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* The drastic personality changes Dora in "QuestionableContent" underwent during her relationship with Marten used to aggravate me, seeing as she went from being sassy and confident to insecure, clingy and almost manipulative at times. Then I realized that she had always shown hints of insecurity and indecisiveness in her personality, but it only started to show when she got to know Marten better, and trusted him enough to let her imperfections and faults become apparent.

* I had read this [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/comic.php?current=1897&theme=13&dir=prev]] IrregularWebcomic strip months ago, and had come across the Beatles mention of Paul's "death" a few weeks ago on this site. But it was not until my haircut that I put 2 and 2 together. It was all I could do to keep from laughing (If I had burst out laughing, I would have messed up my haircut) --Squark Iota

* ''Grim Tales from Down Below'' was frequently criticized for it's implied BrotherSisterIncest scenes, and I just assumed it was AuthorAppeal and accepted that he was going to feel vaguely uncomfortable reading the series. Until a recent comic revealed that [[spoiler:the sister ''actually'' has (unreciprocated) feelings for her brother.]] '''Sweet'''. -- {{Jonn}}

* In ''{{Homestuck}}'', two of the exiles, AR and WV, give WQ (the former White Queen) a makeshift crown. She turns it down and instead gives it to PM. I never really understood ''why'' until recently, however. PM went all the way to Derse (the city of the Dark kingdom), into the throne room itself, and ''survived'' to complete her task. The entire conflict between the Light and Dark kingdoms has been described with ChessMotifs, so of course, by completing her assigned duty, PM was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_promotion promoted into a queen.]] AwesomeMomentOfCrowning ''indeed.'' - Tropers/SweetMadness
** Also from ''{{Homestuck}}'', at first I was bothered by the slowness of act 1, and at the utter pointlessness and unneeded silliness of some of the actions Andrew chose to accept - seriously, did John NEED to wear that disguise for no reason? - but then I realized that, as of the beginning of Homestuck, ProblemSleuth had just wrapped up. Forum members submitting pointless, silly things was the entire ''point'' of Problem Sleuth, and the plot was more-or-less up to them. They were just doing what they were used to, and it was what Andrew had to work with. The first act was a needed transition, from the random wackiness of Problem Sleuth to the actual storyline of ''Homestuck''. Once the forum members got the picture that, yes, there were aspects of the story they had no control over, they eased into a faster-paced, more Hussie-driven format, and the series quickly GrewTheBeard.
*** Also, Andrew just stopped accepting command suggestions at some point between Acts 3 and 4.
** Another thing: At first, [[DaionusThe23rd I]] just assumed that Jade being a ParodySue was just a silly, pointless, joke. Eventually, I noticed that she looked like a female version of John. I ignored this. Eventually, it hit me: Jade's status was in strict contrast to John being the epitome of ThisLoserIsYou. Jade looking like a female John further shows how she is the exact opposite of John.
** When Karkat was explaining Troll Romance to Vriska in [[Homestuck]] he told her that Tavros could never hate her the way she hated him because there was something dysfunctional about him that kept him from developing the same degree of hate as everyone else. When Hussie introduced Kanaya, one of the other 'nice' trolls, he repeated a comment from Tavros's introduction about not sleeping much. Suddenly it became clear why Kanaya and Tavros are so nice compared to other trolls: All trolls suffer from psychotic nightmares so bad that they have to sleep in psychoactive goop in order to dull the edge. But Tavros, who can't fit in his cocoon because of his freakish horns, and Kanaya, who stays up late because she's the troll equivalent of a Goth, have minimized their exposure.
*** Given that we've recently learned that Karkat, and probably the rest of the Trolls, ''can't sleep'' [[spoiler: their dream-selves dying may have made them all insomniacs. And if that's the case, Tavros and Kanaya don't just have minimized exposure - they've also got more experience dealing with sleep deprivation.]] Doubles as FridgeHorror if you think about it too long. - Volouscheur
** Karkat is the Cancer troll, and is always in a [[IncrediblyLamePun crabby mood]].
** ... so I just reread [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002704 this page]] ... [[spoiler:after the Reckoning event, where you learn that John wasn't exactly ''born''.]]

*** Given that we've recently learned that Karkat, and probably the rest of the Trolls, ''can't sleep'' [[spoiler: their dream-selves dying may have made them all insomniacs. And if that's the case, Tavros and Kanaya don't just have minimized exposure - they've also got more experience dealing with sleep deprivation.]] Doubles as FridgeHorror if you think about it too long.

