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* Innocent Cohabitation: Subverted with Rudy and Fiona. when temporarily staying together in George's old lair. [[note]]The family had moved out while the tree was being repaired. Kevin, Kell, Coney and Dorthy moved in with Kell's mom, Elanor.[[/note]] Lindesfarne figures out Fiona had not-so-innocent ulterior motives.
-->'''Lindesfarne''': I'm reading about fox courtship. This says a pair will travel for three weeks before mating.
-->'''Fenton:''' Yeah, so?
-->'''Lindesfarne:''' Rudy and Fiona have been together in that underground lair for three weeks.
-->'''Lindesfarne''': I'm reading about fox courtship. This says a pair will travel for three weeks before mating.
-->'''Fenton:''' Yeah, so?
-->'''Lindesfarne:''' Rudy and Fiona have been together in that underground lair for three weeks.
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* Innocent Cohabitation: Subverted with Rudy and Fiona. when temporarily staying together in George's old lair. [[note]]The family had moved out while the tree was being repaired. Kevin, Kell, Coney and Dorthy moved in with Kell's mom, Elanor.[[/note]] [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0209.html Lindesfarne figures out out]] Fiona had not-so-innocent ulterior motives.
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-->'''Fenton:''' Yeah, so?
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-->'''Lindesfarne''': I'm reading about fox courtship. This says a pair will travel for three weeks before mating.
-->'''Fenton:''' Yeah, so?
-->'''Lindesfarne:''' Rudy and Fiona have been together in that underground lair for three weeks.
-->'''Lindesfarne''': I'm reading about fox courtship. This says a pair will travel for three weeks before mating.
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* DistractingDisambiguation: [[https://kevinandkell.com/2010/kk0226.html Frank and Sheila bump into each other]] while Sheila was standing in for Kell due to a leg injury. They end up having a heart-to-heart, when Sheila admits that she chased him up a tree when they were kids; he had believed Kell did, which was the source of their rivalry. Kell breaks them up over the phone:
-->'''Frank:''' All these years Kell could've been a valuable ally at Herd Thinners. Instead, I labeled her as an enemy.\\
'''Kell:''' Hello? If we don't meet our prey quota we'll both be labeled '''unemployed'''
-->'''Frank:''' All these years Kell could've been a valuable ally at Herd Thinners. Instead, I labeled her as an enemy.\\
'''Kell:''' Hello? If we don't meet our prey quota we'll both be labeled '''unemployed'''
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* DangerTakesABackseat: Attempted in the [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0301.html March 1, 2007 strip]], where an alligator is hiding in wait in the backseat of a sheep's car. Unfortunately for the alligator, the sheep happens to be a customer of Abby Eyeshine and her auto service, and had a "Check Back Seat" light and associated ejection seat installed for just such an event.
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* DangerTakesABackseat: Attempted in the [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0301.html March 1, 2007 strip]], where an alligator is hiding in wait in the backseat of a sheep's car. Unfortunately for the alligator, the sheep happens to be a customer of Abby Aby Eyeshine and her auto service, and had a "Check Back Seat" light and associated ejection seat installed for just such an event.
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* DangerTakesABackseat: Attempted in the [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0301.html March 1, 2007 strip]], where an alligator is hiding in wait in the backseat of a sheep's car. Unfortunately for the alligator, the sheep happens to be a customer of Abby Eyeshine and her auto service, and had a "Check Back Seat" light and associated ejection seat installed for just such an event.
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* DangerTakesABackseat: Attempted in the [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0301.html March 1, 2007 strip]], where an alligator is hiding in wait in the backseat of a sheep's car. Unfortunately for the alligator, the sheep happens to be a customer of Abby Eyeshine and her auto service, and had a "Check Back Seat" light and associated ejection seat installed for just such an event.
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** There's also the appearance of human-sized insects like moths, lightning bugs, and praying mantises...while insectivores like Lindesfarne and Fenton usually eat regular sized little insects. There was even an instance of a GIANT SPIDER attacking Tammy and Ray's (moth and lightning bug respectively) wedding, which Lindesfarne and Fenton ATE.
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** There's also the appearance of human-sized insects like moths, lightning bugs, and praying mantises... while insectivores like Lindesfarne and Fenton usually eat regular sized little insects. There was even an instance of a GIANT SPIDER attacking Tammy and Ray's (moth and lightning bug respectively) wedding, which Lindesfarne and Fenton ATE.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Elanor, in a picture taken 30 years ago. [[ParentalSexualitySquick Ralph is squicked]] [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1124.html when he finds out]] that the woman he found to be a babe is ''his own mother''. Kevin, meanwhile, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1121.html is apparently sincere]] in telling his mother-in-law she's ''still'' [[SilverFox a looker]].
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Elanor, in a picture taken 30 years ago. [[ParentalSexualitySquick Ralph is squicked]] [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1124.html when he finds out]] that the woman he found to be a babe is ''his own mother''. Kevin, meanwhile, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1121.html is apparently sincere]] in telling his mother-in-law she's ''still'' [[SilverFox a looker]].looker]].
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* ComingOfAge: Specifically for Rudy, his dealing with a rotting branch on the Dewclaw Tree, finding it after Fiona heard unnatural cracking in it, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0202.html is treated in this manner.]]
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*** [[http://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1223.html And a week before that reveal,]] a comic implied Lindesfarne and Fenton [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar were having sex in the chimney]].
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*** [[http://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1223.html And a week before that reveal,]] a comic implied Lindesfarne and Fenton [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar were having sex in the chimney]].chimney.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Frequently. Perhaps most blatantly [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2009/kk0325.html here]].
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Frequently. Perhaps most blatantly [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2009/kk0325.html here]].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.
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-->'''Sheila:''' Did you just give me a "dope slap" with your tail?
-->'''Kell:''' Somebody had to.
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* CrazyPrepared: After a rough night where they lost Savanna's pacifier, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0121.html Carl appears with a bandolier]] full of pacifiers on his horn.
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* EvilDetectingBaby: Introduced in January 2021, Leona and Carl's infant daughter Savanna is a lion/rhinoceros with a retractable horn that comes out when she's threatened. Soon after birth, she witnessed Angelique (Kevin's villainous ex-wife) appearing on television... and the horn immediately came out. Leona comments on it:
-->'''Leona''': "Perceptive judge of character, isn't she?"
-->'''Leona''': "Perceptive judge of character, isn't she?"
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** Angelique also once offered to use Herd Thinners to [https://www.kevinandkell.com/2017/kk1016.html eliminate N.O.P.E. when they targeted Lindesfarne and Turvy]].
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** Angelique also once offered to use Herd Thinners to [https://www.[[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2017/kk1016.html eliminate N.O.P.E. when they targeted Lindesfarne and Turvy]].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards - [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2008/kk0329.html "Attack our own customers?!"]]
* EveryoneIsRelated - The Dewclaws, Kindles, and Fennecs have not-so-gradually developed into a TangledFamilyTree. One comic from 2002 featured a [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2002/kk0526.html Dewclaw family tree]] that is now a little out of date, a current one would be difficult to portray in only two dimensions.
* EveryoneIsRelated - The Dewclaws, Kindles, and Fennecs have not-so-gradually developed into a TangledFamilyTree. One comic from 2002 featured a [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2002/kk0526.html Dewclaw family tree]] that is now a little out of date, a current one would be difficult to portray in only two dimensions.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards - [[http://www.EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Someone at Herd Thinners once suggested to R.L. that they target their own customers for predation. R.L. was so turned off by the suggestion, [[HypocriticalHumor he ate the one who suggested it]].
--->'''R.L.:''' Attack our own customers? Who do you think we are, [[AcceptableTargets the recording industry]]?
** At another point, R.L. [[https://kevinandkell.com/2009/kk0523.html stepped in to Aby's defense]] when her ex-boyfriend tried to steal her alternative energy patents.
** Angelique also once offered to use Herd Thinners to [https://www.kevinandkell.com/2008/kk0329.com/2017/kk1016.html "Attack our own customers?!"]]
eliminate N.O.P.E. when they targeted Lindesfarne and Turvy]].
*EveryoneIsRelated - EveryoneIsRelated: The Dewclaws, Kindles, and Fennecs have not-so-gradually developed into a TangledFamilyTree. One comic from 2002 featured a [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2002/kk0526.html Dewclaw family tree]] that is now a little out of date, a current one would be difficult to portray in only two dimensions.
** Someone at Herd Thinners once suggested to R.L. that they target their own customers for predation. R.L. was so turned off by the suggestion, [[HypocriticalHumor he ate the one who suggested it]].
--->'''R.L.:''' Attack our own customers? Who do you think we are, [[AcceptableTargets the recording industry]]?
** At another point, R.L. [[https://kevinandkell.com/2009/kk0523.html stepped in to Aby's defense]] when her ex-boyfriend tried to steal her alternative energy patents.
** Angelique also once offered to use Herd Thinners to [https://www.kevinandkell.
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* HiddenDepths: Rudy got the idea that Corrie was Ralph's daughter [[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0909.html a year before she was revealed to actually be Ralph's daughter.]] This was because her wolf disguise at the time was Ralph's skin.
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* HiddenDepths: Rudy got the idea that Corrie was Ralph's daughter develops this as time goes on, showing he can be quite wise and resourceful. It's lampshaded [[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0909.html a year before when Ralph was reunited with Corrie]] as her father: Rudy [[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0909.html got the idea that she was revealed to actually be Ralph's daughter.]] This was because her wolf disguise at the time was Ralph's skin.his daughter]] a year before.
