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* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Rudy and Fiona, who find out after dating for some time that they were in the same preschool - and hated each other.
** Kell and Aby first met when they were both 10, when Kell chased Aby up a tree. Kell doesn't remember at all [[ButForMeItWasTuesday because she chased lots of cats as a kid.]] Aby only knew who she was because Kell's mom gave her a FullNameUltimatum when taking her home.

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* ForgottenFirstMeeting: ForgottenFirstMeeting:
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Rudy and Fiona, who find out after dating for some time that they were in the same preschool - and hated each other.
** Kell and Aby first met when they were both 10, when Kell chased Aby up a tree. Kell doesn't remember at all [[ButForMeItWasTuesday because she chased lots of cats as a kid.]] Aby only knew who she was because Kell's mom gave her a FullNameUltimatum when taking her home. Although Aby remembered, she didn't carry a grudge over the incident.
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Has Two Mommies is now a disambig. Dewicking


* HasTwoMommies: Rabbit character Miranda has two fathers.
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** Some time in the past: Dorothy Kindle was the Easter Bunny for Domain in her younger days.


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*** The storyline established that Miranda was invited to be Domain's Easter Bunny after Dorothy's cover was blown and she retired. Before this, Miranda was Easter Bunny for the area around Beige University, usually with Carl as her bodyguard.

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* 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.

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* 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. Here's a timeline of known Easter Bunnies in the Domain area:
** Through 2004: Various unknowns (with Kevin as a bodyguard at various points)
** 2005: Kevin Dewclaw (no bodyguard needed)
** 2006: Kell Dewclaw (stand-in for a sick Kevin, again no bodyguard needed)
** 2007-2015: Rudy Dewclaw (Fiona as "bodyguard" from 2008 on, and Wendell as apprentice from 2011 on)
** 2016-2018: Dorothy Kindle (Fiona as bodyguard, Wendell as apprentice)
** 2019-2023: Miranda Hutch (Wendell as apprentice; Fiona as bodyguard, Edgar in 2022 only, Fiona and Lin in 2023)
** 2024-: Wendell Luckyfoot (Lin and Coney as bodyguards, Miranda as mentor)

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* {{Imprinting}}: Everyone has comparable traits to actual animals. Thus a Canadian Goose [[https://kevinandkell.com/2018/kk0903.html needs to have a photo taken and used on a mask]].

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* ImplausibleDeniability: [[https://kevinandkell.com/2015/kk0216.html In a 2015 strip]], it's revealed that young boar Hockley has been posting online, asking for money to pay off people who'd otherwise tattle on him for bullying. When Rachel Einhorn asks outright if he's been trying to raise money for his bullying, he denies it... [[https://kevinandkell.com/2015/kk0217.html whereupon she shows him she's found the site where he's been doing so]]. And is ''not'' amused by it.
* {{Imprinting}}: Everyone has comparable traits to actual animals. Thus a Canadian Goose [[https://kevinandkell.com/2018/kk0903.html needs to have a photo taken and used on a mask]]. The little goose's sister Ack [[https://kevinandkell.com/2022/kk0219.html is later able to imprint over Facetime]].
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* CirclingVultures:
** [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0310.html In one strip]], Ms Aura (a school teacher and a turkey buzzard) is circling above Rudy's homework. Rudy and Bruno comment that this isn't a good sign.
** Subverted in the [[https://kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0612.html June 12, 2005 strip]]. A bunch of vultures are shown standing on the top of laptops at an internet café, which makes Kevin think the wi-fi the customers are using isn't secure... but then it turns out said vultures are just the waitstaff.
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* GlassesOfAging: In a 2012 storyline, Kevin ends up needing glasses because he's survived so long and is now old enough that his 360 degree peripheral vision has started to go. He's worn them ever since.
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* GotVolunteered: Another facet of their inclusion into the greater turtle community, George and Ophelia ended up assigned protection duty for [[https://kevinandkell.com/2023/kk0316.html freshly-laid]] and [[https://kevinandkell.com/2023/kk0318.html hatching]] sea turtle eggs during their honeymoon.
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* HumanHeadOnTheWall: Variant -- R.L. keeps the trophy heads of his failed employees (who are all sapient, anthropomorphic animals) on the wall of his office. The strips from November 8 and 9 of 2010 reveal it's actually subverted when Kell finds out they're employees he ''fired'' and then rehired back as temps without benefits, who are only ''posing'' as trophy heads (which R.L. considered cheaper than actual taxidermy).
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TRS retooled Innocent Cohabitation into From Roommates To Romance. I think this fits but it needs a rewrite.


* InnocentCohabitation: 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 Dorothy moved in with Kell's mom, Elanor.[[/note]] [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0209.html Lindesfarne figures out]] Fiona had a RelationshipUpgrade in mind the whole time.
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** Since the [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic Pandemic arc]], age progression has slowed down yet again.
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* HealingSerpent: Being an anthro webcomic, one of the reoccurring doctor characters is a snake [[MeaningfulName named Dr. Caduceus]]. Fiona's college friend Greta Garter is a snake with a pre-med major, and has been known to mimic the Rod/Staff of Asclepius while [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2015/kk0924.html posing for her selfie stick]].
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Per TRS Good People Have Good Sex is now a disambig page.


* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: As far as a largely family friendly comic can get away with, but Kevin and Kell are shown to have an active and fun sex life (roleplaying and costumes seem to be their thing).
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%% * 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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* EveryoneHatesFruitCakes: Kell used a fruit cake to beat Marty during his challenge at Herd Thinners, shoving it into his mouth and yanking it back out, breaking all his teeth.
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trope was cut by TRS


* EverythingsBetterWithLlamas: Llisa Llama is introduced in 2016 as a camper at the recurring herbivore camp. Her presence certainly makes things better, as she rescues camp counselor Carl (a rhino) from drowning, helps tie up some attacking predators the next year, and in 2019, chases away a marauding gopher with her instinctive spitting.
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* CulturalPersonalityMakeover: Fiona, once her fennec ears grow in, begins to explore and embrace the dress and style of her fennec ancestry. She becomes disillusioned when she realizes the fennec community she has joined online is rather hateful and spiteful of outsiders, but ultimately decides to still appreciate her background and wears traditional colors rather than the full outfits.
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** While in hiding with Greta, Ophelia once [[https://kevinandkell.com/2020/kk0806.html accidentally caught Greta and her boyfriend, Todd,]] entangled in his shell. Later, when she was the owner of said shell,[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke Todd was a toad living in a turtle shell in the first]], and in that storyline gave up the shell to Ophelia for her protection.[[/note]] [[https://kevinandkell.com/2022/kk0515.html she put a passcode to invite George into the shell]] with her.
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* FeeFiFauxPas: Honk's girlfriend [[https://kevinandkell.com/2022/kk0511.html made the mistake not recognizing Tree's sentience]] once

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* FeeFiFauxPas: Honk's girlfriend [[https://kevinandkell.com/2022/kk0511.html made the mistake of not recognizing Tree's sentience]] onceonce:
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** '''Honk's girlfriend:''' Is your house connected to "the Internet of Things"?\\

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** '''Honk's -->'''Honk's girlfriend:''' Is your house connected to "the Internet of Things"?\\
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* FeeFiFauxPas: Honk's girlfriend [[https://kevinandkell.com/2022/kk0511.html made the mistake not recognizing Tree's sentience]] once
** '''Honk's girlfriend:''' Is your house connected to "the Internet of Things"?\\
'''Tree:''' Are you connected to the [[AskAStupidQuestion Internet of Stupid Questions]]?\\
'''Lindesfarne:''' [-Psst! Tree is not a thing.-]
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* GRatedSex: The prom where Lindesfarne and Fenton met, [[https://kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0214.html Fenton took her on a fanciful flight]] that left her hot and bothered.
-->'''Lindesfarne:''' Okay. So you're a pretty good dancer...
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** Kell and Aby first met when they were both 10, when Kell chased Aby up a tree. Kell doesn't remember at all [[ForMeItWasTuesday because she chased lots of cats as a kid.]] Aby only knew who she was because Kell's mom gave her a FullNameUltimatum when taking her home.

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** Kell and Aby first met when they were both 10, when Kell chased Aby up a tree. Kell doesn't remember at all [[ForMeItWasTuesday [[ButForMeItWasTuesday because she chased lots of cats as a kid.]] Aby only knew who she was because Kell's mom gave her a FullNameUltimatum when taking her home.
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** Kell and Aby first met when they were both 10, when Kell chased Aby up a tree. Kell doesn't remember at all [[ForMeItWasTuesday because she chased lots of cats as a kid.]] Aby only knew who she was because Kell's mom gave her a FullNameUltimatum when taking her home.
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* {{Cult}}: There is a cult in the uncivilized areas around Domain. Rudy ran off when Fiona briefly dated Vin. Ralph tried to join during the MillenniumBug arc, but was rejected because of his poor hunting skills.
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* IntimateHealing: How Honk and his girlfriend [[https://kevinandkell.com/2022/kk0121.html conceived the egg she laid.]]

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* IntimateHealing: How Honk and his girlfriend [[https://kevinandkell.com/2022/kk0121.html conceived the egg she laid.Ack.]]
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Moving cut Moral Dissonance entry here.

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* HypocriticalHumor: comic will often do a TakeThat, HumansAreBastards, or even occasionally a YouBastard about the real world... and then get back to comics of sentient beings devouring each other. Not shockingly, this is often played up for humor as well, often from Danielle [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2009/kk1017.html pointing out]] the ridiculousness of the animal society from her perspective.
--> '''Danielle''': THIS CIVILIZATION ALREADY DOES THAT!!!\\
'''Kell''': Yes, but Francis gives them an "other" to blame.
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* EverythingsBetterWithLlamas: Llisa Llama is introduced in 2016 as a camper at the recurring herbivore camp. Her presence certainly makes things better, as she rescues camp counselor Carl (a rhino) from drowning, helps tie up some attacking predators the next year, and in 2019, chases away a marauding gopher with her instinctive spitting.
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* ADegreeInUseless: Discussed in [[https://kevinandkell.com/2009/kk1004.html the October 4, 2009 strip]], where a random bird moves back in with his parents after an unsuccessful job search; one of them says "What did you expect with a B.A. in Philosophy?"
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** Sheldon "Teapot" Dome tried to invoke this when he got his weasel campaign manager pregnant. He sent her off, then lied and claimed that Kell ate her so he could smear Kevin in a school board election. While Sheldon won, Lindesfarne [[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk1108.html outed that not only was his campaign manager alive, but she had his baby,]] undermining his message of [[FantasticRacism species purity]].

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