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* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Benjamin wears one most of the time.
* <s>[[Batman Can Breathe in Space|Batman]]</s> Caprice [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|Can Breathe In Space]], thanks to Martian technology being [[Sufficiently Advanced]] to keep a pocket of air around her wherever she goes.
* [[Big Guy, Little Guy]]: Dryden and Chaucer, respectively, are a robotic version and thus able to take the trope to new heights.: Chaucer is the size and shape of a hamster ball; Dryden is several times bigger than a human.
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: Minus the "evil" part. See the [[Voice of the Legion]] entry below.
* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: {{spoiler|Caprice Quevillion was disconnected from Mars.}} [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]].
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** Virgil also appears to have read [[The Evil Overlord List]] and avoids falling into several of the pitfalls outlined in it.
* [[A God Am I]]: Averted; Mars is quick to [http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos023.html point out] that it isn't omnipotent; merely extremely powerful.
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: Caprice being the good cop to Benjamin's bad cop. [http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos266.html Lampshaded.]
** A more dramatic example comes after [http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos278.html they drop in on Dr. Beatriz Juruna.]
* [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]]: In addition to [[Scary Shiny Glasses|his glasses]] as noted below, one sign that Haas has developed [[Science-Related Memetic Disorder]] is that [[Hair Antennae|his bangs suddenly jut up and out]], managing to look like horns, or perhaps broken antennae.
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*** Maybe everyone has "normal" hair and "Mad Science" hair
* [[Graceful Loser]]: Most mad scientists end up being pretty relieved that they're stopped.
* [[Ground
* [[Guns Do Not Work That Way]]: Robots can be seen firing entire rounds, as opposed to just the bullet. The case stays in the weapon until extracted in real guns.
* [[Hive Mind]]: Mars again, if you couldn't tell.
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* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Benjamin.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Fabula and Syuzhet, color-coded little ball-shaped robots from the Martian Constabulary.
* [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?]]: See [[Badass Boast]] above.
* [[Ridiculously
** Also averted insofar as the robots are rarely, if ever humanoid, being shaped to their purposes.
* [[Sanity Slippage]] Noticeable in {{spoiler|Benjamin}} if you know what you're looking for, though thankfully {{spoiler|he gets better.}}
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: The only time Dr. Haas doesn't have these is in the prologue, just before he catches SRMD
* [[Sex By Proxy]]: A romantic example: everyone on Mars ''loves'' Prester.
* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]: {{spoiler|on the [[Last
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Solidly Idealist.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Kilgannon and Sachs are both computer professionals and science geeks, and it shows, making ''[[A Miracle of Science (Webcomic)|A Miracle of Science]]'' one of the hardest-SF webcomics out there. They're courteous enough to confine the worst of the infodumps to the "John/Mark Sez" columns beside the latest panel.
* [[Star
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]]: subverted with the Martians, which are Sufficiently Advanced but actually human.
* [[Take Over the World]]: A seemingly common compulsion among mad scientists. Unusually for a [[Mad Scientist]] story, we get several hints as to ''how'', exactly, the various loonies in the story intend to "improve" the solar system once they're in charge of it.
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