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* MaternallyChallenged: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws612/ Hazel]].
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* Adorkable: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws565/ Zach]].
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* InnocentInnacurate: Oddly enough, with a [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws516/ grown woman]].
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* InstantWebHit: Jamie's [[spoiler: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1365/ "I Just want somebody to Ravage me"]] outburst]]outburst]].
* ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws524/ discussed]].
* ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws524/ discussed]].
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* InnocentInnacurate: Oddly enough, with a [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws516/ grown woman]].
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* DopeSlap: Jameson [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws503/ gets one]].
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* ImagineSpot: What Clarice would ''really'' like to do to [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws442/ bad customers]],
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* BillBillJunkBill: With [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws436/ email]].
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Masturbation is treated a as a casual, fact of life topic.
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* HulkSpeech: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws432/ This strip]].
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* GagBoobs: Jamie.[[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws352/ Jamie]]. There's more to her than that, of course...
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* {{Scotireland}}: [=McPedro=]'s accent is supposed to be Irish, but he speaks stereotypical Scottish. [[FridgeBrilliance This may be due to his existence as a drunken delusion of Hazel's.]]
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* {{Scotireland}}: [=McPedro=]'s accent is supposed to be Irish, but he speaks stereotypical Scottish. [[FridgeBrilliance This may be due to his existence as a drunken delusion of Hazel's.]]Hazel's]], although he later points it out [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws331/ and refers to his accent as "Scirish."]]
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* StalkerWithACrush: Jamie's [[www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws273/ secret admirer]].
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* DoubleStandard: Even though Candy tried to rape Chris, Jamie seems horrified at the idea of him [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws270/ macing a girl]].
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale:
** Absolutely ''not'', despite what [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws268/ Jameson initially thinks]]. Candy tries to rape Chris, and gets knocked off her StrawFeminist pedestal quickly by a cast that agrees that she is absolutely wrong. Which still hardly excuses an attempted rape being played for laughs. Even though after a good week's worth of jokes, the strip finally gets around to saying 'seriously kids, rape is wrong no matter what the victim's gender is' it's still jarring.
** A sequence where a female barber threatens to seduce Jameson, kidnaps him, and forcibly shaves him (smoking a cigarette afterward) is played entirely for laughs, probably because all she did was shave his hair, so it being played for laughs is excusable.
** Absolutely ''not'', despite what [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws268/ Jameson initially thinks]]. Candy tries to rape Chris, and gets knocked off her StrawFeminist pedestal quickly by a cast that agrees that she is absolutely wrong. Which still hardly excuses an attempted rape being played for laughs. Even though after a good week's worth of jokes, the strip finally gets around to saying 'seriously kids, rape is wrong no matter what the victim's gender is' it's still jarring.
** A sequence where a female barber threatens to seduce Jameson, kidnaps him, and forcibly shaves him (smoking a cigarette afterward) is played entirely for laughs, probably because all she did was shave his hair, so it being played for laughs is excusable.
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* RapeAsComedy: See RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale. This may be the only webcomic where an attempted rape can end with a punch line, and people are willing to roll with it. See also: {{squick}}.
* RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale:
** Absolutely ''not'', despite what Jameson initially thinks. Candy tries to rape Chris, and gets knocked off her StrawFeminist pedestal quickly by a cast that agrees that she is absolutely wrong. Which still hardly excuses an attempted rape being played for laughs. Even though after a good week's worth of jokes, the strip finally gets around to saying 'seriously kids, rape is wrong no matter what the victim's gender is' it's still jarring.
** A sequence where a female barber threatens to seduce Jameson, kidnaps him, and forcibly shaves him (smoking a cigarette afterward) is played entirely for laughs, probably because all she did was shave his hair, so it being played for laughs is excusable.
* RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale:
** Absolutely ''not'', despite what Jameson initially thinks. Candy tries to rape Chris, and gets knocked off her StrawFeminist pedestal quickly by a cast that agrees that she is absolutely wrong. Which still hardly excuses an attempted rape being played for laughs. Even though after a good week's worth of jokes, the strip finally gets around to saying 'seriously kids, rape is wrong no matter what the victim's gender is' it's still jarring.
** A sequence where a female barber threatens to seduce Jameson, kidnaps him, and forcibly shaves him (smoking a cigarette afterward) is played entirely for laughs, probably because all she did was shave his hair, so it being played for laughs is excusable.
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* RapeAsComedy: See RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale.DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale. This may be the only webcomic where an attempted rape can end with a punch line, and people are willing to roll with it. See also: {{squick}}.
* RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale:
** Absolutely ''not'', despite what Jameson initially thinks. Candy tries to rape Chris, and gets knocked off her StrawFeminist pedestal quickly by a cast that agrees that she is absolutely wrong. Which still hardly excuses an attempted rape being played for laughs. Even though after a good week's worth of jokes, the strip finally gets around to saying 'seriously kids, rape is wrong no matter what the victim's gender is' it's still jarring.
** A sequence where a female barber threatens to seduce Jameson, kidnaps him, and forcibly shaves him (smoking a cigarette afterward) is played entirely for laughs, probably because all she did was shave his hair, so it being played for laughs is excusable.{{squick}}.
* RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale:
** Absolutely ''not'', despite what Jameson initially thinks. Candy tries to rape Chris, and gets knocked off her StrawFeminist pedestal quickly by a cast that agrees that she is absolutely wrong. Which still hardly excuses an attempted rape being played for laughs. Even though after a good week's worth of jokes, the strip finally gets around to saying 'seriously kids, rape is wrong no matter what the victim's gender is' it's still jarring.
** A sequence where a female barber threatens to seduce Jameson, kidnaps him, and forcibly shaves him (smoking a cigarette afterward) is played entirely for laughs, probably because all she did was shave his hair, so it being played for laughs is excusable.
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* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Hazel freaks that her comment was [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws243/ supposed to be "inner dialogue."]]
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Hazel's trip to the nude beach and Strip Scrabble.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws227/ Hazel in this strip]].
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* InsistentTerminology: Clarice is a ''librarian'' working at a ''book store''.
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Hazel has "length" and "girth" requirements for a man.
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* MeatVersusVeggies: Candy Versus Maureen.
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* {{Flanderization}}: In the early days of the strip, Jamie was presented as a girly girl foil for the more tomboyish Hazel, but still had enough emotional range to transcend that sterotype. However, over the past six months or so, Jamie's girlishness has become the nearly exclusive feature of her character, to the point that in many strips her only function seems to be to show up and say/do something cutesy. [[ArtEvolution The shift in art]] has further exaggerated this trend.
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* {{Flanderization}}: In the early days of the strip, Jamie was presented as a girly girl foil for the more tomboyish Hazel, but still had enough emotional range to transcend that sterotype.stereotype. However, over the past six months or so, Jamie's girlishness has become the nearly exclusive feature of her character, to the point that in many strips her only function seems to be to show up and say/do something cutesy. [[ArtEvolution The shift in art]] has further exaggerated this trend.
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* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Jamie, Jamie, Jamie. She even forgoes using a coat in the winter because she can't function without the attention.
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* {{Joisey}}: Various cities and towns in New Jersey are mentioned as being close by. It seems to take place in the New Brunswick Brunswick[[hottip:*:Not the province]] area. When Hazel goes to the BigApplesauce she takes the train. The writer is probably a local.
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[[caption-width-right:214:Awwwww.]]
[[http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/gws.html Girls with Slingshots]] is a MundaneFantastic webcomic by Danielle Corsetto about the lives of [[HeterosexualLifePartners Hazel and Jamie]], their [[NonHumanSidekick talking cacti]], and their friends. The strip takes a lot of its humor from switching the standard gender arrangement of common sex comedy tropes.
The name appears to come from [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws84/ a rather strong drink]].
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!!This webcomic contains examples of:
* AccidentalUnfortunateGesture: Hazel and Jamie imagine how Chris the Pirate attempting [=ASL=] could [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-883/ go horribly wrong]].
* ActuallyIAmHim: Hazel sends Erin to spy on Jamie and her "new boyfriend Aaron"...when Jamie's actually starting a lesbian relationship with Erin.
* TheAlcoholic: Hazel, a petite woman, is to the [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1141/ point]] of showing no signs of intoxication until her ''ninth'' beer. PlayedForLaughs, big time.
-->'''Hazel:''' I'm a high-functioning drunk, Clarice. You know that.\\
'''Clarice:''' Yeah, but I've been counting bottles and you've crossed your faux-sober threshold.\\
'''Hazel:''' ''Eight''? Holy shit, I leveled up!
* AllGirlsLikePonies: Referenced in [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws452/ this strip.]]
* AllMenArePerverts: Jamie gets pretty much everything she wants from strange men, thanks to her endowments. When she covers them up, she is shocked that drinks suddenly [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws290/ cost more]]. Played creepily straight by every male customer of the porn store.
** although you might well feel that "porn store customers are perverts and/or creeps" was a trope in itself
* AllWomenAreLustful: Let's just say that when all the [[ADateWithRosiePalms AA batteries]] disappear, a mob of women are seen wandering the streets as though society had collapsed.
** [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1204/ It's started]]
*** [[WordOfGod "This is about as close to post-apocalyptic storyline as you're ever gonna get from me."]]
* AltText: Starts with [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1054/ strip 1054.]]
* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: Angel believes that [[spoiler: if two women are having sex, they can't get [=STDs=].]] [[TooDumbToLive Wow.]] Recent events show that she realized [[spoiler: [[TemptingFate a bit too late]]]] that she was wrong.
* ArtEvolution: Over time, the art style has become more stylized and loose.
* {{Asexuality}}: Erin, Jamie's girlfriend. The issues it causes makes this one of the few comics to tackle the difference between sexuality and romance.
* BarSlide: Taken to extremes in [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws563/ this strip]].
* TheBartender: Angel. Also Jameson.
* BigBeautifulWoman: Jamie, obviously, with a helping of BigFun thrown in.
* BrainsAndBondage: Clarice, one of the more intelligent members of the cast, is a dominatrix. But she dreams of being a librarian.
