History Webcomic / ParadoxSpace

* "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse": Rose and Jade's dream selves meet up to explore Prospit and Derse. (Mary Borsellino & Magnolia Porter)

* "Go Fetch": Jade and Rose are preparing for a role-playing game. (Arden Ripley, Kristen Kemper & Shelby Cragg)

''Paradox Space'' is also available in print collections (with one volume released and a second available for pre-order so far), which contain extra stories and material not available online.

* "Nak Worth": Two LOHAC Stock Exchange traders discuss a business venture. (Phil Gibson & J.N. Wiedle)

** John in every comic he's in; a given as he just wouldn't be John Egbert if he weren't {{Adorkable}}. He's ''really'' this in "You Have a Feeling It's Going to Be a Long Day" and "Con Fair", though.

* SheIsTheKing: Andrew's horse-themed chess set in "Horseplay", if you look attentively at the crowns and the colors of starting positions.

* NumberTwo: Crowbar discusses this in "The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven," who acts the Number Three to Doc Scratch, who is in practice the leader of the Felt, since Lord English prefers to work alone. What confuses this even more is that each member of the Felt has a number, but Crowbar is Number Seven and Scratch gets no number!

** John in every comic he's in; a given as he just wouldn't be John Egbert if he weren't Adorkable. He's ''really'' this in "You Have a Feeling It's Going to Be a Long Day" and "Con Fair", though.

* "Hospitality": Gamzee visits Eridan in LOWAA. (Alex Rofael & Mary Cagle)

* ArcNumber: 413 pops up in "Horse Play" as the order number for Hussie's horse-themed chess set.

* MisterExposition: In "Con Faire", John fills this role.

** In "Summerteen Romance", Karkat portrays himself as this in his AU.

* NumberTwo: Crowbar discusses this in "The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven," who acts the Number Three to SelfDemonstrating/DocScratch, who is in practice the leader of the Felt, since Lord English prefers to work alone. What confuses this even more is that each member of the Felt has a number, but Crowbar is Number Seven and Scratch gets no number!

-> ''Those who like [''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''] are extremely fond of the characters, yet those characters are trapped -- "stuck" if you will -- inside a very particular narrative, which itself has been at the mercy of my ability to produce it. So when I think about the future of Homestuck, I envision projects which liberate the things people love about it from the story itself, and most importantly, from my intensive personal effort. So this website is the first major step in that direction.

** "Can Town in Trouble" continues the trend of treating Exiles as mutes,

-> ''Those who like [Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}] are extremely fond of the characters, yet those characters are trapped -- "stuck" if you will -- inside a very particular narrative, which itself has been at the mercy of my ability to produce it. So when I think about the future of Homestuck, I envision projects which liberate the things people love about it from the story itself, and most importantly, from my intensive personal effort. So this website is the first major step in that direction.

* ThereWasADoor: Cans introduces himself this way in "The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven," prompting Crowbar to think "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool-Aid_Man Oh yeah]."

** "Damara" could be argued to be this for Paradox Space as a whole. It's based on ''{{Manga/Tomie}}'', a horror manga, and has a lot of genuinely disturbing content (even by Homestuck standards!), to the degree that they actually put a warning on it.

