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X's Omnibus is a comic series created by Tropers/XDOMSKE that has been running since the summer of 2024. The creator had some help from the cartoonist and co-creator of the Bizarro comic strip (Mondays through Saturdays), Wayno, and plans to do a collaboration with him in the future. X's Omnibus is a (slightly) autobiographical comic about the fictional life of X Domske and his five friends all living in a house they built together in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
It's a somewhat split series, one half being written in a sort of "slice-of-life" fashion, with the other half being about superheroes and action. It was said by (real) Domske that the series is a compilation of all the characters, lore, locations, and stories he has created in his mind since he was very young.
The series is ongoing, but has been planned out for a long while by Domske, so some of its later content is not yet available to the public on paper or on the internet. However, it will become accessible when it is published. Until then, the tropes listed on this page of the future plot are going to document what parts the story have been finalized by the author but not anything that is yet published. All images and art used are drawings by Domske that may or may not be used in the official series.
- High School: The series (so far) takes place while the main group is in high school.
- Only the Chosen May Wield: With superpowers, but downplayed. Only chosen people can have them, but then again, anyone can be chosen. Well, at least anyone with a lot of passion.
- Pluto Is Expendable: Averted, or one may say, inverted, as the Pluto Foundation in the OATEOTW arc is able to find Pluto as a very useful planet for colonization.
- Landfill Beyond the Stars: The S.S.O.S. found a colossal container filled with trillions of dry-cell batteries being refrigerated above the surface of the moon Europa. They used this abandoned cache to make the battery-launchers.
- As Himself: This qualifies for Liam, Gordon, and X. And, well, Bill and Feather, too. All of these characters exist in real life, with the only differences being most of the events in the series' story and plot. And it should be pretty obvious that Gordon isn't actually a muscular humanoid and is actually just a cat.
- The Show Goes Hollywood: The guys all visit Hollywood while on their National Parks trip in the Nostalgia arc, but don't do many movie-related things while there.
- Buddy Picture: The series is planned to have quite a bit of these in its promotional art pieces and cover arts.
- Ominous Fog: After X gets off the train to the slums, this inhabits the area as far as the eye can see.
- Platonic Boy/Girl Heroes: X and Kimben are this in the Kimben arc.
- Home of the Gods: Zig-zagged, as they are Representatives, not gods. They all have their own separate realms, but also all meet in one place outside of any universe or dimension.
- Introdump: This is invoked in the pilot where all the exposition is narrated by X while the storyline of a regular Friday morning plays out.
- Big, Fat Future: Averted. X asks Michael Dassion, the first person he sees in Greater New York, questions about how things are going for humanity, unintentionally wasting no time to reveal that he's not from that era. One of the questions he asks is if mankind has been weakened by "consumerism and stuff," and if everyone just had everything spoonfed to them and were all morbidly obese. Michael reassures him that people still try to stay conventionally healthy and it's not a very common thing that people have their consciousness uploaded to a robot body.
- Skyscraper City: Greater New York is this. It has countless massive buildings and has a colossal Star Scraper structure in the center.
- Celebrity Resemblance: Averted. Nine once mentions that a guy he sees at Kennywood looks a lot like Curt Wooton, but X tells him that it actually is Curt Wooton. However, he is not actually shown.
- Signature Team Transport: The guys all drive around (well, at the beginning, it's only Nine who actually drives at all) in their greenish-teal iridescent minivan.
- Stacked Characters Poster: Pictured above.
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Protagonists
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- Celibate Hero: X is repulsed by romance, is bored on Valentine's day, and is asexual-aromantic.
- Trapped in Another World: In the Overpopulation At the End of The World arc, X is trapped over 900 years into the future, and has no way of getting back other than to complete a task that is unknown to him. He later finds out that the task was to bring peace to the city.
- Character Narrator: X is this for the pilot and several of the small issues of the X's Omnibus Zine series.
- Room Disservice: When X pulls up on Michael after defeating Manton, he bursts open the door shortly after Michael calls for room service.Michael: Room, service, please?(Elevator dings)Michael: Well, that was quick.(X slams the door down loudly and suddenly, holding Manton's mask.)
- Determined Expression: X has a lot of these, especially when he's about to engage in combat with an enemy.
- Heroes Fight Barehanded: Though he uses his powers quite a bit to fight, he still defeats Manton by beating him the hell up!
- Sword Beam: You could technically say that X's Absolute Harboring has this effect, though it's not really a sword, so...
- Glowing Eyes: Has these while using his powers. Especially emphasized when staring at someone menacingly.
- Allergic to Love: X is incredibly romance-repulsed, and whenever Quint and Nine or Sally and Austin make out, he finds it too awkward to even remain in the vicinity of such a thing.
- Ruler Protagonist: Well, downplayed, really, as he is the head of the house, but he's hardly more than an average Joe when he's not using his powers.
- As Himself: X is exactly the same in the comic as he is in real life, save for most of the events in the story, such as the house and his powers.
- Out-of-Character Moment: Seen in every situation where romance is involved and X is near. He usually tolerates most of what's happening around him (which in some situations is not smart, considering he's the head of the house) but strongly draws the line at mushy stuff like that. This also includes when he kills Michael, even though he is against killing, for the most part. This is mostly because of how unredeemably evil he was.
- Wound Licking: X has a habit of doing this to see if a small cut is bleeding. That technically makes this a downplayed trope.
- People Fall Off Chairs: This happens when X is (foolishly) sitting on the arm of the living room couch during a blackout. The funny thing is that he was sitting completely still and there was complete silence for a solid five seconds before he slams onto the floor with a full plate of watermelon.
- Mission from God: Downplayed, because though Maurice is close to one, he is not a god (or the God) but still assigns X to different tasks to bring justice.
