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'''''[[Starstruck''']]'' originated as an early 1980s stage production and spawned [[Comic Book|Comic Books]] and later [[Radio Drama|audio dramas]]. It [[Pastiche|pastiches]] [[Space Opera]] with a healthy admixture of [[Soap Opera]] set in "Anachera", a time period where no particular power bloc holds sway. At no point does the narrative [[Viewers Are Geniuses|spoonfeed its audience]], expecting it to keep track of the various allusions, plot twists and multiple layers of meaning. Apart from that, it has a dense visual style, as well. It rivals (if not exceeds) ''[[Watchmen]]'' in terms of complexity and intricate [[World Building]].

* [[Action Girl]]: Brucilla the Muscle, Galatia-9.

* [[Alternative Calendar]]: The series takes place in (or shortly after) the first hundred years of "Anachera", so-named because of the lack of any one authority.

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: The "production design" of the comic's clothes, technology and seetings mixes the present day, a [[Raygun Gothic]] [[Retro Universe]] look and high tech and futuristic, with a dash of Art Nouveau, giving it a unique look.

* [[Complete Monster]]: Verloona Ti, the Baron of Bajar.

* [[Earth All Along]]: A particular planet gets mentioned a number of times without any reference to its former name of Earth. (But then, half of its landmass went ka-boom long ago.)

* [[Future Slang]]: "Boot" for fuck. (Incidentally, "art" has turned into a literal dirty word.)

* [[Holographic Terminal]]: Pretty much ubiquitous to [[The Verse]]. Quite prescient, too, seeing as the first comics came out in the early '80s. (But ''[[Blake's Seven7|Blakes Seven]]'' had them, too.)

* [[Souvenir Land]]: The Anarchera era has its own cross between Dale Carnegie and [[Walt Disney]], with his own theme park.

* [[Eager Young Space Cadet]]: The young Brucilla in the Americadian Space Brigade. (Actually played straight for once, or at least as straight as ''Starstruck'' plays anything.)

* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The [[Purple Prose]] (and title) of Ronnie Lee Ellis' Hugo Award-winning ''Mind Spiders from the Planet Xenon''.

* [[Too Good to Last]]: The [[Marvel Comics]] continuation of the original comic and the [[Dark Horse]] reprint/expansion did not last long.

* [[Used Future]]: Even in the distant future, a bohemian writer's living room looks pretty much like a bohemian writer's living room.

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