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Doc Rat (Webcomic)

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Doc Rat (Webcomic)	label	Doc Rat (Webcomic)
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	page	DocRat
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	comment	Doc Rat is a Furry Web Comic produced on weekdays by Jenner (a pseudonym of a practicing doctor in Australia).The comic follows Dr. Benjamin "Ben" Rat and his family practice, with largely a Slice of Life theme. Events in the comic suggests it is located in the vicinity of Melbourne. It shows his interaction with his various patients. Since they are also different species of animals, this can be a source for much of its comedic fodder. There is also plenty of Australian humor, doctor humor, and dealings with Australia's Medicare universal healthcare system.The main character is, obviously, a rat. The other main characters are Mary Scamper, his rabbit nurse, and Gizelle Thompson, his gazelle receptionist. There is also a rogue's gallery of regular patients which include koalas, numbats, kangaroos and a camel. Recently he married Daniella Hood, also a rat, who was previously his dentist and taekwondo instructor. Also listed is the local pharmacist, gorilla Phil Krubnuckle, though he's not featured as often.Jenner created Doc Rat in the 1990s and drew one-offs in various Australian medical journals as requested. He created the organized web comic in 2006.The comic has a complete archive at Cross Time Cafe.note This project was several years in the making with many hiccups along the way, including the death of one of its developers. Info on its development has been moved to the discussions thread. The given link goes to the first strip.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic)	processingComment	Dropped link to HoistByHerOwnPetard: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	processingComment	Dropped link to KevinAndKell: Not a Feature - ITEM
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	processingComment	Dropped link to Sherlock: Not a Feature - ITEM
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	processingComment	Dropped link to TheBeatles: Not a Feature - IGNORE
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_11bc87bc	type	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_11bc87bc	comment	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: According to Jenner, the appearance and mannerisms of Boss Alpha Blutenstein are at least somewhat based on BRIAN BLESSED.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The real name of "Pat the Tiger" is Ravi Patel. Jenner later disclaimed that there is no connection to the American actor of the same name.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_157aac46	type	Romantic Candlelit Dinner
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_157aac46	comment	Romantic Candlelit Dinner: Doc recommends it -- and the bird takes his wife out for a candlelit dinner on a buffalo's back. Later, Ben and Daniella had one for themselves after their engagement.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: A rabbit talking about how many of her babies are still alive.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Names (first and, in most cases, last) and species for all the frequently-seen characters (along with a few memorable one-offs) are listed on a character sheet on the comic's website. They also include the postnomials for Ben and Daniella as doctor and dentist, respectively.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_17d9043d	type	Read the Fine Print
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_17d9043d	comment	Read the Fine Print: Some fine print was included in the dialogue between Ben and Daniella on one of their early dates.note Just read the comic. All the included fine print would require its own page.another note In case you're curious, "Terrine" is a French patÃ© cooked in pottery and served cold. It can either involve meat or not.further note This one was included solely to point out the Overly Long Gag in the comic itself, since the strip adds three levels of fine print to the base conversation, and actually sets up future plot points, including both their previous relationships.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Ben and Jack didn't speak for years because of their father's dementia; Jack wanted to sue Winston's doctor for missing a diagnosis that contributed to it, while Ben wanted to leave well enough alone. Further wounding their relationship was that Jack sued Winston's doctor anyway, but dropped the suit after he ended up going through a divorce. While they tried to mend fences, they still couldnâ€™t see eye-to-eye about their father, and it took his death for them to finally come together.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: In the case of Quarrydog, it almost did literally. When he got stuck in a hole, Boss Alpha Blutenstein gave up searching for him too easily out of fear he would reveal the secret of Alfon being alive and exiled. So Jarrad, Pippie, and Macaulay ended up being the ones rescuing him. It turns out that Quarrydog was alright with remaining a Secret-Keeper about Alfon, which ended up shaming Manfred personally.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Mavis (koala) and Elsie (cat) are frequently seen at the same time in Ben's waiting room.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Flopsy, literally. Two of his stepkids got eaten by a fox. He broke the offending vulpine's legs and then paid for his medical treatment.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_1f14978d	comment	The predators have "Wild meat" for live Talking Animal prey vs. "farm meat" for farmed non-intelligent animal prey.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_1f518822	type	Androcles' Lion
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_1f518822	comment	Androcles' Lion: Referenced, then defied. They don't try it on Charmane, despite the thorn in the paw. Instead, Mary overbandaged her for it to ensure she didn't take retribution. She hasn't been heard from since Ben sacked her.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Where Kevin & Kell plays the concept of predating other sentient furries for laughs, this one plays it for drama. Right down to the registering of "taken" citizens.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_2461166d	type	All Gays Are Pedophiles
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_2461166d	comment	All Gays Are Pedophiles: Sands, a camel who frequents Doc Rat, is attacked for repeatedly talking with a child in the waiting room and being gay, accused of this.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_27705cf8	type	Textile Work Is Feminine
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_27705cf8	comment	Textile Work Is Feminine: A fly knitting for her maggots.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_27a58d30	type	Carnivore Confusion
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_27a58d30	comment	Carnivore Confusion: Not central but present on a few strips. Follows a less brutal variation of Kevin & Kell rules. Also, this strip. Apparently it's a cultural tradition. And this in a world in which there are apparently "tame" animals that are non-intelligent.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: The father of Daniella's first set of ratlings (who were subsequently eaten) dumped her when she got pregnant, and used all his pull to keep her out of his life. Brayden appeared to do this at one point, but it turned out he was at hospital suffering from a snakebite, and was being held without treatment until he died so the snake could legally claim him for food. Ben filibustered the snake by taking him out for fast food, permitting the predation claim on Brayden to lapse so he could be treated and return to Shirley and their kits. Jarrad's biological father has been missing and presumed taken for quite some time. He would later return, only to arrange another disappearance.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Wolf language is based on German. Flopsy the wolf's surname is Jaegermond, German for 'hunter's moon'. Boss alpha Blutenstein's name means "bloodstone". Could be a Meaningful Name, referring to how his plan to stop the hunting of intelligent beings takes a lot of effort, i.e. "like trying to get blood from a stone". The wolves' favorite swearword ("Scheiszgrrl" or variations thereof) is the German word for "shit" ending in a growl.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_2a97ad3b	type	Never Trust a Hair Tonic
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_2a97ad3b	comment	Never Trust a Hair Tonic: Mr Pigg complains to the chemist that the tonic he'd purchased which promised to "add body to your hair" caused him to sprout hair everywhere. Turned out he'd read the label upside down; it actually said "adds hair to your body".