* ''You Have A Feeling It's Going To Be A Long Day:'' A silent introductory comic showing John waking up on his 13th birthday. (Andrew Hussie & Zack Morrison (''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}''))
* ''Headed For Stardom:'' Gamzee hosts a "talent carnival". It's a shame that all the participants are inanimate. (Jonathan Griffiths (''Webcomic/BeyondTheCanopy''))
* ''John's Birthday:'' The kids and trolls go to the zoo. (KC Green (''Webcomic/{{Gunshow}}''))
* ''Prototyped:'' John's first prototyping goes a bit differently... (Zack Morrison (''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}''))
* ''A Fun Day for Bec:'' Bec uses his powers to play fetch around the world. (Rachel Rocklin & Matt Cummings)
* ''Critical Miss:'' Eridan and Vriska amuse themselves with some role-playing. (Benito Cereno & Kristin Kemper)
* ''Con Faire:'' The cast participate in the Teen Film/ConAir re-enactment contest. (David [=McGuire=] (''Webcomic/GastroPhobia''))
* ''Deadline Day:'' The Dersite press struggles with uneventful times. (Matt Boyd & Ian [=McConville=] (''Webcomic/ThreePanelSoul''))
* ''A Fun Day for [=GCat=]:'' [=GCat=] uses his powers to hunt critters around the world. (Rachel Rocklin & Matt Cummings)
* ''Quality Time:'' Dad takes John with him on a shopping trip. (Andrew Hussie & Hanni Brosh)
* ''Fetch Quest:'' A day on the job for PM. (Phil Gibson & Evan Dahm)
* ''Summer Sea Fun:'' Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff do some underwater diving. (KC Green (''Webcomic/{{Gunshow}}''))
* ''Hunting Lesson:'' Nepeta takes Equius on a hunting trip. (Phil Gibson & Adrienne Garcia)
* ''Togy Hark Pro Skator:'' Sweet Bro goes skateboarding. (KC Green)
* ''Ace Sleuth Jane:'' Jane starts an investigation about who ate her sandwich. (David [=McGuire=])
* ''Party Crashers:'' Some bored Consorts have a tea party, attracting some undesired company. (Rachel Rocklin, Kory Bing & Matt Cummings)
* ''Nak Worth:'' Two LOHAC Stock Exchange traders discuss a business venture. (Phil Gibson & J.N. Wiedle)
* ''Suffering Through/For The People:'' The Signless answers questions from the masses. (Zack Morrison, E.K Weaver, Adrienne Garcia)
* ''Pones:'' Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff like ponies. (KC Green)
* ''A Fun Day for Jaspers:'' Jaspers plays psychotherapist with Rose. (Rachel Rocklin, J.N. Wiedle & Allison Shabet)
* ''Killswitch Engage:'' Equius demands help from Sollux with a computer problem. (Phil Gibson & Mallory Dyer)
* ''Hand Made in Alternia:'' Doc Scratch welcomes the reader to his humble abode. (Phil Gibson)
* ''Indemnity Double Reacharound:'' Terezi and Dave play with scalemates. (Benito Cereno & John Keogh)
* ''The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:'' Rose and Jade's dream selves meet up to explore Prospit and Derse. (Mary Borsellino & Magnolia Porter)
* ''Her Pale Passions:'' A drunk Rose meets with Kanaya to study quadrants after picking up a "textbook". (Phil Gibson)
* ''Can Town in Trouble'': Can Town is threatened by an intruding creature. (J.N. Wiedle, Kristin Kemper, Adrienne Garcia, & Bea Munoz)
* ''Night At The [=100DSEUM=]:'' Equius "kidnaps" Terezi and Karkat. (Jonathan Griffiths & Mallory Dyer)
* ''Soul-Fraying Games:'' It's time for some tabletop gaming with Karkat, Kanaya, Rose, Terezi and Dave! (Alex Rafael & Rennie Kingsley)
* ''The Viceroy and the Lady Grimme:'' Rose and Bubbles are on an adventure together. (Evin Weston & Fin Hickey)
* ''Horse Play:'' Doc Scratch challenges Andrew Hussie to a game of chess. (Zack Morrison, Jonathan Griffiths & Mallory Dyer)
* ''Lalondian Tourism:'' Kanaya and Terezi explore Rose's Memory Room. (Alex Rofael & Adrienne Garcia)
* ''Go Fetch'': Jade and Rose are preparing for a role-playing game. (Arden Ripley, Kristen Kemper & Shelby Cragg)
* ''The Thirst of Dornamon Gary'': Sweet Bro makes Hella Jeff an immortality-granting t-shirt. (KC Green)
* ''Hospitality'': Gamzee visits Eridan in LOWAA. (Alex Rofael & Mary Cagle)
* ''Mother & Grub'': The Dolorosa takes the infant Sufferer under her wing. (Alex Rofael & Adrienne Garcia)
* ''Garbage Day'': Somebody's got to take out the trash. (Alex Rofael & Incineraptor)
* ''Stand-Up Room Only'': Dualscar tells a joke. (J.N. Wiedle, Phil Gibson & Adrienne Garcia)
* ''Damara'': Damara Megido died yesterday. (Allison Shabet, Mary Borsellino, & Tom Siddell (''{{Webcomic/Gunnerkrigg Court}}''))
* ''Antiquated Japesterism'': Dirk and Jake discuss [[HaveAGayOldTime boners]]. (Alex Rofael & EK Weaver)
* ''The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven'': There's a meeting at the Felt Mansion. (Andrew Hussie & J.N. Wiedle)
* ''A Friend In Need'': Feferi asks Kanaya for fashion advice. (Mary Borsellino & Rennie Kingsley)
* ''The Mortician'': Terezi hosts another scalemate trial. (Hanni Brosh)
* ''Secret Sufferer'': Christmas, Homestuck style. (Matt Cummings & Phil Gibson)

