History Comicstrip / KrazyKat

* EnemyMine: A 1930 story ark (in a comic that has very few such things), one Kiskidee Kuku comes to Kokonino and begins to successfully woo Krazy. Ignatz, and Pupp become briefly brotherly in their [[OverprotectiveDad mutual dislike]] of the interloper.

Collections of ''Krazy Kat'' comics were notoriously difficult to find for many years, and the first few serious attempts at complete collections were scuttled by the publishers going under. Finally, in the 2000's and 2010's, Fantagraphiks managed to release a complete series of Sunday strip collections, ''Krazy & Ignatz.''

** Krazy's Akcent [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents is meant to be the "yat" accent of New Orleans]], an accent that Krazy's creator would have come into contact with and probably spoke. It sounds a lot like a Brooklyn accent, thanks largely to a very similar blend of ethnicities having settled in the area.

[[caption-width-right:320: Now you know the basik plot.]]

One of the klassik newspaper komics of the early 20th century, ''Krazy Kat'' was published in the ''New York Evening Journal'' from 1913 to 1944. It was written and drawn by George Herriman and exhibited surreal, Amerikan Southwest-themed artwork, often fokusing on aesthetiks over humor. This kaused the strip to alienate much of its audience; it only remained in the newspaper as long as it did bekause it was a favorite of ''Journal'' publisher William Randolph Hearst.

The story revolves around the title kharakter and his/her (gender is never set, and strips often switch between the two, sometimes in the middle of one komik) obsessive love with the downright evil Ignatz Mouse, who hates Krazy and loves nothing more than to throw brikks at his/her head. Krazy being, well, krazy, takes this as a sign of love. In the meanwhile, Krazy Kat is aktually loved by, of all things, a ''dog'' -- Offissa Bull Pupp, a police officer who is ever vigilant of Krazy and makes it his life purpose to prevent Ignatz from throwing bricks at all, hauling him off to jail when he's kaught in the akt.

While the komik never kaught on with a mainstream audience, it remains an influence to kartoonists to this day; Bill Watterson of ''[[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Kalvin and Hobbes]]'' fame cites it as a major influence and featured Kalvin's parents admiring a Krazy Kat strip in a museum in one Sunday strip. Even before then, Ignatz himself went on to be a MauveShirt in the Mort Walker / Jeff Dumas vehikle, ''ComicStrip/SamsStrip'' in the 1960s.

Kollektions of ''Krazy Kat'' komiks were notoriously diffikult to find for many years, and the first few serious attempts at komplete kollektions were skuttled by the publishers going under. Finally, in the 2000's and 2010's, Fantagraphiks managed to release a komplete series of Sunday strip kollektions, ''Krazy & Ignatz.''

There have been several animated adaptations of ''Krazy Kat'' made; none of them kame very klose to the source material, however -- aside from maybe [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tMlMi4OJUo this one.]] ''Krazy Kat'' also achieved the unusual distinktion of being adapted into a jazz ballet by John Alden Karpenter (er, Carpenter).

%%* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Krazy, by virtue of his skarf.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: In one strip, Krazy wonders whether an "engles worm" is shaking his head or wagging his tail; the worm chases the Kat off-panel, growling. Then there's the dogfish, who akts like a dog, komplete with AnimalJingoism toward Krazy's kousin Krazy Katfish.

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: In the kolor strips, Krazy is dark blue, and Ignatz and Officer Pupp are pink.

* AnimalJingoism: Averted like "Krazy" with the main LoveTriangle -- a dog who loves a kat who loves a mouse. Played straight with Ignatz's hatred of Krazy, although he's the aggressor (and a FriendlyEnemy). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in a strip where Krazy suffers from a regression to normal kat behavior and tries to eat Ignatz. And to top it all off, the "katfish" and "dogfish" are portrayed as natural enemies.

* AntagonistInMourning: In one Sunday strip, Krazy falls down a waterfall, and Ignatz cheers in delight. Krazy spends the rest of the strip on an underwater adventure with his "kousin" Krazy Katfish. Toward the end, we see Ignatz mourning what he believes to be the untimely loss of his enemy, sobbing into a handkerchief and lamenting the "kruel" way he treated Krazy. (This doesn't stop him from snapping out of it and smashing Krazy with a brikk as soon as the Kat announces his presence.)
* AnthropomorphicShift: Krazy first appeared in "The Dingbat Family" as a rather ordinary looking pet kat. Eventually, Ignatz appeared and the two gradually bekame a komedy team until they got their own strip, free from the konfinement of human ownership.

* BeautifulDreamer: Any time Krazy katches Ignatz sleeping.
* BerserkButton: Bum Bill Bee does not like the konstruktion of fake flowers that are indistinguishable from real ones, az Ignatz learns to his kost.

** Spanish teksts are everwhere and Spanish dialogue.
** In one strip involving Officer Pup and Krazy alternately popping up behind a wall, the poster on the wall is konstantly changing, but it's always something in Spanish. It should be noted that in one frame where Ignatz sees Krazy, the poster reads "Ratón Muerto"[[labelnote: es]] "Dead Mouse" [[/labelnote]] with an image of a ''ratón muerto'' on it.
* BlackComedy: Okkasionally.