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* ClarkKenting: Invoked when Lindesfarne reported back to her lab mice after the prom where she fell in love with Fenton.
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* ClarkKenting: Invoked when [[https://kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0218.html Lindesfarne reported back to her lab mice mice]] after the prom where she fell in love with Fenton.
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** [[https://kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0604.html Rudy lampshaded it]] when Lindesfarne and Fenton got engaged:
--->'''Kell:''' Oh, we've all been expecting this!\\
'''Rudy:''' ...for ages.
--->'''Kell:''' Oh, we've all been expecting this!\\
'''Rudy:''' ...for ages.
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* ClarkKenting: Invoked when Lindesfarne reported back to her lab mice after the prom where she fell in love with Fenton.
-->'''Lindesfarne:''' I... I think I'm in love!\\
'''Lab mice:''' Really? With whom?\\
'''Lindesfarne:''' Umm, he looks like a nerdy geek with really thick glasses, but when he flies he changes into a master of his environment!\\
'''Lab mouse:''' Sounds familiar.\\
'''Lab mouse:''' [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Does he wear a cape]]?\\
'''Lindesfarne:''' Well, you never see them together...
-->'''Lindesfarne:''' I... I think I'm in love!\\
'''Lab mice:''' Really? With whom?\\
'''Lindesfarne:''' Umm, he looks like a nerdy geek with really thick glasses, but when he flies he changes into a master of his environment!\\
'''Lab mouse:''' Sounds familiar.\\
'''Lab mouse:''' [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Does he wear a cape]]?\\
'''Lindesfarne:''' Well, you never see them together...
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Ray is in love with Lindesfarne, rather than Tammy, but sacrifices his intelligence so that he won't stand in Fenton's way.
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Ray is developed a crush on Lindesfarne while under the influence of the intelligence ray. But knowing Lindesfarne was in love with Lindesfarne, rather than Tammy, but Fenton, he sacrifices his intelligence so that he won't wouldn't stand in Fenton's way.way, and returned to Tammy at the end of the [=Y2K=] arc.
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* InterruptedIntimacy: Before moving out for college, Rudy caught his mother and stepfather in off-screen moments of intimacy in their bedroom on more than one occasion.
** And Ophelia did this once inadvertently to Greta and Todd, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2020/kk0806.html whom she didn't know had come over.]]
--->'''Ophelia:''' Oops.\\
'''Greta:''' (''tangled in Todd's shell'') Yeah, my boyfriend Todd came over.\\
'''Todd:''' Hiya.
** And Ophelia did this once inadvertently to Greta and Todd, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2020/kk0806.html whom she didn't know had come over.]]
--->'''Ophelia:''' Oops.\\
'''Greta:''' (''tangled in Todd's shell'') Yeah, my boyfriend Todd came over.\\
'''Todd:''' Hiya.
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* HibernationMigrationSituation: Hibernation and migration crop up from time to time, such as when young Turvy has to say goodbye to her best friend Ack, who is a goose and is migrating. There is also a bear family that decided to stop hibernating because that was causing too many problems.
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* FirstNameBasis: After Fenton got engaged to Lindesfarne, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0622.html Kevin insisted that Fenton begin calling him by his name]] instead of "Mr. Dewclaw".
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* FreudianExcuse: Ralph's desire to eat Kevin stems from the tragic death of his herbivore lover. Desdemona Fuscus pressures Lindesfarne and Fenton to get married so that Lindesfarne doesn't find out about her being a vampire bat before the wedding.
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* FreudianExcuse: FreudianExcuse:
** Ralph's desire to eat Kevin stems from the tragic death of his herbivorelover. lover.
** Desdemona Fuscus pressures Lindesfarne and Fenton to get married so that Lindesfarne doesn't find out about her being a vampire bat before thewedding.wedding.
** One of the reasons Carl resisted Leona's crush on her is because she tried to hunt his best friend, Miranda, after Miranda broke up her relationship with Edgar.
** Ralph's desire to eat Kevin stems from the tragic death of his herbivore
** Desdemona Fuscus pressures Lindesfarne and Fenton to get married so that Lindesfarne doesn't find out about her being a vampire bat before the
** One of the reasons Carl resisted Leona's crush on her is because she tried to hunt his best friend, Miranda, after Miranda broke up her relationship with Edgar.
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-->'''Corrie:''' Funny thing... Rudy actually guesses I was your daughter... from the scent of the wolfskin!\\
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* CallBack: When Kevin had a near-miss with a predator, Kell [[http://kevinandkell.com/2012/kk0828.html suggested his 360° peripheral vision was going]]. After she got kicked out of Herd Thinners, the Rabbit Council told her [[http://kevinandkell.com/2012/kk0919.html they could see her ouster coming with their 360° peripheral vision]].
** As of October, 2012, [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2012/kk1025.html Kevin finally has glasses]].
** Very early on, Rudy got a shocked expression [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/1996/kk0209.html when he saw Fiona after a makeover by Lindesfarne.]] He gets the same expression [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/1996/kk1031.html when she surprises him by moving back to Domain after having moved away for the summer.]]
** When Rachel the rhino was introduced, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1229.html she thought Bruno was a girl]] due identifying him only by scent due to naturally bad eyesight. Later on, Carl, another rhino, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0731.html initially thought Leona was a guy due to bad eyesight]] (though for whatever reason, he never use scent as a clue she was a lioness).
* CallingTheOldManOut
** Lindesfarne's first series with Angelique has her doing this, expressing her resentment of how Angelique was distant from her in her childhood, and ultimately abandoned her.
** Rudy does this with the memory of his father, after he finds out that [[spoiler:Vin is his half-brother, meaning that he cheated on Rudy's mother]].
** And Leona doesn't take kindly to her father, Frank, nearly getting himself killed challenging R.L. to be CEO of Herd Thinners. Especially since [[spoiler:she'd already lost her mother]].
--->'''Leona:''' Doctor, is his jaw broken?\\
'''Dr. Caduceus:''' Why, no--\\
(Leona punches Frank in the jaw)\\
'''Frank:''' Ow! Leona! What--\\
'''Leona:''' '''THAT'S''' FOR ALMOST MAKING ME AN ORPHAN, DADDY!!!
* TheCameo: Larry the Croc from ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' appeared in [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2006/kk0731.html this strip]] trying to get a job at Herd Thinners.
* CargoShip: In-universe example: Aby Eyeshine [[http://kevinandkell.com/2006/kk0425.html literally married her job.]]
** Complete with anniversary gift (a new sign) and concern about whether she's cheating on her job (by supplemental income from [[VideoGame/SecondLife Ninth Life]].)
* CarnivoreConfusion: The core of the strip, as well as a source of much of its humor. The strip basically establishes a morality in that so long as the predator is hunting for ''food'', predation of other people is okay. However, if the prey is targeted as an individual and not consumed, it's considered murder. It ''is'' considered extremely taboo for herbivores to eat meat.
* CastIncest: InUniverse in a story arc about the high school putting on a production of ''[[Theatre/WestSideStory West Habitat Story]]''. Fiona is cast in the role of Maria. Her boyfriend Rudy? Cast as Maria's brother Bernardo.
-->'''Fiona and Rudy:''' Awkward...
** Rudy is later recast as Chino, Maria's hot-blooded lover.
* CategoryTraitor: Herbivores marrying carnivores are viewed as such, and Kevin says that his family consider him and Lindesfarne "traitors" for his marriage to a wolf. Predators marrying prey species face less severe condemnation, but it's clear that many of the more traditional predators look down on prey species.
* CatUpATree: It is a common occurrence for cats in this universe to be chased up trees by dogs.
** Kell herself ended up stuck in a tree with Aby which served as [[LaserGuidedKarma karmic punishment]] for all the cats she chased up trees as a child--[[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2006/kk1219.html one of which may have been Aby herself.]] At one point, Kell ended up saving a kitten who had gotten stuck up her tree. The same kitten was later seen stuck up a tree again, but this time rescued by a squirrel.
** During a hunting competition, a cat claimed climbing trees was the advantage over Rudy in order to capture a squirrel. The responding fireman grumbled during the rescue.
* CharacterBlog: Lindesfarne's "Virtual Quill" and Catherine Aura's Twitter.
* CharacterDevelopment: Ralph used to be the centre of a RunningGag in which he would try to eat Kevin and fail, and was more or less the ButtMonkey. But then, an arc actually showed ''why'' he was so bad at hunting and he actually became a ''much'' more sympathetic character.
** Actually Ralph's development began when he swallowed his pride and went to work for Hare-Link, making his former would-be prey his ''boss''. His getting fat during this time could be a covert LampshadeHanging. He even said [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2001/kk0613.html he's glad he never caught Kevin]].
-->'''Kevin''': Between us we can appeal to both herbivores and carnivores. What do you say?\\
* {{beat}}*\\
'''Ralph''': That... I'm glad I never succeeded in devouring you?\\
'''Kevin''': [[{{Foreshadowing}} Maybe deep down you never really wanted to]]...
** Vin Vulpen, when it was shown how he was doing, actually was shown to have been a much better character in the wild from the glance we saw. When he was pretty much an utter bastard (literally, since we find out that he's [[spoiler:Rudy's biological father's son by an extramarital affair]]).
