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* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: The series is ''huge'' in the Netherlands, and several conventions have been held (which, with it being such a small country, virtually never happens for one specific series). Likely because homosexuality, polyamory and sex in general are [[Values Dissonance|not considered very controversial]] in the country, and the comic barely merits a 10+ rating.

* [[God Mode Stu]]: Rayek is a ruthless deconstruction of the trope, in that he has all the qualities of a [[God Mode Stu]], but the story is told from his opponents' perspective. Which ends up making him the [[Designated Villain]], no matter how pure his intentions are. When he finally gets a chance to tell his life story from his own perspective, he goes into ''full-on'' [[God Mode Stu]] narration, still seeing himself as the tribe's/world's saviour. It takes a long, long time before he turns into [[The Atoner]].

** Among his accomplishments: Discovering meat as a type of food, [[Training the Peaceful Villagers]] to eat wildlife before he's even reached puberty, providing them with horses and teaching them how to domesticate the animals, rescuing one of the ancient rock-shapers, learning how to ''fly'', banging the chieftess of the next tribe he finds and fathering one of the world's most powerful magic users, [[New Powers As the Plot Demands|becoming a soul vessel]] for dozens of elves, and finally, ''teleporting the elves' holy palace thousands of years into the future'' to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]. He decides at the last second not to go through with it, finally realizing it would make him the villain. When he next uses his [[God Mode Stu]] powers, it's by using his already mostly forgotten soul vessel ability to seal the [[Big Bad]] inside his mind, dooming himself to live forever in agony as her jailer.

** Among his accomplishments: Discovering meat as a type of food, [[Training the Peaceful Villagers]] to eat wildlife before he's even reached puberty, providing them with horses and teaching them how to domesticate the animals, rescuing one of the ancient rock-shapers, learning how to ''fly'', banging the chieftess of the next tribe he finds and fathering one of the world's most powerful magic users, [[New Powers as the Plot Demands|becoming a soul vessel]] for dozens of elves, and finally, ''teleporting the elves' holy palace thousands of years into the future'' to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]. He decides at the last second not to go through with it, finally realizing it would make him the villain. When he next uses his [[God Mode Stu]] powers, it's by using his already mostly forgotten soul vessel ability to seal the [[Big Bad]] inside his mind, dooming himself to live forever in agony as her jailer.

* [[The Scrappy]]: Scouter. Apparently few in the fandom would grieve if Dewshine and Tyleet just smothered him to death one night.

* [[Seasonal Rot]]: The original quest is fondly regarded. "Siege of Blue Mountain" generally isn't. "Kings of the Broken Wheel". "Shards" and "Hidden Years" seemed to get back to the original quality a little, but Barry Blair's contribution after that left a lot of people feeling vaguely disturbed.