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Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)
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Sluggy Freelance by Pete Abrams is one of the longest-running (since August 25th, 1997) and most popular Webcomics out there. It mostly revolves around the doings of a core cast, which conveniently form a Five-Man Band plus two cute talking animals.In its time, it has shifted from being a simple gag comic with rather short arcs to a complex tragicomic tale of friends living in a mad world mixing elements from just about every genre, trying to find fulfilling lives in it, and occasionally heroically and/or humorously saving it. It has helped create or popularize a ton of webcomic tropes, and it repeatedly hangs lampshades over every single trope it uses, and subverts a few dozen more.Since it has been publishing mostly daily since 1997, there is quite a bit of material to digest, but its continued popularity has never been questioned, even by those who don't make it a daily read. However, it can be a prime source of Archive Panic for newcomers, so much so that even long-time fans can be a bit intimidated by the idea of an Archive Trawl. For new readers, it's probably best to start at the beginning and ignore the current arc until/unless you actually get there.As the comic's 20th anniversary on August 25th, 2017 approached, Pete announced that he would try to wrap up most ongoing storylines by around then and would not continue doing the comic in its current form. As it turned out, the webcomic did continue, but with a less frequent and regular posting schedule, as well as a new site layout and a new version of the optional paid subscription system.This comic has a character sheet. | |
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Aliens Speaking English | |
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Aliens Speaking English: Many interdimensional denizens (including humans from the Dimension of Lame, Demons from the Dimension of Pain, and Punyverse people) are English speakers. This is justified in the case of closely parallel dimensions and unexplained in other cases. Then again, one closely parallel dimension differs in the locals speaking Portuguese. Lampshaded or potentially a plot point in the anima arc, where Gwynn finds it odd that everyone speaks English despite so many other things being so different about the dimension they're in, while Riff says that's probably just how parallel dimensions work. Aylee's species and the "mutagenic spore aliens" can also speak English, in both cases justified by their different assimilating tactics of invasion. | |
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Stereotype Flip | |
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Stereotype Flip: Non-ethic, non-gender example Played for Laughs and Lamp Shaded. Women Are Wiser Mom and Bratty Teenage Daughter roles are swapped in this comic. Mom finishes with a Wangsty shout and an angry door slam. | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology: Aylee's species is said on their introduction (in a throwaway Alien parody) to have "concentrated orange juice for blood". Aylee also has this opinion of humans early on, thinking our need to sleep and breathe was weird. | |
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Non-Residential Residence | |
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Non-Residential Residence: The protagonists' home base during the Research and Development Wars is a "functioning showroom" Torg serendipitously found in the middle of an otherwise normal Björkea Swedish furniture super store. It's hard for anyone to navigate to or from it because the color line that would guide shoppers through it is twisted into a Möbius strip. | |
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Snowy Screen of Death | |
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Snowy Screen of Death: In this strip. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: There was at one point, a meme on the forum where certain characters were called Not Allowed to Die; when one of these characters was Killed Off for Real during a parody arc, the list was narrowed down to the main characters. Then even some of them... Dead? Alive? Only Mostly Dead? Fate Worse than Death? It got almost to the point of Zig-Zagged Trope. The entire purpose of the K I T T E N arcs was to kill off some recurring characters. Red Shirt and Mauve Shirt characters aren't immune to this. Characters can survive a long time then suddenly be killed with little to no warning. Even main characters aren't immune to death, though they are much more likely to come Back from the Dead. Yet other characters can disappear or die only to later be replaced by an alternate universe of themselves. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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A No Celebrities Were Harmed version of the real Roomba (Riff's "Vroomba") appeared around the time it was big in the media, but fell victim to A.I. Is a Crapshoot. | |
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Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate | |
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Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate: Fate does indeed exist as an actual force that makes the world go down a certain path. The Web of Fate was created by the God of Time. It defines a set of rules and guides the world down a certain path by subtly manipulating events, to prevent the world from being destroyed prematurely. However, some beings, such as Oasis and dinosaurs are Immune to Fate. Magic in particular is extremely disruptive to its functioning, and can potentially cause The End of the World as We Know It by summoning the God of Destruction. | |
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Vanity License Plate | |
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Vanity License Plate: Kusari drives a Corvette with her name on the license plate. There's a similar car for Oasis, but since it purports to be registered in the state of "Isle of Dr. Steve" its plate probably isn't valid. Goo demon Skip's Civic bears the plate "JBL 13X", evoking Juiblex the Ooze Lord. | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: The Minion Master (or so he desperately wants to be). | |
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Color-Coded Time Stop : In Timeless Space, anything or anyone that's run out of time is frozen and gray. Downplayed in that the art style used inside the bubbles of active time is mostly black-and-white line drawings, so the golden glow at the edge of a time bubble and contrasting blue background often look more colorful than anything else in a strip. | |
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Totem Pole Trench | |
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Totem Pole Trench: "Dr. Bunwig McTwodudes" here, consisting of two adult men (though they sure aren't acting like it) and a bonus rabbit. It Makes Just As Much Sense In Context; they really don't have much of a reason to use a disguise like that. Since they're not short, the "doctor" ends up being very tall, though at least Riff is sitting on Torg's shoulders, not standing. Bun-bun and Riff alone also do it here, and subverted here by Torg and Kiki. | |
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Love Potion | |
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Love Potion: Actually the name of a story arc. Gwynn attempts to fix her relationship with Zoe by using a love potion on the guy she's got a crush on, and then to later use it on Riff to get her back together with him. This being Sluggy and Gwynn being Gwynn, it all goes horribly wrong. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: The Fire and Rain storyline is much darker than the usual tone of the strip, containing almost no jokes. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Grab-all, a parody of Google, offers free services on which people put their personal information. Grab-all happens to make money as an information broker. Its CEO also enjoys manipulating the search results to influence world opinion. Does This Remind You of Anything? They are also one group of elves in Santa's employ. | |
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Technically-Living Zombie | |
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Some Technically Living Zombies appear in the Living Conditions arc, when brain eating bugs disrupt the balance between social skills and scientific genius so badly that the newly created super nerds start acting like zombies. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Lampshaded, played with, and deliberately invoked on a number of occasions. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: The story "Another Year in the Life of a Villain" effectively sees Strom, Dr. Chen, Daedalus, Kusari, and Dr. Schlock all at each others' throats (mostly Schlock's). In fact, ever since taking over Hereti Corp, Schlock versus most of his enemies has been a case of this, including Hereti Corp versus Crushestro, No-Fun Corp, and the Cult of K'z'K. The war between the Vorpyr, Vrykolakas, and Strakoi vampires effectively amounts to this, with 3 different factions of parasitic monsters at one another's throats. | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain: The demons of the Dimension of Pain are comically inept and prone to petty bickering...and are also absolutely deadly, as seen in That Which Redeems. This results in a lot of Mood Whiplash. Dr. Schlock, too. He serves as a Butt-Monkey from his very first appearance, yet can still be a potent enemy. | |
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Virgin Sacrifice | |
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And dimensionally-misplaced minions Blinky and Clyde are told to find a village's most chaste maiden to feed to a dragon but mishear it as "chased" so they find the village slut and the dragon gets angrier. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Torg, who recently realized that a "boss monster" wouldn't have such an obvious weakpoint. Subverted the next comic, he plays too many video games. Bill Sintos is bright enough to know not to tempt fate. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Many storylines almost require an Archive Trawl to understand what's going on, the story "bROKEN", required over a dozen archive links. One of the strips even managed to top that - this one (major spoiler) asks you to check the forums assuming the other Sluggy readers will post them for you. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: Played for laughs when Torg recounts the early part of the Storm Breaker Saga to a bard, but decides to spice it up by adding some material from Army of Darkness. In "bROKEN", we see the aftermath of the dramatic climax first one way. There's also a particular motif throughout the story where someone is always sitting in front of Torg in the same position. Later, however, Torg himself begins to suspect that his memory is messed up and discusses this with a therapist. It turns out that he's been suppressing the memory of what he really saw and we've been shown his "edited" version. The shots of someone sitting in front of him are also part of the unreliable memory — a result of the suppressed memory trying to push through. Let's just say that when he remembers the real version, his insistence that someone is not really dead acquires a much more desperate tone. Played for comedy later on, after Torg's story seemingly causes a bunch of increasingly violent reactions from Sasha. It turns out that Torg is unreliably narrating how he narrated the story to Sasha. | |
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Kirk Summation | |
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Torg confronts Hereti Corp with Oasis in front of him to talk, believing there is no way they will risk killing Oasis to get him since they've been wanting to control her so long. But readers already know that Hereti Corp was recently given a plan that would allow them to track the source of Oasis's immortality by killing her current body. They shoot Oasis right in the middle of Torg's Kirk Summation. As soon they confirm said kill and that it got them what they wanted, they go all out to kill Torg and his comrades. | |
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Anti-Magic | |
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Anti-Magic: A plant-based demon Torg calls Captain Botanical had a magic flower that negated all magic that came too close to it. Gwynn chooses to weaponize it herself as insurance against King Farahn and K'Z'K, due to the fact that her Black Magic is based on a doubly indirect case of Powers via Possession. Hereti Corps's occult division discovered that most forms of magic start weakening as you get further and further from Earth's atmosphere. Magical objects that can store power internally, like Chaz, can last a bit longer, but still eventually require new sustenance. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: A couple times - for instance, Torg and Riff were both freelancers when the strip began, and Riff's ID in Paradise is how to spell SLUGGY with a phone keypad. And now with the Mohkadunian God of Power, Sloghy After building quite the reputation for its enigmatic title, it finally came on May 16, 2014: Even earlier, Riff's Hereti-corp codename was "Sluggy". Or, as Kirko points out, "Freelancer Sluggy."*** Furthermore, revealed to be Riff's codename as a freelancer with Hereti-Corp, and Torg's middle name. The connections, if any, have yet to be revealed (as of 11/13/13). It's revealed that the name "Sluggy" is meant to be a rallying cry created by Uncle Time to label and help gather all "potentials" (those with great capacity for stabilizing the web) at the time of K'Z'K's release. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: In the Anima Dimension, they are called "bedeviled", and they are the source of most of that dimension's problems. Whereas the emotions of most people are on display via their animas, bedeviled are able to fake different emotions, allowing themselves to get away with their crimes uncaught. Fortunetely, special people called "seers" are able to detect them and form the bulk of the Anima dimension's police force. | |
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Comic-Book Time | |
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This really applies to the entire cast to some extent. Given the comment made in the first year about Torg and Riff having a tradition of giving each other beer for Christmas, they had to be at least 23 when the story started in 1997. Adding in the fact that due to holiday related events we know that real time and Comic-Book Time roughly line up, that would make them at least 37 in 2011. They haven't noticeably aged at all, much less appear to be approaching 40. | |
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Ancient Keeper | |
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Ancient Keeper: The Arachnaseus from the "That Which Redeems" arc fills this role. | |
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DrowningHisSorrows | |
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Torg and Gwynn briefly encounter an alternate-dimensional Riff who, having accidentally replaced everyone else in the world with butterflies, has already moved past trying to fix the problem and into Drowning His Sorrows, with a reasonable start on a Beard of Sorrow too. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Whenever anyone visits an alternate universe, Abrams generally brings out alternate versions of a lot of C-list characters from storylines years before. Occasionally this even happens in reverse. | |
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The Exile | |
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The Exile: Khronus, the Top God of the Mohkadun pantheon, banishes all the other gods of Mohkadun out of rage at the deaths of his wife and son. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Usually with Reakk from the Dimension of Pain mishearing orders. Also, Drs Bill and Phil from Clonegressive Inc misheard orders from their superior that led to a (small-scale) zombie apocalypse in "28 Geeks Later". And dimensionally-misplaced minions Blinky and Clyde are told to find a village's most chaste maiden to feed to a dragon but mishear it as "chased" so they find the village slut and the dragon gets angrier. | |
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Villain Ball | |
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Villain Ball - Cleverly averted at the end of "Holiday Wars", where Bun-bun's enemies have concocted a clever Batman Gambit that will force him to use the Deus ex Ovum (push the Reset Button)—but if Bun-bun actually fell for it, his character would suffer Badass Decay. So instead the Groundhog's shadow falls for the scheme instead, and Bun-bun is appalled to find out that because they are linked, the effects of the plan will apply to him as well unless he uses the Reset Button. | |
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Never Recycle a Building | |
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Never Recycle a Building: Kesandru House; justified since it's infested with ghosts. Luckily, our heroes are used to dealing with worse. | |
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Future Self Reveal | |
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Future Self Reveal: Hereti-Corp executive Dr. Newguy, never seen without a bag over his head, attends a time-flux experiment upon disgraced agents Drake and Tyler. Tyler gets zapped first, ending up in the past, where he leverages his knowledge of anime futures to build a new identity with a doctorate and a diagnosis of extreme rosacea: Dr. Edris Ilba Newguy. He then escapes with Drake before she can be subjected to the horrifically painful experiment too. | |
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Inconsistent Episode Lengths | |
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Inconsistent Episode Lengths: The comic intially aped the look and dimensions of newspaper published comics. As the years went by, it occasionally started making longer comics, or single large panels. The standard Sluggy Freelance comic now seems to be a double row, but the creator uses other formats on a regular basis to fit the story. | |
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Snarky Non-Human Sidekick | |
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Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: Bun-Bun when he's in one of his relatively good moods. | |
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Undefeatable Little Village | |
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Undefeatable Little Village: It's revealed that a small town near the Canadian border ended up playing this role for a crime-syndicate who had, previously, used it as a center for their smuggling-operations. The reason? Knife Nut Tyke Bomb Quasi-Immortal Oasis, whose most recent reincarnation had turned out unusually sane and kindhearted, had made it her Protectorate. Wearing a red hoodie, she turned into the vigilante 'Red Riding Hood' and basically stabbed any criminal who dared enter the city. The syndicate finally sent a top-tier, highly-paid Career Killer - a master assassin. He managed to kill her, but obviously didn't know about the 'Quasi-Immortal' bit, and wound up getting stabbed anyway. He sought alternate employment with great rapidity at that point. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: The four alien Greys are named after the members of the A-Team, but the obvious pun "The Grey-Team" is never specifically spoken. Actually, it is at least once. Timeless Space has a race of anthro deer/moose/caribou called "Caribs" and is partially populated by pirates. | |
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Take Our Word for It | |
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Take Our Word for It: The retribution Brad plays on his fellow ghosts. | |
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Talking Animal | |
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Talking Animal: The rules are inconsistent. A few animals can talk. Many animals cannot talk, but can understand human speech fluently and/or have languages of their own. Some animals are of normal animal intelligence. When Torg meets Frog, he Lampshades this with Arbitrary Skepticism, saying he can accept talking mammals and objects, but not amphibians. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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The dimension where Torg flees with the giant Aylee is infested with zombie-like creatures who, we are led to believe, are the result of Kesandru's Deal with the Devil Rithuly. The Reveal has Torg realise that they have nothing to do with Rithuly - they're Aylee's race. | |
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Marry Them All | |
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Marry Them All: Proposed by Torg's shoulder devil to solve the Zoë vs. Oasis issue, with the added twist of sampling their DNA to create a harem of Zoë/Oasis hybrid clones. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: In this strip, Torg gives Sasha advice on how to kill a mutant monster based on his experience with videogames. Fortunately, Sasha disregards the advice. On the other hand, she did remember to Go for the Eye, so maybe she has the right genre. | |
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The Scottish Trope | |
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The Scottish Trope: Saying Clutter Monster's name causes him to yell "CLUTTER MONSTER SMASH!" and slam Riff and Torg (who he's holding) together. | |
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Muggles Do It Better | |
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Muggles Do It Better: Used for laughs here. | |
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Black Comedy | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_222dc873 | comment |
Black Comedy: Lots of it. An unimportant (and even, on occasion, important character) dying or being maimed in amusing ways is a constant Running Gag of the strip, and normally horrific situations are often played for comedy. As a rule, anything involving the Dimension Of Pain will involve lots of black comedy - the That Which Redeems arc is notable for causing large amounts of Mood Whiplash by playing the atrocities going on for laughs one second and being quite literally deadly serious the next. | |
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Between My Legs | |
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Between My Legs: In a rather bizarre fashion. | |
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Chekhov's Gag | |
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Chekhov's Gag: Several, but, in particular, EMERGENCY PANTS! Ceiling Darts and the associated "WOH-PAH!". | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: A common thread in these incidents of the trope is that Abrams often tends to load a bullet in the chamber years before he finally fires it. In some cases, a decade or more has passed before one of these will come into play again. Specifically for Oasis, Chekhov's boom. Remember how many explosions seem to happen around Oasis? All of them were obscure hints to the Wham Episode revelation. One particularly sneaky instance of this happening at what, at the time, the reader assumed was Gwynn activating her powers...was in fact Gwynn fending off a pyrokinetic explosion from Oasis. Bet you didn't see THAT coming seven years ago! From that same arc, those bizarre nightmares that Gwynn had while possessed by K'Z'K way back when turned out to be visions of the future. And one them happened to be of Zoë burning alive... Earlier on, Torg got Lord Torgamous' sword in the Storm Breaker Saga arc years before it would be revealed as the magic sword Chaz and Chaz's origins several years after that, and Hereti-Corp was first mentioned in a throwaway line as the company that cloned Percy the man-eating mammoth years before it was brought up again or linked to Oasis. Dunuloa's hat of magic spell containing eggs. Twice. Though Zoe throwing the egg that binds K'Z'K again at least subverts the expectation of how they come into play. | |
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In Case of X, Break Glass | |
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In Case of X, Break Glass: Torg has had to break his Emergency Stash of pants several times over the course of the comic. | |
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Body-Count Competition | |
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Body-Count Competition: Between Torg, Gwynn, and Riff while killing zombies. There is also an unofficial one by fans who keep kill counts for the characters. (Mecha Easter Bunny held the first place for destroying Tokyo until Zorgon Gola blew up an entire universe.) | |
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Scary Impractical Armor | |
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Scary Impractical Armor: Terribus sure looks the part for conquering the Dimension of Grief, but... | |
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Vampire Vords | |
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Vampire Vords: Averted with the Vorpyr and Vrykolakas, while the Strakoi are a variation - their dialogue replaces 'th' with 'z', but also unusually replaces 'w' with 'u'. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: Bert and "crotch". Also done with some of the crew of Gofotron in the Punyverse arc. | |
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Curse Escape Clause | |
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Curse Escape Clause: A ghost is cursed to play solitaire with 51 cards until the end of time—or until someone breaks the glass in front of the 52nd card, in case of emergency.... | |
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Bald of Evil | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_28114487 | comment |
Bald of Evil: Kesandru fits the trope, with a combo for Evil Goatee with his eyebrows. Dr. Steve, who is a pretty obvious play on Dr. Evil as it is. | |
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Your Magic's No Good Here | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_2905fbec | comment |
