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The fog that fills Trigan City is not naturally occurring, although the only person who correctly identifies the problem is a blind beggar, Uruz, whose hearing has become greatly attuned Fountain of Youth: There's a hidden city who's nobles are believed to have the secret to reverse aging (it's actually a scam). Peric actually creates one by re-engineering Zogg's Rapid Aging invention and it never gets used again after it fulfills its story role. The Trigan Empire –the collection- is a deluxe series of twelve volumes, bringing you the 50 Trigan Empire episodes, which were drawn by Don Lawrence and written by Mike Butterworth. Another problem was that, as time went by, there were fewer and fewer new ideas available, and old ones had to be recycled without even observing the Fleeting Demographic Rule. The most common stories were:
Find sources: "Mike Butterworth" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( September 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) In 1965, he became one of the main script writers for Ranger where he penned the sprawling science-fantasy The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire which remains one of the most popular boys' adventure strips published in the UK to this day. Mooks: Guards can arrest and oppress when needed, but as soon as the rebellion occurs they can be pushed aside by angry civilians. Guards who fight heroes go down like skittles. Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Maybe not the rape to fall in line with age restrictions, but the Trigan Empire would regularly get taken over by some foreign nation or Barbarian Tribe who'd happily bust up a lot of the local architecture and steal Trigan valuables.
A plant or contaminant that makes good people evil arrives from outer space; happened at least three times. Immune to Bullets: Some wildlife on Elekton are immune to the bullets from the high-tech guns of that world. Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Kreeds (rhymes with 'steeds') = horses, Nobras (rhymes with 'cobras') = poisonous snakes, The Sacred Yalt = a sabre-toothed tiger, Robbis = marmot, Morrol = rat, Norva = orca, Zanna = piranha, Gorphin = dolphin, Ranta = tarantula. Soft Glass: Trigo, pursued by Mooks and promising that many will fall before he does, smashes out the window in his short tunic and kilt. He isn't even scratched. Badass in Distress: It seemed every other story has the mighty Emperor Trigo or his heroic nephew Janno getting kidnapped, Made a Slave or mind-controlled.
We can still marvel at the extraordinary visual flair and detail of Don Lawrence’s stunning artwork. 9/10” StarburstFantastic Racism: White people will turn on Green ones if the story requires it, otherwise they're all sweetness and light. However, as the story progressed, it became a series of adventure stories featuring the same cast of characters, principally Trigo, the emperor; Brag, his brother; Janno, Brag's dashing son; Keren, Janno's friend; Peric, a wise architect and scientific genius, and his daughter, Salvia. Later, Janno and Keren aquired another friend, Roffa, and Trigo had three sons of whom one, Nikko, lived to be a major character.
Loony Laws: The Vorg tribe has an ancient law of revenge, anyone who harms a member of the tribe needs to be avenged immediately regardless of circumstance. This law was never removed despite Emperor Trigo concerned about its implication. A scummy merchant uses this against the Hericon kingdom when they legitimately punished him for fraud and this law causes a major war between the Trigans and the Hericons because of Cycle of Revenge. It got so bad that Trigan citizens wanted to lynch Trigo's royal wife Ursa because she's a Hericon native. Space Romans: Despite the quite advanced technology and occasional Mad Science, a lot of the visual aesthetic and bits of the political systems bear a remarkable resemblance to Earth’s classical Graeco-Roman period. Ray Gun: The guns on Elekton is a hybrid projectile/energy weapon that fires a bullet propelled by a heat ray.
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Rule of Cool: Swords against guns? Surviving huge explosions? Nomads on funny camel-things against tanks? No problem, as long as it looks good and makes a fine story. Mook Chivalry: If the hero needs to spot something in mid-fight, the enemy will pause while he looks round. The best-selling Treasury of British Comics archival series The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire reaches its fourth astounding volume. Trigo or his relatives set off on an expedition to some continent that had never been mentioned before; at least twice.
Sole Survivor: Of Trigo's triplet sons, only Nikko survives and he becomes the heir to the Hericon throne. Universally Beloved Leader: Trigo has it. He's so loved that when a military junta overthrew him in secret, they were only able to quell the population by declaring a young man as Emperor Trigo the 2nd - as people love the original so much they'd follow anyone with the same name. And when the traitorous general murders his puppet ruler in front of the people at the main square, the population turn into a Torches and Pitchforks mob because "He killed Trigo!!" despite the puppet ruler enacting bad policies. Heads or Tails?: One that decides the fate of an entire world. The Lokan dictator is wondering who to crush next; the nomadic warrior Vorgs or the cultured Tharvs? Expecting to conquer both in good time, he tosses a coin to settle the matter. It's the Tharvs, and their refugees flood into Vorg territory where they form an alliance with the Proud Warrior Race that defeats the Lokans and establishes the Trigan Empire.In the swamps of Florida a UFO crashed somewhere in the late thirties. The spaceship resisted the impact en onboard men found the dead crew and a collection of books with inside the chronicles of the Trigan Empire. Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Both times a curse was put on Trigo, it was a fake. Once the arc even ended with unbandaging the "mummy" to reveal a person you'd never have suspected. And he almost got away with it, too! Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown
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