- Cannot Talk to Women: Not for the reasons you'd expect. He finds talking to girls very difficult without having them get the idea that he's flirting with them, in which he never is. However, the female Representatives, Helga, and Niara are exceptions.
- Beware the Nice Ones: X is seen as a pretty conventionally nice person, but admits he has a problem with his frustration. Especially when he's using his powers.
- Sunglasses at Night: Well, it's the only way he can see at all and he doesn't have any other eyeglasses to help him see.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: After thinking about everything he's gone through, paired with the withdrawal of seeing literally everything at once, X's eyes are revealed to be stylized without pupils or shine for a period of time. Just shadow. He sits there silently in dread in a truly thought-provoking and maybe even tear-jerking Seen It All moment.
- Roundhouse Kick: Though X is not very experienced in martial arts, he still does one of these to Michael's minions and even Peyton and Sattalla.
- At the Crossroads: Seen as an example in the Waiting Room. When fighting Sattalla, he finds himself at the center of the infinite maze, where Phoenix is, which is a huge fork in the path.
- Improbable Age: This may qualify, as at the beginning of the series he is 14, and is already publishing a comic and living in and running a house with no actual adult supervision and it still functions well.
- Berserk Button: Goes absolutely insane when people mock his name, some of the most common being "Twitter rebrand" or "Spotify D.J." And so on.
- Rage Breaking Point: X mentions how kids at school mock him only to get a reaction out of him, and he does try to ignore those students for the most part, but sometimes lets the anger build up too much and snaps. He also says how his resistance to being mocked in terms of anger may be weakening because of how consistently people do it to him, which he doesn't want to happen, as he does not want to be seen as a generally angry person. According to X in real life, this also applies to several personal experiences he had in middle school.
- Heroic Safe Mode: Definitely invoked in his fight with Michael. His anger is pushed too far and stops being so merciful with his Radiant Destruction ability.
- Pals with Jesus: Well, with Maurice, not really Jesus, but still...
- Heroic B So D: During the events of the Nostalgia chapter, X has one of these while thinking about everything he's had to go through in the past. But rather than an emotional breakdown, it's more of an emotional failure.
- Good Stepmother: Though X still loves his birth mother and respects her immensely, he also finds his dad's girlfriend, Christine, to be a very kind person. This can be considered downplayed, as X isn't ready to call Christine his stepmother yet, but nonetheless still finds her to be quite lovable.
- Cool, but Inefficient: This goes for X's Absolute Speed ability. It allows him to move in what is effectively stopped time for what would feel to him like 15 seconds, but has a cooldown of 5 to 10 minutes, which may not seem like a lot, but when in the heat of battle, things move fast, and he needs to use the ability strategically in order to win. This also goes for his Absolute Harboring ability, which allows him to slice anything of any size on a molecular level, though this ability has a cooldown of ten hours, so X has to plan out when to use this one even more. Some say it's easy to dodge due to its "before-image," but during this second-or-so-long charge-up period, the target is slowed down immensely, making it almost unable to move at all.
- Energy Ball: X's Radiant Destruction is an all-destroying, marble-sized orb that travels at an infinite speed in an infinitely-straight line. X can control it to be either non-lethal and stamina-lowering or change it so that it has no exception to what it can blow a hole through.
- Time Stands Still: X's Absolute Speed ability gives him what is pretty much timestop for 15 seconds at a time. It's described as, for a brief period, making him faster than time itself.
- *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": This happens to him when he's waking up a little too late one Saturday. This is because he slept in a weird position, although this is recovered from rather quickly after he stretches for a little while and starts his day.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Austin Domske is the humanoid tiger twin brother of X Domske. There is no explanation as to why he is a tiger. He rarely exhibits any instincts that a tiger would normally have, other than being deathly afraid of cucumbers. He has the build of an average human male his age, and in fact ages like a human. He is a nice and goofy character. Austin has no real-life counterpart and has been revealed to be the longtime imaginary friend of X who had been incorporated into X's comics. He earns money from voluntary community service and job shadowing.
- Beast with a Human Face: Inverted entirely. Austin is a humanoid tiger.
- Surprisingly Normal Backstory: He was born on the same day as X and was obviously also born as a humanoid tiger, but otherwise lived out a normal humanlike life. He wasn't even shunned or bullied for being a tiger, either, nor was he a super popular student due to his non-humanness. He just grew up as a normal kid.
- Inexplicably Tailless: Like Gordon, Austin has no tail.
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Gordon is the adopted son of X and is a humanoid Siberian Forest cat. He stands at a towering 7 feet and is incredibly muscular. He was born on June 18, 2022 and adopted on September 8, 2022. Gordon is actually the pet cat of X in real life, having the same birthdate and date of adoption as his fictional counterpart. He is extremely intelligent when it comes to mechanics, but is otherwise not very bright. Gordon does not yet have a job. He is the second of the 3 characters that are also in real life.
- "Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: When asked if he can win a round in the Nintendo Tournament with "that magic strategy," he says "Magic is my middle name." The funny thing is that it actually is his middle name.
- The Baby of the Bunch: Despite being the biggest and strongest, he's also the youngest as he is just under two years old at the beginning of the comic. He's a lot smarter than the average 2-year-old, but otherwise ages like a human.
- Tuft of Head Fur: Gordon sports this on his head. He's never shown mentioning or combing it, though.
- Fuzz Therapy: Whenever, anyone is feeling down in the house, he or X always says "Here, squish the Gordon."
- Cute Bruiser: Taking a look at Gordon's head without his body can be very misleading. He could definitely tear your arm off if you arm-wrestled him.
