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''Space Beasts'' is a collection of stories, some on Furaffinity.Net, and some on Writing.com (in the form of campfires). There are also many scripts that were written on Final Draft that are yet to be published. It's a young series that may very well be an actual cartoon show/movie/web animation/comic book/whatever if the creator is lucky. Its premise is a mix of ''[[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' meets ''[[Bucky O 'Hare and The Toad Wars (Comic Book)|Bucky O Hare and The Toad Wars]]'', or, it could be described as [[Cordwainer Smith]] meets [[Mel Brooks]] with a liberal sprinkling from various Broadway musicals and plenty of [[Shout Out|Shout Outs]] to various other shows and stories the creator loves.
 
The story follows the crew of The Fellowship; they're a motley crew composed of [[Uplifted Animals]] (called Humanimals) along with two humans (One is a former prince named Edward Green who marries the Second-in-Command, Minsk; the other is a homeless waif boy named Ichabod Crane who is adopted by the crew and serves as Team Doctor.) and one alien, (also a former Prince who marries the Captain, Matoaka.) The Humanimals of the crew are Matoaka Redfeather, a unicorn girl; Minsk Flemmingcoff, a mink girl; Bill Brandy, a bull boy; Jim Buckwheat, a squirrel boy; and Bob Buttz, a catfish boy.
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* [[Cats Are Magic]]: Marzipan is a powerful Mage who has not yet realized her potential, her Mentor Mr. Quaxo Tabby is also a mage but does not have the same amount of raw power she has.
* [[Cats Are Snarkers]]: Marzipan can be this at times, but most of the time she's pretty mellow and nice.
* [[Clones Are People, Too]]: How many stories do you know of where a clone is the hero of the story? In fact the fact that he is a clone isn't really an issue to anyone except some old fashioned bigots who considers clones crimes against nature (These people generally aren't fond of Humanimals either)
* [[Cloning Blues]]: Ichabod is a clone of his Father who was a half elf (This explains why I call Ichabod Half Elf and not quarter elf, he gets none of his genes from his Mom) Also while Ichabod always knew he was a clone, for most of his childhood he didn't suffer from this trope as his parents treated him as their beloved child and not something expendable, however in the episode Monster, the people of Earthport learn Ichabod is a clone and start harassing him for it calling him a Monster, Ichabod is rescued by his Humanimal friends and learns [[An Aesop]] That harassing Bob for being gay (Which he had been doing earlier in the episode) is no different than the Earthport citizens harassing him for being a clone.
* [[Comfort Food]]:
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* [[Erotic Eating]]: Kong tries this one time with a banana.
* [[Ethical Slut]]: Kate Punda-Milla, the zebra girl is only partially this. She was infamous on her home world for being a mare who [[Really Gets Around]] but has since come came to settle down for the family life with Ichabod's half uncle, Thomas Lanky. However, she is very helpful to the crew as she is pretty much a sexual encyclopedia and gives Bill and Samantha advice on how to safely make love. She also gives Ichabod and Marzipan ideas on how to satisfy their libidos (tickling fetishes, spanking) without losing their virginity.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Dinosaurs]]: There are quite a few dinosaur humanimals, there is Momo Kashi, a female triceratops, Fossil, a Velociraptor Shaman, and Rodan a Pteranodon who was raised by the Aves.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Worse With Bears]]: Averted with Snowy and Ebony. Although they are officially M's henchmen, they secretly helped the heroes during their battle with B.A.A.W. Snowy the polar bear is especially helpful in revealing M's origin story to the heroes.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Cows]]: Both Bill Brandy and Sir Taurus are Bull Men.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Monkeys]]: Before Ichabod was adopted by The Fellowship crew the Team Medic position was filled by Henry Wisner (but everybody calls him Kong) Kong is a Gorilla, a jive talking gorilla with an afro.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Penguins]]: Hopper the rockhopper penguin is a figure of legend in Humanimal history, one of the first Humanimals ever created. She's also a [[Killer Rabbit]].
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Princesses]]: Averted, After an odd set of circumstances, Jordan Celt becomes the Prime Minister (The first Humanimal to hold such an office) of Britain, Not Princess, Prime Minister.
* [[Everythings Nuttier With Squirrels]]: Subverted, Jim Buckwheat the Squirrel Boy is pretty mellow and laid back, until you hurt his friends, you defiantly don't want to be around him when he's wielding his [[Flaming Sword]].
* [[The Fair Folk]]: Ichabod soon learns he is half elf, he is NOT happy.
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* [[The Heart]]: Jim Buckwheat fits this trope to a tee. When Ichabod is first rescued by the Fellowship crew. Ichabod is really frightened and depressed over the loss of his family and his home. The first thing Jim does is try to cheer him up. He repeatedly tries to get Ichabod to cheer up during the five episode pilot, especially after Bill (Who at this point is still distrustful of humans) is being mean to him. After a while Ichabod gets annoyed with Jim's constant attempts to make him feel better and demands to be left alone.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Surprisingly subverted, humans, despite creating the Humanimals to be a [[Servant Race]] and everything are NOT the epitome of evil in the universe, if anything the series argues that [[Humans Are Flawed]].
* [[Hyperactive Metabolism]]: Spoofed in one episode where the characters are trapped in a video game world, and Bob has to patiently explain how eating food heals you. Unfortunately unlike other video games, the heroes don't have a [[Bottomless Bladder]]. They inevitably need bathroom breaks on their quest which hampers them quite a bit, on the bright side Decaf Coffee serves as a [[Power -Up Food]] to Edward one sip of decaf and he becomes so angry he can smash down a brick wall!
