History Webcomic / EverythingIsFine

* ShoutOut: Given the StepfordSuburbia setting, Bob "jokingly" accusing Charlie of working on something in his basement other than his alleged hobby [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E22TheMonstersAreDueOnMapleStreet sounds familiar]].

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Gina and Chris were confirmed as a lesbian and gay respectively in Season 2's Episode 58 Fall.]]
** [[spoiler: She was killed by Pleasehold under directions from Judy for being too volatile and pointing a gun at her and Maggie in Enargeia.]]
** [[spoiler: Chris was killed at Opening Thread by Sam.]]

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Gina and Chris were confirmed as a lesbian and gay respectively near the end of Season 2.]]

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Gina and Chris were confirmed as a lesbian and gay respectively near the end of Season 2.]]
** [[spoiler: She was killed by Pleasehold under directions from Judy for being too volatile and pointing a gun at her and Maggie in Enargeia.]]
** [[spoiler: Chris was killed at Opening Thread by Sam.]]

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Gina and Chris were confirmed as a lesbian and gay respectively at the end of Season 2.]]

** [[spoiler: She killed by Pleasehold under directions from Judy for being too volatile and pointing a gun at her and Maggie.]]

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Gina and Chris were confirmed as a lesbian and gay respectively at the end of Season 2.]]

* ChildlessDystopia: Implied. Despite there being parks with playgrounds, no children are ever seen or mentioned in the neighborhood. ''An Iron Voice'' implies [[spoiler: the children are still around somewhere, but their parents are forbidden from seeing them. From ''Funny How'' on, it seems the children are being held somewhere and the possibility of getting them back safe is what keeps most of the adults in line.]]

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Gina and Chris were confirmed as a lesbian and gay respectively at the end of Season 2.
** She killed by Pleasehold under directions from Judy for being too volatile and pointing a gun at her and Maggie.
** Chris was killed at Opening Thread by Sam.]]

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Gina was confirmed as a lesbian at the end of Season 2. She killed by Pleasehold under directions from Judy for being too volatile and pointing a gun at her and Maggie]]

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Gina was killed by Pleasehold under directions from Judy for being too volatile and pointing a gun at her and Maggie]]

* [[spoiler: BuryYourGays: Gina was killed by Pleasehold under directions from Judy for being too volatile and pointing a gun at her and Maggie]]

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: A constant theme within the webcomic. It's often encouraged by the government to do so by reporting neighbors for suspicious activities. The citizens are rewarded by moving to more lavish neighbors such as Lakeview with the end goal being Hillside where the parents can finally see their kids [[spoiler:if they're even alive.]]

* NothingIsScarier: We don't know how or why the current world of ''Everything is Fine'' came to be or how long the system was in place. Maggie's memories of her child implies that the events resulting in the current world were fairly recent.

* IllegalReligion: {{Implied}}. Saying grace before eating is replaced with a clearly mandatory "spontaneous declaration of thanks" and affirmation of happiness to the government. Later revealed to be exactly this trope: [[spoiler:''Like Heck'' reveals that Laura was originally a paster who was forced to denounce her faith, and it's even implied that they made her ''burn her own church down''.]]

* AlternativeCalendar: It's clear that they run on a different clock than our current one, seemingly with 100 minutes to an hour and ten hours to a day. Sam's alarm clock goes off at 2:60 in the morning. After a flashback to before their current system, Maggie briefly remembers the old time format and then corrects herself in S2 Ep30.

* ApatheticCitizens: The unfortunate fate for those deemed 'Red Status'. No one is permitted to help or acknowledge them otherwise they'll be met with the same fate.

* BlatantLies: An on-going theme in the comic. Heck, even the title gets in on it. The residents of the neighborhood constantly assure themselves and everyone around them that everything is normal and fine, but just one episode in it's crystal-clear they're lying to themselves and something is very obviously horribly wrong.

