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''Infinity, Insanity, Intensity, Sex,''<br />
''Beauty, Savagery, Absurdity, Sex,''<br />
''Assassin, Love Slave, Idiot ... Lexx.''|[[Exactly What It Says
''Lexx'' (known in its first season in America as ''Tales from a Parallel Universe''), is a German-Canadian co-produced [[Space Opera]].
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* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Zev was bought as a present for an adolescent boy prior to the start of the series, after spending her entire life "in a box" at the Wife Bank after her parents abandoned her to it. The wedding doesn't go well, to say the least.
* [[Ass Shove]]: The alien probes from Season 4, which look like carrots with mechanical legs, attach themselves to a host by burrowing into an unfortunate person's rectum.
* [[Attack of the
* [[Attempted Rape]]: In "791", Stan is very nearly raped by the body of the ship's pilot (after 790 re-animates it by attaching his head - er, himself - to it, and things go [[It Got Worse|very, very wrong]]), until Kai intervenes just in the nick of time.
* [[Auto Kitchen]]: I suppose you could call the phallic appendages that extrude tasteless grey paste that.
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* [[Borrowed Biometric Bypass]]: Giggerota and the Brains attempt this with Stan's hand and the Lexx in the second movie.
* [[Briar Patching]]
* [[Brain In
* [[Broken Bird]]: Stan is revealed as this in the fourth movie, when we learn how he was made to reveal (part of) what he was carrying. {{spoiler|He was raped, repeatedly, over a relatively prolonged period, by someone who REALLY ENJOYED raping him. Nobody is ever the same after that kind of thing.}}
* [[Bug War]]: The war between the Brunnen-G and the Insect Civilization in the [[Backstory]].
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* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]: Dr. Longbore thinks so, anyway. [[Fetish Fuel]] outfits aside, whether or not the girls he places on the ''Noah'' after they pass his panty-sniffing "hystamine test" are catholic is not clarified.
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The second season gets a lot more serious as the crew realizes how big a threat Mantrid is. Happens again in the second half of the fourth season, with at least half of the jump in the finale itself.
* [[Chess
* [[Chew Toy]]: Stan. The Divine Predecessors qualify, too (''literally'', in one case, when Giggerota gets her hands on them).
* [[Child Eater]]: Cluster Lizards prove to be this in the [[Pilot Movie]]. Kinda not a problem, since the kids were all the cream of the crop ''chosen'' by His Divine Shadow who probably would have been like outer space Hitler Youth or something.
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* [[Cool Starship]]: The Lexx.
* [[Corrupt Church]]: The Divine Order. 'Course this is {{spoiler|deliberate, due to the fact that His Divine Shadow is really a survivor of the Insect War.}}
* [[Counter
* [[Crapsack World]]: His Shadow's realm. Late fees are paid in [[Organ Theft|organ donations]] and the government expects religious fanaticism. Also, what can one really say about a regime crazy enough to have built the Lexx in the first place? And this is in the ''Light'' Universe. For a while, it seems like the propaganda about the Dark Zone being worse on account of not having a universe-spanning government is just that; propaganda. It turns out the propaganda is true.
** It isn't just His Shadow's realm that's a [[Crapsack World]] - the ''entire universe'' - well, both of them - definitely apply for this trope.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: 790. Kai also has his moments.
* [[Death By Pragmatism]]: While he never actually dies, Stan does tend to be the [[Chew Toy]], even though he's usually the most pragmatic one aboard.
* [[Deal
* [[Death
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Invoked, subverted and [[Lampshaded]]; many of the characters who die in the second season are alive on Earth six thousand years later {{spoiler|after the Lexx blows up the afterlife.}} [[It Makes Sense in Context]]. Subverted again by Kai, who dies in the first scene and ''stays'' dead, but animate, through the whole series {{spoiler|until the finale, where he's brought back to life just before an event he can't possibly survive.}}
* [[Deep South]]: The second-season episode that introduces Norb, "White Trash". The funnin's just begunnin'.
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{{quote| '''Xev:''' You may still only be a head, 790, but you're the best head I ever had.}}
* [[Downer Ending]]: A few of them. {{spoiler|Every season, including the Season One movies, ends with the total destruction of its setting. Yes, that includes the fourth and final season's setting ... and ''that'' frees the [[Big Bad]], who gets away scot-free in the end. Also, way too many likable [[Recurrer|Recurrers]] wind up [[Killed Off for Real]] for a show that's supposed to be comedic.}}
* [[Dueling Shows]]: ''[[
* [[Dug Too Deep]]
* [[Eagle Land]]: The setting of much of Season 4. Bizarrely, it's an amalgamation of both flavors of [[Eagle Land]].