* ''Lady Grimme and the Red Knight'': The continuing adventures of Lady Grimme as she encounters the Red Knight. (J.N. Wiedle & Mary Borsellino)
* ''Three out of Five Hats'': Dave reviews Karkat's romance novels. (Incineraptor & John Girard)
* ''Birds and Bees'': Jade asks her grandpa an important question about life. (Matt Cummings & Alex Rofael)
* ''Steward of Void'': Dave finds himself on Butler Island. (Shad Andrews & Phil Gibson)
* ''Star of the Ocean'': Aradia goes treasure hunting. (Phil Gibson & Adrienne Garcia)
* ''Spritecon'': The sprites hold a convention. (Hanni Brosh & Phil Gibson)
* ''Relation Shipping'': Nepeta offers her services. (Phil Gibson & Rennie Kingsley)
* ''Summerteen Romance'': The trolls go to summer camp. (Jonathan Griffiths, Zack Morrison, Tauhid Bondia, & Shelby Cragg)

* ''Vrisky Business'': Vriska pays a visit to her neighbor. (Andrew Hussie and Mallory Dyer) (Incomplete, finished on second print volume).

** Vriska and Eridan, of all people, are this in ''Critical Miss'', where they can be seen playing [=FLARPing=] and at the beginning, they're hunched over rule books and character manuals. Eridan especially, with his hilariously bad attempts at flirting and accusing Vriska of cheating.

* AlwaysMurder: Berrybreath remarks in ''Indemnity Double Reacharound'' that it's "always murder in this load gaper of a town."

* AnimeHair: Played with; in ''You Have A Feeling It's Going To Be A Long Day'', [[http://www.paradoxspace.com/you-have-a-feeling-it-s-going-to-be-a-long-day/2/ John lathers his hair]] with "pixel gel" to give it the sharp, spiky appearance it has in ''Homestuck''.
* ArcNumber: 413 pops up in ''Horse Play'' as the order number for Hussie's horse-themed chess set.

* BishieSparkle: Karkat's self-insert in ''Summerteen Romance'' has this.
* BlackComedy: ''Headed For Stardom'' opens with Gamzee holding a talent contest. In a room surrounded by the heads of the trolls he's killed. And they're the contestants.
* BlahBlahBlah: ''A Fun Day for Jaspers'' has the young Rose pulling off a tirade so long that this is all that Jaspers (and by extension the reader) can hear.

** In ''Summerteen Romance'', Karkat and Dave do.

** Doc Scratch reads Crowbar's narration in ''The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven'' and responds to it as if they're talking to each other.

** The crowd in ''Con Faire'' includes Ms. Paint, Spades Slick, [[Webcomic/ProblemSleuth Problem Sleuth, Pickle Inspector and Ace Dick,]], Itchy, the Aimless Renegade, Spades Slick, and what could be Bec Noir.
** A troll drawn to resemble Dammek from the {{VideoGame/Hiveswap}} game, can be glimpsed in the second page crowd of Suffering Through/For The People.

** The AltText for the last page of ''A Fun Day for Bec'' is "GOOD DOG. BEST FRIEND." That's a reference to an early part with Jade in ''Homestuck''.
** The AltText for the first page of ''Soul-Flaying Games'' is "what's a mom?", calling back to ''Suffering for/through the People'' when a troll asked the Sufferer the same question.