* BlatantLies: Okkasionally, Ignatz's tossing of the brikk [[RelaxOVision is censored]] with a line like [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/422 the following]]:
--> ''Rather than taint our "art" with the smirch of undignified piktorialism we draw the kurtain of propriety -- we deal as ever in naught but "gentle humor."''
* BodyguardCrush: Officer Pupp's krush on Krazy seems to spring from his konstant need to defend the Kat.
* BoringButPractical: One strip had Krazy telling Door Mouse how impraktikal it is karrying a door all the time. However, he / she fails to notice the praktikal uses the door has while babbling at length about how it doesn't have any, inkluding its use as a makeshift bridge, or to fling bakk a brikk thrown by Ignatz.
* BreakoutCharacter: Ignatz and Krazy developed as a space filling gag in Herriman's earlier strip ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyUpstairs.'' As far as minor kharakters go, Gooseberry Sprig was the main kharakter in another earlier strip of Herriman's, ''Gooseberry Sprig.''

* CatConcerto: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the narration of one strip, wherein the full moon [[FurryReminder irresistibly kompels Krazy to sing]], and he's pelted with a rolling-pin, a shoe, a klokk, an iron and finally...[[ForegoneConclusion no points for guessing]].
-->''The moon is full to-night - as it has been many a night in the past, and we trust it will be many a night to come. Which may or may not interest you - However. With a back alley fence. And a "Kat" - it seems the world's greatest trio in harmonics be gathered together in fervent discord''
* CatsHaveNineLives: Okkasionally referenced with regard to Krazy. In one kartoon, we find out that he has three of his lives insured --"When I get rich I'll ensure the other six."

* CoincidentalDodge: A RunningGag -- Krazy would bend down to talk to a smaller kreature, such as a "woim," just as the brikk was thrown.
* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: In the 1918 New Year's strip, Ignatz makes a resolution to stop throwing brikks at Krazy. He soon enkounters bricks (and references to brikks) everywhere he goes, and when Krazy flat out ''hands'' him a brikk, it's too much and he pulls some quikk LoopholeAbuse. He didn't swear not to throw ''stones,'' did he?
%% * ComicallyMissingThePoint: Krazy, konstantly.
* ConArtist: These happen through Kokonino now and then and, of kourse, Krazy buys their tales and their goods.
* DatingCatwoman: Krazy regards Ignatz as both an "[[FriendlyEnemy enemy]]" and a lover, and sees no diskrepancy between the two.

* DeliveryStork: Joe Stork delivers all the babies; Krazy has been known to follow him when he's making his deliveries in order to be first to kongragulate the parents. This partially akounts for the strip's lakk of klear gender; at one point Krazy loudly "breaks up" with Ignatz as the stork walks by, explaining afterwards that he / she doesn't want Joe to take their relationship the wrong way. (Interestingly, the kreator experimented with drawing Krazy as female and pregnant before he decided that the Kat should be a "sprite," neither a he or a she.)

* DistaffCounterpart: In the theatrikal shorts from Columbia Pictures, Krazy had a Minnie Mouse-esque girlfriend named Kitty.

* EnemyMine: A 1930 story ark (in a komik that has very few such things), one Kiskidee Kuku komes to Kokonino and begins to sukkessfully woo Krazy. Ignatz, and Pupp bekome briefly brotherly in their [[OverprotectiveDad mutual dislike]] of the interloper.

** Krazy's extremely thick Brooklyn/New Orleans akcent.
** Krazy's Akcent [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents iz meant to be the "yat" akcent of New Orleans]], an akcent that Krazy's kreator would have kome into kontact with and probably spoke. It sounds a lot like a Brooklyn akcent, thanx largely to a very similar blend of ethnicities having settled in the area.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Frequent. In fakt, Ignatz and Krazy themselves started out as a funny bakkground event; see "Breakout Kharakter" above.
* FurIsClothing: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one strip: Krazy klaims to have a "netural sense of modesty", being "complitly clothed in a garmint of fur", and regards Ignatz as "nude" bekause he doesn't have fur himself.
* FurryReminder: In [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/16 this strip]], Krazy arches her bakk, fluffs up her tail and hisses when she sees two kokonuts and briefly mistakes them for enemies.

* GenerationXerox: This whole "brikk-tossing" thing apparently started in ancient Egypt, when the "noble Roman rodent" Marcantonni Mouse and the "siren of the Nile", Kleopatra Kat, were in love. Marcantonni Mouse didn't know how to express his feelings, so he got someone to chisel a love poem on a brikk and threw it at her while she was daydreaming. The rest, as they say, is history.
* GoldDigger: In one komik, Ignatz finds out that Krazy's aunt and unkle are planning to leave Krazy all their money. Suddenly he's very interested in Krazy, [[SerenadeYourLover serenading the kat]] and bringing kandy and poetry. Krazy senses that something is off and is relieved when Ignatz, finding out that the money isn't going to Krazy after all, goes bakk to his usual brikk-throwing.

