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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Kell has blue hair. Flashbacks show that her mother, Elanor, had blue hair as well before it turned gray with age; it also only turned gray relatively recently, as one of the flashbacks [[https://kevinandkell.com/2009/kk1219.html shows her with blue hair after Rudy was born.]]

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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Harcourt's response when Harold [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2015/kk0730.html arrived in Carnivore Summer Camp to rescue Jess]] and asked if his flapping alerted them to his arrival, when it was really his stench.

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* SureLetsGoWithThat: SureLetsGoWithThat:
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Harcourt's response when Harold [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2015/kk0730.html arrived in Carnivore Summer Camp to rescue Jess]] and asked if his flapping alerted them to his arrival, when it was really his stench.stench.
** We get this word-for-word when we find out [[https://kevinandkell.com/2018/kk0920.html Honk's native name,]] which Lindesfarne decides to shorten to Onk as a nickname.

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* StupidBoss: George Fennec, owner of Hare Link, is almost completely useless. For a while, his only actual purpose at Hare-Link was daycare for Francis and Coney.
** Not merely a stupid boss... he's also utterly clueless when it's obvious to everyone else that Danielle found out she's pregnant.

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* StupidBoss: StupidBoss:
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George Fennec, owner of Hare Link, is when he was running Hare-Link, was almost completely useless. useless beyond bankrolling the company. For a while, his only actual purpose at Hare-Link was daycare for Francis and Coney.
** Not merely a stupid boss... he's also utterly clueless when it's obvious
Coney. And at times his behavior lived down to everyone else that, like his ambivalence to the signs that wife Danielle found out she's pregnant.was pregnant:


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** Early on in his time as VP of Hare-Link, there were clues to this with Ralph as well. [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2001/kk0702.html Once when Kevin went on vacation,]] he recognized that Fenton and Candance would be the ones actually running the show.

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* TemptingFate: This one time at Carnivore Summer Camp, Lin and Harcourt fantasized about their first kills, but Coney warned them prey isn't going to fall right into their lap. [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2015/kk0724.html Cue Jess falling through their tent,]] a victim of another camper's plot to use a drone to kidnap a Herbivore Summer Camp camper.

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* TemptingFate: TemptingFate:
** When Fiona bought R.L.'s shares in Kevin's business, she said she saw "nothing but good" coming out of it. Cue [[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0425.html her father George looking for a date.]]
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This one time at Carnivore Summer Camp, Lin and Harcourt fantasized about their first kills, but Coney warned them prey isn't going to fall right into their lap. [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2015/kk0724.html Cue Jess falling through their tent,]] a victim of another camper's plot to use a drone to kidnap a Herbivore Summer Camp camper.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: PlayedForLaughs (as well as heartwarming) when Coney got Rudy [[https://kevinandkell.com/2012/kk0228.html to explain how he really felt about Fiona]] while she was playing with Fiona's cell phone.
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* TalkShowAppearance: Kevin and Kell are invited as guests on the "Jerry Springer Spaniel Show," presumably as a BileFascination romance between a large hare and an alpha wolf. Jerry's ulterior motive is to bring up an online affair between "Incisor" and "Deathpaw," in hopes of televising Kell shredding Kevin.
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* WeddingEnhancedFertility:
** Applicable to George and Danielle Fennec, as well as Carl and Leona. The former may have actually been trying, considering Danielle's reaction when she found out she was pregnant. While Savanna's conception was unplanned, there's no evidence her parents were trying ''not'' to have a baby.
** Averted with Lindesfarne and Fenton, who took some time before [[ButWeUsedACondom a condom failure]] resulted in Turvy; and Mark and Aby, who fell upon parenthood by adopting Mark's orphaned nephew, Tyler.
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** A FlashForward suggested a potential future pairing [[https://kevinandkell.com/2019/kk1219.html between Turvy and Onk]]
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-->'''Fenton''' (dejected)''':''' Texting the families now...

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* SecretTestOfCharacter: Kevin's dad pulls strings to get Douglas bunked with him in prison so he could make sure he was a suitable partner for Dorothy.

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* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[https://kevinandkell.com/2009/kk0702.html Kevin's dad pulls strings to get Douglas bunked with him in prison prison]] so he could make sure he was a suitable partner for Dorothy.



'''Bentley:''' ...that I'm a better ex-husband than a husband? '''WHY???'''

