History ComicBook / Oink

* SkeletonCrew: A crew of skeletons took charge of ''Oink!'' for one issue when Uncle Pigg went on holiday. They weren't very good, to put it mildly.

* ExcitedShowTitle

%%** The strip "The Adventures of Death", naturally.

%%* DumbMuscle: Tom Thug.

%%* ExactWords: About 90% of Roger Rental's misadventures revolve around this.

%%* GoryDiscretionShot: Every now and again.
%%* HappilyEverAfter: Horace Watkins and Mandy get this ending in the 1989 Summer Special.
%%* HairTriggerTemper: Billy Bang. Invariably results in him HavingABlast.

%%* KilledOffForReal: Van Helsong, at the hands of Jimmy "The Cleaver" Smith.

%%* TortureTechnician: PlayedForLaughs with the Torture Twins.

* DeathAsComedy: Rubbish Man manages to get Frozen Chicken Man's entire family killed, and of course it's all PlayedForLaughs.
** The strip "The Adventures of Death", naturally.
** And there was post-mortem fun with "Dead Fred". Who knew that there was comedy in the way corpses decay?

* DumbMuscle: Tom Thug.

* ExactWords: About 90% of Roger Rental's misadventures revolve around this.
* [[ExcitedShowTitle Excited Title!]]
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Mary Lighthouse's attempts to censor, close down or otherwise sabotage the comic never succeed. Obviously.
** Also true of anybody who comes up against Jimmy "The Cleaver" Smith.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Every now and again.
* HappilyEverAfter: Horace Watkins and Mandy get this ending in the 1989 Summer Special.
* HairTriggerTemper: Billy Bang. Invariably results in him HavingABlast.

* KilledOffForReal: Van Helsong, at the hands of Jimmy "The Cleaver" Smith.

* MadScientist: Doctor Madstarkraving is the AbsentMindedProfessor type.

** Pete and his Pimple typically had no fourth wall.

* Rock Trio: The Slugs.

* StylisticSuck: In the "Peculiar" issue, the Tom Thug story ends abruptly, forcing Tom to provide his own ending - which he does with [[TerribleArtist stick-figure art]], bad spelling with RandomlyReversedLetters, and a nonsensical conclusion in which he becomes "king ov the werld" and is served ice cream by all the other kids. It's so bad that the Plops end up slapping on what they ''know'' is a cop-out AllJustADream ending as a [[AuthorsSavingThrow Saving Throw]].
** The Harry the Head strip in the same issue manages to pull off an inversion, as for one episode only it is drawn in spectacular style by J.T. Dogg instead of the very basic style of Marc Riley.
* TakeThat: Where do you start? The comic featured a lot of parodies, and while many were [[AffectionateParody affectionate]], many weren't. Perhaps the biggest Take Thats were targeted at rival comics, especially those of [=DC=] Thompson, though Oink!'s [=IPC=] stablemates weren't immune either, with ''ComicBook/WhizzerAndChips'' in particular coming in for a lot of mockery.
* ThemeNaming: Characters based on real-life people were usually named with weak pig-based puns. Michael Jackson became Michael Jaxham, Michael Parkinson became Michael Porkinson, Sylvester Stallone? Sylvester Sty-lone. And so on.

* TortureTechnician: PlayedForLaughs with the Torture Twins.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: ''The Street-Hogs!'' is set in a near-future (sometime around the TurnOfTheMillennium) in which pigs are recognised as full citizens (and can ride motorbikes) but there is still an illicit trade in pork and other pig produce.
** In the Time Travel issue, we see the Oink Office as it will be in the Year 2000. Basically the same as in 1987, except the staff have been replaced with robots and Uncle Pigg has a [[CoolChair flying chair]].

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: As the name suggests, this was Transmogrifying Tracey's main schtick.

* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Several turn up in one-off gag strips, and typically don't come out of it well. Hedgehog Boy gets run over, Squid Boy gets eaten, an unpopular kid who gets [[ComicBook/SpiderMan bitten by a radioactive spider]] becomes even more unpopular because he takes to eating flies, and so on. Kangaroo Kid survives, but his strip is just a gag parodying Superman's supposed fondness for [[PhoneBooth changing in a phone booth]]. In one of the annuals, Frank Sidebottom claims to have had a very successful secret superhero career as Clamboy, and that's why there's no crime under the sea. Snail Boy discovers that the only good thing about being a snail is having a shell to hide in.

* BizarroEpisode: Issue 36, ''Oink! Goes Peculiar'' has a framing story about Uncle Pigg going loopy after a bump on the head, which leads to all sorts of weird things happening in many of the strips, such as Pete and his Pimple not having a pimple, Harry the Head being drawn by the wrong artist and undergoing a major ArtShift, and Tom Thug having to write the ending to his own story, with major StylisticSuck.

* ChooseYourOwnAdventure: Done in an early issue. You are Barry the Butcher. Can you survive Uncle Pigg's Unfair Funfair? (Answer: No. It's Uncle Pigg's funfair and you're a butcher, so FailureIsTheOnlyOption.)

* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Several turn up in one-off gag strips, and typically don't come out of it well. Hedgehog Boy gets run over, Squid Boy gets eaten, an unpopular kid who gets [[SpiderMan bitten by a radioactive spider]] becomes even more unpopular because he takes to eating flies, and so on. Kangaroo Kid survives, but his strip is just a gag parodying Superman's supposed fondness for [[PhoneBooth changing in a phone booth]]. In one of the annuals, Frank Sidebottom claims to have had a very successful secret superhero career as Clamboy, and that's why there's no crime under the sea. Snail Boy discovers that the only good thing about being a snail is having a shell to hide in.

%%* ABoyAndHisX: Billy's Brain is an IndecisiveParody of this trope.

''Oink!'' featured a regular set of strips with recurring characters, but also often did "theme" issues based around specific topics, such as music. In many ways it resembled ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' more than any contemporary comic: it generally featured more violence and [[GrossOutShow gross-out humour]] than any of its' peers, as well as satire which probably went over the heads of many readers — they made fun of Music/{{Morrissey}} in two separate issues, had a regular character (Mary Lighthouse) to poke fun at MoralGuardians and occasionally took jabs at politicians, but managed to stay relatively clean throughout its' run.

One of the more successful attempts to reinvigorate the British children's comic, ''Oink!'' ran from 1986 to 1988, with several specials afterward. Based in Manchester, it was an ebullient romp created specifically to contrast with the older, more stylistically conservative comics which dominated the UK market at the time: ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' and ''ComicBook/TheDandy''.

''Oink!'' featured a regular set of strips with recurring characters, but also often did "theme" issues based around specific topics, such as music. In many ways it resembled ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' more than any contemporary comic: it generally featured more violence and toilet humour than any of its' peers, as well as satire which probably went over the heads of many readers — they made fun of Music/{{Morrissey}} in two separate issues, had a regular character (Mary Lighthouse) to poke fun at MoralGuardians and occasionally took jabs at politicians, but managed to stay relatively clean throughout its' run.

One of the more successful attempts to reinvigorate the British anthology comic, ''Oink!'' ran from 1986 to 1988, with several specials afterward. Based in Manchester, it was an ebullient romp created specifically to contrast with the older, more stylistically conservative comics which dominated the UK market at the time: ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' and ''ComicBook/TheDandy''.

''Oink!'' featured a regular set of strips with recurring characters, but also often did "theme" issues based around specific topics, such as music. In many ways it resembled ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' more than any contemporary comic: it generally featured more violence and toilet humour than any of its' peers, as well as satire which probably went over the heads of many readers — they made fun of Music/{{Morrissey}} in two separate issues, had a regular character (Mary Lighthouse) to poke fun at MoralGuardians and occasionally took jabs at politicians, but managed to stay relatively clean throughout.

''Oink!'' featured a regular set of strips with recurring characters, but also often did "theme" issues based around specific topics, such as music. In many ways it resembled ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' more than any contemporary comic: it generally featured more violence and toilet humour than any of its' peers, as well as satire which probably went over the heads of many readers — they made fun of Music/Morrissey in two separate issues, had a regular character (Mary Lighthouse) to poke fun at MoralGuardians and occasionally took jabs at politicians, but managed to stay relatively clean throughout.

''Oink!'' featured a regular set of strips with recurring characters, but also often did "theme" issues based around specific topics, such as music. In many ways it resembled ''ComicBook/Viz'' more than any contemporary comic: it generally featured more violence and toilet humour than any of its' peers, as well as satire which probably went over the heads of many readers — they made fun of Morrissey in two separate issues, had a regular character (Mary Lighthouse) to poke fun at MoralGuardians and occasionally took jabs at politicians, but managed to stay relatively clean throughout.

''Oink!'' featured a regular set of strips with recurring characters, but also often did "theme" issues based around specific topics, such as music. In many ways it resembled ''Viz'' more than any contemporary comic:
it generally featured more violence and toilet humour than any of its peers, as well as satires which probably went over the heads of many readers — they made fun of Morrissey in two separate issues, had a regular character (Mary Lighthouse) to poke fun at MoralGuardians and occasionally took jabs at politicians.

One of the more successful attempts to reinvigorate the British anthology comic, ''Oink!'' ran from 1986 to 1988, with several specials afterward. Based in Manchester, it was an ebullient romp created specifically to contrast with the older, more stylistically conservative comics which dominated the UK market at the time: Comic/TheBeano and Comic/TheDandy.

[[caption-width-right:335:"Editor" Uncle Pigg surrounded by many of Oink!'s major (and not-so-major) characters.]]One of the more successful attempts to reinvigorate the British anthology comic, ''Oink!'' ran from 1986 to 1988, with several specials afterward.
Based in Manchester, it was an ebullient romp create specifically to contrast with the older, more stylistically conservative comics which dominated the UK market at the time: the Beano and the Dandy. Oink! featured a regular set of strips with recurring characters, but also often did "theme" issues based around specific topics, such as music. In many ways it resembles ''Viz'' more than any contemporary comic:

Oink! had a spin-off video game and a single, which came free on flexi-disc with a particular issue.

* ABoyAndHisX: Billy's Brain is an IndecisiveParody of this trope.