** Tiger Tea. It makes a worm believe it is an anakonda.
** Even more shokkingly, it gives Krazy self-konfidence. Suddenly he/she is no longer passively taking brikks to the head, and instead takes the initiative, grabbing Ignatz by the tail and dragging him away.
*** Herriman so enjoyed Tiger Tea's personality-altering kharakteristiks that he extended the storyline to last nearly a year, making it the longest story in the strip's history.
* HaveAGayOldTime: In [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/151 this strip]], Krazy refers to "making love" in the gloaming time (aka 'kourting in the evening').
* HighOnCatnip: Due to prohibition, Krazy and his fellow kats have to eat "near katnip", which doesn't have the same "kick".

* InNameOnly: The "Krazy Kat" kartoon shorts by Bill Nolan and Charles Mintz. Nolan, who had formerly worked at the Pat Sullivan studio, turned Krazy into a [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat Felix the Kat]] {{Expy}}, while Mintz made him reminiscent of [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mikkey Mouse]] and gave him a dog and a girlfriend!

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ignatz has shown numerous times that [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther he really does kare about Krazy]]; now and then, he even tries to help the Kat out (only to have his intentions misinterpreted by the ever-vigilant Officer Pupp).
* LawOfInverseFertility: Several strips koncern the wealthy Mr. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor, who desperately wants an heir but whose intended children keep getting delivered to the Widow Pelona, already the mother of many, due to stork mishap. There's some fun innuendo in the way Mrs. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor reakts to seeing said widow with a child that klearly resembles her own husband.
* LiteralAssKicking: In at least one strip, Ignatz, not having a brikk on hand, just goes right ahead and kikks Krazy's rear.

* LovableCoward: Krazy's stint as a "kop" (when Officer Pupp is bedridden) only lasts until he heads off to apprehend a pair of suspekts who turn out to be a hippopotamus and a rhinocerous.

** By later in the strip (c. 1940), Ignatz seems to be in on the gag; aware that Krazy enjoys the brikks, perfectly fine with that, and willingly making dates with her just so a brikk kan be tossed. Really makes you wonder...

%%** Rearrange the kharakters and you have a ''Hate'' Triangle: Pupp -> Ignatz -> Krazy

%%* MundaneMadeAwesome: Konstantly.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: One komik sees Krazy's kat reflexes being triggered, kausing him to pursue Ignatz in [[AnimalJingoism more the way you'd expekt]].
* NameAndName: When this strip was first bekoming distinkt from ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyUpstairs'', it was kalled ''Krazy Kat and Ignatz''.
* NoMoreForMe: Ignatz goes home and smashes his bottle of whiskey after apparently being konfronted by three of Krazy Kat swimming in a lake (in fakt Krazy and his kousins Krazy Katbird and Krazy Katfish).

* PetTheDog: Ignatz has the okkasional moment with Krazy, to which cirkumstances sometimes konspire to make his attempted kindness appear to Pupp to be [[NotWhatItLooksLike another attempt to toss a brikk]].
* PoliceAreUseless: Sure, Officer Pupp always throws Ignatz in jail, but he rarely intercepts him before the damage is done. (Not that Krazy kares.)

* RelaxOVision: Any time the brikk toss is censored for the sake of "gentle humor".
* SelectiveObliviousness: Krazy thinks Ignatz's brikks to the head are a sign of love, and that Officer Pupp is just "playing tag" with Ignatz when he throws him in jail.
* SerenadeYourLover: Herriman was fond of this trope, using mandolin musik and poetry beneath the balkony as shorthand for romance in general.

* SuddenDownerEnding: [[spoiler: Some interpret the final strip as depikting Krazy drowning to death with both Officer Pupp and Ignatz krying over his still body.]]
* SuddenlySpeaking: Whether Walter Cephas Austridge is able to speak plain English or merely say "Geevim, geevim" (meaning different things, depending on kontext) varies.

* UnwantedRescue: The attempts of Officer Pupp and others to prevent Ignatz from throwing his brikk at Krazy tend to leave Krazy despondent when they do sukceed.

* TheVamp: The dukk in the robin's tale of why he flies south for the winter. Krazy also thinks of Pauline Pullet as such.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Krazy and Ignatz, konstantly making dates so they kan karry out their usual brikk shtikk.

* WeWantOurJerkBack: Krazy's reaktion when cirkumstances kontrive to stem the tide of Ignatz's brikk-throwing, or otherwise make him a more traditional wooer.
* XtremeKoolLetterz: Probably the UrExample. Notice ''our'' usage of the letter "K" throughout this page? The strip never used the letter "C" for anything. It's almost like a proto-''Franchise/MortalKombat'' in its dedikation to this trope.
* YellowPeril: Thoroughly subverted in a 1920 strip, where Ignatz thinks that the Mokk Dukk and another Chinese waterbird are supposedly kolluding in some nefarious skeme, and he wants a piece of the aktion. Turns out it's just related to the Mokk Dukk's business, and Ignatz is disappointed.

%%** Played straight with [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Roger Roquefort the "Robber Rat" and his band of rekless rodents]].

