and high-minded ideals about world peace... which also immediately draws to mind unfortunate and hopefully-unintended comparisons to the Abh.
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* MisaimedFandom: Morioka's decision to do away with GoodRepublicEvilEmpire in favor of GreyAndGrayMorality has been misinterpreted by some readers as the writer romanticizing and whitewashing the imperialism, colonialism, aristocracy, militarism, and other negative qualities about the Empire.
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** Morioka's decision to do away with GoodRepublicEvilEmpire in favor of GreyAndGrayMorality has been misinterpreted by some readers as the writer romanticizing and whitewashing the imperialism, colonialism, aristocracy, militarism, and other negative qualities about theEmpire.Empire.
** It doesn't help that he's also sometimes seen to have gone too far in trying to pile on the negative qualities onto the Abh Empire's rivals so they [[DesignatedHero look better by comparison]]. The deeply unfortunate decision to base United Mankind on Japanese World War II propaganda about Americans almost begs the audience to compare the Abh Empire to Imperial Japan rather than the SpaceRomans the author probably intended them to be. Through that lens things like Midgrat choosing to side with the Empire because the Alliance were a bunch of arrogant assholes about their governmental structure and eating cats look like [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a super-whitewashed portrait of the Imperial Japanese conquest of Korea]]. Far from the light-handed leadership of the Abh, were promptly subjected to cultural genocide and occasional near-slavery as the Japanese military machine used their country as an advance base to begin aggressively expanding into Asia because of a greed for glory, resources, and territory under a fig-leaf of anti-colonialism and high-minded ideals about world peace... which also immediately draws to mind unfortunate and hopefully-unintended comparisons to the Abh.
** Morioka's decision to do away with GoodRepublicEvilEmpire in favor of GreyAndGrayMorality has been misinterpreted by some readers as the writer romanticizing and whitewashing the imperialism, colonialism, aristocracy, militarism, and other negative qualities about the
** It doesn't help that he's also sometimes seen to have gone too far in trying to pile on the negative qualities onto the Abh Empire's rivals so they [[DesignatedHero look better by comparison]]. The deeply unfortunate decision to base United Mankind on Japanese World War II propaganda about Americans almost begs the audience to compare the Abh Empire to Imperial Japan rather than the SpaceRomans the author probably intended them to be. Through that lens things like Midgrat choosing to side with the Empire because the Alliance were a bunch of arrogant assholes about their governmental structure and eating cats look like [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a super-whitewashed portrait of the Imperial Japanese conquest of Korea]]. Far from the light-handed leadership of the Abh, were promptly subjected to cultural genocide and occasional near-slavery as the Japanese military machine used their country as an advance base to begin aggressively expanding into Asia because of a greed for glory, resources, and territory under a fig-leaf of anti-colonialism and high-minded ideals about world peace... which also immediately draws to mind unfortunate and hopefully-unintended comparisons to the Abh.
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* DesignatedHero: The Abh Empire is pretty awful on a macro-level, and even on several individual micro-levels, being a racist, militaristic, aristocratic, expansionist empire whose foreign policy looks an awful lot like bullying anyone who can't fight back while never picking a fight with anyone who can. So of course rather than make them not fundamentally awful, the author just based their rivals entirely on Japanese WorldWarII war propaganda about arrogant, swaggering [[EagleLand Type II Eaglelanders]], so that the Empire's comparatively light hand (''much'' lighter than virtually any of their historical analogues mind) can look better by comparison.
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* DesignatedHero: The Abh Empire is pretty awful on a macro-level, and even on several individual micro-levels, being a racist, militaristic, aristocratic, expansionist empire whose foreign policy looks an awful lot like bullying anyone who can't fight back while never picking a fight with anyone who can. So of course rather than make them not fundamentally awful, the author just based their rivals entirely on Japanese WorldWarII World War II war propaganda about arrogant, swaggering [[EagleLand Type II Eaglelanders]], so that the Empire's comparatively light hand (''much'' lighter than virtually any of their historical analogues mind) mind, even the Romans they [[SpaceRomans take some inspiration from]]) can look better by comparison.