- Percussive Maintenance: When Austin complains about how the computer is refusing to work, Gordon slams his foot on the desk and the computer turns on again, fully functional.
- Beast with a Human Face: Like Austin, inverted entirely. He is a humanoid cat.
- Super-Strong Child: Though Gordon is visibly swole, he is less than 2 years old at the start of the series and is the adopted son of X.
- Super-Strength: It is mentioned in the pilot that Gordon can lift about 450 pounds with no sweat for any amount of time before it gets challenging for him to actually lift, in the sense of how it's slightly straining to train because you're lifting more weight to gain musculature. He can hold it for less time the heavier it gets after that. So for him to actually get stronger, he has to lift more than 575lbs. Though he can lift an entire car off the ground for a bit.
- As Himself: Though not a huge, muscular, anthropomorphic cat in real life, he is still the real-world pet cat of X Domske. And Magic really is his middle name, too (it was his shelter name, so X gave him that middle name).
- The Engineer: Gordon is an exceptional specialist in mechanics and engineering, being able to maintain most of the house's functions easily and steadily. However, despite his mechanical intelligence, he's not very smart otherwise.
- Wound Licking: Being a cat, Gordon does this a lot when he gets hurt.
- Smart Animal, Inconvenient Instincts: Gordon sometimes falls into conflicts because of this. For example, once he's finished eating his bowl of cereal, he laps up the remaining milk with no hands and usually splatters it on his face or the table (sometimes both). He also never fails to be distracted by treats and strings, which usually results in his running and crashing into the wall.
- Surprisingly Normal Backstory: Kind of like the inverse of Austin. Before Gordon was adopted, he was just a normal cat living a normal cat life (only with a humanlike body). Other than that, he just devoted himself to getting really strong. And it worked. But that's it.
- Inexplicably Tailless: Like Austin, Gordon has no tail.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Liam Jefferson is the real-life best friend of X. He loves mountain biking and baseball and is of mostly Swedish descent. He earns money from being a content creator in the comic and enjoys playing video games. He's a huge fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates (among other teams). He is currently 14. Liam is the third and final character in the series to be a real life person.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Though he still does it somewhat sparingly, he is definitely the most trash-mouthed person in the house.
- Colorblind Confusion: During the Nintendo tournament, he struggles to figure out what to do while playing Super Mario Party due to his colorblindness.
- As Himself: Like X, his is the exact same person in the series as he is in real life. This excludes a majority of the series' events, of course.
- Casual Sports Jersey: Liam wears a lot of Pittsburgh sports paraphernalia at home, whether it's for the Penguins, the Steelers, the Pirates, or even just stuff for Pittsburgh the city itself. Sometimes, though, he wears minor-league caps or mountain biking merch.
- Microphone Swinging: When put up against Peyton, Liam uses the microphone (that Peyton was using for his powers) and swings it like a mace before smashing it into Peyton's face.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Quint Nealy is an entirely fictional character that does not exist in real life. He's a small but very smart young man as he is 15 and skipped ninth grade. He really enjoys building with Lego bricks and researching ancient architecture. He's generally shy, but otherwise is kind and silly. His best friend is Nine, whom he works a job at Burger King with. He is extremely, extremely gay for Nine.
- Brainy Brunette: What is considered to be a rare male example. He's so brainy, he skipped the ninth grade entirely.
- Happiness in Minimum Wage: As with Nine, he enjoys working at Burger King, not only because of the ads they have, but also because he gets to work with his best friend and later lover.
- Love Epiphany: It kind of happens off-panel, but it still happens, and you can tell because Quint actually tells X about it immediately after. The following events are just plain sweet.
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Nine Patterson is the oldest guy in the house, being 17 years old currently and the only one in the house who can drive. Like Austin and Quint, he is not a person that exists in real life, and is entirely fictional and created by X. Though nowhere near as buff as Gordon, Nine still is pretty muscular, as he works out often and keeps a treadmill in his room. Despite his menacing appearance, he is actually very gentle and is described as a jolly person who is fun to be around. He loves to cook and bake. He got his scar from a car accident in 2016 in which he lost his father. X only really knows him through Quint, and vice versa. Nine works a job at Burger King with Quint. He is extremely, extremely gay for Quint.
- Happiness in Minimum Wage: As with Quint, he enjoys working at Burger King, not only because of the ads they have, but also because he gets to work with his best friend and later lover.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Invoked with non-alcoholic drinks because he's 17. After an exhausting school day or workout, he usually plops down on the couch (with good posture, though) and says "I really need a Dr. Pepper right now."
- Academic Athlete: Downplayed on the academic side, as though he is quite smart, he isn't as much so as Quint, who skipped a grade.
- Strong and Skilled: Nine can cook and problem-solve extraordinarily well, but also is quite built because he stays as healthy as possible with his diet and physical activity as well as his life choices.
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Sink Demon is the demon that lives in the house's sink. She can teleport from sink to sink, but is confined to only the sinks that are in the house. She is entirely fictional. She only appears every once in a while and is nowhere near a main character.
- Animate Inanimate Object: May be considered this. She's a demon that lives in the sink. She's Sink Demon.
- No Biological Sex: Being just an eye in a sink, she has no reproductive organs, and of course, is a sink. But her voice (and her actual dialogue) heavily imply that she is effectively a female.
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Georgio is the mysterious entity that protects the house. X believes that Georgio is a guardian angel, but that is yet to be confirmed. He is fed apples, bread, cheese, and sometimes candy bars. He has never been seen yet and has only appeared as a silhouette.
- Guardian Entity: X theorizes that Georgio is this to the house and everyone in it; he protects it from curses and other harmful effects.
