History KevinAndKell / TropesSToZ

** Of the cast around Turvy's age, Carla still has yet to speak despite being five years.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: For some reason, Princess Chertsey of the United Kingdom has [[https://kevinandkell.com/2004/kk0114.html some kind of Cockney-Scots accent, possibly]]. Definitely not "posh", anyway. Then again, she was raised in an orphanage, so she likely picked a lot of vocal inflections that would be unusual for a British royal as she learned to speak.

* VisualPun: Bill Holbrook is quite fond of these. [[TrophyWife There's a reason]] [[DeerInTheHeadlights it has produced]] [[MarriedToTheJob several Trope Images]].

* VisualPun: Bill Holbrook is quite fond of these. There's a reason [[DeerInTheHeadlights it has produced]] [[MarriedToTheJob two Trope Images]].

** Outside the context of the main plot, Catherine Aura tries to prevent Nigel from thinking about or contacting [[ToyShip Coney]] after they cross over to the human world, or trying to find the version of her in their side of the portal.

* ToyShip: In-universe example: Coney and Nigel. They use the time machine to grow up for a few hours, and it turns out? It works. There was also hints regarding Coney and Harcourt Silvertip, the vegetarian bear who was the grandson of the Dewclaws' nieghbors, the Ursals, until the bears were PutOnABus to Florida. (And again once TheBusCameBack.) For a baby that only recently aged into a five year old, the carnivorous bunny sure gets around.
** Hints on a future relationship between Coney and Harcourt in particular have been dropped on occasion. Example: [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2014/kk0428.html this 2014 strip]] where Coney dresses up as Fiona, and Harcourt dresses up as Rudy.
** Now Coney's protectiveness of Francis could be interpreted that way, despite their being biological cousins. And yes they count as related even though his mother is from an alternate universe and he recently turned into a human.
** And now there's the recent ship of Coney's cousin Wendell and best friend Lin (a rabbit and tiger respectively).
** This was threatened when one of Wendell's classmates, a bovine named Jess, [[UnsettlingGenderReveal was revealed to be a girl]]. But she was quickly paired off at Herbivore Camp with a herbivorous bird named Harold after he helped rescue her from a DamselInDistress situation.
** A FlashForward suggested a potential future pairing [[https://kevinandkell.com/2019/kk1219.html between Turvy and Onk.]] And when they first met, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2018/kk0913.html Turvy took Onk on a flight]] in a way very similar to how her parents flew together (even though she would've never seen them do that herself, since Fenton's wing injury took place during her gestation).

* TropaholicsAnonymous: Being a part of K&K's N.R.A. is nothing to be proud of.

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Kell and her cousin Sheila look similar enough to pass for each other, as Sheila is literally just Kell with different clothes and heavier makeup.
* UndeadTaxExemption: Averted when Catherine has to fabricate records for herself and Nigel in the human world.
* UnfortunateImplications: After [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1228.html Bruno changed aesthetically into a ram]], going from merely trans-diet to full trans-species, some readers went back to [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0530.html when Angelique changed her species]] from rabbit to rat, and hypothesized that the reason Bill made Bruno fully trans-species is because he didn't want the only trans-species character in the comic to be evil.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: It looks like Rachel might be trying to romance Bruno... until she realizes he's a boy. Rachel, as it turns out, is gay. Bruno was wearing a fake sheepskin covered with his girlfriend Corrie's wool, thus making him smell like a girl and giving a species with poor eyesight no other cues to his actual gender. Bruno attaches ram horns to the sheepskin to prevent this from recurring.

* WebcomicTime: Some characters remain in high school (or diapers) forever, while others leave home/get married/have children (or are even born and become characters in their own right).
** This also gets weird when you consider that Edgar is still high school age, yet his former girlfriend went into college long before he did - and was implied to have been dating her during that. Rachel also manages to mysteriously graduate so Lindsfarne could get a new roommate, but she was explicitly introduced as the same age as Rudy and Bruno.

** This has become zig-zagged in the past fifteen years or so as Holbrook ages up the characters whenever it's time for a new batch of jokes about their current stage of life begins, particularly the main three Dewclaw kids. It allows Coney, Rudy, and Lindesfarne to age a few years here and there, consequently aging everyone as well. Coney was confirmed to be 5 in 2013 and remained so until 2017 when [[spoiler: Turvy]] was born. Since then, they have aged in almost real-time, with Coney now 8, Rudy's peers now getting married and now having kids at the young but not unheard of age of 22, and with [[spoiler: Turvy]] coming up on her third birthday in 2021. Oddly, Coney and her peers have continued to age, as Wendell and Lin are mentioned as being 10 in 2023, but Miranda and Fiona mention they are still 22.

* WrenchWench: Aby

** It becomes even more bizarre to the point of bordering on NegativeContinuity due to the acknowledgement of fixed points in time across the history of the comic. The Y2K problem was a major plot arc in the year 1999, and so was set in the present day. However, the strip has also clearly shown that New Year's Eve 2017 occurred in the story. This clearly shows at least eighteen years of real time have passed over the course of the comic. However, based on progression of the major characters, only 8-10 years have passed over the course of the comic's run.

* StayWithMeUntilIDie: An extended inversion for the dung beetles with Spork; knowing they don't have long, and won't live past the winter, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2022/kk1119.html they keep Spork company while DFW Alaska is in shutdown.]]

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-->'''Delphi:''' Mom, I ''like'' flying with Turvy!\\

** Edgar os also an aversion, as he had two previous serious relationships with Rhonda and Leona.