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Digger (Webcomic)
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Digger is a black-and-white webcomic by Ursula Vernon. It starts off with a disoriented wombat named Digger-of-Unnecessarily-Convoluted-Tunnels getting lost far from home, and her attempts to get back. Along the way she encounters hyena people, dead gods, the shadow of a dead bird, a talking statue of Ganesh, and some crazy veiled monks. She reacts to all of it with unshakeable Wombattish practicality, a bone-dry wit, and occasional resort to outright sarcasm. She also knows a heckuva lot about digging and architecture.After having been hosted on a subscription site for most of its existence, it is now completely free to read. So go read it. Preferably from the beginning. (NOTE: As of 2017 a handful of pages may not display properly, but can be viewed complete on the Wayback Machine.) A full backup can also be found here.Started in March, 2003. Ended on March 17th, 2011, to the tears of many; though the ending was written just as it had originally been planned, it left enough open questions that some felt it was abrupt. Digger won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story in 2012 and the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature in 2013.A successful Kickstarter campaign was held for it, with the aim of collecting all six volumes into one omnibus. It has the dubious claim to fame of being the only such Kickstarter, ever, to offer foam pickaxes and pear sculptures as add-ons. Another Kickstarter was held for a 10th anniversary collection from Underthing Press, a publishing imprint founded by Patrick Rothfuss with the goal of reprinting Digger.Character page here. Contributions welcome. | |
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Kill the God | |
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Kill the God: The climax of the story involves performing a mercy kill on He-Is. | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism: Digger calls herself on this. Digger very quickly accepts the idea of talking statues, sentient shadow creatures, and hunting hyena tribes. But rats being something other than ordinary rats? That's what finally drives home to her how far from home she is. | |
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope | |
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Even after descending into a paranoid, delusional, spiteful Knight Templar, Jhalm still has enough common sense to not want to have kill one of his own Veiled. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: How in the name of She-Is-Fiercer did Grim Eyes grow up even approaching normal? The best bet is that Boneclaw Mother raised her herself and used sheer badassery and age-granted wisdom to keep her from becoming like her mother. | |
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Badass Adorable | |
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Badass Adorable: Digger, Shadowchild, Ed. Hell, 90% of the entire cast. | |
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Chariot Pulled by Cats | |
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Chariot Pulled by Cats: Samuel the trader's caravan is pulled by a two-headed creature called a Bandersnatch (of The Hunting of the Snark). | |
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Tastes Like Chicken | |
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Tastes Like Chicken: Surka supposes that gods taste like chicken. | |
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The Medic | |
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The Medic: The Hag and Owl-Caller. | |
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The Quest | |
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The Quest: Eventually, Digger sets out to perform a mercy killing on a dead god. | |
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The Stoic | |
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Second, Murai shows her stoicism even with a broken arm. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: Blood-Tail's envy of her sister did not end well. | |
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I Owe You My Life | |
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I Owe You My Life: | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Played for laughs in the story of Lung the Quick, the sculptor who carved the Statue of Ganesh. During his career as Imperial Sculptor, he was only allowed to carve unicorns, as the Emperor believed himself to be one. By about unicorn #5, Lung was completely fed up, but you don't say no to the Emperor, so he psyched himself up to work on further unicorns by imagining increasingly complicated and implausible deaths for his employer—he was at "trapped between two trees and trepanned to death by confused woodpeckers" by the time the Emperor kicked the bucket. (His Imperial Majesty died after eating a blowfish-and-nightshade buffet under the mistaken impression his unicorn powers would protect him.) | |
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Wild Child | |
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Wild Child: Digger at one point suggests that Shadowchild is more or less the demon version of this. Also, apparently wombat children occasionally wander away from the warren and end up being raised by moles. Digger asks Murai if humans have something similar, and Murai blandly replies that "wolves are more common with us." | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: The—cold servants. They just—follow—the commandments—of their—god. Whose—blood—sustains them. No—matter—what. | |
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Church Militant | |
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Church Militant: The Veiled, after a fashion. They're more of a police force than military, and are at the disposal of multiple deities rather than a single faith. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good is Not Nice: Jhalm and Grim Eyes. Ed thinks that gods, like demons and natural disasters, are dangerous by nature, and wombats are probably smart to avoid them. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: Whatever you say about the hyenas eating other sapient species, they're not hypocrites. What's more, the way they explain their funerary cannibalism has several anthropologically recorded parallels, no doubt due to Ursula having a bachelor's in anthropology before deciding to pursue art. | |
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Chekhov's Gag | |
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Chekhov's Gag: The vampire squash, which first appear to be nothing more that a weird, random worldbuilding tidbit. But later, when Digger is being pursued by the cold servants, she intentionally runs into a field of the vampiric vegetables so that they'll deal with her pursuers. One dropped all the way back on page two is picked up almost at the climax of the entire story. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: All over the place. Though the author admits that she was writing by the seat of her pants during the point where most of these were introduced, so she didn't actually intend to use them when they were first introduced. The ones she did plan on being Chekhov's Guns are straight examples, of course. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Wombat: Digger feels this way throughout most of her journey. | |
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Alliterative Title | |
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Alliterative Title: Chapter 4: Metaphors and Machinations Chapter 5: Of Warriors and Wombats Chapter 8: The Unspeakable and the Unspoken Chapter 9: The Mad and the Misunderstood | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: Grim Eyes used to roll her r's in the beginning, but she does it much less often now. Judging by Boneclaw Mother in her Big Damn Heroes moment, hyenas tend to growl their words when they're angry. The skin lizards have one. They do. Yes. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: Plenty. Look around carefully in big panels where the main characters are not centered. | |
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Carnivore Confusion | |
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Carnivore Confusion: Digger tells the Shadowchild that it is wrong to eat anything that can talk, but the hyenas do not share this belief — anyone not in their tribe, talking or not, is not considered a person, and their funerary practices involve eating the liver of their deceased comrade, who was considered a person. Chalk it up to Culture Clash. | |
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Easter Egg | |
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Ed's cave art contains an Easter Egg shout-out to Conspiracy of Mammals. | |
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Could Say It, But... | |
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Could Say It, But...: Boneclaw Mother, quite late in the comic's run and during the climax. "Were I a crude old woman..." | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: One of the few examples that makes any sense in context — Digger is trapped far from home, and so only has one vest with her, the Veiled all have identical uniforms, the statue of Ganesh's clothes are carved as part of his body, and the hyenas' concept of clothing seems to end at loincloth + warpaint + lots of necklaces = awesome. | |
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Mauve Shirt | |
