History Recap / PennyAndAggieTheLadyAndTheTiger

* FamousLastWords: Lisa: "[[YouWontLikeHowITaste Y...you don't want to eat me!]] My body's 90% Pixie Sticks, I'll give you diabetes...Please."

* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Played with. Although Aggie's dream, like most fictional ones, has a coherent beginning, middle and end, it also, like many real dreams, abruptly shifts between one setting (the tiger chase with Lisa and Penny) and another (her bedroom with Charisma). At one point, Aggie experiences [[MindScrew both settings at the same time]] as she begs Charisma's help while fleeing the tiger.

--> I should never have asked her not to leave me. I should've asked her to live.

Aggie then recalls how, as a young child, she climbed into a tiger pit at the zoo, thinking the tiger was "like [[WinnieThePooh Tigger]]." A terrified Melody rescued her and told her never to leave her, never to let her go, words that Aggie, in clinging to grief over her mom, apparently took literally.

* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]].

* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated - [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]].
* ArtEvolution - In his first few arcs as regular artist, Waltrip's art, by his own admission, involved close copying, and [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=796 even]] [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=867 tracing]], from Lagacé's work on the comic. However, beginning in the latter part of this arc, both Waltrip and many readers saw his [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=899 own style]] beginning to emerge. Among other elements, Waltrip began around this time to ink thinner lines, resulting in less blocky figures and faces.
* CallBack - Several: to [[Recap/PennyAndAggieTheBestOfEnemies the first arc]], in which Aggie gets upset over one of Melody's medical journals being torn; to [[Recap/PennyAndAggieCrushd Crush'd]], in which Nick recalls the tiger pit episode; to [[Recap/PennyAndAggieThePopsicleWarSuicideRun Suicide Run]], in which a briefly suicidal Aggie recalls her mother's death; to [[Recap/PennyAndAggieWhatYouCantTeach What You Can't Teach]], in which a younger Aggie harbours her first doubts about God; and to [[Recap/PennyAndAggieDinnerForSix Dinner for Six]], in which Charisma accuses Marshall of having been nothing but an obstacle to her.
* CrazyCatLady - [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. While playing with a cat at the shelter, Penny says jokingly that she's in danger of becoming "Crazy Cat Lady: The High School Years."
* FamousLastWords - Lisa: "[[YouWontLikeHowITaste Y...you don't want to eat me!]] My body's 90% Pixie Sticks, I'll give you diabetes...Please."

* FlashbackNightmare - The "tiger pit" sequence within the dream is a realistic and presumably accurate childhood memory of Aggie's.
* IMissMom - The arc finally resolves this plot thread as Aggie unconsciously learns to accept her mother's death and integrate the positive aspects of her memory instead of focusing on her absence and harbouring an unhealthy unconscious wish to join her.
* LongingLook - Penny gives Aggie one just prior to plunging off the cliff.

* OddShapedPanel - In [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=897 this strip]], as Aggie rides the tiger, the borders of the last panel fade midway into nothing, suggesting an ominous passage into the unknown, the void, or death.
* RealDreamsAreWeirder - Played with. Although Aggie's dream, like most fictional ones, has a coherent beginning, middle and end, it also, like many real dreams, abruptly shifts between one setting (the tiger chase with Lisa and Penny) and another (her bedroom with Charisma). At one point, Aggie experiences [[MindScrew both settings at the same time]] as she begs Charisma's help while fleeing the tiger.
* SelfDeprecation - Melody gets in a dig about her political orientation.

* ShipTease - Aggie unconsciously realizes, for the first time, that Penny is attracted to, and possibly in love with, her. Note that this is the first instance in which the possibility of attraction between the titular characters is [[PlayedForDrama played entirely for drama]], and not partially or wholly for [[PlayedForLaughs laughs]].
* ShoutOut - The arc title alludes to the Frank R. Stockton short story, "The Lady, or the Tiger?". Aggie, somewhat like the prisoner in the story, must choose between "the tiger" (obsessive, suicidal fixation on her mother's death) and "the lady" (honouring her mother's legacy by embracing and enjoying life).
* SnowMeansDeath - The nightmarish portion of Aggie's dream is the only time snow is depicted in the comic.
* SoProudOfYou - Melody to Aggie: "[T]he best part of me...is standing right beside me."
* YourMindMakesItReal - [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that Aggie really is going into anaphylaxis, which can be fatal if not promptly treated. Also [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] when Charisma references Lisa's claim in [[Recap/PennyAndAggieMixedNuts Mixed Nuts]] that one isn't supposed to die in dreams; rather, one is supposed to wake up just before the moment of death:

* FamousLastWords - Lisa: "Y...you don't want to eat me! My body's 90% Pixie Sticks, I'll give you diabetes...Please."

* ShipTease - Aggie unconsciously realizes, for the first time, that Penny is attracted to, and possibly in love with, her.