* CassandraTruth: In ''John's Birthday'', John tells Dave that the zoo's monkeys have knives. Dave takes this for an attempt at comedy, and [[SeriousBusiness berates]] John for his lack of originality. [[RuleOfFunny Of course]], John is telling the truth.
* ChainOfDeals: The plot of ''Fetch Quest'', wherein the Parcel Mistress travels from planet to planet exchanging goods in order to barter for a gift to the White Queen.

* CheatersNeverProsper: If the AltText in ''Con Faire'' is fully part of the comic, then part of the reason it ended in a CrackDefeat was because Vriska attempted to mind control WV into judging her the winner, and he found out.

* CrackDefeat: Lampshaded at the end of ''Con Faire'', when the win goes to John and Roxy after [[strike:WV]] THE JUDGE awards them ''[[UpToEleven six billion points]]'' for love and heart in "an extremely unconventional [[HarryPotter Dumbledore-esque]] move".
* CriticalFailure: ''Critical Miss'' sees Eridan roll a CRITICAL WHALE, which makes brash criticisms of Eridan as Vriska defeats him.
* CurseCutShort: In ''Critical Miss'', Eridan manages to say "Oh shi-" before Vriska goes medieval on him.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Becquerel's 'fun day' is a global game of fetch. [=GCat=]'s is a global safari, in which he hunts whatever animal he can get his shiny paws on.
** ''Damara'' could be argued to be this for Paradox Space as a whole. It's based on ''{{Manga/Tomie}}'', a horror manga, and has a lot of genuinely disturbing content (even by Homestuck standards!), to the degree that they actually put a warning on it.
* DeadlyGame: Eridan and Vriska's game in ''Critical Miss'' is one; if Vriska wins, she gets to feed Eridan's lowblood 'slaves' to her lusus.
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: In ''Hunting Lesson'', an imp Equius punches explodes into a grist-raining fireball as it flies into the horizon, though that is a standard reaction of Denizen constructs in the comic proper.
* DontTryThisAtHome: The AltText for the last page of ''Headed for Stardom'' warns readers not to put stickers on their eyes when they're cosplaying.

* DudeNotIronic: Karkat and Vriska have an exchange like that during ''Con Faire.''

* EsotericHappyEnding: In-universe; ''Summerteen Romance'' ends with everyone living HappilyEverAfter...except Aradia. Lampshaded by Karkat's future self, who points out how needlessly cruel it was of him to give everyone else a happy ending whilst not only killing Aradia off ''before the story even started'', but also leaving her as a miserable ghost forever (especially considering the fact that, at that point in canon, Aradia was actually the only troll who ''was'' completely happy and content with her life).
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: A bunch of monkeys live in the zoo in ''John's Birthday.''

* ExpressiveAccessory: Nepeta's hat, in ''Hunting Lesson''.
* EyePatchAfterTimeSkip: Karkat's self-insert gets one during ''Summerteen Romance''. We probably would have seen exactly how he'd gotten it if it weren't for Dave, the Knight of Time, getting bored and skipping ahead in the script.
* FixFic: ''Summerteen Romance'', an in-universe, deconstructed example. As Karkat's future self points out, Karkat's attempt and fixing things is more or less desperate WishFulfillment, he depicted everyone getting over their problems unrealistically (and some of them just magically have no problems whatsoever) and Aradia's left as a dead ghost forever, making her part of the story pointlessly depressing (not to mention how disturbing it was that he wasn't giving her a happy ending like everyone else)
* FlatWhat: Very, very prevalent throughout ''Horse Play'' in regards to Doc Scratch's reactions to Hussie's chess shenanigans.
* ForWantOfANail: ''Prototyped'' deviates from canon events merely from John picking up an extra harlequin figurine. Indeed, the last page has John and Dave [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] the fact that they're in a doomed timeline.