- Sleep Paralysis Creature: Assumed to be this. He has a frightening appearance, but does indeed help everyone in the house, even if nobody notices it.
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Allies
Lobo, otherwise known as Lobito, is a man born in Arkansas that accidentally traveled to the present from the year 1897 using a prototype time machine he made. He has no way of going back to his own time, so he learned to live in the present. He fashions two guns he engineered that use Delta Acid, which is a chemical he discovered that can lower stamina upon contact with a living being and is corrosive to most synthetic materials. He is muscular and tough-willed, but has a soft side. He also has the ability to slide against or walk on any surface, be it the walls or ceilings, as if he were on a skateboard or wearing roller skates.
- Knockout Gas: Basically Delta Acid. He takes a few of X's Radiant Destruction energy balls and merges them with said acid, making the shots he fires incredibly accurate and guaranteed to immobilize a target but also unable to eat through walls and stuff.
- Abnormal Ammo: Radiant Destruction spheres merged with Delta Acid.
- Electric Slide: While fighting Peyton, he grinds a powerline upside down.
- Manly Facial Hair: His moustache just screams MANLINESS.X: Goodness gracious, those muscles are insane, especially at that age... And that beard, too...Lobo: Hey. Eyes up here.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Downplayed, pretty much, as he doesn't have a completely soft personality, but Lobo's nickname being Lobito and him having a tendency to become very emotionally attached to small fuzzy things just say it all.
- Old-Timey Bathing Suit: Lobo dons one of these when encountering X at a hotel in Moab. This makes sense considering he's initially from the nineteenth century.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: He's this with Matteo. The two are good friends who spend a lot of time together and partners in fighting crime, yet both are confirmed to be straight.
- Close to Home: Lobo's backstory is of how he killed a man due to his cruelty, lack of taking responsibility for the death of Lobo's parents in a fire, and abuse of Lobo's sister. However, it is also about how Lobo had trauma due to his actions and his decision to never again purposefully end the life of another living being.
- Energy Ball: Lobo's ammunition for his pistols are Delta Acid-infused Radiant Destruction orbs that are infinitely accurate, but don't destroy matter. However, despite the aforementioned flaw, it is able to neutralize targets quicker than Radiant Destruction (Well, that is, the "safe mode" RD).
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Matteo is a sentient robot created by an alternate universe fascist Italy that gained consciousness after his robotic body was infused with a human soul that never had a body. After escaping from his facility following his discovery of the fascist party's goals, he was taken to this universe via a quantum rift. He is an extremely skilled swordsman and has a sentient sword named Pepino.
- Robot Superhero: Seeing as Matteo was sent by (albeit not recruited by) the Team of Allies, he qualifies as this.
- Talking Weapon: Pepino is this. He talks, and he is a weapon.
- Religious Robot: Matteo is an Italian, Christian robot. However, this may be considered zig-zagged, because Matteo is technically a human soul in a robot's body, though the soul never had a human body to begin with.
- Living Weapon: That's what Pepino is.
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Helga and Dyscuu are two Russian robots similar to Matteo that were built in the remnants of the Soviet Union. They are both able to transform into vehicles, Helga becoming a motorcycle and Dyscuu becoming a car. Helga is considered the older one. Both meet X in the Hardsnow arc.
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Chilly Ardaam is a Nepalese teenager with the power to create small areas of absolute nothing, which are pockets of spacetime which are a complete vacuum, as they possess no matter, sound waves, or light waves. The air around them gets absorbed into the area, creating compression that can push or pull an object toward or away from it.
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Archie Charming is a man who can create blades from his body, any shape or size. The blades are not an extension of his body but rather something that is simply created by it.
- Torture Is Ineffective: When being fought by Auto, he is stabbed repeatedly by a hail of blades. However, since he can create blades from his body, this barely does any damage at all.
- Wolverine Claws: He definitely has the ability to use these.
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Representative of fate, karma, judgement, justice, and the future. He can control quantum rifts and becomes an Arcspace user later on. He is the son of Tarama, the last Representative. Despite what he controls, he is levelheaded and pure-hearted, and is an ally to X. He determines the fate of every individual life, but some of the fates he determines are rewritten by Caranus.
- Magic Staff: Zig-zagged, as it is not a staff but is instead a double-sided glaive. It is powerful, though, as D.C. can use it to see visions and to project a magic shield.
- Friendly Skeleton: Downplayed. Though he has a regular body, his head is a skull. He also is extremely pure-hearted and considered by X to be his closest Representative ally, so he surely qualifies.
- Named After Somebody Famous: According to real-life X Domske, D.C. Mulligan was named after the bands Carr and Hot Mulligan (after seeing both bands play at a Fall Out Boy concert) as well as being named after the cat starring as a major character in That Darn Cat!.
- Warrior Prince: D.C. is this because he is the heir to the title of Representative of fate and the future, and he is and exceptional fighter.
- Talk to the Hand: As seen in his character folder's image, D.C. uses this against Caranus at the beginning of the Evil Materializes arc with Arcspace.
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The Representative of rebirth, limbo, and opportunity. He is a very patient and collected person, and is the overseer of the Waiting Room.
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Representative of creation, life, and control. She is the grandmother of Sattalla. Very peaceful and calm.
- Creating Life Is Awesome: Kamada has the power of creating new life without Equivalent Exchange and transfiguration. She is very proud of her powers and loves to use them for the best purposes (though she kind of has to in order to keep the Absolute Multiverse balanced).
- Never Mess with Granny: Her hair is visibly graying and she's the grandmother of an adult, so she's definitely a granny, but she can absolutely beat you into next week.
- Mother Nature: It's played pretty straight when she mentions that she's sometimes called Mother Nature.