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** Similarly Bunny, who especially in her Season 3 incarnation treats sex like a handshake but is portrayed as more of an [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]. Her Season 4 incarnation is similarly horny, but she saves it for her husband, President Priest, who she is inexplicably nuts over.
* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]: Longbore pulls this in Season 4 when it's revealed that {{spoiler|he's not building the rocketship ''Noah'' for him and his science assistants, but for him alone and a bunch of (probably underage) schoolgirls. When the assistants object, he holds them at bay and tries to escape only to be thwarted by President Priest and Bunny.}}
* [[Everything's Better
** Gigashadow, the fully grown Insect from the eponymous episode, actually propels itself through ''space'' this way.
* [[Everything's Deader
* [[Evil Overlord]]: His Divine Shadow; Prince.
** Oberon tries to be one in ''A Midsummer's Nightmare,'' but falls flat.
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* [[Fake American]]:
** Many of the American characters in Season 4 are portrayed by Canadian actors.
** Rolf Kanies plays the American President Priest in S4, complete with [[Not Even Bothering
** English actors Craig Charles and Hattie Hayridge of [[
** English Josh Hartnett lookalike Rupert Evans plays Midwestern boy Cleasby in Prime Ridge.
* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: The entire crew (save for [[Jerkass|790]]), by the end of the series.
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* [[Hero of Another Story]]: Thodin.
* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: A research assistant who is smitten with [[Estrogen Brigade Bait|Kai]] in Season 4, the disciples of "Woz", others. Tended to meet bad ends of the innocent victim variety, whereas anybody with supermodel proportions meets a bad end due to bad choices.
* [[Hooker
* [[Howl of Sorrow]]: Zev lets out one in "Giga Shadow" when {{spoiler|Kai temporarily dies after running out of Proto-Blood}}. Also, Giggerota does so when things don't go her way, but it's more like a Howl of Rage.
* [[Human Popsicle]]: Stan, Xev and Kai place themselves in suspended animation between Seasons 2 and 3 ... and don't wake up until thousands of years later. To a lesser extent, Kai has to keep periodically freezing himself over the course of the series, to ensure that he doesn't run out of Protoblood too quickly.
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* [[Immortality]]: [[The Stoic|Kai]] was [[Healing Factor|Type III]] and [[Big Bad|His]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Divine]] [[Galactic Conqueror|Shadow]] was Type IX.
* [[Improbable Hairstyle]]: Kai, big time, as well as the rest of the Brunnen-G.
* [[Insectoid Aliens]]: [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet]]
* [[Intercourse
** Because you look so ''DAMN'' good.
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]: Zev/Xev's ability to transform into a Cluster Lizard.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: "Oink." ([[It Makes Sense in Context]].)
* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]: Many of the musical numbers are actually nursery rhymes from various countries.
* [[Jerk
* [[Jerkass]]: 790.
* [[Jump Scare]]: Used in "Norb" when {{spoiler|one of Mantrid's drone arms suddenly flies past Stanley on the bridge of the Lexx.}}
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'''790:''' He's an evil spirit.<br />
'''Xev:''' But how can he just ''disappear'' like that?<br />
'''790:''' Like I said, he's an evil spirit, ''[[Exactly What It Says
** Season 2, with its higher budget, sees a [[Visual Effects of Awesome|complete overhaul]] and re-design of the [[Special Effects Failure|cardboard sets]] making up the Lexx' interior. At the beginning of the episode "Norb", Stanley actually asks the Lexx why it looks different. The Lexx explains that it wasn't quite fully grown when they took off, and the new look means the Lexx has reached full maturity.
* [[Large Ham]]: Many, but any role played by Ellen Dubin (Giggerotta, Queen, Pope Geneveive G. Rota) certainly qualifies.
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* [[Love At First Sight]]: Well, not necessarily at first ''sight'', but it certainly didn't take long for Zev to fall in love with Kai. Also, in the Season 2 episode "Luvliner", Varrtan, a male prostitute, falls in love at first sight with Xev. {{spoiler|The poor guy is vaporised by the episode's main villain just minutes later.}}
** 790's first words upon seeing Zev after being programmed with the love slave personality meant for her. Same goes for when he fell in love with Kai who fixed him in Season 3.
* [[Magic
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: The Hymn of the Brunnen-G is sung several times in the series, always as a beautiful heroic sacrifice. The final reprise itself is just wow ... Heartbreakingly, the first and last times it's heard are the only times where its actual meaning (namely, "Victory or death") comes all the way into play.
* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: Once used by Xev to keep Stan from addressing the Lexx.
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* [[The Multiverse]]
* [[Musical Episode]]: "Brigadoom".
* [[Naked
* [[Never Say "Die"]]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The Lexx crew give Mantrid the means to escape from his prison, and in a [[Humongous Mecha]] body, at that.
