| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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GeneralProtectionFault |
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General Protection Fault is a long-running webcomic by Jeffery T. Darlington. At its core it's about the workplace hijinks of the staff of GPF Software as they deal with clients, internal strife, would-be world conquerors, alternate dimensions, mad science, and spies.And that's not including the internal conflicts between the main characters: Nick Wellington: The strip's main character. Lead Programmer, Geek's Geek, Mad Scientist Ki Oshiro-Wellington: Chief DBA, Action Girl, Gamer Chick, Nick's long-time girlfriend and wife. Jason "Fooker" Barker: Systems Administrator. Slacker, not-so-secretly a government agent Sharon Murphy: Fooker's girlfriend and co-sys admin Trudy Trueheart: Marketing Director, Stepford Smiler, former would-be world conqueror, The Atoner Dwayne Duncan: The Boss, software engineer, Straight Man Dexter Smith: Coder, The Big Guy Fred & Persephone: Sapient slime molds spawned from Fooker's garbage. For a long time, GPF's customer service operators.The strip mixes geek humor with sci-fi elements (and occasional dips into the Cerebus Syndrome pool). A by-the-storyline index is available here. |
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2023-11-10T03:47:22Z |
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2023-11-10T03:47:22Z |
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Dropped link to TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951: Not a Feature - ITEM |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
processingComment |
Dropped link to TheLordOfTheRings: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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DBTropes |
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No Accounting for Taste |
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comment |
No Accounting for Taste: Sharon dating both Fooker and Dexter. |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_12040009 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_130436b9 |
type |
Annoying Younger Sibling |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_130436b9 |
comment |
Annoying Younger Sibling: Ki's brother, Yoshi. It's implied that this is true of Lori, but she and Nick are never shown interacting. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_130436b9 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_130436b9 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_13eea985 |
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Arbitrary Skepticism |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_13eea985 |
comment |
Arbitrary Skepticism: The greys believe alternate universes are impossible, even when the cast says point blank they've been to one. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_13eea985 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_13eea985 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_17b72e30 |
type |
Continuity Porn |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_17b72e30 |
comment |
Continuity Porn: Oh so much. The best example that even drags in very early events : Trent dropping a safe on Dwayne, and getting convicted for murder for it ends up biting him in the ass very hard, when trying to sue Fred for libel over claims that he is a murderer. Too bad, since he got convicted, this gets to stick. Even poor Chuck does NOT get chucked away, 15 years down the road, Trudy still remembers him. |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_17b72e30 |
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LongLostSibling |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_1c662a5d |
comment |
Long Lost Siblings: Trudy and Sharon. |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_1c662a5d |
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Cruel and Unusual Death |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Chuck. |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_1e584efa |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_1f9bddfb |
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Plug 'n' Play Technology |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_1f9bddfb |
comment |
Plug 'n' Play Technology: While the Grays say their system is largely incompatible with Earth computers and that a software interface would be incredibly complex (with their programming language and architectures in Base 3 because it accounts for quantum calculations), Fooker is tasked with setting one up. He succeeds. |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_1f9bddfb |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_24321e44 |
type |
Only Sane Man |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_24321e44 |
comment |
Only Sane Man: Dwayne. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_24321e44 |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_24321e44 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_2764d432 |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_2764d432 |
comment |
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Trudy is exceptionally polite and good natured around most people besides Ki and Fooker. Trish, or rather, Nega-Trish. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_2764d432 |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_2764d432 |
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type |
Bald of Evil |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_28114487 |
comment |
Bald of Evil: F**k*r, much to the annoyance of his prime counterpart. |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_28114487 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_297ab1b9 |
type |
Parental Abandonment |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_297ab1b9 |
comment |
Parental Abandonment: Fooker and Justin's mother is dead, and their father left them years ago. |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_297ab1b9 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_2bfb1856 |
type |
Beard of Evil |
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comment |
Beard of Evil: The nega-verse counterparts of Nick and Dwayne, based on the facial hair they wore in the Surreptitious Machinations arc before they were persuaded to shave it at the end. |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_2bfb1856 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_2dc0d2bf |
type |
Hidden Depths |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_2dc0d2bf |
comment |
Hidden Depths: Dexter. |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_2dc0d2bf |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_31da1e24 |
type |
Shipper on Deck |
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comment |