Your Magic's No Good Here: According to Schlock, mortal magic is powered by abusing the god Chronos's Web of Fate. When outside the Fate Web's bounds, such as beyond Earth's atmosphere, magic doesn't work and you have to rely on normal science. Intrinsically magical entities, like magical objects and even demons tend to have trouble surviving and risk perishing when they run out of their internal stores of magic. Having said that, some other dimensions do have other forms of magic that are not powered by a Fate Web. The Anima Dimension for example has the goddess Troloria's tapestry of anima, a system that makes it possible for the residents of her world to use psionics. | |
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Non-Indicative Name | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_295087bf | comment |
Non-Indicative Name: The Book of E. Vile was intended to be this. The book's creator, Quint Bookbinder wanted to disguise K'Z'K's prison as a useless Spell Book no one would ever want, and believing the Latin word for uselessness to be E. Vile, chose to name it that. In practice however, multiple languages interpreted it as "evil". | |
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The Omniscient Council of Vagueness | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_2b42db02 | comment |
The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: Several over the years, but Hereti Corp's executives is the most common. | |
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1.0 | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_2b5ea43c | comment |
Bland-Name Product | |
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1.0 | |
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Was It Really Worth It? | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_2c27353f | comment |
Was It Really Worth It?: Schlock seems to be wondering this at the end of bROKEN. | |
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Better as Friends | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_2c3ec06e | comment |
Better as Friends: Zoë said this to Torg once. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Little "No" | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_2d92c43c | comment |
Little "No": Riff delivers a really potent one to Gwynn in this comic. | |
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1.0 | |
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Deadly Euphemism | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_2eb94abd | comment |
Deadly Euphemism: Parodied in a story where Torg and Riff work for 'Mr. Middleman' doing jobs that sound like this, but turn out to be totally harmless, such as a vampire wanting a 'dirt nap' (vampires recharge energy by sleeping in their native soil) and someone actually wanting 'concrete shoes' for orthopaedic reasons. | |
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Older Than They Look | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_2f36d97 | comment |
Older Than They Look: A major reveal here. The details still haven't been revealed. This really applies to the entire cast to some extent. Given the comment made in the first year about Torg and Riff having a tradition of giving each other beer for Christmas, they had to be at least 23 when the story started in 1997. Adding in the fact that due to holiday related events we know that real time and Comic-Book Time roughly line up, that would make them at least 37 in 2011. They haven't noticeably aged at all, much less appear to be approaching 40. | |
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Accidentally Real Fake Address | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_2fd1f4d5 | comment |
Accidentally Real Fake Address: Sam supplies an Accidentally Real Accidentally Fake Address when he abbreviates "St. Paul, Michigan" as "St. Paul, MN". Consequently, the vampires monitoring his "private" Internet chat with hostile intent charge blindly into a vampire hunter convention. | |
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Thoughtcrime | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_310d40de | comment |
Thoughtcrime: 4U City enforced mandatory happiness with involuntary drugging. And mandatory efficiency with mandatory drugging. And so on. The alternative was to be thrown down a judgement chute. | |
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Magic or Psychic? | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_31b9c6aa | comment |
Magic or Psychic?: In the main universe, abusing Khronus's Web of Fate allows mortals to use magic. The Anima dimension lacks a fate web, making mortal magic impossible, but it has another system, possibly created by a different deity, that makes it possible for mortals to use psionics. | |
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Twin Threesome Fantasy | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_31bd1ba1 | comment |
Twin Threesome Fantasy: Sasha tries to tempt Riff with this after the team beats Hereticorp. | |
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1.0 | |
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Extra-Strength Masquerade | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3300f2be | comment |
Extra-Strength Masquerade: The fantastic is blatantly obvious and in plain sight all over the place, yet normals never pay much attention to it. At one point, Zoe reports freakish activity at Clonegressive's offices, but the cops are completely dismissive of her claims. All they saw was a biologically engineered spaceship which blew the roof of the building. No evidence of brain eating bugs. They proceed to accuse her of making up stories. It is perfectly normal for Satan to show up on reality TV, and this will be accepted at face value. And yet, on normal occasions, the populace does not believe in demons. Even K'z'k unleashing a massive zombie army isn't enough, with the news quickly dismissing it as mass hysteria induced by Marilyn Mason. The only event that even left a dent in The Masquerade was when Aylee went on a rampage and destroyed an entire neighbourhood, leaving behind an Inferred Holocaust. And even that didn't have any lasting impact. A Hereti Corp goon tells a trio of Christmas elves that she doesn't believe in Santa. Or them. Even as she's negotiating with them. | |
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Deity of Human Origin | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_33179374 | comment |
In the Anima Dimension exists a Deity of Human Origin, Troloria, who more or less became a psychic Physical God by devouring every living soul in her world, leaving her as the Last of Her Kind. | |
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A Pirate 400 Years Too Late | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_33e78383 | comment |
A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: Kiki, Bun-bun, and a little girl play at being pirates in a small boat. Unfortunately Bun-bun, being Bun-bun, tries actually thieving and murdering. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_34dcfc96 | comment |
Kick the Dog: Zorgon Gola, despite only appearing in a single arc, pulls this off quite nicely. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3517000d | type |
Mad Scientist | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3517000d | comment |
Riff: Mad Scientist version, complete with Sunglasses at Night. Trenchcoat Warfare dialled up to eleven. | |
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Hammerspace | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_356b1efb | comment |
Hammerspace: Half-lampshaded here. | |
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1.0 | |
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Abandoned Laboratory | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_378476a2 | comment |
Abandoned Laboratory: These are the primary legacy of Orsintos Labs, an FBI initiative to research paranormal leads by any means necessary. Of their bases, we've seen a zombie research site that was taken over by the zombies, a facility built to house a thaumaturgical experiment that ended up getting everyone killed, and a center for studying ghosts and various psychic powers, demolished aboveground, leaving only a dungeon furnished with torture equipment. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_37fcf16 | type |
Death Is Cheap | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_37fcf16 | comment |
Death is Cheap: Oasis becomes the subject of a mocking parody for a FAQ week in this strip, before playing it straight. A lot. | |
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1.0 | |
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Wrong Assumption | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_38072b53 | comment |
Wrong Assumption: Eearlier in the first alternate dimension arc, the captain thought he was the hero but apparently he was a Decoy Protagonist. | |
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1.0 | |
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Empathy Pet | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_384b5fd8 | comment |
Empathy Pet: During the Anima arc, the gang gets stuck in a dimension where the souls of all sapient life manifest a symbolic creature called an "anima" representing their current feelings. This makes deception impossible for most people, with the exception of the bedeviled, who possess corrupted animas. As a result, it is one of the friendliest and most peaceful dimensions that gang has ever visited, at least when it comes to sapient folk interactions (the wild natural fauna on the other hand included deadly giant monsters). The gang still manages to get themselves chased out of society by a torch-and-pitchfork angry mob, several times. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_38d02d44 | comment |
2003's Batman Gambit to defeat Holiday Bun Bun | |
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1.0 | |
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Divine Delegation | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3921601c | comment |
Divine Delegation: Mohkadunese mythology tells of "the One", who empowered Prozoato (the Creator), Kozoaku (the Destroyer), and later Krohnus (the God of Time). In practice, Krohnus is the Top God of a pantheon of other exalted mortals, with Kozoaku a God of Evil and neither the One nor Prozoato obviously engaged with events. | |
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Usurping Santa | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3a3e76db | comment |
Usurping Santa: Bun-Bun spends several years trying to kill Santa every year for the sake of a personal grudge, and figuring out holidays work on "you kill it you bought it" does not dissuade him. In fact he goes on a bit of a holiday killing spree, but he's forced to revive everyone shortly after finally killing Santa. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3b113b7 | type |
Character Development | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3b113b7 | comment |
Torg (as well as the viewers) see Aylee as a good character, and (mostly) not a threat, at least after she undergoes a little Character Development. Riff, however, continues to see her as a threat, much as he sees Sam. Riff's viewpoint isn't all that sympathetic... until this comic. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3b39c254 | type |
Dystopia | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3b39c254 | comment |
bROKEN is basically a wham arc. This becomes apparent when Dr. Schlock has Oasis's father-figure executed while she watches helplessly, for no reason other than to show he means business. As the arc ends, Torg is losing his grip on reality and becoming increasingly unstable, Oasis is paralyzed from the neck down in the clutches of HeretiCorp, Aylee is clearly dying from a massive neck wound (she thankfully gets better), Zoë's cursed necklace has been found (which had no possible explanation other than her being dead), and Riff is trapped in a dystopian alternate dimension and was seemingly shot down by a squad of armed goons while cradling Zoë's burnt corpse. | |
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Artifact of Doom | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3b5fcbb7 | comment |
The Squid-spear made by the NoFun corporation. Not only was it revealed to be sentient after its destruction, it was also innocent enough to empower Torg's sword. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Noodle Incident | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: Just what did happen between Bun-bun and Santa that necessitated the use of the first Deus Ex Ovum and Bun-bun's ejection from the time stream? And more importantly, when did it happen? Operation Red Durango...for now. | |
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Doom Magnet | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3c7d0418 | comment |
Doom Magnet: Most random minor characters whom the gang gets acquainted with die in their current adventures (see the "K I T T E N" storylines, for instance). They really aren't the best people to know. Basically, any character the gang meets either joins the main cast (or at least the recurring cast), or dies; they can't just fade back to obscurity. Subverted by Kent who just vanished after one of the vampire arcs. Other characters also pay in other ways for associating with the gang. For example, Leo ended up getting hurt after he ate food whose weight couldn't be shed, leading him to be unbalanced for his cannon and Broadman lost his job at the radio station after he got blamed for a cow stampede that Riff started. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Perfect Poison | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3d5547b0 | comment |
Perfect Poison: Pizza made of 100% cheese is absolutely delicious, but a single bite, improperly prepared, will yield a fatal coronary in seconds. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3d7fa9a8 | type |
Bait-and-Switch Time Skip | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3d7fa9a8 | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Time Skip: In one strip, the group is stuck at an airport and Torg measures Riff's rather long beard to estimate they've been there several months. Riff reveals it's a fake and Torg estimates that they were there for only a couple hours, as that's when he tends to break out the sight gags. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3d7fa9a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3d7fa9a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3d7fa9a8 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3d92b13e | type |
Research, Inc. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3d92b13e | comment |
Research, Inc.: Hereti-Corp has muffins that self-destruct, lest they fall into the hands of a competitor. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3d92b13e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3d92b13e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3d92b13e | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3df9c288 | type |
Keystone Army | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3df9c288 | comment |
Keystone Army: Vykro vampires have a hierarchy leading all the way up to the Queen. Should a Vykro master die, most of their underlings will die with them, and the stronger ones will be weakened. When the Queen of them all is killed by the Strakoi, it wipes out all but the absolute strongest, reducing them from thousands to less than twenty. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3df9c288 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3df9c288 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3df9c288 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3e34c4dc | type |
Don't Ask, Just Run | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3e34c4dc | comment |
Don't Ask, Just Run: You don't question Code Boom. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3e34c4dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3e34c4dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3e34c4dc | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eba1249 | type |
"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eba1249 | comment |
"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation: "The Bug, the Witch, and the Robot": | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eba1249 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eba1249 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eba1249 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eccc27b | type |
Power Source | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eccc27b | comment |
Imps are a particularly weak and foolish type of demon, but they are nevertheless Emergent. One man manages to trick and bind one, Ozzid, to serve as a Power Source for Powers via Possession. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eccc27b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eccc27b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eccc27b | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eed59a8 | type |
Explosive Overclocking | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eed59a8 | comment |
Sterizon, a mobile manufacturer, gives information directly to the NSA. It ends up backfiring when they try to accumulate too much, draining the batteries and resulting in Explosive Overclocking on every single one of their mobile devices. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eed59a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eed59a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eed59a8 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3fba06fe | type |
"Far Side" Island | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3fba06fe | comment |
"Far Side" Island: Bun Bun gets trapped on one after an attempt to sail to Tijuana, stranded alone with a single other person and a palm tree. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3fba06fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3fba06fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3fba06fe | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3fca462c | type |
Deus ex Machina | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3fca462c | comment |
A Deus ex Machina is Played for Laughs when a group of Hereti Corp goons use their DFAs to teleport a bunch of missiles to a random dimension. Meanwhile in said dimension, a cult of humanoid cobras are about to kill a family of weasels and ask them "Where is your god now, weasels?". Cue aforementioned missiles killing all members of said cult. Praise Weasus! | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3fca462c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3fca462c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3fca462c | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3ff34221 | type |
To Hell and Back | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3ff34221 | comment |
To Hell and Back: For at least two different versions of "hell". | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3ff34221 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3ff34221 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3ff34221 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_400f03bc | type |
Faked Rip Van Winkle | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_400f03bc | comment |
Faked Rip Van Winkle: Done by Zoe and Riff to Torg here and here. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_400f03bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_400f03bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_400f03bc | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_40bb59d0 | type |
Blatant Lies | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
Blatant Lies: "No Content on Saturdays". | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_40bb59d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_40bb59d0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_40bb59d0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_415b3315 | type |
Stylistic Suck | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_415b3315 | comment |
Stylistic Suck: Torg's Show Within a Show comic book Gunman Stan Mc Kurt vs. the Gates of the City of Hell. The art is good, but the writing relies on Fauxlosophic Narration and it just consists of different views of the same one panel. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_415b3315 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_415b3315 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_415b3315 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_41914bb3 | type |
Blade Below the Shoulder | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_41914bb3 | comment |
Blade Below the Shoulder: Mosp has a long curving spike on each arm just below her elbows. They used to be handheld swords when she was human, but she was turned into a demon as punishment for betraying her whole dimension by letting the invading demon force pass through the dungeon she once guarded. Her swords fusing with her body was part of the transformation. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_41914bb3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_41914bb3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_41914bb3 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_42beac64 | type |
The Magnificent Seven Samurai | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_42beac64 | comment |
The Magnificent Seven Samurai: During the "That Which Redeems" Story Arc, Torg tries to set one of these up after the Dimension of Lame summons/kidnaps him into protecting them from Demonic Invaders. Unfortunately, all the people he recruits come from the Dimension of Lame and ... well, it's called that for a reason. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_42beac64 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_42beac64 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_42beac64 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4353c4b7 | type |
Magically-Binding Contract | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4353c4b7 | comment |
Magically-Binding Contract: The Harry Potter parody features the Goblet of Flameyness, which like the Goblet from the original book, forms a magically binding contract. It thoroughly lampshades the fact that the original story never actually explains how the contract actually enforces itself and the fact that you can force someone to obey a contract they never signed as the wizards start obeying absurd "contracts" with no protest. Lysinda allied herself with the Strakoi vampires and won a war. The Strakoi decided to "gift" Lysinda with vampiric dominion over the Americas, though this was intended as an exile. They signed a magic contract that forbade Strakoi vampires from entering Lysinda's domain without permission. But now that the new world is better known, the Strakoi seek to use Loophole Abuse to claim it from Lysinda and have been quietly wiping out her circle for this reason. The magic is shown to repulse a Strakoi from coming within more than a few feet of American soil. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4353c4b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4353c4b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4353c4b7 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_43844bd7 | type |
You Fight Like a Cow | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_43844bd7 | comment |
You Fight Like a Cow: "Your fighting style smells of gorgonzola!" | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_43844bd7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_43844bd7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_43844bd7 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_441ccbad | type |
Talking Weapon | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_441ccbad | comment |
Talking Weapon: Unholy Evil Death Bringer a.k.a. Chaz, who can only speak when powered by the blood of the innocent or in the spiritual world. "What...''is''...that blade?!" | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_441ccbad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_441ccbad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_441ccbad | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_447d9e50 | type |
Xanatos Speed Chess | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_447d9e50 | comment |
Xanatos Speed Chess: A short example between Dr. Schlock and Markus Chen: first Chen tricked Schlock into reinstating him as a CEO, thus allowing him to give Kusari the order to kill Schlock. Schlock responded (after looking up a few things) by having the board of command (him, given the rest of the board was either "running for their lives or slaughtered") fire Chen as CEO. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_447d9e50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_447d9e50 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_447d9e50 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_45f5c0d | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_45f5c0d | comment |
Oddly, Philinnon is a "vrykolakas", which really is a Greek vampire...but its name is a Slavic loan-word (originally meaning "werewolf"), borrowed in the Byzantine era. Of course, it's entirely possible Philinnon and company were just called something different back then. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_45f5c0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_45f5c0d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_45f5c0d | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_46e6a4fd | type |
Powers via Possession | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_46e6a4fd | comment |
Powers via Possession: Demonic Possession is a battle of wills between the demon and the human they are possessing. Generally speaking, the demon's will is stronger, but it is possible for a human to force a particularly weak demon into possessing them so that they can siphon off the demon's magic for their own purposes. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_46e6a4fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_46e6a4fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_46e6a4fd | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 | type |
You Have Failed Me | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 | comment |
You Have Failed Me: Lady Urja is sent by Queen Philinnon to kill Sam, a vampire from a rival circle. She repeatedly fails, and is sentenced to the final death as a result. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_47fea76b | comment |
Dr. Schlock, too. He serves as a Butt-Monkey from his very first appearance, yet can still be a potent enemy. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_47fea76b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_47fea76b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_47fea76b | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4832a3bb | type |
Always Chaotic Evil | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4832a3bb | comment |
