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Now has [[TheWikiRule a Wiki]]. Check it [[https://sam-and-sedine.wikia.com here.]]

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Now has [[TheWikiRule a Wiki]]. Check it [[https://sam-and-sedine.wikia.com here.]]
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* DumbJock: While hardly ''dumb'', Hubbs is a bit slow on the uptake sometimes. For instance, while he knows countless football statistics, he doesn't know ''his own phone number''.

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* DumbJock: While hardly ''dumb'', Hubbs is a bit slow on the uptake dim sometimes. For instance, while he knows countless football statistics, he doesn't know ''his own phone number''.


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* PairTheDumbOnes: {{The ditz}}y Ellie hooks up with DumbJock Hubbs.

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The strip can be found [[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security here]].

It is also found [[https://www.patreon.com/InSecurity here.]]

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The strip can be found [[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security here]].

here]]. It is also found [[https://www.patreon.com/InSecurity here.]]
here]] and [[https://tapas.io/series/In-SECURITY/info here]].



* BettyAndVeronica: Sedine sees herself as the Betty to Ellie's Veronica for Sam's Archie. Good thing for Sedine Ellie is such a [[TheDitz ditz]].

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* BettyAndVeronica: Sedine sees herself as the Betty to Ellie's Veronica for Sam's Archie. Good thing for Sedine Ellie is such a [[TheDitz ditz]]. Sedine moves past this mindset once it's clear that Ellie's not interested in Sam.



* DearJohnLetter: [[spoiler:We don't quite see what Hubbs writes to Ellie, but it's pretty clearly this.]]

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* DearJohnLetter: [[spoiler:We don't quite see what Hubbs writes to Ellie, but it's pretty clearly this. Turns out the note in question is a completely innocent 'SEE YA!', with Hubbs saying he'd be seeing her later, not leaving her.]]


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* DumbJock: While hardly ''dumb'', Hubbs is a bit slow on the uptake sometimes. For instance, while he knows countless football statistics, he doesn't know ''his own phone number''.


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* LoonyFriendsImproveYourPersonality: Hanging out with Sedine has gotten the otherwise agoraphobic Charlene more willing to go out to the outside world. She also becomes less obsessed with normalcy.


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* ParentalMarriageVeto: Sedine's mother and Sam's parents refused to let them get married (Sedine's mother because she thought he didn't make enough money, Sam's parents because they don't want them to "overpopulate the ecosphere"). The two ended up eloping.
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* {{Gonk}}: Gabby, Roy and Charlene’s youngest child, is not the cutest baby around, possessing a [[EvilEyebrows unibrow]], a hairstyle that looks like devil horns, and a [[PerpetualFrowner perpetual scowl]]. This has not stopped her from establishing a career as a toddler model.

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* {{Gonk}}: Gabby, Roy and Charlene’s youngest child, is not the cutest baby around, possessing a [[EvilEyebrows unibrow]], BigOlEyebrows, a hairstyle that looks like devil horns, and a [[PerpetualFrowner perpetual scowl]]. This has not stopped her from establishing a career as a toddler model.



* OlderThanTheyLook: Sedine is twenty-two but can easily pass for sixteen.

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* OlderThanTheyLook: Sedine is twenty-two but can easily pass for sixteen.sixteen ([[ManChild she certainly acts it]]).

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It concerns two newlyweds, Sam and Sedine Kilgarriff, who live in the suburban town of Knightville, UsefulNotes/NorthDakota and the [[HilarityEnsues situations they find themselves in]] due to their differing personalities. Sam is a rather laid back sort while Sedine has a more outrageous personality.

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It concerns two newlyweds, Sam and Sedine Kilgarriff, who live in the suburban town of Knightville, UsefulNotes/NorthDakota UsefulNotes/NorthDakota, and the [[HilarityEnsues situations they find themselves in]] due to their differing personalities. Sam is a rather laid back laid-back sort while Sedine has a more outrageous personality.



* CleanPrettyChildbirth: ''Very'' averted. En route to the hospital, Ellie ends up giving birth in the backseat of Sam's car, and it ends up looking like something out of a B-grade horror movie.

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* CleanPrettyChildbirth: ''Very'' averted. En route to the hospital, Ellie ends up giving birth in the backseat of Sam's car, and it ends up looking like something out of a B-grade horror movie. Also played straight as Ellie looks no worse for wear afterwards.



* FormerlyFat: Hank Durum.

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* FormerlyFat: Hank Durum. It's a BerserkButton that Roy ''loves'' to press.