Shipper on Deck: Fooker for Nick and Ki, being the only one who knows first-hand that they're in love with each other. When a sci-fi convention comes to town, he drives them there in his car that's reduced to only two seats so that Ki has to sit on Nick's lap. It's also heavily implied that the events that land the two in a single-bed motel room later the same day were arranged by Fooker, too. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_31da1e24 |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_31da1e24 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_33fa230b |
type |
Your Princess Is in Another Castle! |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_33fa230b |
comment |
Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: After the GPF/UGA/resistance team captures Emperor Nicholas and his inner circle and frees Nick, the Grays' enemies attack. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_33fa230b |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_33fa230b |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_34dcfc96 |
type |
Kick the Dog |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_34dcfc96 |
comment |
Kick the Dog: One of our earliest hints that Trudy is more than just a StepfordSmiler ditz. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_34dcfc96 |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_34dcfc96 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3517000d |
type |
Mad Scientist |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3517000d |
comment |
Mad Scientist: Nick, his uncle Otto Wisebottom. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3517000d |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3517000d |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_355007c3 |
type |
Brilliant, but Lazy |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_355007c3 |
comment |
Brilliant, but Lazy: Fooker is able to do all his work for the day in only a fraction of the time, and spends the rest goofing off. |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_355007c3 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_37690091 |
type |
Stable Time Loop |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_37690091 |
comment |
Stable Time Loop: Stopping one was Todd's ultimate objective in Surreptitious Machinations. |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_37690091 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3b2df269 |
type |
Ripple Effect Indicator |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3b2df269 |
comment |
Ripple Effect Indicator: Todd uses himself. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3b2df269 |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3b2df269 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3c0a4666 |
type |
Noodle Incident |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3c0a4666 |
comment |
Noodle Incident: In this strip, one of the characters refers to the "noodle cube incident". note (They are currently living on a grey spaceship, and all their meals come in the form of variously-flavored cubes.) |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3c0a4666 |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3c0a4666 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3ec468b8 |
type |
Online Alias |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3ec468b8 |
comment |
Online Alias: Nick and Ki find chat partners named Pookel and Gort, respectively, whom they both discover to be soulmates. It turns out much later that Nick has been Gort, and Ki has been Pookel all along. Yoshi goes by the online handle B0R0M1R. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3ec468b8 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3ec468b8 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3ed17fe0 |
type |
Wide-Eyed Idealist |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3ed17fe0 |
comment |
Wide-Eyed Idealist: Nick. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3ed17fe0 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3ed17fe0 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_3ed17fe0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_42008602 |
type |
Story Arc |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_42008602 |
comment |
Story Arc: Initially, Jeffrey Darlington wanted to do major story arcs every four years. Of course, the second one ended up dragging because of health issues with his first child, so the timing of story arcs is looser. The first one, Surreptitious Machinations, was a year-long arc in November 2001-October 2002 The second one, To Thine Own Self, ended up taking two and a half years, November 2005-March 2008. The third one, Scylla and Charybdis, took place in November 2013-October 2015. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_42008602 |
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| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_42008602 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_44fc28e8 |
type |
Honor Before Reason |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_44fc28e8 |
comment |
Honor Before Reason: At a point where the last vestiges of humanity were completely reliant on the Greys, Nick actively supports individualism in the Greys, un-revising Plank and quietly supporting a mutiny on their ship. It arguably even crossed into Stupid Good, as Nick risked the fate of the entire planet on the Grey's patience and that they would not withdraw their support despite supporting serious crimes. |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_44fc28e8 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_45da2076 |
type |
Improbably High I.Q. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_45da2076 |
comment |
Improbably High I.Q.: Yoshi has an IQ of over 200. Fred is an aversion, since his IQ is quite high at 139, he had hoped for 70 more points. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_45da2076 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_45da2076 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_46cf13c9 |
type |
Kid from the Future |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_46cf13c9 |
comment |
Kid from the Future: Todd (Nick and Ki's kid from an alternate timeline) |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_46cf13c9 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_46cf13c9 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_46cf13c9 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 |
type |
You Have Failed Me |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 |
comment |
Nega-Nick executes Nega-Trish for her failure. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 |
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1.0 |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_4e690511 |
type |
The Alleged Computer |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_4e690511 |
comment |
