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Dubious Company is an adventure comedy comic written by Ben Hsu (AKA Tagalong) and drawn by Elaine Tipping (AKA Tria).It follows Captain Walter Herindale and his best buddy Tiren as they build an assorted quirky crew in order to do... something, mostly heavy drinking. All the while they spoof and play with every trope, Cliché, and genre they come across. Oh, and dealing with Emperor Kreedor's Elite Guards.Can be found here. note Although since the site can sometimes be very slow (to the point of triggering 504 errors instead of loading properly) and — considering the webcomic is finished — probably won't stay up forever, a Wayback Machine link has been provided for your convenience. Also see the Crowning Moments and Character Page! |
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A Form You Are Comfortable With |
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A Form You Are Comfortable With: Phred visits Sal and Leeroy as a pair of sweatpants. |
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Creator Cameo |
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Creator Cameo: Tria, Tagalong, and their webmaster occasionally appear. |
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Drunk Driver |
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Drunk Driver: Subverted. Due to Walter's quirkiness and Applied Phlebotinum, the Cool Ship can only be driven while drunk. And he flys it perfectly well, until Marty makes Walter fly with his hands tied behind his back. |
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Title Drop |
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Title Drop: "I forsee this coming Celebration of Veils will be beset by... Dubious Company." |
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Why We Can't Have Nice Things |
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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Why Can't We Have Cool Ships?: Walter really needs to lock up the Magitek engine room of his Cool Ship, err.. Barry's Cool Ship, err.. Barry's other not quite as cool ship. |
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Little Bit Beastly |
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Walter and Tiren lose their animal attributes. |
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Welcome Back, Traitor |
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Welcome Back, Traitor: Subverted, in that while allegiances changed, no betrayal occurred. |
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Dare to Be Badass |
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Dare to Be Badass: Played straight, yet inverted by, of all people, Elly to Sue. He dares her not to be a badass while fleeing. |
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Adaptational Villainy |
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Adaptational Villainy: Walter is the pirate he always dreamed of becoming, and the Space Marines take him as a serious threat. In the epilogue, he and Tiren become an Outlaw Couple, if the title "Fanservice" is anything to go by. |
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Your Mind Makes It Real |
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Your Mind Makes It Real: the exposition on the island's inner workings. Which may justify the walking fanservice scenes and delve deeper into the psyche of certain characters than they may wish. |
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Ironic Echo |
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Ironic Echo / Hilarious in Hindsight: Tiren drunk vomits on Mary much like she did with Walter shortly before they team-up. |
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Wave-Motion Gun |
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Wave-Motion Gun: Tiren gets to use one. The marines have a more powerful one, but it takes a longer time to charge. |
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Curse Escape Clause |
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And Elly gets back his manly hair. |
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What Did I Do Last Night? |
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What Did I Do Last Night?: The series starts OFF with Tiren wondering that. Walter found her as a stowaway while she was sleeping. It happens a few more times in the story. (Hey, they're pirates. They get drunk) |
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Accidental Pervert |
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Involuntary Voyuer: Sal's new form lets her see and hear everything that happens on the ship, whether she wants to or not. |
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Memetic Mutation |
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Memetic Mutation: An errant comment that one of Sal's poses looks like a pin up has led to a discussion about doing a pin up calender for the Crew. invoked |
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Batman Gambit |
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Batman Gambit: Izor pulls this with Sal in order to overthrow Kreedor. It involved Sal being sacrificed only to be "reborn" as the spirit of a god to grant Kreedor godhood. Izor would later assassinate him while his guard was down. |
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Properly Paranoid |
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Properly Paranoid: Kreedor knows that Tiren is the best fighter. So, she is locked in a metal box, with all her weapons removed, and that box is suspended in air. |
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Noodle Incident |
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Noodle Incident: Leeroy did something with oranges and noodles. Lampshaded by Sal when she uses it as blackmail. |
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Costume Porn |
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Costume Porn: invoked by Mary. But then again, who didn't want to see everyone in their Victorian formalwear? |
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Manipulative Bastard |
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Manipulative Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Mary and Sue meet Sakura and instantly hate her. So they yank at Tiren's newly developed heartstrings with bad dating advice. That way Tiren will take Sakura out without them getting their hands dirty. Sakura herself did nothing to deserve her mistreatment, short of being Genre Blind. |
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Combat Pragmatist |
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Combat Pragmatist: Tiren has never been shy about her love of fighting, but she kills the villain by taking one of the Prince's swords and kills the villain in mid spellcast. |
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Magic Versus Science |
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Magic Versus Science: sort of. The Imperial Elites rely heavily on magic, with limited technological understanding. The pirates are heavy on the technology, and have no access to magic. Both sides are presented with advantages and limitations. |
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Mistaken for Gay |