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Mauve Shirt: Skull Ridges is a named character who is important in the plot at several points, and is a good friend of Grim Eyes. Oh yeah, and she dies to save Digger before she gets so much as a pixel of screen-time. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: "Heh. Forgive our manners, little creature — that we may well kill and eat you is no excuse for rudeness." Even after descending into a paranoid, delusional, spiteful Knight Templar, Jhalm still has enough common sense to not want to have kill one of his own Veiled. | |
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Got Me Doing It | |
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By the end of the comic, even Ed, who can't form a grammatically correct sentence, is quipping non-stop with Digger. It subtly shows how much of an influence she's had on him. | |
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This Is Wrong on So Many Levels! | |
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This Is Wrong on So Many Levels!: Digger has this reaction to Shadowchild's first memories. | |
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Beat Still, My Heart | |
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Beat Still, My Heart: Inverted; the heart is not beating on its own, nor is it a sign that its owner is alive. Instead, a team of slaves pulling on ropes are forcing it to beat and keep an otherwise dead god alive against his will, even though the rest of him has rotted away to bones. When the protagonist skeptically lampshades this, pointing out that the heart isn't even hooked up to anything, she receives the explanation that it's the metaphor of the thing that makes it work. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Used frequently for one-shot gags. Example: Homicidal big toe? | |
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Nay-Theist | |
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Nay-Theist: Most wombats, it seems, are aware that gods and magic exist, but believe that the world would be better off without them and generally make an effort not to get themselves involved with divinity or magic. Based on some of the hyenas' talk, this isn't an entirely uncommon point of view. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The Fellowship Has Ended. Ed died and can't even be buried or mourned properly by his people, the Shadowchild has lost its innocence and has left to try to save others of its kind, and Digger will have to live with the trauma and horrific things she has seen. However, Sweetgrass Voice is defeated and He-Is has finally died in peace, Boneclaw Mother will ensure Ed is remembered by his tribe in some fashion, Shadowchild has avoided becoming monstrous like other demons thanks to Digger's mentorship, and thanks to the efforts of the friends she made, Digger finally gets to go home. | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! When Sweetgrass Voice offers to restore the skin-painter's eaten name, the skin-painter replies, "Has a name! Name is Ed!" | |
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Annoying Arrows | |
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Annoying Arrows: Subverted. After defeating all but one of the bandits raiding the village single-handed, Digger is shot in the shoulder with a crossbow at close range. Just when it looks like Digger is going to shrug it off and beat up the guy who did it, she collapses midway through what was probably meant to be her "No More Holding Back" Speech. The fact someone broke off the shaft and got the head wedged under her collarbone did not help; Digger needed immediate and major surgery, was incapacitated for a realistic period of time, and may now be addicted to poppy milk. (She gets better! ...Eventually.) | |
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Ambiguous Gender | |
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Also, depending on what gender you think of the Shadowchild as (if you think of it as having a gender at all), they are a Four-Girl Ensemble. | |
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"I Can't Look!" Gesture | |
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"I Can't Look!" Gesture: Digger turns away as the Cold Ones are being pummeled by the vampire squash. | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can: Sweetgrass Voice. Interesting in that the "can" in this case is a living body (for a given value of "living"), which the evil cannot exist without. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: Ed of all people, when he realized there was no help for Blood Eyes and he had to kill her to save their daughter from her abuse. She was a powerful warrior and he was a puny skin-painter... so he tore out her throat in her sleep when she couldn't fight back. Despite her reputation, Boneclaw Mother is old and frail and knows it. When she needs a way to deal with Jhalm, she puts fast-acting poison on her claws. | |
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Troll Bridge | |
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Troll Bridge: Surka the professional bridge troll. She's actually a shrew, although she has a couple of actual trolls on hand, too. | |
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Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu? | |
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Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: The People, ritually cannibalistic bipedal hyenas who consider any non-hyena sentient fair game when hunting. They turn out to mostly be very nice people once you get to know them, especially Ed, who starts off trying to eat Digger but ends up serving her tea just a few pages later. Also the Statue of Ganesh: Digger instinctively feels all gods are dangerous and best not meddled with but is eventually forced to grudgingly admit the Statue of Ganesh is a good guy. Ursula Vernon likes this trope. A lot. Embarking on her journey with Murai, and having been somewhat more brusque than usual with the Statue, Digger learns the being she was just surly to was not the usual Statue avatar but the actual spirit of Ganesh Himself speaking through His representation. | |
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Animorphism | |
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Animorphism: Digger meets a man named Herne (named for an English folkloric figure) who ended up with a deer's head. ("There was an accident with an herbal supplement, okay?") | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: Ed's backstory. To make a long, tragic story short, he put up with an insane, abusive wife (whom he still loved) for years, was eventually forced to kill her when she began abusing their daughter, and was banished for doing so. | |
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Alien Gender Confusion | |
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Alien Gender Confusion: Initially averted with Digger herself, who is always identified as female (when her sex is relevant at all), despite being a furry, cylindrical member of a species nobody else in the story has ever encountered. She had barely visible breasts in early pages, but the artist phased these out later. However, the trope is played straight for the hyenas, with several characters expressing inability to determine their sex. This is Truth in Television: hyena sexes are difficult to tell apart even for those familiar with them. | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
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Black Comedy Rape: The deer-headed Deadpan Snarker Herne shuts down questions about his appearance by claiming that a deer raped his grandmother, which causes Digger to go a bit bug-eyed. The truth involves some dodgy herbal supplements. | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe: The Black Mother was created when street children adapted their own version of a myth. (Especially tragic, to the point of horrifying, when you realize that the whole process that created her is based on an elaborate set of "secret stories" created by homeless children in Miami.) It is implied that this was not a unique case. | |
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Of the People | |
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Of the People: The People - which is to say, the tribe of hyenas who call themselves "The People" - consider other races fair game when hunting, but they will adopt others under exceptional circumstances, such as when Boneclaw Mother tells them to and no-one wants to argue with her. | |
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Our Demons Are Different | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_50ed1af4 | comment |
Our Demons Are Different: Demons can be evil, but the one that gets the most screen time is actually very innocent and mostly just eats shadows. The way Ed explains it, a demon is an "all-thing", beholden to its nature and rarely actively malicious. Fire burns, not because it likes to cause ruin, but because it's fire; demons are similar. Shadow later explains that all previous demons have either been born feral or raised by others of their own kind, and that thanks to Digger, it is the first one to have been raised to be "good". It plans to do something about that. Given that demons can eat shadows and seem to only partly exist in the universe's dimension, they are clearly very strange entities indeed. | |
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Eyedscreen | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_51882a24 | comment |
Eyedscreen: All the time. Once with a squash. | |
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_5281d5b1 | comment |
Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Aside from (over)using magic in their construction projects, what we know of the dwarves seems to fit the trope. Aside from being Funny Animals, wombats also fit the stereotype fairly well (though they're a lot more practical about their construction methods). | |
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Bookends | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: A (probably) unintentional example with the chapter covers. Chapter One doesn't have one, because Ursula didn't know she'd be writing a multi-chapter work, and she never went back to do one. Chapter Twelve doesn't have one either, because she didn't want to break up the action, and was looking forward to the opening page she used for that particular chapter (though there's some agreement that it makes a good cover on its own). Consequentially, the first and last chapters are also the only ones without titles. | |
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Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_5345de5 | comment |
Strange-Syntax Speaker: The—cold servants—communicate—in—an unusual—manner. One—speech bubble—per—concept. Telepathy—is the—favoured—fan—theory. Ed, too — after being exiled, he spent seventeen years not speaking to anyone before Digger came along (presumably because no one but the hyenas would know where to find him, and they consider him to be unclean since his name was eaten when he was exiled). After years of silence, he simply forgot how to speak and the syntax he uses is his best guess. | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_53a7089a | comment |
It should also be noted that Surka is a shrew who is roughly six inches tall. | |
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Nobody Poops | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_54bb502b | comment |
Nobody Poops: Averted here. And here as the after-effects of a herbivore having eaten part of a carnivore's liver work their way through. | |
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Women Are Wiser | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_565106b3 | comment |
Women Are Wiser: As with most things about the hyenas, gender-flipped. Owl-Caller is easily the least weird member of the hyena tribe's council and The One Guy. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: The hyenas do not consider other sapient species and races as people. Also, all but one of the human guides from a particular village refused to escort a crew that included non-humans, and the one guide who did agree had a deer's head. | |
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_57d43e40 | comment |
Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Good Man is fairly clearly based on Jesus, and the Black Mother on a story about a group of street kids who created a derivative mythology. | |
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Growing Up Sucks | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_57efd4c4 | comment |
Growing Up Sucks: Said almost word-for-word by the shadowchild. | |
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Self-Demonstrating Article | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_582d75de | comment |
The skin lizards have one. They do. Yes. | |
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Snark-to-Snark Combat | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_583ec33e | comment |
Snark-to-Snark Combat: Since about half the cast is made up of Deadpan Snarkers, including the protagonist, this happens often. Most prominent, though, are some of the exchanges between Digger and the statue of Ganesh. By the end of the comic, even Ed, who can't form a grammatically correct sentence, is quipping non-stop with Digger. It subtly shows how much of an influence she's had on him. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: The true name of Sweetgrass Voice. Turns out "most mortals are incapable of even hearing the names of demons, never mind such niceties as pronouncing them." (With the exception of armadillos, of course.) Also, Ed's original name, which was eaten when he was exiled. Ed still remembers his name, but never uses it because it's still gone. In the end, he chooses to go by "Ed". | |
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Talk About the Weather | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_5bddf95f | comment |
Talk About the Weather: Digger's response to being told that the statue of Ganesh had, one time, actually held the god Himself. | |
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Raised by Wolves | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_5be7bd04 | comment |
Digger asks Murai if humans have something similar, and Murai blandly replies that "wolves are more common with us." | |
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Brown Note | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03 | comment |
Brown Note: If you value your sanity, do not look directly on the face of the Black Mother. | |
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Sacred Hospitality | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_5fd14ab3 | comment |
Sacred Hospitality: The first sign we see that the hyena who will eventually be called Ed isn't a complete monster is his reaction to Digger apologizing for accidentally invading his home: he tries and fails to give her a formal greeting and invitation to stay the night. | |
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Orphan's Ordeal | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_60c90bd5 | comment |
Orphan's Ordeal: When you think about it, Grim Eyes's early life really sucked. When she rejects her father in a later strip, it's like a sucker punch to the tear ducts for both her father and the reader, and for some a serious case of Fridge Horror. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_60fa92ac | comment |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Grim Eyes, Blood-Eyes, Blood-Tail, Shadebones... most female hyenas seem to have them. Even the benevolent ones like Boneclaw Mother. And unless they like you, you'd better run really fast. Even the harmless old male healer has a creepy name. Would you take your medication from a guy called Owl-Caller? Even Digger's honorary hyena name, Little Mother of Earthquakes, is like this. It's even better since it's taken from the name of a goddess that causes earthquakes. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_6411dac8 | type |
BadassNormal | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_6411dac8 | comment |
Badass Normal: Forget gods, magic, and daemons... REMEMBER TUNNEL SEVENTEEN! Grim Eyes and Surka also certainly count. It should also be noted that Surka is a shrew who is roughly six inches tall. Pretty much every major character (apart from maybe Shadowchild) is this. Even Boneclaw Mother, though she does her best to keep it a secret. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d | type |
Viewers Are Geniuses | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d | comment |
Viewers Are Geniuses: The jokes are often pitched with the presumption the readers will know as much about geology, anthropology, comparative theology and pre-modern industry, cloth-dyeing/pigment use, lead-smelting, and healing as Ursula. As the comments show, a truly scary amount of the readers do know this stuff. | |
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Euphemism Buster | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_6469d82f | comment |
Euphemism Buster: Digger attempts to tell Grim Eyes about Murai's mental problems, but Grim Eyes can't make sense of her euphemism, so Murai cuts to the chase. | |
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Organ Autonomy | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_646b9cc8 | comment |
Organ Autonomy: The Hag is sufficiently skilled at surgery to re-attach severed body parts, but they do have a slight tendency to go evil and try to kill their owners. As she points out, this is more of a problem with arms than with earlobes, which rather than trying to throttle you just wiggle aggressively. Specific mention of a suicidal re-attached toe that tried to stub itself at any opportunity is made. | |
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I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_658854ee | comment |
I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: Digger says that she's a wombat, not a lungfish. The Statue of Ganesh says that he's half a god, not half a geologist. Trader Manuel says that he's a merchant, not a murderer. Herne says that he's a wilderness guide, not a Sherpa. | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_65bc92fc | comment |
Four-Temperament Ensemble: Let's look at the questing team: The Shadowchild (sanguine), Grim Eyes (choleric), Murai (leukine), and Digger (melancholic). Surka is another choleric, though she doesn't appear as often as Grim Eyes. Also, depending on what gender you think of the Shadowchild as (if you think of it as having a gender at all), they are a Four-Girl Ensemble. | |
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Dying Moment of Awesome | |
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Dying Moment of Awesome: Complete with Taking You with Me for last words: "NAME IS ED!". | |
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If I Can't Have You… | |