- Deity of Human Origin: She was born human, but was hired by the other Representatives to be a Representative herself after the passing of the previous Representative of creation and order because of how unnaturally pure of heart she was. Her nephew was also offered a position to be a Representative due to his shared nature with Kamada, but declined and suggested that his firstborn child (Sattalla) be a Representative instead. Sattalla was born to be a Representative, so she is not human, but instead a demon, and can therefore not qualify for this trope. That and because of how inhumanly malevolent she is.
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The Leader of the Secret Society of Sitters. After having a conflict resolved by X (albeit accidentally), he pledges his loyalty to X if he's ever in need of assistance or backup. He is one of the 337 members who was born from his home planet and not from a statue on Earth.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Keep in mind that he leads a society of people in military outfits who all act silly and deadpan that will only sit in basic chairs and that's their spiel.
- Only Sane Man: Sort of downplayed, as he is a goofball at times, but he's a lot more deadpan and diplomatic than the other members.
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The Secret Society of Sitters is an all-male near-human alien species that is known for sitting in unordinary, regular chairs. They dress in full-body outfits that look military, but almost never engage in combat and have no weapons other than battery launchers and their own chairs (the clothing seems to be natural protection). The way they reproduce is sculpting statues of a new member and imbuing it with a small bit their life force to awake it. This has a similar result to mitosis, as the life force used to create a new Sitter is restored shortly after, and the new Sitter is now alive, making him virtually the same in terms of life and property. They are physically unable to remove their clothing, though it isn't actually their skin (if they even have any, considering it's impossible to find even a speck of clothing on any of their bodies that exposes anything underneath). After having their system accidentally saved by X, the Grandmaster Chairman declared the collective loyalty of the whole society to X when he is in need. There are 544 members in the S.S.O.S.
- Badass Army: They are all wearing cool military outfits and all sit in white lawn chairs. This goes without saying.
- Good Guns, Bad Guns: The S.S.O.S. greatly discourages the use of actual firearms, and instead use "battery launchers" that function as stun-guns and are non-lethal..
- Mole Men: Downplayed. They are a very civilized society, but all live in a subterranean base under the surface of Siberia.
- Beneath the Earth: Their entire society is positioned in a completely underground area under the snowy ground. And with proper air conditioning and heating installments, no less. Not to mention their gargantuan cathedral for the Grandmaster.
- Magnetic Weapons: Well, technically. Their battery launchers use up the "juice" in the batteries to project stamina-lowering beams, having an effect not dissimilar to Lobo's Delta Acid revolvers. Since they're batteries that are being used, then they qualify for this trope.
- Incompetence, Inc.: Kind of. While the society is functional and somehow has no huge problems whatsoever, it's pretty much one huge guys' night. Basically Demo Mesa but implied to be more financially and systemically stable, even though everything that happens when the society is shown is pretty much childish chaos.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Representative of reality, leadership, and prosperity. Ruler of the Absolute Multiverse. Most powerful Representative, being "second only to God." Also the head Representative. Oh, and he's a giant hand puppet. He's basically X's boss.
- The Omnipotent: Maurice knows and sees everything. He is infinitely smart and infinitely kind-hearted (or kind-handed, technically) as well. He can see into the future, but the vision of such is blurred, since the soul has free will and the soul is unique to itself in such a sense that it is unpredictable in many aspects, making it hard to determine exactly how something uncontrollable will affect the future.
- Dimension Lord: He can control which dimensions people go to. He himself exists outside of space and time, like X.
- Godly Sidestep: Maurice refuses to disclose to X what the one true religion is, and explains that he physically is unable to (though this may be not true). Luckily, X isn't able to think up any other huge questions for Maurice to answer or dodge before he has to depart to G.N.Y.C.
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- Snake People: He is one of these. But he's the only one of these.
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More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Antagonists
- Would Hurt a Child: If X is considered a child, then this definitely qualifies for most of them.
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Michael Dassion is the corrupt ruler of the future city Greater New York. He has the ability to turn anything he touches into gold if he wills it, and he can control that gold as well with a sort of telekinetic power.
- Traitor Shot: After X leaves to retrieve the Golden Sands shipments from the GNYC warehouse, Michael looks out the window at the perpetually dark-skied city with a very serious and locked-in look on his face. To make it better, the red-orange light from the city streets under him shines up on his face from below and makes him look diabolical.
- Only a Flesh Wound: It takes him a bit of time to get up, but after having part of his torso blasted off by Radiant Destruction he stands up and keeps trying to fight.
- Supervillain Lair: The Obelisk is this to Michael. The bigger, the better, and of course, the bigger, the more politically powerful.
- Eye Scream: After the whole Radiant Destruction thing, much his torso is gone, but later he is killed by a Radiant Destruction shot to the head, specifically targeting his right eye.
- Animated Armor: The golden sands statues fashioned like suits of armor that are placed in the hall leading up to Michael's office animate themselves when there is danger sensed nearby due to pheromones, adrenaline, and endorphins.
- Evil Eyebrows: Come on, just look at him. That does not look like a man you could give a hug.
- Gold-Colored Superiority: Michael's whole thing is gold. That paired with the fact that he's the ruler of the biggest city any society has ever seen and the state governor of the 52nd U.S. state really emphasizes this trope.
- Diabolical Mastermind: Michael is the most charismatic and cunning individual that one can imagine. He has such a high status in Greater New York that he can have the incredibly massive city's entire police force focused on a single point with only a small signal.
- Secretly Selfish: When it is revealed that he's a very corrupt ruler, he qualifies as this by far.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Can control light waves in all aspects, even being able to solidify it and hold objects and redirect sound with it. Henchwoman of Michael and X's second enemy in Greater New York.
