History Webcomic / Dissonance

The series ran from June 25th, 2009 to Sepetember 12th, 2014.

* OrphanedSeries: Neither the comics nor forums have updated in years.

* [[HealingHands Healing Paws]]: A mouse with a presumably broken spine starts moving again after some contact with Pandora. This trope is mentioned, but James points out that he only assumed it had a broken spine because it wasn't moving when he found [[CatsAreMean Jason]] tormenting it.

* OrphanedSeries: neither the comics nor forums have updated in years.

* TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX: [[spoiler: James named the revived mouse "Lazarus", or "Lars" for short, because "the mouse formerly known as mangled carcass" would be too long.]]

* InstantWebHit: In order to prove Pandora isn't a hoax, James and Sarah upload some video footage to the internet. Sarah's friend Gen also does this, but her video is tellingly titled "Adorable Dora". It gets over 4.7 ''million'' views overnight.

* CloserToEarth: This seems to be Sarah and James's relationship at first, but it's more that the two function differently--James adapts awkwardly to any situation, but adapts nonetheless, while Sarah has perfectly adapted herself to normalcy, and can't handle abnormal situations. (Notably, James is ''much'' less prone to insisting that something is impossible when it's clearly happening, though Pandora's strange enough to break even his composure at times.)

* [[spoiler:[[HealingHands Healing Paws]]]]: The mouse had a broken spine. [[spoiler:Now it doesn't]].
** Uh, maybe? James doesn't seem to think it was broken in the first place.

* CloserToEarth: This seems to be Sarah and James's relationship at first, but it's more that the two function differently--James adapts awkwardly to any situation, but adapts nonetheless, while Sarah has perfectly adapted herself to normalcy, and can't handle abnormal situations. (Notably, James is ''much'' less prone to insisting that something is impossible when it's clearly happening.)

* StupidStatementDanceMix: Ceyla warns James against this.
-->'''Ceyla:''' Be careful what you say. There's a fine line between sarcastic quip and a catchy sound bite.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Mice]]: Show Sarah a mouse outside of a cage, and she will scream. Loudly.

* MixAndMatchCritter: Sarah observes that Pandora has elements of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canidae Canidae]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustelidae Mustelidae]], and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procyonidae Procyonidae]], but with unusually large eyes for any of those families, and with a brain more like a primate's--and bipedal to boot! James believes that her very existence will require a radical reorganization of a lot of evolutionary family trees--[[http://dissonance.comicgenesis.com/d/20111028.html unless, of course, "the only explanation is . . . extraterrestrials."]] (Genetic engineering has also been suggested, but only the military might have the resources, and Pandora's clearly not intended as an attack animal.)

* TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX: [[spoiler:The mouse is named Lazarus, or Lars for short, because "the mouse formerly known as mangled carcass" would be too long.]]

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The only color that regularly appears is yellow, although brown appears occasionally, and blood is always red.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The only color that regularly appears is yellow, although others crop up from time to time.