Always Chaotic Evil: Getting speared by the squid-spear turns you into a demon/mutant and you invariably join forces with whomever speared you, regardless of prior affiliations or what you think of the guy who speared you. This applies to both the Dimension of Pain demons and Pang's mutant brigade, with only a single exception Played for Laughs as he gets mercilessly gunned down with the rest of them. It only kind of works on the Always Lawful Good inhabitants of the Dimension of Lame; they become wussy demons. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4832a3bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4832a3bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4832a3bb | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_485eb589 | type |
Sealed Evil in a Can | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_485eb589 | comment |
According to Scholar Soco, Magic is not just poorly understood Science. The Web of Fate is a mystical construct created by Khronos, Father Time, in order to protect the world from the God of Destruction, K'Z'K. It defines a set of rules for the world to follow and guides its path to keep it safe. Science is the art of manipulating the world within the rules the Web defines. Magic is an incredibly dangerous, destructive force, that can bypass the web's restraints. Without magic, K'Z'K would remain Sealed Evil in a Can forever. But with it, he can eventually break free. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_485eb589 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_485eb589 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_485eb589 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_48b9731f | type |
Paper-Thin Disguise | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_48b9731f | comment |
Paper-Thin Disguise: A popular gag. Aylee does it here, the angular "Clockjerk Dudes" robot bodies always seem to fool everyone, it's used as a Description Cut joke here where we are primed to expect one of Dr Schlock's very realistic inflatable decoys, but in fact The Men in Black are fooled by an obvious small balloon. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_48b9731f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_48b9731f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_48b9731f | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4a3e547f | type |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4a3e547f | comment |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Subverted, averted, played straight, messed with, and sometimes just plain ignored. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4a3e547f | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4a3e547f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4a3e547f | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ab9720d | type |
I'm Cold... So Cold... | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ab9720d | comment |
I'm Cold... So Cold...: A man has this reaction after having to put gym shorts on a Duh-Mentor. Subverted elsewhere, when it turns out Jane's been playing with the thermostat to make Gwynn think she's died and risen as a zombie. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ab9720d | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ab9720d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ab9720d | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ae82f6a | type |
Pop-Up Trivia | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ae82f6a | comment |
Pop-Up Trivia: Dr. Viennason's Guide to Timeless Space comes with "Pop-Up Cudbitz". Unlike real-life implementations, these bonus facts are printed on actual signs that dangle next to Dr. Viennason as he presents his wisdom for the video recording, and he doesn't quite conceal his disgust when they are insulting to him (which happens surprisingly frequently). | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ae82f6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ae82f6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ae82f6a | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4bf3d8d7 | type |
Personality Powers | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4bf3d8d7 | comment |
Personality Powers: According to a spellcaster named Marco, every spellcaster has a type of magic they are particularly good at. As a result, one's spellbook tends to be filled with spells that reflect their personal strengths. Due to being kind and compassionate, Marco's spellbook is filled with happy and positive magic. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4bf3d8d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4bf3d8d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4bf3d8d7 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4c8a0849 | type |
Mirror Universe | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4c8a0849 | comment |
Mirror Universe: The Dimension of Lame was initially portrayed like this in some ways (with a nice Bun-bun and a nasty Kiki) but when it appeared again, this was subject to a Cerebus Retcon (everyone from this universe are Perfect Pacifist People, and the nasty Kiki is an immigrant from a Crapsack World universe). | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4c8a0849 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4c8a0849 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4c8a0849 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4e3d253b | type |
Downer Ending | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: The bROKEN arc. More recently, the Paradise - 758449 arc. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4e3d253b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4e3d253b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4e3d253b | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4efcb173 | type |
Children in Tow | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4efcb173 | comment |
Children in Tow: The psychological effect of ducklings following their mother is so strong that they are used as an emergency barrier during a car chase. Even the bad guys treat them like they are a completely impenetrable wall and don't even consider running them over in order to continue the chase. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4efcb173 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4efcb173 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4efcb173 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9 | type |
Early-Installment Weirdness | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
The early years of the strip, by contrast, usually mentioned real games like Total Annihilation and Quake. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ff6f484 | type |
Trash the Set | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ff6f484 | comment |
Trash the Set: The comic often marks the beginning of a major shift by destroying the group's current lodgings. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ff6f484 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ff6f484 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_4ff6f484 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: The Dimension of Lame's version of Gwynn isn't kidding when she says that she has bonded to her universe's version of the Book of E-Ville. She's now made of pages of the book. So far, it's unknown if the main universe's Gwynn suffers the same fate. | |
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Trap Is the Only Option | |
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Trap Is the Only Option: In "Dangerous Days Ahead", Riff and others go Storming the Castle at the AyleeOrgNet.Com/HeretiCorp offices in spite of the extremely Suspiciously Specific Denial on a memo that indicates that the place is armed like a fortress and it's a trap. They don't have any other choice with their friends being held there, and they have a few surprises up their own sleeves. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: In this comic, Torg and Riff plan "Operation Orange Tomato," a plan to exterminate all chipmunks in retaliation for stealing tomatoes from Torg's garden. | |
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Our Demons Are Different | |
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Our Demons Are Different: There are several different varieties, each with their own rules. All varieties lean towards Always Chaotic Evil. Even the rare exceptions are infused with evil power. Most of the demons of the Dimension of Pain are implied to be descendants of mortals who were corrupted by the Spear of Callmadar. They are effectively mutants with infernal powers and happen to be Too Kinky to Torture. The Demon King who rules the Dimension of Pain on the other hand, is more like a God of Evil. The standard demons of the main universe are spirits from another realm. Most of them are called "Possessors" and are limited to controlling a host via Demonic Possession. Manifestors can channel magic through their hosts. "Emergent" are the rarest type of demon. They can manifest physically without the need for a host, though they still have the option of taking a host if they want it. K'Z'K was originally the god of destruction, but was converted into "merely" an ultra powerful Emergent demon. This gave him the power to possess people. K'Z'K's demonic followers are spirits without physical bodies of their own. Instead, they possess mortal bodies and are able to channel their individual powers through them. Imps are a particularly weak and foolish type of demon, but they are nevertheless Emergent. One man manages to trick and bind one, Ozzid, to serve as a Power Source for Powers via Possession. At one point, Gwynn makes a Deal with the Devil with a group of demon soul merchants. They do not have physical forms, but they are Reality Warpers at the power level of a Physical God. Satan has been described as a devil, in contrast to a demon. Gwynn describes a flower monster that enslaves the dead as a demon. | |
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Reincarnation | |
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Reincarnation: When a person dies, it is possible for them to be born again. While they retain no memories from their previous lives, it is possible for them to retain some sentiments, such as Torg's brief Reincarnation Romance with Valerie. | |
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Magic Versus Science | |
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Magic Versus Science: According to Scholar Soco, Magic is not just poorly understood Science. The Web of Fate is a mystical construct created by Khronos, Father Time, in order to protect the world from the God of Destruction, K'Z'K. It defines a set of rules for the world to follow and guides its path to keep it safe. Science is the art of manipulating the world within the rules the Web defines. Magic is an incredibly dangerous, destructive force, that can bypass the web's restraints. Without magic, K'Z'K would remain Sealed Evil in a Can forever. But with it, he can eventually break free. According to Schlock, the truth is actually the opposite of what Scholar Soco said. Science is the art of causing things to happen using the normal laws of probability, while mortal magic is the art of abusing the Fate Web to tweak those probabilities and make otherwise improbable things reality. As such, all classes of magic reliant on the Fate Web suffer from Your Magic's No Good Here and start losing power when they leave the Fate Web's boundaries, such as beyond Earth's atmosphere or when in other dimension that lacks a Fate Web. | |
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Majority-Share Dictator | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_524f03f1 | comment |
Majority-Share Dictator: * This is how Dr. Schlock took over Hereti-Corp, by negotiating 20% stock compensation for employment while already owning 32% of the corporation through shell companies. He promptly fired and imprisoned the previous CEO, since majority ownership allowed him to "make board and executive changes at will". | |
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Daywalking Vampire | |
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The Strakoistrat originate from Romania. They are Daywalking Vampires, about as tough as Vorpyr vampires, and wield powerful magic. They are possibly the most powerful vampire type overall, but they also lack the Mind Control powers possessed by the other two types. | |
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AlternateCharacterInterpretation | |
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Alternate Character Interpretation: This comic manages to do this by presenting Up... from the balloons' perspective.invoked Torg (as well as the viewers) see Aylee as a good character, and (mostly) not a threat, at least after she undergoes a little Character Development. Riff, however, continues to see her as a threat, much as he sees Sam. Riff's viewpoint isn't all that sympathetic... until this comic. | |
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It's a Wonderful Plot | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_551c5085 | comment |
It's a Wonderful Plot: Parodied with It's A Wonderful Life, Citizen, the 4U City version of the film: because Happiness Is Mandatory, the film ends as soon as its protagonist feels depressed at the beginning and he gets dumped down the judgement chute. | |
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Lotus-Eater Machine | |
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Lotus-Eater Machine: 4U City. Doubles as Crapsaccharine World. | |
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Otherworldly Technicolour Hair | |
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Otherworldly Technicolour Hair: There's an alternate dimension where all the counterparts of the regular (human) cast have purple hair, and speak Portuguese for some reason. | |
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Stereotypical Nerd | |
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Stereotypical Nerd: The "cloner nerds" release a plague that exponentially increases the intelligence of whoever it infects, while decreasing their attractiveness and social skills to the point where they become extremely nerdy zombie analogues, invoking the trope. | |
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Reassigned to Antarctica | |
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Reassigned to Antarctica: When Riff tried a "normal" 9-to-5 job he was transferred to Nome, Alaska because he'd threatened to sue them if fired (beats getting transformed into a gnome). | |
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Cats Are Mean | |
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Cats Are Mean: Satanic kittens known as "The Evil". | |
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Bad Santa | |
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Bad Santa: Santa Claus is Santa Claus; definitely one of the good guys by default. But when Bun-bun tries to kill him every Christmas and eventually blows up his workshop with an evil Furby, he begins to lose it and gets some evil-looking moments while planning to kill the rabbit. And then he catches an alien DNA virus while hiding from Bun-bun in orbit, and eventually turns into a malicious alien monster along with many of his elves, albeit one still bound to manufacture and deliver Christmas presents. He finally gets better, though. The part in "Holiday Wars" when Bun-bun himself becomes an Evil Overlord by becoming the Anthropomorphic Personification of most holidays including Christmas. Now that is bad. | |
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Air-Vent Passageway | |
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Air-Vent Passageway: On the back of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, of all things. | |
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Meaningful Background Event | |
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Meaningful Background Event: In this strip, as Zoe wonders "why we always seem to be in the middle of it", we can see a spider hanging over the group, presumably a reference to the Fate Spider's interference. | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes??: Riff, the badassest member of the team, is mortally afraid of clowns - and the department of motor vehicles. | |
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Big Red Button | |
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Big Red Button: NoFun Enterprises has an app designer chained up in their basement. They force her to design single-purpose smartphone apps for evil purposes (kill the prisoner with acid, blow up my enemy's base, etc). | |
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Genetic Abomination | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_5c8f59dd | comment |
Genetic Abomination: During a battle between supervillains, a minion of the Nofun Corporation, which specializes in viral mutagens, tosses a vial of "Cheesy Bossmonster Virus" in the direction of Dr. Shankraft's minions, and one particularly stupid one mistakes it for a jello shot and drinks it. This causes him to grow an eyeball in his chest before mutating into a colossal tentacled monster with More Teeth than the Osmond Family. | |
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Pragmatic Villainy | |
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Pragmatic Villainy: A majority of the Strakoi vampires agree to unseal K'Z'K in return for the destruction of all other vampire types. One of them points out that driving humanity to extinction will reduce their food supply, but is overruled since most of them are confident this has been accounted for. | |
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Big Brother Is Watching | |
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Big Brother Is Watching: Santa keeps a massive spying agency to determine who has been naughty and nice. Grab-all, a parody of Google, offers free services on which people put their personal information. Grab-all happens to make money as an information broker. Its CEO also enjoys manipulating the search results to influence world opinion. Does This Remind You of Anything? They are also one group of elves in Santa's employ. Hereti Corp has also tried its hand at this with the mascot of their pizza restaurant, Sir Veillance, an Incredibly Obvious Bug in the form of a happy meal toy. Grab-all finds their amateur efforts adorable. But then they conquer Grab-all by eliminating its CEO and forcing its second to sell. They effectively take Grab-all's control to its natural conclusion in order to cover up their own crimes, track opponents for elimination, and promote their own interests. Sterizon, a mobile manufacturer, gives information directly to the NSA. It ends up backfiring when they try to accumulate too much, draining the batteries and resulting in Explosive Overclocking on every single one of their mobile devices. | |
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Goo It Up | |
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Goo demon Skip's Civic bears the plate "JBL 13X", evoking Juiblex the Ooze Lord. | |
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ParodyName | |
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Parody Name: Many, almost invariably of the Punny Name variety (see below). | |
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Suicidal Pacifism | |
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Suicidal Pacifism: The residents of the Dimension of Lame. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The demon aristocracy almost by default: Lord Horribus, Queen Deplora, Lord Psykosis. The supervillain CRUSHESTRO. | |
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It Tastes Like Feet | |
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It Tastes Like Feet: Torg thinks Gwynn's blue-cakes taste like a giant pink eraser without the added teeth-cleaning effect. Riff thinks it's more like shoe-leather with a rotting foot still in the shoe, and an aftertaste of BS. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Several characters, Sam and Aylee being the most prominent (though it's not exactly clear whether Sam was down with the whole "evil vampire" bit at all in the first place or if he was just pretending). Oasis temporarily becomes a sort-of good guy, at first due a sheer mental and personality breakdown, while the second seems to be an honest try to be a hero, unfortunately marred by her homicidal tendencies. Dr. Steve is implied to have quit Hereti-Corp because of this, and it's revealed Kesandru had pulled one in an alternate universe. | |
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Death Glare | |
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Death Glare: Zoë's mom is a professional at this. Turns out it has range. | |
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Sue Donym | |
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Sue Donym: Torg's alias "LeTurg". Subverted in that he keeps using it for later situations. | |
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Replacement Goldfish | |
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Replacement Goldfish: Hereti-corp has a rather long-standing account with the local petshop don't they. | |
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Squeakybobo comes back from the Dimension of Pain to kill Torg, he runs into Bun-bun. When Squeakybobo tells Bun-bun that he's next on the revenge list for killing him, Bun-bun can't remember who he is. | |
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The Key Is Behind the Lock | |
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The Key Is Behind the Lock: Zoë;'s first line in the comic is "Help! I need a phone! I locked my keys in the car with the engine running!" | |
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Dinky Drivers | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_664347f9 | comment |
Dinky Drivers: Bun-Bun occasionally steals Torg's car, with Kiki working the pedals. In this instance, Torg accompanies them - and instead of driving normally, he has to work the pedals, with Kiki on the gear stick. | |
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Dying Moment of Awesome | |
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Dying Moment of Awesome: Several. Mosp's attack on Horribus. Fittingly, and weirdly, Bert one gets one with his last (living) lines: "Viva la Crotch!" 2003's Batman Gambit to defeat Holiday Bun Bun | |
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That Satisfying "Crunch!" | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_66e9e858 | comment |
That Satisfying "Crunch!": Torg gets people together for a party where they step on a scale that mocks their weight just so they can have fun smashing it with crowbars. | |
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Breaking the Fellowship | |
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Breaking the Fellowship: Riff's friendship with Torg and Zoe is utterly destroyed when Riff hurts Sam due to Sam being a vampire. Torg initially decides to banish him, but then decides that Riff's tech expertise is too important in the fight against Hereti Corp. So instead, he gives Riff a death threat, puts him in charge, and leaves the group with Zoë. Bunbun then references the trope, saying that without the combination of Riff's tech and Torg's leadership, they are all doomed. Riff ultimately proves Bun-bun right by becoming Commander Contrarian, and drives everyone else away with his callous and impulsive leadership. | |
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Teleport Spam | |
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Teleport Spam: Alt-Riff: "Of course it's real hard to corner someone who can move through time, space, and dimensions." | |
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The Pig-Pen | |
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The Pig-Pen: Taken to comically ridiculous levels with Doctors Bill and Phil, the Creepy Cloner Geeks, in the Living Conditions storyline. | |
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Gilligan Cut | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_680f950 | comment |
Gilligan Cut: A brilliant example early on in the strip (after Torg has been zapped into a random dimension by the DFA and Riff is trying to repair it): | |
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Punctuated Pounding | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6858aca8 | comment |
Punctuated Pounding: "I! CAN'T! LOSE! HER! AGAIN!" | |
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1.0 | |
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Mook Horror Show | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6860368a | comment |
Mook Horror Show: They may be antagonists, but it's almost hard not to feel sorry for Hereti Corp's goons as Oasis mercilessly mows them down. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6994b346 | type |
Human Outside, Alien Inside | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6994b346 | comment |
Human Outside, Alien Inside: Aylee in her humanoid incarnations. | |
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Knight of Cerebus | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6a47a1e2 | comment |
Knight of Cerebus: The vampires in the "Vampires" arc marked the strip's first real foray into more dramatic territory. Later, the presence of Oasis, K'Z'K, or HeretiCorp is likely to signify a darker storyline. | |
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Serious Business | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: Riff and Torg's opinion of steak. When they find Aylee has ordered steaks that have decayed past the point of edibility, they bury them with full funeral honours. Then when the NoFun Corporation creates stem cell-grown runny vat meat and plan to replace all real steaks with it, Torg interrupts their mission to destroy that project immediately. | |
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Sole Surviving Scientist | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6b496083 | comment |
Sole Surviving Scientist: Dr. Schlock, in a Bad Future, uses a time machine to Set Right What Once Went Wrong by sending Berk back to avert the apocalypse in the present. He also sends himself back twenty years further to live out his life. Torg and Gwynn briefly encounter an alternate-dimensional Riff who, having accidentally replaced everyone else in the world with butterflies, has already moved past trying to fix the problem and into Drowning His Sorrows, with a reasonable start on a Beard of Sorrow too. In the Dimension of Rain, both of them fill this role. After winning the Research and Development Wars (and controlling what remained) through excessive use of dimensional flux agitation, Dr. Schlock split his time between ruling 4U City and monitoring the breakdown of the fabric of reality. Then Riff forced his way back into the dimension, causing even more damage than had already been sustained. In the face of this catastrophe, they teamed up and put 4U City into "a holding pattern for society" so they could devote their attention to the hard work of repairing dimensional stability. Since Schlock's death, Riff has carried on the scientific work alone, delegating oversight of the city to an Artificial Intelligence with its own agenda. | |
