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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)

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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	comment	Dumbing of Age is a Slice of Life Webcomic by David Willis, set at Indiana University and revolving around the freshman class of whatever year this is. Though it has multiple characters, its primary focus is on Joyce Brown, a naive fundamentalist Christian with a friendly demeanor and a rigid but upbeat outlook on life, and her unlikely best friend Dorothy Keener, an ambitious atheist and pre-law student. Also along for the ride are Joyce's roommate, a snarky, nigh-misanthropic sophomore named Sarah Clinton, and their next-door neighbors, alcoholic and wannabe-Alpha Bitch Jennifer "Billie" Billingsworth and Book Dumb, badass-incarnate Sal Walkerton. And then there's local vigilante Amazi-Girl, secretly fellow freshman Amber O'Malley, who uses the alter-ego to compartmentalize her anger issues. All these people have assorted friends and relations, any of whom are capable of taking center-stage at any time—it's probably a good idea to take a look at the character sheet to get a sense of the sheer scope of the work.The comic is an Ultimate Universe counterpart to Willis' other comics, playing fast and loose with the personal histories of the characters, stripping out the science-fiction elements altogether, and leading to characters co-existing and forming relationships when they'd barely met in the other 'verse (or vice versa.) In a sense it could be said to be a reboot of Roomies! specifically, given the college focus, but with characters from everything up through Shortpacked! included.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1036c075	type	Forceful Kiss
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1036c075	comment	Forceful Kiss: Ruth does this to Billie after being confronted about her Tsundere behavior. It backfires spectacularly.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_10416043	type	Dropping the Bombshell
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_10416043	comment	Dropping the Bombshell: During a phone conversation with Jocelyne, Joyce all of a sudden asks her point blank if their mother is a good person. Jocelyne is at a loss for words, stays silent for two whole panels in which she is visibly distraught. She answers the best she can, trying to protect Joyce's feelings (and possibly struggling with her own feelings on the matter) but not shying away from the question, saying that their mom is short-sighted and/or badly informed, but that she believes that if it really came down to it she would do the right thing... she thinks. A few strips later, it is revealed that her mom and other parents are trying to pay for Ross' bond (the very same man who held her daughter at gunpoint), and that Blaine is there too, ready to enact his vengeance against his daughter and obviously there to manipulate Carol Brown and the others into helping him.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1086f287	type	Sure, Let's Go with That
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: "Yes. We say that to everybody."
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_117d2e1f	type	Fauxshadowing
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_117d2e1f	comment	Fauxshadowing: The setup for Joyce (seeking a future husband) and Danny (plans to marry right after college) to hook up after Dorothy broke up with him. Instead, Joe asks her out, and Hilarity Ensues. Bonus points as a Mythology Gag, since Joyce was Danny's semi-stalker in Roomies!
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Sarah gets taken down several notches when Joyce replies to her lecture about the dangers of college parties. Unfortunately, Sarah was right about that particular party.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1328fd9d	type	Parenting the Husband
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1328fd9d	comment	Parenting the Husband: Deconstructed. Although unmarried, Walky invokes this trope when breaking up with Dorothy. Despite getting back together this underlying issue in the relationship has not actually been resolved. Although it's clear that despite resenting how patronizing her behavior was, Walky doesn't really want to "grow up" and likes how dominant Dorothy is in the relationship. Likewise, while she has been embarrassed by him occasionally Dorothy definitely enjoys Walky's juvenile and submissive personality on some level.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: When Dorothy claims her boyfriend followed her to college. Dina also tends to fill the role of the Zoidberg when the cast gathers together. Invoked and by Sal while talking about Malaya.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Happens quite frequently to a lot of characters: Joyce is the primary subject to those. She developed a serious case of PTSD following the attempted rape against her, and can't be alone on campus, otherwise she sees the face of the guy everywhere. On the other end of the spectrum, it is played for laughs when she needs to "reboot" right after discovering Becky's new haircut. Just meeting Dorothy made Walky unable to function until he finally was able to communicate with her normally. He also has a minor one when his paper was graded very low, leading him to Eat the Evidence. Amber suffers one after punching her abusive father, because she realizes that she liked doing so, causing her to have a panic attack. When, later, she beats him to a pulp as Amazi-Girl, she shuts down completely.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Danny seems to have developed a crush on Amazi-Girl after she saved him from bullies.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: In sharp contrast to the comic preceding it, this is by far the darkest story in the Walkyverse thus far, even out-doing the latter half of It's Walky! despite having far fewer deaths. The fantastical elements removed or subverted, leaving the comic firmly in a Crapsack World of Black-and-Grey Morality, with the characters now more bitter and broken versions of their former selves, their issues now stemming completely from difficult real-life issues like depression and Abusive Parents (instead of that plus Alien Abduction). Storylines often end on bittersweet of not outright Downer Ending notes, with the characters recovering and relapsing on bad habits.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: After what happened to Mike, who was comatose at the time, Ethan says that he is young and that he will survive it. Post-timeskip, Mike dies from his injuries. Subsequently, Ethan has been noticeably absent from any strip after that, hinting that among all of the cast he took Mike's death the worst.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_17122b19	type	Exactly What I Aimed At
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_17122b19	comment	Exactly What I Aimed At: An unusual emotional example: Dorothy assumes that Mike was trying to upset her. He wasn't.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Sarah can actually see the character's archetypes miles away, but her flaw is that she's been right so many times she's built a wall around herself so that she wouldn't need to make friends ever again.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_188668f2	type	Redemption Quest
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_188668f2	comment	Just as Ruth starts trying to redeem herself for her past bullying, previously minor character Rachel wades into her with a brutal dismissal of the entire concept of redemption. It's harsh, misguided, and potentially dangerous to several bystanders — but it's also a formidable corrective to the idea of an Easily Forgiven villain.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Sal really seems to resent Walky for being the favorite child. Roz and Robin, as Robin's "poltics" consist of catering to everything Roz hates.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1989b0c	comment	Comic-Book Time: Willis refers to this by name in the series FAQ. The result: Webcomic Time (it's shaping up to be a week equals a year, roughly) with a sliding timescale (what year said semester is in changes to prevent Dumbing from, in Willis's words, "slowly becoming a period piece.")
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1a09b4f9	type	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1a09b4f9	comment	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Sarah and Liz are running a version of this, despite the fact that they look quite similar. Sarah is cynical, serious, if not necessarily much smarter then certainly harder working, and calls Liz out for failing to appreciate everything that's been done for her; Liz is perceived as cuter because she smiles more and is more sociable, and calls Sarah out for her surliness. Liz has apparently stolen at least two of Sarah's boyfriends, and probably more, though she points out that at least one incident was an accident. They have some kind of mutual affection, but it's buried very deep.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1aa0df93	type	Gibberish of Love
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1aa0df93	comment	Gibberish of Love: Walky, whilst around Dorothy. At least for a while.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Apparently Archie is not above attending college parties (Willis says the resemblance is a coincidence). An early and shortlived meme among readers was to find background characters who look like Shaggy. This became a lot easier now that he's tagged as Norville - Shaggy's real name in the cartoon. Magnitude too; he's even in the character tags!
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1b74d23d	type	Milholland Relationship Moment
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1b74d23d	comment	Milholland Relationship Moment: Dorothy finds Walky talking to Joe about having had sex with her the night before, and how he will later be able to say he slept with the future President. Instead of being upset about him talking about their sex life, she is happy that he actually believes that she will be President. Her former boyfriend Danny, on the other hand, did not.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1b77fe36	type	Two-Person Love Triangle
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1b77fe36	comment	Two-Person Love Triangle: Danny admits that Amber's resemblance to Dorothy has made him set his sights on somebody else.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1b7a68f1	type	Alt Text
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_1b7a68f1	comment	The Alt Text for this strip references Firefly with the line "curse the mob's sudden but inevitable betrayal".
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Billie thinks she's still the Alpha Bitch, but hasn't quite realized that college is a much bigger place than high school.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_21c05222	type	Long-Runners
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_21c05222	comment	Long-Runners: Dumbing of Age has been ongoing since 2010.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_2207b002	type	Ambiguously Brown
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_2207b002	comment	Ambiguously Brown: Walky and Sal come off as this at first if you're not familiar with their Walkyverse counterparts—in both universes they're one-quarter black. That Walky unintentionally does a better job "passing" for a non-black person eventually becomes a major point of tension for them. Joyce originally thinks they're Native American (though Walky's nickname was part of that), and doesn't really have enough experience to know any more. Eventually lampshaded:
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_228cb20	type	Adaptational Mundanity
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_228cb20	comment	Adaptational Mundanity: All of the sci-fi and supernatural elements from the previous Walkyverse comics are stripped away and relegated to Show Within a Show status.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_2292c854	type	Between My Legs
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_2292c854	comment	Between My Legs: The first panel of "Prelude" is a shot of Dina framed between Becky's legs after the latter's taken her panties off.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_22a27b19	comment	Jennifer has partly backslid into her Alpha Bitch behavior from High School following Ruth dumping her on Halloween out of the blue, falling in with Raidah's group and letting her worst traits come out to the forefront. She's likewise severed ties with all of her old friend group sans Joyce, has ceased going by "Billie" in favor of her birth name, and acts behind a faÃ§ade of maturity while bottling up resentment towards Ruth for her behavior and reasoning for the break up.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_23015b1f	type	Magnificent Bastard
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_23015b1f	comment	Magnificent Bastard: invoked According to Sarah, Joyce is one.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_2497e5b8	type	Atomic F-Bomb
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_2497e5b8	comment	Atomic F-Bomb: "Language" is this combined with Precision F-Strike and Skyward Scream for Joyce. After spending all that time hiding Becky from her asshole dad and ultimately failing, her limits have been more than reached.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Amber, as Amazi-Girl, delivers one on her father after he took Danny hostage. The fight is entirely one-sided, with Amber beating him to a pulp.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_25fd37c3	type	Cleavage Window
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_25fd37c3	comment	Cleavage Window: Amazi-Girl does not have one, to Daisy's extreme disappointment.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_26764512	type	I Just Want to Have Friends
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_26764512	comment	I Just Want to Have Friends / I Just Want to Be Loved: These are Joyce's main motivations. One could argue that Sarah is repressing her desire to be loved. Billie is clearly desperate to meet new people, but is only comfortable around Joyce. (And Ruth, sort of.) Given how destroyed she was by that one phone call and the loss of her father, it can be argued that Ruth could secretly be suffering from a case of this too.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Has its own subpage.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Amazi-Girl can be seen beating up people during a college party in this strip.note This counts also as a Brick Joke, too â€“ they are the guys who beat up Danny in an earlier strip. The framed review on the wall of Galasso's Pizza (and Subs) headlined "Mother Bear's crushed under Galasso's iron heel". (Mother Bear's Pizza is a popular IU student hangout in Real Life.)
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Billie was the editor of her high school newspaper, although she admittedly did no work on it, getting the title due to popularity and then using it only as social currency (even Walky knew more about Journalism than she does) — she's rather surprised to discover that this doesn't give her a free pass to the student paper at her college.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Sarah is becoming a lot more open and less controlling as a result of hanging around with Joyce.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_292d1ccd	type	Everyone Went to School Together
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_292d1ccd	comment	Everyone Went to School Together: The premise of DoA is "What if everyone in the Walkyverse went to college together?", along with "What if no one got crazy powers from being abducted by aliens?" Within the Dumbiverse itself, we have three cadres of childhood / high school friends coming together at IU. Billie and Walky and Sal and Marcie have known each other since childhood, though Sal was sent to a boarding school and Billie did not want to associate with Walky in high school. Ironically, Alice, Billie's best friend in high school, wants nothing to do with her now. Danny, Dorothy, and Joe represent one group of high school friends, while Amber, Ethan and Mike represent another. Joyce and Becky are a double subversion as they were both homeschooled, and knew each other from there. Becky then goes to Anderson, but she comes to stay with Joyce at IU after all.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Billie was a popular cheerleader and member of the school newspaper in high school but is gradually realizing none of that matters in college. So far she's struggled with problems such as alcoholism, loneliness, sexual identity issues and weight gain. This trope hits hard particularly in situations when she expects to coast by. When she actually puts some effort into it, she does better. For example, recovering her cheerleader uniform and getting Ruth to back off. To a much lesser degree, Sarah is being subjected to this as well; she's had to swallow her pride a few times over the course of the strip. While not exactly "haughty", Walky prided himself on being able to coast through school without much effort beyond what was done in class - meaning he has no study skills to speak of when confronted with a 26 on his first schoolwork past "review material".
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_2bf993ad	type	Secret Relationship
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_2bf993ad	comment	Billie is clearly desperate to meet new people, but is only comfortable around Joyce. (And Ruth, sort of.)