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Happens to snake medical intern Roy when she ends up tasked with assisting Mel in giving birth while stuck in a hospital elevator. She ends up in a puddle.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_2b9affed	type	Dirty Business
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_2b9affed	comment	Dirty Business: When Allen the security guard hits, and kills, the poisonous snake.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: The predators have "Wild meat" for live Talking Animal prey vs. "farm meat" for farmed non-intelligent animal prey. The prey have "Don't tell the herd", "Gone missing", "Walked out", "On the road", "Lawfully assimilated" and the like for losing family members to the aforementioned predators.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_310bb947	type	Whoopi Epiphany Speech
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_310bb947	comment	Whoopi Epiphany Speech: An orphan gets over her nightmares through drawing a picture, and seeing a boy draw one.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_32ec6393	type	Shotgun Wedding
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_32ec6393	comment	Shotgun Wedding: It's implied that Ben's first marriage was this, as it's mentioned that he and his ex were young and he wanted to do what he felt was the right thing. His daughter's also twelve and he's ambiguously thirty-something when we find out.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_3425e0bf	type	Milestone Celebration
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_3425e0bf	comment	Milestone Celebration: There hasn't been particularly special strips for "kiribans" like the 1000th strip. But a special color strip was made for the strip's 10th anniversary which was celebrated as Ben's birthday.invoked
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_35ff3a1b	type	All a Part of the Job
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_35ff3a1b	comment	All a Part of the Job: CPR, rescheduling patients. . . .
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Herbivorous mothers typically are always on the lookout to protect their children. Particularly Daniella, Jazmyn, and Shirley.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Brayden Katanning goes from "Shirl's latest shitty boyfriend" to "responsible husband and dad" over the course of the strip, helped along by some traumatic experiences and positive examples from those around him. Notably he "grows up" faster than Shirl did despite starting out more immature. Fortenflanck Schlag has joined in this, initially being a lower associate of Boss Alpha Blutenstein, but beginning to show some backbone of his own following his son Quarrydog's confirmation. Interestingly enough, this would climax with Forty helping Brayden out of a pickle while his wife, Luella, is in labor with their daughter, giving him even more clout in Blutenstein's eyes.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_3cb6468e	type	Bad Liar
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_3cb6468e	comment	Bad Liar: Ben's whiskers twitch when he lies. The bigger the lie, the more his whiskers twitch, as demonstrated here
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_3cf44d4b	type	High-Class Glass
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_3cf44d4b	comment	High-Class Glass: Lord Lockley wears one. Comes with being very high up in the rabbit hierarchy and living in a huge mansion.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_3f7b645d	type	The Insomniac
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_3f7b645d	comment	The Insomniac: See Zombie Apocalypse
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: A frequent source of humor in the one-off strips as well as Jarrad's misadventures.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_424d15ad	type	Love Hurts
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_424d15ad	comment	Love Hurts: So do martial arts.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_444154b8	type	Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_444154b8	comment	Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: A five year-old child, the only survivor of a family of six who died in a brushfire expresses her feelings here.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: This is Zig-Zagged in Ben and Danni's mugging. Initially, Danni is the one to say they should just surrender their belongings instead of fighting, primarily because their attackers were armed. Of course, per Bond Villain Stupidity, that ended up all for naught and they had to fight anyway. By the end, Danni wanted to kill them, and Ben became the voice of reason, insisting they wait for the police. This, of course, led them to find out the muggers were the same individuals who attacked Julian.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_4510b368	type	Ambiguous Gender
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_4510b368	comment	Ambiguous Gender: Roy, being a snake, is not obviously female.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_45f0bb2d	type	Hope Is Scary
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_45f0bb2d	comment	Hope Is Scary: Hope hurts!
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Daniella couldn't help but give an Aside Glance when Ben admitted to her that he accidentally let some rabbit language slip in front of Mary.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_4e3dee88	type	Their First Time
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_4e3dee88	comment	Their First Time: Danni did not regret Ben insisting they wait to have sex, if the strips around their implied first time—after they became engaged—is any indication.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_506ffa51	type	Tears of Joy
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_506ffa51	comment	Tears of Joy: At the wedding. Ben lampshades it:
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_51afcd70	type	Sexy Silhouette
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_51afcd70	comment	Sexy Silhouette: The premonition of Their First Time: the strip before their Sexy Discretion Shot shows their silhouettes at dinner, and Danni looks like she's about to jump over the dinner table at Ben.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_535865be	type	I Resemble That Remark!