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If I Can't Have You…: Blood-Tail courted Ed when he was just a young skin-painter, but he didn't much appreciate the fact that she was only courting him because he was a surviving firstborn, which in hyena culture makes him a living good luck charm and status symbol. He fell for her mildly unstable but genuinely loving sister Blood-Eyes instead, so Blood-Tail manipulated her sister's instability until she posed an active danger to her daughter, forcing Ed's hand; she is to this day incredibly smug that her brother-in-law was made an Unperson (as the law of the tribe states must be the punishment for killing your spouse), but nobody in the whole tribe is actually in any way deluded about what really happened. Blood-Tail is not a popular lady. | |
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Planet of Hats | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_67f26dcc | comment |
Planet of Hats: Aside from their love of applied geology, wombats seem to be defined by their pragmatism and reasonable approach to everything. | |
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Innocent Awkward Question | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_6a37ac44 | comment |
Innocent Awkward Question: The Shadowchild doesn't know what it is, and has a habit of asking if it is some thing it's just heard about, such as various animals and objects. During Digger and the Shadowchild's first run-in with the hyena tribe, the hyenas learn that Digger was the guest of an outcast of the tribe — an unthinkable taboo in their culture — and call her a pervert. Cue this whispered exchange: | |
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"Just So" Story | |
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The hyena tribe also has an inversion of this in one of their origin stories. In hyena mythology, hares were originally carnivores and descended to herbivorism. | |
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Lady Land | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_6b4b3eba | comment |
Lady Land: Ursula did do her research on hyenas. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Descending Helix is a direct ancestor of Digger. Thus they share at least some of the same DNA... A lot of hyena names evoke this: Grim Eyes, Skull Ridges, Blood-Tail, Owl Caller... Digger-of-Unnecessarily-Convoluted-Tunnels does seem to have a truly amazing ability to get herself into an unnecessarily convoluted adventures and inadvertently keeps digging herself in deeper. | |
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Ascended to Carnivorism | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_6ce4c7b0 | comment |
Ascended to Carnivorism: Digger is forced to do this at one point to become an honorary member of the Hyena tribe, but is horrified by the idea. Turns out her fears were justified; she then gets very, very ill. The hyena tribe also has an inversion of this in one of their origin stories. In hyena mythology, hares were originally carnivores and descended to herbivorism. | |
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God Couple | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_6ce78717 | comment |
God Couple: She-Is/He-Is. (Before a demon messed it up, anyway...) | |
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Loud Sleeper Gag | |
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Loud Sleeper Gag: On the journey to the monastery, Digger notes that "Grim Eyes snored like a mole with a busted snout." | |
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Culture Clash | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_70ade2c4 | comment |
Culture Clash: Given the very different values of hyenas, humans, wombats, demons and gods, it's a wonder anyone can relate to anyone else at all. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_716c0b1b | type |
And the Adventure Continues | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_716c0b1b | comment |
And the Adventure Continues: The story ends just as Digger is setting out for the long journey home, leaving open the possibility for further adventures before she actually gets there. The Omnibus Edition includes a short story chronicling one such adventure involving Digger's interaction with a dragon and the dragonslayers that are after it. | |
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Cross-Cultural Kerfluffle | |
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Cross-Cultural Kerfluffle: Between Grim Eyes and Herne. Because Grim Eyes is from a matriarchal culture, she treats Herne as a member of the weaker sex and tries to help him with things that require heavy lifting and such. Herne is far less than appreciative. | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_72757e0d | comment |
"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: The vampiric squash. (No, they don't exist, but they're based on a real Baltic legend.) | |
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Because You Were Nice to Me | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_738d1a0f | comment |
Because You Were Nice to Me: At the end of the comic, it turns out the bandersnatch would not go overland because "the Shadow" asked it not to. It didn't mind obeying, since it was asked nicely, and "hardly anyone asks us nicely." | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_743d2893 | type |
The Woobie | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_743d2893 | comment |
The People, ritually cannibalistic bipedal hyenas who consider any non-hyena sentient fair game when hunting. They turn out to mostly be very nice people once you get to know them, especially Ed, who starts off trying to eat Digger but ends up serving her tea just a few pages later. | |
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Offerings to the Gods | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_7481a085 | comment |
Offerings to the Gods: The Statue of Ganesh receives offerings of food from the faithful, but, being rather more interested in the gesture than in their worldly substance, readily tells Digger to help herself to the food when she arrives at the temple in a bad state. | |
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Friend or Foe? | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_76a08cd6 | comment |
Friend or Foe?: In chapter 2, Digger and Shadowchild come across a village that's been hit by bandits. As they make their way through, they hear fighting in the distance. Shadowchild wonders if they should go help, but Digger points out the difficulties in determining the alliances of strangers in the heat of battle, instead opting for them to carefully pick their way along and look for any survivors they could help. | |
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Absurdly Dedicated Worker | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_782b8a66 | comment |
Absurdly Dedicated Worker: The Dead God Underground has so-called "cold servants" (implied to be vampires) which ceaselessly force its heart to beat in order to keep it alive. | |
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Starter Marriage | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_78d3ddf4 | comment |
Starter Marriage: Wombats accounted for these, by having marriage contracts last 1 through 5 years with the option to renew. | |
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The Faceless | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_7abba202 | comment |
The Faceless: The Veiled (no surprise there), and to a lesser extent, Boneclaw Mother. | |
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Not in Front of the Kid | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_7ade0c2 | comment |
Not in Front of the Kid: When Shadowchild asks Herne about his deer-headed appearance, Herne starts to repeat his false claim that his grandmother was raped by a deer. Before Herne can get out the word "rape", Digger drags him away by the ear to have a talk with him. | |
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Battle Cry | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_7b0fddcd | comment |
Battle Cry: REMEMBER TUNNEL SEVENTEEN! Complete with Pratchett-esque origin myth. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Boneclaw Mother is very good at delivering these to the deserving, to the point her granddaughter treats it like magic. ("Do the Thing!") Ganesh defuses a threatened one, however, by saying that any such insight could only be a benefit. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "The trader Samuel who was master of unspeakable arts? Who knew dark secrets of sorcery, necromancy, and accounting?" Another, which overlaps slightly with Genius Bonus- when Digger first meets Vo, he comments that he thought wombats were fictional, "like dybbuks and cameleopards." The latter is the scientific term for a giraffe. | |
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Exotic Equipment | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_809bcc37 | comment |
Exotic Equipment: It's made clear that the hyenas are... anatomically correct as far as spotted hyenas go. Likewise, Digger is an anatomically correct marsupial, and so is thoroughly squicked by placental mammal reproduction. Fortunately, this is not the sort of comic where those points are given too much detail. | |
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God of Evil | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_80cd1f62 | comment |
God of Evil: The Black Mother. Arguably He-Is, although he doesn't want to be. | |
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Reinforce Field | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_84c65a8c | comment |
Reinforce Field: Dwarves have a bad reputation in-universe for shoring up their Underground Cities with unreliable spells rather than build them to be structurally sound in the first place. | |
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Casts No Shadow | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_854e85b0 | comment |
