History Webcomic / GeneralProtectionFault

** The third one, ''Scylla and Charybdis'', began in November 2013, and is still winding down in October 2015.

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[[http://www.gpf-comics.com/ General Protection Fault]] is a [[WebcomicsLongRunners long-running webcomic]] by Jeffery T. Darlington. At its core it's about the workplace hijinks of the staff of GPF Software as they deal with clients, internal strife, would-be world conquerors, alternate dimensions, mad science, and spies.

* Fred & Persephone: [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Sentient slime molds]] spawned from Fooker's garbage. Until recently, GPF's customer service operators.

** The second one, ''To Thine Own Self'', ended up taking ''[[ScheduleSlip two and a half years]]'', November 2005-March 2008.

** In the climactic battle of Surreptitious Machinations, the [[http://www.gpf-comics.com/archive/2002/07/28 news team]] reporting is WPET, with humans who are analogous to the dogs of KPET in ''{{Newshounds}}''.

* CrossOver: Most notably with ''KevinAndKell''

* {{Shoutout}}: In the climactic battle of Surreptitious Machinations, the news team reporting is WPET, with humans who are analogous to the dogs of KPET in {{Newshounds}}.

* Nick Wellington -- The strip's main character. Lead Programmer, Geek's Geek, MadScientist
* Ki Oshiro-Wellington -- Chief DBA, ActionGirl, GamerChick, Nick's long-time girlfriend and recent wife.
* Jason "Fooker" Barker -- Systems Administrator. Slacker, not-so-secretly a government agent
* Sharon Murphy -- Fooker's girlfriend and co-sys admin
* Trudy Trueheart -- Marketing Director, StepfordSmiler, former would-be world conqueror, TheAtoner
* Dwayne Duncan -- The Boss, software engineer, StraightMan
* Dexter Smith -- Coder, TheBigGuy
* Fred & Persephone -- [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Sentient slime molds]] spawned from Fooker's garbage. Until recently, GPF's customer service operators.

* AlternateUniverse -- One ruled by Nick's EvilCounterpart
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling -- Ki's brother, Yoshi. It's implied that this is true of Lori, but she and Nick are never shown interacting.
* BaldOfEvil -- F**k*r, much to the annoyance of his prime counterpart.
* BeardOfEvil -- The nega-verse counterparts of Nick and Dwayne, based on the facial hair they wore in the Surreptitious Machinations arc before they were persuaded to shave it at the end.
* BigEater -- Fooker, who has gotten banned from a few all-you-can-eat pizza places.

* BitchInSheepsClothing -- Trudy is exceptionally polite and good natured around most people besides Ki and Fooker.

* BrilliantButLazy -- Fooker is able to do all his work for the day in only a fraction of the time, and spends the rest goofing off.
* ButNotTooForeign -- Ki and Yoshi, who have a Chinese mother and Japanese father. Ki's mother won a bet and got to give her a Chinese name, but Ki's father still commonly calls her "Kyoko-san".
* CatFight -- Ki and Trudy during the battle of New York. Also, Ki and Sharon when they're arguing about a project they're both working on.
* CerebusSyndrome -- The comic has more serious storylines in the third year, and Surreptitious Machinations was the first with a truly dark tone [[spoiler:GPF burns down and goes out of business, Fooker gets framed for murder, Nick takes a job away from Ki, and in the alternate future, Trudy takes over the world and the rest of the cast gets killed]].

* CrossOver -- Most notably with ''KevinAndKell''
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass -- Fooker.
* DarkAndTroubledPast -- Hinted at for Trudy and Sharon.
* DeepImmersionGaming -- One of the Mutex's capabilities.
* DevilInPlainSight -- Trudy.
* DysfunctionalFamily -- Trudy's family.
* EinsteinHair -- Uncle Otto.

* FunWithAcronyms -- C.R.U.D.E.