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'''Bentley:''' ...that I'm a better ex-husband than a husband? '''WHY???''''''''WHY???'''''

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* TheirFirstTime: [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0209.html The comic made]] [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0210.html a bit of a big deal of]] [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0211.html Rudy and Fiona's first time]] together. [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0212.html But they subsequently agree]] not to [[AltarTheSpeed rush to the altar]] immediately after:

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* TheirFirstTime: [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0209.html The comic made]] [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0210.html a bit of a big deal of]] [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0211.html Rudy and Fiona's first time]] together.together when they are twenty-two. [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0212.html But they subsequently agree]] not to [[AltarTheSpeed rush to the altar]] immediately after:



* TheVoiceless: Generally, whichever character is a baby/toddler at any point in the strip doesn't talk for ''years'' at a time, well past the point of when normal children would start to talk. It's almost like Holbrook is unaware of what age children start forming words...
** Coney was the originator, not speaking in a strip until she was well past the age where she should have started, only beginning when she was in ''preschool''.
** Her cousin Francis has been shown talking exactly twice, which gets a little odd considering he's now four years old and should well be at the age of forming full sentences, let alone single words. Might be justified doing to his status as currently being an OutOfFocus character, he may just be talking completely off-screen.
** Her [[spoiler: niece Turvy]] is now three and communicates with her mother solely through pantomime.



** 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 7, Rudy peers now getting married and pregnant at the young but not unheard of age of 20, and Lindesfarne mentioning in 2020 that [[spoiler: Turvy]] is now two.

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** 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 7, Rudy 8, Rudy's peers now getting married and pregnant now having kids at the young but not unheard of age of 20, 22, and Lindesfarne mentioning in 2020 that with [[spoiler: Turvy]] is now two.coming up on her third birthday in 2021.
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* WebcomicsLongRunners: Having started in September 1995--near the beginning of the medium--and still running in 2020, it is the undisputed longest of the long.

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* WebcomicsLongRunners: Having started in September 1995--near the beginning of the medium--and still running in 2020, 2021, it is the undisputed longest of the long.
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** When Corrie first got a job at Herd Thinners as their webmaster, she immediately bought a house. But once she found out Ralph was her father, she immediately moved in with him with no fanfare or explanation. She would go on to move into Martha's side of the Fennec mansion (now the boardinghouse) when Ralph married her, and continued to live there when Bruno started cohabitating with her after his graduation. What happened to her own house was never explained.
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** 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.
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* TheirFirstTime: [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0209.html The comic made]] [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0210.html a bit of a big deal of]] [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0211.html Rudy and Fiona's first time]] together. [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0212.html But they subsequently agree]] not to [[AltarTheSpeed rush to the altar]] immediately after:
-->'''Rudy:''' Still not ready for marriage.\\
'''Fiona:''' Me neither.

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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: It looks like Rachel might be trying to romance Bruno...until she [[SchoolgirlLesbians 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.

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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: It looks like Rachel might be trying to romance Bruno... until she [[SchoolgirlLesbians 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.



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'''[[spoiler:Corrie]]:''' Yes. [[spoiler:Bruno]] and I are trying...

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-->'''Danielle''' (in the bathroom with her pregnancy test) HOORAY! YEEEEE-HAH!\\