Casts No Shadow: If Shadowchild eats something's shadow, it's literally been eaten. Apparently having no shadow is usually enough to make a person fall into a coma and die; what happens if they don't die isn't specified, but probably isn't good. | |
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World of Snark | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_85f0f0fb | comment |
World of Snark: Pretty much a trademark of Ursula Vernon. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_8741b74 | type |
Playing with a Trope | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_8741b74 | comment |
Also when Digger eventually does go questing, it's with two other females and a shadow creature of indeterminate sex. In fact, most of the major characters are female or, in the case of the Shadowchild, not indicated to be male or female. But then again, it's complicated because Grim Eyes has a 'male' role in hyena culture while Ed has a 'female' role. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_874c712f | type |
Dug Too Deep | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_874c712f | comment |
Dug Too Deep: How the story started and arguably its entire premise. It is, however, a Reconstruction, as unlike the dwarves of Moria, wombats know there are some things in the deeps you leave the hell alone. | |
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Truth in Television | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_875615dd | comment |
Truth in Television: The creation of the Black Mother, in particular the reasoning devised by the refugee children, is based on a La Llorona mythos that emerged among children in Miami shelters. Ditto about the high infant mortality rate of the firstborn cubs of hyenas. And the myth of vampire squash, although in the comic it actually happens. And the extremely rugged backsides of wombats. Ursula Vernon stories often contain large amounts of Shown Their Work for some of the more ridiculous aspects of biology and mythology. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: Ganesh tells Digger a story about a... thing... called Famine, describing it as an elemental — of a type of element that does not exist in our world. | |
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Refusal of the Call | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_87b8f581 | comment |
Refusal of the Call: Defied. Digger knows she'll take it in the end, she'd never be able to live with herself otherwise, but she's bloody well going to stomp around kicking stones and brooding about it for a while first. | |
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Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_88359b23 | comment |
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The norm with hyenas. Justified due to hyena society being matriarchal. | |
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_88424df3 | comment |
I Thought Everyone Could Do That: Shadowchild doesn't realize that other people can't stretch themselves out into frightening-looking shapes. | |
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Prophecies Rhyme All the Time | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_88e11e1f | comment |
Prophecies Rhyme All the Time: Averted; you're lucky if they're a full sentence. One prophet notes a particular prophecy as remarkable, since it's "with a verb and everything!" | |
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Anachronic Order | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_8b6e8d7 | comment |
Anachronic Order: Not in the story itself, but the page numbers on the site are notoriously confused, which can impede an Archive Binge somewhat. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_8c681acc | type |
Third-Person Person | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_8c681acc | comment |
Third-Person Person: The hyena eventually called "Ed" only refers to himself as "it" until given the nickname, and even then only slowly transitions to using that name for himself. Since his original name was eaten when he was ousted from the hyena community, he doesn't consider himself a person, and he's been alone in exile so long he seems to have forgotten altogether how language structure and syntax work, including first- and second-person pronouns. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_8d0785d5 | comment |
Didn't Think This Through: A dramatic example. At the final climax, everyone is hurried and under pressure, and no one realizes until it's too late that Ed breaking the chain while standing on the heart would result in him falling to his death. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: An early one happens towards the end of the second chapter. Up till then, Digger has been exploring in a rather happy-go-lucky manner, finding out all the weird things about the world she's in, and, though she does brush with danger a few times, she always manages to escape unscathed. But then she comes across a village that's undergoing a bandit raid, finds an insane priest curled up in a terrified ball, and is shot in the shoulder before her companion eats the shadow of her assailant, knocking him into a fatal coma. It's basically the story's way of saying that things are going to get serious and the plot is going to start rolling in full force. And then, an even more dramatic one at the very climax of the story... Most fans' reactions to it are probably: "Ed, you're okay, right? Ed? ED?!" | |
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Embarrassing Rescue | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_90687e40 | comment |
Embarrassing Rescue: Digger tried to justify why she saved Grim Eyes from going over the bridge. She lists several valid reasons, and then ends with "because you just don't let people fall off bridges." Both find this a little awkward. | |
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Art Shift | |
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Art Shift: The scenes narrated by Ed are drawn like cave paintings, shifting from the "megascribble" style of the regular panels. | |
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Major Injury Underreaction | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_91cab736 | comment |
Major Injury Underreaction: On occasion. First, Digger takes an arrow. Second, Murai shows her stoicism even with a broken arm. | |
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Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_91f9b1ad | comment |
Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom: Sort of inverted. Wombats seem to have rather unpoetic names that reference their occupational habits and skills. Similarly, some hyenas have names that indicate their professions (e.g. Owl Caller, a shaman who probably speaks to birds) but often seem to be based on a physical feature (Grim Eyes, Bloodtail). | |
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Ominous Owl | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_93decddf | comment |
Even the harmless old male healer has a creepy name. Would you take your medication from a guy called Owl-Caller? | |
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Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_94f4832c | comment |
Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: A "truth is stranger than fiction" example, as the dimorphism shown by the hyenas is completely normal for real life Spotted Hyenas. | |
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Big Bad | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Sweetgrass Voice. Curiously, though, it only really appears near the climax of the story. | |
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Tragic Keepsake | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_97d54bb0 | comment |
Tragic Keepsake: Digger starts wearing Ed's necklace after he dies. | |
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Do Not Taunt Cthulhu | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_9a480050 | comment |
Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: "Ed is not being sure if taunting ancient evil is being the best idea..." | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_9c45b5a2 | type |
What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_9c45b5a2 | comment |
What Measure Is A Non Hyena?: Hyenas don't consider non-hyenas people (and thus are fair game to be hunted and eaten, among other things). This isn't absolutely insurmountable, though — Digger, for example, is formally adopted into the hyena clan, and Grim Eyes ends up getting along with Murai and Shadowchild fairly well. She's also fairly amiable towards Herne, but in an incredibly condescending way, and he doesn't share the sentiment. | |
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Kill the Cutie | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_9c5e78d0 | comment |
Kill the Cutie: Ed, who dies to break the chains holding He-Is's heart aloft and kill the god (and Sweetgrass Voice with him). | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_9d17b859 | type |
Made of Iron | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_9d17b859 | comment |
Made of Iron: Digger has some aspects of this. Of course, she regrets it later. | |
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_9df812ad | comment |
Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Little Skin Painter and Blood Eyes, because of the way hyena biology works. | |
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Suicide Mission | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_9e062ca3 | comment |
