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** [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page472.html This strip]] claims that the ''The German Guns'' recitation [[LiveActionTV/TheBlackadder ("BOOM BOOM BOOM...") is copyrighted by a certain S. Baldrick, 1917]].

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** [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page472.html This strip]] claims that the ''The German Guns'' recitation [[LiveActionTV/TheBlackadder [[LiveActionTV/TheBlackAdder ("BOOM BOOM BOOM...") is copyrighted by a certain S. Baldrick, 1917]].
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** [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page472.html This strip]] claims that the ''The German Guns'' recitation [[LiveActionTV/TheBlackadder ("BOOM BOOM BOOM...") is copyrighted by a certain S. Baldrick, 1917]].
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Rowntree also writes an irregularly updated sister comic for Website/{{Cracked}}.com called Abnormality. Its strips are narrower (to fit the website's layout), generally shorter and rarely plot-driven. Many of them are humorous infographics. [[http://www.cracked.com/members/WinstonRowntree/ they're accessible from Rowntree's author page.]] For convenience all page images taken from Abnormality link to this page. He also contributes to Cracked's ''WebAnimation/AfterHours'' series, providing illustrations for Michael's brain.

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Rowntree also writes an irregularly updated sister comic for Website/{{Cracked}}.com called Abnormality. Its strips are narrower (to fit the website's layout), generally shorter and rarely plot-driven. Many of them are humorous infographics. [[http://www.cracked.com/members/WinstonRowntree/ they're accessible from Rowntree's author page.]] For convenience all page images taken from Abnormality link to this page. He also contributes to Cracked's ''WebAnimation/AfterHours'' ''WebVideo/AfterHours'' series, providing illustrations for Michael's brain.
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* InfiniteCanvas: Most entries prefer to be the standard vertical scroll. The occasional comic extends several screen-widths, in addition to several screen-heights.
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* MonsterClown: [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page325.html "Heyyy kids! It's me, Sweeny the fuckin' clown! Who wants to see what the inside of a larynx looks like?"]]

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* MonsterClown: [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page325.html "Heyyy kids! It's me, Sweeny the fuckin' clown! Who wants to see what the inside of a larynx looks like?"]]like?"]] Also, Emil the Dancing Clown from Hell.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Bernard and his associate, who start out small but eventually work their way into helping people for its own sake.
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* MortonsFork: [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page518.html Hell is like this]] for anyone who goes there, but apparently, there are [[{{Jerkass}} always a few guys]] who won't take the staff's word for it...
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* KaleidoscopeHair: The pink-haired girl switches between neon pink and brown, once in the middle of a conversation with another character. Her explanation is just, "I do this a lot."
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* ToServeMan: The monsters- most notably the Sphinx- have a taste for people and are not remorseful about it.

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* ToServeMan: The monsters- most notably the Sphinx- have a taste for people and are not remorseful about it. The weirdest part is, human witnesses seem to take this in stride; one guy who gets angry at the Sphynx is mad ''not'' because he thinks it's evil, but because she's hurting his business by preying on his customers! (Still, that ''would'' be kind of bad for business...)
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** On the other end of the spectrum, she also chooses to lurk outside a gym when hunting for victims, because customers tend to be clean and showered when they come out and too tired to run, insisting to the owner when he complains about it that he'd do the same thing if ''he'' were a predator.

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** On Of course, [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy on the other end of the spectrum, spectrum]], she also chooses to lurk outside a gym when hunting for victims, because customers tend to be clean and showered when they come out and too tired to run, insisting to the owner when he complains about it that he'd do the same thing if ''he'' were a predator. predator.
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** On the other end of the spectrum, she also chooses to lurk outside a gym when hunting for victims, because customers tend to be clean and showered when they come out and too tired to run, insisting to the owner when he complains about it that he'd do the same thing if ''he'' were a predator.
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** Of course, in another strip, where she protests that she's not even close to being one of the top 100 causes of death among humans, she admits that it would be "kind of neat" to be on that list...
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* BechdelTest: Passes with flying colors.

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* BechdelTest: Passes with flying colors. (Even more so if one of the two women doesn't have to be human, which the Sphynx is not.)
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* RiddlingSphinx: Lampshaded. As [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page332.html this early strip]] shows, the Sphynx was actually ''the original'' one, but she gave up that routine a long time ago (and a few strips clear show that nowadays, she tends to look back on it as something dumb she did when she was young).
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* VillainProtagonist: The Sphynx is likely the closest thing the strip has to a protagonist.

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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Sphynx, apparently. It's fine for her to kill and eat people since she's not human, whereas a human cannibal is shown to have ended up in Hell. Of course, the Sphynx isn't actually dead yet.