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Face–Monster Turn | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6b7a6c55 | comment |
Most of the demons of the Dimension of Pain are implied to be descendants of mortals who were corrupted by the Spear of Callmadar. They are effectively mutants with infernal powers and happen to be Too Kinky to Torture. The Demon King who rules the Dimension of Pain on the other hand, is more like a God of Evil. | |
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The Good, the Bad, and the Evil | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6b8b122b | comment |
The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: In the R&D wars, Torg and company are the good, Hereti Corp and Chrushestro are the bad, and the No-Fun Legacy group and the Cult of K'Z'K are the evil. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6ce4c7b0 | type |
Ascended to Carnivorism | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6ce4c7b0 | comment |
Ascended to Carnivorism: Played with; the cast always makes sure Bun-bun doesn't get hungry, fearing he might say "What the hell, let's give meat a try." This finally happened in the "Safehouse" storyline when Bun-bun was affected by Hamsternom and started eating (dead) human flesh, but was disgusted with himself afterwards. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6d1c2b3f | type |
Lip Losses | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6d1c2b3f | comment |
Lip Losses: During "Oceans Unmoving II" arc, pirate captain Donaly was interrogated/tortured by Sir John Jacobs's men. Unfortunately for both parties, the new interrogation knives were "amazingly sharp" and Donaly's lips were accidentally cut off, so they couldn't stop him from screaming. They managed to calm him down long enough to give them information, but he had trouble with "m", "b", and "p" sounds. | |
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Punny Name | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6d7026fa | comment |
Also Juan Adyslow, Ed Mitdefeat, and Sid Uationhopeless. | |
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Rejected Marriage Proposal | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6e65655f | comment |
Rejected Marriage Proposal: While stuck in an alternate dimension where everyone's emotions are literally on display to be read, Torg spends months laboriously cobbling together a ring in secret so he can propose to Zoe. She turns him down because he's been avoiding her without explanation and keeping secrets. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6eb4cb10 | type |
Teleport Gun | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6eb4cb10 | comment |
Teleport Gun: Schlock takes Riff's designs for the DFA and hires another portal expert to weaponize them. The result is a gun he can use to banish his enemies to random dimensions. He eventually plans to use a much stronger version to build Kill Sats. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6ef09297 | type |
Masquerade | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_6ef09297 | comment |
Masquerade: Magic and super science exist, but most people don't know about it. Even though there is no organized conspiracy to keep things that way, and the fantastic regularly appears in plain sight. Major corporations and their Mad Scientists regularly play with incredibly advanced technology, but none of it ever gets released to the public and is only ever used for their secret, sinister schemes. Even in the distant future, scientists are still struggling to develop practical wormhole technology, something that's child's play for modern day Riff. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_701bd8f1 | type |
Auto-Incorrect | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_701bd8f1 | comment |
Auto-Incorrect: One strip has Zoe write a tweet advertising her radio station's show as superior to another. The autocorrect accidentally turns it into a racist rant because the (uncapitalized) last names of the hosts, Whelt and Balkmin, are changed to "whites" and "black men". | |
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TheMasquerade | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7095c87e | comment |
The only event that even left a dent in The Masquerade was when Aylee went on a rampage and destroyed an entire neighbourhood, leaving behind an Inferred Holocaust. And even that didn't have any lasting impact. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_71038217 | type |
Wrench Wench | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_71038217 | comment |
Wrench Wench: Sasha in is able to understand and often improve on Riff's inventions. | |
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1.0 | |
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T-Word Euphemism | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7170f25a | comment |
T-Word Euphemism: "F-word!" here, and here. | |
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You Can't Fight Fate | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7241785e | comment |
You Can't Fight Fate: Well, technically, you can, but that is generally a bad idea, since protecting the world is the reason Fate exists in the first place. Fate doesn't so much control everyone, so much as offer guidelines. Various things, such as magic, time travel, and dimensional travel can distort the web, risking the world's destruction. Keeping Fate on track is the job of the aptly named Fate Spiders | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7276d0de | type |
Mugging the Monster | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7276d0de | comment |
Mugging the Monster: Parodied and subverted by Bob/Skip, who initially acts like a stereotypical Genre Blind moron before revealing he is every bit as monstrous as his victim. | |
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-0.3 | |
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Idiot Hero | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7289b368 | comment |
Idiot Hero: Mostly Torg and Riff, though everyone falls into this every once in a while. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_72cdfc33 | type |
Big Bad Ensemble | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_72cdfc33 | comment |
Big Bad Ensemble: There are multiple competing major antagonists. K'Z'K, God of Destruction, and his cult, who want to cause a major exinction event, more For the Evulz than because it's their job. Hereti Corp is another top contender. If they were to ever come into contact with the Cult of K'Z'K, it would cause the malfunctioning Fate Web to bring about the End of the World as We Know It. Sir John Jacobs is the main antagonist of the Oceans Unmoving arc. Tempest, God of Fate, long ago went Mad From The Isolation, and now seeks to bring existence to a permanent end by sabotaging the Fate Web. | |
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Grey-and-Gray Morality | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7335ffa9 | comment |
Grey-and-Gray Morality: One of Riff's biggest problems with the R&D wars. Way back when, it was easy to tell who the bad guys were. But now, Riff is allied with a vampire and nearly got killed by the girl he liked. There are still some factions that are Obviously Evil, like the No-Fun Legacy Group. But even Hereti Corp, which was clearly villainous in the past, is starting to look more like a case of Necessarily Evil. | |
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Unseen Pen Pal | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_73487cdb | comment |
Unseen Pen Pal: In a lengthy storyline, Gwynn is seen conversing with a friend on the Internet: a friend who happens to be skilled at the very type of black magic she's been trying to master. His advice always leads to disaster (of the kind where Hilarity Ensues, but still...) but she never seems to notice, or blames herself for not being careful enough. It's only after she's finally gotten fed up with her distrustful friends, and left on a bus to meet her 'Internet friend', that we find out that Zoe's Internet account - which Gwynn had been using - has been down for ages, and the 'friend' was actually a shard of K'Z'K the Vowelless, embedded in her brain, making her type his half of the conversation out in a word processor. He just needed to get her away from her friends so he could extend his influence to a complete possession... | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7374ab13 | type |
Once More, with Clarity | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7374ab13 | comment |
Once More, with Clarity: Occasionally the reader is out of the loop for the real plans. As the final plays are revealed, a few strips will usually be devoted to recapping the planning phase with new panels showing new information. Examples include the plan to rescue Sasha from Monicruel, Riff's last resort when raiding Hereti-Corp (Aylee), and the reveal of the Black-Ops Elves' plan to make Torg their leader. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_73f7975f | type |
Jerkass Gods | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_73f7975f | comment |
Jerkass Gods: With the exception of The Krig, God of Happiness, and Ra'na, The Sun Twin, the gods of Mohkadun were pretty messed up. | |
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Depleted Phlebotinum Shells | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_74150406 | comment |
Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: Riff has built many anti-vampire weapons, both for himself and for Vampire Hunter Arminius Vambrey, as well as anti-demon ones for fighting both K'z'k and the Dimension of Pain demons. | |
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Arc Words | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: Whenever Khronus, the god of time, fires someone, they will often go "Freelance". The first was Sluggy, god of power and Bun-bun's past self, who ended up calling himself "Sluggy Freelance" when Khronus exiled him. A former Fate Spider is another former employee of Khronus that goes freelance. Torg and Riff are also freelancers for reasons related to Fate. It is ultimately revealed that "Sluggy Freelance" was deliberately established by Fate as a rallying call, to call all of the heroes of Fate on to one spot in order to oppose the destroyer, K'Z'K. "NOTHING DEAD HERE." Appears in the haunted Kesandru House. Turns out it's one ghost warning another, and the whole phrase was "Nothing dead here leaves," referring to how spirits are trapped in the House and the Well at its bottom. "Nosce te ipsum." "Know yourself," advice given to Oasis that she's completely unable to follow up on because of some programmed mental blocks. And then, years and years in, we find out what it really means. Multiple unrelated characters have uttered the words "What... is... that blade?" upon seeing the effects Chaz has. | |
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Orphaned Punchline | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_74e2ef76 | comment |
Orphaned Punchline: In the third-to-last panel of this strip, Bun-bun (who is narrating this arc) guarantees that the comic will not end with a punchline. The next panel then has him being handed a "breaking news bulletin", which contains the punchline to a well-known joke, whereupon Bun-bun states in the final panel, "I stand corrected." | |
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Scavenger World | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_74e9a5b1 | comment |
Scavenger World: The Anima Dimension develops to become an extremely high tech civilization, complete with Brain Computer Interfaces, Robot Maids, and hover technology. Then they figure out how to murder people and and steal their animas for greater psychic power, triggering a massive war that kills off most of the population. The survivors are left too busy hiding from anima hunters to maintain their civilization, and it ultimately takes thousands of years for the situation to stabilize. By the time it finally does, they have reverted to an agrarian society, albeit with some high tech leftover to scavenge. Turns out that it NEVER does stabilize, and this agrarian society is a hallucination created by the last surviving anima hunter. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_75735299 | type |
Vampire Monarch | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_75735299 | comment |
Vampire Monarch: Lysinda, leader of the Lysinda circle of vampires; and later Philinnon, leader of the Vrykolakas circle of vampires. | |
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Pronouncing My Name for You | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_76c42cce | comment |
Pronouncing My Name for You: Dr. Haught-Sheik's name is mispronounced "Hot-Chick" and "Hoochie" by other characters, much to her annoyance. | |
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I Don't Like the Sound of That Place | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_76d6c3df | comment |
I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: The Dimension of Pain. Other dimensions with demons also have this, including "The Dimension of Grief." | |
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We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_771b9373 | comment |
We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future: In the futuristic city of 4-U City, injury, disease, and unhappiness have been wiped out. Aggressively. With nanobots and copious amounts of drugs. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_77c9a628 | type |
Your Soul Is Mine! | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_77c9a628 | comment |
In the Anima dimension, evil people figured out how to invoke Your Soul Is Mine!, allowing them to increase their psychic power by killing other people and stealing their animas. They annihilated most of the population stealing animas, bringing the about the downfall of their entire civilization and continued to hunt people down even afterwards. The situation got so bad that it was ultimately only resolved via Divine Intervention, when the goddess in charge of their world (i.e. the last survivor of the anima wars) was forced to rewrite how the entire anima system worked. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7960ab92 | type |
Sanity Ball | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7960ab92 | comment |
Sanity Ball: The characters often take turns being the sane one, with it being traded between Riff and Torg the most. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_796bffea | type |
Mistaken for Racist | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_796bffea | comment |
Mistaken for Racist: When writing a tweet, "According to statistics, wheits clearly superior to balkmen", much to get chagrin, it gets autocorrected to "According to statistics, whites clearly superior to black men" when posted. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7a3dd888 | type |
Real Men Wear Pink | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7a3dd888 | comment |
Real Men Wear Pink: Bun-bun once wore a lavender dress. And it was awesome. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7b66bc3b | type |
Big Anime Eyes | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7b66bc3b | comment |
Big Anime Eyes: Parodied a few times, with Gwynn's contact lenses and, when Torg makes an anime, he paints them on to Aylee and has a set that goes over his own eyes, despite his own eyes already being big enough. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7b74adb2 | type |
Grandfather Clause | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7b74adb2 | comment |
Grandfather Clause: Bun-bun's Baywatch obsession, though now rarely referenced, has survived after all the other Nineties-specific pop culture references died away, just because of how definitive a part of his character it is. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7c0bfb83 | type |
Obviously Evil | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil: Advisor Magon in the Storm Breaker Saga, lampshaded by Torg: | |
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Chronic Backstabbing Disorder | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7c862b8a | comment |
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: A lot of characters have this. The villains in the various parody arcs usually deserve special mention. This usually plays out for comedic purpose, but Abrams has managed to play it off quite well in dramatic arcs, too. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7c9933de | type |
Laughably Evil | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7c9933de | comment |
Laughably Evil | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7d34f23a | type |
Reckless Gun Usage | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7d34f23a | comment |
Reckless Gun Usage: Alt-Bun-bun invokes this trope, enough that Torg yells, "Quit pointing that empty gun at me, it's not really for making points in conversation!" Justified since Alt-Bun-bun comes from a dimension without guns (or much in the way of violence at all). | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7d3da681 | type |
The Legions of Hell | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7d3da681 | comment |
The Legions of Hell: The inhabitants of the Dimension of Pain, who are more inept than most. "That Which Redeems" displays what happens when they get their act together. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7d97ab06 | type |
Space Is an Ocean | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7d97ab06 | comment |
Space Is an Ocean: Timeless Space , that is. Which is, of course, traversed in pirate ships with time bubbles. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7dafc482 | type |
ChewToy | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7dafc482 | comment |
Chew Toy: Squeekybobo the elf gets abused beyond belief... he somehow managed to come out worse for it when he was resurrected (partly because he was set up to become king of Hell right when it happened). More recently, there's ZombieHeadOnAStick. She's still sentient, but the characters treat her like a toy or tool. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7ef728b1 | type |
Tsundere | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7ef728b1 | comment |
Tsundere: Monica (deliberately, because it keeps Riff off balance). Zoë and Gwynn also qualify very easily (one for each type) during the times when Torg and Riff have had relationships with them. Subverted by the alt-Zoë. Subverted by Sasha. She is very much not, and is easy-going to a fault. But Riff and Torg keep expecting her to flip to tsuntsun, and are kinda creeped out when she never does. | |
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-0.3 | |
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Vague Age | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7f080f98 | comment |
Vague Age: In comic years have passed, but characters show no signs of aging. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7f933d43 | type |
Claustrophobia | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7f933d43 | comment |
Claustrophobia: Zoë isn't claustrophobic, but is able to give herself a panic attack by picking a terrible time to think about how lucky she is not to be claustrophobic. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Fate Spiders' attempts to undo the Great Tangle turned out to only make it worse. More of a Nice Job Breaking It Villain, but Dr. Schlock reinstating Dr. Chen in Hereti Corp, who then takes back his place as CEO and orders Kusari to kill everyone in the building. Riff learns that Torg's attempts to bring down Hereti Corp are likely to result in a chain of events that will turn their world into a replica of 4UCity's world, and it might already be too late to stop it. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_80cdee8b | type |
God of Good | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_80cdee8b | comment |
The Dimension of Pain features the Goddess of Goodness and the Demon King. | |
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Mechanical Evolution | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_8134db87 | comment |
Mechanical Evolution: The Dig-Bots keep on reproducing for several years, until they've created several variants like the Brain Dig-Bot, Bouncer Dig-Bots, High Priest Dig-Bots, and even Trash Can Dig-Bots. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_8151ec48 | type |
Driving Question | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_8151ec48 | comment |
Driving Question: It's far from the only plot thread in the comic, but probably the biggest is "What is the real nature of Oasis?" (and, ultimately, can Torg and Zoe ever be free of the threat from her). A subtler one is "Why does Hereti-Corp want Oasis so badly?", given that (as several characters point out over the years) though she is a valuable immortal assassin, so is Kusari who they already have. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_81ae2774 | type |
Evil Matriarch | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_81ae2774 | comment |
Evil Matriarch: Vrykolakas vampires are able to gain independence and increased power by vampyrising those who share their blood. Urja has spent centuries tracking down all of her descendants and enslaving them. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_8288929a | type |
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_8288929a | comment |
In the "Kitten II" arc, two of the first victims of the kitten attack during the climax are the "Arny" members who betrayed the others. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_8409a385 | type |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_8409a385 | comment |
"Dr. Bunwig McTwodudes" here, consisting of two adult men (though they sure aren't acting like it) and a bonus rabbit. It Makes Just As Much Sense In Context; they really don't have much of a reason to use a disguise like that. Since they're not short, the "doctor" ends up being very tall, though at least Riff is sitting on Torg's shoulders, not standing. | |
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| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_8430699a | type |
Alternate Universe | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_8430699a | comment |
Alternate Universe: A major focus of the strip, with Riff's Dimensional Flux Agitator (DFA) invention meaning they have visited multiple dimensions (usually unintentionally), several of which are populated by alternate versions of the main cast and end up being well developed as settings. | |
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I Know Mortal Kombat | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_850258ca | comment |
I Know Mortal Kombat: During the "Storm Breaker" saga, a time-travelling Torg has to take on the role of Dark Ages Warlord Lord Torgamous and attempts this, but falls afoul of Command & Conquer Economy. Later, Torg appears in one of Gwynn's visions while she's possessed by K'Z'K and thinks he's dreaming about being in a Fighting Game — and proceeds to kick K'Z'K's ass. | |
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The Fair Folk | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_859ec5d8 | comment |
The Fair Folk: Cookie and Christmas elves are cute and relatively harmless, but the evil fairies that play tricks on minds and kidnap people also exist. | |
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Incredibly Obvious Bug | |
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Hereti Corp has also tried its hand at this with the mascot of their pizza restaurant, Sir Veillance, an Incredibly Obvious Bug in the form of a happy meal toy. Grab-all finds their amateur efforts adorable. But then they conquer Grab-all by eliminating its CEO and forcing its second to sell. They effectively take Grab-all's control to its natural conclusion in order to cover up their own crimes, track opponents for elimination, and promote their own interests. | |
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Hellevator | |
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Hellevator: An entire house (WITH GHOSTS IN THE GAS TANK!). | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: "My name is Gunman Stan McKurt. And I shoot evil in the face." "But now you can call me Lord Bun-bun, Eater of Holidays!" And that was before he took over Thanksgiving and Christmas. | |
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World of Pun | |
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World of Pun: Abrams loves puns of both the funny and groan-worthy varieties. There's a little background sketch Running Gag known as the 'pun demon'. Notably Torg and Riff once even weaponised Incredibly Lame Puns against K'z'k. | |
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Data Drive MacGuffin | |
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Data Drive MacGuffin: The first half of "The Research and Development Wars" centers on a raid against Hereti-Corp, wiping its backup corporate servers and absconding with the master set of hard drives. For most members of the attacking alliance, this is simply a matter of corporate espionage; for Torg, It's Personal as (among other things) Hereti-Corp's secret files are his only lead on who Oasis is and how to stop her. | |
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Psychic Powers | |
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Psychic Powers: The Anima Dimension's electicity magnifies the synapses, resulting in all sapient beings having an Empathy Pet. It is possible to use one's Empathy Pet to interact with other peoples' minds. | |
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Holding Back the Phlebotinum | |
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Holding Back the Phlebotinum: The technology of 4U city includes Nanites that can completely rebuild a dead person from a backup and portals that can predictably enter any location within any dimension at any time you want. Riff even takes it to its logical conclusion by resurrecting a dead person from a backup obtained via time travel. For obvious reasons, bringing back such technology would break the story, so 4U!Riff, a self-loathing Jerkass forbids his younger Alternate Self from bringing any of it back home. Plus, the Portal Technology is shown to have unbelievably severe drawbacks, namely the near-total obliteration of reality. | |