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Mistaken for Gay: Sue thinks this of Mary until she learns Elly is male. |
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Thrown Out the Airlock |
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Thrown Out the Airlock: the space marines do this to an unnamed corporal after he accidentally fires on a friendly ship. Sal later uses footage of it to rein everyone in. |
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High School AU |
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High School AU |
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Spanner in the Works |
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Raccoon in the Works: Not only does Izor's plan go horribly wrong by the timely intervention of the raccoon, but by himself when he alters an overly complex ritual. Izor knows nothing about magic theory. Unaltered the ritual would have killed Sal and nothing more. By altering it, the pirates' intervention, and the raccoon becoming an accidental substitute for Sal, the ritual flung everyone into another dimension and caused... well... we still don't know. |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Lord Nefarious |
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Brought Down to Normal |
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Brought Down to Normal: Walter and Tiren lose their animal attributes. Mary and Sue lose their superiority. And Elly gets back his manly hair. |
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The Scream |
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The Scream: Walter waking up to the ruins of his ship. Cut to Tiren and Izor: |
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An Offer You Can't Refuse |
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An Offer You Can't Refuse: Sal blackmails Leeroy into confessing to tampering with the engine room. |
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ForgotICouldFly |
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Forgot I Could Fly: Forgot You Could Fly: "I appreciate the thought lass, but I 'ave wings. Ye don't." |
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This Is No Time for Knitting |
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This Is No Time for Knitting: After getting the tech needed to find Tiren, Walter goes on a drinking binge, much to Leeroy's chagrin. Several strips later, Walter reveals that the engine runs on drunkenness. So Walter needed to be sufficiently plastered to work with it. |
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Marriage to a God |
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Marriage to a God: Sal guesses this may be the reason why she and Tiren were captured. |
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Torture for Fun and Information |
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Torture for Fun and Information: And Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Walter threatens the Sues with allowing Tiren to use them as stress balls. It works too well. |
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Arrested for Heroism |
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Arrested for Heroism: Sal just revealed who was the real king after the Queen threatened to kill the impostor. The first thing the Queen does is order Elly arrested to face trial (and death) |
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Head Desk |
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Head Desk: Mary and Sue use their Twin Telepathy to debrief each other. When Mary goes off on a tangent about Elly, Sue does this to shut it off. It gets worse when Sue "calls" Mary and realizes she's talking to someone about when they went through puberty. |
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Phlebotinum Analogy |
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Phlebotinum Analogy: Sal tries explaining her predicament to the crew, but given they're all from a High Fantasy setting, she doesn't have the necessary knowledge base to get a proper analogy going. |
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Took a Level in Badass |
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Took a Level in Badass: Everyone, very subtlety through-out the run. Originally, the pirates were only able to defeat the Sues by attacking them in their sleep and still needed to fight dirty and outnumber them. During the rematch at Kreedor's castle, they were only slightly outmatched while going one-on-one. |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_9bcd82c0 |
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type |
Kill It with Fire |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_9c1f758a |
comment |
Kill It with Fire: both of the Sues and Stus were subjected to this in their Troubled Backstory Flashback ™. The Sues' family and home were burned down three times. Gary's face was burned while protecting Marty during a fire fight with Nonspecific Evil Mage #157675. The culprit is still at large. |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_9c1f758a |
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type |
Indirect Kiss |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_a33ff511 |
comment |
Indirect Sex: Leeroy interprets Sal becoming the ship he is in as indirect intimacy. |
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type |
MacGuffin |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_a6c69bd |
comment |
MacGuffin: To beat Kreedor, some items are needed. Phred actually refers to them as McGuffins. |
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type |
Orcus on His Throne |
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comment |
Orcus on His Throne: Emperor Kreedor takes this up to eleven. So far he hasn't left his throne once in the entire comic. Not even gaining godlike powers has enticed him to actually carry out his evil plans himself. |
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type |
Unsound Effect |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_afe75982 |
comment |
Unsound Effect: sound effects for gestures are common. Such as "nod" and "stand". |
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type |
Born Lucky |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_b39b94da |
comment |
Born Lucky: Sal is the future high priestess of the god of Randomness, things tend to go her way. As the crew is nearby Sal, this is often extend to them. This includes suddenly finding cover in the middle of a fight on their own ship. |
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type |
Doomed New Clothes |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_b62ea95 |
comment |
Doomed New Clothes: Mary is going to have to burn that Pimped-Out Dress. |
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| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_b9d334b2 |
type |
Aerith and Bob |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_b9d334b2 |
comment |
Aerith and Bob: We have Walter, Leeroy, Mary, Sue, Marty, Gary and (possibly) Sal mixing with Tiren, Elator (Elly), Izor, Kreedor, etc. |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_b9d334b2 |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_b9f472b |
type |
Storming the Castle |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_b9f472b |
comment |