* BrickJoke: The wedding arc pulls obscure comments from earlier strips and turns them into punchlines. Jameson's remaining hair makes him look like a clown? [[spoiler: His parents are clowns.]] Candy wanted to marry Jameson with as many things as possible made from baby seal leather just to offend Maureen the vegan? [[spoiler: She replaces the wedding rings with "100% Baby Seal Leather" rings. The rest of the cast is ''not'' amused.]]
* ButchLesbian[=/=]LipstickLesbian: Jamie's ComingOutStory arc had her visiting a gay bar full of {{Butch Lesbian}}s. She ends up going home with LipstickLesbian Thea instead, and eventually decides she likes her girls girly.
** Most of the major gay/bisexual girls are {{Lipstick Lesbian}}s. Even Mimi is more ShortTank than she is butch.
* BuxomIsBetter: Jamie, all the way.
-->'''Maureen:''' Jamie, your breasts are...legendary.\\
'''Jamie:''' You can say it twice. I consider them each a separate legend.
* CampGay: Darren, all the way, with a heaping helping of HaveIMentionedIAmGay. The rest of the gay cast are, by comparison, StraightGay.
* [[NoodleIncident Candle Incident]]: "Best ER story ever."
* TheCasanova: Zach, who is arguably a trope subversion as he considers the three hundred women whom he has serviced as a gift to the community. Prior to hooking up with Hazel, he gave virgins a good first time and helped service the elderly to make them feel loved again.
** ChivalrousPervert
* CastOfSnowflakes: A variety of female (and male) characters with simple but wildly varying body shapes and faces. Even when they dress up as each other for Halloween, it's still possible to tell which character is which.
* CharacterDevelopment: Chris started out as a compulsive exaggerator who was universally known for wearing an eye-patch, but becomes a solid recurring character. One strip also [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this trope when no one recognizes Chris until he puts on his eye patch, which he no longer actually needs. He remarks that he knows what his only distinctive characteristic is. It turns out he has another one, but he works pretty hard to keep that one under wraps.
* {{Crossover}}: [[SomethingPositive Davan]] attended Maureen and Jamison's wedding, and recently Sprinkles gave birth to Choo-Choo Bear's babies, one of whom went to [[Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}} Leslie and Robin.]]
* TheCutie: Jamie. Mimi makes a good case for herself too.
* DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo: Played with in [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws464/ this strip.]]
* DidYouJustHaveSex: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws432/ Hazel get laid?]] [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws631/ Hazel get laid!]].
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Played with. Thea catches a STD from fooling around with Angel. [[spoiler:[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous It's just Restless Leg Syndrome.]]]]
* DragQueen: Darren
* DressesTheSame: Thea at [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1172/ Mimi's party]]. For bonus awkwardness, it's the same top as her girlfriend's ''mother''.
* DrunkenMaster: Hazel is an amazing writer when she's drunk. Her publisher even tells her straight-up that she doesn't have to read an article to know it's quality as long as she knows Hazel wrote it drunk.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In one early series, Hazel drags Jamie to [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws43/ spy on Jameson & Maureen's date]]. Jamie wholeheartedly disapproves of this, and leaves Hazel to spy alone. This is completely reversed (and ignored) later on when Jamie becomes a spying romance detective and Hazel is the disapproving one.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Jamie, who eventually decides that she wants the girls too. [[spoiler:But only from the waist up.]]
* TheFaceless: Tyler's mother
* FakeBuzz: You'd think a high-functioning alcoholic like Hazel would be able to tell Fiona's flask was [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1294/ full of water.]]
** The point was that Hazel was [[StupidSexyFlanders so uncomfortable around her]] that she'd accept any excuse to feel less weird even if it was patently false.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the early days of the strip, Jamie was presented as a girly girl foil for the more tomboyish Hazel, but still had enough emotional range to transcend that sterotype. However, over the past six months or so, Jamie's girlishness has become the nearly exclusive feature of her character, to the point that in many strips her only function seems to be to show up and say/do something cutesy. [[ArtEvolution The shift in art]] has further exaggerated this trend.
** The story arch featuring Jamie in England seems to be actively trying to avert this, first by switching up the art by giving Jamie a new haircut, and then by giving Jamie whole strips in which to emote, something she hasn't been able to do in a while. It's a welcome reversal of some of Jamie's flanderization, although one has to wonder if it could have been done without characterizing her as a neurotic flake (though that's still better than Flanderized Jamie).
** Recently, Hazel's short-sightedness has been taken to extreme levels, with [[spoiler:her quitting her job before Jamie could save her from her short-term greed, and now forced to live with her mom as a result.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Candy. Candy Candy Candy. A rotten bitch to pretty much everyone, but she's an old friend of Jameson's, so they kind of have to put up with her when Jameson decides to bring her along. Then she pulled that stunt at Jameson's wedding, and Jameson woke up to the fact that "Hey wait, ''I'' don't really like Candy either."
* GagBoobs: Jamie. There's more to her than that, of course...
--->'''Hazel:''' ... But I asked twenty people the first word they thought of when they think of you, and ''all'' of them said "boobs". Even YourMom, who added that the ''second'' word she thinks of is "boobs".
* GargleBlaster: The titular slingshot.
* GenderBlenderName: Hazel mistakes [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws696/ Jamie's girlfriend Erin]] for a man named Aaron.