** Even Angelique got some, although it wasn't as major. She's had a ''few'' redeeming moments (Lindesfarne's graduation from high school.)
* CheatedAngle: Kevin always has one ear flopped over - the one furthest from the audience. Meaning that which is flopped and which is straight can change within the same strip if Kevin turns his head. Holbrook acknowledges this in the FAQ as a stylistic choice.
* ChekhovsGun: Danielle puts a human world quarter in a vending machine when it refuses to accept her human world dollars. When Rudy buys a Coke and gets that quarter as change, he starts getting suspicious about her.
** [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2009/kk0417.html this]] 2009 strip, it's established that R.L. employs a homing pigeon as a living GPS. [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2013/kk1014.html Four years later]], it's shown that Richard Rodent [[spoiler:secretly illegally uses a homing pigeon to navigate the Mouscar race maze]].
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: [[http://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1216.html Carl thinks Leona has this]] after she saved his skin three times in roughly half a year.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Most characters who depart the strip are at least given some plausible excuse, but a few simply drifted out of existence. A perfect example are Lindesfarne's friends at the prom where she met Fenton, an armadillo and a turtle.
** In July 2012, [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2012/kk0710.html Lindesfarne tried to catch up with them.]] [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2012/kk0711.html While she found the armadillo, Colina,]] [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2012/kk0713.html she could not find the turtle, Cara]].
--->'''Lindesfarne:''' It's as if she doesn't '''want''' to be found!
* ClingyJealousGirl: Shandra, from Catherine's twitter.
* CloningBlues: Averted with Dolly (Yes, she's a sheep), who begins aging rapidly for some time, but who is reverted to an infant, renamed Mary, and essentially given a fresh start on life.
* ComicBookTime: Time advances in fits and starts; pretty much whenever Bill feels like it. This is particularly noticable in some of the older strips, such as when [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0520.html Fiona notes she'll set her biological clock for 2008.]]
** Except Kell. After being established as [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2006/kk1218.html around 35]] [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2006/kk1219.html in 2006]], [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2011/kk0221.html she was aged to 40 suddenly in 2011]] while those around her have aged at the usual slow rate.
* CompensatingForSomething: This joke is made on occasion. The most acute example is [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2009/kk0516.html Aby's first boyfriend, Max Manx.]] She reasoned that he likely had a particular hunger for wealth to compensate for not having a tail.
* ContrivedCoincidence: This happens ''all the freaking time.''
** In the Christmas Tree storyline, Kevin almost encounters Kell while looking for a tree, and the tree later becomes "Tree".
** In the [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2010/kk0606.hatml wedding arc]], the one doctor who knows how to drain blood is hurt and bleeding internally, just in time for the freaking vampire bat to exit the house. Also convenient that she can instantly drain spinal fluid without any medical knowledge beyond "where's the jugular?" Would almost be amusing except that the art and writing take a huge drop when these things happen, and the only trope the author seems to like more than this one is CarnivoreConfusion / FunnyAnimal.
** Note that Rachel was introduced as being in Bruno's class...then is suddenly Lindesfarne's roommate.
** We need to write Rhonda out of the comic. How about revealing Lindesfarne has an arranged marriage she needs to get out of and make sure Rhonda's been dating the character we ''just'' mentioned?
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Kell's boss, R.L., and later Kevin's ex-wife when she marries R.L.
** This trope is tempered however by, of all tropes, BrilliantButLazy. R.L. shot down both world conquest and a racketeering scheme because it'd be too much work.
* CrapsackWorld: EarthThatWas in the backstory.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: The main universe of the comic, if taken seriously, would be one of the most terrifying fictional settings ever; of course (and fortunately), [[RuleOfFunny it's not]].
** In essence, at a first glance, the world of Kevin & Kell seems just a basic UsefulNotes/FurryFandom setting... until one really thinks about what the maintenance of pre-sentience foodchains means, which is made worse because they are often brought up as part of the storyline. Not only can anyone simply kill and eat you on the street just because they were peckish, the law can be brought down on you for trying to protect yourself and the government will actively interfere with steps to change society so that predators don't basically run everything. Of course, even being a predator is no protection because if a nastier predator wants to eat you, they can: nobody will notice or care if your boss eats you for falling behind behind the quota, for example. Some people are also ''bred'' to be used as goods, like Dip the "Sheepskin" Diploma.
* CrashIntoHello: How Carl and Leona initially met. While Leona was looking for Francis, who was wandering naked between the combined Herbivore and Carnivore summer camps that year, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0716.html she tripped and fell over Carl's horn.]]
-->''''Carl:''' Hang on... I got something on my nose.
* {{Crossover}}:
** The webcomic ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'' is part of their analogous human universe, per a lengthy crossover series in both comics. [[spoiler:However, considering the nature of the involvement of GPF resident god-like character The Gamester, this may be a RedHerring.]]
** A 2019 storyline had the family attending the wedding of ''Shanda the Panda''
* DarkHorseVictory: Frank Mangle challenged R.L. for control of Herd Thinners. The winner? [[spoiler: Kell, who had only intervened to keep them from killing each other.]]
* DeathByChildbirth: Corrie's mother.
** Averted with Corrie herself, but in heartbreaking fashion: [[http://virtual-quill.tumblr.com/post/183180039927/change-of-plan she and Bruno discovered she had the same defect]] that caused her mother's death, and [[https://kevinandkell.com/2019/kk0226.html promptly give up]] on having children naturally.
* DeerInTheHeadlights: It happens on occasion. Kell [[http://kevinandkell.com/2004/kk0506.html does it deliberately with a projector]] as one of her hunting tactics.
-->'''Kell:''' Works every time!
* DemotedToExtra: This has happened to numerous characters that haven't been PutOnABus entirely. Most notable are Bruno and Corrie, whose complicated saga dominated almost a decade of the strip's existence and now only appear very rarely and in the background. Also notable are Lindesfarne's friends Tammy and Ray, who moved to a lighthouse and have decreased in appearances, often going a few ''years'' between appearances.
* DeusExMachina: Some multi-day story arcs are suddenly resolved by an instant event. For example, a tiny insect that threatens the Dewclaws gets instantly crushed by a falling book, or is eaten by a passing motorist.
* DeusExitMachina: Fenton was not involved in the storyline of Lindesfarne's betrothal in 2007. It was only after she had arranged for her betrothed, a porcupine named Quinn, to marry her college roommate Rhonda ([[ContrivedCoincidence who just happened to be in an online relationship with him]]) [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0720.html that Fenton showed up.]]
-->'''Fenton:''' Hi Lindesfarne! [[LampshadeHanging I've been immersed in coding for the last few days! Anything happen while I was out of touch?]]
* DiabolusExMachina: A multi-month storyline involved Kevin's ISP, Harelink, competing with telecoms for a lucrative contract to provide free wifi to the city of Domain. After all this time spent with the reader wondering if they'll win the contract or not, they do...and the ''very next strip'' shows that the telecoms instantly passed legislation making offering community wifi illegal simply so Harelink would lose the contract. For some strange reason, Kevin also doesn't immediately take court action on a clearly unconstitutional law, simply going on an {{Anvilicious}} rant instead. This was all because Holbrook wanted to use the strip and its characters for his personal soapbox on telecom practices (he'd also used them to illustrate a campaign on the subject at the time.)
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The strip uses numerous animal characters to reflect real-world situations. The title characters appear to represent a mixed race couple, "domestication" is often treated as homosexuality (one character discusses the problems of her "openly domesticated lifestyle"), and another character's "trans-diet" surgery to change him from a carnivore to an herbivore is treated with scorn and derision for altering the manner of his birth - in other words, a reflection of transgender issues. It also subverts it from time to time - actual homosexuality in the world of Domain is completely accepted (in the strip's logic, because people focus more on the carnivore vs. herbivore differences than anything else). It's worth noting, however, that WordOfGod says that Domestication is not a direct reflection of any real-world condition, despite the more obvious reactions to it.
** Even worse: When Bruno's friends found out he was trans-diet, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk0217.html they literally found him]] [[LiteralMetaphor in a closet]], eating hay.
** The creator actually says in the FAQ that another part of the strip is a stand in for real world issues, ''all'' real world issues.
---> '''Bill Holbrook''': I would like to add, however, that species difference in "Kevin and Kell" represents all human conflicts, whether racial, religious, national, ideological, gender, etc.
*** Well, at least he's not biased . . . mostly.
** There appear to be degrees of discrimination; only the most extreme believers in species purity (like the Institute of Species Purity) oppose inter-species marriage as long as the two partners share diets, but predator/prey relationships have quite a bit of social opposition.
** Some fans have noted that [[http://kevinandkell.com/2015/kk1010.html the treatment of Rudy by opposing fans]] [[http://kevinandkell.com/2015/kk1012.html while on Beige University's competitive gardening team]] looks similar to the treatment of black students trying to attend traditionally-segregated Southern U.S. universities in the 1960s, or what Jackie Robinson dealt with busting Major League Baseball's color barrier in the 1940s.
* DopeSlap: Coney gave Rudy one when he admits he never sent in Kevin and Kell's marriage license.
** Kell gives Sheila one. ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments With her tail.]]'' It was to clue Sheila in that if she wanted to get serious with Frank, she needed to also bond with Frank's daughter, Leona.
-->'''Sheila:''' Did you just give me a "dope slap" with your tail?
