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[http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=100501 Vexxarr] is a comedy Sci-Fi webcomic by Hunter Cressall. The initial setup sounds similar to [[Invader Zim]]: An alien [[Evil Overlord]] sends his flunky to conquer earth, mostly to [[Reassigned to Antarctica|get him out of the way]]. However, it plays out quite differently. For starters, the flunky Vexxarr is quite well aware that he is incompetent, or in his own words: "Let's say I know a thing or two about being volunteered for one-way missions." Secondly, Vexxarr tries an [[Alien Invasion|open invasion]], with [[War of the Worlds]]-esque walkers. It fails miserably, and Vexxarr is captured. Initially, the comic showed Vexxarr living on earth. After a while though, Vexxarr was allowed to leave, and since then the comic has centered on Vexxarr's journey through the galaxy, and trying to find a place that [[Everything Trying to Kill You|isn't inhabited by something that wants him dead.]] [[Fate Worse Than Death|Or worse.]]

 

 

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{{quote| '''Drone''' (''producing a software patch):'' {int Add(the green lout had it coming); };}}

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Pretty much all of them, and often [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]].

** Vexxarr only feels safe and comfortable around the robots that are actively trying to kill him. If they offer to help, ''that's'' when he gets worried.

* [[Alien Arts Are Appreciated]]: The Mahakalosians offer to build ships for Earth in exchange for(among other things) [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=101609 original pressings of Adam Ant records] and [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=060210 nine tons of oreo cookies].

{{quote| '''Vexxarr''': All I want is a safe place where I can enjoy a little cake and Xbox and instead I find bizarre civilisations in danger of unintended self-extermination. And then they want help. From '''''me'''''. }}

* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=090508 Or the threat, either.]

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]:

{{quote| '''[[Precursors|Forebearer's computer:]]''' Your logic is cold, selfserving and unerring in it's cruelty. And that's comming from an [[AI Is a Crapshoot|renegade AI]]}}

* [[Evil Overlord]]: The emperor of Bleen.

* [[Evil Versus Evil]]:

'''Vexxarr''': No, no. See, the [[I'm a Humanitarian|Lattrox]] and [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Bleen]] would be fighting.... [[Always Chaotic Evil|each other...]] }}

* [[False Reassurance]]: [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=030411 Well...]

** [[The Hero]]: Vexxarr - (our [[Deadpan Snarker]] leader who [[Cosmic Plaything|the universe is continuously trying to kill]])

** [[The Lancer]]: Carl - (the [[AI Is a Crapshoot|homicidal ship A.I.]] who continually bickers with, torments and tries to kill Vexxarr... [[Sarcastic Devotee|before going along with every one of his insane strategies]])

** [[The Big Guy]]: Sid - (the silicon life-form who despite being a [[Cowardly Lion]], [[Nigh Invulnerability|is indestructible]])

** [[The Chick]]: Sploorfix/Sid - (and Sploorfix, who makes many heart-felt entreaties for everyone to stop fighting... [[Walking Wasteland|all of which are Death Incarnate for any machine within visual or audio range]])

'''Aid''': I believe everything you say.<br />

'''Queen''': I trust you ''implicitly''.<br />

* [[The Heart]]: Sploorflix keeps trying to get everyone to work together, help all the creatures they come across, and wants everyone to live in love and peace. Unfortunately, for him, he's in [[Wrong Genre Savvy|the wrong universe]] and within a lightyear vicinity of [[Kick the Dog|Vexxarr and Carl]], where his extreme idealism does not hold up well in the face of Vexxarr's wormhole of cynicism. However, he does still manage to drag Vexxarr's conscience out into the open more than once, though, pulling their somewhat [[Dysfunction Junction|dysfunctional crew]] into doing the right thing. ...Eventually.

* [[Humans Are Special]]: Originally it seemed like [[Humans Are Warriors]] but the Mahakalosians stated that "Urthers" were not a warrior race due to the simple fact that they are neither unified nor extinct. [[Humans Are Diplomats|Rather they are special because they are willing to work together with others]].

* [[Scenery Porn]]: Many comics that take place in space use real astronomical pictures as background, see the trope picture.

* [[Shooting Superman]]: It takes a while for everyone to realize that Sid, and the other Rock Crabs Are [[Immune to Bullets]], beam weapons, explosions and blunt trauma. By now it's begun happening [[Noodle Incident|off-sceen]], and we get to see the [[Reaction Shot]] [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=070111 instead].

* [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]]: In-universe.

{{quote| When you are aboard an [[Ghost Ship|alien construct of uncertain design and purpose]], you touch ''nothing!'' You have [[What Does This Button Do?|no way of knowing if a lever could vent the atmosphere into space]]...if...if a switch could activate [[Gray Goo|flesh-eating nanobots!]] Until you have studied ''everything'', you have to assume that this [[Malevolent Architecture|station's sole purpose was to isolate and destroy you personally!]] ''[[Dangerously Genre Savvy|DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!]]''}}

{{quote| '''Sploorfix''': What are you thinking?<br />

'''Minionbot''': That Vexxarr has been in space entirely '''too''' long. }}

{{quote| '''Vexxarr:''' '''''Get back here this instant and start spouting gibberish until my worldview is centered!'''''}}

* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Vexxarr eventually becomes ''far'' too good at a strange mix between this and [[Indy Ploy]], courtesy of a mix of extreme [[Gaslighting|paranoia]], excessive [[The Cynic|cynicism]], unfathomable [[Genre Savvy|Genre Savviness]] ... and [[Cosmic Plaything|a long career as the universe's favourite Plaything]]. Often leads to a [[Moment of Awesome]]. Carl is a frequent contributor.