** Which makes panel three [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1367/ here]] something of a BrickJoke.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws723/ So hot it causes spontaneous combustion.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: Tucker was trying to get Clarice's attention. Boy, [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1219/ did he get it]].
* {{Gonk}}: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws864/ The Bearded Lady Fetishist that followed Darren home.]]
* GoodAngelBadAngel: We see Thea's [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1178/ here]].
* HalloweenCosplay: One year, the characters in-strip go the route of pop culture, dressing as [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws188/ Ghostbusters and Smurfs]] at Halloween. The next year, all the female characters dress as each other. [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws355/ This ends about as well as one might expect.]] [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-811/ The year after that]], they dress as [[MemeticMutation internet phenomena]], including RickAstley, HomestarRunner, Two Girls One Cup, and more.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Hazel has had to remind people of her hetero-ness more than once, especially in earlier strips when she isn't getting any.
* HollywoodSex: Mostly averted, except [[RuleOfFunny when it's funny.]] One strip even has [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1328/ Mimi explaining the ways lesbians protect themselves during sex.]]
* HotLibrarian: Averted in Clarice, who tells everyone that she's a librarian when in reality, she is a porn-store clerk moonlighting as a dominatrix. She really does want to be a librarian, though.
** As of recently, played straight.
* HoYay: Jamie and...pretty much everyone female.
* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Jamie, Jamie, Jamie. She even forgoes using a coat in the winter because she can't function without the attention.
* IndulgentFantasySegue: The Revenge of the [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws442/ Porn Store Queen]].
* InformedAbility: According to everyone who sees her photos, Jamie is a really amazing photographer. However, the audience hardly sees any of her work and what little glimpse we get by way of the background of her gallery show appears to be nothing more than some pedestrian pictures of flowers -not exactly the stuff of solo gallery openings (though the fact the gallery showing Jamie's work is apparently out of touch with the rest of the art world and hasn't had an opening in decades might count as a lampshading of this trope).
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Hazel's not good with lesbians. Or remembering things that mean something to her boyfriend. She eventually gets called on this.
* InstantWebHit: Jamie's [[spoiler: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1365/ "I Just want somebody to Ravage me"]] outburst]]
* {{Jerkass}}: ''Candy''. Hazel has her moments of this.
* {{Joisey}}: Various cities and towns in New Jersey are mentioned as being close by. It seems to take place in the New Brunswick area. When Hazel goes to the BigApplesauce she takes the train. The writer is probably a local.
* KarmaHoudini: [[JerkAss Candy]] tried to rape Chris. Everyone's response? Get her a job as a dominatrix so that she has a healthy outlet.
** She finally gets her comeuppance for everything--after her [[MoralEventHorizon prank at the wedding]], the entire group turned their backs on her. She hasn't appeared in the strip since...unless you count some stuttering steps toward redemption in crossover strips from SomethingPositive.
*** She recently reappeared, greatly alarming Jameson. The way he acted, you'd think he was the one she tried to rape (although it's possible the entire attempted date rape has entered CanonDiscontinuity since none of the characters ever mention it even when mention other bad things Candy's done.
* LethalChef: Hazel can start a fire boiling water. Protip: Don't do it in a cast-iron skillet ''in the microwave''.
* MarshmallowHell: Jamie's ...[[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail tracts of land]] are so large that her poor [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws443/ kitten frequently ends up lost in her cleavage.]] One strip, however, [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws638/ implies that in a former life]], the kitten was a soldier who died a virgin, so in a way, he's getting his wish. He also wanted to come back as a kitten. If that soldier ''is'' that kitten, I'd call this a definite [[EarnYourHappyEnding hero's reward.]]
* MediumAwareness: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws471/ Here.]]
* NonHumanSidekick: [=McPedro=],the talking [[{{Scotireland}} Scirish]] cactus. [=McPedro=]'s mustache is, in turn, a NonHumanSidekick himself, as he runs away from [=McPedro=] and [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws540/ travels the world.]] And ''he's'' French. [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot And gay!]]
* TheNotSecret: Subverted - with Jamie "discovering" that Thea and Angel aren't just [[UnusualEuphemism "playing board games"]]. Only to discover on her "proof" video that [[spoiler: it wasn't Thea with Angel on the tape.]]
* TheNudifier: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws770/ Lasers]] that remove your clothes, and [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws774/ save them for later]],used in playing [[StripPoker Strip Laser Tag]].
* OneOfTheBoys: Hazel, to the point where she hangs out with the guys during the bachelor party and is repeatedly mentioned as actually being the guy in her relationship (including shallowness and refusal to think about the "future" beyond lovemaking).
* PaintingTheFourthWall: "[[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws485/ I've never seen so many stars come out of one woman's crotch!]]"
* PoisonousFriend: Candy, to Jameson. She tells herself that her vitriolic attempts to sabotage his relationship with Maureen are just harmless pranks that Maureen is too sensitive to appreciate, until finally she pushes Jameson to the breaking point at the wedding.
* PunnyName:
** [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws459/ Tweeney Sodd]], who eventually robs Jameson of his remaining tuft of hair.
** Melody, who is deaf.
* RapeAsComedy: See RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale. This may be the only webcomic where an attempted rape can end with a punch line, and people are willing to roll with it. See also: {{squick}}.
* RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale:
** Absolutely ''not'', despite what Jameson initially thinks. Candy tries to rape Chris, and gets knocked off her StrawFeminist pedestal quickly by a cast that agrees that she is absolutely wrong. Which still hardly excuses an attempted rape being played for laughs. Even though after a good week's worth of jokes, the strip finally gets around to saying 'seriously kids, rape is wrong no matter what the victim's gender is' it's still jarring.
** A sequence where a female barber threatens to seduce Jameson, kidnaps him, and forcibly shaves him (smoking a cigarette afterward) is played entirely for laughs, probably because all she did was shave his hair, so it being played for laughs is excusable.
* RuleSixtyThree: Done by the artist herself! [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/dudes-with-slingshots/ She thinks boy-type Jamie is very cute.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: Hazel can't seem to grasp that lesbian sex isn't limited to strap-ons.
* SharedUniverse: With ''SomethingPositive'' (and by extension, ''PunchAnPie''). And by extension of those, with ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' (the mascot kitties of SomethingPositive and GirlsWithSlingshots had a litter, one of the kittens is adopted by Leslie in Shortpacked.)
** Also, Robyn from AllNewIssues is apparently Hazel's cousin.
* ShipSinking: Hammered home when Angel not only screws someone else behind Thea's back, but tells Thea they were never in a real relationship to begin with. ''Ouch.''
* ShoutOut: Possibly unintentional, but both of Thea's romantic interests have had the same name as a character from {{RENT}}.
* SilentSnarker: [[TheSpeechless Melody.]]
* TheSpeechless: Maureen's sister, who is deaf. She can still sign and text people, though.
* STDImmunity: Averted with Angel and Thea, where the latter picks up a scorching case of [[spoiler:restless leg syndrome.]]
* StealthPun: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws810/ They don't get it.]]
* StripPoker: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws238/ Strip Scrabble]] and then later [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws770/ Strip Laser Tag]], complete with [[TheNudifier lasers that remove your clothes]].
* TechnicalVirgin: Jamie, despite having several dates that had "happy endings," has never gone all the way. She seems to believe as long as she has an intact hymen she counts as one since she had (implied disastrous) sex with her girlfriend Erin before she left for England but mentioned later when Hazel had an STD scare that she was still a virgin.
* TokenMinorityCouple: A story arc built around subverting Type B: the two lesbians in the regular cast finally meet, with a long buildup to their first date...only to find that they have nothing in common. They do have a lengthy friendship with benefits, though.
* UmbrellaDrink: Because even a GargleBlaster tastes better with umbrellas.
-->[[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws84/ "Everything tastes better with an umbrella."]]
* UnnecessaryMakeover: InUniverse. [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws362/ Maureen]], after sex-toy-purveyor Clarice questions her ability to be sexy. Somewhat averted as the makeover doesn't take, and it is specifically stated that the makeover took away what made her sexy in the first place.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Hazel's at least close, especially early on. She often crosses the line from DeadpanSnarker into just plain being a jerk, and she's also pretty selfish, and this usually appears for the sake of a punchline. However, on other occasions she shows that she's a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold fairly decent person]]. This seems to have come to a head, in-universe, with Hazel and Zach having a major fight over her immaturity.
* UnusualEuphemism: Angel and Thea playing board games in the back room.
** "Giant Sea Cucumber!"
* VictoriasSecretCompartment:
** Jamie. She keeps the world's luckiest kitten in there.
** And Fiona, [[spoiler: Jamie's sister.]] She keeps booze in there.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: Angel gave Thea [[spoiler:Restless Leg Syndrome]]! *GASP!*
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Hazel and Zach, Thea and Angel.
* WorthIt: Seen [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws853/ here]].
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[[http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/gws.html Girls with Slingshots]] is a MundaneFantastic webcomic by Danielle Corsetto about the lives of [[HeterosexualLifePartners Hazel and Jamie]], their [[NonHumanSidekick talking cacti]], and their friends. The strip takes a lot of its humor from switching the standard gender arrangement of common sex comedy tropes.
The name appears to come from [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws84/ a rather strong drink]].
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!!This webcomic contains examples of:
* AccidentalUnfortunateGesture: Hazel and Jamie imagine how Chris the Pirate attempting [=ASL=] could [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-883/ go horribly wrong]].
* ActuallyIAmHim: Hazel sends Erin to spy on Jamie and her "new boyfriend Aaron"...when Jamie's actually starting a lesbian relationship with Erin.
* TheAlcoholic: Hazel, a petite woman, is to the [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1141/ point]] of showing no signs of intoxication until her ''ninth'' beer. PlayedForLaughs, big time.
-->'''Hazel:''' I'm a high-functioning drunk, Clarice. You know that.\\
'''Clarice:''' Yeah, but I've been counting bottles and you've crossed your faux-sober threshold.\\
'''Hazel:''' ''Eight''? Holy shit, I leveled up!
* AllGirlsLikePonies: Referenced in [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws452/ this strip.]]
* AllMenArePerverts: Jamie gets pretty much everything she wants from strange men, thanks to her endowments. When she covers them up, she is shocked that drinks suddenly [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws290/ cost more]]. Played creepily straight by every male customer of the porn store.