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Horror Host | |
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Horror Host: The first K I T T E N storyline (but not the sequel) is presented as an episode of "Bun-bun's Theatre of Horrors", with Bun-bun Breaking the Fourth Wall to take the narrator gig. | |
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Humiliation Conga | |
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Humiliation Conga: The demons of the dimension of pain go through quite a lengthy one. first there were their series on embarassing failures at trying to kill Torg on each Halloween, Lord Horribus' was the worst between his unexpected diahrrea and getting controlled by a magic spell through complete accident. Horribus is then exiled into being a cameraman to a demonic Steve Irwin parody. The other Dimension of Pain demons go through a goofy election period that ends with Terribus selling his soul to a mortal, who actually turned out to be an angel who gradually transforms the Dimension of Pain and its residents into some tastes-like-diabetes Carebears-meets-Barney-land. After finally beating the angel, they all get trapped in balls and get stuck in a chasm. They get out of their balls through an innuendo-laden process that leaves them with high pitched voices and no will to do anything. Then Terribus, disguised as the Demon King, makes them start a church and play Bingo games for crappy prizes. After throwing out Terribus they attack the real Demon King who then makes them go through excercise/excorcise routines... really, after all that, is it any wonder they go bezerk all over the Dimension of Lame? | |
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Stab the Scorpion | |
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Stab the Scorpion: Torg shooting Riff turns out to be an accident, since he was apparently trying to shoot a Mook behnd him. | |
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Kudzu Plot | |
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Kudzu Plot: Let's just put it this way - Mohkadun rarely had a strip go by without a flurry of footnotes highlighting what every event was referencing. One wonders if Abrams has a massive flowchart web running across his drawing room to keep track of every one of his plot points that he intends to put back into play again. | |
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Cerebus Retcon | |
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Cerebus Retcon: All the time. Perhaps the most subtle example is the early story arc Robot Rampage, which at the time seemed like a goofy filler action storyline that didn't impinge on the ongoing character dynamics between Sam, Val, Zoe and Torg that had been established. Yet it gave us Riff's first battle robot, the proliferation of which is forming the basis for the comic's arcs fifteen years later; it involved Bun-bun accidentally killing the Easter Bunny which set up Holiday Wars; after Bun-bun damaged the robot Riff tried to repair it with parts from his DFA and zapped Torg into the Dimension of Pain for the first time, setting up That Which Redeems; and more, all because Riff built a robot to do his laundry and Bun-bun stole it to rob a bank. | |
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Our Zombies Are Different | |
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Our Zombies Are Different: Jane's variety of zombies are immortal beings who rely on regeneration. The catch is that their regenerative state is highly selective and completely dependent on what they consume. For example, eating eyes will keep their eyesight from deteriorating while eating brains will allow them to retain their intelligence and cognitive abilities. In addition, being bitten by a zombie will not turn a person into one. Whenever someone dies in a location under K'Z'K's power, their body rises as what K'Z'K calls a "Deadel". They retain some of their old personality and can potentially even talk, but are essentially corpses who act according to the bidding of their master. Some Technically Living Zombies appear in the Living Conditions arc, when brain eating bugs disrupt the balance between social skills and scientific genius so badly that the newly created super nerds start acting like zombies. There is a type of zombie-like creature referred to as "Ghouls," which are actually aliens, belonging to Aylee's species. In The Road to Bjorkea, Torg and Gwynn discover an even stranger type of zombie created by a flower demon. Anyone who dies within a certain radius of the flower demon gets stuck in their bodies instead of moving on to the afterlife. After unspecified conditions are met (speculated to be exposure to sunlight), their undead corpse starts converting into a plantlike monster, but the victim retains its freewill. However, they become prone to anger. If they are sufficiently enraged, it burns out their soul, making them into the flower demon's slaves and dealing them a Fate Worse than Death. | |
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Good Angel, Bad Angel | |
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Good Angel, Bad Angel: Played relatively straight by Gwynn, subverted by everyone else. Especially Riff, both of whose consciences are so apathetic and reticent they forget which side they're meant to take at times. Torg's bad angel is Ax-Crazy, with no subtlety for tempting. Conversely, Zoë's good angel is sufficiently adept at putting her foot in her mouth that the bad angel rarely has to say anything, really. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: When many of Torg's and Riff's zanier plans go awry, there's often someone else who will suggest that they didn't think the plan through all the way. | |
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Timey-Wimey Ball | |
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Timey-Wimey Ball: While generally glossed over for the sake of a good story, Time Travel has worked differently in different circumstances - "The Storm Breaker" saga resulted in Zoë and Torg actually changing history (which then gave Zoë problems on a history test), but we also learn that Valerie was turned into a vampire as the result of Torg's actions in the past, even though she was a vampire before he traveled back in time. Also, Dr. Schlock from the future watched his younger self die, but he's still around because he's from an alternate doomed future that was averted in the current timeline thanks to some of the technology he sent back in time to stop K'Z'K, as he mentioned in Kiki's Virus, here. K'Z'K eventually reveals that whenever someone tries to change the past, Krohnus's Web of Fate will try to steer things back to the right course. If a timeline is altered beyond the Fate Web's ability to create a Stable Time Loop, it will try to split the altered timeline into an Alternate Universe. Fail at that, and it results in a Time Crash. And Timeless Space, being Exactly What It Says on the Tin, can be accessed from any point in time, simultaneously. One who manages to escape may not necessarily return to the time stream where they originally came from. It's heavily implied that Bun-bun originally came from a time long before the rest of the cast was born. Lampshaded in this comic. | |
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Bears Are Bad News | |
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Bears Are Bad News: Invoked by Torg, to get a Killer Rabbit out of his house. Subsequently subverted by Bun-Bun, who literally skinned it alive. | |
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Finger in the Mail | |
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Finger in the Mail: Magon sends Torg a finger that supposedly belongs to Zoe (in fact, he got it from one of the guards), to convince him that Zoe's dead. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: The "Vampires" story line was one of the first to shake up the status quo. Sam and Valerie are revealed to be vampires, and the latter's death results in a resolution to the Love Triangle involving her, Torg, Sam and Zoe. 12/06/09 reveals one of the biggest pieces of information about Oasis to date. She's pyrokinetic and many, many of her explosive exits earlier in the series that were previously assumed to be the results of things like Gwynn's magical powers or bombs going off were Oasis' pyrokinetic abilities exploding. bROKEN is basically a wham arc. This becomes apparent when Dr. Schlock has Oasis's father-figure executed while she watches helplessly, for no reason other than to show he means business. As the arc ends, Torg is losing his grip on reality and becoming increasingly unstable, Oasis is paralyzed from the neck down in the clutches of HeretiCorp, Aylee is clearly dying from a massive neck wound (she thankfully gets better), Zoë's cursed necklace has been found (which had no possible explanation other than her being dead), and Riff is trapped in a dystopian alternate dimension and was seemingly shot down by a squad of armed goons while cradling Zoë's burnt corpse. The 4U City arc has more than its share of whams as well. Particularly the conclusion of its most recent (and presumably final) segment, where Riff goes back to his dimension stop a similar set of events from occurring in his world which destroyed 4U's dimension. Remember a decade ago, when it briefly seemed like Sasha might be a Hereticorp spy? The 8/20/2012 strip shows that this was right all along. The Mohkadun arc is a whopper, revealing the answers to many questions, such as the backstories of many of the gods, including Bun-bun, an Amnesiac God who is one of their number. But the biggest reveal of them all is what will happen if the God of Destruction, K'Z'K, is killed, and by extension the true nature of Sluggy Freelance's endgame. The storylines "Falling" and "The Heavens and the Earth" are one Wham Comic after another, as they finally reveal the truth behind the much-speculated questions of the nature of Oasis and Kusari, the latter's identity, Dr Schlock's Triangle plan, and much more. | |
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo | |
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: A few years into the strip, technology started being referred to in this way (like the Hogtendo SuuWii and Playstayshun 2 consoles). Initially, though, things like Torg's Sega Dreamcast were given their proper names. | |
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The Voiceless | |
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The Voiceless: Aylee at the end of bROKEN, due to a still healing neck injury. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: A self-proclaimed pirate who would kill a hobo for 5 bucks comes upon an apparently murdered woman's corpse and gleefully tries to look for a way to profit from it. Said corpse turns out to be a starved vampire who proceeds to feed on and kill him. Likewise, his wife, a saleswoman who in a likely reference to Martin Shkreli, happened to have raised the price of children’s medicine from twelve bucks to one billion, proceeds to become said vampire's next victim. In the "Kitten II" arc, two of the first victims of the kitten attack during the climax are the "Arny" members who betrayed the others. | |
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Sdrawkcab Alias | |
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Sdrawkcab Alias: When undercover infiltrating Shankraft's minions and asked for his name, Torg comes up with "Grot". Unfortunately for Sasha he also does the same for her, telling them she's "Ahsas", pronounced "Ass-ass". | |
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Wasn't That Fun? | |
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Wasn't That Fun?: This strip. | |
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Demonic Possession | |
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The standard demons of the main universe are spirits from another realm. Most of them are called "Possessors" and are limited to controlling a host via Demonic Possession. Manifestors can channel magic through their hosts. "Emergent" are the rarest type of demon. They can manifest physically without the need for a host, though they still have the option of taking a host if they want it. K'Z'K was originally the god of destruction, but was converted into "merely" an ultra powerful Emergent demon. This gave him the power to possess people. K'Z'K's demonic followers are spirits without physical bodies of their own. Instead, they possess mortal bodies and are able to channel their individual powers through them. Imps are a particularly weak and foolish type of demon, but they are nevertheless Emergent. One man manages to trick and bind one, Ozzid, to serve as a Power Source for Powers via Possession. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: A zombie fetishist tries to get revenge on a company that stole his intellectual property by Mind Controlling people into a zombie-like trance and making them into cannibals, starting with said company and eventually spreading from there. He gets Hoist by His Own Petard when he accidentally centers the event on his own house and ends up being killed by his own housecat. | |
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Art Shift | |
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Art Shift: Done a few times: Simplified stick figure filler arcs. A trippy, surreal style used for Gwynn's visions in "The Bug, the Witch, and the Robot". The more detailed comic book type art style of "Fire and Rain". | |
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In the Future, We Still Have Roombas | |
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In the Future, We Still Have Roombas: The Digbots. A No Celebrities Were Harmed version of the real Roomba (Riff's "Vroomba") appeared around the time it was big in the media, but fell victim to A.I. Is a Crapshoot. | |
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Unhand Them, Villain! | |
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Unhand Them, Villain!: When a K'Z'K-possessed Gwynn is dangling Dr. Lorna over the side of the Empire State Building, Riff demands, "Drop my mom now!", and immediately thereafter, realizes it was a poor choice of words. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: Riff, when he realizes that Hereti Corp was an evil organization bent on using his friends for their diabolical ends, and discovers that his scientific reports back to them (which held little interest to them until he started talking about the several levels of crazy that happens in his life on a daily basis, including transdimensional travel and space aliens) were helping them do just that. In the end he's very bent on revenge. 4U!Riff and 4U!Frog, upon finding out that Riff intends to risk his life to try and save a dying 4U!Mimi, laugh and insult him for his Chronic Hero Syndrome, only for 4U!Frog to admit that there is something seriously wrong with them. | |
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Behind the Black | |
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Behind the Black: A relatively frequent gag is for characters to need help finding something, only for another character to point out that it's just off-screen. Bun-bun will charge for the information. Except it wasn't actually Bun-bun, and the cost was Torg's soul. | |
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Sudden Anatomy | |
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Sudden Anatomy: Bun-bun's mouth has only appeared three times. | |
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Multilayer Façade | |
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Multilayer Façade: Parodied in a filler arc done by several guest artists here, in which the evil mastermind is progressively unmasked as Reakk from the Dimension of Pain, Dr. Schlock, Vice-President Al Gore, brilliant but mentally disturbed physicist Nikola Tesla, Kindly Old Mrs. Appleby, and Stick Figure Shirt-Guy Tom. And then Bruno the Bandit refuses to believe that's the final layer and ends up ripping Tom's head off. | |
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He-Man Woman Hater | |
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He-Man Woman Hater: Dr. Nofun, Lau, and the rest of his organisation, taken to comically ridiculous levels. Subverted by Dr. Nofun when he reveals that he faked his misogyny to surround himself with men he could frighten and women who were weak. By doing things this way, he could control everyone in his company so that no one would betray him. Lau was flabbergasted because it made a very strange amount of sense. | |
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Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul | |
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Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Dr. Schlock's ultimate goal is to do this to everyone else, so as to prevent the risk of anyone ever trying to kill him ever again. In the 4U city universe, he succeeded for a while. Torg, Gwynn, and a spellcaster named Marco get stranded in an area under a dreadful curse. The curse magnifies rage and turns anyone who feels enough hate into a monster. When the hate starts becoming too much for Marco to handle, he uses an empathic spell on everyone to counter it for a while. | |
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As You Know | |
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As You Know: Parodied — one of the major running gags is the comic is that recaps are never played straight, always lampshaded, and often framed in a comedic way. | |
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Chick Magnet | |
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Chick Magnet: Riff is an unusual type in that it's manifested in him being able to acquire a new girlfriend immediately after breaking up with the last. He also invented a literal Chick Magnet that didn't quite go according to plan. He finally calls out this trope late in Mohkadun. | |
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Time Crash | |
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Time Crash: Normally when a person travels through time, Krohnus's Web of Fate will try to steer things back on course and create a Stable Time Loop to prevent a paradox. Failing that, the timelines will split into an Alternate Universe. But depending on the circumstances, a paradox can cause a universe's safety mechanisms to fail and result in The End of the World as We Know It. On the other hand, overuse of dimension, time, and/or space travel within a dimension will cause catastrophic damage to it, as was the case in 4U City. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Especially (but not limited to) the Oceans Unmoving storyline. Mohkadun seems to imply Sluggy Prime is like this as well. Reality exists entirely to be destroyed with everyone and everything in it. The stretch of time between creation and destruction is called "the Spark." We're on our seventh spark. And it's been stated that all anyone's been able to do is keep delaying the end of the spark because you cannot have a beginning without an end. Sooner or later, they will fail...and the whole thing starts over again. | |
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Soul-Cutting Blade | |
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Soul-Cutting Blade: The sword Chaz actually seems to have an easier time killing spiritual beings than physical ones. | |
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All-Loving Hero | |
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Mosp. At first her snakes seem to speak for her, but we find out later that they aren't even aware of her existence, and each thinks the other has been running the body. Torg's sympathy for her plight ultimately triggers a Heel–Face Turn and Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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Fictional Video Game | |
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Fictional Video Game: Several; the Fashion Rancher series on the PlayStayshun, the PC MMORPG Years of Yarncraft, the smartphone casual game HamsterNom, and Super Duper Dream Fighters, apparently the result of demons doing an in-universe defictionalisation of Torg's Fighting Game dreams. The early years of the strip, by contrast, usually mentioned real games like Total Annihilation and Quake. | |
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Broke Episode | |
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Broke Episode: Several Broke Arcs, actually. (Not "bROKEN", though.) | |
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Death by Cameo | |
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Death by Cameo: Several fans of the strip have won the right to have cameos on it - and all of them die in various interesting ways within a few strips of appearing. | |
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Word Salad Title | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_9c550e26 | comment |
Word Salad Title: Very, very much so. Lampshaded a couple times; even the characters don't know what "Sluggy" means. Explained seventeen years into the comic. Sluggy is Bun-bun's ancient name as a god of Mohkadun, and his being cast out from the pantheon is described by him as "going freelance". Strangely enough, Torg and Riff note that they share the name as well. Torg was a freelance Web designer and his middle name is Sluggy. Meanwhile, Riff's codename for HC was Sluggy and his official job title was "freelancer". It is hinted that this coincidence was caused by Uncle Time changing Fate to get all the "Potentials" in the same place at the same time to stop a world ending event. It is unknown why the name and title is associated with such people. | |
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Public Secret Message | |
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Public Secret Message: Torg arranges clandestine contact with Oasis by hammering the world with a viral music video featuring the refrain "Meet me at the cliff": that is, where their second encounter culminated, somewhere out in the Poconos. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: With hints and clues showing up in disguised form several years before the payoff. Possibly the biggest, most subtle example is the revelation that Oasis is a pyrokinetic, which makes earlier encounters crystal clear hints to this end. Also, if you stop and think, Zoë being burned alive by Oasis had been hinted at since the second K'Z'K arc. A deceptive one was Bert making one of his apparently random crotch-related comments about a prophetic vision, only for the next storyline to indeed end with a giant space-crotch◊ being flown by Torg and Riff fleeing for their lives.◊ A long-range one was that the title of the "Fire and Rain" storyline from 2002 did not only describe the events therein, but also foreshadowed those of "bROKEN" from 2009, as indicated in the annotation to this strip. Even the Research & Development Wars were foreshadowed all the way back at the Clonegressive arc, during 28 Geeks Later. Although the boss's speech implies they are going on at the time, they don't become central until years later. During the second K'Z'K plot, Gwyn's visions are packed full of foreshadowing. Oasis is the puppet. The four fiery pillars are her hair, which foreshadows her pyrokinesis. This immediately precedes Vision!Zoe burning alive, which Oasis later does to her. Riff as a juggler being juggled by (not juggling) three numbered pins, followed by Sasha wearing a three shirt: fans theorised for years this referred to three possible girlfriends for Riff, but years later it was revealed that it was actually foreshadowing that there were three Sashas. And her visions give her the clues she needs to defeat K'Z'K. At the end of the "Dangerous Days Ahead" storyline way back in 2002, Dr Schlock (who had briefly been forced to work for Hereti-Corp at the time) told Torg he only vaguely knew that Hereti-Corp needed to track Oasis in relation to the location of Dr Steve's base. In 2008, when Dr Schlock has taken over Hereti-Corp, he unveils his "Schlock Triangle" plan. At first this seems to be unrelated, but finally in 2017 it is revealed that it was the culmination of the same plan, and it's explained why this was so important: to use triangulation of the signals to find the location of Oasis' real form in orbit. Captain Blacksoul being a Teknokon robot is foreshadowed here between the chapter of Dr. Viennason's Visual Guide to Surviving Timeless Space Calix is watching and the fact that Blacksoul says he had his ears turned off. Sasha being "someone who won't stay dead" in the same way as Oasis is sublty hinted at here, though at the time, Torg was referring to Sam. | |
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Filler | |
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Filler: Usually of the 'non-demanding art' variety in between major storylines; in the early days this was usually planned stick-figure weeks or guest artist weeks (and these still appear) but there can also be more erratic examples of things like sketches and fanart submissions used unexpectedly when plotting issues, illness etc. delays the main comic. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: "Ooo-This is gonna hurt." | |
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Black Magic | |
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Black Magic: Gwynn. Also, a couple of one-arc villains. | |
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Ignorance Is Bliss | |
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Ignorance Is Bliss: The survivors of Mohkadun chose to forget their forsaken background and assimilate into the Egyptians for this reason. Macha felt that burying the truth was foolish, but the elders did not see things that way. Elder Maloufo even went so far as to threaten Macha with exile if he refused to let go of their past. | |
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Corporate Warfare | |
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Corporate Warfare: The Research and Development wars pit all of the Evil Corps and supervillains of the world against one another, using private armies and secret weapons developed by Mad Scientists. In the Dimension of Rain, Hereti Corp won a Pyrrhic Victory only after the world was in ruins and reality itself had become fragile. In the main universe, Hereti Corp wins before the public even notices anything is happening. | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_9f63d4f1 | comment |
