History WebComic / LeastICouldDo

* Issa, one of the few women to ever refuse Rayne's advances (and who has done so since at least their teens) or that Rayne has expressed deeper feelings for, and perhaps the closest thing he has to a confidante. (For example, she knows about [[http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20040521 some heartbreaks a young Rayne went through]] that no one else does). Can be a voice of reason, although she's not above joining in on the antics of the others or using her sex appeal to manipulate Rayne. Has been a neglected character in recent years.

Sohmer had tried to get a LICD [[AnimatedAdaptation cartoon]] [[ThePilot pilot]] off the ground. He asked $75,000 (half the projected budget, with him footing the other half) from his fans; by the projected deadline, [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/537261515/least-i-could-do-the-pilot around 1,200 backers had donated well over $100,000.]] The pilot can be found on Platform/{{Vimeo}}, albeit unofficially. You can also buy the video on the official iPod/Android app. It was never picked up due to various reasons.

You can find the comic at http://www.leasticoulddo.com/.

* AffectionateParody: ''Franchise/StarWars'', Creator/SandraBoynton, ''Series/LaughIn'', SuperHero comics, oh, so many

Sohmer had tried to get a LICD [[AnimatedAdaptation cartoon]] [[ThePilot pilot]] off the ground. He asked $75,000 (half the projected budget, with him footing the other half) from his fans; by the projected deadline, [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/537261515/least-i-could-do-the-pilot around 1,200 backers had donated well over $100,000.]] The pilot can be found on Vimeo, albeit unofficially. You can also buy the video on the official iPod/Android app. It was never picked up due to various reasons.

** To ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', with the short stories ''Con Tales''.

[[caption-width-right:200:90% of these characters don't appear in the strip anymore.]

*** This is putting it mildly. In recent years more and more focus is less on jokes and more on Sohmer using the comic to pitch his theories on how to fix the world.

* KarmaHoudini: Just so you know how bad it is, Rayne once [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_impersonation dressed up as a police officer]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_fraud just so he could sleep with two]] [[CriticalResearchFailure lesbians]]. He spent one night in jail, and [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse the incident was never brought up again]].

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%%* CommitmentIssues: Rayne

* [[PetTheDog Pet the Cat]]: Rayne has these frequently enough to push him into the JerkWithAHeartOfGold category.

* PrisonRape - Averted early on in the strips run as it was for the most part implied to be consensual, played straight later in its run.

* SexGoddess:

** When Rayne finally gets to sleep, she [[https://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20060109 more than lives up to his expectations.]]
** Subverted with Rayne. Despite his ExtremeLibido he's shown to care more about [[ItsAllAboutMe his own pleasure]] than [[https://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20040831 his partners]].

** To ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', ''and'' [[InvokedTrope invoked]] the TwentyPercentCooler trope (see the comic title) in this [[http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20121020 strip]].

* AdultFear: Rayne's secretary panics when it seems like Noel's son ate some of Rayne's prescription drugs (turns out the kid was eating blue M&M's). Rayne once faced the possibility of suffering from clinical depression that was giving him stomach pains. And there's his underlying fear that he will end up a lonely old man. [[spoiler:After suffering a serious heart attack and being made aware of his own mortality]], Rayne has trouble keeping up his ManChild act.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Rayne, through some creative tennis-ball dodging, was apparently responsible for ''Film/TheMatrix'' series.

* StatusQuoIsGod: For major, and more serious events, averted. Played straight with Rayne's [[HilarityEnsues Zany Antics arcs]]. Lampshaded when he has flashbacks to sleeping with a sadomasochist and throws popsicles at a hot girl who tries to talk to him, but Noel expects the "issues" will go away by Monday ([[spoiler:[[PlayingWithATrope and double-subverted]] only to bring it up the next Friday, to find by the last panel that it's an IntercourseWithYou speech]]).

* JailBait: In a very early strip Rayne once unknowingly slept with a high school girl he picked up at a bar. When the mother found out she tried to press charges but the judge ended up dismissing the case on the grounds that her daughter had used a fake ID to enter a bar so Rayne could not reasonably be expected to know she was underage.

* ContestWinnerCameo: As its ValentinesDayEpisodes, there's a contest where the winner gets to go on a date with a character of their choosing (and yes, [[PerverseSexualLust several of them have gotten busy]]). Rayne has only gotten two dates in seven years; one was with a gay man, and the other was a near-disaster[[note]]She was German, and the guys tricked him into dressing as a Nazi; only Katie's intervention kept her from walking out[[/note]]; the rest has been a pretty even distribution of cast members (John, Mick, Issa, Eric, Cyndi and Jumpmaster Julie have all been picked once).

* JerkassFacade: Rayne can be quite a dick sometimes. But if he really trusts someone, or sees someone in he cares about in what he perceives as danger, he will stop at nothing to help them, even if it reveals his nice side. A few examples are

%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Rayne.