Suicide Mission: The statue of Ganesh sends Digger and Ed underground to deal with an undead god. He doesn't expect either of them to survive the task. | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_9f63d4f1 | comment |
Our Vampires Are Different: For one, they're squash — based on real Balkan folklore, believe it or not. There are also more ordinary vampires — the cold servants. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_a0eeac39 | type |
Odd Name Out | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_a0eeac39 | comment |
Odd Name Out: Not a name thing, exactly, but Lady Surka, the professional bridge-troll, lists some of her past jobs as dishwasher, assassin, and pirate queen. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_a1e83460 | type |
Speech Bubbles | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_a1e83460 | comment |
Speech Bubbles: Most characters have black text on white speech bubbles, but the Shadowchild has white on black speech bubbles, the cold servants speak in white-on-black with their sentences broken up into multiple bubbles (like so), ghosts speak in translucent bubbles, the god Ganesh speaks in blocky bubbles, the skin lizards speak in an entirely different font from everyone else, and when a character is whispering the edge of the bubble is in dashes. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_a2b38d3b | type |
Eye Scream | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: Murai is moping about her past hardships and the transient nature of her destiny. Then Shadowchild appears, announcing, "I ate a sock!" Ed has just died. Then the Skin Lizards show up with a light, and announce thus: "It is a bug on a stick!" | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_a679184b | type |
Due to the Dead | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_a679184b | comment |
Due to the Dead: Ed gets a pretty good one. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_a7544a0f | type |
Beneath the Earth | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_a7544a0f | comment |
Beneath the Earth: Digger's initial tunnel that she used to reach the area the story takes place in is connected to a substantial cave system. Most of the driving conflict comes from down there. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_a929d574 | type |
Doctor's Orders | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_a929d574 | comment |
Doctor's Orders: The hag is willing and able to defy anyone, even the statue of Ganesh, when it comes to her patients. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_ac560dc4 | type |
Save the Villain | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_ac560dc4 | comment |
Save the Villain: Lampshaded during the troll bridge story, when Digger saves the at-the-time antagonistic Grim Eyes from falling off said bridge. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: The Veiled run across Digger on a bad day, and wisely decide not to bother her. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Really, at least half the cast are Deadpan Snarkers. It's the reason why there's so much Snark-to-Snark Combat in the story. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_af05e6d0 | type |
The Treachery of Images | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_af05e6d0 | comment |
The Treachery of Images: The Statue of Ganesh discusses this when it and Digger first meet: it is an artistic representation of the actual god Ganesh, which yields it a greater physical presence but far less divine power. "It is both more and less". | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_afe75982 | type |
Unsound Effect | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_afe75982 | comment |
Unsound Effect: Everything from "swoon" and "stab" to "Sounds of distant ethereal chanting!"note "There is no feasible onomatopoeia for this" and "Somewhat more disgruntled ethereal chanting." Usually with notes explaining why these were chosen over more traditional sound effects. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_b01abe4f | type |
Catchphrase | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: Digger has quite a few. "Blood and shale!", "Mother of moles...", and "As my distant relative used to say". Not to mention the facepalms. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_b1346878 | type |
Fate Worse than Death | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_b1346878 | comment |
Fate Worse than Death: The hyenas have one. Exiled tribe members have their name "eaten", making them a nonentity in their culture. | |
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The Homeward Journey | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_b2d7b559 | comment |
The Homeward Journey: Digger's end-goal throughout the series is to get home. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_b3a332b | type |
Take Away Their Name | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_b3a332b | comment |
Also, Ed's original name, which was eaten when he was exiled. Ed still remembers his name, but never uses it because it's still gone. In the end, he chooses to go by "Ed". | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_b3d1b7e3 | type |
Genius Bonus | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_b3d1b7e3 | comment |
Another, which overlaps slightly with Genius Bonus- when Digger first meets Vo, he comments that he thought wombats were fictional, "like dybbuks and cameleopards." The latter is the scientific term for a giraffe. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: Among the feats ascribed to The Good Man by the people of Saltlace are healing the sick, raising the dead, speaking to wild beasts, and converting politicians... | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_b5d8da73 | type |
Freaky Funeral Forms | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_b5d8da73 | comment |
Freaky Funeral Forms: Digger and Shadowchild both have problems with the hyenas' tradition of funerary cannibalism. Digger is horrified when she realizes that the underground creatures will skin Ed's body, but has no other way of burying her dead friend. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_b731fa6e | type |
I Cannot Self-Terminate | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_b731fa6e | comment |
I Cannot Self-Terminate: A lot of problems later on in the plot arise from the fact that gods appear unable to end their own lives, especially when their worshippers won't let them. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_c0e3994b | type |
Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_c0e3994b | comment |
Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Averted with Ed being beaten by his mate, which is much more of a Tear Jerker than a source of comedy. Of course, a large part of this has to do with the usual sexist gender stereotypes being reversed in hyena society. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_c1105f41 | type |
Hold the Line | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_c1105f41 | comment |
Hold the Line: In the final arc, Murai stands guard at the temple door to delay Jhalm and his men for as long as possible while Digger goes on her quest. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_c3fbac64 | type |
Bestiality Is Depraved | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_c3fbac64 | comment |
Bestiality Is Depraved: When Herne is first asked about his deer-headed appearance, he first claims that a deer raped his grandmother. Then he admits it was a joke and starts to claim, "Actually it was my grandfather who had this unnatural—" | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_c4835ce7 | type |
Ape Shall Never Kill Ape | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_c4835ce7 | comment |
Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: A hyena dying in the course of a hunt is not a major issue, but if a hyena dies at the hands of another hyena, the dead's honour is determined by who avenges her. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_c5cc0783 | type |
Internal Retcon | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_c5cc0783 | comment |
Internal Retcon: Discussed, where the myth of a goddess and the good man, where the good man walked across the path of the moon. It gets an extra myth added stating that the Good Man was killed by his mother, and that the mother became a mad ruler of the town. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_c676a2f8 | type |
Blah, Blah, Blah | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_c676a2f8 | comment |
Blah, Blah, Blah: As Digger starts to tune Boneclaw Mother out in the funeral speech, she starts to perceive the speech as this. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_c7270d1c | type |
With This Herring | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_c7270d1c | comment |
With This Herring: Subverted. Before setting out on a journey, Murai, a Veiled monk, decides to travel extremely light, bringing little with her but her clothes and a begging bowl. Digger (who was assigned to escort her) rejects this idea and spends hours packing, checking and double-checking her supplies, and learning about exactly what lies ahead, all the while worrying that she is underprepared. She was. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Ursula Vernon makes numerous references to her other works in Digger. Ed's cave art contains an Easter Egg shout-out to Conspiracy of Mammals. The hyena people first appeared in her Black Dogs series before appearing in Digger. The first view of the library shows that it includes, among many volumes about chickens and assorted other topics, copies of Alice in Wonderland and The Sandman. The Librarian Vo organizes a series of firsthand accounts about Ursula Vernon's Gearworld and mentions the T'Chang empire that was briefly visited in Black Dogs. And Ursula's book Nurk features the eponymous shrew frequently referencing the journal of his illustrious grandmother, Surka. Ed the hyena, to The Lion King (1994) (the other hyenas have more exotic names). | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_c7e9df7c | type |