** although you might well feel that "porn store customers are perverts and/or creeps" was a trope in itself
* AllWomenAreLustful: Let's just say that when all the [[ADateWithRosiePalms AA batteries]] disappear, a mob of women are seen wandering the streets as though society had collapsed.
** [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1204/ It's started]]
*** [[WordOfGod "This is about as close to post-apocalyptic storyline as you're ever gonna get from me."]]
* AltText: Starts with [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1054/ strip 1054.]]
* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: Angel believes that [[spoiler: if two women are having sex, they can't get [=STDs=].]] [[TooDumbToLive Wow.]] Recent events show that she realized [[spoiler: [[TemptingFate a bit too late]]]] that she was wrong.
* ArtEvolution: Over time, the art style has become more stylized and loose.
* {{Asexuality}}: Erin, Jamie's girlfriend. The issues it causes makes this one of the few comics to tackle the difference between sexuality and romance.
* BarSlide: Taken to extremes in [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws563/ this strip]].
* TheBartender: Angel. Also Jameson.
* BigBeautifulWoman: Jamie, obviously, with a helping of BigFun thrown in.
* BrainsAndBondage: Clarice, one of the more intelligent members of the cast, is a dominatrix. But she dreams of being a librarian.
* BrickJoke: The wedding arc pulls obscure comments from earlier strips and turns them into punchlines. Jameson's remaining hair makes him look like a clown? [[spoiler: His parents are clowns.]] Candy wanted to marry Jameson with as many things as possible made from baby seal leather just to offend Maureen the vegan? [[spoiler: She replaces the wedding rings with "100% Baby Seal Leather" rings. The rest of the cast is ''not'' amused.]]
* ButchLesbian[=/=]LipstickLesbian: Jamie's ComingOutStory arc had her visiting a gay bar full of {{Butch Lesbian}}s. She ends up going home with LipstickLesbian Thea instead, and eventually decides she likes her girls girly.
** Most of the major gay/bisexual girls are {{Lipstick Lesbian}}s. Even Mimi is more ShortTank than she is butch.
* BuxomIsBetter: Jamie, all the way.
-->'''Maureen:''' Jamie, your breasts are...legendary.\\
'''Jamie:''' You can say it twice. I consider them each a separate legend.
* CampGay: Darren, all the way, with a heaping helping of HaveIMentionedIAmGay. The rest of the gay cast are, by comparison, StraightGay.
* [[NoodleIncident Candle Incident]]: "Best ER story ever."
* TheCasanova: Zach, who is arguably a trope subversion as he considers the three hundred women whom he has serviced as a gift to the community. Prior to hooking up with Hazel, he gave virgins a good first time and helped service the elderly to make them feel loved again.
** ChivalrousPervert
* CastOfSnowflakes: A variety of female (and male) characters with simple but wildly varying body shapes and faces. Even when they dress up as each other for Halloween, it's still possible to tell which character is which.
* CharacterDevelopment: Chris started out as a compulsive exaggerator who was universally known for wearing an eye-patch, but becomes a solid recurring character. One strip also [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this trope when no one recognizes Chris until he puts on his eye patch, which he no longer actually needs. He remarks that he knows what his only distinctive characteristic is. It turns out he has another one, but he works pretty hard to keep that one under wraps.
* {{Crossover}}: [[SomethingPositive Davan]] attended Maureen and Jamison's wedding, and recently Sprinkles gave birth to Choo-Choo Bear's babies, one of whom went to [[Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}} Leslie and Robin.]]
* TheCutie: Jamie. Mimi makes a good case for herself too.
* DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo: Played with in [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws464/ this strip.]]
* DidYouJustHaveSex: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws432/ Hazel get laid?]] [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws631/ Hazel get laid!]].
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Played with. Thea catches a STD from fooling around with Angel. [[spoiler:[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous It's just Restless Leg Syndrome.]]]]
* DragQueen: Darren
* DressesTheSame: Thea at [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1172/ Mimi's party]]. For bonus awkwardness, it's the same top as her girlfriend's ''mother''.
* DrunkenMaster: Hazel is an amazing writer when she's drunk. Her publisher even tells her straight-up that she doesn't have to read an article to know it's quality as long as she knows Hazel wrote it drunk.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In one early series, Hazel drags Jamie to [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws43/ spy on Jameson & Maureen's date]]. Jamie wholeheartedly disapproves of this, and leaves Hazel to spy alone. This is completely reversed (and ignored) later on when Jamie becomes a spying romance detective and Hazel is the disapproving one.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Jamie, who eventually decides that she wants the girls too. [[spoiler:But only from the waist up.]]
* TheFaceless: Tyler's mother
* FakeBuzz: You'd think a high-functioning alcoholic like Hazel would be able to tell Fiona's flask was [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1294/ full of water.]]
** The point was that Hazel was [[StupidSexyFlanders so uncomfortable around her]] that she'd accept any excuse to feel less weird even if it was patently false.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the early days of the strip, Jamie was presented as a girly girl foil for the more tomboyish Hazel, but still had enough emotional range to transcend that sterotype. However, over the past six months or so, Jamie's girlishness has become the nearly exclusive feature of her character, to the point that in many strips her only function seems to be to show up and say/do something cutesy. [[ArtEvolution The shift in art]] has further exaggerated this trend.