** On the first page of ''John's Birthday'', if you look in the background you can see that Terezi has a birthday hat strapped to her face instead of the top of her head.
** Also, in the first page in ''Prototyped'', the captchalogue codes for the cards are "[[TheStoner 420BLZ]]" and "[=8UTT5=]".
* GoryDiscretionShot: In ''Damara'', the eponymous girl's death isn't depicted (except through dialogue); all the art shows is her broken-off horn. Given that she's stated to have cracked her head open, this is probably for the best.
* AGoodNameForARockBand: The alt-text for [[http://www.paradoxspace.com/quality-time/3 page three of Quality Time]] remarks that "bogus dad crisis" will be the name of Hussie's new band.
* HaveAGayOldTime: ''[[http://www.paradoxspace.com/antiquated-japesterism/1 Antiquated Japesterism]]'' is just one big joke about how "boner" meant mistake back in the 1950s, but has a less PG-rated meaning now (in fact, it would be rated R. For "Raunchy as hell").
* HerCodenameWasMarySue: Everyone is for the most part in character, but Karkat makes himself super popular and handsome in ''Summerteen Romance''.
* HighSchoolAU: ''Damara'' takes place in this setting.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: ''Lalondian Tourism'' is about Kanaya and Terezi misunderstanding their way through Rose's bedroom and childhood, not at all helped by the fact that [[UnreliableNarrator Rose herself misinterpreted everything her mother ever did, and has relayed those misunderstandings to Kanaya]]. The two trolls mistake her violin for a torture device, and mistake a photo of Rose attacking a birthday clown as her defending herself from a subjugglator.
* ImmortalityInducer: Hella Jeff's t-shirt from ''The Thirst of Dornamon Gary'' has a drawing that ages instead of him.
* InsaneTrollLogic: According to one troll in ''Suffering Through/For The People'', the Condesce can't be that bad if trolls prostrate themselves before her image each day. As the Sufferer quickly points out, they only do that because [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the Condesce murders them if they don't]].

* MisterExposition: In ''Con Faire'', John fills this role.

** If ''Suffering Through/For The People'' is to be believed, the Signless had enough admirers, given that trolls as a species are bisexual, for at least one of them to demand that he take his shirt off during one of his rallies. [[FridgeLogic How they expected him to do that when he doesn't really wear a shirt in the first place is anyone's guess]].
** In ''Summerteen Romance'', Karkat portrays himself as this in his AU.
* MoodDissonance: In ''Homestuck'' tradition. For example, ''Stardom'' depicts a crazed serial killer playing with the corpses of his victims, and is rendered in bright, cartoony art.

** The strips' unconnected nature makes this inevitable, although most of them seem to be either comedy-based on light in nature. ''Quality Time'' goes from a humorous exchange between John and Dave over bro shops to Dave monologuing about being left alone in an empty concrete ball pit for hours in the span of ''two pages.''
** ''Summerteen Romance'' is a mostly comedic parody of AU fanfics with Karkat portraying himself as a MartyStu and [[FixFic everyone getting what they want and not dying]]. Then the penultimate page has his future self harshly criticizing all the WishFulfillment, in a very soul-crushingly depressing way as opposed to the usual comedic arguing that one would usually expect from Karkat talking to himself.

** In ''Killswitch Engage'' John's ghostly arm can be seen amongst the robot horde in reference to a CosmicRetcon he created in Act 6 of ''Homestuck''. We also learn [[MultipleChoicePast one of the ways]] Equius lost his left horn.
** ''The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven'' sees a reference to [[BizarreAlienReproduction Leprechaun charms]] and [[PhysicalGod the Genesis Frog]].
* NeverMyFault: In ''Damara'', Cronus blames his own failings on Damara.
* NoImmortalInertia: At the end of ''The Thirst of Dornamon Gary'', Hella Jeff's immortality-granting t-shirt gets torn, and he instantly becomes the rotting corpse that was pictured on it.

* NumberTwo: Crowbar discusses this in ''The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven'', who acts the Number Three to SelfDemonstrating/DocScratch, who is in practice the leader of the Felt, since Lord English prefers to work alone. What confuses this even more is that each member of the Felt has a number, but Crowbar is Number Seven and Scratch gets no number!
* OffModel: The artist who drew ''The Thirst of Dornamon Gary'' switched the colors of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff's clothes, so Sweet Bro is wearing a blue suit and Hella Jeff is wearing a red suit when it should be the other way around.
* OneHitKill: In ''Hunting Lessons,'' both Equius and Nepeta kill their prey in one strike.
* OnlySaneMan: Judging by ''Suffering Through/For The People'', the Sufferer was this for pretty much the entirety of the troll race. Even his followers like the Psiioniic and Disciple don't seem very bright.