* CorneredRattlesnake: In episode 26, [[spoiler:having been declared red eye status and thereby having nothing left to lose, Linda tries to get revenge on Maggie by attacking her with a knife. This is [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] just 2 episodes prior, when Sam reminds Maggie that "people are dangerous when they're out of options."]]
* CrapsaccharineWorld: There is something very very ''off'' with the neighborhood and its residents. Everyone is so overly cheerful and polite all the time, to the point of coming off as {{Stepford Smiler}}s and anything negative, like dead dogs, is just straight-up ignored. Add to that the plethora of cameras positioned everywhere and the fact that for some reason everyone is wearing a mask that hides their heads completely.

* DisposingOfABody: In season 1, [[spoiler:Maggie and Sam have to dispose of Officer Tom's body after Maggie kills him]]. They end up [[spoiler:hiding it in Bob and Linda's house to [[FrameUp pin the blame on them]].]]

* FrameUp: In season 1, [[spoiler:after Maggie kills Tom, she and Sam plant the evidence in Bob and Linda's house to shift the blame onto them.]]
* ForcedToWatch: In episode 26, [[spoiler:Bob and Linda are set to red eye status and their helmets show them something terrible happening to their children. It's implied the same thing happened to Charlie when ''he'' was made red eye status.]]
* GrotesqueCute: The story revolves around a bunch of characters with cute big cat-heads living in a pastel-colored suburbia. But every now and again, the comic shifts to show the reader intensely creepy moments, like the cut to Winston's dead, rotting corpse in episode 1.

* IllegalReligion: {{Implied}}. Saying grace before eating is replaced with a clearly-mandatory "spontaneous declaration of thanks" and affirmation of happiness to the government.
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: Before Officer Tom activates red status on Charlie, Charlie tells him "Just act it out! We can go back!" Tom replies "I'm sorry, Charlie. There's no going back." Later on, a bludgeoned Tom tells Maggie, who had witnessed the prior event, tells her "I'll... I'll forget! We can go back!" Maggie replies "I'm sorry, Tom. There's no going back." before bludgeoning him to death with her claw hammer.]]
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title of Chapter 16, ''Animals Are Free'', is a reference to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', specifically the slogan "Proles and animals are free," referencing the people in that setting who are (supposedly) free of government surveillance.

* NothingIsScarier: We don't know how or why the current world of ''Everything is Fine'' came to be or how long the system was in place. Maggie's memories of her child implies that everything was recent.

* RevealShot: Episode 29 shows a squirrel nibbling on something, then shifts to a different shot that shows something dripping with red fluid. Finally, it shifts to show the whole squirrel, revealing that the thing it's chewing on -- the dripping thing -- appears to be a severed body part.
* RuleOfThree: The Lakeview-society operates on this principle. A citizen of Lakeview can earn Merits ("Smilies") through doing especially good deeds (like outing people who break the rules) or Demerits ("Frownies") if they mess up big time, symbolized by stickers on tags attached to their clothing. Three Merits will give the ones who earned them the opportunity to be promoted to Hillside, a place where, it's implied, they'll be able to see their children again. Three Demerits will put a person in danger of getting set to Red-status and [[spoiler: being hunted down for sport by the other Lakeview-citizens.]]

* SoundtrackDissonance: In episode 27, [[spoiler:cheery music starts playing during the car ride, and continues playing throughout the reveal that the neighborhoods are being torched.]]

* TitleDrop: The [[{{Bookends}} first and last episodes]] of season 1 have someone saying "Everything is fine," with the line itself being displayed as title text instead of in a speech bubble.

** Episode one ends with a nice look at Sam and Maggie's dog Winston as Maggie calls out to him - and it's shown that he is dead and, judging from the flies buzzing around his corpse, has been dead for quite a while.
** Episode 27 ends with [[spoiler:a look at the neighbourhood before Sam and Maggie's "on the schedule" -- and it's being burned. Then the camera pulls back into a long panel of many, ''many'' neighbourhoods that have already been systemically burned.]]
* ZipMeUp: In episode 4, Maggie asks Sam to zip up the back of her dress, creating tension.

* AlternativeCalendar: It's clear that they run on a different clock than our current one, seemingly with 100 minutes to an hour and ten minutes to a day. After a flashback to before their current system, Maggie briefly remembers the old time format and then corrects herself in S2 Ep30.