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'''[[Paparazzi|Frank Hannibal]]:''' ''[silent]''

'''Lota:''' [[Shut UP, Hannibal|Please stop pretending that you are the voice of the people.]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|You just happen to be loud, and wearing a microphone.]] }}

* [[Determinator]]: Howard Tayler, the author. Nothing can stop him from updating every single day. Not injuries, not software glitches, ''nothing.'' Even [[Stuff Blowing Up|a transformer explosion at the server farm where the comic is hosted]] that took out two walls, several websites, and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment did not stop Schlock Mercenary's update schedule; he just set up a temporary site until they got the main host back up. On one occasion, the comic was up several hours late. Howard apologized, and the strip was up by End of Business that day. ''One occasion in eleven years.''

* [[Determinator]]: Howard Tayler, the author. Nothing can stop him from updating every single day. Not injuries, not software glitches, ''nothing.'' Even [[Stuff Blowing Up|a transformer explosion at the server farm where the comic is hosted]] that took out two walls, several websites, and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment did not stop Schlock Mercenary's update schedule; he just set up a temporary site until they got the main host back up. On one occasion, the comic was up several hours late. Howard apologized, and the strip was up by End of Business that day. ''One occasion in eleven years.'' He continued on the entire twenty year run, never having missed an update nor posting guest art. But he's going to take a vacation after that.

* [[Deus Est Machina]]:

** Seemingly '''any''' AI should it gain enough processing power. Lunesby, the [[Instant AI, Just Add Water|accidental offspring]] of a ''holographic [[Boy Band]]'' and Luna's millennium-old filing system immediately decides to start streamlining the moon's [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|labyrinthine bureaucracy]]. LOTA (the Longshoreman Of The Apocalypse) does pretty much the same thing on Credomar. OTOH, Petey is ''[[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|suicidally insane]]'' when the Toughs pick him up, but eventually becomes the core of the Fleetmind; a gestalt of countless Battleship Class AIs into one, big, (kinda) omniscient Uber-AI... that immediately decides to appoint itself guardian of the Milky Way Galaxy.