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_535865be	comment	I Resemble That Remark!: After Danni stops Wilfred from attacking Ben during Tae Kwon Do class, she tells off Willard, saying that she knows he was the aggressor and that he needs to learn control. Willard promptly smashes his fist into a wall and has to receive on-site medical care and a ride to the hospital from Ben. (We are not, unfortunately, privy as to how that ride went).
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Averted here.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_55473bc9	type	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_55473bc9	comment	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Averted. In one arc in 2009, one of his patients, bear Wilbur Fuzz, has a heart attack in his office, but the CPR is portrayed realistically. Ben and Mary do CPR on him for eight minutes until paramedics arrive to defibrillate him. Even then, he suffered three more arrests at hospital before he was fully stabilized and treated. He spent a couple weeks in hospital, and also suffered rib injuries due to all that CPR.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_5dbb6fdb	type	Perfect Solution Fallacy
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_5dbb6fdb	comment	Perfect Solution Fallacy: Discussed, including Ben paraphrasing Voltaire's quote on the trope page, when he and Wilbur discuss the latter's cardiac arrest.note A common description given by patients who have received CPR is that it feels like a large animal sat on their chest.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_5e105542	type	Magic Genetics
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_5e105542	comment	Magic Genetics: Largely averted, until a rabbit and wolf apparently conceive. They regard it a miracle.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_5e6a495	type	The Problem with Pen Island
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_5e6a495	comment	The Problem with Pen Island: The demographic site IRateCustomers.com isn't as positive as hoped.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_5eb7e838	type	Let's Meet the Meat
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_5eb7e838	comment	Let's Meet the Meat: The "I Want to Live" variant. See, there's intelligent Talking Animals and nonintelligent normal animals. By tradition, prey Talking Animals have large, very large families to keep the economy going and predator Talking Animals ensure the preservation of the environment and other resources by...uh, making sure those families don't stay too large without wiping them out. A legal system developed which allowed predators to feed themselves and their families upon a certain number of "wild" prey per capita so long as their hunt kills or severely injures the prey within five minutes of starting (legally) and they fill the proper paperwork later (and can apparently eat corpses all they want as long as they have a valid claim on the kill), while prey may continue expanding their families and the obligation falls upon them to keep themselves and their children from being eaten—usually by keeping vigilant at all times when outside the home. Prey also cannot seek retribution, legally, for lost family members, although they can apparently act in self-defense or in the defense of their family during an attack. A hawk, for example, swooping down on a baby carriage and taking a few rat pups from their horrified parents would be a perfectly legal set of kills. However, as time marches on, the tradition of eating "wild" prey has come into conflict with developing notions of morality, especially in light of modern science showing that farmed non-intelligent animals are exactly the same as wild-caught animals in every respect, including nutrition. Many predators have changed to farmed foods, but the tradition of eating intelligent prey (and the law tacitly supporting it) remains, costing thousands of innocent lives per year.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: Fought on a video game — to turn into a walking dead the next day.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_61c7d589	type	Bigger Is Better in Bed
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_61c7d589	comment	Bigger Is Better in Bed: It was implied around the time of his and Daniella's engagement that Ben...isn't exactly small in that aspect.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_639aa0cd	type	Did You Just Have Sex?
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_639aa0cd	comment	Did You Just Have Sex?: Gizelle and Siobhan, their respective receptionists, quickly figured out after Ben and Daniella's first time together.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: A few: When Daniella found out that Flopsy would be at the Rabbit Bungaree, happening at the resort next to the hotel where they would be for their honeymoon. And this one when Ben got confused by a goat pharmaceutical salesman saying he was "workshopping statin". Ben tells his nurse the vax of life [1]
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6439de78	comment	When Boss Alpha Blutenstein has to launch his rule change before he's ready (thanks in part to Ben's attempt at a Heroic Sacrifice), he is immediately challenged by members of his pack. His son Alfon comes to his rescue by issuing his own challenge, which takes precedence, and losing, therefore settling the matter. For his efforts, Alfon ends up dishonored and outcast, a Fate Worse than Death in wolf society.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_64d3ffd8	type	The Extremist Was Right
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_64d3ffd8	comment	The Extremist Was Right: Lockley's justification for manipulating everyone and risking innocent lives in the process.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: There's an old wives' tale about how intelligent prey contains vital forces predators need for good health, which are lacking in non-intelligent animals. Science suggests otherwise.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: Flopsy (Formerly Fangripp) (wolf) and Jasmine (rabbit) Jaegermond , face trouble from their families and their cultures at large.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: They haunt orphans.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Ben and Jack's mother, Winston's wife, died of breast cancer.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_68923ef0	type	Fur Is Clothing
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_68923ef0	comment	Fur Is Clothing, Fur Is Skin: Averted. Fur is just hair. In every way.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Although Luella is speaking in favor of eating intelligent prey animals here, she isn't wrong about that fact that prey being able to reproduce roughly three-to-one completely unchecked does ultimately threaten the overall well-being of predators, especially when there's to concrete way of being certain that they would adhere to any non-enforced birth limit.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6b146924	type	Species Surname
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6b146924	comment	Species Surname: In some cases (e.g., Doc himself) but not all.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Ben finding out Daniella, his taekwondo sensei (and someone he had a crush on), is also a dentist.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Played with. "Secret Bunny Business" is initially set up as a running joke following this trope (with Ben thinking it's all about rabbits taking their sex lives way too seriously) but turns out to actually be very, very serious business indeed that ties strongly into several of the strip's more dramatic storylines.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Boss alpha Blutenstein's name means "bloodstone". Could be a Meaningful Name, referring to how his plan to stop the hunting of intelligent beings takes a lot of effort, i.e. "like trying to get blood from a stone".