* ParodySue: Karkat's self-insert in ''Summerteen Romance''.
* PoliceProcedural: Parodied in ''Ace Sleuth Jane.''

* RageBreakingPoint: Terezi reaches hers in ''Night at the 100dseum'' after having had to endure the taste and smell of sweat for the whole night and ends up unleashing a frozen yeti lusus.
* RonTheDeathEater: Parodied in ''Summerteen Romance'' with the way Dave is portrayed in Karkat's fanfic. He even has [[GoodHairEvilHair a moustache]]!

** The AltText for ''Con Faire'''s first page.

** And for ''Night At The [=100DSEUM=]''.

* SanitySlippage: Doc Scratch goes through this in ''Horse Play'' as his chess game with Hussie goes on.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In ''Prototyped'', upon realizing that their timeline is doomed, the kids ditch Jack Noir and go off to watch a movie.
** ''Night at the 100dseum'', after unleashing an ancient yeti lusus (and realizing the doors weren't locked), Karkat and Terezi leave Equius to fight the yeti on his own.
* SequelHook: ''The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven'' ends with Crowbar off to meet Spades Slick for the very first time.

** ''Headed For Stardom'' kindly reminds us that yes, Gamzee did [[ILoveTheDead violate]] Tavros' corpse.
** ''Critical Miss'' also has some one-sided Eridan-Vriska undertones, [[CasanovaWannabe which go as well as you'd expect]].

** Dave mentions seals with grenades in ''John's Birthday'', a nod to a strip in the [[Webcomic/{{Gunshow}} the artist's own comic]] that was itself a ShoutOut to ''Homestuck'' and featured [[http://gunshowcomic.com/250 "John" at the zoo.]]. Likewise, a strip about a bear with a gun was featured in KC Green's earlier comic, ''Horribleville''.
** The final plot development in ''Con Faire'' directly references ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone.''
** The company that Hussie gets the horse pieces from in ''Horse Play'' is ''[[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa Knight-Mare Enterprises]]''.
** In ''Summerteen Romance'', Kanaya frequently points out double entendre with "[[WesternAnimation/{{Archer}} Phrasing!]]".
*** Camp Sgrub's lake is called "Lake [[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} Hooyoogunnakahl]]".

** ''Long Day'' is completely free of dialogue.
** As is ''Fetch Quest.''
** And also ''Can Town in Trouble.''

* SpeechBubbleCensoring: Used in ''Summerteen Romance'' to describe Tavros' rather... [[BodyHorror extreme reaction]] to being propositioned. Originally, the page actually ''showed'' his reaction, but it squicked out so many readers that a bunch of speech bubbles containing a humorous description of the imagery were put on top of it.

* StableTimeLoop: ''The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven'' sees Crowbar get caught up in a few while trying to assemble the Felt.

** ''Summer Sea Fun'', ''Togy Hark Pro Skator'', ''Pones'', and ''The Thirst of Dornamon Gary''. They're ''Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff'' comics, after all.
* SuddenAnatomy: [[TheBlank Bro]] briefly gains eyes, eyebrows, and a mouth in [[http://www.paradoxspace.com/summerteen-romance/37 this page]] of ''Summerteen Romance''.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: In "Summer Sea Fun", Hella Jeff hides inside of a clam at the bottom of the sea without any gear.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In ''Suffering Through/For The People'', a poorly-disguised Darkleer asks how susceptible the Signless's movement is to infiltration on behalf "of a friend."

* TitleDrop: In ''Quality Time'':

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill: When Equius goes hunting in ''Hunting Lesson,'' he doesn't pull any punches. Literally.
* ThereWasADoor: Cans introduces himself this way in ''The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven'', prompting Crowbar to think "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool-Aid_Man Oh yeah]]".