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_2cac89cf	type	The Ingenue
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_2cac89cf	comment	The Ingenue: Joyce at her worst, although she has been slowly growing out of this.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Throughout "When God Closes a Door" we see Joyce texting someone frequently about her family. The final strip reveals she's been talking to Joe all along. Seen In-Universe (though not necessarily from the audience's semi-omniscient perspective) with Amber, who is filled with so much fear, rage and hatred that she created a second personality (Amazi-Girl) just to contain it.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_315e6f99	type	ThisIsNotThatTrope
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_315e6f99	comment	This Is Not That Trope: Dorothy trying to tell Joyce what sex is like.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Char's friends aren't comfortable with her picking on Dina for being "retarded."
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Joyce ships Walky/Billie. And in the same one, Walky seems to ship Billie/Sal. Dorothy was the one that encouraged Walky to get together with Lucy...though if Billie's hunch is correct, it's less that she thinks they'd be cute together and more that it would make Walky unavailable, and therefore Dorothy won't be tempted to get back together with him.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_32a1f455	type	Alliterative Family
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_32a1f455	comment	Alliterative Family: The DeSanto sisters, carrying over from Shortpacked: Robin, Roz and Riley. All of the children in the Brown family have names that start with the letter "J" (Joyce, Jordan, John, and Jocelynenote her deadname, Joshua, also matches the pattern). Likely because Jesus also starts with "J", and their parents find religion to be a pretty big deal.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_33f1c576	comment	Not Helping Your Case: Billie's not a troubled teen, and she'll punch anyone who says otherwise in the face!
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Blaine is permanently removed from the plot via gunshot by Dirty Cop.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Walky exhibits elements of this, especially in that he has said that he has been "very good at gettin' "A"s without havin' to do anything." Even before his academic background comes up, Willis made a point of showing him to be the sort of person who could casually reference M.C. Escher in conversation. However, recent events have shown he does have limits, with college-level material kicking his ass once initial review units end.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_35c35a89	type	Dinosaurs Are Dragons
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_35c35a89	comment	Dinosaurs Are Dragons: Discussed when, aside from her skepticism about evolution, Joyce "explains" to Dina that humans and dinosaurs existed in the same era, inspiring legends about dragons. She is also of the belief that the Parasaurolophus could breathe fire. Willis notes in the Alt Text that this was an actual part of his Christian education.invoked
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_38718ea8	type	Beautiful All Along
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_38718ea8	comment	Beautiful All Along: Walky is a rare male example, as Joyce is genuinely surprised to see how "sculpted" he is underneath his hoodie. This came out again in Book 11, where Walky's hair has grown out a bit. All of the girls (and even the guys) notice how hot he looks now.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3929e0db	type	You Need to Get Laid
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3929e0db	comment	You Need to Get Laid: Daisy, the college newspaper editor, needs a girlfriend. Desperately.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_39e7035b	type	Late to the Realization
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_39e7035b	comment	Late to the Realization: Joyce thinks her family had no particular problem with Halloween, despite their fundamentalist beliefs. She explains to a surprised Sarah that Jocelyne always took her out trick-or-treating, telling their parents it was important, showing them photos of their other children having a good time... Only while explaining this does Joyce finally realize that Jocelyne was convincing their parents to let her go trick-or-treating despite the problem.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: We've seen quite a bit: Sarah has gone through life an antisocial pessimist who can only see the worst in people. But Joyce and Dina have surprised her with their resiliance, and caused her to take an active effort to be kinder to people and more open with her feelings. Billie started the comic thinking most people were beneath her and that her social skills could pull her through any situation. However, her lack of social success with anyone but the losers she normally looks down on, and her inability to help Ruth or break her own bad habits, have caused her to go through severe bouts of self-loathing and depression. Joyce came to college with the sole goals of finding a husband, but after nearly being raped by Ryan and enduring Walky and Joe's He-Man Woman Hater tendencies, she can no longer bring herself to talk to most men—or, unfortunately, function alone in public, a shame because she also came to college as a sunny and friendly individual whose trust knew no bounds. Her experiences with Dorothy, Becky, and Ethan have also caused her to reevaluate many of her prejudices, and her experiences with racial diversity have taught her to think before she speaks. And now, after being confronted with not only the full depths that Ross will go to in the name of his faith, but that her own mother helped organize his bail from prison, she has effectively become either an atheist or agnostic. Walky is a lesser example, given his tendency to fight against any and all forms of self-improvement, but he's at least realized that his tendency to turn everything into a joke has a potentially alienating effect on those around him and that he needs to learn how to take things seriously. Dina is making an effort to be more social lately (in her own Aspergers' like way) and is clearly bothered by how other people perceive/treat her. Hank, Joyce's father, has started breaking away from the Brown party line as of late, largely due to Joyce's influence. Amber has started to re-integrate aspects of her two personalities and has progressed to the point where she can discuss her personality issues with Danny as Amber and associate reasonably amicably with Sal as Amazi-Girl. It took Danny a while, but accepting his sexuality and helping Amber through some of her worst moments means he has lost his more skittish mannerism and gained maturity. It's most noticeable when seeing him with Joe as they've practically swapped roles. Joe is much more introspective and Danny more sure of himself.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3b4bd0b4	type	Killer Cop
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3b4bd0b4	comment	Killer Cop: Lester. He is apparently hired by the Korean mob to assassinate the hospitalized Blaine who had become too much of a loose cannon and make it look like suicide.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Sal somehow managed to lose her virginity due to a game of Apples to Apples.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Galasso fires Sydney not for screwing up an order, but for confusing Dina and Becky. He wouldn't have fired her at all, if Sydney had managed to intimidate the two into going with it.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Ruth utterly owns Billie here, tossing her over her head and into a chair. And remember, this is a girl who gave Sal trouble in IW!, so Ruth must have some serious fighting chops. Later on, Amazi-Girl chases off the jocks that were beating up Danny with just a kick and a punch.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3dfdc686	type	Time-Passes Montage
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3dfdc686	comment	Book 10 rings out the comic's first decade with a more conventional one, jumping ahead several months with a Time-Passes Montage.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3e378863	type	Last Het Romance
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3e378863	comment	Last Het Romance: In this universe, Amber and Ethan dated in high school before he realised he was gay during prom night.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3e74b72e	type	The Pollyanna
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3e74b72e	comment	The Pollyanna: Joyce. It's even lampshaded in this comic.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: After several books of nobody figuring out her secret identity on their own, Amber's Paper-Thin Disguise backfires in the worst of ways. After spending a good bit of time with her Amazi-Girl persona, Sal realizes who Amber is the second she sees her. Played for Laughs in Book 10, where Blaine is chasing Mike when both are on electric scooters. Blaine tries to be menacing by suggesting that Mike won't even make it to the woods he's trying to escape to, only for Mike to point out that they're using the same scooters, and thus have the same top speeds. Dorothy wants to be President of the USA one day, and is working hard toward this goal. Almost too hard, she is neglecting meals and actively trying to cut back her social life to spend more time working. However, as she discovers, politics isn't just hard work; it literally is a popularity contest, and not being likeable/popular or not being charismatic enough to make friends quickly and easily is a death sentence for a career as a political candidate.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Sarah gets taken down several notches when Joyce replies to her lecture about the dangers of college parties. Unfortunately, Sarah was right about that particular party. She has a less harsh comeback several strips later, when during another argument Sarah points out that she was right about the college party and that she saved Joyce. Joyce concedes the point, but in turn points out that Sarah's big, dramatic gestures to show that she cares aren't much good if she's not going to combine them with smaller-scale gestures as well.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: Downplayed in that it's not outright bad, but what we see of Joyce's first onscreen comic strip is that it's drawn in a less detailed manner similar to Roomies! compared to the webcomic itself.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_425d74f4	type	Shutting Up Now
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_425d74f4	comment	Shutting Up Now: Joyce thanks someone for interrupting her when she got into a Digging Yourself Deeper situation.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: The 'do that Becky sports after she comes out.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_466ccbb4	type	Gayngst
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_466ccbb4	comment	Gayngst: Ethan. He even angsts about the fact that he angsts so much. He is so starved for affection and uncomfortable with himself that he leads Joyce on, to the frustration of Amber, Mike, and Sarah. And even after telling her the truth, they remain in a relationship because neither feels comfortable with their sexual feelings and Joyce misguidedly thinks she can help him avoid "temptation."
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_469e3e2f	comment	Seen In-Universe (though not necessarily from the audience's semi-omniscient perspective) with Amber, who is filled with so much fear, rage and hatred that she created a second personality (Amazi-Girl) just to contain it.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_47198ac4	type	You Do NOT Want to Know
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_47198ac4	comment	You Do Not Want To Know: After Sarah and Jacob use Joyce's creationist beliefs as an ice-breaker, Sarah can't bring herself to tell Joyce about their first conversation.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4781adbb	comment	Walky, to the extent that Mike is trying to essentially force him to grow up and take a look at himself through creative methods.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_47b21ca6	type	Stress Vomit
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_47b21ca6	comment	Stress Vomit: In "The Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit", Billie is so hurt by Alice's "The Reason You Suck" Speech that she throws up on Walky.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Life seems to be developing a bit of a habit of kicking Danny in the balls. Billie has kind of supplanted him lately and doesn't show any signs of having hit rock bottom yet.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_48b9731f	comment	After several books of nobody figuring out her secret identity on their own, Amber's Paper-Thin Disguise backfires in the worst of ways. After spending a good bit of time with her Amazi-Girl persona, Sal realizes who Amber is the second she sees her.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Amber cutting up Ryan with his own knife, Blaine killing Ross with a hammer, and the corrupt cop killing Blaine to fake his suicide all happen off-panel.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: About half the main cast could get brought in on at least a misdemeanor charge, if you think about it.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: The webcomic doesn't pull any punches in regard to Joyce: The poor girl is bordering on this given that she was drugged and almost raped and is slowly having her whole sheltered, fundamentalist upbringing challenged. After Becky's father Ross kidnaps Becky, Joyce gets very, very upset. Later, she gets very, very mad. The next strip lampshades that she is acting out her disappointment at how poorly her upbringing's view of the world actually matches the real world. Sarah obviously became a much more guarded and bitter person after her experience with Dana and her friends. Becky seems to be headed this way, after coming out to Joyce via kiss and being (gently) rebuffed; according to the alt text of this strip, even Willis feels bad for her. Even worse during the spoilered event, though.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4dd46feb	type	Polar Opposite Twins
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4dd46feb	comment	Polar Opposite Twins: Sal and Walky, even though they weren't raised apart this time.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In the flashback, "And then Dana's mother died. Breast cancer." Suddenly Sarah's junkie roommate just got a lot more sympathetic. Likewise, "I called her dad." Roughly 90% of the controversy about whether or not Sarah did the right or wrong thing dissipated.note The remaining 10% is largely about whether she did it for the right or wrong reasons. Joyce's brother Joshua tells Ethan that his parents wouldn't like him if they knew more about him. Then he sends Ethan a link to his writing. JocelyneJBrown.com Ross McIntyre: (pulls out gun) ...Lord, grant me the strength One of the first strips of Year 11 opens up with Sarah asking Joyce about a change that happened over the timeskip... It's not one for the characters, but Walky casually mentioning "My roommate died." abruptly informs the audience that Mike ultimately did not survive his coma. After Joyce goes to the doctor, what she's freaking out about isn't that she was prescribed birth control.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Sal's response upon running into Amber is to finally take her gloves off, showing not only that her hand did indeed scar from the stab wound Amber gave her, but that she also knows that Amber is not only Amazi-Girl, but the girl that stabbed her in the hand back at the gas station. Book 10 has Walky being thrown into a basement, kidnapped alongside five other people by Blaine and Ross. Book 12 sees Danny get exiled from his room so Joe can sleep with Liz. He sets himself up on a couch in the commons, but comments that it somehow feels a lot more uncomfortable than before. Watching him in the background is Ethan, looking drastically different than before.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Willis often uses his comic to explore bigotry, specifically the way fundamentalism can nurture that quality in people and the effects it can have on others. Joyce's arc is about exorcising hers, while Becky, Leslie, and Carla's arcs are about dealing with other people's. Sal specifically is struggling with the way her parents treated her for having a darker skin-tone than her brother. He is not very subtle about it and has lashed out at the audience for "not getting it" in the past.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: Conversed in this strip, where Walky facetiously compares he and Dorothy being late for class because they slept-in after having sex to when people die after having sex in horror movies.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: An almost instantaneous example. Book 10's hopeful ending with most of the cast happily looking upon the campus from the roof is overriden by the reveal in "This Was Halloween" that they learned about Mike's death only a few seconds afterwards.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_547196be	type	Broad Strokes