Storming the Castle: The pirates try this after breaking out of the dungeon to save Sal from ritualistic sacrifice. It would have been easier if Kreedor's Haunted Castle wasn't The Maze. |
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| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_bdfb07bf |
type |
Walk the Plank |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_bdfb07bf |
comment |
Walk the Plank: Walter subjects Barry to this. Tiren complains about doing it while docked. |
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1.0 |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_bdfb07bf |
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type |
Cutting the Knot |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_c2299d6e |
comment |
Cutting the Knot: When dealing with A king and a look alike who are identical and who various people what to kill for various reasons What does Sal tell them to do? Take off their hats! |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_c2299d6e |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_c289826f |
type |
Double Standard Rape: Female on Male |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_c289826f |
comment |
Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Invoked and played straight by Raque on Elly, but it is swiftly averted and deconstructed. The readers are left feeling deliberately uncomfortable. |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_c289826f |
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-1.0 |
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| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_c3478f1d |
type |
Badass Bookworm |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_c3478f1d |
comment |
Badass Bookworm: Tria. The artist is a multilingual educator and practices Atarashii Naginata. |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_c3478f1d |
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type |
Shout-Out |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a |
comment |
Shout-Out: Tria uses the Buster Sword in an early comic. |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a |
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1.0 |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_cc4b4459 |
type |
Word of Gay |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_cc4b4459 |
comment |
Word of Gay: Namely that Marty is straight. He's just absolutely sure that Elly is a girl. |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_cc4b4459 |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_cc4b4459 |
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type |
Cat Fight |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_dceccabf |
comment |
Cat Fight: Between Tiren and Sakura. Subverted in that it happens off screen. |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_dceccabf |
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-0.3 |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_dceccabf |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_dd1f0863 |
type |
Walking Swimsuit Scene |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_dd1f0863 |
comment |
Walking Fanservice Scene: Mary becomes a Walking Swimsuit Scene and, much to his irritation, Izor becomes a Walking Shirtless Scene. |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_dd1f0863 |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_dd1f0863 |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_e6defce9 |
type |
Bad News in a Good Way |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_e6defce9 |
comment |
Bad News in a Good Way: Sue acting as Uhura for Izor has bad news: Mary has captured Tiren instead of Sal. As she starts to apologize, Izor becomes overjoyed that the pirates defenses are now severed. |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_e6defce9 |
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1.0 |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_e6defce9 |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_ebb3c390 |
type |
Crash-Into Hello |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_ebb3c390 |
comment |
Crash-Into Hello: How did Elly meet Mary? Walter threw him on her. |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_ebb3c390 |
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1.0 |
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| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_efbfe117 |
type |
Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_efbfe117 |
comment |
Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Sue does not want to be rescued by Marty. |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_efbfe117 |
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1.0 |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_efbfe117 |
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1.0 |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_efbfe117 |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f52ae5d8 |
type |
Enemy Civil War |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f52ae5d8 |
comment |
Enemy Civil War: a minor one between the Sues and Stus breaks out during a hostage crisis. The pirates are too stunned to take advantage of it. Also involved in-universe Ship-to-Ship Combat. |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f52ae5d8 |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f52ae5d8 |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f6f2ff1 |
type |
Insult Backfire |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f6f2ff1 |
comment |
Insult Backfire: |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f6f2ff1 |
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1.0 |
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| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f6f2ff1 |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f8a4527f |
type |
Sitting on the Roof |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f8a4527f |
comment |
Sitting on the Roof: Used by Tiren and Fumiko in the High School arc. It is at this point Tiren realizes she has no idea who Fumiko is. |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f8a4527f |
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1.0 |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f8a4527f |
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1.0 |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f8a4527f |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f9f2c33 |
type |
Running Gag |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f9f2c33 |
comment |
Running Gag: Kreedor REALLY wants his tomatoes which Izor stole to frustrate Kreedor. Barry and Izor have also started using them as currency. |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f9f2c33 |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_f9f2c33 |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_fea27091 |
type |
Buffy Speak |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_fea27091 |
comment |
Buffy Speak: When the server crashed in September 2011, a picture was thrown up as a stop gap. In it, Tria can be seen saying "It went splody" |
| | Dubious Company (Webcomic) / int_fea27091 |
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1.0 |
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ItemName |
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Dubious Company (Webcomic) |