FromACertainPointOfView | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_c7e9df7c | comment |
From a Certain Point of View: Digger and Murai start their journey around midnight to avoid Jhalm, whom the Statue of Ganesh told they'd be leaving at dawn. Later on, with Boneclaw Mother; "there isn't much I can do for Skin Painter any more. But it seems to me that I might have a relative at a distant tribe named Ed who fell heroically in battle with a demon not long ago, and it's only appropriate for me to honor him." Digger was adopted into Boneclaw Mother's tribe, and in a way, the wombat was family to Ed... and aren't Digger's biological relatives a long way off? Heeeeey... | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_c83a589c | type |
Luke, I Am Your Father | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_c83a589c | comment |
Luke, I Am Your Father: Digger is a direct descendant of Descending Helix She lampshades this. In addition, Ed is Grim Eyes' father. | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_ca87e3ec | type |
No Name Given | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: "Ed" is unusual in that at one point he had a real name, but it got eaten. Digger decided to name him Ed because she refused to call him "it", as he did. And that one act made... quite a difference. Warning: Contains AWESOME. And spoilers. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_ca87e3ec | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_cda501da | type |
Killed Off for Real | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_cda501da | comment |
And then, an even more dramatic one at the very climax of the story... Most fans' reactions to it are probably: "Ed, you're okay, right? Ed? ED?!" | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_ce1d78bc | type |
Foreign Queasine | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_ce1d78bc | comment |
Foreign Queasine: Digger ends up eating liver as part of a hyena funeral. As she's an herbivore, it makes her very ill. | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_ce1d78bc | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_ce27dc3f | type |
Protagonist Title | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_ce27dc3f | comment |
Protagonist Title: The comic is named after its main character, Digger. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_ce90c792 | type |
No Title | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_ce90c792 | comment |
No Title: The first and last chapters are the only ones without titles. | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_cf98facb | type |
Supernormal Bindings | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_cf98facb | comment |
Supernormal Bindings: The dead god underground is bound by enchanted chains made by dwarves, in a probable shout-out to Norse Mythology. In order to make sure the chains were also proof against mundane threats such as earthquakes or lockpicks, a wombat was also hired as a consultant. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_cf98facb | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d05cf3f | type |
Footnote Fever | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d05cf3f | comment |
Footnote Fever: Useful for those hard-to-translate wombat homilies. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_d05cf3f | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d2b59903 | type |
Cool Old Lady | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d2b59903 | comment |
Cool Old Lady: Boneclaw Mother, despite being blind and frail, still manages to keep the other hyenas in check. She's also a bit dirty-minded as well. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_d3b02ffb | type |
I Know Your True Name | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d3b02ffb | comment |
I Know Your True Name: Hyenas don't appear to consider anyone without a proper hyena name a person. Fine if you're not a hyena: they'll just kill and eat you. If you however had a name and did something to get it taken away... | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_d3b02ffb | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d4bf11d1 | type |
Dramatic Unmask | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d4bf11d1 | comment |
Dramatic Unmask: Digger removes the masks from the cold servants here, revealing that they are hyenas. | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_d4bf11d1 | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d5358bc8 | type |
PoisonedWeapon | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d5358bc8 | comment |
Poisoned Weapon: Boneclaw Mother prepared for if she failed to talk Captain Jhalm out of deciding to kill a wounded girl protecting the shrine. She put poison on her left claw and got into melee range — all it would take was one swipe. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_d7b34c31 | type |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d7b34c31 | comment |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Hag has no other known name. Nor does the statue of Ganesh. | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_d7b34c31 | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d9563969 | type |
Failed Attempt at Drama | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d9563969 | comment |
Failed Attempt at Drama: When Digger is trying to get directions from trader Samuel. | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_d9563969 | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d9d2c40b | type |
Amazon Brigade | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d9d2c40b | comment |
Amazon Brigade: Justified. They're hyenas — the females are larger and stronger than the males. Also when Digger eventually does go questing, it's with two other females and a shadow creature of indeterminate sex. In fact, most of the major characters are female or, in the case of the Shadowchild, not indicated to be male or female. But then again, it's complicated because Grim Eyes has a 'male' role in hyena culture while Ed has a 'female' role. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_d9e9ad7e | type |
The Cavalry | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_d9e9ad7e | comment |
The Cavalry: The hyenas, who show up to stop Jhalm from fighting past Murai and going after Digger at the temple of Ganesh. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_dae5c997 | type |
Action Girl | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_dae5c997 | comment |
And Ursula's book Nurk features the eponymous shrew frequently referencing the journal of his illustrious grandmother, Surka. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_dae5c997 | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_db2f3581 | type |
All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_db2f3581 | comment |
All Girls Want Bad Boys: Gender-flipped. A character clearly states that even after all the horrible domestic abuse, he never stopped loving his partner (which, all things considered, makes it far, far more tragic). Added tragedy is that the situation wouldn't have gotten half so bad if his spouse hadn't been pushed over the edge by her own sibling. | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_db2f3581 | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_de306ba6 | type |
Worst Aid | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_de306ba6 | comment |
Worst Aid: The Veiled who find Digger with a crossbow wound seem to think the best way to deal with the bolt is to snap the shaft off. It's not. The surgery to get the bolthead out makes Digger's injury significantly worse. | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_de306ba6 | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_debf324f | type |
Immune to Fate | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_debf324f | comment |
Immune to Fate: A downplayed example with Helix's bloodline, with the exception of oracular slugs. Also, you can't make a prophecy about them directly, but they're still fully covered by fate and won't be breaking any other prophecies. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_debf324f | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e01c2cfd | type |
Trial-Period Dating | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e01c2cfd | comment |
Trial-Period Dating: The wombats are so pragmatically minded that their standard marriage contract has a fixed term with the option to renew. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_e01c2cfd | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e13156e1 | type |
Mama Bear | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e13156e1 | comment |
Mama Bear: Digger and her maternal instinct to Shadowchild. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Digger (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e13156e1 | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e1ff8ff6 | type |
Fantasy Kitchen Sink | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e1ff8ff6 | comment |
Fantasy Kitchen Sink: In this universe there are trolls, dead gods, magic, "Jesus", a "Virgin Mary" (who may or may not be an evil witch as well), Ganesh, demons, talking animals, and deer-minotaurs that happen as a result of herbal pills. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_e1ff8ff6 | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e43c66bd | type |