The Alleged Computer: The secret organization of the Brotherhood of the Twisted Pair seek a geek "like none other, whose skills are without equal. He (or she) will initiate a golden age of geekdom, and lead a revolution of ideas that will revolutionize the computerized world." One of the tests is averting this trope with out-of-date machinery. Fooker passed by building a server out of computer equipment made in the late 1980s, when said components were at least a decade out of date. Sharon passed by writing down what you'd have to do in order to pull off a similar feat, using 20-year-old equipment. Yoshi passed by having the computer equipment a college kid could buy on a budget confiscated by the FBI, because of what he did with it. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_4e690511 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_4e690511 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_4ef92d0b |
type |
The Atoner |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_4ef92d0b |
comment |
The Atoner: Trudy. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_4ef92d0b |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_4ef92d0b |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_4ef92d0b |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_4f84cdef |
type |
Smug Snake |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_4f84cdef |
comment |
Smug Snake: Trent. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_4f84cdef |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_4f84cdef |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_4f84cdef |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_506143c1 |
type |
Fisher Kingdom |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_506143c1 |
comment |
Fisher Kingdom: The characters change appearance when changing universes. Lampshaded here. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_506143c1 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_506143c1 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_506143c1 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_55473bc9 |
type |
CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_55473bc9 |
comment |
CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Nick nearly drowns in a flood arc in 2001, and Ki gives him CPR. Although "just fine" initially, he does end up sick, slightly subverting the trope. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_55473bc9 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_55473bc9 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_55473bc9 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_58626d87 |
type |
Genius Ditz |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_58626d87 |
comment |
Genius Ditz: Fooker. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_58626d87 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_58626d87 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_58626d87 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_5b47f992 |
type |
Monochromatic Eyes |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_5b47f992 |
comment |
Monochromatic Eyes: Done universally among the characters except when it's Eyes Always Shut for the character. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_5b47f992 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_5b47f992 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_5b47f992 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_5fcedca |
type |
Big Eater |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_5fcedca |
comment |
Big Eater: Fooker, who has gotten banned from a few all-you-can-eat pizza places. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_5fcedca |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_5fcedca |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_5fcedca |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6382334a |
type |
Converse with the Unconscious |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6382334a |
comment |
Converse with the Unconscious: Patty confessing to the unconscious Dexter why she was leaving GPF. He turns out to have been awake for at least some of it. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6382334a |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6382334a |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6382334a |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6774150c |
type |
If I Can't Have You… |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6774150c |
comment |
If I Can't Have You…: Trudy to Nick, word for word, at the climax of Surreptitious Machinations arc. Also the whole point of Surreptitious Machinations, as Empress Trudy killed Nick in the alternate future. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6774150c |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6774150c |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6cc39b20 |
type |
Puppeteer Parasite |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6cc39b20 |
comment |
Puppeteer Parasite: Fred & Persephone. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6cc39b20 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6cc39b20 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6cc39b20 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6e92a631 |
type |
Four-Fingered Hands |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6e92a631 |
comment |
Four-Fingered Hands: Lampshaded in this strip. Ironically, this strip has an alien stating that humans use a base-10 numbering system because of their "manual digits", while clearly showing that Fooker has only four fingers to a hand. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6e92a631 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6e92a631 |
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1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6e92a631 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6f66bef7 |
type |
But Not Too Foreign |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6f66bef7 |
comment |
But Not Too Foreign: Ki and Yoshi, who have a Chinese mother and Japanese father. Ki's mother won a bet and got to give her a Chinese name, but Ki's father still commonly calls her "Kyoko-san". |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6f66bef7 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6f66bef7 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_6f66bef7 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_71687bca |
type |
Stalker with a Test Tube |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_71687bca |
comment |
Stalker with a Test Tube: The Brotherhood Of The Twisted Pair want Fooker and Sharon to get busy conceiving "The One". |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_71687bca |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_71687bca |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
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General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_71687bca |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7451e686 |
type |
It Came from the Fridge |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7451e686 |
comment |
