History Webcomic / AlcatrazHigh

* CrapsackWorld: Takes place in exaggeration of our world, with inspiration from ''Film/TheyLive''.

* InfernalBackground: Used occasionally, such as when [[https://alcatrazhigh.thecomicseries.com/comics/178/#content-start Mike is trying to teach Harry how to intimidate bullies]].

* HippieTeacher: Ms. Starchild, the school guidance counselor and one of the only members of the faculty that still genuinely cares about the students, despite having been there for twenty years and seen the worst of the worst. She still wears tie die and has dreadlocks.

** Episode 4’s page featured a ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' parody, with Mike dressed as an 80s goth and Anubis as Rufus.

** Chapter 4’s page featured a ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' parody, featuring Mike dressed as an 80s goth and Anubis as Rufus.

** Chapter 4’s page featured a ''BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' parody, featuring Mike dressed as an 80s goth and Anubis as Rufus.

** We get to see this firsthand in the short “Gatekeeping Poser”, when the metalhead Jesse has a flashback to being beaten up and thrown in a trash can on the first day of 6th grade in Middle School for approaching a group of 8th graders while dressed like Kurt Cobain and admitting to liking the Goo Goo Dolls. Diablo Valley Middle School (the same school Mike went to) even proudly advertised itself as a “trauma factory”.

* PublicDomainCanonWeilding: The Grim Reaper’s intern Zinnia is from a Literature/LandOfOz PseudoCanonicalFic the author wrote, and felt safe enough to include because Oz is public domain, making it a copyright-safe crossover.

''Alcatraz High'' is a webcomic written and illustrated by Suren Oganessian also known as Creator/MaskedBard and Tropers/{{Surenity}}. Set in the small town of Martinez in the San Francisco Bay Area between the years 2000 to 2004, ''Alcatraz High'' chronicles the High School years of one Harry Heidelberg and his classmates, as they attend a dystopian prison-like campus. Harry is a normal teen, save for one thing; he has a rare medical condition that makes his head easily detached, however due to extraterrestrial intervention as well as the expert surgical skills of his father, he can return from the dead when his head is reattached. This causes a headache for the Death deities in the afterlife, who have to reset reality and erase everyone’s memory of his death. Predictably, this medical condition just makes him a target for bullying at school, especially by Bully Billy and his mysterious Lackey.

* PeriodPiece: Takes place from 2000-2004, with occasional flashbacks to the 1990s. VCR, Game Boys and baggy jeans are still in use, and there are no smartphones.

* UnmanlySecret: Jesse is horrified when the other Metalheads look through his CDs and find out he listens to Music/TheGooGooDolls and Music/LinkinPark, enough to cause a mental breakdown as he remembers traumatic bullying from Middle School.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Billy, Tim & Miles, and Mike have all had short comics dedicated to their backstories or misadventures.

** Mike’s hair may seem messy, but he’s specifically going for a [[Music/TheCure Robert Smith]] look.

* PolkaDork: Harry’s favorite genre, other than Music/{{Kraftwerk}}. And another reason he gets bullied. Billy specifically mocks him for it when they’re n therapy.

* EvilPrincipal: The mysterious Mr. Bok, who has glowing eyes, a long tongue, and keeps a portrait of a strange entity named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azhdahak_(mythology) Azhdahak]] on his wall.