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* WaxingLyrical: [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=22 Some of the Founding Fathers go to the mall.]]

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* WaxingLyrical: [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=22 php?id=372 Some of the Founding Fathers go to the mall.]]

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* WaxingLyrical: [[Music/{{Nelly}} It's getting hot in here]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=22 SOMEONE OUGHT TO]] [[Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix OPEN UP A WINDOW]]

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* WaxingLyrical: [[Music/{{Nelly}} It's getting hot in here]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=22 SOMEONE OUGHT TO]] Some of the Founding Fathers go to the mall.]]
--> [[Music/{{Nelly}} It's getting hot in here]]\\
[[Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix SOMEONE OUGHT TO OPEN UP A WINDOW]]
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* WaxingLyrical: [[Music/{{Nelly}} It's getting hot in here]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=22 SOMEONE OUGHT TO]] [[Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix OPEN UP A WINDOW]]
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* ManlyFacialHair: Apparently, at least one objection to Sanford Fleming's proposed system of standardized time zones was inspired by [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=22 jealousy of Fleming's magnificent beard]].
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** Her [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=305 take]] on [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] is that she's just trying to do her job, but ComicBook/{{Superman}} keeps bothering her by trying (and failing) to get her to care about his SecretIdentity.

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** Her [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=305 take]] on [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] is that she's a normal reporter who's just trying to do her job, but ComicBook/{{Superman}} keeps bothering her by trying (and failing) to get her to care about his SecretIdentity.
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** ComicBook/LoisLane, [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=305 Reporter]].

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** ComicBook/LoisLane, Her [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=305 Reporter]].take]] on [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] is that she's just trying to do her job, but ComicBook/{{Superman}} keeps bothering her by trying (and failing) to get her to care about his SecretIdentity.
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The webcomic went on hiatus in mid December 2016 as Beaton switched focus to a graphic novel she was working on, though she continued to post sporadic updates on her Website/{{Tumblr}}. On the 10th of October 2018 Beaton updated the website to inform readers that due to personal issues and continuing work on other projects she had decided that ''Hark!'' had run its course and the website would now be an archive of the comic with no new comics planned. The comic can be read [[http://harkavagrant.com on its site.]] Additionally, Kate Beaton has a personal tumblr which can be seen [[http://beatonna.tumblr.com/ here,]] and a Live Journal [[http://beatonna.livejournal.com here.]]

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The webcomic went on hiatus in mid December mid-December 2016 as Beaton switched focus to a graphic novel she was working on, though she continued to post sporadic updates on her Website/{{Tumblr}}. On the 10th of October 2018 Beaton updated the website to inform readers that due to personal issues and continuing work on other projects she had decided that ''Hark!'' had run its course and the website would now be an archive of the comic with no new comics planned. The comic can be read [[http://harkavagrant.com on its site.]] Additionally, Kate Beaton has a personal tumblr which can be seen [[http://beatonna.tumblr.com/ here,]] and a Live Journal [[http://beatonna.livejournal.com here.]]
]], though both have been dormant since 2017 and 2012 respectively; she can currently be found on [[https://twitter.com/beatonna Twitter]] and [[https://www.instagram.com/kate.beaton/ Instagram]].
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-->'''Susan:''' I don't need a man! ''(the very next panel)'' There's just something '''about''' this [[ThisLoserIsYou incredibly weak male lead]]...

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-->'''Susan:''' I don't need a man! ''(the very next panel)'' There's just something [[WeaknessTurnsHerOn something]] '''about''' this [[ThisLoserIsYou incredibly weak male lead]]...
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* IntimateOpenShirt: Parodied in "[[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=120 'Ooh Mister Darcy', a Fan Fiction]]". Darcy arrives home and states that "also my shirt opened?" This seems to have happened completely out of nowhere, to the point that Darcy himself [[ConfusedQuestionMark seems confused about it]], but it leads to him and Elizabeth having sex. And he leaves his cravat on.
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* PeriodPieceModernLanguage: Much of the comic's humor is from the historical figures and fictional characters speaking very casually and humorously. For example, the [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=202 Brontës]] react to a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys mean guy with "Nice" and "I know, right?"]] or [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=213 Jules Verne writing to Edgar Allan Poe like a fangirl]].
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: To an extent. Knowledge of European and North American history certainly helps, as the comic isn't going to explain the characters and events to you, but most of the time the comics are funny even if you don't know the history. (And at any rate, there's always Wiki/TheOtherWiki if you need a refresher... Hell, it's a ''web''comic, so you must be close to a search engine, right?)