* BornLucky: Krazy, to a ridikulous extent, in one episode. She even explains her lukk by saying, "I guess I'm just born lucky."
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Ignatz, of bizarre brikks from all over the world.
* ConspicuousConsumption: Parodied in "Keeping Up with Krazy". Kolin Kelly, to whom Ignatz has sold a new house and two kars, thinks Krazy is trying to kompete with him when she sits outside under an umbrella with a pair of roller skates. When she pikks herself a flower, Kolin gets himself a garden, and so on.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first three shorts, Krazy looked much kloser to her komik strip kounterpart. Ignatz had a different-sounding voice in the first two shorts.

* IWillWaitForYou: At the end of "Network Nitwit", Krazy stands outside the prison, cooing, "Do not despair, my darling! I will wait for you foreva and a day!" When Ignatz komplains, Krazy reveals that [[spoiler:she's actually talking to [[LoveAtFirstPunch the guy from the network who threw a brick at her earlier in the episode]] and has now been konfined to the opposite cell]].

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Ignatz, in a power-krazed moment, puts Krazy in a pair of CementShoes, gets her to sign her "[[BornLucky luck]]" away to him, then pushes her underwater...only to suddenly have this reaktion and make a frantik dive to save her.

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: The episode "Stoned Through the Ages" shows Ignatz's first ancestor kollekting fig leaves in the Garden of Eden. When he deklares himself to be the "richest mouse on earth", the serpent shows up and reminds him that he's the only mouse on Earth.
* PaletteSwap: Many Krazy's relatives are rekolors of her.

* WeirdMoon: The strip tends to show krescent moons. With a 3D-like representation.

** On the other, the klose-up of Krazy's and Ignatz's kredit kards in "Mouse Blanche" has Kokonino being lokated in Illinois.
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: Kokonino Kounty is going bankrupt and Ignatz suggests that they sell a kartoon about themselves to television. Officer Pupp laughs it off, only for Ignatz to throw a brikk at him and say "Go ahead and laugh! They laughed at Al Brodax too!" (Brodax being the show's exekutive producer.)
* WorthlessYellowRocks: Krazy's reaktion to finding a kache of paper money:
--> "Ooh, more piktures of presidents for my kollektion! ...Oh, phooey, Thomas Jeffason. I already got him!"

* [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal Akkessory-Wearing Kartoon Animal]]: Krazy, by virtue of his skarf.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Assuming Krazy is female in today's outing.
* AlliterativeName

* [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife Amazing Tekhnikolor Wildlife]]: In the kolor strips, Krazy is dark blue, and Ignatz and Officer Pupp are pink.

* [[AnthropomorphicShift Anthropomorphik Shift]]: Krazy first appeared in "The Dingbat Family" as a rather ordinary looking pet kat. Eventually, Ignatz appeared and the two gradually bekame a komedy team until they got their own strip, free from the konfinement of human ownership.

* [[BlackComedy Blakk Komedy]]: Okkasionally.

* [[BodyguardCrush Bodyguard Krush]]: Officer Pupp's krush on Krazy seems to spring from his konstant need to defend the Kat.
* [[BoringButPractical Boring, but Praktikal]]: One strip had Krazy telling Door Mouse how impraktikal it is karrying a door all the time. However, he / she fails to notice the praktikal uses the door has while babbling at length about how it doesn't have any, inkluding its use as a makeshift bridge, or to fling bakk a brikk thrown by Ignatz.
* [[BreakoutCharacter Breakout Kharakter]]: Ignatz and Krazy developed as a space filling gag in Herriman's earlier strip ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyUpstairs.'' As far as minor kharakters go, Gooseberry Sprig was the main kharakter in another earlier strip of Herriman's, ''Gooseberry Sprig.''
* [[CantUnhearIt Kan't Unhear It]]: Make that "Kan't Unread It." Switching out the hard-C for the letter K in the strip is such a signature move that the editors of this very page did the same.
* [[CatConcerto Kat Koncerto]]: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the narration of one strip, wherein the full moon [[FurryReminder irresistibly kompels Krazy to sing]], and he's pelted with a rolling-pin, a shoe, a klokk, an iron and finally...[[ForegoneConclusion no points for guessing]].

* [[CatsHaveNineLives Kats Have Nine Lives]]: Okkasionally referenced with regard to Krazy. In one kartoon, we find out that he has three of his lives insured --"When I get rich I'll ensure the other six."

* [[CoincidentalDodge Koincidental Dodge]]: A RunningGag -- Krazy would bend down to talk to a smaller kreature, such as a "woim," just as the brikk was thrown.
* [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere Kold Turkeys Are Everywhere]]: In the 1918 New Year's strip, Ignatz makes a resolution to stop throwing brikks at Krazy. He soon enkounters bricks (and references to brikks) everywhere he goes, and when Krazy flat out ''hands'' him a brikk, it's too much and he pulls some quikk LoopholeAbuse. He didn't swear not to throw ''stones,'' did he?

* [[ConArtist Kon Artist]]: These happen through Kokonino now and then and, of kourse, Krazy buys their tales and their goods.
* [[DatingCatwoman Dating Katwoman]]: Krazy regards Ignatz as both an "[[FriendlyEnemy enemy]]" and a lover, and sees no diskrepancy between the two.

* [[DistaffCounterpart Distaff Kounterpart]]: In the theatrikal shorts from Columbia Pictures, Krazy had a Minnie Mouse-esque girlfriend named Kitty.