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_547196be	comment	Broad Strokes: Willis stated at Anime Fest 2010 (where the comic was unveiled) that he plans to write the characters so that they are up to date with the other continuities. For example, Joyce starts off with the same level of maturity she had gained at the end of IW! (in some ways) (thanks to not having been abducted and actually having a friend her own age), and Ethan came out some time in high school. This is so that he doesn't have to cover the same character arcs that people have already read.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_55af5099	comment	Rube Goldberg Device: Carla constructs an intricate contraption here for some well deserved revenge on Mary.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_56691220	type	Even the Girls Want Her
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_56691220	comment	Even the Girls Want Her: Sal seems to attract a lot of admirers.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_571833a	type	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_571833a	comment	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Non sexual variant with Danny, who tries to get a stereotypical jock to attack him by saying he's gay to draw out Amazi-Girl only for the jock, who is in fact Tony, to be insulted that Danny would think he'd do such a thing.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_58bf7895	type	Eat the Evidence
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_58bf7895	comment	Just meeting Dorothy made Walky unable to function until he finally was able to communicate with her normally. He also has a minor one when his paper was graded very low, leading him to Eat the Evidence.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Becky and Dina to most other characters. While everyone else's relationships fall through at one point or another (be it because of Incompatible Orientations, lack of communication, unbalanced relationship dynamics, or irrational behavior), Becky and Dina's relationship remains stable and kindhearted, with both of them able to speak their mind to each other, even about subjects they are usually not comfortable talking about (such as Becky's own worries about having actual sex) and helping each other grow as a person.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: When Amazi-Girl is being dragged behind a kidnapper's car by her grappling hook, she hopes the police will try to arrest her for being a vigilante (at which point they'll be able to rescue the kidnap victim). Instead, they just drive right by, because there are reports of gunshots from back the way she came.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_59b9f4df	type	You Are Fat
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_59b9f4df	comment	You Are Fat: Ruth does this to Billie to tear her down in public, although Walky isn't above teasing her either. One thing to sell the Dramatic Irony in Raidah's presenting Jennifer joining her friend group as a healthy development is that one of them immediately starts making passive-aggressive comments about her weight.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: Amber and Ethan. It's a long tale but ended with them being good, if a bit awkward, friends. Joyce and Ethan as a really strange relationship. Becky and Joyce, due to the former misreading the latter's signals. Marcie and Sal.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_5ae357c1	type	Knight Templar Parent
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_5ae357c1	comment	Knight Templar Parent: A few of the protagonist's parents. Ross is the most prominent but Linda and Carol are this to smaller degrees. This style of parenting is portrayed as wholly unhealthy as they try to justify their selfishness and controlling behavior as for their child's benefit.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_5d4be8ab	type	Soulless Bedroom
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_5d4be8ab	comment	Soulless Bedroom: One character equates another's having no posters on the walls with being a Serial Killer.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_5eff8cf	type	High School AU
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_5eff8cf	comment	High School AU: Technically college, but it mixes The Men in Black alien fighters from the previous continuity into an ordinary college setting.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Three as of 2017, none of which have covered more than a week. The first one was to skip the wait for an Amazon delivery, the second jumped over the immediate fallout of Ross bringing a gun to campus. They both lasted all of four days. The third covered three days, following Ryan attacking Amber, only to get the snot beaten out of him. Book 10 rings out the comic's first decade with a more conventional one, jumping ahead several months with a Time-Passes Montage.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_5fda26b1	type	Time Skip
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_5fda26b1	comment	Following the timeskip, several characters have undergone this either due to lingering trauma surrounding Mike's death, or events that happened during the timeskip, in particular Halloween. Jennifer has partly backslid into her Alpha Bitch behavior from High School following Ruth dumping her on Halloween out of the blue, falling in with Raidah's group and letting her worst traits come out to the forefront. She's likewise severed ties with all of her old friend group sans Joyce, has ceased going by "Billie" in favor of her birth name, and acts behind a faÃ§ade of maturity while bottling up resentment towards Ruth for her behavior and reasoning for the break up. Joyce has embraced atheism as a result of the trauma brought upon by her former community and their fundamentalist beliefs, but with it comes a much more bitter and callous individual, not helped by having to deal with possible life changing details like needing glasses or being on the autism spectrum being thrown at her back to back. Her shift in attitude does little to endear her to her friends, but their attempts at trying to get her back to "normal" just ends up aggravating her and creates a much bigger rift. Dorothy is faced with the prospect that her original goal in life of being the POTUS would require she make moral concessions she's not willing to make, something she is called out on by both Becky and Raidah. This causes her to suffer a full on Identity Breakdown, resulting in her trying to inject herself into others lives, claiming it's to stop them from making a mistake when really it's thinly veiled self-interest, all for the sake of maintaining some level of control in her life, even going as far as to try and steal Walky back from Lucy after she was the one who pushed Walky into dating Lucy. Her treatment of Joyce in particular stands out, constantly infantilizing her and acting like Joyce is her responsibility, becoming territorial when Jennifer gives Joyce advice that actually succeeds where Dorothy failed, and coerces a visibly uncomfortable Joyce into masturbating for the first time in attempt to be a Shipping Torpedo for her new relationship with Joe, the entire time rationalizing it as "protecting" Joyce. Ethan has had the most noticeable change in demeanor. In addition to losing muscle mass and not taking care of himself physically, he's much more jaded, dismissive, and overall self-destructive, all related to now suffering from depression over Mike's death. This is especially noticeable when he begins flirting with Asher, who had already made clear he was in a relationship with Jennifer, making clear he just doesn't really care anymore and would rather just seduce Asher.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6201e8b0	comment	Book 10 goes bonkers. It starts with the Wham Shot mentioned below, where Walky finds himself (and several others) kidnapped by Blaine and Ross, who are trying to pull an "I Have Your Wife" on Amazi-Girl and blackmail her into kidnapping Becky on their behalf. To underline the threat, Blaine points out how Mike fell off a building fighting with him the other night. Unfortunately, Blaine is so convinced of Amber's worthlessness that he refuses to acknowledge his daughter is Amazi-Girl. Even after she admits it to his face. Ross, however, lets her go, since he wants his daughter back. Becky, instead of fleeing as Amazi-Amber has urged her to, turns herself in... but by now there's an Enemy Civil War as Blaine turns on Ross for letting Amber go. Blaine murders Ross. The remaining abductees escape, and fight their way free with the help of a freshly-arrived Amazi-Girl. Becky says her farewells to her father. Upstairs, Blaine has recovered. He takes Joyce hostage and races off in an unmarked white van... with Amazi-Girl in pursuit with the help of The Cavalry, Sal and her motorcycle. Blaine is imprisoned in the hospital, then shot and killed by a Crooked Cop. Mike is revealed to be in a coma. Oh, and, Robin resigns from her congressional race.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_627264e0	comment	Dina pulls out a proper Death Glare when Joyce dismisses evolution offhandedly. Joyce and Ethan are terrified by sweet, tiny, cripplingly-shy Dina getting angry. She also starts to get sick of people thinking of her as a child.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Danny, after being dumped by Dorothy, starts hitting on Amber. Played for laughs.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Willis has shown that he likes the idea of Alternate Universes. Given how Billie and Amber are drawn it's pretty obvious Willis likes curvy (if not flat out chubby) women and girls with glasses. Also, freckles, given the designs for Dorothy and Ruth.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_66755d29	comment	For reference, Joyce is considerably toned down from her Walkyverse counterpart's personality in Roomies!, and the author has said that early version of Joyce reflects his own beliefs at the time more than Danny, the intended Author Avatar.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6adf60d1	comment	Hidden Eyes: Becky gets these when she tells Joyce she has nowhere else to go, having been pulled out of Anderson.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Walky seems to suffer a bit of this in this strip, courtesy of Joyce.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: To say Roz was incredibly vitriolic towards Joyce in this strip would be an understatement (and uncalled for, considering that despite being a fundamentalist until now, Joyce is overall a nice person), and Leslie was right to order her out, but she made a few valid points while doing so. Also, in this strip, Joe, despite usually being a Jerkass, gives a surprisingly thoughtful defense for drinking. He reasons that if he's old enough to die for his country, he should be old enough to 'get a little sloshed.' Considering this is the argument that got the voting age moved to 18, he has a very valid point. Joe strikes again in "Recognizes", where he suggests Joyce comfort her friend instead of dance around the issue. It also helps that Amber suggests not talking to people, which Joyce had always intended to do the opposite of.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Played for Drama as Joyce's mother uses the exact same line with Joyce that Becky's father did while emphasizing that he's not the one at fault.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Implied to be the case for Becky's mother.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Dina Saruyama is obsessed with dinosaurs. Ruth's surname 'Lessick' earned her the nickname Ruthless.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6e0a57d6	comment	Like an Old Married Couple: Dorothy mentions that Billie and Walky argued like they're married, which pisses them off. When Danny and Joe bicker over which of them is neglecting their friendship for girls, Jacob notes "You guys are a little married, huh?"
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6e70b12b	comment	Nominal Importance: Lampshaded when Asma refuses to use Walky's name because he refuses to use her name.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6e872753	comment	Sexiness Score: Joe has a "Do List" where he rates the women of IU on their perceived sexual desirability on a 1-10 scale, which causes him trouble once it gets leaked to the greater student body.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6eeba1f2	type	"Shut Up" Kiss
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6eeba1f2	comment	"Shut Up" Kiss: Painfully deconstructed. Ruth attempts this on Billie right as she's being confronted about how hurtful and confusing her (abusive and antisocial) Tsundere behavior is. And it backfires on her so badly that Billie actually tries reporting her to someone. What works in the world of harem Anime doesn't go over well in real life at all.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_6f19054d	comment	Coming-Out Story: Ruth kissed Billie after months of foreshadowing and Tsundere-type behavior. Of course, this is deconstructed, since even with all her issues Billie reacts with anger and confusion like a normal person would, as opposed to someone in a bad harem anime. We appear to be on the tail end of Ethan's, as Amber mentions spending the summer helping him deal with his family's reactions. And now Ethan is in a relationship with Joyce... Danny starts to realize he's bisexual because of his attraction to Ethan. Becky, Joyce's friend comes to visit her and after a few weeks (for us) comes out to Joyce via kiss.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7175cb16	type	Clark Kenting
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7175cb16	comment	Clark Kenting: Unlike in Shortpacked!, people in this continuity don't seem to see through Amazi-Girl's disguise. (Granted, she actually operates at night or is moving too quickly for identification most of the time.)
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_717d735a	type	Suicide by Pills
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_717d735a	comment	Suicide by Pills: Becky's mother died from an implied pill overdose. It's implied she did so to get away from Ross, who was emotionally abusive and The Fundamentalist to the extreme. Poor Becky was the one who found her body.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_72757e0d	type	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_72757e0d	comment	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: One can often be found in the Alt Text when Joyce expresses one of her more out there beliefs, reminding the readers that this is not The War on Straw, and Willis himself used to believe these things, because he was raised in a community that believed these things. Yes, Ninjatitan is the name of a Real dinosaur.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Though her group's "villain" status is arguable, Char definitely gets a Jerkass moment here.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_72ce3f54	type	Adaptation Relationship Overhaul
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_72ce3f54	comment	Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: The characters in this comic don't share the same romantic relationships as their previous Walkyverse counterparts. They instead wind up with completely different partners.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_737394ab	type	Iconic Item
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_737394ab	comment	Iconic Item: Dina's hat.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Ruth's death in the Walkyverse was planned from the beginning; here, she has a much bigger role. Galasso's wife Pamela is alive and well, premiering shortly after a storyline in Shortpacked about how she died.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Wakey Wakey!"