-->'''Kell:''' Somebody had to.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The headmaster of Caliban Academy, a fly, is killed by a sheet of glass falling from a truck, opening his position for Fran Caudal.
* DungeonBypass: Two Rabbit's Revenge members burrow into Danielle's room to avoid having to go through Kell's house.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Vin Vulpen faked his death and escaped to The Wild in 2002. [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk0601.html A year later,]] he is seen in The Wild with a mate and some kits.[[note]]According to Bill, the kits are adopted[[/note]]
* EasterBunny: Kevin was the Easter Bunny for a few years (after being the previous one's bodyguard), but a complex series of events led to Rudy getting the job.
* EatingTheEnemy: Done by proxy in the issue for Thursday 9 January 1997 when baby Coney devoured the tiger who was about to snitch on Kell being domesticated. Instead of Kell being fired, the tiger's head hangs as a trophy in Coney's room.
* EducationMama: Mei-Li (Lin's mother), who's a real Tiger Mom.
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: Literal example [[http://kevinandkell.com/2010/kk1116.html here]].
* EpunymousTitle: Punning on "heaven and hell".
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: [[http://kevinandkell.com/1995/kk0906.html The third strip]], in which the family reminisces about the wedding, in which the predator and prey sides of the family had to be separated by barbed wire.
* EvenEvilHasStandards - [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2008/kk0329.html "Attack our own customers?!"]]
* EveryoneIsRelated - The Dewclaws, Kindles, and Fennecs have not-so-gradually developed into a TangledFamilyTree. One comic from 2002 featured a [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2002/kk0526.html Dewclaw family tree]] that is now a little out of date, a current one would be difficult to portray in only two dimensions.
** Rudy and Vin, once bitter enemies, turn out to be half brothers.
** Corrie, a sheep, is the long lost daughter of Ralph, a wolf.
** And now it turns out that Wendell, the BrattyHalfPint rabbit that's been following Rudy during the last couple of Easter Bunny arc is [[spoiler:Dorothy's grandson and, by extension, Rudy's cousin.]]
** Not pictured on the scheme, Kevin's sister Danielle ([[spoiler:her doppleganger, but there's little difference]]) married George Fennec.
*** And this isn't counting the ones that are predicted to happen when they're old enough to marry, such as Bruno/Corrie and Rudy/Fiona. Lindesfarne and Fenton tied the knot recently.
** Also demonstrated in [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0125.html this strip]].
** Some commenters on Lindesfarne's blog have referred to this phenomenon as "Dewclaw assimilation".
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Well, sort of. Kell's been sporting darker red business outfits (as opposed to her typical peach-colored ones) ever since [[spoiler: she became C.E.O. of Herd Thinners. Then again, she's significantly fairer than R.L. is.]]
** [[spoiler: And now she's switched to a more neutral green since she set herself up as a rival to Herd Thinners with funding from the Rabbit Council.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Mei Li is a Tiger Mom in every sense of the word.
* TheFaceless: R.L. Somewhat subverted in that his muzzle is always clearly visible, but the rest of his head is always just off-panel.
* FakedRipVanWinkle: Lindesfarne and Fenton's tree do this to him by making him think it's three years later. [[spoiler:It kind of backfires. Fenton does curb his thrill seeking tendencies, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0530.html but Lindesfarne inadvertently accepted his marriage proposal]].]]
-->'''Fenton:''' So, instead of conning me...\\
'''Lindesfarne:''' I conned '''myself'''.
* FantasticRacism: Mainly between predators and prey, although some inter-species prejudice, such as between canines and felines, exists. It must be said, though, that its take on the concept, which, while as seen above is not without its critics, is certainly more nuanced than most, and more relevant. While most parables about racism and cultural conflicts encourage people to put aside their differences, this one asks more difficult questions: What if some differences can never be put aside? What if some groups can never co-exist without hurting each other? Can we still find a way to make a peaceful world even then?
** The connection is made more explicit than ever [[http://kevinandkell.com/2015/kk1010.html when Rudy joins Beige University's competitive gardening team.]]
* FashionableAsymmetry: Kevin's ear, which the author has admitted will always flop the same way regardless of what side Kevin is facing for aesthetic purposes.
* FirstGirlWins: Fiona for Rudy. Oddly, VictoriousChildhoodFriend is ''subverted'': they had hated each other when they were in day care years before Fiona moved away, and didn't even remember that before a teacher told them about it.
* FootPopping: Holbrook seems to be a fan of these, possibly because [[BarefootCartoonAnimal nobody wears shoes]], creating a unique foot focus. Usually it's Kell who ends up [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2006/kk1022.html doing it]], but there's also [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/1999/kk1206.html a notable one]] when Coney kisses Nigel just before the two [[ItMakesSenseInContext use a time machine to return themselves back to their usual toddler forms.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0730.html This strip]] from 1997 arguably foreshadows [[spoiler: Kell eventually becoming CEO of Herd Thinners]].
** [[http://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1129.html A month before Lindesfarne discovered she was pregnant,]] she, Fenton, and Rudy were discussing their mothers asking about when she'd start producing grandchildren for them.
*** [[http://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1223.html And a week before that reveal,]] a comic implied Lindesfarne and Fenton [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar were having sex in the chimney]].
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Rudy and Fiona, who find out after dating for some time that they were in the same preschool - and hated each other.
* ForTheEvulz: Rudy's comic portrayed humans as ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}'' villains in almost every respect except for the fact that [[VillainProtagonist they're the main characters]]. Of course, at the time he drew the comic, everyone in that universe thought humans were fictional creatures. The idea of a race that would deliberately destroy habitats was considered so outrageously absurd as to be humorous.
* FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter: Land mammals, though mostly on two legs, are just as adept at being on four legs. Though larger land mammals like elephants are more commonly seen on four legs in civilization, they can also be on two legs. Carl the rhinoceros is a good example, being seen on four legs most often early on, but being on two legs more often once he begins dating Leona.
* FourthWallMailSlot: Lindesfarne [[http://blog.kevinandkell.com runs her own blog,]] and 6/27/08, she started [[http://blog.kevinandkell.com/archives/131-TESTING-ONE,-TWO,-THREE.html responding to replies]].
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Papa Kindle and Angelique try to frame the other for Sid's murder, thinking that the other did it. [[spoiler:It was actually (technically) Danielle, who was assigned to kill Sid, but couldn't do it, causing Sid to accidentally kill himself with her stake gun. Papa Kindle decides to [[TakingTheHeat take the fall]] for his daughter.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Ralph's desire to eat Kevin stems from the tragic death of his herbivore lover. Desdemona Fuscus pressures Lindesfarne and Fenton to get married so that Lindesfarne doesn't find out about her being a vampire bat before the wedding.
* FrivolousLawsuit: A bear attacks Kevin, who easily backhands him. The bear responds by suing Kevin, claiming that, as a rabbit, he violated the natural order by fighting back and demanding Kevin's weight in meat. Mei Li gets the case thrown out by pointing out that the bear using the judicial system to attack Kevin is equally unnatural.
* FurryComic: One of the longest running and best known.
* FurryConfusion: Basically determined by RuleOfFunny. For just one example, Lindesfarne's lab mice were long-running characters that lived in a cage like pets, even though they were actually sentient and capable of speech. Other parts of the comic have shown mice that are the same size as the main characters, complete with anthropomorphic features like hair and clothes. The status of the lab mice nearly break the strip's logic when Lindesfarne attempts to send them to the human world in place of herself and Danielle, but is informed by Catherine Aura that it wouldn't work with mice because they're "too small". This concept is also used for laughs from time to time - for just one example, Kell appears to be enamored of dogs in a pet store window, but the last panel zooms out to reveal it's a temp agency. The Dewclaws also keep a sentient flower for a pet. They're also aware of the concept of pets despite no appearances of other pets in the strip, though there may be other reasons why they feel this way besides RuleOfFunny.
** There's also the appearance of human-sized insects like moths, lightning bugs, and praying mantises...while insectivores like Lindesfarne and Fenton usually eat regular sized little insects. There was even an instance of a GIANT SPIDER attacking Tammy and Ray's (moth and lightning bug respectively) wedding, which Lindesfarne and Fenton ATE.
** Though one comic has Danielle realizing that pets don't exist in this world, which she admits makes sense as animals are the dominant species to begin with.
* GenderBender: In [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0401.html this April Fool's comic]].
* GenderEqualsBreed: Averted, with the exception of Corrie for obvious reasons.
* GeniusLoci: Fenton's house
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Frequently. Perhaps most blatantly [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2009/kk0325.html here]].
* GoodAngelBadAngel: [[http://kevinandkell.com/2004/kk1009.html Conventional use]], and later [[http://kevinandkell.com/2012/kk0715.html leaning towards parody]].
* GreenAesop
* GreenEyedMonster: Vin has been jealous of Rudy ever since he worked for Kell as an intern. When Fiona rejects him in favor of Rudy, it only makes things worse.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: The comic's characters ''are'' aware of a need for clothes and covering up nudity...but some of them are naked and some of them aren't. For one such example, people who live in the wild forgo clothing, and Kell is visibly upset about being naked and covering herself up during a storyline where the family pretends to be uncivilized. However, Catherine Aura briefly wore a sweater (and no skirt) in her earliest appearances, though this was dropped in favor of her son and pretty much every other bird flapping around in the nude (her cousin wears sunglasses - and that's it). Nobody comments on this. The less anthropomorphic animals will also appear without clothes with about as much comment as Lindesfarne's pet mice.
