YMMV / Strikeforce: Morituri

• Complete Monster:
  • The Stark Fist is the original leader of the Va'Shakk, a.k.a. "the Horde", and has lead his armies on a galactic conquest that has destroyed hundreds of worlds. Attacking Earth by decimating a variety of its major cities and enslaving countless millions, the Stark Fist engages in acts of terrorizing the world's populace, such as ejecting hundreds of innocents into space to break the spirits of those who witness the atrocities. When confronted by the Strikeforce, the Stark Fist sadistically shows off his collection of disembodied heads that he uses as trophies before trying to kill them all, then annihilate the entire Earth out of spite.
  • The Gentle Inquirer is not only the Va'Shakk's Evil Chancellor, but their most insidious member as well. As sadistic as he is intelligent, the Inquirer directly spearheads most of the race's terror plots against humanity, from razing entire cities; to raining "healer plants" onto crowds to horribly seal up all their orifices and suffocate them to death; to grafting the still-living, perpetually-screaming heads of humans, even children, onto attack robots. When his hated rival Thundercrush earns the throne ahead of him after Stark Fist's death, the Inquirer manipulates him into a wasteful nuclear attack that undermines Thundercrush's judgment. When the Inquirer finally gains the throne, he implants all of his thousands of human captives with bombs, then releases them in the streets, hoping to either detonate the bombs and mass-murder the loved ones of his prisoners or divide humanity with that same threat always hanging over their heads. Heartless to a point where he revolts even fellow Va'Shakk, the Inquirer readily admits he'd be just at home torturing his own race as much as humanity.
  • Issues 21-23: The brutal commander Wek-Kuu introduces himself tormenting a group of human hostages and ripping the head off of a child with his bare hands just to show his contempt for humanity. Attempting to slaughter as many innocent humans as possible, Wek-Kuu redirects meteors to strike at the world and kill thousands, with Salt Lake City nearly wiped out by the time he is through.
• Creator's Pet: After James Hudnall took over as the writer, Revenge (Jason Edwards) and Scanner (Dan Baker) become the primary protagonists of the series. Everyone else is either relegated to the background with little characterization or killed outright.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Many fans consider the "true" Strikeforce: Morituri to be the first twenty issues helmed by Peter Gillis and Brent Anderson. With James Hudnall taking over in issue #21, the stories veered away from character-driven introspection to a more conventional Government Conspiracy plot with sci-fi trimmings. This change in tone is even more apparent in Strikeforce Morituri: Electric Undertow, which reads like a Cyberpunk thriller and bears no resemblance to the original premise.

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