* [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Dude, She's Like, in a Koma!]]: Krazy has kissed Ignatz in his sleep several times. [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther To which he has responded positively, despite being unaware of what happened.]]

* DumbassHasAPoint: Now and then, Ignatz has to admit that Krazy is right.

* [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Funny Bakkground Event]]: Frequent. In fakt, Ignatz and Krazy themselves started out as a funny bakkground event; see "Breakout Kharakter" above.
* [[FurIsClothing Fur Is Klothing]]: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one strip: Krazy klaims to have a "netural sense of modesty", being "complitly clothed in a garmint of fur", and regards Ignatz as "nude" bekause he doesn't have fur himself.

* [[HighOnCatnip High On Katnip]]: Due to prohibition, Krazy and his fellow kats have to eat "near katnip", which doesn't have the same "kick".

* [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin I Kan't Believe It's Not Heroin!]]: Cheese. When the mice have a "Fromage Festival" it turns into a full-on cheese riot, and Krazy wakes up hungover and promptly signs up at Temperance Headquarters.

* [[LovableCoward Lovable Koward]]: Krazy's stint as a "kop" (when Officer Pupp is bedridden) only lasts until he heads off to apprehend a pair of suspekts who turn out to be a hippopotamus and a rhinocerous.

* LoveTriangle:
** Offisa Pupp -> Krazy Kat -> Ignatz Mouse
** Rearrange the kharakters and you have a ''Hate'' Triangle: Pupp -> Ignatz -> Krazy

* MediumAwareness : http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/877
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Konstantly.

* [[OhCrap Oh, Krap!]]: Ignatz' expression when he realizes he's beaned Officer Pupp by mistake.

* PredatorPreyFriendship: Krazy and Ignatz.

* [[SelectiveObliviousness Selektive Obliviousness]]: Krazy thinks Ignatz's brikks to the head are a sign of love, and that Officer Pupp is just "playing tag" with Ignatz when he throws him in jail.

* [[SleepCute Sleep Kute]]: Used many times with Krazy and Ignatz, and at least once with Ignatz and Officer Pupp! (With Krazy sleeping near them, they'd both been pretending to sleep, each hoping the other would go away, until finally the Kat up and left--at which point they shrugged their shoulders and went to sleep for real.)
* [[SophisticatedAsHell Sophistikated as Hell]]: All over the narration and dialogue.

* [[SynchronizedSwarming Synkhronized Swarming]]: In one strip, fireflies write "Illekk Krezy Ket" (it's for an election).

* [[VerbalTic Verbal Tik]]: The narration loves to add the words "yizzaboy" and "tobeeshur" to emphasize whatever points it makes.
* [[VitriolicBestBuds Vitriolik Best Buds]]: Krazy and Ignatz, konstantly making dates so they kan karry out their usual brikk shtikk.

* [[WeWantOurJerkBack We Want Our Jerk Bakk]]: Krazy's reaktion when cirkumstances kontrive to stem the tide of Ignatz's brikk-throwing, or otherwise make him a more traditional wooer.

* YouDirtyRat:
** {{Inverted|Trope}} with Ignatz Mouse.
** Played straight with [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Roger Roquefort the "Robber Rat" and his band of rekless rodents]].

* AllJustADream: "Big and Little", "Odd for Art's Sake".

* [[BornLucky Born Lukky]]: Krazy, to a ridikulous extent, in one episode. She even explains her lukk by saying, "I guess I'm just born lucky."
* [[CollectorOfTheStrange Kollektor of the Strange]]: Ignatz, of bizarre brikks from all over the world.
* [[ConspicuousConsumption Konspikuous Konsumption]]: Parodied in "Keeping Up with Krazy". Kolin Kelly, to whom Ignatz has sold a new house and two kars, thinks Krazy is trying to kompete with him when she sits outside under an umbrella with a pair of roller skates. When she pikks herself a flower, Kolin gets himself a garden, and so on.
* [[CutAndPasteSuburb Kut-and-Paste Suburb]]: At the end of "Keeping Up with Krazy", Ignatz builds one out of ''umbrellas.''

* HallOfMirrors

* PinkGirlBlueBoy: {{Inverted|Trope}} with Ignatz and Krazy.
* PygmalionPlot: "[[Theatre/MyFairLady My Fair]] Ignatz".
* StalkerShrine: Krazy has one to Ignatz.

* [[WorthlessYellowRocks Worthless Yellow Rokks]]: Krazy's reaktion to finding a kache of paper money:

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* ArtsyMoon: The strip tends to show krescent moons. With a 3D-like representation.

* BastardBoyfriend: Ignatz Mouse. At least, from Krazy's perspektive.

One of the klassic newspaper komics of the early 20th century, ''Krazy Kat'' was published in the ''New York Evening Journal'' from 1913 to 1944. It was written and drawn by George Herriman and exhibited surreal, American Southwest-themed artwork, often focusing on aesthetics over humor. This kaused the strip to alienate much of its audience; it only remained in the newspaper as long as it did because it was a favorite of ''Journal'' publisher William Randolph Hearst.