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* YourCheatingHeart: Fenton cheated on Lindesfarne when their schedules were separated, going out with a moth. [[https://kevinandkell.com/1998/kk0325.html Kevin saw them]] flying past their house one night. See: PapaWolf.
** George and Martha cheat on each other, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0516.html and catch each other at the same time]] while both on dates with their lovers.
** Rudy and Fiona helped Ralph and Martha, respectively, arrange dates with each other, not knowing who they were dating, and found ''themselves'' [[https://kevinandkell.com/2001/kk0713.html falling in love with the person they were talking to, not realizing it was each other.]]
** Rudy's actually had a couple online flings with a character named "Darkeyes". "Darkeyes" turned out to be Corrie, which would've been a serious case of RelativeError had it actually fleshed out for real, considering Corrie is Rudy's cousin. Oddly, [[https://kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0120.html Bruno had zero problems with it]] either time ([[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk20000731.html though he did accidentally cause the second one]]). Fortunately, when they finally met, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0803.html Rudy did so with the intent of ending the relationship]] once and for all, and it led to all four becoming friends.[[spoiler:..and eventually to [[https://kevinandkell.com/2001/kk1018.html Fiona and Corrie becoming stepsisters.]]]]
--->'''Corrie:''' Bruno, I'm so glad '''you're''' not threatened.\\
'''Bruno:''' Naw, someone that spineless must've been an invertibrate.
** The {{Cliffhanger}} for Summer 2016 revolves around [[https://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0406.html Edgar having had an affair with a rabbit, Miranda,]] one of Rudy's gardening teammates.[[note]]Edgar and Miranda met as co-stars of a Beige U production of ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''; they both played Audrey II, with Edgar providing the voice and Miranda operating the puppet.[[/note]] [[https://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0417.html Miranda gave Leona the summer break]] to patch things up with Edgar. Leona [[RescueRomance getting a crush on Carl]] ended their relationship, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0904.html clearing the way for Edgar and Miranda]] to officially become a couple.
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** When Harold (a stinkbird) helps Jessica (a cow) escape over a wall [[spoiler:with a ladder]] in [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2015/kk0805.html this strip]], she says she "would've exceeded [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the capacity of an unladen swallow]]."
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** The {{Cliffhanger}} for Summer 2016 revolves around [[https://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0406.html Edgar having had an affair with a rabbit, Miranda,]] one of Rudy's gardening teammates.[[note]]Edgar and Miranda met as co-stars of a Beige U production of ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''; they both played Audrey II, with Edgar providing the voice and Miranda operating the puppet. It's unknown if Miranda is in the drama program along with Edgar.[[/note]] [[https://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0417.html Miranda gave Leona the summer break]] to patch things up with Edgar. Leona [[RescueRomance getting a crush on Carl]] ended their relationship, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0904.html clearing the way for Edgar and Miranda]] to officially become a couple.

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** The {{Cliffhanger}} for Summer 2016 revolves around [[https://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0406.html Edgar having had an affair with a rabbit, Miranda,]] one of Rudy's gardening teammates.[[note]]Edgar and Miranda met as co-stars of a Beige U production of ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''; they both played Audrey II, with Edgar providing the voice and Miranda operating the puppet. It's unknown if Miranda is in the drama program along with Edgar.[[/note]] [[https://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0417.html Miranda gave Leona the summer break]] to patch things up with Edgar. Leona [[RescueRomance getting a crush on Carl]] ended their relationship, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0904.html clearing the way for Edgar and Miranda]] to officially become a couple.
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** Carl and Leona's engagement was pretty much a disaster (see: PoorCommunicationKills). Leona was convinced Carl was going to dump her when he decided to turn pro, and closed herself off emotionally to him, resulting in him returning the engagement ring after multiple attempts to even get to ask her. When she finally re-opened at the cajoling of Frank, he finally popped the question, and had to use the return receipt as a stand-in for a ring.

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** Carl and Leona's engagement was pretty much a disaster (see: PoorCommunicationKills). Leona was convinced Carl was going to dump her when he decided to turn pro, and closed herself off emotionally to him, resulting in him returning the engagement ring after multiple attempts to even get to ask her. When she finally re-opened at the cajoling of Frank, he finally popped the question, and [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2019/kk1014.html had to use the return receipt receipt]] as a stand-in for a ring.
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* WebcomicsLongRunners: Having started in September 1995--near the beginning of the medium--and still running in 2019, it is the undisputed longest of the long.

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* WebcomicsLongRunners: Having started in September 1995--near the beginning of the medium--and still running in 2019, 2020, it is the undisputed longest of the long.
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* TakeThat: Plenty. Car dealerships, talk radio, Windows, politicians [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets (especially lobbyists)]], [[HumansAreBastards humans]]... The strip often uses Take Thats as punchlines.

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* TakeThat: Plenty. Car dealerships, talk radio, Windows, politicians [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets (especially lobbyists)]], [[HumansAreBastards humans]]...humans]], even [[CashCowFranchise Pokémon]]... The strip often uses Take Thats as punchlines.
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** Also averted with Angelique, who is twice divorced. Kevin was first, then the father of Gweneth and her 19 other rabbit/skunk hybrid children.

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** Also averted with Angelique, who is twice divorced. Kevin was first, then the father of Gweneth and her 19 other rabbit/skunk hybrid children. She also may or may not have had multiple lovers between marriages.
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* ScarsAreForever: Leona, Edgar's lioness girlfriend, has a scar over her left eye thanks to a hunting match where a branch smacked her in the face, requiring her to get stitches.

