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Sic Semper is an RPG campaign pretending to be a low-budget science fiction TV series. It premiered in fall 2009 and is currently in its third season.
It's about four people from year 2009 stuck in a prison colony called Coventry ... no.
It's about escaping a multidimensional prison colony ... not that either.
It's about a larger than usual Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits from alternate Universes, trying to find their way home while fighting an overpowering interdimensional corporation which has imprisoned them for reasons of its own.
That is, until it becomes something else again.
This series provides examples of
- Action Girl: Jumapii. Although she's more of an Action Woman at 45.
- Action Survivor: Most main characters until Season 3, when the main cast is joined by Giovanni, a Wicked Cultured Assassin, and Mily, a near-Crazy Prepared Disaster Scavenger.
- Actual Pacifist: Ayela. She has gone as far as threaten Gao Chun with a gun, but it's uncertain if she'd ever have fired.
- Anyone Can Die: For a series that started out with very little violence, the body count sure has gone up since the end of Season 1. Now that they're even killing off main characters, who knows where it will end?
- Black Dude Dies First: Whenever there's a fight, this trope seems to work. Jacques Artha in episode 9, Myo Obadele in episode 16, Matthau Bankole in episode 23. Of course there are a lot of black people in the series but still.
- Bloodier And Gorier: Since getting out of Coventry, things have been getting more and more violent.
- Camp Gay: Walter Huggel, whiny hairdresser
- Chessmaster: Everything that happens, happens because Mizida has planned it to happen. Except maybe not managing to be on the first conveyor off Coventry, and seeing how season 3 is turning out so far, maybe even that.
- Complete Monster: Tukulti-Ninib is implied to have been this.
- Did Not Do The Research: Happens occasionally. Do not watch this for advice on how to act when shipwrecked or make bombs.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Discover something Infinity would like to keep secret, no matter how minor? You get sterilization, a memory wipe and a ticket to a primitive tropical village for the rest of your life!
- Fish Out Of Temporal Water: Pretty much the whole point.
- Flashback: Common in Season 1, not so common any more.
- Hide Your Children: Coventry had no children at all, since the people in it had been sterilized. Starting from season 3, we have seen some children.
- Infodump: The characters finding out stuff about Infinity tends to result in one of these.
- Jumping The Shark: Attempting an aversion. The producer has claimed that he hopes to make every season so completely different from the previous one that people who cannot abide change will just stop watching.
- Loads And Loads Of Characters: You will need a scorecard to keep all the characters straight.
- Mechanical Monster: Tigris Mk II tiger-robot, complete with minigun and six legs.
- Mega Corp: Infinity Unlimited, apparently.
- The Multiverse: All the parallel realities. So far we've only seen a few, but several dozen have been mentioned. These are all Alternate Histories, some more so than others.
- Penal Colony: Coventry. Maybe. Nobody really knows for sure, but this seems to be the leading theory
- Reluctant Ruler: Julien and possibly Ayela too.
- Retirony: What do you expect to happen after the characters spend five minutes reminiscing about things they miss back home?
- Someday This Will Come In Handy: Carefully examining the time machine way back in "Echo Surveillance" is what makes it possible for Darya to operate one in "The Trust", nearly two seasons later.
- Status Quo Is God: Averted hard. Everything is subject to change.
- Wham Episode: Episode 23. They killed Leonid! The bastards!
- Wouldnt Hit A Girl: Even Giovanni, an immoral assassin who likes torture, has some standards.
- Wrench Wench: Clavia
- Xanatos Speed Chess: Leonid was a master of this.
- Yellow Peril: Gao Chun, an inscrutable criminal mastermind / rebel leader
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