* [[No Biological Sex]]: Lyekka's race.
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* [[Platonic Prostitution]]: In the episode "Luvliner," the crew travel to a brothel [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]], where Xev meets a male prostitute who falls in [[Love At First Sight]] with her, and refuses to have sex with her because "[her] first time should be special."
* [[Pluto Is Expendable]]: Even included in a planet count of 8, maybe 9 planets.
* [[Powered
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Kai in "Wake The Dead", when he is temporarily turned into a crazed axe murderer.
* [[Psychopomp]]: {{spoiler|Prince}} turns out to be one of these all along in addition to being the Lexxverse's version of {{spoiler|Satan}}.
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* [[The Reveal]]: A few:
** Season One: {{spoiler|His Divine Shadow is actually the last Insect, and he orchestrated the entire run of the Divine Order as a way of using humans to defeat themselves.}}
** Season Three: {{spoiler|Water and Fire are Heaven and Hell, although it's obvious from early on. The bigger reveal is that they're also [[Counter
** Season Four: {{spoiler|The Lexx has been nearing the end of its natural lifespan since the third season, and it's been pregnant since ''Dutch Treat.'' A meta-reveal happens when the mass of the Higgs Boson is shown as .13 repeating; the characters almost certainly know, but no one actually cares and thus, no one says it for the audience to hear.}}
* [[Reverse Polarity]]: ''Norb''.
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* [[Royal We]]: "We are Pope Genevieve I, formally known as G. G. Rota."
* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: In the final episode, the image on the Lexx' viewscreen {{spoiler|as it dies}} is a single, bright, completely white star; the light at the end of the tunnel.
* [[Running
* [[Sadist Show]]
* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: {{spoiler|The Lexx is actually female, and gets pregnant after mating with a dragonfly from Holland.}} Less of a spoiler for German viewers, where {{spoiler|the Lexx is voiced by a woman.}}
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* [[Scenery Porn]]: Most of the time the show was pretty much stage-bound, but the episode "The Game", shot in Iceland, easily qualifies.
* [[School of Seduction]]: The Wife Bank.
* [[Screwed
** To be fair to the network, they ''did'' give us the fourth season out of fan demand when word got out it wasn't going to happen, which is more than they did for ''[[
* [[Screw Destiny]]: Kai and His Shadow try and fail. Then Stanley succeeds. {{spoiler|The Time Prophet predicts that after the Gigashadow there is "nothing", and indeed Gigashadow/Mantrid seems well on course to destroy all of creation. Then in Brigadoom Stanley grows a spine,turns around and fights Mantrid successfully, thus saving about half of creation. And it's still there thousands of years later too.}}
* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]: Kai and the Divine Shadow tried to avert the Time Prophet's prophecy for the exact opposite reasons. The prophecy could not have been fulfilled without both of them trying to avert it.
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** The episode "Xevivor" contains a quick shout out to [[The Blair Witch Project]].
** From "Fire and Water":
{{quote| '''The Lexx:''' [[
* [[Shower Scene]]: Used to show boobies. About one per season.
* [[Show Within a Show]]: "Lafftrack", "Xevivor".
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* [[SI Prefix Name]]: Foreshadow, Megashadow, Gigashadow.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Kai sports one when he temporarily goes crazy in "Wake the Dead".
* [[Sleeps
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Poetman from "Super Nova".
* [[Smarmy Host]] / [[Depraved Kids' Show Host|Depraved Host]]: The host on the TV planet in "Lafftrack".
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* [[What Have I Done]]: Stanley occasionally has moments of genuine regret and remorse concerning the consequences of his actions and the fact that his incompetence and cowardice have killed billions. The emotional weight of the destruction that earned him the name "Arch-Traitor" is revealed in "Stan's Trial". Giggerota points this out in "Patches in the Sky" when he accidentally blows up a mining planet staffed by robots.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: The Brunnen-G are an example of this. After defeating the Insects, they build a new homeworld and put a shield around it and work out immortality. But it's only agelessness, not accident or disease proof, and thus as a culture nearly all of them are so risk averse they don't get out of bed or their bunkers for fear of a germ or a falling brick. They also live far beyond their brains' ability to remember and have problems. They can still breed though, and the younger generations have issues with what has happened.
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: ''Woz'' is ''[[The Wizard of Oz (
* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him?]]: The Gigashadow talks too much for its own good.
* [[Wizard Needs Food Badly]]: The Lexx is a [[Living Ship]], so it needs to feed. It would usually eat large ''inhabited'' chunks of planets to satisfy its hunger. Since the Lexx provided food for the crew, if Lexx didn't eat ''nobody ate''. Sometimes the search for food would be the plot of an entire episode.
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