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Kilgannon and Sachs went on to collaborate on a second webcomic, titled [[Afterlife Blues]].

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* [[Science-Related Memetic Disorder]]: The name of the mad science disease.

 

* [[Absent Aliens]]: Mars' version of SETI turns up with lots of aliens... {{spoiler|but they're all dead. By at least a thousand years. "You've got to love existential angst on a planetary level..."}}

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Yes, Virgil Haas is a [[Mad Scientist]]. Yes, he wants to take over the world. But he'd rather not kill anyone to do it. Like {{spoiler|the crews of the civilian ships with which he could have rammed the first ''Qin''.}}

* [[Cheerful Child]]: Wei Quevillion, Caprice's seven-year-old sister.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Benjamin Prester}}'s therapy is [http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos270.html reported to be robust against anything less than a major psychological disturbance].

* [[Closer Than They Appear]]: [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos354.html This strip] does it with a pair of glowing evil eyes, in the middle of a chase scene.

* [[Concealment Equals Cover]]: subverted on [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos323.html this page]. When Benjamin is attempting to take cover behind an upturned table, the man shooting at him simply shoots ''through'' the table... and then mocks him for taking cover behind such a flimsy object.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Wei Quevillion, as the protagonists comment on [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos166.html this page].

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: The Pindars, which [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos393.html gets on Chaucer's nerves at one point]:

'''Pindar-Two''': I'm going to take that as a compliment. }}

* [[Genius Loci]]: The Martian people form a collective consciousness.

'''Benjamin''': That's like saying "''Brazil'' has decided you're ''cute''." }}

* [[Genre Savvy]]: The entire science of memetics relies on this. {{spoiler|The Vorstellen Police catches mad scientists by knowing exactly how they will react to certain situations.}}

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Benjamin Prester, Caprice Quevillion, and even Virgil Haas are or become unwilling to kill innocents. How well they stick by this rule during a disaster tells quite a bit about their resistance to [[Villainous Breakdown|Breakdown]], and in Prester's case, [[Character Development]].

* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]. While not mentioned directly in the plotline, it's mentioned in the site's glossary that the book ''Crank Theories of Robotics'' is a known cause of SRMD; effectively, one can become a [[Mad Scientist]] simply by reading it. Doctor Haas is seen with it in the prologue.

* [[Voice of the Legion]]: Whenever the Martian group mind speaks through one of its members. Said member simultaneously acquires [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: minus the "evil" part.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Caprice immediately calls Benjamin out on his plan to escape Haas' attack on their ship by blasting up five civilian ships and killing a few hundred people. {{spoiler|This may or may not have been foreshadowing.}}

* [[Wig, Dress, Accent]], subverted in [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos304.html this page] by having a poorly-disguised version of the protagonists going through customs... and then having the ''actual'' protagonists enter the scene in the next page.

* [[Wrecked Weapon]]: Benjamin has a gun {{spoiler|that he just built with his mad science abilities}} [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands|shot out of his hand]]. Twice.

* [[You Can Barely Stand]]: Word for word, in the final Chase Scene.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Blue hair runs in Caprice's family, presumably on her mother's side; her dad has brown hair, but every other Quevillion we see has some shade of blue hair. There's a smattering of extras with oddly colored hair, either flat-out unnatural or just [[Dark-Skinned Blond|matching oddly]] [[Dark-Skinned Redhead|with their skin tone]].

 

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