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6cd0cdcc	type	Endangered Species
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6cd0cdcc	comment	Endangered Species: One of the more serious plot points surrounds the numbats, which are exceedingly rare, yet still hunted. Shirley Dryandra-Katanning early on had difficulty keeping both children and mates, though she did have four surviving children prior to initially shacking up with eventual current husband Brayden Katanning (Jackson, Janeece, Jarrad, and Taylor), and her mother Lily is still around (in spite of her smoking, which has resulted in COPD). At least Brayden, despite early issues, has come around, and lately seems to have the protection of the wolf pack through his boss, Fortenflanck. Averted, however, with frequent elder patient Mavis, who is a koala, but that species' endangered status isn't a storyline (yet).
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Many. Some even get commented-on in-universe, such as recurring extras Pat the Dog and Pat the Tiger. According to the cast page, Pat's real name is "Pat O'Kake". Ben's receptionist is a Thompson's gazelle named Gizelle Thompson.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Invoked when Jarrad saves his little sister Hope from a predator attack on Shirley and Brayden's wedding. Shirl says Jarrad's reward will be "lots and lots more little baby brothers and sisters". She'd have her next litter not long after.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6e5da6fe	type	UngratefulBitch
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6e5da6fe	comment	Ungrateful Bitch: Even after Julian saves her son's life, Shirl hopes he dies.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6e9bc71b	type	Extreme Omni-Goat
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_6e9bc71b	comment	Extreme Omni-Goat: Nichaud the baby goat - but not her mom.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_709d5e74	type	Parent Never Came Back from the Store
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_709d5e74	comment	Parent Never Came Back from the Store: A very real possibility in a 'verse with intelligent prey.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Pat, a dog, one of his patients. Not only pretty flamboyant, but also very nosy. Julian's boyfriend is more than a little campy as well. Pat's partner (also named Pat) on the other hand is a rather Manly Gay Ducati-racing tiger. And florist.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: The muggers who attacked Ben and Danni could've gotten away with all of their things—including Ben's engagement ring he was preparing to give to Danni. But they decided they didn't want witnesses, so it crossed over with Bullying a Dragon and they ended up getting their tails kicked.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_757bbdb8	type	Massive Numbered Siblings
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_757bbdb8	comment	Massive Numbered Siblings: Rabbits. Rats. Other creatures. And yet, they've got nothing on flies. (Has a tragic side, too.)
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_77a8fd8a	type	STD Immunity
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_77a8fd8a	comment	STD Immunity: Averted. this strip, according to Word of God is the prelude to Daniella informing Ben off-screen about her (controlled) herpes.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: When the Black Saturday bushfires occurred in 2009, Jenner incorporated them into the plot with one of Ben's patients, Colin, losing a brother and almost his entire family in the bushfires, and later adopting his remaining niece, Pippie. The bushfire season of 2020 would have its own arc with Ben and Daniella being involved in field medicine, and it begins with Colin getting a new psychiatrist referral for himself and Pippie. The COVID-19 Pandemic has also featured prominently in the comic. Ultimately, it ripped through the nursing home Winston was staying at, with Winston being one of the casualties.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: Wilbur Fuzz feigned heart attacks to get emergency attention. Eventually, he actually has one. The paramedics who take him to the hospital—who happen to actually be wolves—even lampshade it.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_7b405f5b	type	Percussive Therapy
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_7b405f5b	comment	Percussive Therapy: When they get rejected from further reservations with Mondo Venezio for accruing two no-shows, Daniella takes a bat to her training dummy and ultimately beats its head off.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_7d30a8fa	type	But We Used a Condom!
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_7d30a8fa	comment	But We Used a Condom!: Danni was on the Pill when she and Ben first got married, but that didn't stop her from getting pregnant.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Allan is an alcoholic patient attempting to recover, although it takes outside help in the form of a particularly vocal flea of his for him to start taking it more seriously. Realistically, he occasionally relapses. Danni went through a rough period in college where she drowned her sorrows and got into bad relationships as a result.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Wilbur's jokes usually result in a Lame Pun Reaction from Ben, but occasionally he manages to land a hit...