Our Vampires Are Different: Three different types of vampires, summarized briefly here. For more detail see Vampire Variety Pack. | |
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Last Plan Standing | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_9f91030 | comment |
Last Plan Standing: Torg allies with Monicruel, among others, to raid Hereti-Corp's corporate servers while wiping their backups. His plan would leave him in possession of the data (with no intention of sharing it with the rest of the alliance), but Monicruel captures Torg's teammate Sasha and demands control of the information herself. Then the Torglodytes infiltrate Monicruel's hideout and liberate both Sasha and the case full of stolen hard drives; Hereti-Corp gets the last laugh as the former seizes the opportunity to snag the latter, revealing herself as a mole. | |
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Evil Is Not a Toy | |
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Evil Is Not a Toy: Torg, maybe carrying around a Zombie Head on A Stick is not such a hot idea. Especially since said head is only mindless while starved. Once fed, it seems she returns to her original, vindictive, cruel self. And now the villain you wronged earlier has been doing just that, and they're about to team up and hunt down your unaware friends. Way to go. Fortunately, ZHOAS is still a giant Butt Monkey, so this doesn't last. | |
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Blind Date | |
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Blind Date: An early storyline has Sam setting up Torg on one of these. | |
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Living Legend | |
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Living Legend: Torg makes quite the name for himself in the Dimension of Lame during That Which Redeems. | |
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JamesBondage | |
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James Bondage: Who are we rescuing this time? Riff or Torg? Either one will end up stuck in Another Dimension, or trapped by some Big Bad. Zoë/Gwynn/Aylee/Kiki to the rescue! | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
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Overly Long Gag: Dr. Viennason explains the dimension of timeless space by illustrating what happens when you run out of time supplies. By standing perfectly still for thirteen panels. Although he breaks it to surreptitiously glance at the camera if you look carefully in the tenth panel. The same trope is used for a whole sixteen panels in this Gofotron battle. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: In "Aylee vs. Bun-bun", Bun-bun, having been eaten by Aylee, bursts out of her chest in a clear parody homage to Alien. | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Almost happens in this strip. | |
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Enemy Chatter | |
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Enemy Chatter: Every once in a while, used for fun by minions. Typical instance here. Sometimes painful with the Mood Whiplash. | |
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It's Not You, It's My Enemies | |
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It's Not You, It's My Enemies: On the cusp of beginning a meaningful relationship with Zoë, Torg has to play a psychotic stalker variant of this when Oasis tracks him down. She's in love with him thanks to mind control and she can also fight robots, aliens, demons, and Bun-bun on an even footing. Zoë is, at best, a Badass Normal. In a stunning aversion of the Cartwright Curse Torg normally inflicts on his love interests, Torg says goodbye. | |
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Saw a Woman in Half | |
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Saw a Woman in Half: Doesn't quite go as planned for Riff... | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The tone can shift from funny to dramatic to heartwarming to heartrending to terrifying whenever Pete feels like it. "Does this affect our upcoming date?" Note that Sam asks this to Sasha after she survives being shot. This is a perfect example of Sluggy's attitude to this trope: Riff suddenly realises that a mysterious message from the ghost Beth has the last word hidden behind a mirror which dramatically turns the situation upside down and reveals the house is a ghost trap, but in the middle of it Torg also realises that another message from her reading "Torg is great" also had the end cut off behind furniture and actually reads "Torg is a great big dummy". Hunted by undying assassin Oasis, the mood is generally frantic and gloomy. "Nobody saw that." | |
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Naked People Are Funny | |
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Naked People Are Funny: Two of Aylee's forms have been humanoid (and naked) women. She's shown InnocentFanserviceGirl-ness in both forms, the first time during which Torg just stood back and enjoyed the view, and the second time he downed a large amount of alcohol and taught her about clothing after she revealed her built-in cloak was really wings (accidentally flashing him with disturbingly-human naughty bits in the process). Outside of Aylee, Zoë's clothing usually doesn't survive her transformation into a camel, and one storyline had every scrap of clothing in the house being eaten by evil moths. Not really the nudity itself so much as the reaction to it, but Torg's attempt at having a cohesive flashback while Sasha is changing is too funny. Played straight when he finally does turn his back and Sasha continues to let him think she's changing after she's fully dressed again. He didn't notice that she took off her bra three times. | |
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Commitment Issues | |
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Commitment Issues: It's implied Riff might have this hang up, although it could also be a combination of attracting crazies (even the ones he remains friends with) and not being the best at expressing himself. | |
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Really700YearsOld | |
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Really 700 Years Old: Some of the vampires, including Lysinda, Valerie and Philinnon (who is said to be old even by vampire standards, originating around 400 BC). Oddly, Philinnon is a "vrykolakas", which really is a Greek vampire...but its name is a Slavic loan-word (originally meaning "werewolf"), borrowed in the Byzantine era. Of course, it's entirely possible Philinnon and company were just called something different back then. | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
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Status Quo Is God: Subverted repeatedly, especially for a comic of its length. The main cast has moved from living in an apartment complex, to living in an old house, to losing the house and living in yet another apartment, to living in yet another house. When they're not trapped in the past/future or another dimension. Not to mention the fact that the only dating combinations not explored by the human central cast at this point are the ones which involve Ho Yay or Les Yay. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Dr. Lorna, Riff's mom, never gets paid back for being a terrible mother and an even worse human being in general. Her son's supposed death was a just an opportunity for her to write a book calling him a horrible person and taking the blame of his supposed moral failings off of herself. Riff is simply someone to show off to prove she's a great mother or someone to mock and profit off of. On top of that, she spends all day berating callers and mocking other people while falsely accusing them of crimes like wife-beating so that she looks like a Saint in comparison and then she brags about herself. People in this comic have been killed for a lot less. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname / Only One Name: Torg and Riff. Riff prefers it, since his one name doubles as an Embarrassing Middle Name (Hellooooo Riffington..!) The Unreveal of Torg's last name is a running gag in the Harry Potter spoofs. | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity: If Crushestro is to be believed, Minion Master has this trait, pretending to be manipulated by Torg while really using Torg to knock down other evil organizations so that Hereti Corp can pick them up. It seems not, as we now know that it's Izzy (at least according to what she said) who is in contact with Hereti Corp. Torg pulls this on Crushestro [[Spoiler:while they're working together as part of the Alliance]]. Crushestro recognizes this and is impressed, but doesn't realize that Torg is doing it also to distract Crushestro from his new teammates. | |
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Contractual Immortality | |
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There was at one point, a meme on the forum where certain characters were called Not Allowed to Die; when one of these characters was Killed Off for Real during a parody arc, the list was narrowed down to the main characters. Then even some of them... Dead? Alive? Only Mostly Dead? Fate Worse than Death? It got almost to the point of Zig-Zagged Trope. | |
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Leave No Witnesses | |
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Leave No Witnesses: Under Dr. Schlock, Hereti Corp manages to weaponize the DFA as a way to banish enemies from their own dimension. Due to the threat such a weapon poses, Hereti Corp seeks to avoid anyone realizing such a weapon exists and thus try to erase all witnesses during the first operation they are used on. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: The Squid-spear made by the NoFun corporation. Not only was it revealed to be sentient after its destruction, it was also innocent enough to empower Torg's sword. Mosp. At first her snakes seem to speak for her, but we find out later that they aren't even aware of her existence, and each thinks the other has been running the body. Torg's sympathy for her plight ultimately triggers a Heel–Face Turn and Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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Combining Mecha | |
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The Punyverse Saga is a mix of parodies of Combining Mecha anime (such as Voltron), Star Wars, and Lobo from DC Comics. | |
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Close-Enough Timeline | |
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Close-Enough Timeline: Torg at first thinks that the Dimension of Lame constitutes one (the only visible differences being that Riff has different glasses, Zoe has purple hair and has the hots for Torg, and that Bun-bun is nice while Kiki is nasty) but he soon changes his mind after he finds out they don't have beer. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: In the "bROKEN" story arc, Several characters mention Oasis' murder of the "innocent" Monica. Readers, however, know that Monica was far from innocent-she was a member of a K'Z'K cult sent to spy on the gang by her superiors. Of course, Oasis didn't know this-Monica's death was due to her unintentional triggering of Oasis' Berserk Button. It's also an interesting subversion of the Moral Event Horizon. (see the entry for details) Torg confronts Hereti Corp with Oasis in front of him to talk, believing there is no way they will risk killing Oasis to get him since they've been wanting to control her so long. But readers already know that Hereti Corp was recently given a plan that would allow them to track the source of Oasis's immortality by killing her current body. They shoot Oasis right in the middle of Torg's Kirk Summation. As soon they confirm said kill and that it got them what they wanted, they go all out to kill Torg and his comrades. | |
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Chronic Hero Syndrome | |
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4U!Riff and 4U!Frog, upon finding out that Riff intends to risk his life to try and save a dying 4U!Mimi, laugh and insult him for his Chronic Hero Syndrome, only for 4U!Frog to admit that there is something seriously wrong with them. | |
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Closer to Earth | |
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Closer to Earth: Lampshaded when Torg and Riff get transported to another dimension that turns them into women: Torg immediately feels that he's (she's?) more on top of things, if also more sensitive. However, in the comic itself is also somewhat fused with Only Sane Man - Zoe is definitely Closer to Earth (if allowing herself to revel in the insanity around her from time to time), whereas Gwynn thinks she's closer to Earth but tends to be as childish as a boys much of the time - the arc where they're all living together spells it out pretty well. | |
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Dissimile | |
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Dissimile and Metaphorgotten: A LOT, mainly from Torg, e.g. his increasingly Innocent Innuendo-filled explanation of politics to Kiki involving balls, and his insistence on adding "WITH GHOSTS IN THE GAS TANK!" to every metaphor Riff comes up with for the Hellevator mentioned below. | |
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Red Shirt | |
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Red Shirt: When you hear that there's someone named Bitparte in K I T T E N I I, you just know he won't survive until the end. Also Juan Adyslow, Ed Mitdefeat, and Sid Uationhopeless. Parodied in one of the stick figure fillers (IN SPACE!), where wearing a red shirt makes you a magnet for random gunfire. Also parodied during Aylee's first appearance. | |
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Perfect Pacifist People | |
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Perfect Pacifist People: Mocked with the inhabitants of the Dimension of Lame, who think food fighting is immoral and crumble over the slightest bit of external pressure. | |
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Living Shadow | |
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Living Shadow: For a while the Groundhog's shadow was bound to Bun-Bun. Originally it could just talk and change its shape, but after he defeated a few holidays it became able to take 3-dimensional and physical form. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
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In the Dimension of Rain, both of them fill this role. After winning the Research and Development Wars (and controlling what remained) through excessive use of dimensional flux agitation, Dr. Schlock split his time between ruling 4U City and monitoring the breakdown of the fabric of reality. Then Riff forced his way back into the dimension, causing even more damage than had already been sustained. In the face of this catastrophe, they teamed up and put 4U City into "a holding pattern for society" so they could devote their attention to the hard work of repairing dimensional stability. Since Schlock's death, Riff has carried on the scientific work alone, delegating oversight of the city to an Artificial Intelligence with its own agenda. | |
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De-power | |
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Eventually, most of the gods of Mohkadun are Depowered into Holidays. While they remain The Ageless, it is entirely possible to kill them by ordinary means, and they lose most of their powers. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Most often Chaz in recent years. Has been used by other characters throughout the years, though. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: Dr. Hot-Chick... Hot-Cheeks... Hoochie... Er, we mean Haught-Shiek. | |
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Dreaming of Things to Come | |
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Dreaming of Things to Come: Both Gwynn and Torg have had symbolic, prophetic dreams of things to come, specifically about Oasis and Zoë. Gwynn has one of these about Zoe being burned alive. Too bad she forgot about it until seven years later. Torg has also had prophetic dreams about the same event, and possibly an event following them. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Riff: "Let me check my notes" and "I'm on a budget here." Bert: "My world is a crotch!" Kiki: "Oooh, shiny!" "Stay good, _____! Stay good!" This one has even become something of a fandom/forum catchphrase itself. Whenever someone does or thinks something morally ambiguous, you can bet someone's going to say it, sometimes even Pete himself, and it pops up in non-comic related conversations occasionally as well. Bun-bun('s switcblade): Ka-click Dimension of Pain demons: "How evil." Chaz, whenever it is activated: "Good evening, master. Whom are we going to kill this eve" Crushestro: "I CRUSH you!" "I'll be good" by anyone who gets threatened with something. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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In The Road to Bjorkea, Torg and Gwynn discover an even stranger type of zombie created by a flower demon. Anyone who dies within a certain radius of the flower demon gets stuck in their bodies instead of moving on to the afterlife. After unspecified conditions are met (speculated to be exposure to sunlight), their undead corpse starts converting into a plantlike monster, but the victim retains its freewill. However, they become prone to anger. If they are sufficiently enraged, it burns out their soul, making them into the flower demon's slaves and dealing them a Fate Worse than Death. | |
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Two Aliases, One Character | |
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Two Aliases, One Character: Kusari is never seen outside her all-concealing ninja suit until her Dramatic Unmask twenty years into the comic's run. More accurately, never seen except in her other identity as Sasha, aided in the obfuscation by being a cloned Hive Mind. | |
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Go for the Eye | |
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On the other hand, she did remember to Go for the Eye, so maybe she has the right genre. | |
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Loophole Abuse | |
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Lysinda allied herself with the Strakoi vampires and won a war. The Strakoi decided to "gift" Lysinda with vampiric dominion over the Americas, though this was intended as an exile. They signed a magic contract that forbade Strakoi vampires from entering Lysinda's domain without permission. But now that the new world is better known, the Strakoi seek to use Loophole Abuse to claim it from Lysinda and have been quietly wiping out her circle for this reason. The magic is shown to repulse a Strakoi from coming within more than a few feet of American soil. | |
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Content Warnings | |
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Content Warnings: During the "K I T T E N" arcs. Usually somewhat satirical in nature. | |
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Retcon | |
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Vrykolakas vampires originate from Greece. They are looked down on by other vampires as trashy and were once kept as slaves by other vampires. Vrykos cannot fly (after a Retcon), but they are pretty good at jumping. They can turn others into vampires just by draining them dry. A Vrykolas vampire can become a Vryko master, recovering some independence and increased magical power, by draining dry family members. Vryko masters can enter a mist form and have total control over their sires, who effectively become little more than extensions of their own minds. Two of the Vryko masters seen like to keep attractive sires of the opposite sex. All Vryko answer to a higher Vryko up to the Queen, and should someone higher in the chain be staked, normal Vrykos will perish as well, and even the strongest will be greatly weakened. They are unaffected by many of the usual weaknesses, and have the greatest numbers and unity, but are the weakest vampire type overall and will collapse into ash with just a small poke of wood or silver to the heart. After their Queen dies, they weaken even further to the point that just being exposed to too much stupidity can kill them. | |
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Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_b43754f1 | comment |
Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics: Played straight with the Punyverse, averted with most other dimensions (in particular, That Which Redeems where there is nothing 'throwaway' about how the Dimension of Lame is treated). | |
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All Issues Are Political Issues | |
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All Issues Are Political Issues: Played for laughs here. | |
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Take That! | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
A rather giant Take That! to "social media" in general and Zynga-style "social gaming" specifically in the HamsterNom arc. "Luckily [neglecting Kiki] was only because of hidden images in the social media programs controlling our minds and not our own personal failures." (meaningful Aside Glance) | |
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Too Dumb to Fool | |
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Too Dumb to Fool: Torg. At least this is usually how it's played; the first Kesandru House storyline has a medium say he genuinely has a resistance to psychic influence, though. | |
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I Cannot Self-Terminate | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_b731fa6e | comment |
One could regard Zombie head on a stick's fate as this. She has already begged for death and made multiple attempts at suicide. Played for Laughs naturally. | |
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Love Triangle | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_b7e0c5ff | comment |
The "Vampires" story line was one of the first to shake up the status quo. Sam and Valerie are revealed to be vampires, and the latter's death results in a resolution to the Love Triangle involving her, Torg, Sam and Zoe. | |
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Evil Overlord | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_b8dde2 | comment |
The part in "Holiday Wars" when Bun-bun himself becomes an Evil Overlord by becoming the Anthropomorphic Personification of most holidays including Christmas. Now that is bad. | |
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Slow-Loading Internet Image | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_b8fb4944 | comment |
Slow-Loading Internet Image: An April Fool's day comic made good use of this trope here. | |
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Must Be Invited | |
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Vorpyr vampires, such as those from the Lysinda circle, are the oldest variety and originate from Western Europe. They shrivel up and stop moving when they're staked through the heart, but immediately come back to life if you pull the stake out. They Must Be Invited to enter a dwelling and are warded away by holy symbols. Turning a mortal takes a lengthy ritual that involves draining blood out of them over days then having them drink from a sufficiently powerful Vorpyr's blood. | |
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Soul Eating | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_b98a8902 | comment |
Soul Eating: What brought about the end of what had been a Utopia up until then. In the Anima Dimension, everyone has an "Anima", an Empathy Pet produced as a psychic projection. Someone figured out how to harvest other peoples' animas to augment their own psychic power and took over. The resulting psionic war killed off most of the population. Even then, there were those who would hunt down every other survivor they could find and continue to devour them. | |
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Morality Chain | |
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Morality Chain: Her master, Feng, who was also responsible for helping her overcome the brainwashing. His death causes her to immediately abandon it all and elope with Torg, which starts the chain events that led to Zoe's death. | |
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Sadistic Choice | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_babc974 | comment |
Sadistic Choice: Torg to Crushestro here. | |
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Adventurer Archaeologist | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_bbd8d3f4 | comment |
Adventurer Archaeologist: Tomb Raider gets a spoofing with the "Lara Kroft-Macaroni-And-Cheese" arc. Riff's dad is also one. | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
In the "bROKEN" story arc, Several characters mention Oasis' murder of the "innocent" Monica. Readers, however, know that Monica was far from innocent-she was a member of a K'Z'K cult sent to spy on the gang by her superiors. Of course, Oasis didn't know this-Monica's death was due to her unintentional triggering of Oasis' Berserk Button. It's also an interesting subversion of the Moral Event Horizon. (see the entry for details) | |
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Government Drug Enforcement | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_bca8900a | comment |
Government Drug Enforcement: The alternate universe in which Riff becomes trapped during the 4U City arc in takes this to a ridiculous level, to the point where none of Riff's chemistry class can't tell that they're having a staring contest with a balloon. Not just a balloon with a drawn on face, but a balloon wearing drawn on sunglasses. | |
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Ominous Multiple Screens | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_bcf1bb32 | comment |
Ominous Multiple Screens: Hereti-Corp's offices. Lampshaded with comments about why the room is so dark if it has so many bright screens in it. | |
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Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad | |
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Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: The demons from the Dimension of Pain, who find things like flowers intolerable. | |