It Came from the Fridge: Fred came about as a result of Fooker's horrible "housekeeping", and later produced Persephone. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7451e686 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7451e686 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7451e686 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_786bf97f |
type |
Real Life Writes the Plot |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_786bf97f |
comment |
Real Life Writes the Plot: The Year Eight mega-arc, "To Thine Own Self...", received major interruptions due to health issues with Darlington's then-newborn son. The arc drew out nearly two years, and even then was greatly curtailed. It was probably because of this that there was no Year 12 mega-arc, though Year 12 did get two multi-month-long arcs. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_786bf97f |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_786bf97f |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_786bf97f |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7881f335 |
type |
Chekhov's Armoury |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7881f335 |
comment |
Chekhov's Armoury: Quite a lot of Chekhov's Gun. The Skaboola's love for porn displayed very early on, which caused him to backup the whole Internet on data cubes. The very same data cubes which might be instrumental in giving the MuTEX data it needs, and more recently reviving Planck's memories. The "Friend Field" application, and its "blorp" notification sound. This ends up saving the day when the separated GPF cast can reach each other through their cell phones. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7881f335 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7881f335 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7881f335 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7febc23b |
type |
Establishing Character Moment |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7febc23b |
comment |
Establishing Character Moment: After putting up a sickeningly sweet facade around Dwayne, Trudy shakes hands with Ki, who is not one of the people Trudy wants to fool. Ki asks if she just shook hands with the devil and Trudy responds that she has that effect on "inferior life forms." Shortly thereafter, she has a literal Kick the Dog moment. Nega-Nick executes Nega-Trish for her failure. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7febc23b |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7febc23b |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_7febc23b |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8042e814 |
type |
Actually Pretty Funny |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8042e814 |
comment |
Actually Pretty Funny: An early comic has Nick warning Fooker about telling racy jokes in the workplace in case someone takes offense. Fooker goes to check with Ki. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8042e814 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8042e814 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8042e814 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_80a1d98f |
type |
Missed the Call |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_80a1d98f |
comment |
Missed the Call: The spy agency Fooker works for was originally looking to recruit his brother (said brother does eventually land a spot in said agency). |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_80a1d98f |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_80a1d98f |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_80a1d98f |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_83a903f6 |
type |
Stepford Smiler |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_83a903f6 |
comment |
Stepford Smiler: Trudy. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_83a903f6 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_83a903f6 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_83a903f6 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8430699a |
type |
Alternate Universe |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8430699a |
comment |
Alternate Universe: One ruled by Nick's Evil Counterpart |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8430699a |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8430699a |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8430699a |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_89283763 |
type |
Insatiable Newlyweds |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_89283763 |
comment |
Insatiable Newlyweds: Nick and Ki. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_89283763 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_89283763 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_89283763 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8d9c8569 |
type |
Deep-Immersion Gaming |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8d9c8569 |
comment |
Deep-Immersion Gaming: One of the Mutex's capabilities. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8d9c8569 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8d9c8569 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8d9c8569 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8e20979 |
type |
Wham Episode |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8e20979 |
comment |
Wham Episode: The "Infinity Nick" arc. This comic has Gamester finally clue in Nick as to what he has been doing this whole time. It hurts. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8e20979 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8e20979 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_8e20979 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_93ed8515 |
type |
Set Right What Once Went Wrong |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_93ed8515 |
comment |
Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The objective of Surreptitious Machinations appears to be this, but Todd points out in his confrontation with the Empress that the Bad Future was never meant to happen, and could only have happened with the interference of Future Trudy, who would not have existed otherwise. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_93ed8515 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_93ed8515 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_93ed8515 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_948642c9 |
type |
The Short Guy with Glasses |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_948642c9 |
comment |
The Short Guy with Glasses: Nick. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_948642c9 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_948642c9 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_948642c9 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_97d97c28 |
type |
Revenge Before Reason |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_97d97c28 |
comment |