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* DesignatedHero: The Abh themselves are arguably completely horrible and almost entirely without any redeeming social or political value. So of course rather than make them not fundamentally awful, the author just based their rivals entirely on Japanese WorldWarII war propaganda.
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* DesignatedHero: The Abh themselves are arguably completely horrible Empire is pretty awful on a macro-level, and almost entirely without any redeeming social or political value. even on several individual micro-levels, being a racist, militaristic, aristocratic, expansionist empire whose foreign policy looks an awful lot like bullying anyone who can't fight back while never picking a fight with anyone who can. So of course rather than make them not fundamentally awful, the author just based their rivals entirely on Japanese WorldWarII war propaganda.propaganda about arrogant, swaggering [[EagleLand Type II Eaglelanders]], so that the Empire's comparatively light hand (''much'' lighter than virtually any of their historical analogues mind) can look better by comparison.
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* MisaimedFandom: Morioka's decision to do away with "The Empire is always obviously unredeemably Evil; The Federation is always unarguably irreproachably Good" tropes GoodRepublicEvilEmpire in favor of grey "No side is entirely good or bad" morality GreyAndGrayMorality has been misinterpreted by some readers as the writer romanticizing and whitewashing imperialism the imperialism, colonialism, aristocracy, militarism, and colonialism.
other negative qualities about the Empire.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: While the individual stories and drama of the main cast mostly averts this, on a macro-level many have found that a noble effort at averting BlackAndWhiteMorality goes too far and creates a world where there's basically ''no one'' worth rooting for. The Abh Empire, even with the deck stacked in their favor to give them positive qualities no militaristic despot-state in history had, are a bunch of racist, unrepentant conquerors whose foreign policy looks suspiciously like never picking fights with anyone who can fight back rather than the esoteric reasoning the author attributes to them. Their democratic rivals are a bunch of arrogant, unpleasant imperialists and racists with all the social skills of a brick in a desperate effort to try to make the Empire look better by comparison. For all their positive qualities, none of the main cast really express many reformist sentiments or seem all that concerned about trying to amend the Empire's status quo.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: While the individual stories and drama of the main cast mostly averts this, on a macro-level many have found that a noble effort at averting BlackAndWhiteMorality goes too far and creates a world where there's basically ''no one'' worth rooting for. The Abh Empire, even with the deck stacked in their favor to give them positive qualities no militaristic despot-state in history had, are a bunch of racist, unrepentant conquerors whose foreign policy looks suspiciously like never picking fights with anyone who can fight back rather than the esoteric reasoning the author attributes to them. Their democratic rivals are a bunch of arrogant, unpleasant imperialists and racists with all the social skills of a brick in a desperate effort to try to make the Empire look better by comparison. For all their positive qualities, none of the main cast really express many reformist sentiments or seem all that concerned about trying to amend the Empire's status quo.
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* DesignatedHero: The Abh themselves are arguably completely horrible and almost entirely without any redeeming social or political value. So of course rather than make them not fundamentally awful, the author just based their rivals entirely on Japanese WorldWar2 WorldWarII war propaganda.
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* DesignatedHero: The Abh themselves are arguably completely horrible and almost entirely without any redeeming social or political value. So of course rather than make them not fundamentally awful, the author just based their rivals entirely on Japanese WW2 WorldWar2 war propaganda.
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* DesignatedHero: The Abh themselves are arguably, completely horrible and almost entirely without any redeeming social or political value. So of course rather than make them not fundamentally awful, the author just based their rivals entirely on Japanese WW2 war propaganda.
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* DesignatedHero: The Abh themselves are arguably, arguably completely horrible and almost entirely without any redeeming social or political value. So of course rather than make them not fundamentally awful, the author just based their rivals entirely on Japanese WW2 war propaganda.
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* {{Adorkable}}: ''Passage of the Stars'' has Dubeusec edge into this near the end, when he lets himself stop being TheStoic. His awkward attempts at flirting with Lexshue and the meaning of Lafiel's name being inspired by the incident with the derelict in particular ring of this.
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* HoYay: When Jinto says goodbye to his best friend before heading to the academy, he remarks that "I'd rather be with you than with any beautiful flight attendant."
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* HoYay: When Jinto says goodbye to his best friend before heading to the academy, he remarks that "I'd rather be with you than with any beautiful flight attendant.""