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* ViewersAreGeniuses: To an extent. Knowledge of European and North American history certainly helps, as the comic isn't going to explain the characters and events to you, but most of the time the comics are funny even if you don't know the history. (And at any rate, there's always Wiki/TheOtherWiki Website/TheOtherWiki if you need a refresher... Hell, it's a ''web''comic, so you must be close to a search engine, right?)
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* BritsLoveTea: And [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=38 Australian General John Monash is having none of it]].
-->'''British General''': Mock the British, then, Monash, go ahead! But I hardly think--
-->'''Monocled Upper-Class Twit''': [''looming into the frame holding a teacup''] DID SOMEONE SAY TEA PARTY
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* BadassBoast: The [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=331 velocipedestrienne]] has one, partly thanks to NoPunctuationIsFunnier.
-->'''Velocipedestrienne''': You see me rollin up pops you step aside
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* UnfortunateSearchResults: What happens when [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=32 Kate responds to a suggestion]] that she write a comic about the letters Creator/JamesJoyce wrote to his partner Nora Barnacle.
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Blinding Bangs is no longer a trope. Moving examples to other tropes when applicable.


* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The dark-haired Mystery Solving Teen loves his [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=241 grandma]]. The Mystery Solving Teen with BlindingBangs loves his grandma, too, but he doesn't look like a giant tit when he wears the things she makes for him.

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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The dark-haired Mystery Solving Teen loves his [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=241 grandma]]. The Mystery Solving Teen with BlindingBangs bangs loves his grandma, too, but he doesn't look like a giant tit when he wears the things she makes for him.
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Badass Beard is no longer a trope


* BadassBeard: Sanford Fleming's troubles in establishing time zones are due to [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=22 everyone being jealous of his mighty beard]].
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* SoreLoser: [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=349 Alexander the Great doesn't like to lose at board games]].

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* SoreLoser: [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=349 Alexander the Great doesn't like to lose at board games]].games, and Alexander Pushkin doesn't like to lose at cat shows]].
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: Consistently [[AvertedTrope averted]]. No matter what time period the comic is set in, all characters use modern English [[RuleOfFunny because it's funny]]. The only comics that play this straight are the [[TitleDrop title-dropping]] comic with Kate and the [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=132 vagrant]] and [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=372 the Founding Fathers]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=375 strips]], which invert this by having characters speak in AntiquatedLinguistics in very modern settings (the exception being UsefulNotes/BenjaminFranklin, who immediately adapts to modern American English for extra funny).

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* AntiquatedLinguistics: Consistently [[AvertedTrope averted]]. No matter what time period the comic is set in, all characters use modern English [[RuleOfFunny because it's funny]]. The only comics that play this straight are the [[TitleDrop title-dropping]] comic with Kate and the [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=132 vagrant]] and [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=372 the Founding Fathers]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=375 strips]], which invert this by having characters speak in AntiquatedLinguistics in very modern settings (the exception being UsefulNotes/BenjaminFranklin, Creator/BenjaminFranklin, who immediately adapts to modern American English for extra funny).
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: Consistently [[AvertedTrope averted]]. No matter what time period the comic is set in, all characters use modern English [[RuleOfFunny because it's funny]]. The only comics that play this straight are the [[TitleDrop title-dropping]] comic with Kate and the [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=132 vagrant]] and [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=372 the Founding Fathers]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=375 strips]], which invert this by having characters speak in AntiquatedLinguistics in very modern settings.

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* AntiquatedLinguistics: Consistently [[AvertedTrope averted]]. No matter what time period the comic is set in, all characters use modern English [[RuleOfFunny because it's funny]]. The only comics that play this straight are the [[TitleDrop title-dropping]] comic with Kate and the [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=132 vagrant]] and [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=372 the Founding Fathers]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=375 strips]], which invert this by having characters speak in AntiquatedLinguistics in very modern settings.settings (the exception being UsefulNotes/BenjaminFranklin, who immediately adapts to modern American English for extra funny).
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* DeadlyDeferredConversation: In the ''Literature/{{Kokoro}}'' comics Sensei's reluctance and hesitance to share his backstory with the young man, and the fact that he only does so in his suicide note, is lampshaded in [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=359 "The Heart of Things (But Later)"]]
-->''I would like to tell you about my past juicy secrets, and yet I think a dog will bark somewhere so that I cannot continue my story.''
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* PlagiarismInFiction: [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=240 "Every Lady Scientist Who Ever Did Anything (until recently)"]] depicts a simplified version of the real life theft of Rosalind Franklin's research and innovations by male scientists.
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* {{Facepalm}}: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs slaps a hand over his face while he's trying to argue for gay rights, when he compares it to people needing to speak up against witch hunts in the (then) near past only for a lady to say that ''[[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=396 "Ok, except everyone knows witches don't exist."]]'' Ulrichs is a real historical figure, who was advocating for gay rights ''before the word homosexual was coined'' and ended up exiled for his activism.
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** The Bronte sisters, with Creator/AnneBronte acting as the OnlySaneMan
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* ShoutOut: My fossils bring all the boys to the yard and they're like: [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=399 you still can't join the geological society of London.]] [[note]] Is Music/{{Kelis}}' milkshake song a gift to humanity, or what?[[/note]]
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Getting Crap Past The Radar needs to discuss how it actually got past the radar, it's not simply any innuendo (and if it's a web work, then lack of a radar disqualifies it)