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: See Slap-Slap-Kiss, but their attempt to throw Mary off the trail backfires somewhat.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs in Book 10, where Blaine is chasing Mike when both are on electric scooters. Blaine tries to be menacing by suggesting that Mike won't even make it to the woods he's trying to escape to, only for Mike to point out that they're using the same scooters, and thus have the same top speeds.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_76c42cce	type	Pronouncing My Name for You
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_76c42cce	comment	Pronouncing My Name for You: When Joyce meets Raidah for the first time, she sounds out "Rah-ee-dah" for the audience's benefit.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_773b0523	type	Impaled Palm
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_773b0523	comment	Impaled Palm: Amber did this to Sal in a fit of rage years before the story began.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_77cd56b3	type	Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_77cd56b3	comment	Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality Joyce, Joyce, Joyce. A dream sequence reveals a whole bundle of issues, some underlying from her upbringing, some caused by the events of the comic. Walky, to a much lesser extent. Even directly giving him permission isn't enough. Later: This has now gone away to the point that he and Dorothy have actually had sex. Twice in the same day.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: A few events in Amber's past caused her to go through a good deal of her Character Development from Shortpacked before she even appeared.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_79e07b47	type	Lecture as Exposition
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_79e07b47	comment	Lecture as Exposition: Leslie's Gender Studies lecture gives background on the current Becky storyline. The Alt Text lampshades this.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Joyce to Jocelyne: "Is... Is Mom a... good person?" Jocelyne's response is two panels of Stunned Silence before giving a very feeble attempt to defend her character. Fans are divided on whether or not Jocelyne was trying to convince herself, or was only trying to sugarcoat it to keep herself from hurting Joyce's feelings.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7b90899b	type	Ultimate Universe
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7b90899b	comment	Ultimate Universe: To the Walkyverse.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7c4fdf65	type	Red Is Violent
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7c4fdf65	comment	Red Is Violent: Panels with red backgrounds are often used to denote traumatizing scenes, most often violent ones.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Right when Joyce is having an epiphany in the middle of Leslie's class, Roz lashes out on her, pointing out that Joyce was quite the fundamentalist up until now, acts very sarcastic about her realization, and calls her out when Joyce criticizes the church, saying bluntly that she was a part of the problem. She also takes a jab at Dorothy, saying that she enabled Joyce's ignorance. Just as Ruth starts trying to redeem herself for her past bullying, previously minor character Rachel wades into her with a brutal dismissal of the entire concept of redemption. It's harsh, misguided, and potentially dangerous to several bystanders — but it's also a formidable corrective to the idea of an Easily Forgiven villain.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Ruth, towards Billie. Deconstructed: Ruth behaves this way because she has anti-social tendencies and a bad home life. Billie confronts Ruth demanding to know what their relationship is, after weeks of Ruth alternating between (awkward) displays of affection and bullying. When Ruth suddenly kisses her during all of this, she tells her to fuck off and runs away. Billie is very confused and hurt by whatever attraction she does feel. It's still played for comedy, but the situation is acknowledged by Willis as unhealthy and just wrong.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Hilariously done with Roz. Daisy got one too.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_808cbaeb	comment	Ross, Becky's father, was known to be a Christian fundamentalist. However, the full extent of his bigotry didn't become apparent until he kidnapped his own daughter at gunpoint, in the middle of a campus. He makes his intentions to "change back" his daughter very clear, and his forceful and disrespectful actions drew the ire of the fandom. Also, he demanded Becky grow her hair back to reclaim her womanhood. After Becky was saved by Joyce and her friends, Ross was arrested and sent to the hospital. A very distraught Becky decides to face him one last time, on her own accord, to tell him how sad she is and that even after all he has done, she doesn't want him to suffer: she just wants her family back. Ross' answer is to blame her for everything that happened, telling her that "she" is the one who destroyed their family.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_80d55f20	type	Cuteness Proximity
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_80d55f20	comment	Cuteness Proximity: Becky's reaction to Dina's Triceratops hoodie.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: A lot of characters don't exactly have good parents. Walky has been coddled by his parents (according to Sal, this is because he's whiter than her) and his maturity has suffered dearly while Sal had the exact opposite problem, Ethan's parents are very homophobic, Amber had an abusive dad, Ruth's parents were killed and she and her brother are being raised by their abusive grandfather, Billie's father is distant and shows his affection through buying her stuff, and Joyce's parents are fundamentalist Christians who kept her so isolated from the world at large that she would be in danger if it weren't for her friends and roommate. Danny's parents aren't really bad, but are definitely giving him emotionally unhealthy life advice (though at least with good intentions). So far, Dorothy and Dina are the only ones who avert the trope and seem to have a healthy family life. It's lampshaded when Billie gets moved to another dorm: her new dormmates tell her that Read Hall (the dorm the main characters live in) has a reputation for being full of "antisocial head-case music majors".
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Sydney Yuss retains her hammy nature, despite working in a pizzeria. And of course, Galasso wouldn't be Galasso without his hamminess.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8404a0f3	type	Amnesiac Dissonance
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8404a0f3	comment	Amnesiac Dissonance: When under the influence of a date-rape drug, Joyce defends herself, cutting her hand in the process. When she wakes up the next day...
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8430699a	type	Alternate Universe
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8430699a	comment	Willis has shown that he likes the idea of Alternate Universes.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Many readers have commented in the comments section that they find Joyce unbelievable. Willis' response was that it seems impossible to be just that ingrained in the fundamentalist lifestyle unless you've actually lived it, like he once did. For reference, Joyce is considerably toned down from her Walkyverse counterpart's personality in Roomies!, and the author has said that early version of Joyce reflects his own beliefs at the time more than Danny, the intended Author Avatar. It's also been said in the comments that Amber's "shyness" in the flashbacks is too exaggerated. Willis had much the same reaction there (with added "it's called anxiety disorder").
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_863fac26	comment	Jerk Jock: Played straight and then subverted. Danny is beaten up by Beef and several other jocks, and then Amazi-Girl saves him. Later on, Danny fails to get Amazi-Girl's attention by failing to get beaten up. He approaches Tony (another jock), who is appalled that Danny wants him to beat him up for no reason (and even more appalled when Danny says that he's gay and therefore deserves to be beaten up). Tony then leaves in disgust.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Billie discovers just how hard it is to break the ruggedly reinforced pedestal on which the students in her new dorm, especially Lucy, have placed her — despite her best efforts.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: Billie reads Sal the riot act over never being around so she can get her to sign something that Ruth's been demanding, leading to... Lucy wants to have sex with Walky, and is just liberated enough from her conservative religious upbringing that she's willing to do so once she and Walky have had their third date. However, she's also bound and determined to turn her and Walky watching Sal's roller derby match with Danny into a double date so it can be their third. So much so that, when Danny refuses to acknowledge the situation as a date of any kind, Lucy snaps at him over not realizing the "pretend, self-placed hoops a Christian woman will jump through to justify getting railed." She's then told that she can just "take Walky and go eat at a friggin' IHOP. Boom, third date." After a moment's consideration, Lucy is on board with this idea so she can then make love in what she has decided is a Christ-approved way.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_88359b23	type	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_88359b23	comment	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Kind of an odd case of this in that Walky acts like a stereotypical little boy, but as a result doesn't behave how society thinks a man should by being cute and submissive around Dorothy. Likewise, Dorothy isn't exactly butch but she's clearly the more serious, dominant and sexually experienced one in the relationship.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: Billie's reaction when she realizes that, going by all the people she knows at college so far, Joyce is her best friend. And then they get along pretty well from there.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Can be inferred given that Billie mentions her father tries to buy her affection as well as her whole persona. Ditto for Raidah and her friends given their behavior as well as the fact that their parents are all lawyers. Sal passed "bratty" on her way to "rebellious" but she's better now.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Played with Amber's super hero career. It's hinted that she only does it to keep from beating up anyone she actually cares about, she sometimes forgets who she is and it's shown to be ineffective during an actual emergency. On the other hand the student population adores her, Amber feels good helping others, as well as trying to fix any mistakes she makes, and she has genuinely saved several people from being attacked or hurt.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: Sal and Walky, again. No one seemed to have even noticed they're twins. Danny had to have it pointed out.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8c170cb1	type	Ethical Slut
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8c170cb1	comment	Ethical Slut: Roz's sexual ethics are pretty strong, with her making a point of — for instance — asking Joe if it's okay to tape their encounter. She also goes out of her way to promote safe sex and counseling for rape victims. Her ethics on things that aren't sex are a bit iffy, however, as she's often been mean to Joyce when it's clear she's doing more harm than good, and may or may not have been planning to out her bisexual older sister. Joe fancies himself one of these, but — intentionally or not — he's pretty bad at it, claiming to value consent while clearly not quite understanding what it means. He continues trying to get Joyce in bed during their date long past the point where it's clear she's uncomfortable with it, he needs to be snapped at by Sarah to stop making eyes at her despite her own angry eyes being an unsubtle cue, and his entire list of times it's not okay to have sex with a girl is "when she's drunk" and "when she's crying." His supposed ethics also don't stop him from treating the women around him like objects, keeping an actual list of the women on campus by vague description and hotness rating. On the other hand, he's specifically very clear about the importance of consent, stopping the moment Liz asks him to.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8c9e724c	type	Big Beautiful Woman
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8c9e724c	comment	Given how Billie and Amber are drawn it's pretty obvious Willis likes curvy (if not flat out chubby) women and girls with glasses. Also, freckles, given the designs for Dorothy and Ruth.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Ever since Becky was nearly kidnapped and her worldview was shattered, Joyce's filter is turned off, and she uses swears rather commonly (though, as Dina points out, her vocabulary seems restricted to "damn" and "hell"). On top of that, she is on edge, and snaps at Becky when the subject of evolution is brought up. Despite finding that the old Joyce could be annoying with her "sunny routine", her friends would rather want her to go back to how she was. Becky. In the Walkyverse and her initial appearance in the beginning, plus some phone calls with Joyce, she is much sweeter and polite. Once she is pulled out of college and has to live at the college, she becomes much more obnoxious, insulting and offensive. Following the timeskip, several characters have undergone this either due to lingering trauma surrounding Mike's death, or events that happened during the timeskip, in particular Halloween. Jennifer has partly backslid into her Alpha Bitch behavior from High School following Ruth dumping her on Halloween out of the blue, falling in with Raidah's group and letting her worst traits come out to the forefront. She's likewise severed ties with all of her old friend group sans Joyce, has ceased going by "Billie" in favor of her birth name, and acts behind a faÃ§ade of maturity while bottling up resentment towards Ruth for her behavior and reasoning for the break up. Joyce has embraced atheism as a result of the trauma brought upon by her former community and their fundamentalist beliefs, but with it comes a much more bitter and callous individual, not helped by having to deal with possible life changing details like needing glasses or being on the autism spectrum being thrown at her back to back. Her shift in attitude does little to endear her to her friends, but their attempts at trying to get her back to "normal" just ends up aggravating her and creates a much bigger rift. Dorothy is faced with the prospect that her original goal in life of being the POTUS would require she make moral concessions she's not willing to make, something she is called out on by both Becky and Raidah. This causes her to suffer a full on Identity Breakdown, resulting in her trying to inject herself into others lives, claiming it's to stop them from making a mistake when really it's thinly veiled self-interest, all for the sake of maintaining some level of control in her life, even going as far as to try and steal Walky back from Lucy after she was the one who pushed Walky into dating Lucy. Her treatment of Joyce in particular stands out, constantly infantilizing her and acting like Joyce is her responsibility, becoming territorial when Jennifer gives Joyce advice that actually succeeds where Dorothy failed, and coerces a visibly uncomfortable Joyce into masturbating for the first time in attempt to be a Shipping Torpedo for her new relationship with Joe, the entire time rationalizing it as "protecting" Joyce. Ethan has had the most noticeable change in demeanor. In addition to losing muscle mass and not taking care of himself physically, he's much more jaded, dismissive, and overall self-destructive, all related to now suffering from depression over Mike's death. This is especially noticeable when he begins flirting with Asher, who had already made clear he was in a relationship with Jennifer, making clear he just doesn't really care anymore and would rather just seduce Asher.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8ce49f80	comment	Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't: Something of a core theme of the comic. Both Becky and Joyce are in the process of breaking away from Christian fundamentalist upbringings to more broad-minded world-views, making friends with non-fundamentalist fellow college students in the process, which leads to serious friction with their still-fundamentalist families. Whereas Joyce is on a long, hard path of change, so that her relationship with her family is merely difficult and complicated, Becky breaks away radically, coming out as lesbian and abandoning creationism â€” to which her father responds by bringing a shotgun to the college. Becky ends up more or less invoking the trope. Interestingly, they have ultimately reacted in the opposite way you would expect them to; the slow-and-steady Joyce has fully broken with Christianity and become either agnostic or an outright atheist, while the radical lesbian Becky still believes and identifies as a Christian. Amber's relationship with her father is violently negative, to traumatic effect for some of her friends. Ruth only fails to illustrate the trope because she doesn't exactly do friendship much.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Book 1, Chapter 6. Joyce is drugged and nearly raped by Ryan, until Sarah saves the day. Unfortunately, Ryan manages to escape, and this incident has haunted Joyce ever since. Book 2, Chapter 4. Sarah didn't call the cops on her roommate Dana, she called her Dad to pull her out of school out of concern for her well-being. Book 4, Chapter 1. Amber beats the shit out of her father Blaine, who just kidnapped Danny to draw her out. Book 5, Chapter 2. Becky got kicked out of college after being revealed as a lesbian, and ran away to Joyce's to avoid her bigoted father. The entirety of Book 6. Ross kidnaps Becky at gunpoint, completely shattering Joyce's old worldview. Then Joyce is broken even further once she realizes almost half of her family are defending Ross's actions. Meanwhile, Danny and Amber are having a major falling-out over whether or not Amazi-Girl is still an ok thing for the latter to be doing. Billie and Ruth's relationship is outed to the dorm by Carla when she tries to get Ruth help for her actively worsening depression, and Ruth gets hospitalized as a suicide risk. Lastly, Amazi-Girl confronts Sal at a re-election rally for Robin DeSanto, and when the crowd begins cheering her on by insisting that Sal is a thug who must have done something wrong, she tries to de-escalate the conflict... which is sidelined when she catches a glimpse of Ryan in the crowd. Book 10 goes bonkers. It starts with the Wham Shot mentioned below, where Walky finds himself (and several others) kidnapped by Blaine and Ross, who are trying to pull an "I Have Your Wife" on Amazi-Girl and blackmail her into kidnapping Becky on their behalf. To underline the threat, Blaine points out how Mike fell off a building fighting with him the other night. Unfortunately, Blaine is so convinced of Amber's worthlessness that he refuses to acknowledge his daughter is Amazi-Girl. Even after she admits it to his face. Ross, however, lets her go, since he wants his daughter back. Becky, instead of fleeing as Amazi-Amber has urged her to, turns herself in... but by now there's an Enemy Civil War as Blaine turns on Ross for letting Amber go. Blaine murders Ross. The remaining abductees escape, and fight their way free with the help of a freshly-arrived Amazi-Girl. Becky says her farewells to her father. Upstairs, Blaine has recovered. He takes Joyce hostage and races off in an unmarked white van... with Amazi-Girl in pursuit with the help of The Cavalry, Sal and her motorcycle. Blaine is imprisoned in the hospital, then shot and killed by a Crooked Cop. Mike is revealed to be in a coma. Oh, and, Robin resigns from her congressional race.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8e7835b3	type	Wunza Plot
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8e7835b3	comment	Dorothy definitely qualifies. Pretty much all of the pre-launch promotional material for Dumbing of Age listed the two leads as Joyce and Sarah, with Dorothy having been included for the sole purpose of giving Danny a girlfriend to break up at the beginning of the strip. Within the first year, Willis had discovered that Sarah's asocial nature made her difficult to build plots around and that he actually found Dorothy interesting. By the time the first book came out "one's a fundamentalist, the other's an atheist, they attend college" had become the stock description of the comic for book blurbs and fundraising sites, with Sarah having become a Recurring Character.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8eb3d48f	type	Revisiting the Roots
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8eb3d48f	comment	Revisiting the Roots: After years of Shortpacked!'s mostly Denser and Wackier take on the franchise, Dumbing Of Age returns the Walkyverse to how it began: With the Coming of Age, Slice of Life, and Dramedy aspects of Roomies! and the Darker and Edgier tone of It's Walky!, only now with Willis having over a decade of professional and personal improvement and the Sci-Fi elements removed.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8fda1d64	type	Drama Bomb
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_8fda1d64	comment	Drama Bomb: It's written by David Willis, so yeah. Expect lots of drama.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_927b2f11	comment	Book 12 sees Danny get exiled from his room so Joe can sleep with Liz. He sets himself up on a couch in the commons, but comments that it somehow feels a lot more uncomfortable than before. Watching him in the background is Ethan, looking drastically different than before.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9421aa41	type	Flipping the Table
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9421aa41	comment	Flipping the Table: Amber does this to Ethan when she finds out he's still dating Joyce. She feels bad about it later.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: No-one notices that Sierra is barefoot until she brings it up, as her feet were never on-panel. Averted much to Walky's and Joe's surprise and Joyce's trauma. Danny and Ethan get through a whole conversation in Ethan's room without noticing that Jacob is sitting right there.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: It's never revealed just who leaked Joe's 'Do-List'.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Ross, Becky's father, constantly blames everything and everyone around him, up to blaming his own daughter for destroying their family when he is the one who kidnapped her at gunpoint, in the middle of campus and in front of Joyce, with the clear intent of controlling Becky's life until she is "cured".