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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Sphynx, apparently. It's fine for her to kill and eat people since she's not human, whereas a human cannibal is shown to have ended up in Hell. (Her "reasoning" [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page517.html is that she's simply higher on the food chain]]. Of course, the Sphynx isn't actually dead yet.


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* PragmaticVillainy: The Sphynx has spared humans a few times, claiming it's because they're small and not worth the effort. (She doesn't eat children for the same reason. "Barely a meal", as she says.)
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* AffablyEvil: The Sphynx is ''usually'' rather polite.

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* AffablyEvil: The Sphynx is ''usually'' rather polite. (And she [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page467.html got upset once]] because no-one appreciated it.)
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* BlackComedy: Pretty much the whole idea of the strip.


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* CrapsackWorld: Well, it does seem like roughly half the population of this place consists of evil beings who try to lure the other half to their doom. But not all of them are mean about it.
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* AffablyEvil: The Sphynx is ''usually'' rather polite.
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'''''Subnormality''''' is a webcomic with [[WallOfText a whole lot of words]] created by Winston Rowntree. Created in 2007, this comic is a [[DeconstructorFleet Deconstruction parade,]] where the author deconstructs everything from video game characters to tropes themselves, such as CannotSpitItOut. Some of his works are hilarious, some are depressing, and others are somewhere in the middle where you can't figure out what you're supposed to gain from it.

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'''''Subnormality''''' is a webcomic with [[WallOfText a whole lot of words]] created by Winston Rowntree. Created in 2007, this comic is a [[DeconstructorFleet Deconstruction parade,]] where the author deconstructs everything from video game characters to tropes themselves, such as CannotSpitItOut. Most of the events appear to take place in the same city, although other locales are used, such as Hell or some undefined time in the past. Some of his works are hilarious, some are depressing, and others are somewhere in the middle where you can't figure out what you're supposed to gain from it.

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* OddFriendship: The Sphinx and Pink Haired Girl. It's working out quite well for them.

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* OddFriendship: OddFriendship:
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The Sphinx and Pink Haired Girl. It's working out quite well for them.


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* OneOfUs: Rownrtree said on Facebook that "i love that site", that site being this site.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Various times. Hollywood is a giant brightly colored man who steals books, television is a woman who tells amazing stories before suddenly screaming at her friends for all their imperfections for two minutes, and the News Media is a really depressing and weirdly spiritual boyfriend.
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-->'''The Generals lead singer:''' So yeah, cheers! Fuckin' cheers. Here's to karma. And here's to the bullied. Because they don't need to inherit the Earth - it's already theirs.

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-->'''The Generals lead singer:''' -->'''General Pete:''' So yeah, cheers! Fuckin' cheers. Here's to karma. And here's to the bullied. Because they don't need to inherit the Earth - it's already theirs.



-->'''Singer:''' [[LampshadeHanging So much karma...]]

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-->'''Singer:''' -->'''General Pete:''' [[LampshadeHanging So much karma...]]
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* TakeThat: Hell [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page518.html features]] the music of Music/{{KISS}}, not because KISS is satanic, but because their music "sucks".
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** The line "knee-deep in the dead on the shores of Hell" in [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page502.html "The Date from Hell"]] references the names of ''{{VideoGame/Doom}}'s'' first two episodes.
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** The filename[[note]]"youcantfightinhere.jpg"[[/note]] of [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page581.html this comic]], as well as Ethel's subconscious having both a war room and an ex-Nazi adviser, are all allusions to ''[[Film/DrStrangelove Dr. Strangelove]]''.

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* DivideByZero: [[http://www.viruscomix.com/amtaham.html This strip]] features a scientist who creates an "anti-Gandhi" who is dressed in a fancy business suit, has thick red hair and a beard, and practices "violent nonresistance." The idea is so stupid that [[EarthShatteringKaboom the Earth blows up]].


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* RealityBreakingParadox: [[http://www.viruscomix.com/amtaham.html This strip]] features a scientist who creates an "anti-Gandhi" who is dressed in a fancy business suit, has thick red hair and a beard, and practices "violent nonresistance." The idea is so stupid that [[EarthShatteringKaboom the Earth blows up]].
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** The first panel of ''Monsters Playing Poker'' is a PicturePastiche of C.M. Coolidge's "''Dogs Playing Poker''".

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** The first panel of ''Monsters Playing Poker'' is a PicturePastiche ArtImitatesArt of C.M. Coolidge's "''Dogs Playing Poker''".
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Sphynx, apparently. It's fine for her to kill and eat people since she's not human, whereas a human cannibal is shown to have ended up in Hell.

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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Sphynx, apparently. It's fine for her to kill and eat people since she's not human, whereas a human cannibal is shown to have ended up in Hell. Of course, the Sphynx isn't actually dead yet.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: The demon-date, an intellectual version.

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