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* ScarsAreForever: Leona, Edgar's lioness girlfriend, Leona has a scar over her left eye thanks to a hunting match at Caliban where a branch smacked her in the face, requiring her to get stitches.
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* 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.
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* ScarsAreForever: Leona, Edgar's lioness girlfriend, has a scar over her left eye thanks to a hunting match where a branch smacked her in the face, requiring her to get stitches.
* SecondLove: Most of the cast are happier with their second spouses/lovers than their first ones, as with Kevin and Kell, Angelique and R.L., Ralph and Martha, Douglas and Dorothy, George and Danielle, Aby and Mark, Leona and Carl.
** Averted with Edgar; he's on his ''third'' love with Miranda.
** Also averted with Angelique, who is twice divorced. Kevin was first, then the father of Gweneth and her 19 other rabbit/skunk hybrid children.
* SecretRelationship: An interesting case involving [[https://kevinandkell.com/1996/kk0104.html one of the earliest secrets of the strip]] is Bruno denying experiencing constant feelings about girls to Rudy at the age of 12, when in reality he's wearing his girlfriend, Corrie, as a sheepskin. It would still be four years before Rudy would meet Corrie, and even longer before he learned she was a sheep.
-->'''Corrie:''' So when you gonna tell 'im 'bout us?\\
'''Bruno:''' Patience, my sweet.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Kevin's dad pulls strings to get Douglas bunked with him in prison so he could make sure he was a suitable partner for Dorothy.
-->'''Kevin:''' Dad, I'm surprised.\\
'''Bentley:''' ...that I'm a better ex-husband than a husband? '''WHY???'''
* SelfDemonstratingArticle: When Lindesfarne is [[MurderTheHypotenuse hunting Fenton's lover after finding out she's a nocturnal insectivore]], Rudy and Bruno mention she'll probably make a rookie mistake. Sure enough, [[http://kevinandkell.com/1998/kk0407.html she and Tammy got in a conversation and became friends.]]
-->'''Tammy:''' Fenton was dating you, too?\\
'''Lindesfarne:''' Yeah, what scum.
* SelfInsertFic: On Catherine Aura's Twitter, she talks about how she and Nigel are spying on a human (Subject A) that seems to have a 'psychic link' to the K&K world, and is drawing a comic about it. This is a rather obvious hint that Subject A is Bill Holbrook himself.
* ShaggyDogStory: The entire arc with Harelink vying for an extremely lucrative contract to provide free wi-fi to the citizens of Domain was ended in a single strip - after they won, the telecom industry ''instantly'' got a law passed that stopped cities from providing this service entirely because they wanted the contract for themselves. This also rendered the entire arc, which took place over several months, entirely pointless. [[{{Anvilicious}} The real purpose of the arc was revealed to be a soapbox against the telecom industry.]]
* ShipSinking: Catherine Aura tries to prevent Nigel from thinking about or contacting [[ToyShip Coney]] after they cross over to the human world.
* ShoutOut:
** Quite a few to ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes.
** ... And one to author [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0320.html E. B. White]].
** In the [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2004/kk0201.html Interspecies Support Group]], you can see a [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle moose standing next to a squirrel]].
** And [[http://kevinandkell.com/2015/kk1229.html here]] we have a shout-out to ''Film/JurassicWorld''.
--->'''[[Tropers/{{Macsen}} Commenter]]:''' Now I'm imagining Marty being voiced by Creator/ChrisPratt.
** The strips from the 16th to the 24th of December 2009 are one big shout-out to ''Film/AChristmasStory''.
* SistineSteal: When George and Danielle regain their static connection, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1026.html one of their first poses mirrors "The Creation of Adam".]]
* SlapSlapKiss: Danielle [[spoiler: number two]] and George[[note]][[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1023.html It was an effort to get George to fall out of love with her]] since the original one died. [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1025.html It]] [[http://kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1026.html failed.]][[/note]]
* SmellPhone: Rudy Dewclaw can ascertain that he's cyber-chatting with Fiona by sniffing the [=CPU=] exhaust fan.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Kevin's one floppy ear perks up when he's feeling frisky.
** It happened to Dip when his horns were growing in. [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2013/kk1022.html When Caniche kissed him, they grew suddenly,]] [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2013/kk1023.html and in the next strip, they were full bighorns.]]
* SpeciesSurname: damn near everyone, those who don't have surnames based on features of their species.
