History TheOrderOfTheStick / TropesGToI

** Lord Kubota, if only because he's unexpectedly killed in the middle of his EvilGloating.

* ImStandingRightHere: In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1104.html "Plan of Inaction"]], the team comes up with a strategy to deal with their current situation, only for their opponents to counter every move because they were planning it ''right in front of them''.
** Hinjo practically invokes it when [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0420.html Roy and Belkar openly discuss how to get Belkar out of his prison sentence.]] "I still get to make Listen checks when I'm three feet away, you know."

** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0117.html "Delayed Gratification"]].
-->'''Demon Roach #1:''' Yeah! Let's bug out.\\

-->'''Haley:''' It's the only way to [[spoiler:get Roy back, [Elan]. Durkon needs his body if he's going to raise him from the dead.]]\\

* HehHehYouSaidX: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0117.html "Delayed Gratification"]].
-->'''Demon-roach #1:''' Yeah! Let's bug out.\\
'''Demon-roach #2:''' Heh... "bug".

* HarsherInHindsight:[[invoked]]
** InUniverse -- Vaarsuvius' suggestion to Malack that he adopt children (citing the many orphans that live in the Empire of Blood) has become this upon the revelation that [[spoiler:Malack is a vampire.]]
** [[http://www.cafepress.com/orderofthestick/8305389 The T-shirt]] of Durkon turning [[Literature/{{Twilight}} a vampire]] has become this now that [[spoiler:Durkon has become a vampire]].
** For the same reason, [[spoiler:Durkon's tears of joy over the prophesy that he will get to return home "posthumously"]].
** UpToEleven at the Godsmoot. Even some good gods (through their emissaries) like Heimdall voting for the destruction of the world and all the people in it? That's already pretty harsh. [[spoiler:But made considerably harsher when it is revealed later that they have gone through the motions literally millions of times. The (good) gods aren't callous or apathetic, they just learned the hard way that destroying everything and starting over from scratch is their only available option.]]

* HomoeroticSubtext: The gladiator arc begins with the slavemaster warning the new prisoners of "strong homosexual undertones that will never be fully explored" if a stronger prisoner defends a weaker one.

* IBrokeANail: Elan recalls his mother frequently crying about "losing a nail" when he was a kid. When he meets his twin brother '''Nale''' who was taken by their father in the CustodyBattle, it makes a bit more sense.

* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Therkla the half-orc seems to have suffered some of this. Lampshaded by Redcloak, [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1208.html who points out]] that despite being just as AlwaysChaoticEvil as goblins, Orcs are given much more accepted in human settlements because humans like to interbreed with them for some reason.

** Then again, most of the builds are pretty craptastic. Like Belkar's halfling, dual-wielding ranger with really low wisdom. Or V specializing in evocation and banning necromancy and conjuration. While they both have their moments of weakness, they tend to do okay most of the time.

* HeelFaceTurn: Thor claims that the trees surrounding Valhalla have turned against their evil kin when it becomes obvious telling the tree-phobic Durkon and Minrah that trees are largely inanimate and thus not a threat wasn't working.

* HeelFaceTurn: Thor claims that the trees surrounding Valhalla have turned against their evil kin when it becomes obvious that telling the tree-phobic Durkon and Minrah that trees are largely inanimate and thus not a threat wasn't working.

** In the final arc Roy makes an impotant tactical decision ([[spoiler:rush Team Evil and hope for the best or play for time in the hopes they can waste the villain's spell slots before using all their own buffs]]) based entirely on wether Elan thinks they're at the end of the story or not.

* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Therkla the half-orc seems to have suffered some of this.

** On the other hand, it was noted that most of the gods have already existed even before the world came into being, without any followers or worshipers.
*** [[spoiler: This is revealed to be because this is not the first world, and there have literally been thousands of worlds before this one each with attendant followers, that the gods have been forced to destroy. The gods themselves actually have stored up faith they use to survive the period between each planet's destruction, allowing their survival, which is a problem for the Dark One because he does not have the reserve faith needed to keep him going.]]
** As it turns out, gods also need the proper mix of faith to sustain them as well. Odin is suffering a form of dementia because he's also a god of magic and the lack of actual wizards worshiping him has resulted in a sort of nutritional imbalance.

*** [[spoiler: This is revealed to be because this is not the first world, and there have literally been thousands of worlds before this one each with attendant followers, that the gods have been forced to destroy. The gods themselves actually have stored up faith they use to survive the period between each planet's destruction, allowing their survival, which is a problem for the Dark One because he does not have the reserve faith needed to keep him going.

** In this[[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1201.html strip]] one of the airship crew members has a hook for a hand.

** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0929.html "You'll]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0936.html live."]] [[spoiler:Tarquin had originally said it to Elan before impaling him to stab Roy. Elan returns the compliment when Tarquin falls from an airship.]]

** Though not a magical summons, the Oracle of the Sunken Valley can't take a bath without being interrupted by a visit from adventurers.
--->'''Oracle:''' Jeez, I can peer into the murky depths of the future, yet I always seem to get interrupted during bath time.