History WebComic / SandraAndWoo

* BadassFamily: '''''The Williams family'''''. The mom is an ex-ChildSoldier, the son is a trained swordsman and martial artist and the young daughter is a little MadScientist. Even David, the TeamNormal, is badass by proxy for having all this people as family.

-->'''Cloud:''' Hmm, any suggestions how [[IHaveThisFriend they]] could improve their rank?
-->'''Sandra:''' Rumor has it that they're able to climb several places by giving Sandra an apology kiss.
-->'''Cloud:''' I see. But is that worth yet another cootie infection? They'd certainly prefer to bring you ten ogre heads or something...

-->'''Sandra:''' Because I've already found the most precious thing.
-->[Cloud smiles]
-->'''Sandra:''' Look, my missing favorite earrings! They were in a side pocket of my backpack.

* BrokenPedestal: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged.]] After being built up for several comics, it's revealed that Butterfly is [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2013/12/16/0537-the-manager/ terrified of climbing difficult obstacles]], seemingly getting ready to turn into this trope. However, it turns out that all Butterfly needs is a bit of encouragement from [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2014/01/20/0547-heroine/ Woo]], allowing her to get over her performance anxiety.

-->'''Larisa:''' [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2009/11/02/0108-moms-in-black/ Do you have any idea who's wiping the memory of all those adults so that they completely forget all the stuff they did at our age?]]
-->'''Sandra:''' Must be the [[TheMenInBlack Moms in Black]].

* DevilsJobOffer : The Devil has a special job in mind for [[spoiler:Larisa]]: he plans on making her a succubus, making it her job to tempt young mortal men with her feminine wiles. [[spoiler: Larisa signs up right away, as the deal also involves saving Sandra.]]

** Played with regarding [[spoiler:the Devil]]: He is visibly disgusted by the whole plan about [[spoiler: God killing Sandra]], but when reading about what Larisa plans to make her worst enemy suffer (namely making them [[AndIMustScream immobile]], [[TheSleepless insomniac]] and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever immortal]]), he is beyond excited and even [[spoiler: promotes]] her.

* GoodColorsEvilColors: When Larisa is looking for [[spoiler: a place where Sandra can't be killed by angels]], she happily exclaims that luckily the entire map is green. It takes her a moment to realize that [[spoiler: she works with the [[AffablyEvil devil]].]]

** {{Subverted}}. After a recent adventure, Lily suggests Woo relax with "eating, sleeping and...cuddling". When they get to the "cuddling" strip, they show a tree and make it sound like Woo's having difficulty. [[spoiler:The comic shows they're playing billiards. But then comes [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/09/05/0305-cuddling/ this:]]]]

-->'''Armin Fish:''' Man-eaters, please, not vampires. The vampires are in the movie industry and we don't get along with them very well.

-->'''Landon:''' [[HappinessInSlavery Sweet!]]
-->'''Zoey:''' Nooo! You're not allowed to like that!

* JustFriends: {{Invoked}} and {{discussed}} with [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/10/20/0318-landon-is-not-aware-of-the-ladder-theory/ "The ladder theory"]] before being {{averted}} in the next strip.

--->'''Cloud:''' BOOM! HEADSHOT! O lol lol, girlz are always teh suxx0rs at gaming!

* LikeYouWereDying: Strip 718 finally confirms that [[spoiler: at least some of Larisa's reckless behavior and cavalier attitude is due to her belief that since she'll be "blind in 10 years and dead in 20", due to Wolfram syndrome, the consequences of her actions don't matter and she might as well have fun.]]

* MeetTheInLaws: There was a story arc where Larisa went over to dinner at Landon's place for the first time. Landon's religious mother was convinced that she was either a witch or a succubus destined to give birth to the Anti-Christ. On the other hand, his father got along with her perfectly. [[spoiler: Fortunately, his mother isn't an issue anymore since they got divorced and the father has custody.]]

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Surprisingly {{Averted}}. Granted, all the main characters have {{Vague Age}}s, but through a series of conscious {{Art Evolution}}s on the part of the author, the kids have progressively grown older. Compare [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2008/10/27/homesickness/ this strip from 2008]] to [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/07/25/0293-homecoming-i/ one from 2011]] and then [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2015/01/01/0646-classification-of-species/ one from 2015]].