Revenge Before Reason: Victor Brown is turning into this, because of his inability to handle the whole situation and what Nick did, leaving him only with the result of being stranded in space, with the Earth impossible to find. It culminates with him acting on his threat of getting Nick Thrown Out the Airlock. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_97d97c28 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_97d97c28 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_97d97c28 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_98e87f7 |
type |
Sinister Silhouettes |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_98e87f7 |
comment |
Sinister Silhouettes: A popular choice to mask the bad guy for a few strips. Compare a mismatched silhouette, with a rather obvious one. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_98e87f7 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_98e87f7 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_98e87f7 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_99301367 |
type |
Trust-Building Blunder |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_99301367 |
comment |
Trust-Building Blunder: Dwayne's decision to take several computer nerds on a team-building hike. He, being more of a businessman than a nerd, underestimates how badly suited his employees would be to it. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_99301367 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_99301367 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_99301367 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1 |
type |
Foreshadowing |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1 |
comment |
Foreshadowing: This comic is very good at it. Dropping hints of plot lines that will be acted upon years down the road. Socrates' presence in the Bad Future, hinting at the existence of more slime molds than just Fred and Persephone. Fred's mind control ability, hinting at something far bigger. The Negaverse's war between the Greys and the Physarics foreshadows what could go down in the main universe, and also re-introduces Planck and Pi. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_9d12bbc1 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_9ee7ff42 |
type |
No Conservation of Energy |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_9ee7ff42 |
comment |
No Conservation of Energy: Played with. Everyone, including Nick himself, has a firm grasp on physics, and understand that Nick's device can't possibly be such a thing as a "free energy device", while accepting at face value that it does things that should otherwise be impossible. Ultimately revealed to be averted when the Gamester explains it all to Nick. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_9ee7ff42 |
featureApplicability |
-1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_9ee7ff42 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_9ee7ff42 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a220d528 |
type |
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a220d528 |
comment |
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Asked in last panel of this strip. Makes a comeback in this strip. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a220d528 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a220d528 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a220d528 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a3509d95 |
type |
The Password Is Always "Swordfish" |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a3509d95 |
comment |
The Password Is Always "Swordfish": The password to the computers at a chocolate center is "Creamy Center." |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a3509d95 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a3509d95 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a3509d95 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a7aef9ff |
type |
Obfuscating Stupidity |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a7aef9ff |
comment |
Obfuscating Stupidity: Trudy's supposed hippie father is an FBI agent investigating her mother's criminal activities. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a7aef9ff |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a7aef9ff |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a7aef9ff |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a94eaaa4 |
type |
Odd Friendship |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a94eaaa4 |
comment |
Odd Friendship: Ki and Fooker. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a94eaaa4 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a94eaaa4 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a94eaaa4 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a9de87d2 |
type |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a9de87d2 |
comment |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Fooker. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a9de87d2 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a9de87d2 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_a9de87d2 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_aa0ed8a9 |
type |
Look Both Ways |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_aa0ed8a9 |
comment |
Look Both Ways: "Misty" doesn't. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_aa0ed8a9 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_aa0ed8a9 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_aa0ed8a9 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_aaece264 |
type |
Rousing Speech |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_aaece264 |
comment |
Rousing Speech: Planck does one to the Grays in the Nega-verse, largely as a Shout-Out to Braveheart. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_aaece264 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_aaece264 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_aaece264 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ac36578e |
type |
Or Was It a Dream? |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ac36578e |
comment |
Or Was It a Dream?: The arc in which Nick and Ki first see Fooker as a secret agent. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ac36578e |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ac36578e |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ac36578e |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ac448642 |
type |
Let's Wait Awhile |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ac448642 |
comment |
Lets Wait Awhile: Nick and Ki deciding to put off sex until marriage. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ac448642 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ac448642 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ac448642 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_b6cc7fc0 |
type |
Dysfunctional Family |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_b6cc7fc0 |
comment |
Dysfunctional Family: Trudy's family. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_b6cc7fc0 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_b6cc7fc0 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_b6cc7fc0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_b707726f |
