History KevinAndKell / TropesSToZ

* 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.

* SexyDiscretionShot: As noted under ReadyForLovemaking, Bill has interesting ways of flirting with his self-imposed rating. The closest he's come to showing anything...explicit is [[https://kevinandkell.com/2008/kk0831.html this August 2007 comic]] where the action is hidden under several inches of insulation, but ear positioning makes what's going on between George and Danielle Fennec crystal clear.

* 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.

** 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.

** Turvy [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0620.html was first seen speaking at age three]]

** A FlashForward suggested a potential future pairing [[https://kevinandkell.com/2019/kk1219.html between Turvy and Onk]]

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Angelique was forced into this with the Dewclaws when all the workers at Herd Thinners quit in March 2022. Kell permitted Angelique to subcontract with Dewclaw's Fine Meats for one week in exchange for a 10% stake in Herd Thinners. She then used her stake to plant Kevin as a proxy on the Herd Thinners board of directors.

* 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.]]

* SmallParentHugeChild: As an adult, Kevin Dewclaw (formerly Kindle) is an oversized rabbit who's more than twice the height of either of his parents Bentley and Dorothy Kindle, who are both [[MiniatureSeniorCitizens Miniature Senior Citizens]]. His siblings aren't as big compared to him, but his sisters Danielle and Prudence (the rarely-seen mother of Wendell Luckyfoot) are still far taller than their parents.

** Kevin changes his and Lindesfarne's last name to Dewclaw after marrying Kell, mainly because he had been disowned for doing so. Considering he's a rabbit and Kell's a wolf, this is probably the ''least'' unusual thing about their marriage.
** Dip took Caniche's last name. He originally didn't have one of his own since he was bred originally to be food, there was no point.

* 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.

** This is invoked by Miranda's dads after she gets engaged. While her uncle notes she always had a thing for carnivores, her uncle's partner [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk1210.html actually hoped she'd get together with Carl.]]

* ShipSinking: Catherine Aura tries to prevent Nigel from thinking about or contacting [[ToyShip Coney]] after they cross over to the human world.

* UnanthropomorphicTransformation:
** Ralph and Martha were transformed into humans when they passed through the portal. On the first return trip, Martha was in a container, and wasn't turned back into her normal self.
** Francis was initially unclassified. After he started losing his fur, he turned into the the first known human.

* 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.

-->'''Edgar:''' Miranda, was that real or improv?\\

** When Edgar and Miranda were attacked by a bear following the Rhizome Trophy ceremony, Edgar's mouse disguise was destroyed. A squirrel streamed the aftermath live in an (unnecessary) attempt to smear Miranda. [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk1208.html She turned it around and proposed to Edgar on the spot.]]

** Averted with Edgar; he's on his ''third'' love with Miranda.

* 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?\\

** 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.