--> '''Cloud:''' ''No!'' Not now!\\

--->'''Woo:''' "Your girlfriend won't leave you as long as you're clingy enough."
--->'''Lily:''' That's a ''terrible'' lesson!
--->'''Woo:''' Still better than "good things come to those who wait."

* StalkerWithACrush: Zoey initially believes she's got one as a weird guy starts following her around. Subverted in that it turns out to be even worse - he's not a stalker, he's a [[spoiler: ''[[ShipperOnDeck shipper!]]'']]

-->'''Richard''': Ye Thuza will now tell you everything you need to now about relationships and sexuality.\\
'''Ye Thuza''': Never have unprotected sex!\\

'''Richard''': Go on, please...?\\
'''Ye Thuza''': There's more to say?

* TwerpSweating: When Larisa takes Landon to meet her parents, he thinks he's going to get this when Ivan pulls him aside. But it's {{subverted}} when he instead tells Landon about everything Larisa likes.

** Strip 528: Larisa finally tells Zoey what's been haunting every fan's mind for the last three-going-on-four years... [[TrollingCreator And right then and there the comic experiences its first ever case of technical difficulties!]] All we get are Zoey's reactions to Larisa's reveal... It doesn't seem like it's good news. At all. It would be almost two more years - over five and a half years after the original hint - that it would finally be revealed that [[spoiler: Larisa suffers from Wolfram syndrome and will be blind in a decade and dead in two]].

* YourTelevisionHatesYou: In [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/12/17/0228-already-gone/ "Already Gone"]], Sandra's listening to her [=iPod=] on shuffle while walking and holding hands with Cloud, only for her to keep getting BreakupSong after BreakupSong, much to her displeasure. She eventually lands on "Hero" by Music/EnriqueIglesias, a love song, and cheers up again.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Defied to the point of being a recurring {{Aesop}}. Larisa, in addition to being generally vindictive, is a pyromaniac, and one strip has her, confronted with sushi, casually pull out the lighter she carries to set fires and cook it. Cloud's mother is a former Shan ChildSoldier in Burma, and she frequently deals with relatives being menaced or killed by the SPCD.

* AnAesop: Quite common. Occasionally border on {{Anvilicious}} {{Author Tract}}s, but so far the comic has never failed to return to lighthearted silliness very shortly afterward. One example is an arc where Larisa [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2015/08/24/0712-send-to-all/ accidentally sent nude photos of herself to everyone on Snappic]] (she intended to send them to her boyfriend, Landon), causing many innocent people to be arrested.

* KnightOfCerebus: The lynx in the current story line. It ambushes the racoon children, and in its attempt to devour them, [[spoiler: Arcturus]] gets impaled by a pitch fork [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2017/12/04/0943-the-attack/]].

** [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/05/23/0274-last-resort/ No one will ever believe you]] [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/05/30/0277-the-last-laugh/ if you told them that]] [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/07/21/0292-who-has-the-last-laugh/ you heard a racoon talk]].

''[[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/ Sandra and Woo]]'' is an English and German-language LongRunner webcomic written by Oliver Knörzer "Novil" and illustrated by Powree, about the adventures of middle-schooler Sandra North [[ABoyAndHisX and her]] pet [[TalkingAnimal talking raccoon]], Woo. It's drawn in an {{Animesque}} style with some Western comic stylizations, and makes up of mostly unconnected story arcs. Imagine ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' aged up a few years, [[JustForFun/XMeetsY crossed with]] ''Series/{{iCarly}}'', and with some more serious plot threads.

* AnimateInanimateObject: An infrequent RunningGag involves male characters' penises talking, usually when said male characters are being aroused.

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Woo's previous owner, Mr. Farley, treaded him like complete shit. Thankfully, Richard was able to give the bastard some entirely deserved comeuppance.

* CivilizedAnimal: In the forest, the animals act like humans, sitting down, talking to their neighbours (cross-species), and making complicated dwellings. Ruth the squirrel even hunts animals with [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2013/06/03/0487-psycho-squirrel/ a human pistol]] and has a vegetarian crisis after seeing her actions affect the lynx's children!