* FutureMeScaresMe -- Trudy, after meeting Surreptitious Machinations' Empress Trudy.
* GeniusDitz -- Fooker.
* GigglingVillain -- Trudy.
* HappilyMarried -- Dwayne and his wife. Ki and Nick (so far).
* HiddenDepths -- Dexter.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter -- Nick trusts Trudy when most of the rest of the cast does not, but after realizing her true nature, decides to be less blindly trusting. Mr. Jones, one of GPF's clients, thinks that Fooker would be a good choice of a motivational speaker despite his BunnyEarsLawyer traits, thinks that Trudy was a good person who "fell in with the wrong crowd," and has a favorable impression of Trent.
* HypocriticalHumor -- Fooker tells Sharon to ignore her rival system administrators, but after they insult him, he tosses snowballs at them.
* IfICantHaveYou -- Trudy to Nick, word for word, at the climax of Surreptitious Machinations arc. [[spoiler:Also the whole point of Surreptitious Machinations, as Empress Trudy killed Nick in the alternate future.]]
* ImprobablyHighIQ -- Yoshi has an IQ of over 200. Fred is an aversion, since his IQ is quite high at 139, he had hoped for 70 more points.
* InsatiableNewlyweds -- Nick and Ki.
* {{Irony}} -- In [[http://www.gpf-comics.com/archive/2004/07/16 this strip]], Nick, regretting [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter having trusted Trudy]] in addition to noticing a few flaws in Trish's story, decides not to trust Trish. At the same time, Ki, wondering if Nick's trusting nature might not be a bad thing and if she is too untrusting, decides to trust Trish.
* ItCameFromTheFridge -- Fred came about as a result of Fooker's horrible "housekeeping", and later produced Persephone.
* KickTheDog -- [[http://www.gpf-comics.com/archive.php?d=19990101 One of our earliest hints that Trudy is more than just a StepfordSmiler ditz]].
* KickTheSonOfABitch -- Fred taking control of Trent's body, forcing him to sexually harass Sharon, go into a meeting with a client only wearing a tablecloth, and go outside and get arrested for indecent exposure would come off as much worse if Trent wasn't a jerk without any redeeming qualities.
* KidFromTheFuture -- Todd (Nick and Ki's kid from an alternate timeline)
* {{Long Lost Sibling}}s -- Trudy and [[spoiler:Sharon]].
* LetsWaitAwhile -- Nick and Ki deciding to put off sex until marriage.
* LookBothWays -- [[spoiler:"Misty" doesn't.]]
* MadScientist -- Nick, his uncle Otto Wisebottom.

* NoAccountingForTaste -- Sharon dating both Fooker and Dexter.
* NonHumanSidekick -- Fred and Persephone.
* ObfuscatingStupidity -- Trudy's supposed hippie father is an FBI agent investigating her mother's criminal activities.
* OddFriendship -- Ki and Fooker.
* OnlySaneMan -- Dwayne.
* OrWasItADream -- The arc in which Nick and Ki first see Fooker as a secret agent.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath -- [[spoiler:Chuck]], [[spoiler:Nega-Ki]]. Averted with Trudy.
* RippleEffectIndicator -- Todd uses [[spoiler:himself]].
* RousingSpeech -- Planck does one to the Grays in the Nega-verse, largely as a ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Braveheart}}''.
* TheAtoner -- Trudy.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish -- The password to the computers at a chocolate center is "Creamy Center."
* TheShortGuyWithGlasses -- Nick.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong -- The objective of Surreptitious Machinations appears to be this, but Todd points out in his confrontation with the Empress that the BadFuture was never meant to happen, and could only have happened with the interference of Future Trudy, who would not have existed otherwise.

* SmugSnake -- Trent.
* SnowballFight -- One breaks out when a few system administrators attack Sharon.
* StableTimeLoop -- Stopping one was Todd's ultimate objective in Surreptitious Machinations.
* StalkerWithATestTube -- The Brotherhood Of The Twisted Pair want Fooker and Sharon to get busy conceiving [[TheChosenOne "The One"]].
* StepfordSmiler -- Trudy.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial -- Nick, regarding his offer for JCN. He's so shaken up he even denies it when he isn't even being directly asked about it.
* TeamDad -- Dwayne.
* TrustBuildingBlunder -- Dwayne's decision to take several computer nerds on a team-building hike. He, being more of a businessman than a nerd, underestimates how badly suited his employees would be to it.
* VirtualRealityInterrogation -- Nick is subject to one, which, helped by sleep deprivation, is intended to convince him to divulge how to make Project Velociraptor. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Ki's counterpart]] makes a few mistakes and he sees through it.
* WeekendInventor -- Nick.
* WideEyedIdealist -- Nick.
* WouldntHitAGirl -- Fooker complains that "It's not fair. Guys should be allowed to hit girls in self defense," after recalling when Ki beat him up in their first meeting for making sexist remarks.
* YamatoNadeshiko-- Ki's mother, up to and including [[ExiledToTheCouch making her husband sleep on the couch]].
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle -- [[spoiler:After the GPF/UGA/resistance team captures Emperor Nicholas and his inner circle and frees Nick, the Grays' enemies attack]].

* AlternateSelf -- [[spoiler:Everyone ''thinks'' Trudy is an AlternateUniverse counterpart to ''their'' Trudy.]] (She isn't)

* MissedTheCall -- The spy agency Fooker works for was originally looking to recruit his brother (said brother does eventually land a spot in said agency).
* MonochromaticEyes -- Done universally among the characters except when it's EyesAlwaysShut for the character.

* AllTheMyriadWays -- [[spoiler:Everyone ''thinks'' Trudy is an AlternateUniverse counterpart to ''their'' Trudy.]] (She isn't)

** Nega-Nick executes [[spoiler:Nega-Trish]] for her failure.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath -- [[spoiler:Chuck]], [[spoiler:Nega-Ki]]. Averted with Trudy.

* RousingSpeech -- Planck does one to the Grays in the Nega-verse, largely as a ShoutOut to ''{{Braveheart}}''.

** Not quite, since she is ''Chinese'', not Japanese.