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_805b13e	type	Wacky Marriage Proposal
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_805b13e	comment	Wacky Marriage Proposal: With the originally-intended engagement pre-empted by a mugging, the ball finally got rolling when Ben casually referred to Daniella as his fiancÃ©e during an argument with her family. As they were leaving, he affirmed it quickly by asking her for real: After all the drama with his biological father, Jarrad asked Shirley and Brayden to get married as a reward for after his tonsillectomy. Brayden popped the question right there, and Shirl said yes.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Downplayed. In the prey community, when one of their loved ones is eaten by a predator looking for some "wild" prey, the survivors have no choice but to more or less take it on the chin, not talk about it much and keep going.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Julian Sands, a camel. When it's discovered he is gay, however, it causes all sorts of issues for him and for Ben.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: During a conversation with Quarrydog, Jarrad mentions that some cyclists are hooked on endorsements. He meant endorphins, but it made Quarrydog think of professional cyclers wearing tons of ads on their outfits.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Flopsy (wolf) and Jazmyn (rabbit), something of a big deal considering wolves normally eat rabbits and Flopsy ate Jaz's ex-husband.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_86eea0e5	type	World of Pun
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_86eea0e5	comment	World of Pun: Most of the strips that aren't part of a storyline (and even some that are) are nothing but high-speed punning.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_8a0d290b	type	Conlang
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_8a0d290b	comment	Conlang: Lapine, the Watership Down-inspired secret rabbit language has its own grammar and syntax structures. It's not for outsiders to know, though, so keep it tish-tish.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car/Cool Bike: Pat the Dog and Pat the Tiger share a love for fast conveyances. And Ben has experienced both.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: Ben and Danni's first kiss lasted four strips.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: A cruel fact of life, even after the wolf pack declared they would no longer hunt sapient animals, since other animals still do, and are legally permitted to. Shirl has had many of her children taken; Jarrad lost both of his littermates, and this crushed his biological father Toby when he found out. Daniella lost two ratlings from a young relationship as well, and sometimes is still paranoid when with her current set of ratlings with Ben.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: In-Universe example: as Boss Alpha Blutenstein and the Schlags are watching an episode of the Law of the Jungle quiz show, the elders are explaining things to Quarrydog that he already knows from watching the show himself.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_98ce3773	type	Cerebus Rollercoaster
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_98ce3773	comment	Cerebus Rollercoaster: It periodically has a new batch of pun-based "gag of the day" strips between story arcs.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_99db27be	type	NecessaryEvil
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_99db27be	comment	Necessary Evil: Predation upon intelligent prey is justified in-universe by the idea that prey numbers need to be kept down to a reasonable level for the sake of resources and the environment. Well, by those predators who support eating "wild" prey and and the law anyway.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_99dd103c	type	Safe Zone Hope Spot
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_99dd103c	comment	Safe Zone Hope Spot: There's good news and bad news. The good news is that if you're a prey animal, a predator cannot legally hunt you inside a hospital or other health facility (parking lots exempted)! The bad news is that if a predator has hunted and injured you outside but you have escaped to a hospital/health facility, then said predator can legally register you as their prey and can lay claim to you within sixty hours. If they do and you are incapable of leaving the hospital under your own power, the hospital is then legally forced to mercifully inject you full of sedative and let 'em have you.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_9a68179	type	Holding the Floor
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_9a68179	comment	Holding the Floor: Brayden Katanning has been bitten by a venomous snake, who in accordance with the predation laws has filed him as prey and may eat him within sixty hours of the bite. Since the snake doesn't want to fill out any more paperwork, he'd rather the original envenomation kill Brayden and thus plans to wait 'til as close to the sixty hour point as long as possible. If at any point the snake changes his mind about seeing if he'll die on his own and says he wants to eat Braydon(very likely), it's down the hatch. By tricking the snake into overstuffing on fast food and falling asleep, Ben manages to buy enough time for the sixty hours to expire.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Wilbur Fuzz is shown faking a heart attack for laughs and later mentioning that he sometimes fakes having emergency heart trouble in the waiting room in order to be seen faster. Guess what happens to him? The numerous jokes about Jasmine having four kids and constantly having one get away from her get a lot less funny after she loses two to legal predation. While this strip seems to be saying that Willard's GP has no right to call Ben's brother for him, it actually foreshadows that he had come into conflict with Jack over something, which is explained shortly after.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: These are all over the place. Ben and Daniella are privy to many alleged secrets of both the Rabbit and Wolf clans. Penny and Luella both became this to each other after their most recent births. It's also true among the clans' leaders, Lockley and Blutenstein.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Downplayed with Willard's reaction to actually knocking Ben unconscious during their fight, where he does seem genuinely concerned (whether as to Ben's life or getting arrested is unclear). This brief moment of remorse doesn't stop him immediately lying about the cause of the fight to Danni, as well as flipping out and punching a wall in the next strip. Danni had this reaction when she smacked Ben after he joked about "secret bunny business" to her. He didn't know that a previous boyfriend of hers was a rabbit and his family forced him to break up with her, something she still felt bitter about at the time.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a1d3ebd7	type	Furry Reminder
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a1d3ebd7	comment	Furry Reminder: The source of much of the strip's humour.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: Repeatedly, since the strip often deals with adult themes but tries very hard to remain safe-for-work. Doc and Daniella's first time together. After Daniella makes her intentions clear, the next strip shows nothing but two rat tails forming a heart shape. On their honeymoon, the scene switches from the couple drinking Nettlefrisk Tea (implied to be a very strong aphrodisiac) to them lying next to each other, utterly exhausted.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: This comic can go from deliberately terrible puns through nightmare fuel to heartwarming at the drop of a hat, sometimes all within the same three-panel strip.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Roy, a snake medical intern involved in Mel's birth, is female. Her full first name is Roisin, which is an Irish female name. Julian mentions that had once found true love with someone named Jan. It's only later that Ben learns that Julian is gay and that it was a same-sex relationship.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a681bfc6	type	Amicable Exes
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a681bfc6	comment	Amicable Exes: A little too amicable for Danni, anyway.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a929d574	type	Doctor's Orders
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a929d574	comment	Doctor's Orders: A good bit of the humor comes from orders falling victim to Malapropisms.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a9b10a62	type	Think Nothing of It
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_a9b10a62	comment	Think Nothing of It: "Just doing my job."
