History Comicbook / Viz

** One of the Mrs Brady, Old Lady strips revealed that she wasn't actually a widow; her husband moved to Carlisle to get away from her, as he "couldn't stand the old cow."
** The Male Online endlessly rants at his wife Beryl, often calling her a "woke traitor" and similar, or humiliating her in public. This often drives her to physically lash out at him or retaliate in some other way (like locking him in the cellar, or drugging him just so he'll stop bothering her.)

* OneSteveLimit: Fully averted by Roger Mellie and Roger Irrelevant, and averted in sound, but not spelling, by Sid the Sexist and Suicidal Syd. Also worth mentioning here is the fact that the Fat Slags and Sid the Sexist both have a mustachioed friend called Baz.

* TeenyWeeny: It's heavily implied that Sid the Sexist is somewhat under-endowed.

* {{Bridezilla}}: Wendy Haystacks, who appeared in a Sid The Sexist strip. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Sid accidentally proposes to her when all he wanted to do was to ask her to give him a blow-job.]] Wendy then becomes a very horrifying Bridezilla, verging back and forth between SickeninglySweet and BitchInSheepsClothing, while Sid becomes a HenpeckedHusband even before they have got married.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Naturally, when Sid the Sexist's mates pop round his house on the way to the pub and his mum says he's upstairs in his room "getting ready", they go upstairs and catch him doing this.

* IronButtMonkey: Mr. Snodworthy in the ''Tinribs'' strip.

* LethalEatery: "Hen Cabin", whose proprietor's rule is that anything can be covered up with batter and anything that doesn't need to be covered up with batter is too expensive to make a profit on. Also, the unnamed bakery in "Drunken Bakers", due to the proprietors' crippling alcoholism rather than malice.

** Millie Tant once asked her two housemates what their salaries were (the male housemate earned less), and then produced statistics "proving" that the average salary for a man in the household was higher. The other two pointed out that the figures were skewed because Millie herself doesn't have a job.

* RhymesOnADime: Most of the characters and strips have rhyming names, often lampshaded with absurdly contrived rhymes like 'Tony Slattery and his Phony Cattery'. Also done ''accidentally'' with "Spot the Clue with Albert Camus"- "Spot the Clue" being a regular feature that only happened to feature a figure that rhymed with "clue".

* TheVerse: Drunken Bakers and Hen Cabin appear to be set in the same universe as well as having similar premises and being drawn by the same duo. Also, Sid the Sexist and Millie Tant sometimes encounter each other and Roger Mellie sometimes appears in other strips when a reporter or narrator is needed and on these occasions he's generally (although not always) without his usual lecherous and/or violent behaviour. There was an occasional gag where Roger and Tom appear in other strips before realising that they're in the wrong strip and leaving.

* BrotherChuck: Several strips will add new characters who then never reappear. Examples include Spoilt Bastard's stepfather and stepsister (see below) as well as Biffa Bacon's new baby brother and Knacka the dog.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Victorian Dad even though his wife and son and daughter do not live by his Victorian Era viewpoints.

* AlliterativeName: Sid the Sexist (full name: Sidney Smutt), Biffa Bacon, Major Misunderstanding, Lawrence Logic, Billy Britain, to name a few.

* PushoverParents: Timmy "Spoilt Bastard" Timson's appropritately-named mother Cissy. Timmy manipulates his weak-willed mother into satisfying his hollow and selfish desires, usually with serious health-threatening, or financial destroying, or both, consequences for her.

* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Biffa Bacon is routinely beaten up by his parents purely for their own amusement and yet nobody thinks to call either social servies or the police.

** Tasha Slappa's boyfriend Bobba is suggested to possibly be her father (and perhaps her grandfather as well.)

** One Baxter Basics strip has his assistant note the only way into the House of Lords is to write a shitty musical (like Andrew Lloyd Webber) or an even shittier novel (like Jeffrey Archer).

* BlackComedy: Many, many examples across all features of the magazine. Some of the best remembered examples include a strip about serial killers Harold Shipman and Fred West competing to be the first to murder a new neighbour; and a spoof advert for "Mummy, This Lemonade Tastes Funny!", a collectible china doll that comes with a bottle of bleach.

* BladderOfSteel: One Sid the Sexist strip has Sid and his mates gannin' doon the pub to neck a few pints o' Broon. The lads are seen in the pub chugging down pints of beer -- eight or nine each, by the end -- and getting visibly more uncomfortable as their bladders fill. But the Code of the Lad dictates that you hold it in, and that the first man to crack and run to the bog under the pressure of a very full bladder is, by inexorable logic, a poof and a lassie who cannae hold it in. All four are seen playing a desperate game of Bladder Roulette, each praying that one of the others cracks first, so he can take all the censure, allowing the rest to go for a piss with their honour intact. And all the time they are trying to put on poker faces and shrug off painfully full bladders as if this is nothing...

* BritishTeeth: Mercilessly turned on its head in a one-off strip called ''Crystal's Big Chance''. This was about an American girl who wanted to become a cheerleader but was regarded as hideously ugly because one of her front teeth was just slightly out of line. She eventually got her happy ending and was hailed as beautiful at the end despite the enormous braces she now wore.

* BunglingInventor: Gilbert Ratchet. Played with in that quite a few of his machines have a harmful mode that he's deliberately given them for no explicable reason, but to which the machine will inevitably be switched.

* ButtMonkey: Music/{{Sting}} and [[Music/{{U2}} Bono]] are often ridiculed for being egotistical pretentious hypocrites who claim to help the poor whilst spending a lot of money on extravagant luxuries. In the 1980s, Shakin Stevens was the ButtMonkey but he is considered a 'has been' nowadays, he is usually brought up in articles when someone wants to milk their connection to a minor celebrity.