* NewAgeRetroHippie: Sam's parents are stereotypes of the militant far-left, vehemently opposing anything capitalist or potentially environmentally damaging and expressing their disappointment that Sam didn't go to college and identifies as a heterosexual, cisgender male. Sam finds them embarrassing, and Sedine's arch-capitalist mother despises them, so sparks always fly when both sets of parents visit for Thanksgiving.

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* NewAgeRetroHippie: Sam's parents are stereotypes of the militant far-left, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking vehemently opposing anything capitalist or potentially environmentally damaging and expressing their disappointment that Sam didn't go to college and identifies as a heterosexual, cisgender male.male]]. Sam finds them embarrassing, and Sedine's arch-capitalist mother despises them, so sparks always fly when both sets of parents visit for Thanksgiving.



* OnlySaneMan: While Sam DOES have his quirks, compared to Sedine and her cousin Roy, he's the voice of reason.

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* OnlySaneMan: While Sam DOES have his quirks, compared to everyone else in the cast, especially Sedine and her cousin Roy, he's the voice of reason.


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* WetBlanketWife: Ellie becomes this after Al is born. She discourages Hubbs from enjoying his hobbies because she thinks they're too dangerous for their son. [[spoiler:She gets so bad that Hubbs ends up leaving her.]]
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* ButtMonkey: Roy Buxton.


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*FormerlyFat: Hank Durum.
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* MistakenForGay: Sam’s parents regard the relationship between Ellie (as “Al”) and Hubbs with pride.

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* MistakenForGay: Sam’s parents regard the relationship between Ellie (as “Al”) and Hubbs with pride. [[spoiler:When Ellie drops the Al disguise, they think she's a trans woman, and they celebrate her bravery.]]



* OlderThanTheyLook: Sedine is twenty-two, but can easily pass for sixteen.

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* OlderThanTheyLook: Sedine is twenty-two, twenty-two but can easily pass for sixteen.
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It concerns two newlyweds, Sam and Sedine Kilgarriff, who live in the suburban town of Knightville, North Dakota and the [[HilarityEnsues situations they find themselves in]] due to their differing personalities. Sam is a rather laid back sort while Sedine has a more outrageous personality.

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It concerns two newlyweds, Sam and Sedine Kilgarriff, who live in the suburban town of Knightville, North Dakota UsefulNotes/NorthDakota and the [[HilarityEnsues situations they find themselves in]] due to their differing personalities. Sam is a rather laid back sort while Sedine has a more outrageous personality.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Sedine's hair is purple.
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* AntiClimax: Invoked for laughs. An early 2019 storyline involved Ellie exposing a cell phone dealer's shoddy products with the company head vowing revenge. [[https://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2019/12/21 Months later]], at Ellie and Hubb's wedding, he finally shows up looking for revenge...only for Ellie to inadvertently use ExactWords to get him to go away.


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* DearJohnLetter: [[spoiler:We don't quite see what Hubbs writes to Ellie, but it's pretty clearly this.]]


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* LeavingYouToFindMyself: [[spoiler:Hubbs does to Ellie a little over a year into their relationship.]]

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The comma in Only Sane Man was correct, and a single second-level bullet is not.


* {{Animesque}}: The look of the strip seems like it came right out of a manga series, from wild-looking AnimeHair, [[AlertnessBlink Alertness Blinks]], BigOlEyebrows, and VisibleSilence, to most other JapaneseVisualArtsTropes. As if to hammer the point home, the phrase [[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/06/24 "onii-san"]] even makes an appearance.
** It gets invoked when Sam and Sedine take a trip to Japan.

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* {{Animesque}}: The look of the strip seems like it came right out of a manga series, from wild-looking AnimeHair, [[AlertnessBlink Alertness Blinks]], BigOlEyebrows, and VisibleSilence, to most other JapaneseVisualArtsTropes. As if to hammer the point home, the phrase [[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/06/24 "onii-san"]] even makes an appearance.
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appearance. It gets invoked when Sam and Sedine take a trip to Japan.



* OnlySaneMan: While Sam DOES have his quirks compared to Sedine and her cousin Roy, he's the voice of reason.

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* OnlySaneMan: While Sam DOES have his quirks quirks, compared to Sedine and her cousin Roy, he's the voice of reason.



* ShotgunWedding: Roy and Charlene's wedding, [[https://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2018/08/18 with a heavy emphasis on "shotgun"]].

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* ShotgunWedding: ShotgunWedding:
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Roy and Charlene's wedding, [[https://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2018/08/18 with a heavy emphasis on "shotgun"]].
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Think ''Film/BarefootInThePark'' meets ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''.

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** It gets invoked when Sam and Sedine take a trip to Japan.



* GagNose: Both Sam and Roy sport rather prodigious probosces.