[[http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=1583 This]] ''BrawlInTheFamily'' comic is funny on its own, but we may not realise something brilliant about the punch line: [[spoiler: Bullet Bill cannons ''never fire when someone is right next to them''.]]

** Troll romance is complicated and has four facets that command the same emotional involvement and drives as simple, pedestrian human romance. But only half of it has anything to do with sex at all. The other half involves keeping people in line; either a dangerously unstable troll finding someone to keep them in check, or two individuals in a nasty feud finding a third to mediate a truce. Yes, fully half of troll romance involves keeping trolls from going crazy and killing each other, implying that trolls are so screwed up in the head that this is just as important to the survival of the species as freaking REPRODUCTION.

** Very early on it is a established that adults are not useless, even before Annie makes any major mistakes. It just isn't very apparent until the adults become more important. -- {{Gallows}}

* I never really got the inclusion of Brinnie and the Valkyries in GunnerkriggCourt. It seemed out of place to just randomly add those elements of NorseMythology where there had so far only been Native American mythology, European folklore and Psychopomps. Then one day it hit me: the Valkyries take the souls of warriors to Valhalla; they are Psychopomps!

** Troll romance is complicated and has four facets that command the same emotional involvement and drives as simple, pedestrian human romance. But only half of it has anything to do with sex at all. The other half involves keeping people in line; either a dangerously unstable troll finding someone to keep them in check, or two individuals in a nasty feud finding a third to mediate a truce. Yes, fully half of troll romance involves keeping trolls from going crazy and killing each other, implying that this is just as important to the survival of the species as freaking REPRODUCTION.

* This troper had read this [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/comic.php?current=1897&theme=13&dir=prev]] IrregularWebcomic strip months ago, and had come across the Beatles mention of Paul's "death" a few weeks ago on this site. But it was not until my haircut that I put 2 and 2 together. It was all I could do to keep from laughing (If I had burst out laughing, I would have messed up my haircut) --Squark Iota

* ''Grim Tales from Down Below'' was frequently criticized for it's implied BrotherSisterIncest scenes, and this troper just assumed it was AuthorAppeal and accepted that he was going to feel vaguely uncomfortable reading the series. Until a recent comic revealed that [[spoiler:the sister ''actually'' has (unreciprocated) feelings for her brother.]] '''Sweet'''. -- {{Jonn}}

** Upon recently rereading 8BT, this troper came upon one of Red Mage's early lines after finding that Corneria's weapon shop is... well... shit. He mentions that they'd be better off fighting enemies with harsh language. Perhaps that was just a line thrown in to be funny, but when you consider how the Light Warriors do most of their fighting...

** Realizing what "Ironic, isn't it?" was referring to was a moment of fridge brilliance for this troper.

* John Keogh of LucidTV has "Long Pop Culture Reference Comix," starring [[TheSmiths Morrisey]] and his knowledge of his own reincarnation. The last page of the comic features in a [[Dystopia dystopian]] future, an ascetic who states to some newcomers "if you have five seconds to spare, then let me tell you the story of my life." This troper just heard Half a Person by the Smiths and went "[=OOOOOoooooh=], I get it..." It was obvious the monk was meant to be Morrisey reincarnated once more, but that just tied it together.

* Not my most [[IncrediblyLamePun brilliant]] FridgeBrilliance, but still kind of notable. So I introduced CuantaVida to my dad recently, and when he read [[http://tf2.skyscrapersoup.com/?p=144 this page]], he told me he didn't quite get why the last panel was what it was -- a shot of Red and Sniper observing the Scouts bickering over who gets to help Bleu set up surveillance cameras. I hadn't thought much of it earlier, but wanting to give him a good answer, I thought it over a little. Then it hit me: that was ''the'' moment in which Red and Sniper both realized that the Scouts ''liiiike'' Bleu. And showing their reactions is a small reinforcement of their characters (Red, for one, is quite amused)! SoYeah. -- {{Gancena}}

** Also in Schlock, in a recent arc, the company had been split up into four commands. "Mallcop Command", under Captain Tagon, had to deal with a group of punks practicing Parkata Urbatsu, a martial art that evolved from "[[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20100307.html the ancient disciplines of Parkour, urbobatics and something called Youtubing]]". The description seems like a throwaway joke until it's revealed that both the punks and Lieutenant Shodan, who was training the troops in Parkata Urbatsu, had set up cameras to capture their stunts, which they planned on editing and making public.