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_979f41a	type	Continuity Reboot
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_979f41a	comment	Continuity Reboot: Though it doesn't null out the previous continuity, it just throws one more on the pile.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9830549e	type	He-Man Woman Hater
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9830549e	comment	He-Man Woman Hater: Walky initially responds to his attraction to Dorothy about as well as your average eight-year old would.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: Mike pulls these off roughly once a year; something innocuous or friendly that turns out being the first step in a soul-crushing fall.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_99dfd4fc	type	Nothing Is the Same Anymore
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_99dfd4fc	comment	Nothing Is the Same Anymore: During Book 10 and the timeskip between books 10 and 11, Blaine murders Ross, Blaine himself gets murdered by a cop on the Korean mob's payroll for his screwups while in the hospital, Mike dies of his injuries offscreen between the books, Joyce becomes fully disillusioned with Christianity enough to become a closet atheist, Robin chooses Becky over her political ambitions, and Billie has broken up with Ruth and goes by her birth name of Jennifer.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9ae0cca6	type	Character Blog
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9ae0cca6	comment	Character Blog: Apparently, any "official" Twitter feeds from Walkyverse characters are from this version of them. Could potentially date the story as the entries clearly reference current events/pop culture, some of which is already passed by now. (e.g. Joyce replying to a question about whether she would vote for Obama in the 2012 election). Comic-Book Time to the rescue?
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: "Walking With Dina" focuses entirely on, well, Dina.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9cb3e22e	type	Interface Spoiler
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9cb3e22e	comment	Interface Spoiler: Reading the tags for any strips Jocelyne is in will confuse readers who haven't yet read the strip where she reveals her true gender to Ethan.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9d0cfdb9	type	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9d0cfdb9	comment	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: Joyce, again. Danny, too. Joe calls him out on it.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Early on, Joyce says she wished she had a sister. A few years down the line, we learn her "brother" Joshua is actually a closeted trans woman. Amber's reaction to seeing Sal foreshadows the fact that Amber was there the day of Sal's attempted robbery and is responsible for Sal's hand scar. Sal's warning to Amber/Amazi-Girl the first time they meet is dramatically confirmed as one later on: The punchline of this book 10 strip has Joyce suggesting bribing someone to kill Becky's dad in his cell. Ross meets his demise in this book, and the description of his death (Killed by a corrupt cop) roughly matches what happened to Blaine save for the method of death (Shiv versus gunshot).
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Did. She have. A CHEST WINDOW?
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: After Walky and Sal's parents confront the Browns over their church bailing out Ross who went on to abduct multiple college students after shooting up the school, Carol's defense is "He didn't shoot anybody."note This may be even worse than it seems, in that Carol might not have missed the point, she just didn't think it was an important point, that she might think that Ross was justified in what he did
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9f2ca67b	type	Gaydar
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_9f2ca67b	comment	Gaydar: Amber's is, by her own admission, way off. Sarah's is a lot more accurate.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a0797fb3	type	Stunned Silence
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a0797fb3	comment	Stunned Silence: Joyce and Dorothy have this reaction after Mike picks up Joyce's phone and tells her mom "All hail Satan" before hanging up. Complete with Blank White Eyes for Joyce, who is shocked beyond words.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a201dad2	type	Passive-Aggressive Kombat
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a201dad2	comment	Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Carol acts very antagonistic towards Becky when she comes to the Brown's house, leading to a full-blown Kombat with Becky during dinner, in which Hank feels very uncomfortable and is unable to stop his wife. Joyce is so furious that she gives a Death Glare to her mother.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: The vast majority of the parents introduced have various issues with their children. However, a few of them manage to stand out as this. Dorothy's parents are nothing but kind and supportive. Dina's parents are a bit socially incompetent, but ultimately good-hearted; their reaction to finding out that their daughter has a girlfriend is to give her two hundred dollars for a nice date. Joyce's dad Hank, who makes no attempt to defend Ross Macintyre. Despite being an otherwise textbook Christian Fundamentalist, he's ok with Becky being a lesbian, even if he doesn't quite understand it himself, since he trusts Joyce's judgment. While they don't appear on-panel, it's said that Carla's parents are fully behind their transgender daughter and went above and beyond to give her a happy childhood. Carla jokes that considering all the Abusive Parents in the comic, her liking her mom and dad actually makes her the cool rebel.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: The acronym for the comic is "DOA", which could also stand for "Dead or Alive" or "Dead on Arrival", which accurately describes a fair bit of the cast's mental state, especially Ruth and Amber.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: This strip, which shifts from 'ha ha, Joyce is innocent' to Ryan. A blazing Ruth - Billie row that ends with both of them in tears is immediately followed by Walky being himself. And from there we shift to an exhausted Amber coming home from a violent confrontation with Blaine. A traumatic Ryan vs Amber confrontation is immediately followed by....Danny learning to play the ukulele.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a4ca50be	type	Collective Groan
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a4ca50be	comment	Collective Groan: Joyce inspires one from her entire floor in this strip.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Ryan, who appeared in a grand total of four strips back in Roomies! Redux as part of a Ruth-flashback subplot, has a much bigger role here, having gone from mild Jerkass to full-blown rapist. Sierra has gone from "Tootsi," the least developed of the already heavily objectified Squad 48 with a grand total of one throwaway line to, well, a human, with a hippie persona to explain some fetishistic traits from the original. Dana appeared a grand total of twice in the original universe, but here she's a key plot point in Sarah's backstory. Dorothy definitely qualifies. Pretty much all of the pre-launch promotional material for Dumbing of Age listed the two leads as Joyce and Sarah, with Dorothy having been included for the sole purpose of giving Danny a girlfriend to break up at the beginning of the strip. Within the first year, Willis had discovered that Sarah's asocial nature made her difficult to build plots around and that he actually found Dorothy interesting. By the time the first book came out "one's a fundamentalist, the other's an atheist, they attend college" had become the stock description of the comic for book blurbs and fundraising sites, with Sarah having become a Recurring Character. After a tear-filled Coming-Out Story, Becky has gone from Joyce's occasionally-referenced best friend to officially joining the main cast... despite the fact that she doesn't formally join Indiana University at first. Later she strong-arms Rep. Robin De Santo into promising to enroll her in the following semester of school. Ross only appeared in a handful of subscription Joyce & Walky strips, here he's a much bigger and more dangerous villain. Clint goes from a one-off Shortpacked character to Ruth's abusive grandfather.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a681bfc6	type	Amicable Exes
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a681bfc6	comment	Amicable Exes: Pretty much every couple that breaks up remains friends and those that start off icier still warm back up to each other eventually anyway. The only possible exception is Hank and Carol.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Dorothy thought Walky was a slacker until she found out he's so smart (he pulled a 4.0 in High School) he doesn't need to study. (Then he found out he can't do that any more, and had a bit of a crisis, since neither failing nor actually having to try appealed to him.)
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a7b3134	comment	Sarah is outwardly Joyce's polar opposite given her self-proclaimed misanthropy and sour outlook. Yet she shares a strong connection to Joyce (her "little sis") and arguably is motivated by many of the same things she is. She is even shown entering her dorm room excitedly much the same way that Joyce did, and also has faced something traumatic in her first semester. Further adding to this dynamic is Joyce's unexpected ability to deliver clever comebacks and quips in later comics.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a7ba94de	type	Inferiority Superiority Complex
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a7ba94de	comment	Inferiority Superiority Complex: Billie seems to be suffering from a bad case of this lately.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a823fa03	comment	The Unsmile: Enough of one that even Sarah is left in Stunned Silence.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a8f3e2f6	type	Worst. Whatever. Ever!
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a8f3e2f6	comment	Worst. Whatever. Ever!: Danny calls Joe the worst wingman ever, which brings him to the brink of real tears.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: A good indication that someone is royally pissed in this comic is when they are given temporary red eyes to emphasize their anger. If the background panels also turn red, things will take a turn for the worse: Joyce, of all people. She does it again here, and here. Billie gets in on this as well when asked if there's something between her and Walky. Amber gets this on two separate occasions in the same strip when stabbing Sal for taking Ethan hostage and beating the tar out of her abusive father.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: All over the place. Danny and Joe are a long-established pair. Joyce appears to collect these like flies, having begun developing friendships with Walky, Billie, Dorothy, and even Mike. (Joyce was The Heart in the main Walkyverse continuity.)
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a96cdc79	type	Snark Ball
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_a96cdc79	comment	Snark Ball: Gets passed around quite a bit, as one would expect from a David Willis work. Any character can be appropriately snarky given the right situation and motivation.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_aa79bac	type	Parting-Words Regret
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_aa79bac	comment	Parting-Words Regret: Ethan's last words to Mike Warner were a dismissive response and post-timeskip he's shown to regret not saying something else.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_ab5eea65	comment	One thing to sell the Dramatic Irony in Raidah's presenting Jennifer joining her friend group as a healthy development is that one of them immediately starts making passive-aggressive comments about her weight.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: After delivering a harsh "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Joyce about her ignorance (while ignoring Leslie's reprimands and requests to stop), Roz receives one from Leslie that causes her to walk out.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Sarah's reaction upon hearing that Joyce and Becky are going to throw a dorm party.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_afe75982	type	Unsound Effect
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_afe75982	comment	Unsound Effect: FRUMPH! (Also counts as a Shout-Out to the guy who hosts Willis' sites.) RECLOTHED!
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	While they don't appear on-panel, it's said that Carla's parents are fully behind their transgender daughter and went above and beyond to give her a happy childhood. Carla jokes that considering all the Abusive Parents in the comic, her liking her mom and dad actually makes her the cool rebel.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_b21ddb6b	type	Content Warnings
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_b21ddb6b	comment	Content Warnings: May 25th, 2016 had a content warning bigger than the actual strip. It involved a flashback of Becky finding her mother either attempting or having already committed suicide.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: A playful one towards Questionable Content: the "links to other webcomics" section has the link to QC labelled "Jeph Jacques Makes Butt Stew". Jacques responded in kind, with the link to DoA labelled as "Dave Willis Eats Diapers". Joe has words for the people responsible for Superman's grittier portrayal in more recent works. Willis is very much not a fan of what 9 Chickweed Lane has been doing lately. The strip just below Joyce's in the student newspaper is 69 Mouse-Ear Blvd by "Pat McHorney", with dialogue like "Your matchless legs have cured my homosexuality!"
