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Middle Ground (Webcomic)

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Middle Ground is a 2015 webcomic series created by AnimatedJames. In the Middle Ground universe, humans can either be Grounds—who can speak to animals, or Clouds—who can see into the future.The series began as a flash comic on DeviantArt and Newgrounds, then continued as regular comics from July 2015 to October 2015 on Tumblr.
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My Parents Are Dead
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My Parents Are Dead: Marker. She doesn't articulate it, but the implications are clear when she makes an uncomfortable face after Carter asks why her parents cannot help her find a new job.
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Color-Coded Eyes: The main characters. Carter with green eyes, Marker with blue eyes, Myth with yellow eyes, and Ulys with red eyes.
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Combat Pragmatist
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Combat Pragmatist: Carter, when he makes a spontaneous move to slam hot sauce into a man's face during a fight.
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Animal Talk
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Animal Talk: Ulys—a rabbit—is briefly shown talking to a cockroach, but aside from Grounds (whose entire superpower is communicating with animals), humans cannot understand animals.
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Fetishes Are Weird
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Fetishes Are Weird: Subverted. "Myth's Future" opens up with Myth envisioning her future as a famous filmmaker. Her agent Ferris sounds pleasantly surprised at how her career wasn't ruined when she publicly admitted her sexual attraction to period blood.
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This Is Reality
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This Is Reality: Marker suggests that since humans can talk to animals and see the future, there's a possibility that they could also perform telekinesis, read minds, and time travel.
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You Make Me Sick
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You Make Me Sick: The man at the restaurant who overhears Carter's tendency to pay with hard labor instead of money.
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Who's on First?
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Who's on First?: The dialogue that ensues when Ulysses initially asks to be called "U" for short. He then settles with "Ulys."
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Overly Long Gag
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Overly Long Gag:
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Meta Fiction
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Meta Fiction: As with James' most well-known original web series, CStudents, Middle Ground includes countless examples of Fourth Wall jokes and Anti-Humor.
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Written Sound Effect: When Ulys gives the aggressive dining patron a final kick to the skull.
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Take That!
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Take That!: In "Movie-Goer-Awayer", Carter suggested "The Pixelated Four," a clear reference to the 2015 film Pixels that was released about a month before this comic.
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Everyone Is a Super
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Everyone Is a Super: Every human is either a Ground or a Cloud.
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A Bloody Mess
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A Bloody Mess: At a diner, Carter gets into a physical fight with an aggressive patron who overheard his plans to pay for food with labor rather than currency. During this fight, Carter slams hot sauce into the man’s face.
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Seers
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Seers: Clouds. They can see into the future, and to varying degrees; Near Clouds can see events moments into the future, while Far Clouds can see events weeks, months, or years before they happen.
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: After Marker quits in anticipation of getting fired:
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: Ulys calls it a "dick move" for Carter to simply walk away when Marker implies her parents are dead.
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Sex for Services
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Sex for Services: Subverted in "Carter Talks Dirty", opens with a woman thanking Carter for helping her move in. She offers to repay him with sex. Carter responds with a tangent about how sex is "more of a job than a reward" to him, to which the woman gets frustrated and eventually kicks him out.
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Carter immediately after Marker implies that her parents are dead.
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Magic Realism
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Magic Realism: Humans can either talk to animals or see into the future, which, in this universe, is nothing out of the ordinary. While Marker appreciates the fact that humans have these powers, Carter’s response suggests that these are mundane abilities and not indicative of other superpowers, like telekinesis or mindreading.
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Speaks Fluent Animal
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Speaks Fluent Animal: Grounds. They can converse with animals of every kind.
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Diner Brawl
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Diner Brawl: The fight between Carter and the man who overheard his plans to pay with labor rather than currency.
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