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Perfectly Cromulent Word | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_bdbfd01c | comment |
Perfectly Cromulent Word: In trying to come up with his new name, You-Probably-Don't-Know-Who ends up anagramming his name to "I'm a slorddly tampon". Lucius says that slorddly's not even a word, but William Wotcherclaws says that if the master says it is, then it is and then uses it in a sentence one comic later. | |
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Coca-Pepsi, Inc. | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_bdd3fbbc | comment |
Coca-Pepsi, Inc.: In this Faked Rip Van Winkle strip, there's "Winux 2004" (Windows + Linux). A non-future example—Sasha was introduced as working for parcel company "UpEx" (UPS + FedEx). | |
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Dressing to Die | |
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Dressing to Die: Before Zoe is to be beheaded, Sigurd asks to have her change out of her prisoner garb and into her modern clothes, so she can look as she did when she found her, and thus prove his claim that she's a spy. Luckily, he also gives back her shotgun and a shell, enabling Zoe to shoot the Deadel executioner and save Sigurd's life. | |
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Destroyer Deity | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_bf6907cb | comment |
K'Z'K, God of Destruction, and his cult, who want to cause a major exinction event, more For the Evulz than because it's their job. | |
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Sliding Scale of Continuity | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_bf996668 | comment |
Sliding Scale of Continuity: Level 5 (Full Lockout). Creator Pete Abrams recently acknowledged the phenomenon at this stage of the comic's lifespan and narrative density. He still tries to link back to details in previous strips, but now that it's become necessary even in filler arcs, it's extremely daunting to new readers. | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_c007c53 | comment |
Cool and Unusual Punishment - For when Bun-bun thinks death is too good for you. | |
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Amnesiac God | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_c00e411c | comment |
The Mohkadun arc is a whopper, revealing the answers to many questions, such as the backstories of many of the gods, including Bun-bun, an Amnesiac God who is one of their number. But the biggest reveal of them all is what will happen if the God of Destruction, K'Z'K, is killed, and by extension the true nature of Sluggy Freelance's endgame. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_c25c7890 | comment |
Fun with Acronyms: 'Notification of Unified Kindness' Envelopes as the ultimate weapon within the Dimension of Peace. From this strip: Recording Editable Content Application Peripheral. OASIS turns out to be one as well. | |
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True Companions | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_c313d43a | comment |
True Companions: The core cast. Occasionally subverted when one of them truly messes up... Which has happened at least once to Zoë, Gwynn, Bunbun, Aylee and Riff where one of the previous was NOT considered this by anyone in the core cast but Torg. Truly, it's Dysfunction Junction when the Cloudcuckoolander is the glue holding the team together. | |
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Golem | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_c3182167 | comment |
Golem: Clutter Monster, which Gwynn made out of the junk in their apartment. | |
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Informed Attribute | |
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Informed Attribute: Parodied with Torg and Riff's "tradition" of exchanging a beer every year for Christmas/Hanukkah. They have never yet managed to pull it off without something going wrong — it's almost Sluggy's equivalent of Peanuts' annual gag with Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown: In 1997, Riff substitutes hot sauce for beer and doesn't tell Torg until he's already chugged it; In 1998, they're trapped in a pyramid so instead get each other mummy body parts and try to make that a new tradition; In 1999, they instead get each other six-foot sub sandwiches, which Torg then tries to make another tradition; In 2000, Riff doesn't appreciate his tequila beer because Zoe (transformed into a camel for the first time) spat in his ear; In 2001, Riff gets Torg a beer from 1837 from a brewery that only had one production run, and Torg ends up with his stomach pumped; In 2002, Riff and Torg do a Gift of the Magi Plot spoof with clothes, with Torg saying "And we normally get each other a beer every year, so I knew this would be a total surprise"; In 2004, Torg gets Riff a terrible marshmallow beer because he's just come back from the Dimension of Lame and didn't have much time to shop; In 2006, before they can drink from their beers, Torg is knocked out by a flying Hogtendo SuuWii remote that Gwynn lost her grip on; In 2008, Riff's upset because Torg didn't get him a beer in return, even though he got him a share in a fully functioning spaceship. In 2010, Torg poignantly leaves a lone beer for Riff, who had vanished in his robot explosion and was lost in the 4U city dimension. In 2011 there's a "Beer Every Year" themed set of Sluggy Pawnz; The joke was not used in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 or 2012. | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Neither K'Z'K nor Farahn particularly like one another. It doesn't help that both of them are selfish Jerkasses. But since both of them are locked and restricted inside the Book of E-ville, they need to cooperate to get things done. King Farahn controls K'Z'K's magical power and K'Z'K himself comes up with the plans and spells. K'Z'K's ideal scenario is to break himself free while leaving King Farahn trapped forever. | |
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Spoonerism | |
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Spoonerism: The source of many a Punny Name. For example, in the Punyverse where everyone has a food pun based named, the leader of the Zorgon race is Zorgon Gola (Gorgonzola) and Riff, Torg and Zoe play a game called Kettlers of Satan. | |
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Formally-Named Pet | |
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Formally-Named Pet: After surviving a horrible explosion, Bun-Bun temporarily loses his memory and is adopted by a family that renames him Mr. Fuzbutt. | |
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Pride | |
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Pride: The author of the Book of E-Ville came up with a clever plan to keep K'Z'K harmless and hidden for a long time. But unfortunetely, his successor, his daughter, was filled with pride, and disobeyed every single last one of his Last Requests in her arrogance. She filled the Book of E-Ville, which was intended to be a Spell Book of useless spells, with highly dangerous ones. Convinced that she would live forever, she made fun of her descendants as losers and failed to prepare them to take up her own duties. After she died a sudden and unexpected death, the Book of E-Ville fell into her granddaughter's hands. Her granddaughter, clueless and naive, knew nothing of the Book of E-Ville's true nature and was tricked into ruining much of the author's plans just before the Book brought her own demise and put an end to their line. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: Riff is still alive! ...Seconds before he's gunned down by a group of armed soldiers. It was extended a bit as he briefly fought against the drug control, but ended when he believes that he is the evil dictator, not knowing that Hereti-Corp has stolen his plans for the Dimensional Flux Agitator. | |
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Intentional Engrish for Funny | |
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Intentional Engrish for Funny: "Fashion Rancher 2" is a parody of "Blind Idiot" Translation Plus Torg's fighting game dreams A milder case in the bacon-themed anime Torg made, BaconGohn: Battle Broilers. | |
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Ghost Planet | |
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Ghost Planet: The Dimension of Pain, where the original inhabitants were wiped out. There are still plenty of demons though. In the Anima dimension's distant future, it is mysteriously empty of living people, the evidence suggests that everyone's physical bodies died a few centuries ago, and robots continue to maintain everything on autopilot. | |
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Mis-blamed | |
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Misblamed: A lot of the fanbase didn't like what Ian Mcdonald did with his "Meanwhile in the Dimension of Pain" strip and would regularly complain about it. Mcdonald has said he basically started ignoring the criticism when those same fans bashed Mcdonald for a 'Meanwhile' strip that had been drawn by Abrams, reasoning that if they couldn't even tell the difference between his art style and Abrams', they weren't worth listening to. | |
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The Tokyo Fireball | |
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The Tokyo Fireball: Lampshaded by Santa in the Mecha-Easter Bunny arc. | |
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Mini-Mecha | |
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One of Riff's REA suits carries something called a "Happy Fun Ball". (It's not an example of the trope, however; it's a wrecking ball.) | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Lots. Most notably, Torg is named after Torgo from Manos: The Hands Of Fate, Riff after Riff Raff from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Aylee's first form was nearly a blatant rip-off of a Xenomorph, and there was this one time Bun-Bun burst out of her chest. The "Torg Potter" arcs, aside from the obvious, have a game played on broomsticks called "Quidsatz Haderach", the Snitch is the Buall'dib, and one of the positions is "Harkonnens" The Grays in the Oceans Unmoving arc are all named after members of The A-Team. The one called B.A. even went the extra distance here. Timeless Space has a race of anthro deer/moose/caribou called "Caribs" and is partially populated by pirates. An alphabetically named virus that rapidly mutates a normal human into a monstrosity with eyes in the wrong place and a taste for human flesh. Sound familiar? Curry is not inherently evil. Pete has also confirmed that the setting of Oceans Unmoving was based off of both Spelljammer and the entirety of Dungeons & Dragons. The character of Berk and his speech patterns are both very inspired from the Planescape setting. "Berk" itself roughly means "clueless". Coupling`s "Nine and a Half Minutes" seemed to be the inspiration for the "Ten Minutes at a Party" storyline; a later reference to "the giggle-loop" confirms Abrams watches the show. A reference to Wakko's "Potty Emergency!" was made by a NoFun executive. Alt-Riff quotes (with a twist) the Dread Pirate Roberts : The "Meanwhile..." strip by Ian Mcdonald was also fond of this, in particular the Angel being defeated thanks to Peanuts` Lucy-pulling-the-football-away running gag. Another, more subtle, note to Peanuts came when Kiki gave an excited, near-illegible Wall of Text summary of what had happened to Bun-bun (who was flying a World War I fighter plane at the time). It turns out he was shot down by a dog on a flying doghouse. The Greys, in addition to being a loving tribute to XCOM, have their own language's term for "stick a rake in it": "bantha poodoo". To Discworld in this strip.◊ One filler arc features, in addition to a number of shout outs to fantasy and a plot parodying The Hobbit a pair of minions named Blinky and Clyde, one of whom is trying to save a girl named Pinky. Notably, Pinky is a double shout-out, as she is quite clearly a anthropomorphized Pinkie Pie, and the tavern at the town she is called "My Little Prancing Pony", which has an image of pony!Pinkie Pie on its sign. Father Time hates Dutch people. Hmm, where have we seen this before? To blow up a Le Snootier, Herreti-Corp brings a bomb in a box labelled "Someone set up us the bomb". Half of this strip is paraphrased from a classic scene in Aliens. Dr. Schlock parodies the refrain of Billy Joel's "Always a Woman" in the last panel of this comic. Torg spoofs the Soft Kitty Song here. One of Riff's REA suits carries something called a "Happy Fun Ball". (It's not an example of the trope, however; it's a wrecking ball.) | |
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Necromancer | |
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Necromancer: K'Z'K has demonstrated the ability to control dead bodies and steal souls. Dunuloa, a mad demigod, was one of the earliest, and developed the art in order to torment mankind. Kesandru committed murders and enslaved the souls of his victims to perform magic tricks. | |
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Super Hero Origin | |
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Superhero Origin: Parodied/deconstructed in the "Stick Figure Tales of Cotton" filler arc with the flashbacks to the origins of Torg's rabbit-themed identity "Captain Hippity" and Riff's "Science Boy". Torg is bitten by a radioactive rabbit and becomes..."Lost All My Teeth And Hair Man" from the radiation poisoning, before being cured and given super powers by aliens. Riff's parents are killed and he becomes "Orphan-Boy, with the proportionate strength of someone with no parents!" before being given a bazooka and scholarship to MIT by the same aliens. | |
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Happiness Is Mandatory | |
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Happiness Is Mandatory: In the arc "758449", Riff finds himself in an alternate dimension city-state which enforces perpetual happiness with knockout drug injections at the slightest hint of discontent. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: Most of the cast's last names are never stated (this is lampshaded in the Torg Potter parodies, in which Torg is known as 'the Lastnameless One'). The secondary cast often have stated surnames though. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: Torg has his moments of brilliance and awesomeness, but they're spaced out with plenty of silly, stupid, and outright weird (if not by the comic universe's standards) stuff. | |
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Where's the Kaboom? | |
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Where's the Kaboom?: Happens to Torg as he attempts to detonate an EMP in Dr. Nofun's lab. Turns out the remote had a child safety lock. | |
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Low-Speed Chase | |
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Low-Speed Chase: "Girls' Night Out" features a chase on "Smegway" personal transporters, which a human could easily outrun. | |
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Riff's stake gun vs. the Mind Wedgier. | |
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Dating Service Disaster | |
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Dating Service Disaster: Weaponised by Sam here. | |
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Paste Eater | |
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Paste Eater: Zoë does it here. "Pashe ish yummy!" Minion Master also eats paste when as an adult. | |
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Third-Person Flashback | |
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Third-Person Flashback: When Torg flashes back to a secret mission he sent Zoë on, most of the action is naturally from Zoë's point of view. Even if we assume she briefed him on the details afterward, though, there's still a short scene occurring after Zoë had left the building, which the author, noting that it's "unknowable to Torg", helpfully dubs a "flashbatical meanwhile". | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Hereti Corp attempts to threaten a US senator by eliminating a restaurant he is fond of and accidentally eliminates a bus full of nuns instead. The incident is a very public "Zappo!", causing the bus to vanish in front of plenty of eyewitnesses and with plenty of evidence left behind. But using their control over social media via Grab-all, a Google parody, they completely silence the matter by framing anyone who buys the story as a loony Conspiracy Theorist. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
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Cerebus Syndrome: Perhaps the first webcomic to undergo this process. "Vampires" in 1998 was the first storyline with danger that was played seriously, a few strips that didn't end with a gag, and someone dying and it not being treated as a joke. Since then, the comic has continued to develop darker and more epic storylines amidst all the silliness. Individual characters continue to suffer from it even after it afflicts the comic as a whole. Minion Master was introduced as a gag character. Even once he becomes plot-relevant, for suitably dramatic reasons, he's still treated as a complete and total joke by all of the protagonists. Then we get to see his backstory... | |
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Badass Longcoat | |
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Badass Longcoat: Riff: Mad Scientist version, complete with Sunglasses at Night. Trenchcoat Warfare dialled up to eleven. The Strawman a.k.a. Nash Straw a.k.a. Warren Nashville, Public Accountant a.k.a. Reynold Strom a.k.a. Raymond Strum a.k.a. Reid Nash gets the full treatment: Trenchcoat Warfare, Night-Vision Goggles which double as Glowing Eyes of Doomnote Splash of Color, what appears to be a filter mask, nice hat, Scarf of Asskicking, Knife-Resistant Vest, Guns Akimbo... dressed all in black. | |
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There Are No Coincidences | |
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There Are No Coincidences: Stated outright. The Fate Web manipulates probability to nudge the world along a path and keep the world safe. As a result, many coincidences occur, especially in the vicinity of potentials. Schlock takes a strong interest in magic and the Fate Web when he notices that suspicious coincidences have both helped and hurt him at key points. | |
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Talking with Signs | |
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Talking with Signs: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer does this (it's played with, in that at one point he tries to give a long speech and the elves can't make it out because to fit it all on the sign the text ends up being too small) and so did Zoe's mother at one point when she wasn't speaking to her. | |
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In Spite of a Nail | |
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In Spite of a Nail: Meddling too much with Time Travel will result in the altered timeline splitting off into its own Alternate Universe. But the amount of tampering the Web of Fate can sustain a Stable Time Loop with before needing to do so is fairly significant. Even when K'Z'K alters the timeline to influence Riff's antagonistic father into enslaving followers via human trafficking, the destroyed lives are not enough to have any real impact on the flow of time. "Mortals think they're so important. Butterfly-flaps-it's-wings my ass! Time ain't that delicate." | |
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Schmuck Bait | |
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Schmuck Bait: Riff's inventions are usually covered with them, despite having a ferret that loves to mess with such things. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Riff and Zöe each gave one to Torg after his conversation with Crushetro. Riff is mad that Torg sold his Mark-19 project to Crushestro, pointing out how risked it was and how poorly it might end, while Zöe is wary of his association with Noah Zark, citting that he is one of the smartest villain they ever fought and he likely has a grudge against them after their last meeting. | |
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Unwilling Suspension | |
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Unwilling Suspension: Sam ties Dr. Shankraft and his chief minion Hanz together and dangles them from the ceiling by their ankles. Since they're ungagged and within sight (but not reach) of Shankraft's command console, they exposit on what the security system picks up and provide comic relief of the Chained Heat variety until the building they're in is destroyed. | |
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Girls with Moustaches | |
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Girls with Moustaches: The "A Time For Hair-Raising" arc starts with Zoe and Gwynn growing beards from a hair-growth spell gone wrong, as seen here. | |
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Tourism-Derailing Event | |
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Tourism-Derailing Event: In the "Kitten" arc, satanic kittens are doing mischief in a town deep in the woods in a parody of Jaws. And just like "Jaws", the sheriff wants to keep it quiet so the town's tourism will remain unimpended. Further parodied when The Worm Guy trying to deal with the kittens points out to the sheriff that the "tourism industry" he is talking about is just a pair of cabins that are occasionally rented out to spring breakers or people who got lost and the scientist could not only solve the issue in one night if the sheriff was not so obsessed about keeping quiet, he could pay the potential losses of not renting those cabins for a single night out of his own pocket if the sheriff wants. The sheriff refuses to listen. | |
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The Unpronounceable | |
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The Unpronounceable: K'Z'K; he mostly gets called "Kizke". Also parodied; one of the aliens goes by the name "Face" because he claims his birth name is unpronounceable to humans and the high frequency could possibly break their recording devices. It's Steeeeeve. And then played straight again when Murdock's real name does just that. It turns out that K'Z'K's unpronouncability was actually designed as a way to prevent it from gaining power, its real name is the far more pronouncable "Kozoaku." | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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The Chessmaster: Subverted (complete with visual aids) at one point, and played straight several other times. Holy shit yes. BLAM! What makes the comic so interesting is that every major player, whether good or bad or any where in between, is a Chessmaster from Torg to Riff to Will to Chilus to K'y'k to Doctor Schlock to Dr. Chen to Squishydodo to Strum "Strawman" Nash to Tempest to the Fate Spiders and countless others. No one really grabs the idiot ball, usually. It is more of a gambit pileup that's been running the game between them for YEARS. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
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The End of the World as We Know It: According to the Fate Spiders, the Great Tangle will cause reality itself to break down if its not fixed. In the Anima dimension, evil people figured out how to invoke Your Soul Is Mine!, allowing them to increase their psychic power by killing other people and stealing their animas. They annihilated most of the population stealing animas, bringing the about the downfall of their entire civilization and continued to hunt people down even afterwards. The situation got so bad that it was ultimately only resolved via Divine Intervention, when the goddess in charge of their world (i.e. the last survivor of the anima wars) was forced to rewrite how the entire anima system worked. | |
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Enlightenment Superpowers | |
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Enlightenment Superpowers: According to a zombie named Jane, real magic normally requires spirituality and depth of personality. | |
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Anal Probing | |
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Anal Probing: The Greys show up in the "Oceans Unmoving" arc, apparently having arrived in Timeless Space from the game X-COM. They make continual references to probing. | |
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Weird Currency | |
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Weird Currency: A bonus story reveals the Dimension of Pain demons actually use forms of pain (such as 'skinned knee') as a currency when betting on card games. | |
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Wall of Text | |
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Another, more subtle, note to Peanuts came when Kiki gave an excited, near-illegible Wall of Text summary of what had happened to Bun-bun (who was flying a World War I fighter plane at the time). It turns out he was shot down by a dog on a flying doghouse. | |
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Sudden Video-Game Moment | |
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Sudden Videogame Moment: In this strip, Torg mentally pictures conversation options as though he were playing a Dragon Age: Origins. Also in this strip, where Torg and Gwynn fighting over a PlayStationPuny is visualised as a Fighting Game itself. | |
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Amusing Alien | |
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Amusing Alien: Aylee, before she started becoming more human-like, anyway. | |
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Reset Button | |
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Reset Button: An epic one. Torg spends literally years being in love with Zoë with her not reciprocating. Then finally she realizes she loves him too, and wants to tell him. Then the mecha she is in is blown up by Oasis; she and Riff do an emergency escape to another dimension; Riff loses sight of her and thinks she's dead, is later told she's in endless agony, and finally realizes her body is healed by nanites, but not her brain, making her a vegetable. Finally, Riff returns to his own dimension and pulls off a Batman Gambit to return Zoë and restore her memory, but it is restored to the day before she realized she loves Torg. Aaand we're back to square one. Also, the Deus ex Ovum is this in-universe: it restores all the holidays to their default Anthropomorphic Personification and revives any that have died. | |