The story revolves around the title kharacter and his/her (gender is never set, and strips often switch between the two, sometimes in the middle of one komic) obsessive love with the downright evil Ignatz Mouse, who hates Krazy and loves nothing more than to throw bricks at his/her head. Krazy being, well, krazy, takes this as a sign of love. In the meanwhile, Krazy Kat is actually loved by, of all things, a ''dog'' -- Offissa Bull Pupp, a police officer who is ever vigilant of Krazy and makes it his life purpose to prevent Ignatz from throwing bricks at all, hauling him off to jail when he's kaught in the act.

While the komic never kaught on with a mainstream audience, it remains an influence to kartoonists to this day; Bill Watterson of ''[[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Kalvin and Hobbes]]'' fame cites it as a major influence and featured Kalvin's parents admiring a Krazy Kat strip in a museum in one Sunday strip. Even before then, Ignatz himself went on to be a MauveShirt in the Mort Walker / Jeff Dumas vehikle, ''ComicStrip/SamsStrip'' in the 1960s.

Kollections of ''Krazy Kat'' komics were notoriously difficult to find for many years, and the first few serious attempts at komplete kollections were scuttled by the publishers going under. Finally, in the 2000's and 2010's, Fantagraphics managed to release a komplete series of Sunday strip kollections, ''Krazy & Ignatz.''

There have been several animated adaptations of ''Krazy Kat'' made; none of them kame very klose to the source material, however -- aside from maybe [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tMlMi4OJUo this one.]] ''Krazy Kat'' also achieved the unusual distinction of being adapted into a jazz ballet by John Alden Karpenter (er, Carpenter).

!! This komic strip provided examples of:

* [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal Accessory-Wearing Kartoon Animal]]: Krazy, by virtue of his skarf.

* AntagonistInMourning: In one Sunday strip, Krazy falls down a waterfall, and Ignatz cheers in delight. Krazy spends the rest of the strip on an underwater adventure with his "kousin" Krazy Katfish. Toward the end, we see Ignatz mourning what he believes to be the untimely loss of his enemy, sobbing into a handkerchief and lamenting the "cruel" way he treated Krazy. (This doesn't stop him from snapping out of it and smashing Krazy with a brick as soon as the Kat announces his presence.)

* ArtsyMoon: The strip tends to show crescent moons. With a 3D-like representation.

* BastardBoyfriend: Ignatz Mouse. At least, from Krazy's perspective.

* [[BlackComedy Blakk Komedy]]: Occasionally.

* BlatantLies: Okkasionally, Ignatz's tossing of the brick [[RelaxOVision is censored]] with a line like [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/422 the following]]:
--> ''Rather than taint our "art" with the smirch of undignified pictorialism we draw the curtain of propriety -- we deal as ever in naught but "gentle humor."''

* [[BoringButPractical Boring, but Praktikal]]: One strip had Krazy telling Door Mouse how impraktikal it is karrying a door all the time. However, he / she fails to notice the praktikal uses the door has while babbling at length about how it doesn't have any, including its use as a makeshift bridge, or to fling back a brick thrown by Ignatz.

* [[CatConcerto Kat Koncerto]]: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the narration of one strip, wherein the full moon [[FurryReminder irresistibly kompels Krazy to sing]], and he's pelted with a rolling-pin, a shoe, a klock, an iron and finally...[[ForegoneConclusion no points for guessing]].

* [[CoincidentalDodge Koincidental Dodge]]: A RunningGag -- Krazy would bend down to talk to a smaller creature, such as a "woim," just as the brick was thrown.
* [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere Kold Turkeys Are Everywhere]]: In the 1918 New Year's strip, Ignatz makes a resolution to stop throwing bricks at Krazy. He soon encounters bricks (and references to bricks) everywhere he goes, and when Krazy flat out ''hands'' him a brick, it's too much and he pulls some quick LoopholeAbuse. He didn't swear not to throw ''stones,'' did he?

* DeliveryStork: Joe Stork delivers all the babies; Krazy has been known to follow him when he's making his deliveries in order to be first to kongragulate the parents. This partially akounts for the strip's lack of klear gender; at one point Krazy loudly "breaks up" with Ignatz as the stork walks by, explaining afterwards that he / she doesn't want Joe to take their relationship the wrong way. (Interestingly, the kreator experimented with drawing Krazy as female and pregnant before he decided that the Kat should be a "sprite," neither a he or a she.)

* DistaffCounterpart: In the theatrical shorts from Columbia Pictures, Krazy had a Minnie Mouse-esque girlfriend named Kitty.

* EnemyMine: A 1930 story arc (in a komic that has very few such things), one Kiskidee Kuku komes to Kokonino and begins to successfully woo Krazy. Ignatz, and Pupp become briefly brotherly in their [[OverprotectiveDad mutual dislike]] of the interloper.

* [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Funny Bakkground Event]]: Frequent. In fact, Ignatz and Krazy themselves started out as a funny background event; see "Breakout Kharakter" above.

* FurryReminder: In [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/16 this strip]], Krazy arches her back, fluffs up her tail and hisses when she sees two kokonuts and briefly mistakes them for enemies.