type |
Hypocritical Humor |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_b707726f |
comment |
Hypocritical Humor: Fooker tells Sharon to ignore her rival system administrators, but after they insult him, he tosses snowballs at them. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_b707726f |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_b707726f |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_b707726f |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ba3454a7 |
type |
Future Me Scares Me |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ba3454a7 |
comment |
Future Me Scares Me: Trudy, after meeting Surreptitious Machinations' Empress Trudy. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ba3454a7 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ba3454a7 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_ba3454a7 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_bec0417c |
type |
Happily Married |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_bec0417c |
comment |
Happily Married: Dwayne and his wife. Ki and Nick (so far). |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_bec0417c |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_bec0417c |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_bec0417c |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_bf927e82 |
type |
Non-Human Sidekick |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_bf927e82 |
comment |
Non-Human Sidekick: Fred and Persephone. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_bf927e82 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_bf927e82 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_bf927e82 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_c213d569 |
type |
Snowball Fight |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_c213d569 |
comment |
Snowball Fight: One breaks out when a few system administrators attack Sharon. |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_c213d569 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_c213d569 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_c213d569 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_c25c7890 |
type |
Fun with Acronyms |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_c25c7890 |
comment |
Fun with Acronyms: C.R.U.D.E. Nicole belongs to a law firm whose partners' first initials spell "S.U.E. E.M." During his attempts to find a lawyer to sue Fred for libel, Trent visits two firms whose names spell "S.U.C.K.E.R." and "D.E.A.D." |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_c25c7890 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_c25c7890 |
featureConfidence |
1.0 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) |
hasFeature |
General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_c25c7890 |
| | General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_c335b9ec |
type |
Irony |
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Irony: In this strip, Nick, regretting having trusted Trudy in addition to noticing a few flaws in Trish's story, decides not to trust Trish. At the same time, Ki, wondering if Nick's trusting nature might not be a bad thing and if she is too untrusting, decides to trust Trish. |
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type |
Horrible Judge of Character |
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comment |
Horrible Judge of Character: Nick trusts Trudy when most of the rest of the cast does not, but after realizing her true nature, decides to be less blindly trusting. Mr. Jones, one of GPF's clients, thinks that Fooker would be a good choice of a motivational speaker despite his Bunny-Ears Lawyer traits, thinks that Trudy was a good person who "fell in with the wrong crowd," and has a favorable impression of Trent. |
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Strong Family Resemblance |
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Strong Family Resemblance: Nick and his father have very similar hair. |
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type |
Shout-Out |
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comment |
Shout-Out: In the climactic battle of Surreptitious Machinations, the news team reporting is WPET, with humans who are analogous to the dogs of KPET in Newshounds. As mentioned above, Planck's Rousing Speech in To Thine Own Self is a Shout-Out to Braveheart. The "old abandoned junkyard" has a sign saying "Foreman's Junk and Salvage". The first universe they visit when searching for Earth is based on Krazy Kat, with Nick becoming Ignatz, Trish Krazy, Fooker Officer Bull Pupp and Patty the brick. They later visit a universe based on The Legend of Zelda, with Trish as Zelda, Patty as Navi, Dexter as Goron and newbie Chris as Link. The queue at Nerdvana has characters from several other webcomics, including User Friendly and Sluggy Freelance. On Nick's first day at JCN, he finds himself turning into Dilbert. At Fooker and Sharon's wedding, the Grand Skaboola uses the "Since the days of the first wooden vessels" wedding ceremony from multiple episodes of Star Trek. |
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Leet Lingo |
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comment |
Leet Lingo: Yoshi's Online Alias B0R0M1R. |
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Einstein Hair |
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comment |
Einstein Hair: Uncle Otto. |
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type |
Cerebus Syndrome |
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comment |
Cerebus Syndrome: The comic has more serious storylines in the third year, and Surreptitious Machinations was the first with a truly dark tone GPF burns down and goes out of business, Fooker gets framed for murder, Nick takes a job away from Ki, and in the alternate future, Trudy takes over the world and the rest of the cast gets killed. This can be to an extent credited as the trope namer, as it was in a post about GPF that Burns coined the term. Of course, this post was about how GPF was an example of this trope gone horribly wrong. |
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type |
Lock and Load |
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comment |
Lock and Load: Nick and Ki are visiting the former's family. Nick's father turns out to be a cop and when he shows off his new service sidearm to his son, Nick —who is otherwise a stereotypical nerd— goes through this routine before checking the sights and commenting "Nice...". Ki is somewhat intimidated. Apparently, growing up in a house with guns taught even Nick how to handle them. |
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type |
Acquainted in Real Life |
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comment |