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: A recurring element of the strip and often quite subtle. Examples: Sarah is outwardly Joyce's polar opposite given her self-proclaimed misanthropy and sour outlook. Yet she shares a strong connection to Joyce (her "little sis") and arguably is motivated by many of the same things she is. She is even shown entering her dorm room excitedly much the same way that Joyce did, and also has faced something traumatic in her first semester. Further adding to this dynamic is Joyce's unexpected ability to deliver clever comebacks and quips in later comics. Billie likes to criticize Walky for being immature, a slob and a geek. Yet for all his flaws Walky easily outperforms her academically and clearly has adjusted much better to college than she has. He also has a roommate who is actively trying to help him (albeit in an unusual way), whereas Sal seemed to actively avoid Billie even before Billie hit on her. Given that Billie is not mature enough to get past high school or admit her alcoholism (or other problems) and uses phrases like "life-force" or "dracula" routinely in conversations it could be said that what annoys her about Walky is really what she hates about herself. Additionally, despite his poor diet Walky is in excellent shape whereas Billie has put on weight in college... Dorothy and Walky. Walky can be overly complacent, sloppy and childish at times. Dorothy can be overly ambitious, perfectionist and preoccupied with what others think of her (which is in itself somewhat childish). Both bond over cartoons, both are surprised by how similarly gifted they are, and both struggle to make the right compromises in their relationship. Joyce and Mary are both Christian fundamentalists. However, while Joyce often says and believes things other people find awful, unpleasant, or even bigoted, she is willing to listen when people explain why her beliefs are offensive, and tries to change or at least re-examine those beliefs. Mary, on the other hand, is almost cartoonishly literally holier-than-thou who will never admit (even to herself) that she or her beliefs are in any way even possibly wrong.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_b84491a3	type	Wrong Insult Offence
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_b84491a3	comment	Wrong Insult Offence: Invoked and Defied out-of-universe; the forum guidelines specifically discourage commentors from making Catholic jokes at Joyce's offense, as until Book 11 she is an evangelical.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: With the cast of most of the Walkyverse appearing, certain characters are pushed to the periphery. Robin, Leslie and Jacob are probably the most obvious examples. Danny, Joe and Walky are given less screen time in this comic than they received in the Walkyverse intentionally since their stories have been told there, according to the intro of book 1.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_bacf8e98	type	Preserve Your Gays
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_bacf8e98	comment	Preserve Your Gays: Intentionally subverts the Bury Your Gays trope, by Word of God. Becky is placed in harm's way by her father, has multiple opportunities to die in the ensuing scuffle, and yet doesn't die and is in fact completely uninjured, ending the storyline alive, free, and seemingly on her way to making her own life.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_bbbd4583	type	School Grade Hacking
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_bbbd4583	comment	School Grade Hacking: Amber hacked Walky's grades to improve his marks in math and become an A student again.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Joyce does not like guys who think of nothing but sex. Dina pulls out a proper Death Glare when Joyce dismisses evolution offhandedly. Joyce and Ethan are terrified by sweet, tiny, cripplingly-shy Dina getting angry. She also starts to get sick of people thinking of her as a child. Meta. Willis became... annoyed at the running gag in the comments of naming every female but Amber as the identity of Amazi-Girl, as a call-back to an old Shortpacked! gag, and when it was explicitly revealed in the comic Amber was AG, he made a proclamation that the joke was over, dead, and repeating it would lead to a ban. Also, people constantly accusing him of making Joyce a strawman fundamentalist, despite repeatedly stating she's based on him at that age, and is in fact way more socially adjusted than he was.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Joyce's various accidental innuendos (e.g. "shower buddies") have become kind of a recurring joke. Not to mention her intense jealousy when Walky started spending time with Dorothy and her fixation on brushing Sal's "luxurious chocolate river of hair."◊ Walky even teases her when he sees her frowning as Dorothy kisses him. Walky also has moments that hint at being bi but it could just be him playing around. It turns out that Joyce's ideas about platonic friendship with women come from interacting with Becky. Danny's interactions with Ethan have been surprisingly flirty and a few readers have pointed out Danny has never been confirmed to be heterosexual. When Amber asked him if he was closeted, since her gaydar was terrible, he confirmed he liked girls but not that he was straight. He's basically confirmed as bisexual in this strip. Also this. (alt text)
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: Dina has this in spades, and appears quite bothered by it.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_bfc2ec8a	type	That Makes Me Feel Angry
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_bfc2ec8a	comment	That Makes Me Feel Angry: Joyce says as much to Walky for his criticizing her MRS Degree.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c067b082	type	Black Bead Eyes
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c067b082	comment	Black Bead Eyes: Most of the characters have eyes that consist of black dots with small white highlights.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Played straight, and then subverted — Joyce hires resident Jerkass Mike to punch Joe in the face whenever he steps out of line, then joins in at the end of the night after Joe was distracted by the waitress wearing a Stripperiffic outfit. The next day, he points out the Hypocrisy of a Christian paying someone to commit violence and joining in on said violence. Joyce is visibly shaken.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c129ee65	type	Kids Play Matchmaker
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c129ee65	comment	Joe's parents are divorced at the very least (and he mentions that they "yell a lot" when Joyce suggests a Parent Trap Plot), though there hasn't been any elaboration yet.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c1e6c92c	type	UnluckyChildhoodFriend
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c1e6c92c	comment	Becky and Joyce, due to the former misreading the latter's signals.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: The "Dexter and Monkey Master" comic book series and spin-off cartoon, featuring the science-fictional elements from the core Walkyverse. "Himmel the Humming Hymnal", which is a parody of bizarre low-budget Christian children's programming in general (and "Psalty the Singing Psalm-Book" specifically).
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c2c15b23	type	Bait-and-Switch Comment
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c2c15b23	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comment: Joyce's surprisingly measured stance on homosexuality. Willis does this in the post about Halloween Joyce and Walky magnets. Joyce dressed as Tangled Rapunzel is captioned "Was a homeschooled child with a weird mom who told her everyone outside was a monster, and also is in a Halloween costume."
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Walky, when Dorothy sacrifices an interview with Danny about Amazi-Girl to borrow some shoes for Walky:
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c2e2a445	type	Jade-Colored Glasses
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c2e2a445	comment	Jade-Colored Glasses: Sarah wears them all the time. Ruth is clearly very bitter after having left Canada, a "sore subject" for her.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c325f125	type	Ho Yay
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c325f125	comment	Joyce's various accidental innuendos (e.g. "shower buddies") have become kind of a recurring joke. Not to mention her intense jealousy when Walky started spending time with Dorothy and her fixation on brushing Sal's "luxurious chocolate river of hair."◊
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: Joyce claims that her pastor says she's the best-socialized out of her homeschool group early in the comic, but her friend Becky, when she comes to visit later on, is clearly much better than Joyce at interacting with others.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c35d837f	type	Loves My Alter Ego
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c35d837f	comment	Loves My Alter Ego: Amber, Danny, and Amazigirl. Possibly. See Two-Person Love Triangle: below.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Ethan is a pretty decent person despite certain self-created drama in his life.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Coupled with It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet, Ruth harassed Billie despite the latter not having done anything bad that week... so obviously that means she's up to something.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c673210e	type	Informed Judaism
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c673210e	comment	Informed Judaism: While Ethan and Joe have mentioned they're Jewish, neither one actually practices the faith. Ethan even attends Christian church with Joyce.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c75b90fb	type	Oddball DoppelgÃ¤nger
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c75b90fb	comment	Oddball DoppelgÃ¤nger: Dorothy and Joyce in a lot of ways. Despite the obvious differences in religion, upbringing and motivations they are surprisingly similar. They have the same child like interests (e.g. cartoons). They both have a tendency towards somewhat immature outbursts, in class in Dorothy's case and on a date in Joyce's. They both can be overly controlling when with boys. They both have expressed an interest in dating Walky in the original continuity. They both tend to dress modestly and have relatively similar hairstyles (bangs). Not that strange, then, that the two would bond quickly.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Leslie and Robin discuss that they should watch Steven Universe together. Sal's outfits in this strip look an awful lot like the school uniforms in Avalon, which It's Walky! did a little crossover with during the "Anomalie" storyline. Sort of shout out by Walky - Willis originated the joke about Jeph Jacques having 'Butts Disease', which concludes with the ability to only draw butts. When Mike and Ethan drag Amber out of her dorm room, she shouts the following. When Joyce starts acting twitchy, the Alt Text says she's "Goldbluming". The Alt Text for this strip lampshades Amber's swap to Amazi-Girl with "wrong Harvey". The storyline that starts with this strip is titled "When Somebody Loved Me". If that wasn't enough, the storyline ends with Becky and Joyce lying in Joyce's bed after the events of the past few strips, and Becky says she's glad that Joyce has changed. The hovertext even completes the lyric! The story arc starring Dina is titled "Walking with Dina". Indiana University's library bears the name of a certain public official. (This was a Retcon, as the original version of the strip used the actual name of the library.) A framed review on the wall of Galasso's Pizza is headlined "Mother Bear's crushed under Galasso's iron heel". Mother Bear's Pizza is a popular IU student hangout in Real Life. The Alt Text for this strip references Firefly with the line "curse the mob's sudden but inevitable betrayal". "69 Mouse-Ear Blvd" is, per Word of God (a comment on the Patreon upload), a "four strip reference turducken": the characters and title are inspired by 9 Chickweed Lane, the first panel references Mr. Boop, the third references the first Garfield and the last one lifts dialogue from a Dinosaur Comics strip. In the same panel, Toog or Dare is visually based on Doog and Blair which did indeed run alongside Roomies! but the composition is based on that Ctrl+Alt+Del strip.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c7a41fbe	type	Identity Breakdown
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c7a41fbe	comment	Dorothy is faced with the prospect that her original goal in life of being the POTUS would require she make moral concessions she's not willing to make, something she is called out on by both Becky and Raidah. This causes her to suffer a full on Identity Breakdown, resulting in her trying to inject herself into others lives, claiming it's to stop them from making a mistake when really it's thinly veiled self-interest, all for the sake of maintaining some level of control in her life, even going as far as to try and steal Walky back from Lucy after she was the one who pushed Walky into dating Lucy. Her treatment of Joyce in particular stands out, constantly infantilizing her and acting like Joyce is her responsibility, becoming territorial when Jennifer gives Joyce advice that actually succeeds where Dorothy failed, and coerces a visibly uncomfortable Joyce into masturbating for the first time in attempt to be a Shipping Torpedo for her new relationship with Joe, the entire time rationalizing it as "protecting" Joyce.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c7faa8e3	type	Sexiled
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c7faa8e3	comment	Sexiled: Walky and Dorothy kick Sierra out of the room for Their First Time.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: Here. Discussed here. And again. Billie claims that she has great intuition, followed by a series of flashbacks to moments when her intuition was completely wrong... including the moment when she said she had great intuition, just a few seconds ago.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: Billie and Ruth's fighting takes on an entirely different tone once they are in a relationship.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: In a Patreon strip, Joyce gives Dina's Roommates!!! counterpart the Punny Name Cerie because she loves cereal. Sarah complains that this seems reductive, which is Willis criticising his own creation of characters like Leslie Bean the lesbian and, yes, Dina Sarazu/Saruyama the dinosaur fan.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: Joyce does this to Roz after her well publicized liason with Joe, starting the two's mutual feud.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_cd01a310	type	LampShade
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_cd01a310	comment	This was lampshaded here after a months-long Time Skip.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_cd8c578c	type	My Eyes Are Up Here
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_cd8c578c	comment	My Eyes Are Up Here: Inverted regarding the top of Dina's head, due to it being something of a Forbidden Fruit.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Mike is very subdued compared to his Walkyverse counterpart and shows his "Heart of Gold" far more often. However, this is more likely a function of the Dumbiverse being sane, whereas Walkyverse Mike specializes in very over-the-top acts of jackassery and is almost superhumanly apathetic to other people's pain.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: Joyce is prone to these.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: When Joyce confesses to being the Whiteboard Ding-Dong Bandit, Sierra cracks up laughing.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Joyce (obviously), and oddly enough, Sal rarely directly curse, apparently even when provoked.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Upon Billie demanding that Ruth tell her what she wants from Billie, Ruth first punches her (in one strip) and then kisses her (in the next strip). Incidentally, this caused a brief server meltdown. The same goes for Sal and Jason, the math TA.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d275c4f4	type	All Women Love Shoes
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d275c4f4	comment	All Women Love Shoes: Referenced by Walky. He loses his shoes, so Dorothy tells him to just wear another pair. Walky responds that he only owns one pair of shoes because he's a man, and begins a quest to find a man who is girly enough to actually own multiple pairs of shoes so he can borrow a pair. Turns out Walky is the only one who subscribes to this theory. A rather grumpy and hungover Joe bluntly puts him in his place here.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d32cd9f5	type	Cast Full of Gay
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d32cd9f5	comment	Cast Full of Gay: Check out the Characters tab above. Of the seventeen listed under Main Characters, eight are LGBTQ, and this doesn't include Leslie, Marcie, Robin, or numerous secondary and background characters.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Mike of all people does this to Ethan when Ethan (who is Jewish) agrees to go to church with Joyce. With one word. Mike gives a pretty big one when Billie and Walky express how Joyce post Toedad kidnapping has been more profane and angsty. Mike tells them they didn't like the old Joyce and kept trying to change her, but now that she's changed they callously want the old Joyce back. Carla gives Ruth a good dose of this when Ruth doesn't stand up to Mary's threats to call in the Residence Manager on her after Mary trans-shamed Carla. A more subdued example than the above, but Hank is clearly unhappy with Joyce and Becky taking off with their car and spent all day hiding from them, as he claims he had spent all morning convincing his wife Carol that neither of them have changed that much since going to college, only for his efforts to go down the drain.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: Done in a flashback when Mike "congratulates" Dorothy on hooking up with Walky.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d4689f3	type	Sarcasm Failure
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d4689f3	comment	Sarcasm Failure: Sal and Walky's sibling banter deteriorates from Hypocritical Heartwarming to genuinely hurtful when Sal manages to push Walky's Berserk Button.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Walky may be intelligent and sarcastic, but a lot of his behavior, most notably his horrible diet and attitude towards masculinity, would look a lot better on a fourth grader than a college student. Joyce's fundamentalist upbringing means she's got a shallow knowledge base for most normal teenage topics but a deep one for Biblical minutia. Walky's described her superpower as "being able to say the scariest, most messed-up crap while somehow thinkin' it sounds fantastic." In her defense, once the horribleness is pointed out to her she usually tries to apologize and acknowledge the issue. Dina, due to having No Social Skills. Amber is shown to have been this in flashbacks.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d7c318da	type	CapePunk
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d7c318da	comment	Cape Punk: Amber's double identity as Amazi-Girl is portrayed in a much more gritty, realistic manner. On one hand, she is well-meaning and does a decent job of being a real-life superhero at the university. On the other hand, Amazi-Girl is more of an outlet for Amber's internalized aggression due to her horrific upbringing and has devolved into an increasingly unhinged Split Personality.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d7cdaa5c	type	Blank White Eyes
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d7cdaa5c	comment	Blank White Eyes: Joyce got those after Mike answered her phone and told her mother "All hail Satan".
