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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 a powerful 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 battle, 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. Interestingly, Leonid has been responsible for all these deaths (ordering the attack on Jacques Artha, sending Myo Obadele to his death, and leading the group where Matthau Bankole was shot).
- 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 survive a shipwreck or make bombs.
- Disaster Scavengers: Schatzgräbers make their living in the ruined cities of Europe. Their timeline is not a happy place.
- 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!
- A School Of Fish Out Of Temporal Waters: 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.
- 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.
- National Stereotypes: Some averted, some subverted, many played very straight. Especially the Persians.
- 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?
- Re Tool: Every season so far has been completely different from the previous one. This is an intentional attempt by the producer to keep the series from getting stuck in a rut. Status Quo is definitely not god here.
- 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 "Trust", nearly two seasons later.
- Viewers Are Geniuses: Some of the episodes are so densely written it's as if they're only meant to be understandable for the authors themselves
- 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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