History Webcomic / OneOverZero

* MindRape

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] [[http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=644 here]].

* BackFromTheDead: Everyone gets one "ghost point", which lets them more or less do this. They're still technically dead (and incorporeal) rather than getting resurrected physically, but they're able to participate fully in the comic's society, so it hardly matters.

* CallingYourAttacks: [[http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=938&nocache=true "Spark punch! Clap shocker! Thunder fists!"]]
** Don't forget the "ELECTRIC BODY SLAM!"

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=563 This,]] then [[http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=782 this]] happens.[[spoiler: For those who are lazy, Junior threatens to kill Mock, then later follows through with it.]]

-->Tailsteak: Don't mind [Junior], he's evil.
-->Manny: Evil, you say?
-->Junior: That's right! I'm your worst nightmare!
-->Manny: My worst nightmare, sir, is a proton accelerator.
-->Junior: Well, I'm one of those, then!

* NoFourthWall: Taken to an art form. In fact, it's in many ways the main point of the strip.
** "This strip doesn't have a fourth wall, baby!" (Strip 16)

* RunningGag: [[http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=42 Literally.]] The Running Gag starts out as a VisualPun and becomes an actual running gag as the strip goes on.

* ShowWithinAShow: "Max's World", a strip drawn by Max to show Marcus what a comic strip is. Though it doesn't last very long, as the 1/0 characters gets jealous of the main character's girlfriend and drop an anvil on him in the next panel.
** Parodied in [[http://www.rogermwilcox.com/maxs_world.html The Max's World Archive]].

* PutOnABus: Running Gag. Disappears [[http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=181 early]], returns [[http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=932 late]], though he makes a minor appearance somewhere in the middle.

* RunningGag: [[VisualPun Liter]][[IncrediblyLamePun ally]].

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Marcus.
** Though it's actually DelusionsOfEloquence. Tailsteak eventually calls him out on this.

* SitchSexuality: [[spoiler:The fourth-walled Marcus briefly flirts with homosexuality]] prior to the introduction of the first female character.
* SmoochOfVictory

Not to be confused with DivideByZero.

*** Scales and distances are given, in relation to Teddy Weddy, as large as kilometers- Admittedly, describing an area around it. Still, odds up, he got 'enbiggenated'.

* AuthorTract: Lampshaded very aggressively in the debate between Ghanny, Mock, and Marcus. Petitus pointed out that it was very much an AuthorTract coming from a Christian writer.

* FourthWall: Both literal and bad news - character who no longer want to put up with Tailsteak's arbitrary rules can generate a personal FourthWall, which appears as tiny 4s in their eyes. Ghanny loathes it and tries to break any fourth wall he encounters, [[spoilers: which turns into a plot point near the end - he's finally able to break through, but it's through blunt force (necessary, to help his friends in time) rather than witty repartee and debate. It's a bit of a hollow victory for the poor guy.]]

* WebcomicsLongRunners: Just barely meets the 1000-strip criteria, with 1,003. Yes, 1,003. April Fools' Day strips are not included in the "exactly 1,000 strips" count.

''[[http://www.undefined.net/1/0/ 1/0]]'' starts, appropriately enough, with darkness. {{Tailsteak}}, the ever present and all powerful narrator and author thinks for a moment and says "Let there be light" and from there on goes about creating his universe. He starts by stealing bit characters from other {{Webcomics}}, talking to them, creating other characters from them and begging them to do something interesting.

{{Tailsteak}} is still around now that 1/0 is complete -- he's [[http://tailsteak.com/index.php working on new projects on a new site]]. He also recently started a new continually updating comic: ''Webcomic/LeftoverSoup''.

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* VisualPun

As any good author will tell you, a good character is your worst enemy. If you are doing your job properly, you don't know what they will do, they write themselves, they will occasionally mess up your plans for long term plots, or break dramatic moments with idiotic questions. A good author doesn't control their characters, their characters control themselves. And that is where 1/0 is masterful -- The characters are aware, and they don't always agree with Tailsteak.

And they wonder about and fear, the end. At 1000 strips, a nice round number at which point their creator, Tailsteak has told them "Your universe will end."

As any good author will tell you, a good character is your worst enemy. If you are doing your job properly, you don't know what they will do, they write themselves they will do things occasionally that will really mess up your plans for long term plots or break dramatic moments with idiotic questions. A good author doesn't control their characters, their characters control themselves. And that is where 1/0 is masterful -- The characters are aware, and they don't always agree with Tailsteak.

-->''"1/0" is a paradox in a way that "0/1" is not. Nothing can be divided by zero. If one approaches the formula from the positive side, it would appear that the answer is an infinite positive value. If one approaches the formula from the negative side, the opposite is true. Thus, anything divided by zero is simultaneously positive and negative infinity. "One over Zero" is a paradox in another way too, in a way that transcends mere arithmetic. One is something, and Zero is nothing. The fact that the universe holds something over nothing, that it prefers to exist, rather than not exist, is fundamentally absurd. No being can ever come to deserve its own birth. 1/0 is a cry out against mere logic and efficiency. Stuff exists. All existence, all truth, cannot be ultimately justified: it can only be described, explained, and enjoyed.''

-->''1/0 is illogical. 1/0 is irrational. 1/0 is impossible. 1/0 is transcendentally unfair.''

-->''1/0 is true. Deal with it.''