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: For all that she snarks at him and vehemently insists that she doesn't like him in any way, it's implied that Billie is a lot fonder of Walky than she lets on. At the very least, she seems to spend a lot of time with him for someone who apparently considers herself too cool to be in his presence.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d935ee2f	type	Innocent Blue Eyes
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_d935ee2f	comment	Innocent Blue Eyes: Joyce is the most childish and naive member of the cast, and has very large, very blue eyes with no pupils. This is taken further with the other members of the Brown family, with "good" relatives having blue eyes like Joyce, and the more bigoted members having the standard black eyes. This is in fact a coincidence, as the rule actually is the Brown siblings have the eye colors of their opposite gender's parent. (This includes Jocelyne.)
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Both played straight and averted. Walky is quite snarky and dismissive about Joyce's 'invisible sky wizard' in contrast to his original Walkyverse self. However Dorothy is non confrontational in her atheism, to the point of making friends with Joyce, and is somewhat embarrassed by her boyfriend's behavior.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: In parallel storylines, Jennifer falls (on the rebound) for Reformed Criminal Asher, while Joyce starts dating Joe. However, Asher turns out to be rather less of a bad boy than he first appears, even having things in common with Walky, and Joe, in an attempt to be worthy of Joyce, cleans up a bit, combing his hair and having a shave. Both women clearly prefer the older, badder versions of the guys, at least when it comes to appearance, and while Joyce and Joe manage to keep the relationship strong overall, Jennifer and Asher's relationship gets rocky to the point Jennifer would prefer Asher cheated on her so as to make things more exciting, and Asher actually considers responding to Ethan's advances.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: One of Joyce's favourite songs from Hymmel the Hymnal; it sounds cute and cheery but has a pretty creepy message.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Many of the Walkyverse's canon couples or relationships that happened over the course of the comic are teased in the comic, though aside from Walky and Dorothy none of them have gone past "teasing" yet.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_df9eda66	type	Write Who You Know
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_df9eda66	comment	Write Who You Know: In-Universe, Joyce creates a Slice of Life prequel webcomic to her Her Codename Was Mary Sue science fiction stories, filled with counterparts of all her friends.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e062bcc4	type	Sink or Swim Mentor
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e062bcc4	comment	Sink or Swim Mentor: This seems to be Mike's modus operandi in this universe; most of his more dickish behaviour has seemed to be directed at forcing the character it's being aimed at to sort their lives out or at least come to some kind of realization about themselves, rather than just him being a straight-up Jerkass.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e0e8cce6	type	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e0e8cce6	comment	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Rachel, previously a minor character, rips into the damaged Ruth with a brutally cynical attack on the whole idea of character redemption.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: Sarah's reaction when Joyce and Dina get in an argument over evolution (viral, in this case). Bilie's reaction when Joyce and Walky start scrapping like kids.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e150c4c7	comment	Billie likes to criticize Walky for being immature, a slob and a geek. Yet for all his flaws Walky easily outperforms her academically and clearly has adjusted much better to college than she has. He also has a roommate who is actively trying to help him (albeit in an unusual way), whereas Sal seemed to actively avoid Billie even before Billie hit on her. Given that Billie is not mature enough to get past high school or admit her alcoholism (or other problems) and uses phrases like "life-force" or "dracula" routinely in conversations it could be said that what annoys her about Walky is really what she hates about herself. Additionally, despite his poor diet Walky is in excellent shape whereas Billie has put on weight in college...
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e2f13529	type	World of Jerkass
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e2f13529	comment	World of Jerkass: One of the core elements of Dumbing of Age is the characters' growth and all the implications it has on their lives. As such, while most of them have the potential to grow, a large portion of the cast either is a jerk to begin with, goes through an asshole phase, or demonstrates how mean they can be in certain occasions. With just the main characters in Read Hall: Clark Wing, you have an Innocent Bigot with a subtle superiority complex about her faith (Joyce), an antisocial misanthrope (Sarah), a proudly obnoxious Attention Whore (Carla), an aloof and rude loner (Sal), a wrathful and violent vigilante (Amber/Amazi-Girl), a self-righteous condescending activist (Roz), an abrasive former Alpha Bitch (Billie), a self-destructive tyrant (Ruth), and a thoughtless and surprisingly manipulative loudmouth (Becky). And each of them is far from being the worst of the cast (hell, they're not even the worst of the good guys).
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Walky manages to accidentally scam Jason into a job as a bartender at Galasso's Pizza and Subs. It starts as a spontaneous lie when he went to get himself a drink when the bartender was absent, and other patrons wonder if he's supposed to be there. Then when the actual bartender returns Walky claims that Galasso hired Jason as extra cover, which she accepts but isn't happy about. Galasso himself ... just assumes that he must have hired Jason and doesn't remember it. Jason is bewildered by all of this.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Joyce is one for Sal and Sarah. Funny how that works out.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e41cf31d	type	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e41cf31d	comment	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge: Blaine made Amber's life miserable during most of her childhood. Taking Danny as a hostage in order to lure her out of the campus was the final straw.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: The Alt Text of a 2014 strip invites the reader to jump back to 2010: "everyone's heads explode in size."
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e4c95972	type	Innocent Bigot
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e4c95972	comment	Innocent Bigot: Joyce frequently makes offensive remarks to non-Christians due to her extremely sheltered home-schooled upbringing. This is evidenced when she said she could "fix" Joe's Judaism and expressed shock that atheists even existed. She also made racially insensitive comments such as calling her black roommate "a novelty." However as soon as she was called out on both these things she tried to improve. She was willing to ignore Dorothy's atheism and quickly became very close with her. She has also bonded with Sarah, particularly after Sarah rescued her from a violent sexual predator. Considering how little time has passed in comic her progress is already pretty remarkable although after being questioned about Mike on homosexuality her friendship with Ethan may be in trouble... This was lampshaded here after a months-long Time Skip.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e598d4ac	comment	Innocent Inaccurate: Joyce keeps being told that Ethan would enjoy a strap-on.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Everything Amber's dad says makes him more and more punchable. Ross, Becky's father, was known to be a Christian fundamentalist. However, the full extent of his bigotry didn't become apparent until he kidnapped his own daughter at gunpoint, in the middle of a campus. He makes his intentions to "change back" his daughter very clear, and his forceful and disrespectful actions drew the ire of the fandom. Also, he demanded Becky grow her hair back to reclaim her womanhood. After Becky was saved by Joyce and her friends, Ross was arrested and sent to the hospital. A very distraught Becky decides to face him one last time, on her own accord, to tell him how sad she is and that even after all he has done, she doesn't want him to suffer: she just wants her family back. Ross' answer is to blame her for everything that happened, telling her that "she" is the one who destroyed their family. Clint, Ruth's (maternal) grandfather and guardian. He constantly insults her and her dead father, claiming she's too much like him, emotionally abuses her and her brother Howard, and even brings Howard along to school with him to subtly tell her that even though she is old enough to cut ties with him, Howard is not, and he would take her "betrayal" out on him. Joyce's mother is not only hateful toward Becky after she comes out, but defends Ross after he kidnaps his daughter at gunpoint. And then she helps Ross make bail, showing that she cares only about her religious beliefs, rather than her actual daughter. Following the time skip, she shows up unannounced at Joyce's dorm room to dump off Joyce's stuff from the house that she is selling in order to give the money to her church; money that they need because of putting almost everything they had into bailing out Ross, an action spearheaded by Joyce's mother in the first place.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Here's one from Bille: And one from Galasso: Even Joyce has gotten in on it:
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e6c88e42	type	Old Shame
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e6c88e42	comment	Old Shame: Walky appeared in an episode of Hymmel the Humming Hymnal as a kid (he apparently had a Stage Mom), dressed in a pink mouse costume. However he was young enough for him to not even remember doing it by the time of the comic. That is, until he saw himself on Joyce's tape of the show. Then the memories came back to him and he did not like it. Part of his reaction is actually new shame as the video confirms the allegations of Parental Favoritism he'd just been vehemently denying to Sal.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e7ecdeb0	type	Weight Woe
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e7ecdeb0	comment	Weight Woe: It's pretty obvious that part of Billie's insecurity stems from being out of shape, and she expresses frustration and embarrassment at times about it.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With when Billie Stress Vomits on Walky in "The Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit", the act is off-panel, but we see his front covered in her puke in the next panel.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: Done by Asher when Ethan shuts down their flirting to check Transformers pre-orders, and lampshaded in the comic's Alt Text.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e99f2959	type	Webcomic Time
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_e99f2959	comment	Webcomic Time: Possibly one of the worst offenders of all time. As of December 2011, the strip had been running for roughly a year, and the amount of time that had passed was from Monday to Sunday. By the strip's second anniversary, it had managed to cover eight more days... but only by Time Skipping four of them. Finally, in celebration of the strip's tenth anniversary, the characters entered their second semester... by skipping another three months. At current velocities, Willis will need to live past his 100th birthday if he wants to see Joyce graduate.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: This seems to apply to the entirety of the local police. For one, they're racist bigots who are known to show up on crime scenes, gun down random persons of color just because they're persons of color and therefore have to be felons, and leave again. This is why Sal and Sarah don't want the police near campus. No wonder the protagonists have to go all vigilante against all kinds of criminals. Besides, probably every last local cop is corrupt and on the Korean mob's payroll to the point of working for them as paid assassins. Therefore, Blaine believed they were acting in his favor. He was wrong.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Joyce started having overtones of this when Dorothy began dating Walky, something that has not gone unnoticed by the fans. Or by Walky.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: Improbably, with Dork Tower's Mud Bay.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Here, when Sarah saves Joyce from rape.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Raidah et al are an interesting case where they are definitely Jerkasses (their treatment of Dina), but they see their Sarah as being a Jerkass due to some misunderstandings. tl;dr Sarah's roommate was seriously depressed and dying of drug abuse, but managed to keep that hidden from Raidah et al, and when Sarah saved her by asking her dad to take her out of school, it seemed like Disproportionate Retribution.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Sarah contacted her former roommate's father when the poor girl suffered a mental breakdown after her mother died. Now Sarah is ostracised because people think she narced on her just for being a party girl.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: Ruth throws up on Billie's front as the latter tries to help her out of a drunken stupor in "Answers in Hennessy". Played With when Billie Stress Vomits on Walky in "The Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit", the act is off-panel, but we see his front covered in her puke in the next panel. When Billie finally tries to quit drinking, she throws up off-panel a couple of times due to alcohol withdrawal.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_ee2a3bfc	type	Prefers Going Barefoot
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_ee2a3bfc	comment	Prefers Going Barefoot: Sierra has apparently been barefoot since sixth grade (that's her best guess at least). It took a while for anyone to notice, including the reader, since her feet were not shown until the characters noticed her shoelessness.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_ee3ea61e	type	Fourth-Wall Mail Slot
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_ee3ea61e	comment	Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: On Dorothy's Character Twitter, she apparently responds to comments made on the discussion pages.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_ef478375	type	Hiccup Hijinks
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_ef478375	comment	Hiccup Hijinks: Joyce gives herself hiccups when Dorothy admits to being an atheist.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_efac5012	type	Fallen Princess
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_efac5012	comment	Fallen Princess: Billie is one, at least in her own mind.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: Ultra-Car's humanoid appearance and general personality from the Walkyverse here manifests as Carla, while Ultra-Car's car form is the basis for a television series Carla is obsessed with.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Poor Daisy is so pent-up that she distracts herself with the thought of a superheroine with a Cleavage Window.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f288cf3	type	Innocent Innuendo
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f288cf3	comment	Innocent Innuendo: Sarah overhears such a conversation concerning Sal possibly being Amazi-Girl. Taken to new levels here, after Sarah mentions that she has toys. Joyce really is a veritable fountain for these. One three and a half years in the making (though it is a bit of a dated term):
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f2bd0945	type	Closet Geek
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f2bd0945	comment	Closet Geek: For all her hatred of NERDS Billie uses a lot of phrases like "life-force" in casual conversation...