** The story arch featuring Jamie in England seems to be actively trying to avert this, first by switching up the art by giving Jamie a new haircut, and then by giving Jamie whole strips in which to emote, something she hasn't been able to do in a while. It's a welcome reversal of some of Jamie's flanderization, although one has to wonder if it could have been done without characterizing her as a neurotic flake (though that's still better than Flanderized Jamie).
** Recently, Hazel's short-sightedness has been taken to extreme levels, with [[spoiler:her quitting her job before Jamie could save her from her short-term greed, and now forced to live with her mom as a result.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Candy. Candy Candy Candy. A rotten bitch to pretty much everyone, but she's an old friend of Jameson's, so they kind of have to put up with her when Jameson decides to bring her along. Then she pulled that stunt at Jameson's wedding, and Jameson woke up to the fact that "Hey wait, ''I'' don't really like Candy either."
* GagBoobs: Jamie. There's more to her than that, of course...
--->'''Hazel:''' ... But I asked twenty people the first word they thought of when they think of you, and ''all'' of them said "boobs". Even YourMom, who added that the ''second'' word she thinks of is "boobs".
* GargleBlaster: The titular slingshot.
* GenderBlenderName: Hazel mistakes [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws696/ Jamie's girlfriend Erin]] for a man named Aaron.
** Which makes panel three [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1367/ here]] something of a BrickJoke.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws723/ So hot it causes spontaneous combustion.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: Tucker was trying to get Clarice's attention. Boy, [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1219/ did he get it]].
* {{Gonk}}: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws864/ The Bearded Lady Fetishist that followed Darren home.]]
* GoodAngelBadAngel: We see Thea's [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1178/ here]].
* HalloweenCosplay: One year, the characters in-strip go the route of pop culture, dressing as [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws188/ Ghostbusters and Smurfs]] at Halloween. The next year, all the female characters dress as each other. [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws355/ This ends about as well as one might expect.]] [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-811/ The year after that]], they dress as [[MemeticMutation internet phenomena]], including RickAstley, HomestarRunner, Two Girls One Cup, and more.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Hazel has had to remind people of her hetero-ness more than once, especially in earlier strips when she isn't getting any.
* HollywoodSex: Mostly averted, except [[RuleOfFunny when it's funny.]] One strip even has [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1328/ Mimi explaining the ways lesbians protect themselves during sex.]]
* HotLibrarian: Averted in Clarice, who tells everyone that she's a librarian when in reality, she is a porn-store clerk moonlighting as a dominatrix. She really does want to be a librarian, though.
** As of recently, played straight.
* HoYay: Jamie and...pretty much everyone female.
* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Jamie, Jamie, Jamie. She even forgoes using a coat in the winter because she can't function without the attention.
* IndulgentFantasySegue: The Revenge of the [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws442/ Porn Store Queen]].
* InformedAbility: According to everyone who sees her photos, Jamie is a really amazing photographer. However, the audience hardly sees any of her work and what little glimpse we get by way of the background of her gallery show appears to be nothing more than some pedestrian pictures of flowers -not exactly the stuff of solo gallery openings (though the fact the gallery showing Jamie's work is apparently out of touch with the rest of the art world and hasn't had an opening in decades might count as a lampshading of this trope).
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Hazel's not good with lesbians. Or remembering things that mean something to her boyfriend. She eventually gets called on this.
* InstantWebHit: Jamie's [[spoiler: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1365/ "I Just want somebody to Ravage me"]] outburst]]
* {{Jerkass}}: ''Candy''. Hazel has her moments of this.
* {{Joisey}}: Various cities and towns in New Jersey are mentioned as being close by. It seems to take place in the New Brunswick area. When Hazel goes to the BigApplesauce she takes the train. The writer is probably a local.
* KarmaHoudini: [[JerkAss Candy]] tried to rape Chris. Everyone's response? Get her a job as a dominatrix so that she has a healthy outlet.
** She finally gets her comeuppance for everything--after her [[MoralEventHorizon prank at the wedding]], the entire group turned their backs on her. She hasn't appeared in the strip since...unless you count some stuttering steps toward redemption in crossover strips from SomethingPositive.
*** She recently reappeared, greatly alarming Jameson. The way he acted, you'd think he was the one she tried to rape (although it's possible the entire attempted date rape has entered CanonDiscontinuity since none of the characters ever mention it even when mention other bad things Candy's done.
* LethalChef: Hazel can start a fire boiling water. Protip: Don't do it in a cast-iron skillet ''in the microwave''.
* MarshmallowHell: Jamie's ...[[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail tracts of land]] are so large that her poor [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws443/ kitten frequently ends up lost in her cleavage.]] One strip, however, [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws638/ implies that in a former life]], the kitten was a soldier who died a virgin, so in a way, he's getting his wish. He also wanted to come back as a kitten. If that soldier ''is'' that kitten, I'd call this a definite [[EarnYourHappyEnding hero's reward.]]
* MediumAwareness: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws471/ Here.]]