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_aa4aea64	type	Mistaken for Afterlife
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_aa4aea64	comment	Mistaken for Afterlife: Doc himself, in the dojo:
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_add9abb3	type	The Missus and the Ex
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_add9abb3	comment	The Missus and the Ex: After several months of trying to get into contact with her for a proper divorce, Ben's estranged wife finally gets back to him at an inopportune time.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: The paramedics invoke this over a heart attack.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Carnivores.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_b5b4bd37	type	The Don
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_b5b4bd37	comment	The Don: The wolf clans are entirely legitimate (with occasional lapses into grey areas), but they still very much adhere to the style tropes of The Mafia. It's therefore entirely unsurprising that Boss Alpha Manfred Blutenstein comes across as this trope.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_b7b34a24	type	HeartWarmingOrphan
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_b7b34a24	comment	Heart Warming Orphan: Pippie
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Daniella, with taekwondo students Ben and Willard. Eventually, Willard was cut out when he showed lack of control in her dojo, and knocked Ben out in a fight.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_bc103f8b	comment	This is later subverted when they try to save Flopsy and Jazmyn from an illegal hunt but get separated from their backup, Pat the Tiger. Fortunately, a lucky Groin Attack from Ben to the wolf that was originally supposed to fight Flopsy neutralized the threat.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_bdb0438e	type	Everything's Better with Sparkles
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_bdb0438e	comment	Everything's Better with Sparkles: Even packaging
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_bdd7fd6b	type	These Hands Have Killed
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_bdd7fd6b	comment	These Hands Have Killed: Part of Flopsy's guilt regards him taking Jazmyn's first husband as prey before learning he had a family. Allen also experiences this when he kills the snake that bit Julian, and was threatening Jarrad and Ben.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: A sad example. Danni went through a period where her life went to shreds and she had a number of physical relationships to try and heal her emotional pain before getting it together.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: After Flopsy's big secret comes to light ( He and his pack ate Jaz' first husband) he tries to throw himself off a cliff. Ben isn't having any of that.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: Inevitable in a medical-themed comic. One example can be seen here, courtesy of a slight misunderstanding...
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a	comment	Julian Sands's name may be a Shout-Out to Julian & Sandy, making it a Meaningful Name. Readers have thought that it could be to the actor◊, but the author says he hadn't heard of the actor when naming the character.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_c7d69d0e	type	Born in an Elevator
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_c7d69d0e	comment	Born in an Elevator: Melanie (Danni's best friend), Luella (Forty's wife), and Penny (Lord Lockley's wife) are all stuck in elevators at hospital while in labor. Luella and Penny midwife for each other in their births, while Mel can be extracted before she gives birth.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: After clipping it, Daniella awarded Ben with his long ingrown tooth at the taekwon dojo.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_cb0743c0	type	Lame Pun Reaction
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: With several cast regulars (particularly Ben himself and recurring patient Mr. Fuzz) being notable Pungeon Masters, every now and then you get one so bad even the other characters acknowledge its lameness.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_cc28f3bf	type	Not That Kind of Doctor
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_cc28f3bf	comment	Not That Kind of Doctor: As a doctor who deals specifically with the problems of rabbits, Doctor Brazzleberry has no experience treating the dislocated shoulder of a predator three times his size. Fortunately, Ben has a much...broader clientele. The situation is semi-reversed when Doc Rat finds himself in the position of delivering Flopsy and Jasmine's babies by C-section. As a GP, he hasn't performed a birth, let alone a C-section in years, but he's the only qualified doctor with any experience around. He successfully gets the babies out alive, but there's a complication and Jez starts bleeding badly. Fortunately, Doctor Brazzleberry, who was delayed by a predator attack, shows up just in time and is able to use his experience performing many, many rabbit births to save Jasmine's life.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_cd83b340	type	Second Super-Identity
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_cd83b340	comment	Second Super-Identity: Captain Kerpow's secret identity is Awesome Possum, another crimefighter.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: When Ben tries to joke about "secret bunny business" with Daniella after they got engaged, she smacks him. See: My God, What Have I Done?
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: Remember when the strip was just puns about medical conditions? That was quite a while ago. Cerebus Rollercoaster: It periodically has a new batch of pun-based "gag of the day" strips between story arcs.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: Ben and Danni's conversation at a restaurant. Hilarity Ensues, as Ben teaches Danni how he made a game out of it: GarÃ§onification. Also this. "He's a very sick mannote from a snakebite and they had to take him awaynote to a hospital." This exchange between Ben and Pat when they're racing to stop the release of Julian's attackers: Wilbur is also occasionally prone to this...