- Behind a Stick: This happens when she spies on X in the GNYC Warehouse. There's a thin tether holding up one of the suspension hallways that X tries to escape down, and Niara disappears behind that. However, this is explained through how she can control light, hence being able to turn herself invisible.
- X-Ray Vision: Niara can see any wavelength or frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum, even X-rays and infrared. She uses these to see her enemy's heat or skeleton.
- Hard Light: Though it's still invisible, the light that Niara can control is able to be solidified to hold things. Yeah.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Can phase through any matter that is not that of an intelligent living thing. Henchman and right hand man to Michael.
- Wall Run: Zig-zagged. In his fight with X, he tries to mess with X's perception, and actually starts running inside the wall. Sideways. He even sits inside it up high to taunt X, not knowing he can fly.Manton: It's like finally cornering a cockroach with a can of bug spray but then you find out it can fly!!
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Can defy and rewrite the rules of basic and complex math, making him able to warp reality. Aims to bring about the Event Horizon, a cataclysmic event that boosts his power immensely and allows him to declare himself ruler of the Multiverse.
- Came Back Strong: After his first defeat, when he comes back, he knows a lot more about his powers and won't hesitate to use them to his best ability. He will not stop until he reaches the Event Horizon.
- Fedora of Asskicking: He dons a fedora and can and will do whatever it takes to gain control of reality.
- Multiversal Conqueror: Auto aspires to be this by taking control of the Absolute Multiverse, i.e. all of existence itself.
- Evil Twin: Is this to Nine, technically. Though he's not exactly a twin, since he's seven years older than Nine. Since he's an alternate-dimension version of Nine, and he's very evil, he is his evil twin.
- Gravity Screw: In his final battle with X, he messes around with reality a whole bunch, and this is one of the effects.
- Waistcoat of Style: He sports one of these and gets called "the Onceler" by X. Also, he gets called a pickle, too.
- Reality Warper: Just stop and think about the potential of his powers for a moment.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Goes to X's school. Gains power by doing what he does best: anime poses and quotes. He shouts a lot too.
- Nerd in Evil's Helmet: Well, he more so wants to show off his powers than be evil, but he's most certainly a nerd.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Representative of war, blood, and death. Granddaughter of Kamada. She's very calm and dignified, considering what she is a Representative of. Though very villainous, her job is still very important to the state of existence itself.
...somehow.
- Scary Black Man: Gender-inverted. Being dark-skinned and the granddaughter of Kamada, she is malevolent and calm and stuff like that, but she can be mean and scary.
- Red and Black Totalitarianism: Sattalla's army of goons, as well as Sattalla herself, are constantly bathed in red light, giving all of them an evil color palette effect.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Self-proclaimed Representative of death, darkness, anger, sorrow, evil, calamity, and negativity as a whole. Has the ability to cause calamity at will and cause penalty as well (stealing aspects or properties). Can sometimes interfere with the workings of the actual Representatives.
- Winds of Destiny, Change!: Caranus can change reality by focusing any amount of calamity from any place in existence onto one point for any desired amount of time up to 24 hours, thus changing fate and the future itself and messing with D.C. Mulligan's job and perception of reality.
- I'm Your Worst Nightmare: Caranus is the physical embodiment of everything bad. To emphasize this, he states a chilling quote not dissimilar to this.Caranus: Imagine the most devastating fate that anyone can be met with. I make that look like a dream.
- Shadowed Face, Glowing Eyes: Though he dons no hat, Caranus's face is obstructed by shadows almost always, showing nearly nothing but his vicious glowing eyes.
- Enemy to All Living Things: He is nowhere near as sparing with the whole death thing as Sattalla, and can instantly kill anything that he touches. This is why X never attempts to lay a finger on him (he uses his powers instead)
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
- "How can you believe you exist in a world that never existed?"
Richard is not actually a person but a curse, or more like a state of mind. He is a curse that is difficult to restrain, and cannot be Silentlocked by anybody. He's somewhat of a trickster that infests the mind and feeds off of a person's perception of reality by subjecting them to hallucinations that the human mind cannot comprehend. He calls this cursed mind realm the Afterscape. He's constantly referencing famous surreal art pieces in fashions ranging from witty to gratuitous.
- Psychological Horror: No laws of anything apply in the Afterscape.. Had X not had a stronger mind to be able to overcome him, his consciousness or maybe even his existence may have collapsed. Not to mention Richard taunting him with cryptic messages throughout his ordeal. Also, the fact(?) that the whole place exists somehow as the constructs of the corrupted manifestation of the destruction of X's mind itself, but is also real, supports this trope. Even after that, we see that basic logic does not exist here, meaning that it exists outside of space and time, but also outside of the concept we have of what is outside of space and time, so it might also mean that it could even be located outside of existence as a whole. But who knows? In that world, everything is entirely real but at the same time does not exist anywhere in any shape, way, or form. Whatever it is, the drawn-out curse that Richard puts on the mind is similar to the effects of dementia.
- Surreal Horror: The whole dreamland Richard creates is horrifying in the sense that nothing can be understood. See above for more details.
- Mind Screw: Everything about the Afterscape.
- Alien Geometries: The surrealist art elements of Richard's Afterscape paired with the fact that Richard himself is not human makes it qualify for this trope. (Real-life) Domske took inspiration from surreal artists such as Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali.
- Eldritch Abomination: Some things in the Afterscape are this.
- Genius Loci: Richard can speak through some of the structures in the Afterscape.
- Place Beyond Time: X is reasonably surprised that he sees impossible temporal clones of himself, defying how he is not present in space and time.
- Another Dimension: Heavily zig-zagged, as the Afterscape materializes outside of existence itself. It even defies that and is located outside of what is known as nonexistent. It transcends its own nonexistence.