* SpiritAdvisor: Randy, Rudy's dead biological father, came back in spirit [[http://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0508.html to give Rudy some pointers when he was going to fight Vin.]] Of course, this was ultimately {{subverted}} when it was discovered Vin was also Randy's son from an extramarital affair. He admitted [[http://kevinandkell.com/2002/kk0523.html he helped Rudy because he didn't want both his sons to kill each other.]]
-->'''Rudy:''' So who do I turn to '''now''' for a moral, ethical role model?\\
'''Randy:''' Why, Kevin, of course.\\
'''Rudy:''' '''''I MEAN ONE THAT I CAN ADMIT TO MYSELF!'''''\\
'''Randy:''' Oh. Now that's a toughie...
* StealthPun: [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2010/kk1116.html An elephant insurance man whom no one wants to acknowledge.]]
* StockAnimalDiet: Strip 2012-09-01 has one bird eating a mouse, and was able to determine the kinds of cheese in its last meal.
* StrawmanPolitical: They appear occasionally. Bill Clinton was apparently a rabbit, George Bush is apparently a butterfly. One of Lindesfarne's blog entries mentioned Kerry as a horse, though he was never shown within the strip. A strip did not show Obama on panel, but described him as the hybrid of an African Gazelle and a North American White Tail Deer. Trump's species is not shown, but it's revealed his ''hair'' is a furry little rodent-like...thing.
* StunnedSilence: This is pulled off [[https://kevinandkell.com/2019/kk0225.html Bruno and Corrie]] in the strip before we see them giving up on natural childbirth.
* StupidBoss: George Fennec, owner of Hare Link, is almost completely useless. For a while, his only actual purpose at Hare-Link was daycare for Francis and Coney.
** Not merely a stupid boss... he's also utterly clueless when it's obvious to everyone else that Danielle found out she's pregnant.
-->'''Danielle''' (in the bathroom with her pregnancy test) HOORAY! YEEEEE-HAH!\\
'''George''': Odd. She never does that at home when she...\\
'''Kevin''': Get a clue, George.\\
'''Ralph''': They sell those on eBay... along with cribs.
* SuddenlyVoiced: Kevin and Kell gain voices in a few simple [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/links/animation.html animations]] that have been done in the past. Kevin has been voiced by Bill himself and Music/TomSmith, and Kell has been voiced by Bill's wife Teri and, in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPXG56RB3DM song]], by Karen Underwood. Fenton got a voice in [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/about the intro video]], and with a possible TV show on the horizon, more voices may be on the way.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: Harcourt's response when Harold [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2015/kk0730.html arrived in Carnivore Summer Camp to rescue Jess]] and asked if his flapping alerted them to his arrival, when it was really his stench.
* TakeAThirdOption: At the end of the Danielle arc, Danielle believes she and Lindesfarne will have to return to the human world to restore the balance, but Lindesfarne realizes that any two individuals can restore the balance, opting to have her mice do so instead. According to Catherine Aura, however, they're too small, and [[spoiler: Catherine and Nigel fly through instead]].
* TakeThat: Plenty. Car dealerships, talk radio, Windows, politicians [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets (especially lobbyists)]], [[HumansAreBastards humans]]... The strip often uses Take Thats as punchlines.
* TakingTheBullet: Danielle I for George.
* TapOnTheHead: Averted. After Kell suffers a concussion in [[spoiler:the challenge she faces as CEO]], her doctor tells her to stop hunting. Considering how Kell took her previous non-hunting assignments, it remains to be seen how long this will last.
* TemptingFate: This one time at Carnivore Summer Camp, Lin and Harcourt fantasized about their first kills, but Coney warned them prey isn't going to fall right into their lap. [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2015/kk0724.html Cue Jess falling through their tent,]] a victim of another camper's plot to use a drone to kidnap a Herbivore Summer Camp camper.
* [[ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself This Is Something She Has To Do Herself]]: Kell facing a predator challenge 28 days after her ascension as Herdthinners' new CEO. It's company policy.
* ThreatBackfire: [[spoiler: RL finds out Kell's setting up a rival company and threatens to crush her company and devour her. She's ''thrilled'' that RL sees ''her'' as a threat.]]
* ToiletDrinkingDogGag: There's a RunningGag that Rudy, the wolf teenager of the mixed species family, likes drinking from the toilet.
* {{Tomboy}}: Jess is this, to the point Wendell didn't realize she was female until he saw the class roster at their school. Even though he knew she was a cow.
* TooDumbToLive: Several prey species in one-shot strips get eaten after falling into obvious predator traps or doing other careless things (like leaving their cell phones on).