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Mavis the Koala and Lily Dryandra have their moments, but the overall prize goes to Lorna Lappin. Sassy, doesn't take any crap from anybody, rabbit Elder...rather nasty with that cane of hers.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d32a5fec	type	True Love Is Boring
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d32a5fec	comment	True Love Is Boring: Daniella was concerned during their courtship that Ben's seeming lack of desire to have sex with her was a sign that their relationship was going south. As it turns out, Ben simply didn't see sex as a pre-requisite for them to develop a deeper relationship. They finally had sex after they became engaged.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d371868b	type	Precious Puppy
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d371868b	comment	Precious Puppy: Fortenflanck and Luella's newborn pup, Grace, certainly counts.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: In one arc, Ben had an ingrown incisor that was life-threatening—as in, growing back into his mouth and about to puncture his brain—and elected to wait on dealing with it until work at the practice started picking up again and he could better afford getting treated, brushing off the concerns of Mary and Gizelle over his health. Mary makes her distaste for his stupidity crystal clear once he finally gets the tooth snipped.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Lord Lockley is one of the rare (more or less) heroic examples. He expertly manipulates a whole lot of characters into doing exactly what he wants without apparent effort on his part. And to really drive the point home, he does play chess and uses chess metaphors a few times.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: Roy drops a line/Title Drop from an Aretha Franklin-Eurythmics duet during the elevator rescue in late 2020 when she and Danni hear Penny and Luella's newborn children in the other elevator car.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d7d8e447	comment	Depraved Dentist: After Ben and Danni are in a relationship, Danni is forced to stop being Ben's Dentist. So she sends him to her associate, Doctor Bell - who happens to be an Anglerfish! See here This is later invoked when Ben sees doctors reviewing films about doctors, and Daniella pointedly asks him to look up films about dentists:
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d89c1e6	comment	Longest Pregnancy Ever: Danni was pregnant with her and Ben's ratlings for years. She found out she was pregnant in November 2010, and gave birth in January 2015. Melanie found out she was pregnant around the same time as Danni. She didn't give birth until December 2020! And it's even lampshaded by Danni:
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_d952cef0	comment	Killing in Self-Defense: Well, injuring rather. Luckily this 'verse seems to have pretty solid laws about defending one's self and family. (As in "I came by your house to break your legs as a warning not to eat any more of my children", though having a great lawyer helped).
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_db212ca9	comment	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Pretty much any time anyone accidentally uses the secret rabbit language. Most recently when Penny uttered some phrases while working through a complication in Luella's birth of Grace.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: When watching a horror film, Ben quips, "Huh. Nobody's got an artery there."
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_db4b76d1	comment	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Forty of all people gets a good one when dealing with a pair of leopards who tried to kill his delivery driver.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: At the end of the medical conference story (and yes, It Makes Sense in Context...):
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_de0db2aa	comment	Crush Blush: Once while flirting with Daniella.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Ben couldn't help it when Danni was preparing to clip his ingrown tooth after he realized she was a dentist:
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e0140e6c	type	From the Mouths of Babes
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e0140e6c	comment	From the Mouths of Babes: A very serious example: while Ben still had a black eye from his fight with Willard, a piglet he was examining asked if his dad was angry at him. Ben called Mary in, with the implication that a call to social services was to follow.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Simon/Quarrydog's father, Fortenflanck Schlag. Let's just say Simon must have got all the brains from his mother's side of the family. Whenever there's an opportunity to do or say something foolish, Forty is rushing ahead to be first in line.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e399c1dd	comment	Manly Gay: Ravi Patel, Pat the Dog's tiger partner, runs a flower shop, but also drives a fast motorcycle, and is very well built.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e3a7d2e6	comment	He would later hit the Karmic Jackpot when Fortenflanck helps him out of a pickle, saving him from being attacked by some felines while making a delivery.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e42236fb	comment	Unsafe Haven: So, rabbits, you're a prey species who value the lives of your children above all else, in a world that has laws permitting legal predation. Why would you gather a large chunk of said children all in one enclosed, fragile place at one time? Why write that it's the children's tent in (one assumes) plain English above it? Why isn't that tent reinforced like Fort Knox from predator or happenstance? Why not at least one fire extinguisher?
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: It's easy to see Jenner's art style change subtlely over the 15 years of the comic. In September and October 2021, he posted a selection of previous strips that had been coloured.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Jarrad, age 7, to his mother after she finally goes too far with her homophobic attacks on Julian, the man who just saved Jarrad's life:
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Danielle's first serious relationship was with a rabbit, who taught her about a good portion of the incredibly secretive rabbit culture with an eye toward marrying her and breaking down the walls together. However, pressure from his family led him to break the relationship instead, leaving her heartbroken.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Ben's father, Winston, suffered dementia, usually responding to everything with "That's nice", with the occasional inquiry about his wife, who's been dead for years. But when he first met Daniella, he had an exceptional moment of clarity: Ben later noticed this when Jarrad's behavior began to change, and Shirl and Brayden initially tried to get him on ADHD drugs for it. Ben diagnosed it as a sleep disorder, and eventually Jarrad had his tonsils removed.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e853bdb8	type	Plagued by Nightmares
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e853bdb8	comment	Plagued by Nightmares: Pippie suffers from horrible nightmares and wets the bed after most of her family die in a wildfire. She gets better thanks to her friendship with Jarrad.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When the snake that bit Brayden and Julian—and threatened Jarrad and the rest of his family—was punched and killed by Allen, Allen said he was "hit by a bus". Which was his occupation at the time: a bus for parasites. An otter needs to cut down on cholesterol and Ben tells her "It's very easy — if you're given the option of a low-fat custard or a rich, fatty pudding, you'd choose custard over the pudding." The last panel is her pouring low-fat custard over a rich, fatty pudding. Another patient has her mental acuity checked by being asked to subtract 7 from 100 as many times as she can ... and says it's always 93.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Ben and Daniella going to the Rabbit Bungaree in a hot air balloon to treat an injured Flopsy counts. This is later subverted when they try to save Flopsy and Jazmyn from an illegal hunt but get separated from their backup, Pat the Tiger. Fortunately, a lucky Groin Attack from Ben to the wolf that was originally supposed to fight Flopsy neutralized the threat. The rams who came in to pull Quarrydog out of the mudhole he was trapped in—pulling up the lifeline that Jarrad, Pippie, and Macaulay dropped down to him—count as well. When Brayden gets cornered by two hungry leopards on a delivery run, his employer Forty actually risks missing his daughter's birth to rescue him. Not that Forty is entirely opposed to "wild meat", but letting one of his employees get eaten would be a grave insult to him and by extension his entire clan and boss alpha Blutenstein. Fittingly, the strip where the leopards get the spots beaten out of them is titled "Respect Lesson".