** To justify one species not wearing clothes...how ''would'' snakes wear clothes?
** ''None'' of the animals wear shoes or socks, leading to an early joke in the series about the characters wondering why they hung Christmas stockings as they had no idea what they were.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Francis, though it's really complicated.
* HappilyAdopted: Lindesfarne, Mary, and Gweneth and her siblings.
* HappilyMarried: Kevin and Kell, since before the strip started.
* HasTwoMommies: Rabbit character Miranda has two fathers.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The reason behind the Great Bird Conspiracy abducting Vin, Fenton, Ray and the elk that Rudy caught, along with a desire to make their computers [=Y2K=]-compatible.
* HeroicSacrifice: Danielle Kindle, by way of TakingTheBullet for George.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Douglas, aka D.B. Cooper.
* HiddenDepths: Rudy got the idea that Corrie was Ralph's daughter [[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0909.html a year before she was revealed to actually be Ralph's daughter.]] This was because her wolf disguise at the time was Ralph's skin.
-->'''Corrie:''' Funny thing... Rudy actually guesses I was your daughter... from the scent of the wolfskin!\\
'''Ralph:''' Hey, Rudy can be a pretty smart kid.\\
'''Corrie:''' ...when his brain doesn't get in the way.\\
'''Ralph:''' Well said!
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A bear sued Kevin for defending himself with force rather than the "natural tactics" of running in fear. Mei Li, acting as his attorney, points out to the judge that, by his own logic, the bear should only be attacking Kevin with tooth and fang, not a lawsuit. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome The case gets dropped immediately.]]
* HoldingTheFloor: Kevin, and then Coney when Kevin tried to get the Rabbit Council to either accept his resignation or stop taking bribes. The interesting variation is under herbivore rules, as long as someone is chewing on something, they hold the floor. [[spoiler: The council caved in and agreed to quit taking bribes right before Coney ran out of snake to chew.]]
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: The Interspecies Marriage support group has been shown to have some rather bizarre pairings like this.
* {{Homage}}
* HumanityEnsues:
** Francis eventually changes to one entirely after two years as an indeterminate furry species.
** Ralph and Martha also briefly experienced this when they were transported into the human world. Ralph returned to his own self when he returned to their own dimension, but Martha remained human for a short time due to being in a lead container.
* IAmNotWeasel: George is ''not a rabbit'', thank you!
* ICanExplain: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] twice with Corrie, who doesn't quite confess to being a sheep disguised as a wolf before the people whom she believes realize her secret indicate they're talking about something else.
* IdenticalGrandson: Or, in Coney's case, Identical Granddaughter. She bears a great resemblance to Dorothy when she was Coney's age.
* ImpactSilhouette:
** Played with [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2011/kk0731.html here]] when Coney eats a hole in a hedge made to look like it had been caused by a giant predator busting through the hedge, and not her and her two companions.
** Rudy performs a belly flop into a pool, leaving a him-shaped crater in the pool's water in one strip talking about [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2014/kk0615.html impact craters.]]
* ImprobablyHighIQ: Played with. [[spoiler: Lindesfarne and Fenton's specific IQ scores are never mentioned, just that they're high enough that Commander Kitsune gave them UsefulNotes/{{Mensa}} memberships for a wedding gift.]]
* InfiniteCanvas (or rather finite newspaper column): Recent Sunday strips.
** RealitySubtext: That had been done because ''Kevin and Kell'' had been added to the Sunday comics for the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', and the spot allocated to them required a strip that could be placed vertically.
* InherentInTheSystem: The fact that anyone could be snapped up off the street and scarfed down with no repercussions whatsoever; it's not murder (even morally) as long as you eat who you kill. and in some cases if you didn't know them personally first
* InsultBackfire: When Kevin ran for the school board position, R.L. confronted Kell about the press describing Herd Thinners as a "bloodthirsty pack of rapacious, slavering predators"...because they forgot to add "vicious" and "relentless" to the description. They have a reputation to maintain, after all.
* IntelligentForest: Tree has mentioned in the past that [[https://kevinandkell.com/2017/kk1127.html all plant life can communicate with each other through their interconnected root system,]] though only she can relate directly to animal life because of the Great Bird Conspiracy's intelligence ray.
-->'''Tree:''' Go ahead, laugh. We had the Internet a billion years before you.
* TheInternetIsForPorn: Used in a rather PG way. Since the comic has a lot of internet jokes and setting it bound to come up.
** Also Ralph uploaded some old photos he found. He then finds out they were of his mother.
--->Kevin: First time I've ever seen a brain imploded.
* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: In late 2019, this happened a few times when Carl sought to ask for Leona's paw in marriage:
** The first time, she walked away before he could ask, upset that she was [[PoorCommunicationKills the last to know his intention of going pro at the end of the current gardening season]]. It was a secret he was trying to keep so she could know first, but it leaked before he could.
** The second time, they were interrupted when they had to help his agent lay an egg.
* InterspeciesRomance: From the title couple on down. In fact there aren't very many same-species couples at all in the strip.
* InTheBlood: Corrie, in her Dale persona as a wolf, is able to get away with not hunting, since people assume that she's incompetent as a hunter due to being Ralph's daughter. People also initially believe that may be a reason why she is losing her instincts.
* {{Irony}}: When Martha initially found out Ralph was a father (he had just discovered Corrie was his daughter, and took her in), [[http://kevinandkell.com/2001/kk1017.html she initially dumped him because he was a single parent.]] Even though she herself is a single parent, with Fiona. [[NoticingTheFourthWall Cue the comic boxes melting over them]].
-->'''Martha:''' What's that?\\
'''Fiona:''' [[LampshadeHanging It's dripping with irony]].
** Another point [[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0805.html when Corrie was introduced as Bruno's girlfriend.]] At the time, she was using the wolf skin she separated Ralph from previously to pretend to be a wolf.
--->'''Rudy:''' Psst! I '''knew''' you would find a cute babe if you stopped wearing that ratty old sheepskin.
* IWantGrandkids: Desdemona is a light version of this trope, she's seen asking Kell which of them should be the first to bring the topic up to Lindesfarne and Fenton.
** It's noted that [[http://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1129.html they had begun asking]] about a month before Lindesfarne found out she was pregnant.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Ray is in love with Lindesfarne, rather than Tammy, but sacrifices his intelligence so that he won't stand in Fenton's way.
* IWarnedYou: Dorothy used to date Rudy's coach when they were young, only to dump him for Bentley (Kevin's dad) after she was told she'd have to give up her Easter Bunny position for marrying outside her species (the coach being a pig). Given that [[AwfulWeddedLife her marriage to Bentley collapsed in a messy divorce]], whenever the two talk the coach tells her "told you so."
* IWasQuiteALooker: Elanor, in a picture taken 30 years ago. [[ParentalSexualitySquick Ralph is squicked]] [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1124.html when he finds out]] that the woman he found to be a babe is ''his own mother''. Kevin, meanwhile, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1121.html is apparently sincere]] in telling his mother-in-law she's ''still'' [[SilverFox a looker]].
** As of October, 2012, [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2012/kk1025.html Kevin finally has glasses]].
** Very early on, Rudy got a shocked expression [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/1996/kk0209.html when he saw Fiona after a makeover by Lindesfarne.]] He gets the same expression [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/1996/kk1031.html when she surprises him by moving back to Domain after having moved away for the summer.]]
** When Rachel the rhino was introduced, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1229.html she thought Bruno was a girl]] due identifying him only by scent due to naturally bad eyesight. Later on, Carl, another rhino, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0731.html initially thought Leona was a guy due to bad eyesight]] (though for whatever reason, he never use scent as a clue she was a lioness).
* CallingTheOldManOut
** Lindesfarne's first series with Angelique has her doing this, expressing her resentment of how Angelique was distant from her in her childhood, and ultimately abandoned her.
** Rudy does this with the memory of his father, after he finds out that [[spoiler:Vin is his half-brother, meaning that he cheated on Rudy's mother]].
** And Leona doesn't take kindly to her father, Frank, nearly getting himself killed challenging R.L. to be CEO of Herd Thinners. Especially since [[spoiler:she'd already lost her mother]].
--->'''Leona:''' Doctor, is his jaw broken?\\
'''Dr. Caduceus:''' Why, no--\\
(Leona punches Frank in the jaw)\\
'''Frank:''' Ow! Leona! What--\\
'''Leona:''' '''THAT'S''' FOR ALMOST MAKING ME AN ORPHAN, DADDY!!!
* TheCameo: Larry the Croc from ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' appeared in [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2006/kk0731.html this strip]] trying to get a job at Herd Thinners.
* CargoShip: In-universe example: Aby Eyeshine [[http://kevinandkell.com/2006/kk0425.html literally married her job.]]
** Complete with anniversary gift (a new sign) and concern about whether she's cheating on her job (by supplemental income from [[VideoGame/SecondLife Ninth Life]].)
* CarnivoreConfusion: The core of the strip, as well as a source of much of its humor. The strip basically establishes a morality in that so long as the predator is hunting for ''food'', predation of other people is okay. However, if the prey is targeted as an individual and not consumed, it's considered murder. It ''is'' considered extremely taboo for herbivores to eat meat.