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Brain/Computer Interface | |
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Brain/Computer Interface: The Anima dimension's distant future develops these. | |
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Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome | |
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Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: The Sluggyverse's usual technology levels are similar to ours. Extremely advanced stuff inconsistently appears in everyday life, but for the most part, the Awesome, but Impractical toys of Mad Scientists are only ever employed by shadowy corporations for their sinister schemes. However, in several Alternate Universes, this rule does not apply. The Dimension of Lame's Riff's inventions always work, and rather than inventing weapons for himself, he made inventions to improve peoples' lives, such as aiding those who cannot walk. In the 4U City dimension, Alternate Riff doesn't trust the really advanced portals in anyone's hands, but several of his other inventions completely altered the course of his world's history. His DFAs were weaponized by Hereti Corp and unleashed a cataclysmic end to a terrible war. 4U city has also made full use of other technological developments that technically exist in the main universe, but were never properly exploited. Examples include Nanites and AI. | |
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Assimilation Backfire | |
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Assimilation Backfire: The Borg Expy in an early strip ran into this problem after assimilating Riff and Torg. "Since you have come among us, all we have done is drink fermented hopps beverages and ogle scantly clad females. This has seriously jeopardized our goal of the all-collective. We've never had to do this before... We are kicking you out." Done again with Dr. Crabtree, the Nanite Queen, who can assimilate people's knowledge by eating their brains... but gets infected with Sam Sein's stupidity when she tries it on him, and when she eats Christmas Elves' brains she starts unconsciously frolicking everywhere while singing "lolly la!" | |
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Red Herring | |
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Red Herring: Often, due to the serpentine plots. Early on, the viewer was meant to think that Bun-bun had been killed when Santa blew up his booby-trapped workshop, and his vengeful spirit had come to the Dimension of Pain. It turned out that the spirit was in fact the elf Mr Squeekybobo, who had died in the same attack, and Bun-bun was in a cage somewhere with Laser-Guided Amnesia. The dimension where Torg flees with the giant Aylee is infested with zombie-like creatures who, we are led to believe, are the result of Kesandru's Deal with the Devil Rithuly. The Reveal has Torg realise that they have nothing to do with Rithuly - they're Aylee's race. The letters 'ROKEN' behind Oasis in the photo made most readers think it was a cutoff of 'BROKEN', which was indeed the name of a later arc...however, said arc revealed (in a slight cop-out) that it was in fact a cut-off of PYROKENETICS - misspelled by an illiterate sign painter. | |
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High-Pressure Blood | |
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High-Pressure Blood: Possibly ironic, definitely hilarious. | |
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Ship Tease | |
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Ship Tease: Uh... No. A few times between Torg and Sasha, while Riff was in another dimension. | |
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Cat Fight | |
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Cat Fight: A great one takes place between Sasha and Monicruel in this strip, complete with Clothing Damage and an appreciative male audience. | |
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Did Not Do the Bloody Research | |
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Did Not Do the Bloody Research: Lara Kroft-Macaroni-And-Cheese is a parodic exaggeration of the trope. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: Riff seems to have reached this at the end of Paradise. | |
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The Nudifier | |
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The Nudifier: What to do with a swarm of clothes-devouring moths? cCe the meeting of the Young Republican Women's Assembly... | |
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Green-Skinned Space Babe | |
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Green-Skinned Space Babe: Aylee's humanoid incarnations. And parodied fairly early on, too, from back when Torg and Riff would holler at the ladies more readily. | |
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Gambit Pileup | |
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Gambit Pileup: Between the Dimension of Pain, Hereti Corp, the K'Z'K cult and the Fate Spiders, our heroes seem to get caught up in many different plots. And now it looks a new demonic party has entered the fray. | |
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Bad Future | |
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Dr. Schlock, in a Bad Future, uses a time machine to Set Right What Once Went Wrong by sending Berk back to avert the apocalypse in the present. He also sends himself back twenty years further to live out his life. | |
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Immune to Fate | |
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Immune to Fate: Most things in the world are bound to the Fate Web, which guides events to prevent the world from being destroyed prematurely. But not everything is subject to this. Oasis is outside of Fate, and magic, dimensional portals, and time travel are highly disruptive to its functioning. Dinosaurs exist outside the web because they existed before it, which is why Khronos has set into motion a plan to drive the remaining dinosaurs he missed extinct. | |
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Male Gaze | |
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More recently, Torg has trouble completing his boobs... I mean his story because Sasha is taking off her shirt. | |
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Humans Are Special | |
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Humans Are Special: Mohkadun calls this out when the story reveals that humans, for all their failings in being tricked by K'Z'K, are also the only ones who've been able to stop K'Z'K from destroying reality. They are also constantly shown defeating unstoppable foes that are expected to kill them. Basically, they're always being underestimated by gods and reality eaters, which always gives them a chance to win. | |
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Please Put Some Clothes On | |
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Please Put Some Clothes On: In this strip, Sasha casually takes off her clothes in front of a hot and bothered Torg. "I'm looking the other way while you get naked but throwing your bra at my head is not helping!" And in the aftermath of the "Aylee" chapter, when Aylee reveals that a) that's not a dress, it's her wings wrapping around her, and b) she's become so human she now has "human female naughty parts" underneath. | |
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Pass the Popcorn | |
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Pass the Popcorn: Aquired by Torg from the Wondrous Ladies Room to watch Sasha and a nearly naked Monecruel duke it out. Also note that one of villians had been stopped cold by the door of the same ladies room. | |
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The Cake Is a Lie | |
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The Cake Is a Lie: In this strip, pie is used as a simple but fraudulent incentive for a brainwashed Riff to play along with the scheme to get him periodically functional again. | |
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Our Gods Are Different | |
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Our Gods Are Different: Multiple pantheons have appeared, but the one most central to the story are the gods of Mohkadun. The One created Prozoato and Kozoaku as the gods of creation and destruction respectively. God empowered one of Prozoato's creations, Khronos, to become the Anthropomorphic Personification of time to stop Kozoaku from destroying Prozoatu's creations before he is meant to. Khronos empowered several additional mortals into godhood to serve as role models against Kozoaku's influence. It has been heavily implied that Bun-Bun is actually an Amnesiac God from this pantheon, the God of Power. The gods of Mohkadun vary greatly in magical power, ranging from merely superhuman strength and endurance to the power to cause Time Stands Still or a massive Zombie Apocalypse. They do not age and are very tough, but they can be killed. But only by an empowered Chaz. Eventually, most of the gods of Mohkadun are Depowered into Holidays. While they remain The Ageless, it is entirely possible to kill them by ordinary means, and they lose most of their powers. There has been reference to the Greek gods, such as Zeus and Poseidon, who were involved with the Holidays but eventually waned. The Dimension of Pain features the Goddess of Goodness and the Demon King. In the Anima Dimension exists a Deity of Human Origin, Troloria, who more or less became a psychic Physical God by devouring every living soul in her world, leaving her as the Last of Her Kind. | |
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Fantasy Kitchen Sink | |
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Fantasy Kitchen Sink: All sorts of legends from various sources are referenced, and parodied. | |
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Going Commando | |
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Going Commando: In this strip, Gwynn takes off her wet clothes and puts on, as her only article of clothing, an overcoat found in the house she and Torg are investigating, explaining in the next strip that her wet underwear was chafing. Torg, as usual, can only focus on "she was naked", much to her annoyance. | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Morality Pet: Oasis has several. Torg's a subversion since her infatuation with him is the cause of her villainy. Meanwhile, Katie and her mother Kareen are straight examples. Morality Chain: Her master, Feng, who was also responsible for helping her overcome the brainwashing. His death causes her to immediately abandon it all and elope with Torg, which starts the chain events that led to Zoe's death. | |
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Call-Forward | |
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Call-Forward: Timeless Space in the Oceans Unmoving storyline is home to many people who found themselves there due to being involved in time travel experiments. One of them (Sir John Jacobs' emissary to Lady Noga) is seen chronologically a few years later in the strip as the supervillain Time Czar's assistant and we actually see the incident where he gets zapped into Timeless Space. | |
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Escaped from the Lab | |
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Escaped from the Lab: Kiki joins the cast as one of several lab animals Bun-bun breaks out as he makes his own escape from incarceration. | |
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Gorn | |
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Gorn: So many, many sprays of blood in the "K I T T E N" arcs. | |
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Mobile-Suit Human | |
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Mobile-Suit Human: Bun-bun and Kiki's Riff and Torg costume robotic suits. Also count as a Strangely Effective Disguise, as they are obviously more angular in look than the real thing yet seem to fool everyone. | |
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You Cannot Grasp the True Form | |
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You Cannot Grasp the True Form: The Tower of the Gods where Father Time resides is not an actual tower. This is simply the way mortal minds comprehend it. | |
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Flanderization | |
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Flanderization: Sam Sein. Once the stubborn, clueless guy who couldn't take a "no" from Zoë. Now practically incapable of tying his shoelaces and pathetically excited over even the slightest possibility that a woman might not hate him. Compare 1997 Sam to 2009 Sam. It's possible that vampirism has some mental effects. | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia | |
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Early on, the viewer was meant to think that Bun-bun had been killed when Santa blew up his booby-trapped workshop, and his vengeful spirit had come to the Dimension of Pain. It turned out that the spirit was in fact the elf Mr Squeekybobo, who had died in the same attack, and Bun-bun was in a cage somewhere with Laser-Guided Amnesia. | |
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Brain Bleach | |
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Brain Bleach: Lau needs some. | |
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Webcomic Time | |
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Webcomic Time: One of the more notorious offenders and even a regular topic of self-deprecating humor from the creator and the characters themselves. Just one example that makes this more apparent, a story entitled "5 Minutes at a Party" took over a month to complete. A post from the comic's 26th anniversary in 2023 joked that "It feels like the 25th anniversary was two minutes ago! Possibly in real time for the characters!" Pete has acknowledged in interviews that while he's regularly shown the passage of time, the series also abides to an extent by Comic-Book Time because while he has acknowledged the characters getting older, he doesn't intend for them to be twenty-plus years older than they were at the start. | |
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You Already Changed the Past | |
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You Already Changed the Past: Lysinda was able to tempt Valerie because her husband Torgamus died in battle, which was the result of Torg going back in time to fight K'Z'K. See here for details. | |
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Bookcase Passage | |
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Bookcase Passage: The Trap Door in Brie Meighsaton House is opened by a nearby lever that's also a candlestick. | |
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Sissy Villain | |
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Sissy Villain: Zorgon Gola from the Punyverse arc. Many other villains of the Not-So-Harmless Villain variety can sometimes slip into this as well. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: Played with, of course, in this strip. | |
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Sealed Good in a Can | |
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Sealed Good in a Can: The Goddess of Good, former ruler of what became the Dimension of Pain, was sealed inside a gigantic Zip-lock bag by the Demon King until Torg released her millennia later. | |
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Monster Progenitor | |
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Monster Progenitor: The first vampire was a malevolent deity named Drakku. | |
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Archive Trawl | |
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Many storylines almost require an Archive Trawl to understand what's going on, the story "bROKEN", required over a dozen archive links. | |
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Dismembering the Body | |
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Dismembering the Body: Vorpyr and strakoi vampires are only incapacitated by a stake through the heart, looking like a desiccated corpse up until the stake is removed. To permanently kill a vorpyr one typically cuts off their head after staking and stuff their mouth with garlic, though Aylee forgot the procedure and just tore a bunch of vorpyrs into pieces. Strakoi need their head cut off and the body burned. | |
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Garden of Eden | |
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Garden of Eden: When Torg and Aylee are staying in another dimension while the media coverage of the latter dies down, the locals have a number of mountain-based gardens, the largest of which is named Eden. | |
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Vampire Variety Pack | |
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Vampire Variety Pack: Vorpyr vampires, such as those from the Lysinda circle, are the oldest variety and originate from Western Europe. They shrivel up and stop moving when they're staked through the heart, but immediately come back to life if you pull the stake out. They Must Be Invited to enter a dwelling and are warded away by holy symbols. Turning a mortal takes a lengthy ritual that involves draining blood out of them over days then having them drink from a sufficiently powerful Vorpyr's blood. Vrykolakas vampires originate from Greece. They are looked down on by other vampires as trashy and were once kept as slaves by other vampires. Vrykos cannot fly (after a Retcon), but they are pretty good at jumping. They can turn others into vampires just by draining them dry. A Vrykolas vampire can become a Vryko master, recovering some independence and increased magical power, by draining dry family members. Vryko masters can enter a mist form and have total control over their sires, who effectively become little more than extensions of their own minds. Two of the Vryko masters seen like to keep attractive sires of the opposite sex. All Vryko answer to a higher Vryko up to the Queen, and should someone higher in the chain be staked, normal Vrykos will perish as well, and even the strongest will be greatly weakened. They are unaffected by many of the usual weaknesses, and have the greatest numbers and unity, but are the weakest vampire type overall and will collapse into ash with just a small poke of wood or silver to the heart. After their Queen dies, they weaken even further to the point that just being exposed to too much stupidity can kill them. The Strakoistrat originate from Romania. They are Daywalking Vampires, about as tough as Vorpyr vampires, and wield powerful magic. They are possibly the most powerful vampire type overall, but they also lack the Mind Control powers possessed by the other two types. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: There isn't one. In fact, we have Dr. Steve, Steve Uozin, and Steeeeeve. | |
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Swallowed Whole | |
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Swallowed Whole: Aylee's usual method of eating is to swallow her food whole. When she meets Bun Bun she does so in one gulp, only for Bun Bun to burst out through her chest. | |
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Mistaken for Terrorist | |
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Mistaken for Terrorist: After dropping Riff off at the airport so he can relocate to Alaska for his job, Torg realizes that, since Riff has never quit a job before without launching an all-out war against his employer, he might not realize there are less drastic ways of getting out of his position. Cue running through the terminal screaming, "You don't have to blow them up! You don't have to kill everyone!", followed by a brief stay at Guantanamo Bay. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: Two of the main characters in Chapter 68 get these. Dr. Vistuvius first appears in a single panel of Chapter 67 as a potential ally to the heroes, at which time they decide not to make contact with him. Sylvia's role in Chapter 8 goes little beyond Nominal Importance, and it's easy to miss that, unlike her fellow vampires, she isn't shown being Killed Off for Real after her Non-Lethal K.O.. It's nevertheless a long time between her appearance then and her adventures in Chapter 68 (synchronous to Chapters 66 and 67). | |
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Clothespin Nose Plug | |
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Clothespin Nose Plug: In the Dimension of Lame, even the sewers are inoffensively pleasant, being filled with scented flowers. The smell makes occupying them a challenge for the invading demons, for whom Good Is Bad And Bad Is Good; they overcome it once the local Alternate Self of Riff outfits them with clothespins on the nose. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: Seen in full effect during the introduction of Oasis in the appropriately named Game Called on Account of Naked Chick. More recently, Torg has trouble completing his boobs... I mean his story because Sasha is taking off her shirt. | |
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Dude, Not Ironic | |
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Dude, Not Ironic: This strip. | |
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Mascots Love Sugar | |
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Mascots Love Sugar: Team Pet Kiki the ferret loves sugar almost as much as shiny things. When she gets her paws on sugar in large quantities or very concentrated form, she gets incredibly, hyperkinetically active. Riff weaponizes this at times by giving her pixie sticks, after which she tends to leave Kiki-shaped holes in walls or anything else that gets in her way. | |
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Innocent Innuendo | |
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Innocent Innuendo: Torg explains the political issues of the 2000 US presidential election to Kiki using balls painted with the Stars and Stripes to represent taxes. Riff can only take so many instances of Torg and Kiki talking about their balls before he snaps. | |
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Torture First, Ask Questions Later | |
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Torture First, Ask Questions Later: Hereti-corp does this to Torg (or more accurately, torturing Gwynn while Torg is forced to watch) when trying to find out where Doctor Steve's lab is. | |
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Expendable Alternate Universe | |
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Expendable Alternate Universe: Averted, with most characters having Alternate Universe versions and tragedies happening to the latter often being just as serious and dramatic as something happening to the original. Indeed in the case of some minor characters, their Alternate Universe versions sometimes get more development than the prime-timeline ones. | |
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Never Found the Body | |
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Never Found the Body: Oasis was played like this at first. After she resurfaced unexpectedly and apparently died again without her body being found, the main characters hung a lampshade and the unspoken consensus was that they hadn't seen the last of her. | |
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Anthropomorphic Personification | |
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Also, the Deus ex Ovum is this in-universe: it restores all the holidays to their default Anthropomorphic Personification and revives any that have died. | |
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Metamorphosis Monster | |
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Metamorphosis Monster: Aylee has gone through this over a dozen times, eventually turning into a fifty foot tall dragon and finally into the most dangerous creature of all ... a woman! | |
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Joke Exhaustion | |
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Joke Exhaustion: Done with the question "Why is Gwynn buying monkeys?" Torg claims to have 100 jokes to get through. | |
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The Minion Master | |
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The Minion Master: The protagonists are currently working for a (wannabe) super villain known as The Minion Master, but he isn't really an example because he only has four or five minions and they're really good ones (they even seem to be making the plans). | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: The Long Runner status has given rise to lots of these. "Spleen!" (at least for a while). Torg's "alternate" names: the vampire LeTurg, Turg Le Turgturg the Swedish web design guru, Sir LeTurg the human warrior in Years of Yarncraft, and his ID in the 4U dimension is LETURG on a phone keypad. "Run away!" (especially from Torg.) Torg had a coupon. Riff and Torg exchanging 'a beer every year' for Christmas / Hanukkah as a tradition, yet they never manage to pull it off without something going wrong. | |
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Team Pet | |
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Team Pet: Played straight up when Torg bought Bun-bun because he was "a cute talking animal" and "every strip needs one". But Bun Bun was a bad ass, and Kiki was later brought in and she fills the role in a more traditional manner. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: One of the Fate Spiders seeks to prevent reality from breaking down by causing several coincidences to fire off in a row, which costs several people their lives. | |
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Monster Roommate | |
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Monster Roommate: Aylee, obviously. Occasionally Sam the vampire. Depending on one's definition of "monster" Bun-bun might also qualify. | |
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Nostril Shot | |
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Nostril Shot: In the strip where Bun-Bun ends up shoving the camera up Torg's nose. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: [Subverted] by Bun-Bun, who appeared to be mailing Kiki to Alaska out of the goodness of his heart (and for laughs), but was actually using her in a scheme to conquer Halloween. | |
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Guilt by Association Gag | |
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Guilt by Association Gag: Unsympathetically played◊ by Dr. Lorna. | |
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