* 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.
** 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.
* 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.
* UnholyMatrimony: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive R.L.]] and [[JerkAss Angelique]] have been shown to be genuinely in love with each other, despite Angelique seeing R.L.'s disappearance as an opportunity to take over Herd Thinners to conquer the world. Yet when R.L. returns alive, he is only minorly perturbed and simply convinces her its easier to make piles of money instead.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: It looks like Rachel might be trying to romance Bruno...until she [[SchoolgirlLesbians 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.
** Comes back again when Wendell finds out Jess is a girl. Jess has horns, but [[ShownTheirWork a lot of people don't realize both genders of cattle have horns]].
--->'''Jess:''' What part of "cow" don't you understand?
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom
** [[Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault Nick and Ki]], by arriving in Domain, [[spoiler:push the animal world past the tipping point, so that the balance must be completely restored (as opposed to merely having the two of them leave) lest instinct loss take over]].
** Kevin and Kell's appearance on the Jerry Springer type show leads to his insurance agency that he is married to a wolf.
* VerySpecialEpisode: When your title couple are the equivalent of an interracial marriage, you know these will happen and frequently.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Rabbit's Revenge is supported by almost three quarters of the rabbit community because they don't know of their methods.
* VisualMetaphor: When [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1218.html Carl rose to two feet during his first date]] with Leona, commenters noted that was "standing up for her".
* VisualPun: Bill Holbrook is quite fond of these. There's a reason [[DeerInTheHeadlights it has produced]] [[MarriedToTheJob two Trope Images]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: Dorothy and Elanor, despite often clashing, particularly in their different approaches in their work for Aby and Coney's diet, have admitted that they're each other's only friends.
* WackyCravings: When Linsfarne is expecting, she is still eating her normal diet but is craving extremely exotic insects; listed examples include 17-year cicada, burying beetle, puss moth caterpillar, scorpion fly and something Fenton calls "a gum leaf skeletoniser".
* WackyMarriageProposal:
** When Martha proposed to Ralph, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2002/kk0208.html she hid the ring in a meatball.]] He ate it whole.
--->'''Martha:''' ...and thirty hours later, he accepted!\\
'''Fiona:''' *''FacePalm''*
** When Douglas proposed to Dorothy, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2009/kk0625.html he framed it as a business partnership]] where he'd be planting acorns as new real estate. Dorothy rolled with it.
--->'''Dorothy:''' But that'll require a formal financial partnership, with a security stake on your part!\\
'''Douglas:''' (''presents her with an engagement ring'') Will this precious metal holding suffice?\\
'''Dorothy:''' Oooo! '''Nice''' collateral!
** Not so much wacky, considering the circumstances, but when Aby proposed to Mark so he could adopt his orphaned nephew, [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2018/kk0507.html he gave her a lug nut]] to stand in until they could get actual rings.
** Carl and Leona's engagement was pretty much a disaster (see: PoorCommunicationKills). Leona was convinced Carl was going to dump her when he decided to turn pro, and closed herself off emotionally to him, resulting in him returning the engagement ring after multiple attempts to even get to ask her. When she finally re-opened at the cajoling of Frank, he finally popped the question, and had to use the return receipt as a stand-in for a ring.
* WeAreAsMayflies: Taken to an extreme on the short lifepsan species. While it's technically the adult form that has the short lifespan, Mayflies and June bugs are commonly treated as having a sub-month lifespan while still integrated as fully functional members of society as long as they're alive. Examples include June bugs being considered fast food, or mayflies only needing a student loan of 35 cents (for the part of their life that they attend college.)
* WeakButSkilled: Francis compensates for his lack of natural defenses with clever use of tools and booby traps.
* WebcomicsLongRunners: Having started in September 1995--near the beginning of the medium--and still running in 2019, it is the undisputed longest of the long.
* 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.