- Reality Is Out to Lunch: Everything about this godforsaken man applies to this trope.
- World of Chaos: In this place, you need to expect the unexpected.
- Dream Land: There's a possibility that Richard is lying about how the Afterscape is and is toying with his hosts to speed up their mental deterioration (or even prolong it). It might just be all in the victim's head since Richard feasts on sanity. It's also vaguely implied when X wakes up near Allfather Testima when he defeats Richard. However, this claim is contested when Testima mentions that Richard can manipulate reality itself.
- Brown Note: Every time X has Richard in his line of sight, his perception of reality shifts so far that only Richard is visible and everything starts staring at X, even if it doesn't have eyes. Not only this, but his vision goes corrupted and X describes hearing loud ringing in his ears and a bass-boosted, static-like noise.
- Too Strange to Show: The whole "stuff without eyes somehow staring at X" thing is described through narration, but is not shown due to how hard it would be to comprehend. Either that or it's just sanitized for our protection.
- Ominous Visual Glitch: X's vision distorts when he sees Richard.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Though his true form is comprehensible by literally every normal human on earth, seeing him in the Afterscape has negative effects.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
- Healing Factor: Formlin has one of these, and he doesn't need to be Silentlocked to be defeated, as he can't do anyone any harm with his powers. Jail is enough for him.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Others
Kimben is a young woman with the power to use Arcspace, which allows her to create force in one area and have that force be exerted by a hundredfold in a different nearby area. She may be considered an anti-hero, as she was once an enemy of X. She is also an heiress and the new Representative of power, learning, and growth.
- Troubled Teen: Kimben is having a difficult time trying to gradually accept and become more qualified for her role as the new Representative of learning, growth, and power. She becomes more short-tempered over time and even tries to kill X at one point. And yes, she is 18 years old.
- Lady Looks Like a Dude: Some may say that Kimben is this. She looks fairly feminine, but is mistaken once by X as a guy.X: Who's this guy?Kimben: Guy!? I'm a woman!X: Oh, sorry. You look more like a girl than a woman, though.Kimben: Oh my Lord...
- Unstable Powered Woman: Kimben is kind of a jerk sometimes. So much so that she tries to kill X once out of anger.
- Nonconformist Dyed Hair: Downplayed, as it's her actual hair color. However, she still does what she wants, and her hair color is anything but bland.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Representative of balance, equilibrium, and paradoxes. They are the second-in-command to the Allfather and are the messenger of Maurice. They are part of the reason our multiverse hasn't imploded yet.
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: They use they/them pronouns, which some would say be because they have three heads, but they have only one consciousness, so it can't be because of that. The reason this is may be that they have No Biological Sex and are not human, but this has yet to be confirmed.
- Duality Motif: Three-way example. Corona represents complete balance, complete opposites, equilibrium, et cetera.
- Yin-Yang Bomb: They use an attack comprised of nonexistent math, foreshadowing what will happen with Auto later on.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Representative of eternity, infinity, and the mind. Maintains the sanity of almost all souls in existence, but that maintenance is sometimes broken by Caranus.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Father of DC Mulligan. Killed by Caranus. Entrusted his only son with the power of upholding fate, effect, causality, and the future as we know it.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Austin's girlfriend. She can be a smart-aleck at times, but is otherwise good to everyone. Except Steve.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
A kid who goes to X's school. Always trying to preach conservative ideologies and forcing them on to Liam and X.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
The two ducks that show up every time (without fail) X encounters a body of water located anywhere in the city of Pittsburgh. X says he can tell that it's them because it's always a male and a female (Bill and Feather respectively) with no other ducks near, and the female is basically the trailblazer for the male. And the male has "three curly butt feathers instead of the usual two," so he recognizes them every time and considers them to be good luck.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Finnish teenager with electricity manipulation powers met by X in the Hardsnow arc.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Russian man who can cast spells who meets X in the Hardsnow arc. Very snarky.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
The family pet of the guys in the house (mostly X) who is an average chinchilla. X gets him when he's a kit in the Rays of Summer Chapter. His cage is in X's room (chinchillas usually don't have an odor to their living areas, so this is reasonable). X keeps wanting to be responsible and clean up after his cage, but he never gets the chance to because Gordon keeps doing it before he can, as Gordon knows that, well, excrements aren't allowed to be anywhere outside the toilet, and he takes the rule really seriously, so it's extremely difficult to find a time where Jareth's cage hasn't been cleaned up.
- Nearly Normal Animal: Seems to be capable of expressing humanlike emotions. Otherwise, he's just a chinchilla. But we all love him because of that.
- Named After Somebody Famous: He's named for the Labyrinth character played by David Bowie.
- Right-Hand Cat: To X. Zig-zagged, as he's a chinchilla and not a cat, but X sometimes does that "I've been expecting you" thing we all know about with Jareth.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
Recap
- Pilot Issue 1
- Activity Engineers Chapter Issues 2 - 14: The guys goofing off and having silly anecdotes.
- Awakening Passion Arc Issues 15 - 16: X gets his powers and meets Maurice. He is sent to a distant future to learn about his powers and himself.
- Overpopulation at the End of The World Part 1 Arc/Chapter Issues 17 - TBD: X arrives in Greater New York, and meets Michael Dassion. He also has a run-in with Neutrino.
- Light's Will (OATEOTW Part 2) Arc Issues TBD: X fights Niara Steen.
- Neutrino (OATEOTW Part 3) Arc Issues TBD: X fights Neutrino on his way to face off against Michael.
- Golden Sovereignty (OATEOTW Final Part) Arc Issues TBD: X fights Michael.
