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[[File:Christmas2004_1763.jpg|frame|Clockwise from bottom right: Terinu, Gwen, Leeza, Melika, Rufus and Lance.]]
{{quote|''"I hope you're watching this Varn, 'cause you'd better get this through your green ugly skull... '''You don't own me!'''''|[http://www.terinu.com/ ''Terinu'', Chapter Six]}}
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An intricately plotted and well drawn and written comic series, set in six chapter arcs in a standard comic book format, mimicking the original dead tree editions.
'''Terinu''': Our Hero, a fifteen year-old alien boy with an understandably touchy temper and severe trust issues after being abused half his life.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: The Gene Mage.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: It's not actually required to understand the comic, but a run through the site's Almanac helps explain some of the universe's politics that underlie the characters' actions.
* [[A Million Is a Statistic]]:
** When tens of thousands of Vulpine are at risk from a deadly virus, we only really see the first two victims, Rufus and Melika.
** However, when the {{spoiler|Human Federation's genocide of the Ferin}} is revealed, Leeza is properly horrified. It doesn't hurt that when she makes the discovery, we see an obscured autopsy photo of one of the victims.
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* [[Big Bad]]: The Varn Gene Mage.
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Leeza did this after discovering what happened to Terinu's race. It ended badly.
* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]: Practically every character with the exception of Galapados mooks is unique in some way.
* [[Child Soldiers]]: Terinu was trained from the age of nine to be an assassin by Mavra Chan. His best friend Matt was sold at age eleven by his own father to the same pirate to serve aboard her ship.
* [[Crapsack World]]: The supposed good guys' government practices indentured servitude of criminals, selling them to biological research companies as test subjects, space pirates run rampant through the universe and Terinu's best bet for safety is with the [[Big Bad]].
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* [[The Dragon]]: The Gene Mage has Gisko, and Mavra Chan has her first officer "Brutal" Brooks.
* [[Everyone Is Bisexual]]: Or at least {{spoiler|all the ferin are. It's part of their ''design''.}}
* [[Fantastic Caste System]]: The Vulpine skirt this, dividing themselves into Farmer Lord (the Rulers), Military (the Fighters) and Commoner (everybody else). Fortunately there's some give to the system, with Commoners able to marry up into the Farmer Lord class, usually by gaining recognition during their mandantory military service.
* [[Fan Disservice]]: Seeing Gwen in her [[Fetish Fuel]] exotic dancer outfit, in front of two very ''tall'' aliens who make her look ten instead of fifteen years old.
* [[Fan Service]]: Terinu getting naked or half-naked (usually against his will), shirtless furries and Gwen in her Exotic Dancer Barbie costume (but see above). Not to mention the December 2008 calandar image, with all the girls in bikinis on the beach (in the [[Land Down Under]]).
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* [[Has Two Mommies]]: Four really. His biological mother whomever she may be, Mavra Chan, Melika and Leeza. The latter two are the only ones likely to cooperate raising him though.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Teri and Matt spent half their lives as the abused slaves of a insane pirate warlord, with Matt stealing food to keep Terinu healthy and at one point cuddling with him in bed after Teri's powers were traumatically activated. [[Word of God]] has stated "They'd both rather be dead than see the other hurt."
* [[Humans Are
* [[Humans Are Special]]: At least five other races spent over a thousand years as slaves of the Varn Dominion, but after trying to conquer humanity the Dominion fell in less than a hundred years.
* [[If It's You It's Okay]]: {{spoiler|Matt for Terinu}} according to the [[Word of Gay]].
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Terinu is falling for Gwen, a human girl his own age and possibly {{spoiler|Matt in the past.}} In a canon text story by Peta, a human girl also apparently has a long running affair and eventually becomes engaged to a vulpine.
* [[It Got Worse]]: Text stories set a hundred years in the story's future have the ferin race rediscovered and integrated into Vulpine society, with Terinu as their leader {{spoiler|but he's desperately lonely and there are uncounted thousands of ferin living as slaves, being considered non-sentient pets outside Vulpine space.}}
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Depending on the circumstances, either Terinu himself or his nemesis Lance.
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* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Despite a nightmarishly abusive childhood bearing obvious consesquences on his psyche, no one has taken Teri into therapy yet (not that they've really had ''time'').
* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: A rare villainous example, when Mavra Chan {{spoiler|spears Leeza}}.
* [[Training
* [[Uncle Pennybags]]: Rufus, who at one point pays off a debt Melika had been laboring to get rid of for ten years.
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: Subverted in the first story arc, as the weapon belongs to the Dominion and used by the Varn Gene Mage to test Terinu's abilities and crack open a Creo asteroid colony. It's implied that they once had even bigger cannon, used to bombard the Earth when they invaded it 500 years ago.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: When Leeza confronts her father about {{spoiler|the secret that Humanity committed genocide against the Ferin.}}
* [[We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future]]: With indentured criminals no less.
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