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_edcc813f	type	Fantastic Caste System
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_edcc813f	comment	Fantastic Caste System: Doctors receive a particularly large amount of respect among wolves, no matter the species.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: More Played With for Pat the Dog and Pat the Tiger, since Pat the Tiger's actual first name is Ravi.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Reddi-Pred, a powerful sedative, is administered by doctors to those prey whose predators lay claim to them while they're laid up at the hospital and are physically unable to escape under their own power (something predators can do within sixty hours of attacking their prey). This allows them to be eaten with a minimum of pain and distress. On the prey's part, not the doctor's part.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_f46fb603	type	Pungeon Master
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_f46fb603	comment	Pungeon Master: A common trait among the cast. Just about anybody, from main characters to one-scene extras, will launch into a Hurricane of Puns if given the opportunity, but the most egregious example has to be waiting room regular Mr. Fuzz. His constant punning is so awful even Ben, no slouch in the pun department himself, can't take it.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_f5e59782	type	A Real Man Is a Killer
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_f5e59782	comment	A Real Man Is a Killer: An important coming-of-age ritual among wolves is for the child to run with a pack and kill somebody. If they succeed, they are considered an adult in wolf society. If they fail or refuse, their entire family is dishonored, a Fate Worse than Death among wolves. This drives one of the comic's darkest and most dramatic storylines when Simon/Quarrydog finds himself torn between his realization that killing sentient prey is wrong and loyalty to his family. The Blutenstein clan ends up abandoning this tradition saving Quarrydog's life and soul, but at the cost of Alfon Blutenstein being unpersoned.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_f909b16b	type	Dark Secret
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_f909b16b	comment	Dark Secret: Keeping from your girlfriend that you're married.details Ben had married someone when he was young, but she left him and moved to America. He actually forgot about it until he was ready to ask Daniella to marry him, and it turned out to be the last delay before he finally proposed to her. Several run-ins with the rabbits and wolves eventually led Ben to figure out Daniella had lost two children in the past. There's also Blutenstein's son faking his own death to help his dad and Lockley get peace between wolves and rabbits. Apparently, Quarrydog knows.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Happens quite frequently with the wolf pack. Blutenstein's son faked his death to assist with the peace between wolves and rabbits. He actually emigrated to America under an alias. Jarrad's biological father, the writer of the Dr. Krymp books, fakes his death with the help of the wolf pack so Jarrad can inherit his fortune. He also emigrated to America, and will continue to write Dr. Krymp books under a pen name.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Two words: Mondo Venezio. It's a really chic restaurant Ben repeatedly has issues getting Danni to. The first time sees Danni worrying Ben is going to break up with her, when it turns out he's going to pop the question. She realizes this when they get mugged on the way there, and she discovers what was among his effects:context Daniella thought Ben was going to break up with her, as a previous boyfriend had done. As it turned out, he was going to ask her to marry him. After they get married, they make it to Mondo Venezio on their second attempt. They discuss a few things, and Danni glosses over a couple past children (which we'd learn more about later). The next morning, she ends up with morning sickness, leading directly to them finding out she's pregnant. Their third attempt to go to Mondo Venezio is interrupted when they end up having to intervene with a situation involving Jazmyn and Flopsy. The fourth time, Ben is refused a reservation because he had accrued two no-shows. Flopsy finds out, and pulls some strings with Lord Lockley to get them an all-expenses-paid first-class dinner night at the restaurant.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_fe3c5f16	comment	Captain Superhero: Captain Kerpow.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: Fortenflanck, a lifelong wolf, although entirely well-intentioned, has some difficulty at first fully understanding quite how upsetting it is to be a prey animal who was literally seconds away from being messily and painfully torn apart and devoured by two predators before being rescued, although to his credit he's shown to catch on quickly in this and the following strips. And hey, net positive, it reminded him to pick up his wife's bag and insurance card.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: After years of Jerkassery, Brayden finally comes around after the "death" of Jarrad's biological father, getting a good job as a delivery truck driver for a store, and paying for extracurricular activities for Jarrad out of his own wallet instead of using the trust fund set aside for him. He would later hit the Karmic Jackpot when Fortenflanck helps him out of a pickle, saving him from being attacked by some felines while making a delivery.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Doc Rat (Webcomic) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: A professional doctor writing a comic about a doctor? One should hope so. In a non-medical example, in this conversation between two bears, it's shown that one can hibernate and the other cannot, and indeed not all bear species do so.
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Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Romantic Candlelit Dinner / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Rouge Angles of Satin / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sapient Eat Sapient / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Second Super-Identity / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sexy Silhouette / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Shotgun Wedding / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Talking in Your Sleep / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Tap on the Head / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Tattooed Crook / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Big Damn Kiss / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Insomniac / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Nose Knows / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Problem with Pen Island / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Their First Time / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Thermometer Gag / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Un-person / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Webcomics of the 2000s / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Whoopi Epiphany Speech / int_8ebb38e4
Doc Rat (Webcomic)	hasFeature	World of Pun / int_8ebb38e4
DocRat	sameAs	Doc Rat (Webcomic)

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