** Vin's birthdate was eventually listed in the comic, showing him to be ''much'' older than he had been implied to be considering his introduction in the strip.
** 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 7, Rudy peers now getting married and pregnant at the young but not unheard of age of 20, and Lindesfarne mentioning in 2020 that [[spoiler: Turvy]] is now two.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Lindesfarne to Angelique before the divorce.
* WhamEpisode: Lindesfarne and Fenton discover Vin to be alive, but while investigating it, Fenton is kidnapped, learns that Mrs. Aura is in charge of a conspiracy to prevent the world from descending into chaos and that everyone else, including Lindesfarne, believes that he is dead.
** The revelation that Lindesfarne is a former human.
* WhamLine
** One of the earliest. Just when Rudy had finally gotten a girlfriend...
--->'''Fiona:''' My family's moving in the morning.
** As Kell flees the Rabbit Warren (which she entered to find Kevin's parents) with the rabbit whom she saved and who had helped her.
--->'''Kevin''': [[http://kevinandkell.com/2001/kk1214.html Thanks, Dad]].
** Dorothy, while discussing requests for arranged marriages for Coney with Kevin, says she had set one up for him.
** Kevin finds an intruder in his house, who turns out to be working for his political opponents. When he says he's not up for re-election yet:
--->'''Intruder''': Check that. You're facing a recall.
** Lindesfarne tells Rudy that she's found Vin Vulpen's half brother, whom they need to give him a tail transplant. Rudy asks who would have to do it, [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2002/kk0518.html and she says "Four inches should do it" while holding a ruler at his tail.]] Shortly thereafter, another comes [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2002/kk0519.html when Rudy realizes the implications of this and denies that his father committed adultery.]]
--->'''Rudy''': IT'S A LIE! IT's A SLUR! IT'S--\\
'''Kell''': It's something I hope neither you nor Vin inherited from him!
** The culprit in Sid's murder confesses
--->'''[[spoiler:Danielle]]''': I'd say [[spoiler:there's a 100% chance]] it's me, [[spoiler:Daddy]].
** [[spoiler:[[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2010/kk1010.html Kell... you... you WON. YOU'RE the new CEO of Herd Thinners!]]]]
** Dip reveals his true intended nature when he helps stop a cyber-attack on Dewclaw's Fine Meats:
--->'''Dip:''' I'm [[spoiler:a spy for Herd Thinners]]. Duh.
** Fenton gets clued in that [[http://kevinandkell.com/2017/kk0101.html his and Lindesfarne's lives are about to drastically change:]]
--->'''Fenton:''' Wait... [[spoiler:[[MorningSickness she was the designated driver...]] ([[VomitDiscretionShot as Lindesfarne throws up in the background]]).]]
** And another of the earliest in ''Kevin & Kell'', [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/1998/kk0814.html one that would dictate the early history of the strip:]]
--->'''Nigel:''' When do you think they'll catch on that we birds run the world?\\
'''Catherine Aura:''' [[TemptingFate Never]], [[{{Foreshadowing}} if they're lucky]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Kevin was elected to the school board in 2006, on a platform of eliminating high stakes testing. Which, in this comic's universe, leads to ''students being eaten alive to save money''. Despite the fact that both of his school-age children could be at risk of an untimely death, the comic has dropped the plot entirely and only occasionally revisits his school board post for mundane one-off jokes.
** After all the hoopla about baby Francis, his genetics, and ''turning into a human baby'', he's barely been seen in strip and the plotline has been dropped. This even includes an obvious SequelHook from Francis' birth storyline in which Danielle hinted that the only reason she would return to the human world would be to save him. [[AbortedArc This is never mentioned again.]]
** "Domestication", once a major issue in Domain (though its actual negative effects were nebulous at best), hasn't been a major plot point since 2002, when Vin Vulpen was PutOnABus. It hasn't been mentioned '''''at all''''' since 2005, when Caliban hunting coach Sam Pardus was outed as a domestic cat pretending to be a leopard.
** More literally, what became of Lindesfarne's mice/research subjects/assistants? The last time they were seen was at her and Fenton's wedding as guests.
* WhatTheHellHero: Rudy often gets these for his actions, and in one case, this overlaps with EvenTheDogIsAshamed, when Coney dope slaps him for not sending Kevin and Kell's marriage registration.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Domain's location relative to the rest of [[strike:Earth]] [[MirrorUniverse "the world"]] is pointedly never established. However, the town is heavily inspired by Atlanta, Georgia, where the author lives, and several landmarks from that region appear in the strip using fictional equivalents.
