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Sturgeon’s Law, created in 2013 by William Lowenthal and Thomas Mack, is a webcomic about an adversarial group of up-and-coming supervillains (or at least just criminals) trying to take over the world. The main characters work at the eponymous law firm, which was originally created to defend supervillains in court; the company later decided to cut out the middleman and try to take over the world themselves. The comic shows the efforts of one particular group of “Troubleshooters” to achieve world domination, or at least deal with their corporate bureaucracy. |
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Bilingual Bonus |
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Bilingual Bonus: Pierce was a senior vice president at Apate Industries. 'Apate' is Greek for (and the name of the god of) deceit or fraud. |
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Easter Egg |
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Easter Egg: There’s a Lovecraftian reference in Comic #11. |
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The Slacker |
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The Slacker: Jenn works at the company only to fund her anime habit, and she doesn’t work very hard. |
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Noodle Incident |
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Noodle Incident: Whatever Marissa and Max need a wombat and a bone saw for, it probably isn’t safe. It’s also unclear what exactly happened at the Helen Keller Museum. |
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Comedic Sociopathy |
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Comedic Sociopathy: Marissa in a nutshell. |
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Mystery Meat |
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Mystery Meat: Sturgeon Farms Extruded-Slurry Meat Brick: So warm, so dank, so delicious. |
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Big Eater |
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Big Eater: Max is apparently fond of koalasagna. |
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Hair-Trigger Temper |
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Hair-Trigger Temper: Marissa has problems dealing with her anger constructively. |
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Villainous Friendship |
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Villainous Friendship: Although they certainly aren't there yet, there are some indications that Pierce and Marissa from might be slowly moving toward Type IV. |
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Generic Name |
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Generic Name: Rakesh is from College State University. Go fighting Mascots! |
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Caligula's Horse |
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Caligula's Horse: Before joining Sturgeon Law, Pierce was senior vice president under such a CEO. |
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Techno Babble |
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Techno Babble: Jenn attempts to cover up her incompetence with Star-Trek-style technobabble, with mixed results. |
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Half-Hearted Henchman |
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Halfhearted Henchman: Jenn in a nutshell. The trope may also apply to Max, his combat prowess notwithstanding. |
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Dirty Communists |
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Dirty Communists: The moon base project would have been successful if not for communists (and Jane Fonda). |
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Take That! |
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Take That!: New Jersey, Deepak Chopra, Caltech, Jane Fonda, Australia, and many others. |
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Double Speak |
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Doublespeak: Pierce is a master at spewing out corporate buzzwords. |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: There’s a possibility that some of PierceCorp’s products may contain babies. |
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My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels |
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My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Jenn tries out the Japanese she learned from anime when checking into a hotel, despite the concierge's being fluent in English. |
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Morally Ambiguous Doctorate |
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Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Marissa has one, as she insists on pointing out at any opportunity. |
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Manchild |
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Manchild: Max. |
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The Load |
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The Load: Although every team member is arguably incompetent or a sociopath or both, Jenn is too much of a slacker to be of much use to the party. |
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Equal-Opportunity Evil |
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Equal-Opportunity Evil: The cast is quite diverse in terms of race and gender. |
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Naïve Newcomer |
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Naïve Newcomer: Not only has Rakesh not figured out that the rest of the company doesn’t share his altruistic streak, but he’s unaware that the company is anything more than a law firm. |
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Complexity Addiction |
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Complexity Addiction: Even checking in to a hotel proves unnecessarily difficult. |
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Theme Naming |
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Theme Naming: The names of missions are of the form Adjective + Animal: Luminous Ocelot, Falling Penguin, etc. |
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With Friends Like These... |
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With Friends Like These...: Max is in a one-sided version of this trope. |
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