* CastIncest: InUniverse in a story arc about the high school putting on a production of ''[[Theatre/WestSideStory West Habitat Story]]''. Fiona is cast in the role of Maria. Her boyfriend Rudy? Cast as Maria's brother Bernardo.
-->'''Fiona and Rudy:''' Awkward...
** Rudy is later recast as Chino, Maria's hot-blooded lover.
* CategoryTraitor: Herbivores marrying carnivores are viewed as such, and Kevin says that his family consider him and Lindesfarne "traitors" for his marriage to a wolf. Predators marrying prey species face less severe condemnation, but it's clear that many of the more traditional predators look down on prey species.
* CatUpATree: It is a common occurrence for cats in this universe to be chased up trees by dogs.
** Kell herself ended up stuck in a tree with Aby which served as [[LaserGuidedKarma karmic punishment]] for all the cats she chased up trees as a child--[[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2006/kk1219.html one of which may have been Aby herself.]] At one point, Kell ended up saving a kitten who had gotten stuck up her tree. The same kitten was later seen stuck up a tree again, but this time rescued by a squirrel.
** During a hunting competition, a cat claimed climbing trees was the advantage over Rudy in order to capture a squirrel. The responding fireman grumbled during the rescue.
* CharacterBlog: Lindesfarne's "Virtual Quill" and Catherine Aura's Twitter.
* CharacterDevelopment: Ralph used to be the centre of a RunningGag in which he would try to eat Kevin and fail, and was more or less the ButtMonkey. But then, an arc actually showed ''why'' he was so bad at hunting and he actually became a ''much'' more sympathetic character.
** Actually Ralph's development began when he swallowed his pride and went to work for Hare-Link, making his former would-be prey his ''boss''. His getting fat during this time could be a covert LampshadeHanging. He even said [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2001/kk0613.html he's glad he never caught Kevin]].
-->'''Kevin''': Between us we can appeal to both herbivores and carnivores. What do you say?\\
* {{beat}}*\\
'''Ralph''': That... I'm glad I never succeeded in devouring you?\\
'''Kevin''': [[{{Foreshadowing}} Maybe deep down you never really wanted to]]...
** Vin Vulpen, when it was shown how he was doing, actually was shown to have been a much better character in the wild from the glance we saw. When he was pretty much an utter bastard (literally, since we find out that he's [[spoiler:Rudy's biological father's son by an extramarital affair]]).
** Even Angelique got some, although it wasn't as major. She's had a ''few'' redeeming moments (Lindesfarne's graduation from high school.)
* CheatedAngle: Kevin always has one ear flopped over - the one furthest from the audience. Meaning that which is flopped and which is straight can change within the same strip if Kevin turns his head. Holbrook acknowledges this in the FAQ as a stylistic choice.
* ChekhovsGun: Danielle puts a human world quarter in a vending machine when it refuses to accept her human world dollars. When Rudy buys a Coke and gets that quarter as change, he starts getting suspicious about her.
** [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2009/kk0417.html this]] 2009 strip, it's established that R.L. employs a homing pigeon as a living GPS. [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2013/kk1014.html Four years later]], it's shown that Richard Rodent [[spoiler:secretly illegally uses a homing pigeon to navigate the Mouscar race maze]].
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: [[http://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1216.html Carl thinks Leona has this]] after she saved his skin three times in roughly half a year.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Most characters who depart the strip are at least given some plausible excuse, but a few simply drifted out of existence. A perfect example are Lindesfarne's friends at the prom where she met Fenton, an armadillo and a turtle.
** In July 2012, [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2012/kk0710.html Lindesfarne tried to catch up with them.]] [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2012/kk0711.html While she found the armadillo, Colina,]] [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2012/kk0713.html she could not find the turtle, Cara]].
--->'''Lindesfarne:''' It's as if she doesn't '''want''' to be found!
* ClingyJealousGirl: Shandra, from Catherine's twitter.
* CloningBlues: Averted with Dolly (Yes, she's a sheep), who begins aging rapidly for some time, but who is reverted to an infant, renamed Mary, and essentially given a fresh start on life.
* ComicBookTime: Time advances in fits and starts; pretty much whenever Bill feels like it. This is particularly noticable in some of the older strips, such as when [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0520.html Fiona notes she'll set her biological clock for 2008.]]
** Except Kell. After being established as [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2006/kk1218.html around 35]] [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2006/kk1219.html in 2006]], [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2011/kk0221.html she was aged to 40 suddenly in 2011]] while those around her have aged at the usual slow rate.
* CompensatingForSomething: This joke is made on occasion. The most acute example is [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2009/kk0516.html Aby's first boyfriend, Max Manx.]] She reasoned that he likely had a particular hunger for wealth to compensate for not having a tail.
* ContrivedCoincidence: This happens ''all the freaking time.''
** In the Christmas Tree storyline, Kevin almost encounters Kell while looking for a tree, and the tree later becomes "Tree".
** In the [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2010/kk0606.hatml wedding arc]], the one doctor who knows how to drain blood is hurt and bleeding internally, just in time for the freaking vampire bat to exit the house. Also convenient that she can instantly drain spinal fluid without any medical knowledge beyond "where's the jugular?" Would almost be amusing except that the art and writing take a huge drop when these things happen, and the only trope the author seems to like more than this one is CarnivoreConfusion / FunnyAnimal.
** Note that Rachel was introduced as being in Bruno's class...then is suddenly Lindesfarne's roommate.
** We need to write Rhonda out of the comic. How about revealing Lindesfarne has an arranged marriage she needs to get out of and make sure Rhonda's been dating the character we ''just'' mentioned?
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Kell's boss, R.L., and later Kevin's ex-wife when she marries R.L.
** This trope is tempered however by, of all tropes, BrilliantButLazy. R.L. shot down both world conquest and a racketeering scheme because it'd be too much work.
* CrapsackWorld: EarthThatWas in the backstory.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: The main universe of the comic, if taken seriously, would be one of the most terrifying fictional settings ever; of course (and fortunately), [[RuleOfFunny it's not]].
** In essence, at a first glance, the world of Kevin & Kell seems just a basic UsefulNotes/FurryFandom setting... until one really thinks about what the maintenance of pre-sentience foodchains means, which is made worse because they are often brought up as part of the storyline. Not only can anyone simply kill and eat you on the street just because they were peckish, the law can be brought down on you for trying to protect yourself and the government will actively interfere with steps to change society so that predators don't basically run everything. Of course, even being a predator is no protection because if a nastier predator wants to eat you, they can: nobody will notice or care if your boss eats you for falling behind behind the quota, for example. Some people are also ''bred'' to be used as goods, like Dip the "Sheepskin" Diploma.
* CrashIntoHello: How Carl and Leona initially met. While Leona was looking for Francis, who was wandering naked between the combined Herbivore and Carnivore summer camps that year, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0716.html she tripped and fell over Carl's horn.]]
-->''''Carl:''' Hang on... I got something on my nose.
* {{Crossover}}:
** The webcomic ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'' is part of their analogous human universe, per a lengthy crossover series in both comics. [[spoiler:However, considering the nature of the involvement of GPF resident god-like character The Gamester, this may be a RedHerring.]]
** A 2019 storyline had the family attending the wedding of ''Shanda the Panda''
* DarkHorseVictory: Frank Mangle challenged R.L. for control of Herd Thinners. The winner? [[spoiler: Kell, who had only intervened to keep them from killing each other.]]
* DeathByChildbirth: Corrie's mother.
** Averted with Corrie herself, but in heartbreaking fashion: [[http://virtual-quill.tumblr.com/post/183180039927/change-of-plan she and Bruno discovered she had the same defect]] that caused her mother's death, and [[https://kevinandkell.com/2019/kk0226.html promptly give up]] on having children naturally.
* DeerInTheHeadlights: It happens on occasion. Kell [[http://kevinandkell.com/2004/kk0506.html does it deliberately with a projector]] as one of her hunting tactics.
-->'''Kell:''' Works every time!
* DemotedToExtra: This has happened to numerous characters that haven't been PutOnABus entirely. Most notable are Bruno and Corrie, whose complicated saga dominated almost a decade of the strip's existence and now only appear very rarely and in the background. Also notable are Lindesfarne's friends Tammy and Ray, who moved to a lighthouse and have decreased in appearances, often going a few ''years'' between appearances.
* DeusExMachina: Some multi-day story arcs are suddenly resolved by an instant event. For example, a tiny insect that threatens the Dewclaws gets instantly crushed by a falling book, or is eaten by a passing motorist.
* DeusExitMachina: Fenton was not involved in the storyline of Lindesfarne's betrothal in 2007. It was only after she had arranged for her betrothed, a porcupine named Quinn, to marry her college roommate Rhonda ([[ContrivedCoincidence who just happened to be in an online relationship with him]]) [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0720.html that Fenton showed up.]]
-->'''Fenton:''' Hi Lindesfarne! [[LampshadeHanging I've been immersed in coding for the last few days! Anything happen while I was out of touch?]]
* DiabolusExMachina: A multi-month storyline involved Kevin's ISP, Harelink, competing with telecoms for a lucrative contract to provide free wifi to the city of Domain. After all this time spent with the reader wondering if they'll win the contract or not, they do...and the ''very next strip'' shows that the telecoms instantly passed legislation making offering community wifi illegal simply so Harelink would lose the contract. For some strange reason, Kevin also doesn't immediately take court action on a clearly unconstitutional law, simply going on an {{Anvilicious}} rant instead. This was all because Holbrook wanted to use the strip and its characters for his personal soapbox on telecom practices (he'd also used them to illustrate a campaign on the subject at the time.)