Acquainted in Real Life: Both Nick and Ki find not only friends, but soulmates in an online chat. They can talk to them about everything, especially about their unknowingly mutual crush. Both their friends even live in their hometown. What they never even suspect, though: Ki's friend Gort is Nick, and Nick's friend Pookel is Ki (who has named herself after her childhood teddy bear). Even when they want to watch Attack of the Clones with their chat friends, and they meet in front of the cinema and wait for Gort and Pookel in vain, they don't take into consideration that both Gort and Pookel may in fact already be there. That is, if they did, it would make things a whole lot easier for them because they'd realize that they've actually confessed their mutual crush to each other but a whole lot less interesting for the reader. |
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type |
Yamato Nadeshiko |
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comment |
Yamato Nadeshiko: Ki's mother, up to and including making her husband sleep on the couch. |
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type |
Mirror Self |
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comment |
Mirror Self: The negaverse plotline has the main characters interact with their opposite selves. Trudy is an exception as she redeemed herself while the counterpart remained good (but almost sliding to the dark side.) There was also an arrangement to have Trudy switch places. (The swap was negated by the other Trudy sending the original back home by swapping a pin.) |
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type |
Virtual-Reality Interrogation |
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comment |
Virtual-Reality Interrogation: Nick is subject to one, which, helped by sleep deprivation, is intended to convince him to divulge how to make Project Velociraptor. Unfortunately, Ki's counterpart makes a few mistakes and he sees through it. |
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type |
Cat Fight |
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comment |
Cat Fight: Ki and Trudy during the battle of New York. Also, Ki and Sharon when they're arguing about a project they're both working on. |
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type |
Bad Future |
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comment |
Socrates' presence in the Bad Future, hinting at the existence of more slime molds than just Fred and Persephone. |
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type |
Giggling Villain |
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comment |
Giggling Villain: Trudy. |
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type |
Fan Convention |
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comment |
Fan Convention: There's a sci-fi convention which Fooker uses in a Fooker-esquely weird and elaborate attempt to get Nick and Ki together. |
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type |
Going Commando |
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comment |
Going Commando: Ki stopped wearing skirts or dresses in her college days. She greatly embarrassed herself when she tripped and fell in a short summer dress, but that was mostly because she didn't wear panties. |
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type |
Hate Sink |
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comment |
Hate Sink: Victor Brown is slowly but certainly evolving in this, losing any whatsoever redeeming qualities. First, it would be easy to empathize with his plight of being dragged screaming into an intergalactic war with his family as hostages, and made into a puppet, then forced to watch as the whole planet is seemingly destroyed and the human race down to a hundred specimens, and regard his irrational hatred of Nick as a coping mechanism. But then it becomes harder to forgive the escalation in his behavior: first he refuses to take part in the search effort, then he outright sabotages the MuTEX because he is convinced that it's all fake and they're doomed anyways, running the risk of stranding a crew in another dimension, and it all comes to a climax as he tries to make good on his initial threat and shove Nick out of an airlock, and when called upon it by Trudy, his best answer is to use the B-word and say it's none of her business. |
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type |
Suspiciously Specific Denial |
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comment |
Suspiciously Specific Denial: Nick, regarding his offer for JCN. He's so shaken up he even denies it when he isn't even being directly asked about it. |
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type |
Blue-and-Orange Morality |
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comment |
Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Grey culture is based on the power of the collective. Individual drones are not only not valued, but are routinely "revised" and mind-wiped. This gets Nick and Ki into major trouble as they try to retrieve an old version of Plank, potentially souring their relationship with the Grey High Command, whom humanity is completely reliant on for survival at the moment. |
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type |
Crossover |
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comment |
Crossover: Most notably with Kevin & Kell |
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type |
Redemption Equals Death |
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comment |
Redemption Equals Death: Chuck, Nega-Ki. Averted with Trudy. |
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type |
Devil in Plain Sight |
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comment |
Devil in Plain Sight: Trudy. |
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type |
Running Gag |
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comment |
Running Gag: Early on, whenever Fooker and Ki bring up the idea that Trudy is evil, Nick doesn't believe them, noting "She gave me a nice card." |
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type |
Team Dad |
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comment |
Team Dad: Dwayne. |
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type |
Wouldn't Hit a Girl |
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comment |
Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Fooker complains that "It's not fair. Guys should be allowed to hit girls in self defense," after recalling when Ki beat him up in their first meeting for making sexist remarks. |
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type |
Brick Joke |
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comment |
Brick Joke: This strip contains a throwaway joke about Planck being vice-president of Fred's fan club. More than three years later, we meet the other members of the club. |
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type |
Dark and Troubled Past |
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comment |
Dark and Troubled Past: Hinted at for Trudy and Sharon. |
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