** Krazy Kat. Needless to say, a raging inversion of [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics Tertiary Sexual Kharacteristics]] as well.

* GenerationXerox: This whole "brick-tossing" thing apparently started in ancient Egypt, when the "noble Roman rodent" Marcantonni Mouse and the "siren of the Nile", Kleopatra Kat, were in love. Marcantonni Mouse didn't know how to express his feelings, so he got someone to chisel a love poem on a brick and threw it at her while she was daydreaming. The rest, as they say, is history.

* GoldDigger: In one komik, Ignatz finds out that Krazy's aunt and uncle are planning to leave Krazy all their money. Suddenly he's very interested in Krazy, [[SerenadeYourLover serenading the kat]] and bringing kandy and poetry. Krazy senses that something is off and is relieved when Ignatz, finding out that the money isn't going to Krazy after all, goes back to his usual brick-throwing.

** Even more shockingly, it gives Krazy self-konfidence. Suddenly he/she is no longer passively taking bricks to the head, and instead takes the initiative, grabbing Ignatz by the tail and dragging him away.

* InNameOnly: The "Krazy Kat" kartoon shorts by Bill Nolan and Charles Mintz. Nolan, who had formerly worked at the Pat Sullivan studio, turned Krazy into a WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat {{Expy}}, while Mintz made him reminiscent of MickeyMouse and gave him a dog and a girlfriend!

* LawOfInverseFertility: Several strips concern the wealthy Mr. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor, who desperately wants an heir but whose intended children keep getting delivered to the Widow Pelona, already the mother of many, due to stork mishap. There's some fun innuendo in the way Mrs. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor reakts to seeing said widow with a child that klearly resembles her own husband.
* LiteralAssKicking: In at least one strip, Ignatz, not having a brick on hand, just goes right ahead and kicks Krazy's rear.

** By later in the strip (c. 1940), Ignatz seems to be in on the gag; aware that Krazy enjoys the bricks, perfectly fine with that, and willingly making dates with her just so a brick kan be tossed. Really makes you wonder...

** Rearrange the kharacters and you have a ''Hate'' Triangle: Pupp -> Ignatz -> Krazy

* MyInstinctsAreShowing: One komic sees Krazy's kat reflexes being triggered, kausing him to pursue Ignatz in [[AnimalJingoism more the way you'd expekt]].

* PetTheDog: Ignatz has the okkasional moment with Krazy, to which cirkumstances sometimes konspire to make his attempted kindness appear to Pupp to be [[NotWhatItLooksLike another attempt to toss a brick]].

* RelaxOVision: Any time the brick toss is censored for the sake of "gentle humor".
* [[SelectiveObliviousness Selektive Obliviousness]]: Krazy thinks Ignatz's bricks to the head are a sign of love, and that Officer Pupp is just "playing tag" with Ignatz when he throws him in jail.
* SerenadeYourLover: Herriman was fond of this trope, using mandolin music and poetry beneath the balcony as shorthand for romance in general.

* SuddenlySpeaking: Whether Walter Cephas Austridge is able to speak plain English or merely say "Geevim, geevim" (meaning different things, depending on context) varies.

* UnwantedRescue: The attempts of Officer Pupp and others to prevent Ignatz from throwing his brick at Krazy tend to leave Krazy despondent when they do succeed.

* TheVamp: The duck in the robin's tale of why he flies south for the winter. Krazy also thinks of Pauline Pullet as such.

* [[VitriolicBestBuds Vitriolik Best Buds]]: Krazy and Ignatz, konstantly making dates so they kan karry out their usual brick shtick.

* [[WeWantOurJerkBack We Want Our Jerk Bakk]]: Krazy's reaktion when circumstances kontrive to stem the tide of Ignatz's brick-throwing, or otherwise make him a more traditional wooer.
* XtremeKoolLetterz: Probably the UrExample. Notice ''our'' usage of the letter "K" throughout this page? The strip never used the letter "C" for anything. It's almost like a proto-''Franchise/MortalKombat'' in its dedication to this trope.

* [[BornLucky Born Lukky]]: Krazy, to a ridikulous extent, in one episode. She even explains her luck by saying, "I guess I'm just born lucky."
* [[CollectorOfTheStrange Kollektor of the Strange]]: Ignatz, of bizarre bricks from all over the world.
* [[ConspicuousConsumption Konspikuous Konsumption]]: Parodied in "Keeping Up with Krazy". Kolin Kelly, to whom Ignatz has sold a new house and two kars, thinks Krazy is trying to kompete with him when she sits outside under an umbrella with a pair of roller skates. When she picks herself a flower, Kolin gets himself a garden, and so on.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first three shorts, Krazy looked much closer to her comic strip counterpart. Ignatz had a different-sounding voice in the first two shorts.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Ignatz, in a power-krazed moment, puts Krazy in a pair of CementShoes, gets her to sign her "[[BornLucky luck]]" away to him, then pushes her underwater...only to suddenly have this reaktion and make a frantic dive to save her.

* PaletteSwap: Many Krazy's relatives are recolors of her.