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f332d990	type	Too Much Information
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f332d990	comment	Too Much Information: In Book 11, when Becky and Dina discuss the possibility of having sexual relations, Professor Brock points out that he is still in the room and is overhearing everything.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f6974e73	comment	Strip Buffer: One that covers over three months. The site even has a readout showing how far ahead strips are done.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: Sarah takes being called "pissy" as a compliment. Ruth can't insult innocent little Joyce, can she?
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f76842b1	comment	Ross McIntyre: (pulls out gun) ...Lord, grant me the strength
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f933e594	type	How the Mighty Have Fallen
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f933e594	comment	How the Mighty Have Fallen: Billie's life has been on a downhill spiral since high school ended, largely because of her alcoholism.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Early on in the strip Walky develops a crush on Dorothy. Whenever she's present, he got a wide-eyed, lip-biting expression frozen on his face (best seen here, since he's wearing it in his only panel). The two are currently dating. Amber has a weird look on her face every time she sees another girl with glasses. Probably referencing how she and Danny met. Connected to the comic: The alt-text joking that a line from the strip will be the volume's title, the comment section will also do this.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fa712e27	type	Gay Conservative
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fa712e27	comment	Gay Conservative: In an ironic twist, Robin DeSanto is heavily implied to be more like Sarah Palin in this universe. From around 2016, though, this is increasingly played for drama - Leslie struggles to reconcile their attraction with the actively harmful policies Robin pushes.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When Dorothy tries to improve Walky's wardrobe while they were dating, she says that in return he can pick anything for her to wear. He comes back with a t-shirt with the Kraft Macaroni and Cheese logo. While guilt tripping over just having sex with Dina Becky imagines God showing up waving a big wooden spoon.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: Willis describes the shenanigans happening in the To Those Who'd Ground Me arc - Amazi-Girl latching onto Ross' car with a thrown hook on a rope, riding on the front of a random bystander's car to catch up with them, and getting caught at the last moment by Sal and Joyce on a motorcycle perpendicular to the truck about to run her over - as physics getting "bruised a bit" in the service of not having Becky's story end on a sour note.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The strips and chapters in Becky's come-out arc are named after quotes from Wicked and Frozen (2013), such as Unlimited or That Perfect Girl (... is gone).
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In chapter 2, Mike puts his books in Walky's bag without him noticing. Two chapters later, Walky wonders how his books multiplied. Walky teases Billie about hooking up with Sal after she defensively tells Joyce that she'd "sooner do his sister" than him. Days later Billie gets drunk and hits on Sal (though this becomes less funny given her obviously worsening alcoholism). An inter-continuity joke from It's Walky!. Remember Walky's initial reaction to Dorothy? It's not the first time he's thought that would work. Joyce googled what a "strap-on" was. Joyce finds one of Sarah's "toys". ''Deeeeeeeeeeeeesperado..." In the last strip of Book 7, Joyce, Dorothy, and Walky are watching Dexter and Monkey Master via laptop on top of her bunk. Come next morning... In the first storyline, when Dorothy asks Ruth for advice about Danny, Ruth tells her that she already knows she needs to break up with him, and, once she discovers how annoying Danny is, adds "Also, can I do it? Oh God, please can I do it?" Eight years later, real time, Dorothy tells Ruth she needs a moment to talk to Walky in private, and Ruth says "Goddammit, let me do it this time. You owe me."
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Sarah has some history in college. Sal practically owns this trope even though she wasn't swapped this time. Ruth has shown signs of this too if her phone conversations and crushed reaction after are any indication. Not to mention the disastrous results of her Tsundere behavior around Billie, which further suggests she may have had an abusive home life. It turns out that her parents were killed by a drunk driver, and her attempt to cure her depression by drinking ironically made her more depressed and even more of an alcoholic, and her grandfather who is now raising her and her brother is an emotionally abusive monster. Joe's parents are divorced at the very least (and he mentions that they "yell a lot" when Joyce suggests a Parent Trap Plot), though there hasn't been any elaboration yet. Amber's may be the worst, having an emotionally abusive father who beat her mother. Her parents divorced and she was left alone a lot because her mother was busy working. And at thirteen, she could only watch while Sal took Ethan hostage and held a knife to his throat. Negative effects have been shown.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_ff9e9dde	type	Once a Season
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_ff9e9dde	comment	Once a Season: Every book ends with one or more characters in their beds, having experienced some sort of change or development. Lampshaded by Willis in the alt text.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: Discussed by Ruth and Amber here. Ruth doesn't think Amber is suicidal, but might be wandering into I Am a Monster territory.
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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_fff371b4
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_name	type	ItemName
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_name	comment
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_name
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic) / int_name	itemName	Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)

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Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Above the Influence / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Accidental Truth / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Activist-Fundamentalist Antics / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Actually Pretty Funny / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Adaptation Relationship Overhaul / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Adaptational Friendship / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Adaptational Romance Downgrade / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	All Women Love Shoes / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Alliterative Family / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Alt Text / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Alternate Identity Amnesia / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Alternate Universe / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Aluminum Christmas Trees / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	American Media / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Amicable Exes / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Applied Mathematics / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Atomic F-Bomb / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Attention Deficit Creator Disorder / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Autism in Media / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Beat Panel / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	"Begone" Bribe / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Behind the Black / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Beta Couple / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Bi-Wildered / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Bilingual Backfire / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Black Sheep / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Bonus Material / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Brilliant, but Lazy / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Brits Love Tea / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Broad Strokes / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Broken Pedestal / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Canadian Equals Hockey Fan / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Chirping Crickets / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Clark Kenting / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Closet Geek / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Closet Key / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Color Failure / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Comic-Book Time / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Consistent Clothing Style / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Conspicuous Gloves / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Content Warnings / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Continuity Reboot / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Crass Canuck / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Crisis of Faith / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Cure Your Gays / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Dark Action Girl / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Date Rape Averted / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Delayed Diagnosis / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Determinator / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Diagnosed by the Audience / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Diagnosis of God / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Disabled in the Adaptation / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Disabled Love Interest / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Discredited Meme / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Dissimile / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Divine Intervention / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Do Wrong, Right / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Don't Be Ridiculous / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	DoppelgÃ¤nger Dating / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Dork in a Sweater / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Dresses the Same / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Drunk Driver / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Dumbass Has a Point / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Eat the Evidence / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Emotionally Tongue-Tied / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Engaging Conversation / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Erotic Dream / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Ethical Slut / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Every Episode Ending / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Evil Stole My Faith / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Eye Glasses / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Flipping the Table / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Framing the Guilty Party / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Friendship Denial / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Full-Name Ultimatum / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Gay Conservative / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Gayngst / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Geeky Turn-On / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Gibberish of Love / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Gilligan Cut / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Good Parents / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Halloween Episode / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hard-Drinking Party Girl / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Have a Gay Old Time / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Have I Mentioned I Am Gay? / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today? / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	He-Man Woman Hater / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Headbutting Pachy / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	"Hell, Yes!" Moment / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue" / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hero Stole My Bike / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Heroic Build / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Heroic Comedic Sociopath / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hiccup Hijinks / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hidden Heart of Gold / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	High School AU / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Holding in Laughter / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hollywood Atheist / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Homeschooled Kids / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Hurricane of Euphemisms / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	I Have This Friend / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	I Want My Beloved to Be Fashionable / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Immediate Self-Contradiction / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Impaled Palm / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Important Haircut / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Inadvertent Entrance Cue / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Incompatible Orientation / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Innocent Bigot / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Innocently Insensitive / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Insult of Endearment / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	It's Always Spring / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	It's Not Porn, It's Art / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Ivy League for Everyone / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Jerk Jock / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Judgment of Solomon / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Kavorka Man / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Kids Love Dinosaurs / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Kids Play Matchmaker / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Klingon Promotion / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lady Looks Like a Dude / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Lampshaded the Obscure Reference / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Last Het Romance / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Like Brother and Sister / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Like Goes with Like / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Limited Wardrobe / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Love Can Make You Gonk / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Loves My Alter Ego / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Loving Bully / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Low-Speed Chase / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	MRS Degree / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Making Love in All the Wrong Places / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Mathematician's Answer / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Meaningful Release Date / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Milestone Celebration / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Missing Steps Plan / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Mistaken Ethnicity / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Mistaken for Foreigner / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Mixed Ancestry / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Modesty Shorts / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Moose and Maple Syrup / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	More Insulting than Intended / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Mukokuseki / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Murder Is the Best Solution / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	My Sister Is Off-Limits / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Name McAdjective / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Never Bareheaded / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	No Antagonist / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	No Party Given / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	No Periods, Period / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	No Social Skills / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	No, You / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Non-Answer / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Not So Stoic / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Odd Friendship / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Oddly Visible Eyebrows / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	One True Love / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	One True Threesome / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Only Sane by Comparison / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Opposite-Sex Clone / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Our Nudity Is Different / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Outliving One's Offspring / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Parental Favoritism / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Pass the Popcorn / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Perplexing Plurals / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Person as Verb / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Pie in the Face / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Plain Palate / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Polar Opposite Twins / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Politically Incorrect Villain / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Preacher's Kid / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Prefers Going Barefoot / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Preserve Your Gays / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Pronouncing My Name for You / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Proud to Be a Geek / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Psmith Psyndrome / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Purely Aesthetic Glasses / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Queer Colors / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Quirky Ukulele / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Rant-Inducing Slight / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Real Name as an Alias / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Rebel Relaxation / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Recursive Canon / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Related in the Adaptation / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Rescue Romance / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Rollerblade Good / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Romantic Rain / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Rube Goldberg Device / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sad Clown / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Safety in Indifference / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Satellite Love Interest / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Schedule Fanatic / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	School Grade Hacking / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	School Stories / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Screw the Money, I Have Rules! / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Secret-Identity Identity / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Secret Identity Vocal Shift / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Secret Relationship / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sex in a Shared Room / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sexiled / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sexiness Score / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sextra Credit / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Shipper with an Agenda / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Shipping Torpedo / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Shock Value Relationship / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Shower Shy / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Shrug of God / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Shy Finger-Twiddling / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sibling Rivalry / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sickbed Slaying / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Significant Green-Eyed Redhead / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Silent Snarker / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids! / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sitting on the Roof / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sleeps in the Nude / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	So Proud of You / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Soapbox Sadie / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sobriquet Sex Switch / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Soulless Bedroom / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Spared by the Adaptation / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Spit Take / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Split Personality / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Stealing the Handicapped Spot / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Strawman U / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sudden Eye Colour / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Suggestive Collision / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Suicide by Pills / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Superheroes Wear Capes / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Teacher/Student Romance / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Aggressive Drug Dealer / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Artifact / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Four Loves / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Moral Substitute / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Nicknamer / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Pastor's Queer Kid / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Slacker / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	The Watson / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Their First Time / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Think Unsexy Thoughts / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	This Is My Side / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	This Is the Part Where... / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Time Skip / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Token Religious Teammate / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Too Kinky to Torture / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Trolling Creator / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Two-Person Love Triangle / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Ultimate Universe / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Unequal Pairing / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Unrelated in the Adaptation / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Unsound Effect / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Unwanted Glasses Plot / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Virginity Makes You Stupid / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wasn't That Fun? / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Weakness Turns Her On / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Weapon for Intimidation / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Web First / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Webcomic Print Collection / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Webcomics of the 2010s / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	When I Was Your Age... / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	You Are Fat / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	You Can't Go Home Again / int_40b310c3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	You Just Told Me / int_d2ef54a3
DumbingOfAge	sameAs	Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)
DumbingofAge	sameAs	Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Cool People Rebel Against Authority / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	I Will Tear Your Arms Off / int_d2ef54a3
Dumbing of Age (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Parenting the Husband / int_d2ef54a3

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