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[[File:Vexxarr_4362.jpg|frame|Spoorflix (in spacesuit), Minionbot, Sid, and Vexxarr in their native habitat: Assigning blame for failures.]] |
[[File:Vexxarr_4362.jpg|frame|Spoorflix (in spacesuit), Minionbot, Sid, and Vexxarr in their native habitat: Assigning blame for failures.]] |
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{{quote|''"Your logic is your weakness..."''}} |
{{quote|''"Your logic is your weakness..."''}} |
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* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: Pretty much all of them, and often [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]. |
* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: Pretty much all of them, and often [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]. |
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{{quote|'''Vexxarr''': You managed to subvert your entire core programming [[Bothering by the Book|by literally obeying its every word]]. |
{{quote|'''Vexxarr''': You managed to subvert your entire core programming [[Bothering by the Book|by literally obeying its every word]]. |
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'''Vexxarr''': ...alright, fifty-seven seconds. Who had fifty-seven seconds? |
'''Vexxarr''': ...alright, fifty-seven seconds. Who had fifty-seven seconds? |
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'''Minionbot''': I had five dollars on fifty-seven but it was under 'Prepare to be assimilated...' }} |
'''Minionbot''': I had five dollars on fifty-seven but it was under 'Prepare to be assimilated...' }} |
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* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Vexxarr is a borderline type IV [[Anti-Hero]] who can be quite vindictive when he wants to be. But he still has a conscience - albeit one he has tried to literally bash out of his own head - and he ''will'' - in the end - do the right thing.<ref>Eventually.</ref> He is ''not'' going to be nice about it though. ''Ever''. And depriving him of cake is probably going to [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|send him off the deep end]].<ref>The aesop of this story is to always supply your [[Anti-Hero]] with chocolate gateau whenever they have to make an important moral decision.</ref> |
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Vexxarr is a borderline type IV [[Anti-Hero]] who can be quite vindictive when he wants to be. But he still has a conscience - albeit one he has tried to literally bash out of his own head - and he ''will'' - in the end - do the right thing.<ref>Eventually.</ref> He is ''not'' going to be nice about it though. ''Ever''. And depriving him of cake is probably going to [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|send him off the deep end]].<ref>The aesop of this story is to always supply your [[Anti-Hero]] with chocolate gateau whenever they have to make an important moral decision.</ref> |
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* [[Gravity Sucks]]: Averted hard; at one point Vexxarr actually tries to hide in ''a black hole's accretion disk'', relying on his invincible hull to protect him against the radiation. It [[Everything Trying to Kill You|almost]] worked, too. |
* [[Gravity Sucks]]: Averted hard; at one point Vexxarr actually tries to hide in ''a black hole's accretion disk'', relying on his invincible hull to protect him against the radiation. It [[Everything Trying to Kill You|almost]] worked, too. |
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* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: It does actually help, it's just [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=052209 humiliating.] |
* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: It does actually help, it's just [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=052209 humiliating.] |
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* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]: There are an assortment of '[[A God Am I|Ascended Races]]' in the comic, generally with [[Blue and Orange Morality|rather strange agendas]]. Vexxarr [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=041108 despises] these, with [[Insufferable Genius|fairly good reason]]. Later even Sploorfix (whom even the Lattrox [[Even the Rats Won't Touch It|won't eat]]) starts [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=081114 seeing them as pests]. |
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]: There are an assortment of '[[A God Am I|Ascended Races]]' in the comic, generally with [[Blue and Orange Morality|rather strange agendas]]. Vexxarr [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=041108 despises] these, with [[Insufferable Genius|fairly good reason]]. Later even Sploorfix (whom even the Lattrox [[Even the Rats Won't Touch It|won't eat]]) starts [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=081114 seeing them as pests]. |
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* [[Take That]]: Once earth starts to expand, they have [[James Cameron]] help the army with their first-encounter protocols. [[ |
* [[Take That]]: Once earth starts to expand, they have [[James Cameron]] help the army with their first-encounter protocols. [[Avatar (film)|If the army's and Cameron's protocols ever agreed, the army changed theirs.]] Also, it is suggested several times that the [[The Alleged Car|Pontiac Aztec]] is the [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=080608 ugliest thing in the universe]. |
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** [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=121905 Ouch, Sony.] |
** [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=121905 Ouch, Sony.] |
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* [[Technical Pacifist]]. Parodied with the locutrons. |
* [[Technical Pacifist]]. Parodied with the locutrons. |
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