History ComicBook / RatQueens

** Later in the series: [[spoiler: she wakes extraordinarily hung over to find an assassin standing on her bed, Violet busts in about 30 seconds later, and Betty already knows exactly where the assassin was from.]]

* KillSteel: When the Queens fight the giant pterosaur, Barrie walks up and stabs it while it's dying, and then claims a share of the bounty.

* TheRival: The Peaches introduced in the first story arc may be this for the Rat Queens, but more likely it's just that Hannah and Tizzie, the leader of the Peaches, get under each other's skins. A flashback shows that (unsurprisingly) they used to be close friends when they were in school, and in times when things get too dangerous for them to remember that they hate each other they have exceptional teamwork abilities.

** In the opening of the final issue, we see some of the Queens at a bar where [[WebVideo/CriticalRole an oddly familiar looking group of adventurers are hanging]].

->'''Mook 1''': Oh Brad, Brad, Brad, Brad, Bard. You are so fucking dumb.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Explicitly invoked. Violet is noteworthy because this mindset is exactly what drove her to leave her people in the first place. She also notes how ridiculous it is whenever someone talks about something like "dwarven ale," as if dwarves would only make ''one'' type of beer and ''call it dwarven ale''.

''Rat Queens'' is a ComicBook by Kurtis Wiebe for Creator/ImageComics, with artwork by Roc Upchurch. Stjepan Šejić replaced Upchurch as the main artist for issues #9 and #10, with Tess Fowler taking over issues 11-16. In response to fan backlash Wiebe pulled the series for a year, returning in March 2017 with artist Owen Gieni[[note]]This confused issue numbers with original run #1-16, then retool run #1-ongoing. As of retool #10 both runs are canon[[/note]]. In April 2019 Wiebe and Gieni handed off to writer Ryan Ferrier and artist Priscilla Petraites.

-->'''Evil Hannah:''' I'm the Hannah you left behind.

* NonMammalMammaries: Sadie. Head of an owl, talons for hands and feet, and wings, but a humanoid torso with BoobsOfSteel. [[spoiler: Which the comic shows off completely in Volume 2, Issue #15.]]

-->''He and his buddies head's get bifurcated simultaneously by Braga.''

* InsistentTerminology: Old Lady Bernadette would like to remind everyone that she's [[ChristmasCake thirty-nine years old!]]

* OurWerewolversAreDifferent: Moondogs look like the typical wolfman style werewolf, but they have the personalities of frat boys. They also don't appear to have any specific resistance to being harmed with weapons that aren't made of silver.

There's also an Actual Play rpg by Creator/HyperRPG

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Betty does this in issue 2.

* ButtMonkey: Gary.

* EldritchAbomination: Dee Dee used to be in a cult that worshipped N'rygoth, a tentacled elder god.
** And as of issue 7, [[spoiler:an entire army of tentacled horrors has been summoned to destroy Palisade.]]
* EurekaMoment: Violet has one in a flashback. She is resigned to an unhappy life trapped by family conventions until she meets a woman who escaped by rejecting the same conventions and realizes that's an option.

* {{Transgender}}: [[spoiler:Braga is a Transgender Orc. [=Human!Dave=] doesn't mind. Whether or not she transitioned via magic has yet to be revealed.]]

* OurElvesAreBetter: Definitely Averted. Hannah and Tizzie are just as aggressive, alcoholic, violent, and shallow as the others surrounding them. Hannah's father appears grey-haired and wrinkled, indicating that they age just like any other race. The only obvious physiological difference between elves and humans is their pointy ears.

* HandWave: A ShockingSwerve murder is changed in flashback to the first skirmish in a townwide doppelganger attack.

* HandWave: A ShockingSwerve murder is changed in flashback to the first skirmish in a townwide doppelganger attack. * HangoverSensitivity: Explicitly invoked in the preview and issue #2