* MisaimedFandom: Morioka's decision to do away with "The Empire is always obviously unredeemably Evil; The Federation is always unarguably irreproachably Good" tropes in favor of grey "No side is entirely good or bad" morality has been misinterpreted by some readers as the writer romanticizing and whitewashing imperialism and colonialism.
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* MisaimedFandom: Morioka's decision to do away with "The Empire is always obviously unredeemably Evil; The Federation is always unarguably irreproachably Good" tropes in favor of grey "No side is entirely good or bad" morality has been misinterpreted by some readers as the writer romanticizing and whitewashing imperialism and colonialism.
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* HoYay - When Jinto says goodbye to his best friend before heading to the academy, he remarks that "I'd rather be with you than with any beautiful flight attendant."
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* HoYay - HoYay: When Jinto says goodbye to his best friend before heading to the academy, he remarks that "I'd rather be with you than with any beautiful flight attendant."
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments - Lafiel's fathers joke about the cat.
** Since the Abh spend half the time snarking at each other this pops up a lot. One particular exchange went like this:
--->'''[[LargeHam Trife:]]''' The people in the Intelligence Bureau aren't fit to feed cats!\\
'''Crewmember:''' I take offense to that sir.\\
'''[[LargeHam Trife:]]''' That's right you recently transferred from the Intelligence Bureau didn't you. Very well I retract my statement: The people in the Intelligence Bureau are perfectly suited for feeding cats.\\
'''[[DeadpanSnarker Trife's Lieutenant:]]''' I'm sure the Information Bureau would be honored by your assessment sir.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments - Lots. Mostly between Jinto and Lafiel.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome - First season, Episode 5.
** Since the Abh spend half the time snarking at each other this pops up a lot. One particular exchange went like this:
--->'''[[LargeHam Trife:]]''' The people in the Intelligence Bureau aren't fit to feed cats!\\
'''Crewmember:''' I take offense to that sir.\\
'''[[LargeHam Trife:]]''' That's right you recently transferred from the Intelligence Bureau didn't you. Very well I retract my statement: The people in the Intelligence Bureau are perfectly suited for feeding cats.\\
'''[[DeadpanSnarker Trife's Lieutenant:]]''' I'm sure the Information Bureau would be honored by your assessment sir.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments - Lots. Mostly between Jinto and Lafiel.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome - First season, Episode 5.
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome - First season, Episode 5.
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome - First season, Episode 5.5.
* HoYay - When Jinto says goodbye to his best friend before heading to the academy, he remarks that "I'd rather be with you than with any beautiful flight attendant."
* HoYay - When Jinto says goodbye to his best friend before heading to the academy, he remarks that "I'd rather be with you than with any beautiful flight attendant."
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - First season, Episode 5.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny - Lafiel's fathers joke about the cat.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunnySugarWiki/FunnyMoments - Lafiel's fathers joke about the cat.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments - Lots. Mostly between Jinto and Lafiel.Lafiel.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome - First season, Episode 5.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome - First season, Episode 5.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation - Present in-universe. Spoor believes Jinto to be a clever, resourceful fellow; Lafiel disagrees, considering him foolish and thoughtless.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - Lots. Mostly between Jinto and Lafiel.
* YourMileageMayVary - The Abh are rather unrelatable to as heroes, if not outright bad guys, or they're blue-haired Vulcans who embody GoodIsNotNice.
* YourMileageMayVary - The Abh are rather unrelatable to as heroes, if not outright bad guys, or they're blue-haired Vulcans who embody GoodIsNotNice.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - Lots. Mostly between Jinto and Lafiel.
* YourMileageMayVary - The Abh are rather unrelatable to as heroes, if not outright bad guys, or they're blue-haired Vulcans who embody GoodIsNotNice.Lafiel.
* YourMileageMayVary - The Abh are rather unrelatable to as heroes, if not outright bad guys, or they're blue-haired Vulcans who embody GoodIsNotNice.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation - Present in-universe. Spoor believes Jinto to be a clever, resourceful fellow; Lafiel disagrees, considering him foolish and thoughtless.