* DudeNotFunny: Subverted. Sandra is prone to playing a game where she's the EvilQueen of her bedroom and her toys are her oppressed subjects. Cloud, whose mother spent her youth fighting against an oppressive regime, seems very offended when he catches her doing it... but it turns out that he was just guilt-tripping her as a ploy to get his hands on the evil queen's superweapon so he could stage a coup.

** Larisa removes [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2019/01/28/1054-isle-of-lust/ Cloud's memory]] about [[ParentalSexualitySquick Ye Thuza's]] CasualKink, and later [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2019/02/07/1057-a-world-of-pain/ Richard North's memory]] of the [[FrenchMaidOutfit sexy costume]] Sandra ordered.

* ThePenIsMightier: [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2013/06/20/0492-yuna-has-the-atom-bomb/ Yuna demostrates how is done]] against the bullies.

* RunningGag: Sid is friends with Woo and Shadow which does not stop them from trying to eat him on a constant basis. And when they're not trying to eat him, their mates or other predators are.
* RussianGuySuffersMost: Subverted with Larisa Korolev, who is Russian and probably acts the most cheerful and carefree of the main characters, but played completely straight with her parents. Her father, Ivan, appears to be a stereotypical "tortured bohemian", with the requisite mane of unkempt hair and the obsession with painting dark and macabre pictures, and her mother is a ruthless businesswoman who treats both Larisa and her husband very coldly. Larisa even goes as far as to say that her family has always had a "penchant for misery", which she hopes to end (presumably via her own happy-go-lucky behavior). [[spoiler:She says this in the context of [[MoodWhiplash telling a classmate about her terminal illness.]]]] Those Russians just can't seem to catch a break.

* VagueAge: The implication, through ArtEvolution, is that they are aging in real-time, but the only certainty is that Cloud, Larisa and Sandra are, as of 2015, 12 years old. As of [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2017/05/04/0883-sweet-talkers/ May 2017]], Larisa is about to turn thirteen. If the characters were aging in real time, Cloud, Larisa, and Sandra would have been three years old when the comic first started in 2008. If they age one year for every two real years, then they would have been eight in 2008.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible:[[invoked]] [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2012/08/23/0405-the-archer/ Discussed in an arc]] in which Sandra and Larisa spend a day at the MOMA.

As of [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2022/11/26/1339-practice-makes-perfect/ strip 1339]], published on November 25, 2022 (following a ScheduleSlip of over four months, which had not happened in all of the comic's history), the comic went on hiatus, with Novil stating that strip is the last one illustrated by Powree and has no plans to hire a new artist. The strip returned on [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2023/08/12/1340-mh370-until-proven-otherwise/ August 12, 2023]].

As of [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2022/11/26/1339-practice-makes-perfect/ strip 1339]], published on November 25, 2022 (following a ScheduleSlip of over four months, which had not happened in all of the comic's history), the comic is on an indefinite hiatus, with Novil stating that strip is the last one illustrated by Powree and has no plans to hire a new artist, thus, the comic is currently on a cliffhanger.

* AndIMustScream: Larisa's answer to "Three things I wish upon my worse enemy" is "immobility, insomnia and immortality".

* AnAesop: Quite common. Occasionally border on {{Anvilicious}} {{Author Tract}}s, but so far the comic has never failed to return to lighthearted silliness very shortly afterward. One example is that actions have consequences. Larisa didn't heed this when she [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2015/08/24/0712-send-to-all/ accidentally sent nude photos of herself to everyone on Snappic]] ''(she intended to send them to her boyfriend, Landon)'', causing many innocent people have been arrested.

* WeAllLiveInAmerica: Knörzer and Powree are German and Indonesian respectively, but most of S&W points to a U.S. setting.

* NippleAndDimed: Courtesy of [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/12/08/0332-fashion-tip-ii/ Woo's surprise tackle followed by shredding all of her clothes Sandra ends up buck-naked save for her underpants]]. Her nipples are nowhere to be seen even though in penultimate panel they technically should be.

* NippleAndDimed: Courtesy of Woo's surprise tackle followed by shredding all of her clothes Sandra ends up buck-naked save for her underpants. Her nipples are nowhere to be seen even though technically they should.