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The strip uses numerous animal characters to reflect real-world situations. The title characters appear to represent a mixed race couple, "domestication" is often treated as homosexuality (one character discusses the problems of her "openly domesticated lifestyle"), and another character's "trans-diet" surgery to change him from a carnivore to an herbivore is treated with scorn and derision for altering the manner of his birth - in other words, a reflection of transgender issues. It also subverts it from time to time - actual homosexuality in the world of Domain is completely accepted (in the strip's logic, because people focus more on the carnivore vs. herbivore differences than anything else). It's worth noting, however, that WordOfGod says that Domestication is not a direct reflection of any real-world condition, despite the more obvious reactions to it.
** Even worse: When Bruno's friends found out he was trans-diet, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk0217.html they literally found him]] [[LiteralMetaphor in a closet]], eating hay.
** The creator actually says in the FAQ that another part of the strip is a stand in for real world issues, ''all'' real world issues.
---> '''Bill Holbrook''': I would like to add, however, that species difference in "Kevin and Kell" represents all human conflicts, whether racial, religious, national, ideological, gender, etc.
*** Well, at least he's not biased . . . mostly.
** There appear to be degrees of discrimination; only the most extreme believers in species purity (like the Institute of Species Purity) oppose inter-species marriage as long as the two partners share diets, but predator/prey relationships have quite a bit of social opposition.
** Some fans have noted that [[http://kevinandkell.com/2015/kk1010.html the treatment of Rudy by opposing fans]] [[http://kevinandkell.com/2015/kk1012.html while on Beige University's competitive gardening team]] looks similar to the treatment of black students trying to attend traditionally-segregated Southern U.S. universities in the 1960s, or what Jackie Robinson dealt with busting Major League Baseball's color barrier in the 1940s.
* DopeSlap: Coney gave Rudy one when he admits he never sent in Kevin and Kell's marriage license.
** Kell gives Sheila one. ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments With her tail.]]'' It was to clue Sheila in that if she wanted to get serious with Frank, she needed to also bond with Frank's daughter, Leona.
-->'''Sheila:''' Did you just give me a "dope slap" with your tail?
-->'''Kell:''' Somebody had to.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The headmaster of Caliban Academy, a fly, is killed by a sheet of glass falling from a truck, opening his position for Fran Caudal.
* DungeonBypass: Two Rabbit's Revenge members burrow into Danielle's room to avoid having to go through Kell's house.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Vin Vulpen faked his death and escaped to The Wild in 2002. [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk0601.html A year later,]] he is seen in The Wild with a mate and some kits.[[note]]According to Bill, the kits are adopted[[/note]]
* EasterBunny: Kevin was the Easter Bunny for a few years (after being the previous one's bodyguard), but a complex series of events led to Rudy getting the job.
* EatingTheEnemy: Done by proxy in the issue for Thursday 9 January 1997 when baby Coney devoured the tiger who was about to snitch on Kell being domesticated. Instead of Kell being fired, the tiger's head hangs as a trophy in Coney's room.
* EducationMama: Mei-Li (Lin's mother), who's a real Tiger Mom.
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: Literal example [[http://kevinandkell.com/2010/kk1116.html here]].
* EpunymousTitle: Punning on "heaven and hell".
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: [[http://kevinandkell.com/1995/kk0906.html The third strip]], in which the family reminisces about the wedding, in which the predator and prey sides of the family had to be separated by barbed wire.
* EvenEvilHasStandards - [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2008/kk0329.html "Attack our own customers?!"]]
* EveryoneIsRelated - The Dewclaws, Kindles, and Fennecs have not-so-gradually developed into a TangledFamilyTree. One comic from 2002 featured a [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2002/kk0526.html Dewclaw family tree]] that is now a little out of date, a current one would be difficult to portray in only two dimensions.
** Rudy and Vin, once bitter enemies, turn out to be half brothers.
** Corrie, a sheep, is the long lost daughter of Ralph, a wolf.
** And now it turns out that Wendell, the BrattyHalfPint rabbit that's been following Rudy during the last couple of Easter Bunny arc is [[spoiler:Dorothy's grandson and, by extension, Rudy's cousin.]]
** Not pictured on the scheme, Kevin's sister Danielle ([[spoiler:her doppleganger, but there's little difference]]) married George Fennec.
*** And this isn't counting the ones that are predicted to happen when they're old enough to marry, such as Bruno/Corrie and Rudy/Fiona. Lindesfarne and Fenton tied the knot recently.
** Also demonstrated in [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0125.html this strip]].
** Some commenters on Lindesfarne's blog have referred to this phenomenon as "Dewclaw assimilation".
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Well, sort of. Kell's been sporting darker red business outfits (as opposed to her typical peach-colored ones) ever since [[spoiler: she became C.E.O. of Herd Thinners. Then again, she's significantly fairer than R.L. is.]]
** [[spoiler: And now she's switched to a more neutral green since she set herself up as a rival to Herd Thinners with funding from the Rabbit Council.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Mei Li is a Tiger Mom in every sense of the word.
* TheFaceless: R.L. Somewhat subverted in that his muzzle is always clearly visible, but the rest of his head is always just off-panel.
* FakedRipVanWinkle: Lindesfarne and Fenton's tree do this to him by making him think it's three years later. [[spoiler:It kind of backfires. Fenton does curb his thrill seeking tendencies, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0530.html but Lindesfarne inadvertently accepted his marriage proposal]].]]
-->'''Fenton:''' So, instead of conning me...\\
'''Lindesfarne:''' I conned '''myself'''.
* FantasticRacism: Mainly between predators and prey, although some inter-species prejudice, such as between canines and felines, exists. It must be said, though, that its take on the concept, which, while as seen above is not without its critics, is certainly more nuanced than most, and more relevant. While most parables about racism and cultural conflicts encourage people to put aside their differences, this one asks more difficult questions: What if some differences can never be put aside? What if some groups can never co-exist without hurting each other? Can we still find a way to make a peaceful world even then?
** The connection is made more explicit than ever [[http://kevinandkell.com/2015/kk1010.html when Rudy joins Beige University's competitive gardening team.]]
* FashionableAsymmetry: Kevin's ear, which the author has admitted will always flop the same way regardless of what side Kevin is facing for aesthetic purposes.
* FirstGirlWins: Fiona for Rudy. Oddly, VictoriousChildhoodFriend is ''subverted'': they had hated each other when they were in day care years before Fiona moved away, and didn't even remember that before a teacher told them about it.
* FootPopping: Holbrook seems to be a fan of these, possibly because [[BarefootCartoonAnimal nobody wears shoes]], creating a unique foot focus. Usually it's Kell who ends up [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2006/kk1022.html doing it]], but there's also [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/1999/kk1206.html a notable one]] when Coney kisses Nigel just before the two [[ItMakesSenseInContext use a time machine to return themselves back to their usual toddler forms.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0730.html This strip]] from 1997 arguably foreshadows [[spoiler: Kell eventually becoming CEO of Herd Thinners]].
** [[http://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1129.html A month before Lindesfarne discovered she was pregnant,]] she, Fenton, and Rudy were discussing their mothers asking about when she'd start producing grandchildren for them.
*** [[http://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1223.html And a week before that reveal,]] a comic implied Lindesfarne and Fenton [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar were having sex in the chimney]].
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Rudy and Fiona, who find out after dating for some time that they were in the same preschool - and hated each other.
* ForTheEvulz: Rudy's comic portrayed humans as ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}'' villains in almost every respect except for the fact that [[VillainProtagonist they're the main characters]]. Of course, at the time he drew the comic, everyone in that universe thought humans were fictional creatures. The idea of a race that would deliberately destroy habitats was considered so outrageously absurd as to be humorous.
* FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter: Land mammals, though mostly on two legs, are just as adept at being on four legs. Though larger land mammals like elephants are more commonly seen on four legs in civilization, they can also be on two legs. Carl the rhinoceros is a good example, being seen on four legs most often early on, but being on two legs more often once he begins dating Leona.
* FourthWallMailSlot: Lindesfarne [[http://blog.kevinandkell.com runs her own blog,]] and 6/27/08, she started [[http://blog.kevinandkell.com/archives/131-TESTING-ONE,-TWO,-THREE.html responding to replies]].
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Papa Kindle and Angelique try to frame the other for Sid's murder, thinking that the other did it. [[spoiler:It was actually (technically) Danielle, who was assigned to kill Sid, but couldn't do it, causing Sid to accidentally kill himself with her stake gun. Papa Kindle decides to [[TakingTheHeat take the fall]] for his daughter.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Ralph's desire to eat Kevin stems from the tragic death of his herbivore lover. Desdemona Fuscus pressures Lindesfarne and Fenton to get married so that Lindesfarne doesn't find out about her being a vampire bat before the wedding.
* FrivolousLawsuit: A bear attacks Kevin, who easily backhands him. The bear responds by suing Kevin, claiming that, as a rabbit, he violated the natural order by fighting back and demanding Kevin's weight in meat. Mei Li gets the case thrown out by pointing out that the bear using the judicial system to attack Kevin is equally unnatural.
* FurryComic: One of the longest running and best known.