* StealthPun: [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Possibly]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=266 Stupid Rooster Comics]].

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* StealthPun: [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Possibly]] Possibly [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=266 Stupid Rooster Comics]].
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: Consistently [[AvertedTrope averted]]. No matter what time period the comic is set in, all characters use modern English [[RuleOfFunny because it's funny]]. The only comics that play this straight are the [[TitleDrop title-dropping]] comic with Kate and the [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=132 vagrant]] and [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=372 the Founding Fathers]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=375 strips]].

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* AntiquatedLinguistics: Consistently [[AvertedTrope averted]]. No matter what time period the comic is set in, all characters use modern English [[RuleOfFunny because it's funny]]. The only comics that play this straight are the [[TitleDrop title-dropping]] comic with Kate and the [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=132 vagrant]] and [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=372 the Founding Fathers]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=375 strips]].strips]], which invert this by having characters speak in AntiquatedLinguistics in very modern settings.
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* PrecisionFStrike: By [[Theatre/JuliusCaesar Marc Antony]], [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=307 of all people]].

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* PrecisionFStrike: By [[Theatre/JuliusCaesar Marc Antony]], UsefulNotes/MarkAntony, [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=307 of all people]].
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-->'''Man:''' Empress, Poland is unhappy with Russian rule!

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-->'''Man:''' -->'''Other Man:''' Empress, Poland is unhappy with Russian rule!



-->'''Man''': *disheveled* This is one hell of a takeover...

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-->'''Man''': *disheveled* -->'''Disheveled Polish Man''': This is one hell of a takeover...
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* VerbalBackspace: In "[[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=196 Goldman and Czolgosz]]."
-->'''Emma Goldman:''' Everyone must join the anarchist movement! We can make a difference!\\
'''Leon Czolgosz:''' Can I join?\\
''[beat]''\\
'''Emma Goldman:''' Everyone except creepy losers must join the anarchist movement!
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--> "Sometimes? I pretend to be Neptune."

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--> ---> "Sometimes? I pretend to be Neptune."



** Comicbook/LoisLane, [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=305 Reporter]].

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** Comicbook/LoisLane, ComicBook/LoisLane, [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=305 Reporter]].



-->"OK so, try to find a place here that I haven't put my penis in. It's not easy."

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-->"OK --->"OK so, try to find a place here that I haven't put my penis in. It's not easy."



-->'''Banquo''': Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
-->'''Macbeth''': ''(thinking)'' Kill everyone.
-->'''Banquo''': Ha ha! Our kids are totally gonna hook up!
-->'''Macbeth''': What?

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-->'''Banquo''': Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
-->'''Macbeth''':
thinking?\\
'''Macbeth''':
''(thinking)'' Kill everyone.
-->'''Banquo''':
everyone.\\
'''Banquo''':
Ha ha! Our kids are totally gonna hook up!
-->'''Macbeth''':
up!\\
'''Macbeth''':
What?



--> '''Georgiana:''' [speculating on her husband's legacy] "Charles Babbage, he hated musicians"\\

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--> ---> '''Georgiana:''' [speculating on her husband's legacy] "Charles Babbage, he hated musicians"\\



--> '''Beethoven:''' Ah, you say these things to hurt me, but I know it isn't true. You love me best.\\

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--> ---> '''Beethoven:''' Ah, you say these things to hurt me, but I know it isn't true. You love me best.\\



--> '''Peasant''': Why are we eating gruel with our hands?!
--> '''Other Peasant''': Dude, it's the Dark Ages, no one knows shit about anything yet. You're lucky we have ''bowls''.

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--> ---> '''Peasant''': Why are we eating gruel with our hands?!
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hands?!\\
'''Other Peasant''': Dude, it's the Dark Ages, no one knows shit about anything yet. You're lucky we have ''bowls''.

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