History ComicBook / DroidLife

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Roughly half of P14's ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' story submissions involve an IncrediblyLamePun based upon the phrase "Gaze into the face of Fear" and end with Dredd's "[[PreAssKickingOneLiner GAZE INTO]] [[TalkToTheFist THE FIST OF DREDD!]]" line. Of course, Crumbs tells him that it still doesn't work as a story.

* BadBoss: Tharg. And P14's supervisor who is constantly getting him to make his page numbers more thrilling (in spite of the fact that they're always about to be erased) and keeps a [[WhipItGood whip]] on standby at all times. At one point, the supervisor is so enraged, he is lost for words to describe P14 and gets chewed out by ''his'' superior for not being thrilling enough when chewing out a subordinate.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe. P14 writes strips to submit to Tharg, yet has never actually read ''2000AD'', despite having worked there for at least a decade.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Taken UpToEleven and frequently lampshaded. Everything from the box P14 came in to the urinals to banana skins are robots. When P14 asks why a robotic teaboy is needed, it's stated that a robotic tea dispenser made everybody uncomfortable.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: The teaboy is named ''Sergeant Bloodbath''.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The supervisor droid [[WouldNotHitAGirl won't whip female droids]], [[DudeNotFunny as it's]] [[DoubleStandard not as funny]]. [[spoiler: Later on, it's established that she's been sent to the smelter instead.]]

* NewAgeRetroHippie: The work experience student. Also, one episode shows protestors with signs that say "You can't hug your children with nuclear arms" until one disgruntled droid tells him that his mother had literal nuclear arms and hugged him all the time with them.

The strip often parodies classic and current ''2000AD'' strips in the form of P14's stories, which usually see him CompletelyMissingThePoint of the character he's supposed to be writing.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Inadvertently happens in one strip, when Crumbs flicks an eraser crumb so thrillingly that he gets and extra 50p in his wages. Several readers thought the "FLICKKKKK!!!" visual sound effect was a PrecisionFStrike cleverly disguised. Got lampshaded a couple of strips later.

* FreudianExcuse: [=P14=] and Crumbs spend one episode discussing what happened to Sergeant Bloodbath that made him so angry, positing all sorts of theories about him being a ShellShockedVeteran. [[spoiler: [[YourCheatingHeart Turns out his wife left him for a robot who was apparently part-electric razor]].]]

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Roughly half of P14's ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' story submissions involve an IncrediblyLamePun based upon the phrase "Gaze into the face of Fear" and end with Dredd's "[[PreAssKickingOneLiner GAZE INTO]] [[TalkToTheFist THE FIST]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome OF DREDD!]]" line. Of course, Crumbs tells him that it still doesn't work as a story.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Staplie applies for a job as a typist. Unfortunately, due to him having staplers for hands, he is only able to type two words per minute. Also, the two words he types are "&QIEBGN" and "U##9H5".

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Characters have a tendency to be KilledOffscreen [[BlackComedy in comedic ways.[[spoiler: For example, Sortofgothdroid gets sent to the smelter when the supervisor believes that whipping her isn't funny and the BrainInAJar hooked up to the building gets served for lunch.]]

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Sortofgothdroid]].

* AffectionateParody: Of the concept that ''TwoThousandAD'' is entirely published by Tharg's army of droids. The strip concentrates on the droids on the lower end of things. Some classic and ongoing stories are parodied by P14's [[StylisticSuck story submissions]].

* IncompetenceInc: In universe, ''TwoThousandAD'' is this in spades. Droids can get fired for ''not'' playing video games all day, supervisor droids carry whips around and a cardboard cutout of Creator/QuentinTarantino gets promoted to Division Head when someone gets a slice of tomato stuck to it.

* LowerDeckEpisode: The whole strip is basically one for the whole of ''TwoThousandAD''. It's even set in the sub-sub-basement.

* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Subverted by one of P14's ''Future Shock'' submissions. The time traveller lines up a man with a little square moustache in his crosshairs and shoots him dead. [[spoiler: It's [[LaurelAndHardy Oliver Hardy]].]]

* TakeThat: The DroidLife poster shows the droid responsible for the idea that ''Film/JudgeDredd'' was to remove his helmet and make out with Hershey in the movie sealed up in a room with no doors gathering cobwebs. In RealLife, this was actually Creator/SylvesterStallone.

* TakeThat: The DroidLife poster shows the droid responsible for the idea that ''JudgeDredd'' was to remove his helmet and make out with Hershey in TheMovie sealed up in a room with no doors gathering cobwebs. In RealLife, this was actually SylvesterStallone.

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Roughly half of P14's ''JudgeDredd'' story submissions involve an IncrediblyLamePun based upon the phrase "Gaze into the face of Fear" and end with Dredd's "[[PreAssKickingOneLiner GAZE INTO]] [[TalkToTheFist THE FIST]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome OF DREDD!]]" line. Of course, Crumbs tells him that it still doesn't work as a story.