** On the other, the close-up of Krazy's and Ignatz's credit cards in "Mouse Blanche" has Kokonino being located in Illinois.
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: Kokonino Kounty is going bankrupt and Ignatz suggests that they sell a kartoon about themselves to television. Officer Pupp laughs it off, only for Ignatz to throw a brick at him and say "Go ahead and laugh! They laughed at Al Brodax too!" (Brodax being the show's exekutive producer.)
* [[WorthlessYellowRocks Worthless Yellow Roks]]: Krazy's reaktion to finding a kache of paper money:
--> "Ooh, more piktures of presidents for my kollection! ...Oh, phooey, Thomas Jeffason. I already got him!"

The story revolves around the title kharacter and his/her (gender is never set, and strips often switch between the two, sometimes in the middle of one komic) obsessive love with the downright evil Ignatz Mouse, who hates Krazy and loves nothing more than to throw bricks at his / her head. Krazy being, well, krazy, takes this as a sign of love. In the meanwhile, Krazy Kat is actually loved by, of all things, a ''dog'' -- Offissa Bull Pupp, a police officer who is ever vigilant of Krazy and makes it his life purpose to prevent Ignatz from throwing bricks at all, hauling him off to jail when he's kaught in the act.

While the komic never kaught on with a mainstream audience, it remains an influence to kartoonists to this day; Bill Watterson of ''[[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Kalvin and Hobbes]]'' fame cites it as a major influence and featured Kalvin's parents admiring a Krazy Kat strip in a museum in one Sunday strip. Even before then, Ignatz himself went on to be a MauveShirt in the Mort Walker / Jeff Dumas vehikle, ''ComicStrip/SamsStrip'' in the 1960's.

* MalevolentMice: While kalling him malevolent would be a stretch, Ignatz isn't pretty friendly to start off with. He hates Krazy and throws bricks at the kat's head on a regular basis, usually resulting in him getting in trouble with Offisa Pupp.

* MyInstinctsAreShowing: One comic sees Krazy's kat reflexes being triggered, kausing him to pursue Ignatz in [[AnimalJingoism more the way you'd expekt]].

* LawOfInverseFertility: Several strips concern the wealthy Mr. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor, who desperately wants an heir but whose intended children keep getting delivered to the Widow Pelona, already the mother of many, due to stork mishap. There's some fun in the way Mrs. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor reakts to seeing said widow with a child that klearly resembles her own husband.

** Ignatz' repeated abuse of Krazy only deepens Krazy's love.

One of the klassic newspaper komics of the early 20th century, ''Krazy Kat'' was published in the ''New York Evening Journal'' from 1913 to 1944. It was written and drawn by George Herriman and exhibited surreal, American Southwest-themed artwork, often focusing on aesthetics over humor. This caused the strip to alienate much of its audience; it only remained in the newspaper as long as it did because it was a favorite of ''Journal'' publisher William Randolph Hearst.

Kollections of ''Krazy Kat'' komics were notoriously difficult to find for many years, and the first few serious attempts at komplete kollections were scuttled by the publishers going under. Finally, in the 2000's and 2010's, Fantagraphics managed to release a komplete series of Sunday strip collections, ''Krazy & Ignatz.''

* SuddenDownerEnding: [[spoiler: The final strip has Krazy drowning to death with both Officer Pupp and Ignatz krying over his still body.]]

* [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Getting Krap Past the Radar]]: In one early strip, Krazy wonders if Ignatz doesn't love her any more, as "he spermed me".

* LawOfInverseFertility: Several strips concern the wealthy Mr. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor, who desperately wants an heir but whose intended children keep getting delivered to the Widow Pelona, already the mother of many, due to stork mishap. There's some fun [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar radar-dodging]] in the way Mrs. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor reakts to seeing said widow with a child that klearly resembles her own husband.

* LawOfInverseFertility: Several strips concern the wealthy Mr. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor, who desperately wants an heir but whose intended children keep getting delivered to the Widow Pelona, already the mother of many, due to stork mishap. There's some fun [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar radar-dodging]] in the way Mrs. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor reakts to seeing said widow with [[YourCheatingHeart a child that klearly resembles her own husband]].

%% * XtremeKoolLetterz: Probably the UrExample.

* SuddenDownerEnding: [[spoiler: The final strip has Krazy drowning to death with both Officer Pupp and Ignatz crying over his still body.]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first three of the 60s TV shorts, Krazy looked much closer to her comic strip counterpart. Ignatz had a different-sounding voice in the first two shorts.

* SuddenDownerEnding: An unintentional example due to AuthorExistenceFailure. [[spoiler: The final strip has Krazy drowning to death and both Officer Pup and Ignatz crying over his still body.]]

* LawOfInverseFertility: Several strips concern the wealthy Mr. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor, who desperately wants an heir but whose intended children keep getting delivered to the Widow Pelona, already the mother of many, due to stork mishap. There's some fun [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar radar-dodging]] in the way Mrs. [=VanWagg=]-Taylor reakts to seeing said widow with [[YourCheatingHeart a child that clearly resembles her own husband]].

->''"L'il ainjil."''
-->-- '''Krazy''', frequently

* SuddenlyVoiced: Whether Walter Cephas Austridge is able to speak plain English or merely say "Geevim, geevim" (meaning different things, depending on context) varies.