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* GagNose: Both Sam and Roy sport rather prodigious probosces.proboscises.
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* AttractiveBentGender: A 2018 series of strips has Sedine disguise next door neighbor Ellie Gardner as a man. Sure enough, a whole bunch of women fall for “him”.

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* AttractiveBentGender: A 2018 series of strips has Sedine disguise next door next-door neighbor Ellie Gardner as a man. Sure enough, a whole bunch of women fall for “him”.



* CleanPrettyChildbirth: ''Very'' averted. En route to the hospital, Ellie ends up giving birth in the backseat of Sam's car, and it ends up looking like something out of a B-grade horror movie.



* NewAgeRetroHippie: Sam's parents are stereotypes of the militant far left, vehemently opposing anything capitalist or potentially environmentally damaging and expressing their disappointment that Sam didn't go to college and identifies as a heterosexual, cisgender male. Sam finds them embarrassing, and Sedine's arch-capitalist mother despises them, so sparks always fly when both sets of parents visit for Thanksgiving.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Sedine is twenty two, but can easily pass for sixteen.
* OnlySaneMan: While Sam DOES have his quirks, compared to Sedine and her cousin Roy, he's the voice of reason.

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* NewAgeRetroHippie: Sam's parents are stereotypes of the militant far left, far-left, vehemently opposing anything capitalist or potentially environmentally damaging and expressing their disappointment that Sam didn't go to college and identifies as a heterosexual, cisgender male. Sam finds them embarrassing, and Sedine's arch-capitalist mother despises them, so sparks always fly when both sets of parents visit for Thanksgiving.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Sedine is twenty two, twenty-two, but can easily pass for sixteen.
* OnlySaneMan: While Sam DOES have his quirks, quirks compared to Sedine and her cousin Roy, he's the voice of reason.



** Ellie brandishes a shotgun when she tells Hubbs she's pregnant.



* TinyTyrannicalGirl: Despite being the shortest character in the strip no one can argue Sedine is in charge.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Sedine's hair is purple.

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* TinyTyrannicalGirl: Despite being the shortest character in the strip strip, no one can argue Sedine is in charge.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Sedine's hair is purple.purple.
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** [[TheBigGuy Hubbs]]'s is being called fat

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** [[TheBigGuy Hubbs]]'s is being called fatfat. Roy mashes this button at every available opportunity.



** There's also the imagine spot that has Sam and Sedine
-->[[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]]Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a bunch of Sedines fighting over him.]]

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** There's also the imagine spot that has Sam and Sedine
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Sedine [[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]]Sedine ]] Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a bunch of Sedines fighting over him.]]

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-->[[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]]Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a
->bunch of Sedines fighting over him.]]

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-->[[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]]Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a
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->[[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]]
->Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a

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->[[http://www.-->[[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]]
->Sedine
]]Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a

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[[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]] Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a bunch of Sedines fighting over him.]]

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[[http://www.->[[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]] Sedine ]]
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** There's also the imagine spot that has Sam and Sedine [[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]] Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a bunch of Sedines fighting over him.]]

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** There's also the imagine spot that has Sam and Sedine Sedine
[[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]] Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a bunch of Sedines fighting over him.]]
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** There's also the imagine spot that has Sam and Sedine [[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]] Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a bunch of Sedines fighting over him.]]

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** There's also the imagine spot that has Sam and Sedine Sedine [[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]] Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a bunch of Sedines fighting over him.]]
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** There's also the imagine spot that has Sam and Sedine [[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]] Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a bunch of Sedines fighting over him.]]

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** There's also the imagine spot that has Sam and Sedine Sedine [[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]] Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a bunch of Sedines fighting over him.]]

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** There's also the imagine spot that has Sam and Sedine
[[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]] Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a bunch of Sedines fighting over him.]]

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** There's also the imagine spot that has Sam and Sedine
Sedine [[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]] Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a bunch of Sedines fighting over him.]]
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More stoic than quiet


** When Sedine asked Sam about what their Spirit Animal forms would be like, [[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/03/13 he saw himself as a quiet St. Bernard and Sedine as a yapping Chihuahua.]]

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** When Sedine asked Sam about what their Spirit Animal forms would be like, [[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/03/13 he saw himself as a quiet stoic St. Bernard and Sedine as a yapping Chihuahua.]]

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** There's also the imagine spot that has Sam and Sedine [[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]] Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a bunch of Sedines fighting over him.]]

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** There's also the imagine spot that has Sam and Sedine Sedine
[[http://www.gocomics.com/in-security/2017/02/28 imagining clones of the other.]] Sedine imagines a bunch of Sams pampering her, while Sam imagines [[NightmareFuel a bunch of Sedines fighting over him.]]

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