* NonHumanSidekick: [=McPedro=],the talking [[{{Scotireland}} Scirish]] cactus. [=McPedro=]'s mustache is, in turn, a NonHumanSidekick himself, as he runs away from [=McPedro=] and [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws540/ travels the world.]] And ''he's'' French. [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot And gay!]]
* TheNotSecret: Subverted - with Jamie "discovering" that Thea and Angel aren't just [[UnusualEuphemism "playing board games"]]. Only to discover on her "proof" video that [[spoiler: it wasn't Thea with Angel on the tape.]]
* TheNudifier: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws770/ Lasers]] that remove your clothes, and [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws774/ save them for later]],used in playing [[StripPoker Strip Laser Tag]].
* OneOfTheBoys: Hazel, to the point where she hangs out with the guys during the bachelor party and is repeatedly mentioned as actually being the guy in her relationship (including shallowness and refusal to think about the "future" beyond lovemaking).
* PaintingTheFourthWall: "[[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws485/ I've never seen so many stars come out of one woman's crotch!]]"
* PoisonousFriend: Candy, to Jameson. She tells herself that her vitriolic attempts to sabotage his relationship with Maureen are just harmless pranks that Maureen is too sensitive to appreciate, until finally she pushes Jameson to the breaking point at the wedding.
* PunnyName:
** [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws459/ Tweeney Sodd]], who eventually robs Jameson of his remaining tuft of hair.
** Melody, who is deaf.
* RapeAsComedy: See RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale. This may be the only webcomic where an attempted rape can end with a punch line, and people are willing to roll with it. See also: {{squick}}.
* RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale:
** Absolutely ''not'', despite what Jameson initially thinks. Candy tries to rape Chris, and gets knocked off her StrawFeminist pedestal quickly by a cast that agrees that she is absolutely wrong. Which still hardly excuses an attempted rape being played for laughs. Even though after a good week's worth of jokes, the strip finally gets around to saying 'seriously kids, rape is wrong no matter what the victim's gender is' it's still jarring.
** A sequence where a female barber threatens to seduce Jameson, kidnaps him, and forcibly shaves him (smoking a cigarette afterward) is played entirely for laughs, probably because all she did was shave his hair, so it being played for laughs is excusable.
* RuleSixtyThree: Done by the artist herself! [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/dudes-with-slingshots/ She thinks boy-type Jamie is very cute.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: Hazel can't seem to grasp that lesbian sex isn't limited to strap-ons.
* SharedUniverse: With ''SomethingPositive'' (and by extension, ''PunchAnPie''). And by extension of those, with ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' (the mascot kitties of SomethingPositive and GirlsWithSlingshots had a litter, one of the kittens is adopted by Leslie in Shortpacked.)
** Also, Robyn from AllNewIssues is apparently Hazel's cousin.
* ShipSinking: Hammered home when Angel not only screws someone else behind Thea's back, but tells Thea they were never in a real relationship to begin with. ''Ouch.''
* ShoutOut: Possibly unintentional, but both of Thea's romantic interests have had the same name as a character from {{RENT}}.
* SilentSnarker: [[TheSpeechless Melody.]]
* TheSpeechless: Maureen's sister, who is deaf. She can still sign and text people, though.
* STDImmunity: Averted with Angel and Thea, where the latter picks up a scorching case of [[spoiler:restless leg syndrome.]]
* StealthPun: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws810/ They don't get it.]]
* StripPoker: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws238/ Strip Scrabble]] and then later [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws770/ Strip Laser Tag]], complete with [[TheNudifier lasers that remove your clothes]].
* TechnicalVirgin: Jamie, despite having several dates that had "happy endings," has never gone all the way. She seems to believe as long as she has an intact hymen she counts as one since she had (implied disastrous) sex with her girlfriend Erin before she left for England but mentioned later when Hazel had an STD scare that she was still a virgin.
* TokenMinorityCouple: A story arc built around subverting Type B: the two lesbians in the regular cast finally meet, with a long buildup to their first date...only to find that they have nothing in common. They do have a lengthy friendship with benefits, though.
* UmbrellaDrink: Because even a GargleBlaster tastes better with umbrellas.
-->[[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws84/ "Everything tastes better with an umbrella."]]
* UnnecessaryMakeover: InUniverse. [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws362/ Maureen]], after sex-toy-purveyor Clarice questions her ability to be sexy. Somewhat averted as the makeover doesn't take, and it is specifically stated that the makeover took away what made her sexy in the first place.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Hazel's at least close, especially early on. She often crosses the line from DeadpanSnarker into just plain being a jerk, and she's also pretty selfish, and this usually appears for the sake of a punchline. However, on other occasions she shows that she's a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold fairly decent person]]. This seems to have come to a head, in-universe, with Hazel and Zach having a major fight over her immaturity.
* UnusualEuphemism: Angel and Thea playing board games in the back room.
** "Giant Sea Cucumber!"
* VictoriasSecretCompartment:
** Jamie. She keeps the world's luckiest kitten in there.
** And Fiona, [[spoiler: Jamie's sister.]] She keeps booze in there.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: Angel gave Thea [[spoiler:Restless Leg Syndrome]]! *GASP!*
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Hazel and Zach, Thea and Angel.
* WorthIt: Seen [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws853/ here]].
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