Art Evolution | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e43c66bd | comment |
Art Evolution: On the first page, Digger is drawn in a noticeably different way. Grim Eyes the hyena has also undergone some heavy changes from her first appearances. Not even past the first chapter, the style that the comic is drawn in is noticeably different, becoming less detailed and more cartoony. Most notably, Digger goes from having slight, visible breasts under her vest to being more stocky and cylindrical. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_e43c66bd | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e447ecb9 | type |
RunningJoke | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e447ecb9 | comment |
Running Joke: The Shadowchild. "What's a trope?" "I'll tell you later." "Am I a trope?" "No." | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_e447ecb9 | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e491684a | type |
Odd Job Gods | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e491684a | comment |
Odd Job Gods: Kind of. The Veiled work for all gods, and their specialities are "comparative theology and hand-to-hand combat". Specifically, a few of of the gods mentioned in passing appear to be less-than omnipotent cosmic super-beings, such as Falls-From-Heaven, a god so horrified by the evils of man that he continually faints. Where he lands, groves of exceptional peaches with soporific qualities grow. They are prized by chefs and assassins alike. This can't help the problem any. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_e491684a | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e50987a9 | type |
Reconstruction | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e50987a9 | comment |
Reconstruction: The story parodies traditional heroic antics with a heavy dose of realistic consequences. But then the characters go do the same things, noting the complications and succeeding with planning and preparation. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_e50987a9 | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e567510d | type |
Determinator | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e567510d | comment |
The Cold Servants are also Determinators. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Digger (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e567510d | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e7b0229a | type |
Laser-Guided Amnesia | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e7b0229a | comment |
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Subverted. Digger starts off the story with no short term memory of why she is digging, what happened, or where she is, but the missing period is typical for real-life drug-induced amnesia (in her case, caused by an underground gas pocket that has drug-like effects). | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_e7b0229a | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e8e56799 | type |
Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e8e56799 | comment |
Blue-and-Orange Morality: The skin lizards, at times. | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_e8e56799 | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e9e35e8f | type |
Exact Words | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_e9e35e8f | comment |
Digger and Murai start their journey around midnight to avoid Jhalm, whom the Statue of Ganesh told they'd be leaving at dawn. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_e9e35e8f | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_ea0f58c0 | type |
God's Hands Are Tied | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_ea0f58c0 | comment |
God's Hands Are Tied: The statue of Ganesh does not have the authority to overrule the Veiled as the Veiled serve more than one god. He-Is has his hands literally tied, and that's the least of his problems. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_eb81c601 | type |
Big Damn Heroes | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_eb81c601 | comment |
Judging by Boneclaw Mother in her Big Damn Heroes moment, hyenas tend to growl their words when they're angry. | |
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1.0 | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_eb81c601 | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_eb99df21 | type |
Funny Animal | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_eb99df21 | comment |
Funny Animal: Done with accurate biology and their own appropriate cultures building off these facts. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_eb99df21 | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_eef90616 | type |
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_eef90616 | comment |
Where he lands, groves of exceptional peaches with soporific qualities grow. They are prized by chefs and assassins alike. This can't help the problem any. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_eef90616 | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_f13643c4 | type |
Tunnel King | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_f13643c4 | comment |
Tunnel King: Digger's name is very apt. She's an expert digger and finds digging things like root cellars and drainage ditches fun. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_f2877d9e | type |
IncrediblyLamePun | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_f2877d9e | comment |
The Statue of Ganesh also gives a few stonefaced deliveries. | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_f2e13990 | type |
AintNoRule | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_f2e13990 | comment |
Ain't No Rule | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_f332d990 | type |
Too Much Information | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_f332d990 | comment |
Too Much Information: When the Oracular Slug is telling his backstory: | |
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Digger (Webcomic) / int_f61cddc9 | type |
Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My! | |
Digger (Webcomic) / int_f61cddc9 | comment |
Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: There's a human village not too far from a pack of (sapient) hyenas. And of course, the main character is a wombat. | |
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Cute Bruiser | |
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Grim Eyes, Blood-Eyes, Blood-Tail, Shadebones... most female hyenas seem to have them. Even the benevolent ones like Boneclaw Mother. And unless they like you, you'd better run really fast. | |
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Matriarchy | |
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Matriarchy: The hyena tribe are mostly a Patriarchy Flip, though with a few original elements as well. Males can hold important posts, but it is shown to be far from the norm: there is only one male, Owl-Caller, on the Elder council, and he is extremely deferential to Boneclaw, whereas the female elders argue with her as near-equals. Justified, since this is how Real Life spotted hyenas operate, with the highest ranked adult male below all females and juveniles in female's care. | |
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ProudWarriorRaceGirl | |
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Proud Warrior Race Girls: The hyenas. | |
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Facepalm | |
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Facepalm: Digger does this a lot◊. It's rather hard to blame her, considering. | |
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Team Dad | |
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Team Dad: The statue of Ganesh and Boneclaw Mother. | |
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Team Mom | |
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Team Mom: Digger herself for the journey arc. | |
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They Have the Scent! | |
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They Have the Scent!: The cold servants let out a distinctive cry in the distance as they pursue Digger and Grim Eyes. | |
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Trrrilling Rrrs | |
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Grim Eyes used to roll her r's in the beginning, but she does it much less often now. | |
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All Trolls Are Different | |
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All Trolls Are Different: Especially Surka (who, admittedly, is only a professional troll, and was not born as one), but the normal trolls are pretty strange, too. The cartoonist has actually explained where their design came from: she started wondering why trolls would hate goats so much, and eventually decided they must be the distant ancestors of domestic goats. Imagine how wolves would feel about Chihuahuas if they understood their relationship, and you have the general idea. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: "Are you a talking deer?" Comes up again at the very end when Samuel's bandersnatch refuses to continue by request of a shadow. "It was a very polite shadow." "It asked us if we could talk." | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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Buffy Speak: Minor example: | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Ursula Vernon stories often contain large amounts of Shown Their Work for some of the more ridiculous aspects of biology and mythology. | |
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