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* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:Fria exiles Flash from Frigia after he confirms her suspicions about Aura's lie and his role in covering it up. His failure to come clean was too much to handle after all of the betrayals and losses she endured.]]
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* ChromaticArrangement: Flash is red, Dr. Zarkov is blue, and Dale is green.

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* ChromaticArrangement: Flash is red, Dr. Zarkov is blue, and Dale is green.green (and sometimes black).
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: [[spoiler:Fria to a T.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Narration:''' Queen Fria steels herself. Tomorrow, her people will look to '''her''' to save them. If she '''can't''', she thinks... what's the '''point''' of her?]]
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* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Count Korro discovered the resources that made Frigia rich, becoming a hero. However, his attitudes towards outsiders caused him to lose favour in the royal court. He also went behind Fria's back to provide additional mining licenses to people from Kira and Sky City, and got away before he could explain why.]]


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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Korro was an unrepentant bigoted {{Jerkass}} who treated Bok horribly and went behind Fria's back to grant additional mining licenses to other members of the Allied Mongothic Nations, which caused the Screaming Storm to awaken. It killed an unknown number of people before Prince Ronal sacrificed his life to stop it. He escaped the palace after being confronted, and escaped the Snowsteel arc unpunished.]]
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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler: Fria has good reason to feel betrayed by virtually every named character in the strip. Flash confirming that he covered up Aura's deception even after she took him in was the last straw, causing her to exile him from Frigia even after everything he'd done for the country and her and Ronal personally. One would think that her grief is clouding her judgment, and it probably is, but the very next strip is from her perspective. She reveals more than a touch of xenophobia directed at the Earthers, and strongly hints that [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead the wrong person died]].]]

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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler: Fria has good reason to feel betrayed by virtually every named character that she's interacted with in the strip. Flash confirming that he covered up Aura's deception even after she took him in was the last straw, causing her to exile him from Frigia even after everything he'd done for the country and her and Ronal personally. One would think that her grief is clouding her judgment, and it probably is, but the very next strip is from her perspective. She reveals more than a touch of xenophobia directed at the Earthers, and strongly hints that [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead the wrong person died]].]]
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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler: Fria has good reason to feel betrayed by virtually every named character in the strip. Flash confirming that he covered up Aura's deception was the last straw, causing her to exile him from Frigia even after everything he'd done for the country and her and Ronal personally. One would think that her grief is clouding her judgment, and it probably is, but the very next strip is from her perspective. She reveals more than a touch of xenophobia, and strongly hints that [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead the wrong person died]].]]

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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler: Fria has good reason to feel betrayed by virtually every named character in the strip. Flash confirming that he covered up Aura's deception even after she took him in was the last straw, causing her to exile him from Frigia even after everything he'd done for the country and her and Ronal personally. One would think that her grief is clouding her judgment, and it probably is, but the very next strip is from her perspective. She reveals more than a touch of xenophobia, xenophobia directed at the Earthers, and strongly hints that [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead the wrong person died]].]]
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** [[spoiler:Flash continued to cover up for Aura after Fria took him in. That got him exiled from Frigia when a grieving Fria finally called him on her suspicions.]]


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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler: Fria has good reason to feel betrayed by virtually every named character in the strip. Flash confirming that he covered up Aura's deception was the last straw, causing her to exile him from Frigia even after everything he'd done for the country and her and Ronal personally. One would think that her grief is clouding her judgment, and it probably is, but the very next strip is from her perspective. She reveals more than a touch of xenophobia, and strongly hints that [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead the wrong person died]].]]
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** [[spoiler:Played straight at the conclusion of the Snowsteel arc. Korro's granting extra mining licenses to Kira and Sky City led to the Screaming Storm waking up, which killed a number of Frigians and requiring Prince Ronal to sacrifice himself to stop it. Getting confirmation that Aura lied to her face and Flash went along with it sealed the deal. Frigia is out.
-->'''Queen Fria:''' Prince Ronal is dead. The ties that bind '''Frigia''' to Barin and Aura's '''empire''' die with him.]]

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** [[spoiler:Played straight at the conclusion of the Snowsteel arc. Korro's granting extra mining licenses to Kira and Sky City led to the Screaming Storm waking up, which killed a number of Frigians and requiring Prince Ronal to sacrifice himself to stop it. Getting confirmation that Aura lied to her face and Flash went along with it sealed the deal. Frigia is out.
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-->[[spoiler:'''Queen
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** [[spoiler:Played straight at the conclusion of the Snowsteel arc. Korro's granting extra mining licenses to Kira and Sky City led to the Screaming Storm waking up, which killed a number of Frigians and requiring Prince Ronal to sacrifice himself to stop it. Getting confirmation that Aura lied to her face and Flash went along with it sealed the deal. Frigia is out.
-->'''Queen Fria:''' Prince Ronal is dead. The ties that bind '''Frigia''' to Barin and Aura's '''empire''' die with him.]]
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* HesDeadJim: [[spoiler:Ronal dies just as Fria gets to him and Dale, leaving Dale to break the news.]]
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:After his HeroicSacrifice (see below), Ronal lasted long enough to have a few words with Dale, but he died just as Fria arrived.]]


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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:After Flash is wounded trying to bomb the Screaming Storm, Prince Ronal gets on the windcraft and takes up the mission. The windcrat was damaged as well, and the bomb's trigger was inoperative. He had to aim it at the kaiju's mouth and jump off at the last second, falling three hundred feet to the ground.]]


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* NiceGuy: [[spoiler: Prince Ronal of Frigia.]]
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* {{Kaiju}}: [[spoiler:The Screaming Storm is a three-hundred-foot-tall yeti that smashes things which disrupt the natural balance.]]


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* {{Knighting}}: [[spoiler: Ronal gifts Bok a snowsteel shield, and names him a Knight of Mongo while Team Earth looks on proudly.]]
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* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:It turns out that Fria is part giant.]]


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* StatuesqueStunner: Fria is 6'1, the same height as Flash. [[spoiler:Her being part giant might have something to do with it.]]
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* TheHighQueen: [[spoiler:Fria fits this to a T. She's beloved by her people, and takes her role seriously.]]


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* LadyOfWar: Fria leads her troops into battle personally.
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* AnchoredShip: [[spoiler:Flash and Dale aren't together, and Flash tells her that they can't be together because she refuses to tell him why she doesn't want to go back to Earth.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Flash:''' I can't '''be''' with somebody if they can't '''trust''' me. After all this time... '''can't''' you?]]


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* HerBoyfriendsJacket: [[spoiler:Dale wears Flash's shield shirt when going to spy on Azura. There's a definite practical element there, but it's hard to miss the subtext.]]


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* SnowMeansLove: [[spoiler:Averted. Flash and Dale break up (sort of; they aren't together) on a night in Frigia.]]

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