History Recap / PennyAndAggieOmegaSisters

This storyline, with guest art by Randy Milholland of ''SomethingPositive'', introduces Helen Tomalin. Once a good friend of Penny and Sara when they were children, Helen now finds herself at the bottom of the school social hierarchy and hating it. Her only friends are the dour fundamentalist Charlotte Sims and the uncouth, unattractive Tharqa Sunflower. Helen's luck appears to change when a handsome boy, Robespierre, asks her to lunch. What she doesn't know at the time is that his friend, the sleazy operator Dirk, pressured him into asking out the next girl he saw, as a rebound relationship after a breakup.

* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]].

--> Didjever look in the mirror one morning and realize you're nobody?

* DrivenByEnvy[=/=]TheResenter - Helen, with regard to her former friends, the Pennies.
* ExtremeDoormat - Helen. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that she ''wants'' people to use her.
* FatSlob - Tharqa.
* TheFundamentalist - Charlotte.
* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe - [[SubvertedTrope subverted]].
* {{Jerkass}} - Dirk. Unlike Robespierre, he's completely unconcerned with the ethics of using one girl to get over another. All he thinks of Helen is, "She's gonna be. So. Easy."

* PopularityFoodChain - the arc title refers to Helen, Charlotte and Tharqa's position at the bottom of the chain, in contrast to the alpha girl Penny and her GirlPosse, or to TheSnarkKnight Aggie, who opts out of the hierarchy altogether (yet "throws [Helen] pitying looks").
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy - Despite Dirk's patter and posturing ("Don't test the Dirk. I'm street. I'ma cut you")...let's just say that [[WordOfGod according to T Campbell]], "[[BlackAndNerdy Duane]] is more 'street' than Dirk."

* [=~I Can't Believe A Guy Like You Would Notice Me!~=] - [[SubvertedTrope subverted]].

* [[LibbyMyOldFriend Lovable Libby My Old Friend]]