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Line 1: {{~~trope~~work}} [[File:sillage.jpg\|~~frame~~thumb\|350px]] ''[[Sillage]]'' (the English title is ''Wake'', as in "the current caused by a passing ship") is a French science fiction comic written by Jean-David Morvan and illustrated by Philippe Buchet. The eponymous Sillage is a giant convoy of spaceships traversing the galaxy. The protagonist of the series is Nävis, the only human Sillage ever encountered. She was raised by robots on an uncivilised planet after a spaceship crash. After initial difficulties - due to her lack of psychic powers she is not recognised as a person at first - she joins Sillage as a sort of special agent. Line 11: ----- {{tropelist}} ~~=== Tropes ===~~ * [[Action Girl]]: Nävis. In the first couple of stories she even qualifies as a [[Little Miss Badass]]; and if she no longer does in later episodes, it isn't for lack of badassery, but because she grows up into actual womanhood. * [[Alien Blood]]: probably spanning the entire spectrum, and the artist even keeps in mind that it affects skin tones. * [[The Alcatraz]]: One of Nävis's missions takes her in a space station used as a maximum-security prison. * [[Anything That Moves]] / [[The Casanova]]: Consul Enshu Atsukau uses his superlative, unblockable telepathy for two things: the most delicate (and therefore lucrative) of diplomatic missions... and getting himself a huge harem of women from virtually every sentient, somewhat humanoid species part of Sillage. This changes after meeting Nävis (even he can't reach her telepathically), and he becomes a creepy(er) [[Stalker ~~With~~with a Crush]] for her. * [[Awful Truth]]: At least one per volume. [[The Powers That Be\|The Constituante]] has a ''lot'' of skeletons in its closet, and they're not the only ones. * [[Badass]]: At least Nävis, Bobo and Enshu Atsukau. Line 25: * [[Censor Box]]: in the US version of the first volume, in which Nävis was topless. * [[Character Development]]: At first innocent and naive, Nävis becomes increasingly jaded and cynical as she matures. * [[Cigar Fuse -Lighting]]: One of the Armada agents does it while on a mission on an alien world, with the two fuses tied in front of his chest and a swivel gun under each arm. While riding a local equivalent of a pterodactyl. * [[The Collector]]: Enshu Atsukau is a weird one. Hopefully Nävis is immune to his [[Mind Control]] power. * [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Nävis. In one book she encounters a group of 7 hostile aliens. After quickly remembering what species and gender they are, she defeats them over a single page - each opponent with his\her\its equivalent of [[Pressure Point]]/ [[Groin Attack]] . Line 44: ** Additionally, Most extremely skinny, named aliens turn out to be assassins of some sort. * [[Lethal Harmless Powers]]: A protective power of radiating bliss, protecting the user by making anyone around him unable to perform violence {{spoiler\|activated in the middle of a vast fleet where all the pilots are telepaths and many engines are psychic-powered, causes a cosmic pile-up that kills thousands}} * [[~~Lots~~Loads ~~And~~and ~~Lots~~Loads Ofof Races]]: Several dozens on Sillage alone, and more besides on the many planets visited. * [[No Gravity for You]] * [[Powers That Be]]: The Constituante, the secretive body that rules over the fleet and often seems to engage in murky schemes. * [[Powered Byby a Forsaken Child]]: It is later [[Wham! Episode\|revealed]] that {{spoiler\|most of Sillage's spaceships are actually powered by psychic powers from people basically used as living batteries. Guess who powers ''hers''...}}. * [[Psychic -Assisted Suicide]]: In one of the later books Atsukau intimidates a gangster into helping him by entering his office and forcing the gangsters that surround him to shoot each other. On another occassion he inverts the trope, using mass suggestion to turn a battle between natives into an improvised football game... calmly commenting that in his old days he would have forced them to eat their own guts. * [[Raised Byby Wolves]]: Raised by a talking sabretooth tiger. (Not part of the trope, but earlier she was raised by a robot, before being subject to [[Laser -Guided Amnesia]].) * [[Thank Your Prey]]: Right on the very first page * [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified]]: One of Nävis's missions takes her to a planet that (superficially) resembles Russia in the early 20th century, where she infiltrates a group of idealistic revolutionaries. * [[Robot Buddy]] - Snivel * [[Schizo -Tech]] - Nävis lives in a treehouse in a spaceship. * [[Shout -Out]] - [[Marsupilami]] in book 1; various, mostly robots ranging from [[Metropolis\|Maria]] to [[Futurama\|Bender]] in book 5 * [[Space Opera]] * [[Spinoff Babies]] - ''Nävis'' * [[Suicide Byby Cop]] - {{spoiler\|Criscios in book 5}} * [[Waif Fu]]: Nävis * [[Wild Child]] - Nävis Line 63: {{reflist}} [[Category:Comic Books]] [[Category:Franco -Belgian Comics]] [[Category:Science Fiction Comic Books]] [[Category:Sillage]] ~~[[Category:Trope]]~~