* {{Fetish}}: Mr. Logic seems to find his own blend of BotheringByTheBook and SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to be a turn-on, as evidenced by the strip in which he hires a prostitute whom he chastises for saying that he's got the biggest penis she's ever seen. When she changes tack and starts to describe his penis in a way that he would describe it himself (ie. "your penis is not the biggest I have seen, and based on my own experiences would estimate it to be in the 45th percentile"), he's evidently aroused.

** EverythingIsBigInTexas: A one-off strip had the Pope get a visit from a Texan archbishop, who spent the whole time saying that everything there was smaller than what he had in Texas, including the Vatican and even when God himself appeared he said that they had fairies at the bottom of the garden bigger there. The Pope and God eventually team up to get rid of the archbishop [[ItMakesSenseInContext using a clockwork dinosaur]].

** In the first Jack Black strip, Jack's aunt was named Jessie and was married to Jack's uncle, and the humour of the strips was based around his attempts to solve ridiculous "mysteries" such as why there was a cabbage lying in the roadside. The setup soon changed to its current format as a parody of Boy's Own-style adventures and middle-class hypocrisy, with his aunt named Meg and apparently a spinster. The art style was also very different until the current and best-known artist (Simon Ecob) took over the trip.

** EverythingIsBigInTexas: A one-off strip had the Pope get a visit from a Texan archbishop, who spent the whole time saying that everything there was smaller than what he had in Texas, including the Vatican and even when God himself appeared he said that they had fairies at the bottom of the garden bigger there. The Pope and God eventually team up to get rid of the archbishop [[ItMakesSenseInContext using a clockwork]] [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaur]].

* HotScientist: There was a spoof science column by their sexy scientist Dr Verushka Vavavoom. She had a habit of spilling chemicals over herself while writing the column, and then asking the readers to hep her out of her wet clothes. But they'd have to promise not to look....

* AccidentalIncest:
** Tasha Slappa's boyfriend Bobba is suggested to possibly be her father (and perhaps her grandfather as well.)
** Norbert Colon was once set up on a blind date with his mother - the only person the dating agency could find who was as stingy as him.

** In 2015, a story hit the UK news about a viral video where a cyclist had recorded his confrontation with an angry driver named Ronnie Pickering over which of them had caused a near-miss. Subsequently Viz published a strip about "Bicycle Bell-End", a smug cyclist who frequently criticises other road users, only to get beaten up by Pickering at the end.

** The Male Online's wife used to be portrayed as just wearily putting up with him. Over time she has become much more willing to stand up to him, often getting him back in some way (such as anonymously trolling him online), or just snapping and violently attacking him.

At its best, ''Viz'' can be well-written, witty and occasionally thought-provoking despite being crude and raunchy. At its worst, it's just crude and raunchy with little to no redeeming qualities. Think of this comic as ''MAD Magazine'' for adults or ''Cracked'' if it went to places that ''MAD'' didn't dare.

** In the earliest Jack Black strips, Jack's aunt was named Jessie and was married to Jack's uncle, and the humour of the strips was based around his attempts to solve ridiculous "mysteries" such as why there was a cabbage lying in the roadside. The setup soon changed to its current format as a parody of Boy's Own-style adventures and middle-class hypocrisy, with his aunt named Meg and apparently a spinster. The art style was also very different until the current and best-known artist (Simon Ecob) took over the trip.

* TheAlcoholic: Eight Ace, The Drunken Bakers, Brown Bottle.

* CrapsackWorld: Many of the strips comedically tend this way, but Barney Farmer's and Lee Healey's ones ("Drunken Bakers", "Hen Cabin", "George Bestial", "Scum Mothers, Who'd 'Ave 'Em?", the "We..." strips about the balding businessman, "Whoops Aisle Apocalypse", "Robbie's Robot Carer") are unbelievably bleak. "Foodie Bollocks", "Roy'll Watch EIIR", and "Cop Her Knickers" are less so, but "Roy'll Watch EIIR" often involves unpleasant things happening to the main character and his friend (being beaten by police, left to freeze on the street, etc.) while "Cop Her Knickers" is basically about police sexually harassing an old lady. Most of their one-off strips such as "Out Came Stanley", "Last Tan&Go in Powys", and "Morbid O'Beesley" would fit the trope as well.

* CrapsackWorld: Many of the strips comedically tend this way, but Barney Farmer's and Lee Healey's ones ("Drunken Bakers", "Hen Cabin", "George Bestial", "Scum Mothers, Who'd 'Ave 'Em?", the "We..." strips about the balding businessman, "Whoops Aisle Apocalypse", "Robbie's Robot Carer") are unbelievably bleak. "Foodie Bollocks", "Roy'll Watch EIIR", and "Cop Her Knickers" are less so, but "Roy'll Watch EIIR" often involves unpleasant things happening to the main character and his friend (being beaten by police, left to freeze on the street, etc.) while "Cop Her Knickers" is basically about police sexually harassing an old lady.

* CheatingWithTheMilkman: In one Postman Plod strip he competes with the milkman over who will have sex with a housewife first, only for the woman's husband to come home when he is trying to have sex with her.

* PatrioticFervor: Cockney Wanker is established as a royalist, especially supportive of the Queen Mother, spouting received wisdom such as "Ninety Free she is. Ninety Free. Wahn the bladdy war for us she did!"

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Jack Black, who regularly turns against Aunt Meg and/or PC Brown, and has even callously murdered them (though they are always resurrected in time for the next strip.) The ending of a Big Vern strip is very often triggered by Vern's belief that Ernie and/or Vern's wife has betrayed him to the police.