History Comicbook / ArchieComics

* ''Film/TheArchies'' (2023 Musical Film, Netflix)

* UnreliableNarrator: In one story, Archie and Jughead are fighting and Reggie asks what happens. Archie explains he was hanging with Veronica who was fawning all over him and asked if he could borrow money from Jughead. Jughead then refused not wanting to spend his fifty cents on a girl and their fight made Veronica angrily storm away. Jughead explains that was not the case: in reality, Veronica was fed up with spending time in Archie's broken car and demanded he buy her a soda to make up for it. Seeing the desperate Archie thinking fifty cents could get him by, Jughead bluntly said no.

** In another ''Archie'' comic, Cheryl stole a dress that Veronica designed and wore it to a party just to laugh in her face - only to find out at that point what a bad seamstress Veronica was. The whole dress ripped apart in front of everyone. (Of course, as humiliating as that was for Cheryl, the story didn't quite end on a high note for Ronnie either...)

* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' (2017-present) (Live-action drama)

* ButterFace: Big Ethel, in her early days. Eventually FailPolish set in big time, to the point that in the '90s she was downright attractive with just a bad Pebbles Flintstone haircut.

'''[[TropeCodifier The]]''' {{Slice Of Life}} Magazine.

* ''WesternAnimation/ArchiesWeirdMysteries'' (1996)

* SweaterGirl: The girls really fit into their sweaters.

'''''[[TropeCodifier The]]''''' {{SliceOfLife}} Magazine.

** The original name suggested for WereStillRelevantDammit was [[TropeNamers Emo Jughead]]. Despite the fact that Jughead is usually the most offbeat and non-conformist of the group, over the decades he tends to be the one shown experimenting with new fads or subcultures of fashion. He has been an EmoTeen, a {{Goth}}, a skateboarder, a punk, etc. over the years, generally hopping on as a sign of his own counter-culture compared to the more milquetoast cast.

** Sometimes digests include old stories reprinted with modern cultural references such as ''Series/AmericanIdol'' now [[GeorgeLucasAlteredEdition awkwardly inserted through editing]], like an obvious change in lettering. The modern references will tend to feel anachronistic in context of the art, obviously made in a different era.

* YourTelevisionHatesYou: One story had Archie and the gang trying to find some way to escape the heat on a scorching summer day. Eventually they retreat into an air-conditioned movie theatre. the movie showing is called ''Way Down Below'', which they assume will be a SubStory. It turns out to be set in FireAndBrimstoneHell.

* TakeAThirdOption: This is the solution for the "My Father's Betrayal" story, where Veronica is put into conflict with her father who is trying to build an industrial park over a well known forest. While Veronica is right about the land being loved by people of the community, Mr. Lodge points out the economy is struggling and people need the new jobs the factory will produce. Eventually, when Veronica gets injured at a protest rally, he realizes the error of his ways and decides to have
a smaller industrial park built so the forest won't have to be torn down.

* TakeAThirdOption: This is the solution for the "My Father's Betrayal" story, where Veronica is put into conflict with her father who is trying to build an industrial park over a well known forest. While Veronica is right about the land being loved by people of the community, Mr. Lodge points out the economy is struggling and people need the new jobs the factory will produce. Eventually, when Veronica gets injured at a protest rally, he realizes the error of his ways and decides to have smaller industrial park built so the forest won't have to be torn down.

** In one comic, Veronica owned a Hedgehog, and named it [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]]. (Archie, you'll recall, published a ''Sonic'' comic from 1993-2017).

* ShowingUpChauvinists: TokenEvilTeammate Reggie Mantle likes to opine that boys excel at various activities ranging from sports to chess to puzzles, while girls are mere cheerleaders. Either Betty Cooper or Veronica Lodge will challenge Reggie to a contest in which Reggie comes up short. After one issue handed Reggie a series of defeats, Reggie comments to Archie, "Betty and Ronnie often speak of equality. Why do you suppose they want to lower themselves to our level?"