* FurryConfusion: Basically determined by RuleOfFunny. For just one example, Lindesfarne's lab mice were long-running characters that lived in a cage like pets, even though they were actually sentient and capable of speech. Other parts of the comic have shown mice that are the same size as the main characters, complete with anthropomorphic features like hair and clothes. The status of the lab mice nearly break the strip's logic when Lindesfarne attempts to send them to the human world in place of herself and Danielle, but is informed by Catherine Aura that it wouldn't work with mice because they're "too small". This concept is also used for laughs from time to time - for just one example, Kell appears to be enamored of dogs in a pet store window, but the last panel zooms out to reveal it's a temp agency. The Dewclaws also keep a sentient flower for a pet. They're also aware of the concept of pets despite no appearances of other pets in the strip, though there may be other reasons why they feel this way besides RuleOfFunny.
** There's also the appearance of human-sized insects like moths, lightning bugs, and praying mantises...while insectivores like Lindesfarne and Fenton usually eat regular sized little insects. There was even an instance of a GIANT SPIDER attacking Tammy and Ray's (moth and lightning bug respectively) wedding, which Lindesfarne and Fenton ATE.
** Though one comic has Danielle realizing that pets don't exist in this world, which she admits makes sense as animals are the dominant species to begin with.
* GenderBender: In [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0401.html this April Fool's comic]].
* GenderEqualsBreed: Averted, with the exception of Corrie for obvious reasons.
* GeniusLoci: Fenton's house
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Frequently. Perhaps most blatantly [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2009/kk0325.html here]].
* GoodAngelBadAngel: [[http://kevinandkell.com/2004/kk1009.html Conventional use]], and later [[http://kevinandkell.com/2012/kk0715.html leaning towards parody]].
* GreenAesop
* GreenEyedMonster: Vin has been jealous of Rudy ever since he worked for Kell as an intern. When Fiona rejects him in favor of Rudy, it only makes things worse.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: The comic's characters ''are'' aware of a need for clothes and covering up nudity...but some of them are naked and some of them aren't. For one such example, people who live in the wild forgo clothing, and Kell is visibly upset about being naked and covering herself up during a storyline where the family pretends to be uncivilized. However, Catherine Aura briefly wore a sweater (and no skirt) in her earliest appearances, though this was dropped in favor of her son and pretty much every other bird flapping around in the nude (her cousin wears sunglasses - and that's it). Nobody comments on this. The less anthropomorphic animals will also appear without clothes with about as much comment as Lindesfarne's pet mice.
** To justify one species not wearing clothes...how ''would'' snakes wear clothes?
** ''None'' of the animals wear shoes or socks, leading to an early joke in the series about the characters wondering why they hung Christmas stockings as they had no idea what they were.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Francis, though it's really complicated.
* HappilyAdopted: Lindesfarne, Mary, and Gweneth and her siblings.
* HappilyMarried: Kevin and Kell, since before the strip started.
* HasTwoMommies: Rabbit character Miranda has two fathers.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The reason behind the Great Bird Conspiracy abducting Vin, Fenton, Ray and the elk that Rudy caught, along with a desire to make their computers [=Y2K=]-compatible.
* HeroicSacrifice: Danielle Kindle, by way of TakingTheBullet for George.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Douglas, aka D.B. Cooper.
* HiddenDepths: Rudy got the idea that Corrie was Ralph's daughter [[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0909.html a year before she was revealed to actually be Ralph's daughter.]] This was because her wolf disguise at the time was Ralph's skin.
-->'''Corrie:''' Funny thing... Rudy actually guesses I was your daughter... from the scent of the wolfskin!\\
'''Ralph:''' Hey, Rudy can be a pretty smart kid.\\
'''Corrie:''' ...when his brain doesn't get in the way.\\
'''Ralph:''' Well said!
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A bear sued Kevin for defending himself with force rather than the "natural tactics" of running in fear. Mei Li, acting as his attorney, points out to the judge that, by his own logic, the bear should only be attacking Kevin with tooth and fang, not a lawsuit. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome The case gets dropped immediately.]]
* HoldingTheFloor: Kevin, and then Coney when Kevin tried to get the Rabbit Council to either accept his resignation or stop taking bribes. The interesting variation is under herbivore rules, as long as someone is chewing on something, they hold the floor. [[spoiler: The council caved in and agreed to quit taking bribes right before Coney ran out of snake to chew.]]
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: The Interspecies Marriage support group has been shown to have some rather bizarre pairings like this.
* {{Homage}}
* HumanityEnsues:
** Francis eventually changes to one entirely after two years as an indeterminate furry species.
** Ralph and Martha also briefly experienced this when they were transported into the human world. Ralph returned to his own self when he returned to their own dimension, but Martha remained human for a short time due to being in a lead container.
* IAmNotWeasel: George is ''not a rabbit'', thank you!
* ICanExplain: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] twice with Corrie, who doesn't quite confess to being a sheep disguised as a wolf before the people whom she believes realize her secret indicate they're talking about something else.
* IdenticalGrandson: Or, in Coney's case, Identical Granddaughter. She bears a great resemblance to Dorothy when she was Coney's age.
* ImpactSilhouette:
** Played with [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2011/kk0731.html here]] when Coney eats a hole in a hedge made to look like it had been caused by a giant predator busting through the hedge, and not her and her two companions.
** Rudy performs a belly flop into a pool, leaving a him-shaped crater in the pool's water in one strip talking about [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2014/kk0615.html impact craters.]]
* ImprobablyHighIQ: Played with. [[spoiler: Lindesfarne and Fenton's specific IQ scores are never mentioned, just that they're high enough that Commander Kitsune gave them UsefulNotes/{{Mensa}} memberships for a wedding gift.]]
* InfiniteCanvas (or rather finite newspaper column): Recent Sunday strips.
** RealitySubtext: That had been done because ''Kevin and Kell'' had been added to the Sunday comics for the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', and the spot allocated to them required a strip that could be placed vertically.
* InherentInTheSystem: The fact that anyone could be snapped up off the street and scarfed down with no repercussions whatsoever; it's not murder (even morally) as long as you eat who you kill. and in some cases if you didn't know them personally first
* InsultBackfire: When Kevin ran for the school board position, R.L. confronted Kell about the press describing Herd Thinners as a "bloodthirsty pack of rapacious, slavering predators"...because they forgot to add "vicious" and "relentless" to the description. They have a reputation to maintain, after all.
* IntelligentForest: Tree has mentioned in the past that [[https://kevinandkell.com/2017/kk1127.html all plant life can communicate with each other through their interconnected root system,]] though only she can relate directly to animal life because of the Great Bird Conspiracy's intelligence ray.
-->'''Tree:''' Go ahead, laugh. We had the Internet a billion years before you.
* TheInternetIsForPorn: Used in a rather PG way. Since the comic has a lot of internet jokes and setting it bound to come up.
** Also Ralph uploaded some old photos he found. He then finds out they were of his mother.
--->Kevin: First time I've ever seen a brain imploded.
* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: In late 2019, this happened a few times when Carl sought to ask for Leona's paw in marriage:
** The first time, she walked away before he could ask, upset that she was [[PoorCommunicationKills the last to know his intention of going pro at the end of the current gardening season]]. It was a secret he was trying to keep so she could know first, but it leaked before he could.
** The second time, they were interrupted when they had to help his agent lay an egg.
* InterspeciesRomance: From the title couple on down. In fact there aren't very many same-species couples at all in the strip.
* InTheBlood: Corrie, in her Dale persona as a wolf, is able to get away with not hunting, since people assume that she's incompetent as a hunter due to being Ralph's daughter. People also initially believe that may be a reason why she is losing her instincts.
* {{Irony}}: When Martha initially found out Ralph was a father (he had just discovered Corrie was his daughter, and took her in), [[http://kevinandkell.com/2001/kk1017.html she initially dumped him because he was a single parent.]] Even though she herself is a single parent, with Fiona. [[NoticingTheFourthWall Cue the comic boxes melting over them]].
-->'''Martha:''' What's that?\\
'''Fiona:''' [[LampshadeHanging It's dripping with irony]].
** Another point [[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0805.html when Corrie was introduced as Bruno's girlfriend.]] At the time, she was using the wolf skin she separated Ralph from previously to pretend to be a wolf.
--->'''Rudy:''' Psst! I '''knew''' you would find a cute babe if you stopped wearing that ratty old sheepskin.
* IWantGrandkids: Desdemona is a light version of this trope, she's seen asking Kell which of them should be the first to bring the topic up to Lindesfarne and Fenton.
** It's noted that [[http://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1129.html they had begun asking]] about a month before Lindesfarne found out she was pregnant.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Ray is in love with Lindesfarne, rather than Tammy, but sacrifices his intelligence so that he won't stand in Fenton's way.
* IWarnedYou: Dorothy used to date Rudy's coach when they were young, only to dump him for Bentley (Kevin's dad) after she was told she'd have to give up her Easter Bunny position for marrying outside her species (the coach being a pig). Given that [[AwfulWeddedLife her marriage to Bentley collapsed in a messy divorce]], whenever the two talk the coach tells her "told you so."
* IWasQuiteALooker: Elanor, in a picture taken 30 years ago. [[ParentalSexualitySquick Ralph is squicked]] [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1124.html when he finds out]] that the woman he found to be a babe is ''his own mother''. Kevin, meanwhile, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1121.html is apparently sincere]] in telling his mother-in-law she's ''still'' [[SilverFox a looker]].
