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* [[Gold Fever]]: A variation of it occurs in the Emperor's backstory. He was a simple space engineer at the time on a ship that accidentally discovered the portal to an alternate universe filled with antimatter--a nearly limitless supply of energy that would completely transform society upon its discovery, and make anyone who had a monopoly on it insanely rich. This would be enough to make people think greedy thoughts on its own. The ship becomes badly damaged, however, and while it's limping back to Earth it becomes clear that the fewer survivors there are the more air and food there will be for the rest...

* [[Good Guy Bar]]: The Western Eating Parlor Number 2

* [[The Great Escape]]: The first part of ''Revenge of the Damned'' is one giant [[Shout-Out]] to [[The Great Escape]]. Then Sten has to ''break back in'' and it becomes a more serious version of ''Hogan's Heroes,'' if you can imagine that.

* [[Heavyworlder]]: Kilgour. So it justifies a lot of improbable moves like:

* [[Planet of Hats]]: Mostly averted, but consider: Kilgour comes from a planet called ''Edinburgh.'' In other words, somewhere in the galaxy is an entire world of [[Violent Glaswegian|people like him.]]

* [[Praetorian Guard]]: There is literally an Imperial Praetorian Guard unit; these guys are really more of the "shine your boots and look good" honor guard rather than the elite Gurkhas the Emperor employs to actually guard himself. Unsurprisingly, most of them turn out to be untrustworthy when a coup is attempted.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]

** The People of the Lake