** Made even more ambigious by the fact that Domain is openly mentioned to not exist in "our" world in any shape or form (including Parallel versions).
** That being said, [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2006/kk0312.html when Dorothy re-entered civilization,]] the address listed for the Dewclaw household had a ZIP code that, in the real world, represents Monroe, Georgia, a town 40 miles east of Atlanta. And the coordinates for her last den in the Wild are just south of the northern Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta.
* WhoWillTakeTheKids: An early story arc has Kevin and Kell debating over who should take the children in the event of their death. Ralph was automatically ruled out (this was before his CharacterDevelopment), Kell's parents were ruled out since her father was succumbing to Alzheimer's, her cousin Sheila would eat Coney (this was years before Sheila was properly introduced to the strip), and Kevin was still estranged from his family over Kell. In the end, they name Lindesfarne (then in high school) the legal guardian and vow to take separate planes until she's twenty-one.
* WholeCostumeReference: Wendell dress exactly like Calvin of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' and [[{{Expy}} shares more than a few]] [[BrattyHalfPint personality traits]] [[GirlsHaveCooties with him]].
* WickedStepmother: Inverted; Lindesfarne considers Kell more of a mother than her original adoptive mother.
* AWolfInSheepsClothing: Bruno (wolf) and his girlfriend Corrie (sheep) literally, figuratively, and just about every single variation one can think of.
* WrenchWench: Aby
* YouHaveFailedMe: R.L. typically fires people by eating them.[[spoiler:..or so we were led to believe. Turns out, most of his trophies (the people he fired) are still alive - R.L. hired them back as temp workers, preventing them from getting any benefits.]]
** However, it's implied that it's PlayedStraight when R.L. returns. This is punctuated with Marty's departure, as he left Herd Thinners when he found out he was on a Christmas Party menu.
* YoureNotMyFather: Lindesfarne stops calling Angelique "Mom" after the divorce, upset at being abandoned and not being acknowledged much even during the marriage.
* YourCheatingHeart: Fenton cheated on Lindesfarne when their schedules were separated, going out with a moth. [[https://kevinandkell.com/1998/kk0325.html Kevin saw them]] flying past their house one night. See: PapaWolf.
** George and Martha cheat on each other, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0516.html and catch each other at the same time]] while both on dates with their lovers.
** Rudy and Fiona helped Ralph and Martha, respectively, arrange dates with each other, not knowing who they were dating, and found ''themselves'' [[https://kevinandkell.com/2001/kk0713.html falling in love with the person they were talking to, not realizing it was each other.]]
** Rudy's actually had a couple online flings with a character named "Darkeyes". "Darkeyes" turned out to be Corrie, which would've been a serious case of RelativeError had it actually fleshed out for real, considering Corrie is Rudy's cousin. Oddly, [[https://kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0120.html Bruno had zero problems with it]] either time ([[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk20000731.html though he did accidentally cause the second one]]). Fortunately, when they finally met, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0803.html Rudy did so with the intent of ending the relationship]] once and for all, and it led to all four becoming friends.[[spoiler:..and eventually to [[https://kevinandkell.com/2001/kk1018.html Fiona and Corrie becoming stepsisters.]]]]
--->'''Corrie:''' Bruno, I'm so glad '''you're''' not threatened.\\
'''Bruno:''' Naw, someone that spineless must've been an invertibrate.
** The {{Cliffhanger}} for Summer 2016 revolves around [[https://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0406.html Edgar having had an affair with a rabbit, Miranda,]] one of Rudy's gardening teammates.[[note]]Edgar and Miranda met as co-stars of a Beige U production of ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''; they both played Audrey II, with Edgar providing the voice and Miranda operating the puppet. It's unknown if Miranda is in the drama program along with Edgar.[[/note]] [[https://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0417.html Miranda gave Leona the summer break]] to patch things up with Edgar. Leona [[RescueRomance getting a crush on Carl]] ended their relationship, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk0904.html clearing the way for Edgar and Miranda]] to officially become a couple.
* YourTelevisionHatesYou: A variant: [[http://kevinandkell.com/2017/kk0107.html it was a stray Google ad]] that outed Lindesfarne as pregnant to Rudy and Fiona.
-->'''Fenton''' (dejected)''':''' Texting the families now...
** Later, we got [[https://kevinandkell.com/2018/kk1012.html another bombshell dropped]] due to Google ads:
--->'''Kell:''' Ad for a basal body thermometer?\\
'''[[spoiler:Corrie]]:''' Yes. [[spoiler:Bruno]] and I are trying...

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