- Rays of Summer Chapter Issues TBD: Summer fun with the guys. Quint and Nine also declare their love for each other.
- The Tournament Arc Issues TBD: The guys all have a massive Nintendo tournament.
- The Newcomers Arc Issues TBD: Sink Demon and Georgio appear.
- Year 2 Chapter Issues TBD: Planned to be the second year of comic runtime.
- Hardsnow Arc Issues TBD: X meets Helga, Dyscuu, Akira, and Aniku. They all team up to fight Auto, who later retreats to a new universe. X also connects with the Secret Society of Sitters.
- Nostalgia Arc Issues TBD: X relives memories with the guys as well as going on a massive National Parks trip. He meets Lobo and Matteo.
- The Secret Society Arc Issues TBD: X is met with an army of pure evil created by Sattalla in Death Valley and calls on the SSOS to fight them. He is also helped by Lobo and Matteo.
- Exponential Arc Issue TBD: X has a fight with Peyton in the city. Liam also finds out about all the superhero stuff, and vows to keep it secret.
- Above Arc Issue TBD: Quint and Nine make a difficult decision for when they graduate to wait for the other guys to graduate before moving on to college.
- Representatives Arc Issues TBD: X meets the Representatives of the Absolute Multiverse while fighting with Sattalla.
- Kimben Arc Issues TBD: X takes time to help Kimben accept her role as a new Representative. Along the way, he learns of the power of Arcspace.
- Evil Materializes Arc Issues TBD: Caranus becomes a threat and kills Tarama.
- Quality Time Arc/Chapter Issues TBD: Due to Caranus posing danger to the Absolute Multiverse, Maurice puts a lock on X's home universe, so he can only spend quality time with the guys.
- Event Horizon Arc Issues TBD: The universe lock has been removed due to Caranus being Silentlocked, but a new threat has appeared: Auto has returned, and knows even more after he activated the Event Horizon.
- Riptide Chapter Issues TBD: After Auto has been stopped and Silentlocked, X gets to go back and enjoy more time with the guys. [[spoiler:However, Nine must work with how Auto, now revealed to be a man named Tobias Bell, has been fused to his soul to keep him restrained, and is trying to escape.
- The Songbirds Arc Issues TBD: X must go with Cinema, Python, and Jetsnap to defeat the Seven Songbirds after they activate the beacons so they don't cause any more trouble. Liam also is revealed to have powers given to him by Maurice not long after X got his, and calls his superhero name Artox.
- Rule of Seven Arc Issues TBD: X and Liam and co. all find themselves fighting the Empress of Penalty in attempt to stop her before she frees Caranus.
- The Long Way Home Arc Issues TBD: The guys are having to deal with emotions and things from outside causes, while Nine has nightmares of Auto and X has a difficult time dealing with the quality of his life and how the world around him is affecting that.
- The Myth of Existence Arc Issues TBD: X is attacked by Richard Calton.
- Incineration Arc Issues TBD: X meets up with Chilly, Archie, Lobo, and Matteo to infiltrate an illegal substance organization run by a superhuman named Formlin. X later discovers time travel technology in the area that was stolen from what Lobo invented to bring him to the future, which was previously assumed to have been destroyed. X also encounters Angelo Gavrilo and learns of his goals, who then disappears without a trace, and may or may not be seen again in the future. Angelo also mentions the Impulse.
- The Impulse Arc Issues TBD: Chilly and Lobo manage to get the time travel equipment running correctly again, and Lobo helps transport Chilly, who has otherwise lost almost everything in life, to Greater New York in the future(just after Michael is defeated), without him being able to come back, to become the new leader of GNYC. This makes X ponder the Impulse idea that Angelo told him about.
More arcs will be listed as the story develops.
Other Tabs
- The way Michael goes out. Having an entire chunk blasted out of your head is insane. Though he definitely deserved it, and it's not really that gory or gruesome (due to his golden protection) but it can still send shivers down the spines of some nonetheless for how it might have felt.
- How X has in a sense Seen It All. When he experienced everything in an instant, it's unclear whether he actually perceived it as an instant or an eternity. Though he was able to withstand it mentally (barely), this paired with the withdrawal he has from it is haunting. He doesn't even gain profound knowledge, either; he just gained a little clarity.
- Caranus. Imagine having the fabric of existence itself being conquered by the physical embodiment of death, loss, anger, and calamity. Now imagine if that force couldn't be stopped or Silentlocked. Or worse, there was no Maurice to protect your universe. Everything, and take a moment to realize, LITERALLY EVERYTHING that ever used to, is now, or will exist would be snuffed out without any hope of ever getting it back. WOW.
- Lobo's backstory of how he killed his boss is pretty scary, but not because of how he ended a man's life. It's how cruel his boss was, and especially how he
hurt Lobo's sister. The realism found in the situation is frightening in itself, how this has and likely will again happen in real life, and how it can lead to bad things for those involved. - Richard Calton's powers are frightening in the surreal reality he created where no rules of logic apply. The affect it has on the normal human mind is harsh to think about.
- Not only that, but also the ways that Richard toys with X to disorient him further. The way he literally and figuratively gets inside his head to make him think that he's telling the truth about everything is downright evil, and had he continued to do so and Testima hadn't defeated him, X may have had a massive existential withdrawal, no matter how strong his mind was.
- Sattalla's speech to X about humanity. Though it's seen as pessimistic, the scary part is that it's all true.
- Nine having to deal with those nightmares, and just Auto in general. Could you imagine having a second, pure evil soul inside your body, trying to escape and control your life, hell, the multiverse itself without knowing, and still having to be affected by all of its agonizing problems and not being able to stop it?
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
More tropes are to be listed as the series develops.