*** "When I eat this apple my HP goes up...don't ask me how it, just is."
* [[Impossibly Delicious Food]]: Wasabi is this to Elves and Half Elves (For Fairies and Half Fairies it is Peanut Butter)
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** Also when the they escaped the Slave Farm and found sanctuary in the Valley of the Rushes, Jim, Bill and all the others were overjoyed by the fact that now they could eat all the strawberries, blackberries and any other berry they want and there were no humans to forbid them from doing so (Berries, grapes, cherries and other little delicate fruits were forbidden to the Humanimals because they were an expensive delicacy at the time and reserved for humans alone)
* [[Nerd]]: Ichabod, Bob, Marzipan and Rook all have their nerdy moments
* [[One -Note Cook]]: When Marzipan is enchanted and turned into an Eight Year Old Kitten, She insists she will still do the cooking because apparently the only thing Ichabod can make well-or at least edible-is hard boiled eggs. "Very good hard boiled eggs." He was said to mumble meekly
* [[Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap]]: On the planets belonging to [[The Empire]] Regular non-uplifted animals are an extremely rare and expensive commodity, as most of them have been used to make Humanimal slaves. Near the end of the series [[Big Bad]] Lord Darkseid's son Prince Julius learns that his Dad took his beloved Great Dane Rosebud and turned her into a Humanimal slave without his knowledge, seeing his beloved dog as a broken in slave was enough to cause the prince to pull a [[Heel Face Turn]] and help the heroes defeat his Dad.
* [[Orgasmically Delicious]]: When Ichabod gets into the wasabi you could almost swear he was about climax in his pants. Also a literal example when Ichabod eats an apple from the spirit world, he the the magic the brings him back to life is so powerful he ejaculates upon reviving. (Yes he was embarrassed but he was also grateful to be alive again and have Marzipan safely back with him.)
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* [[Petting Zoo People]]: All the Humanimals are this, to a lesser extent the [[Intelligent Gerbil]] Aliens are this as well.
* [[The Power of Love]]: The Power of Love is what drives the plot. The Prophecy that sets the plot in motion states, ''"If a virgin human male loves a humanimal female with all his heart and '''he''' loses his virginity to her, then the universe will be altered and all intelligent beings will become equal."''
* [[Power -Up Food]]:
** The Magic Spice can turn you into a child, the Magic Spring water can reverse the effects of the spice and turn you into an adult.
** When trapped in the video game world drinking Decaf Coffee enrages Edward so much he can smash walls and break robots in half!
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* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Most of the characters are big eaters in general but most have a favorite food or two, Marzipan is very fond of hamburgers, Ichabod is enjoys the occasional cup of chamomile tea,(The wasabi is more of a drug than a food to him) Matoaka loves strawberries, Zander likes to eat fish (Which he likes live and squirming as they go down his throat) Edward likes coffee, Bob likes cola and so on and so forth
* [[Twenty Bear Asses]]: Combines this trope with [[Wacky Cravings]] If Minsk or Matoaka's cravings are particularly strong they will send either their husbands, or Bill, Jim and Ichabod out and will not let them come home without that particular brand of Pistachio flavored ice cream or pickled radishes.
* [[Twice -Told Tale]]: [[The Phantom of the Opera]] Parody Phantom of Crystal Mountain is essentially a futuristic retelling of the tale where many of the tropes are subverted or inverted for example in the original novel the story was about a heroine with [[Stockholm Syndrome]] in the Crystal Mountain story the Phantom of the story (Falco) is an reluctant kidnapper who develops [[Lima Syndrome]] and Marzipan is the [[Genre Savvy]] heroine who milks it for all it's worth!
* [[Unicorn]]: One featured prominently as the Captain of the crew, plays with the whole 'Can only be touched by a virgin' thing by having her fall in love with Zander who was a Virgin Male at the time (But Matoaka was unaware of that)
* [[Uplifted Animal]]: The Humanimals were created by humans to serve as slaves, naturally the Humanimals didn't like being slaves so inevitably they rebelled, Planet Earth was the first planet to proclaim Humanimals free citizens now the human colonized planets are dived between [[The Federation]] Planets-who want the Humanimals to be liberated- and [[The Empire]] Planets, who want to keep using Humanimals as slaves
* [[Wacky Cravings]]: While Matoaka and Minsk were pregnant they would send either their husbands or Bill, Jim and Ichabod out for the strangest things in one episode Minsk sends them out for duck blood of all things!
* [[Waif Prophet]]: Bob Buttz and occaionally Marzipan
* [[What Measure Is a Non -Cute?]]: Averted. While most of the main cast are typically cuddly creatures like, household pets Marzipan the ragdoll cat and Quaxo the tabby cat. There are woodland creatures like Jim the squirrel and Rook the fox, farm animals like Bill the Bull, and charismatic mega fauna like Kong the Gorilla and Kate the Zebra. There are also many heroic humanimals whose species are typically cast in a villainous role like Beauty Cherrystone (cobra girl), Iris Ogg (bat woman) and even a heroic cockroach named Sir Nrrr'c.
* [[The White Prince]]: Zander the Prince of Bird-like Aliens called Aves is this to Captain Matoaka.
* [[Yiff]]: Mocked. Humanimals seem to be aware of [[Furry Fandom]], and really hate [[Furry Fandom|furries]]' [[Fantastic Racism|species stereotypes]] (e.g., Rabbit People absolutely despise the stereotype they enjoy being eaten) And Humanimals in general don't like the Furrys' depiction of animal sex. As Beauty the Snake Girl put it, "We do not ''yiff''! We make love." Mentioning Yiff around a Humanimal (Especially a Fox Humanimal) is a good way to get the stuffing beat out of you.
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