** ''Con Faire'' gives us [[http://www.paradoxspace.com/con-faire/6 "stand up"]].

* WallOfBlather: In ''A Fun Day for Jaspers'', the young Rose ends up talking so much that it is shown as a load of words that alternate into symbols.
* WhatIf: Both in the literal sense (''Stardom'': what if Gamzee held a talent contest?) and in the alternate universe/canon sense (''Prototyped'': what if John [[ItMakesSenseInContext captchalogued three harlequins?]])

** ''The Thirst of Dornamon Gary'' to Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray.
** ''Damara'' to Creator/JunjiIto's ''Manga/{{Tomie}}''.
* WithCatlikeTread: Done [[CatGirl appropriately]] enough with Nepeta in ''Hunting Lesson''. She tells Equius that she will teach him about sneaking up on prey and then immediately leaps over their cover and flying-kicks an underling in the face.

* ContinuityLockOut: ''Paradox Space'' assumes the reader has some understanding of ''Homestuck'', leaving most of the comic baffling to newcomers. Nearly anything mentioned in CallBack, ContinuityNod and MythologyGag are affected by this.
** "Prototyped" relies on the fact that reader understands the mechanics of a Sylladex, the Kernelsprite and the Monarch's rings in order for the punchline to make any sense.
** "Indemnity Double Reacharound" ends with TheReveal that the comic was a game played between Dave and Terezi on the meteor, two characters and a setting who had yet make an appearance in ''Paradox Space''.

* ChainOfDeals: The plot of ''Fetch Quest''.

* FixFic: ''Summerteen Romance'', in-universe.
** Deconstructed too. As Karkat's future self points out, Karkat's attempt and fixing things is more or less desperate WishFulfillment, he depicted everyone getting over their problems unrealistically (and some of them just magically have no problems whatsoever) and Aradia's left as a dead ghost forever, making her part of the story pointlessly depressing (not to mention how disturbing it was that he wasn't giving her a happy ending like everyone else)

-> ''Those who like [Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}] are extremely fond of the characters, yet those characters are trapped -- "stuck" if you will -- inside a very particular narrative, which itself has been at the mercy of [my ability to produce it. So when I think about the future of Homestuck, I envision projects which liberate the things people love about it from the story itself, and most importantly, from my intensive personal effort. So this website is the first major step in that direction.

!!As a ''Homestuck'' page, all spoilers related to the main comic will be unmarked. For those who have not read up to the Gigapause, this is your only warning. The ''Paradox Space'' spoilers will be unmarked too, since it's freely available and there's no barrier to reading it.

** Vriska and Eridan, of all people, are this in "Critical Miss", where they can be seen playing [=FLARPing=] and at the beginning, they're hunched over rule books and character manuals. Eridan especially, with his hilariously bad attempts at flirting and accusing Vriska of cheating.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: In ''Summerteen Romance'', Karkat and Dave do.

* ContinuityNod: In ''Killswitch Engage'' John's ghostly arm can be seen amongst the robot horde in reference to a StableTimeLoop he created in Act 6 of ''Homestuck''. We also learn [[MultipleChoicePast one of the ways]] Equius lost his left horn.

* CriticalFailure: "Critical Miss" sees Eridan roll a CRITICAL WHALE, which makes brash criticisms of Eridan as Vriska defeats him.

* DreamTeam: Hussie has already assembled a handful of talented web comic authors, and he states that the circle is going to get bigger as time goes by.

* EyePatchAfterTimeSkip: Karkat's self-insert gets one during ''Summerteen Romance''. We probably would have seen exactly how he'd gotten it if it weren't for Dave, the [[StealthPun Knight of Time, getting bored and skipping ahead in the script]].

* MrFanservice: If ''Suffering Through/For The People'' is to be believed, the Signless had enough admirers, given that trolls as a species are bisexual, for at least one of them to demand that he take his shirt off during one of his rallies. [[FridgeLogic How they expected him to do that when he doesn't really wear a shirt in the first place is anyone's guess]].

* MoodWhiplash: The strips' unconnected nature makes this inevitable, although most of them seem to be either comedy-based on light in nature. ''Quality Time'' goes from a humorous exchange between John and Dave over bro shops to Dave monologuing about being left alone in an empty concrete ball pit for hours in the span of ''two pages.''

* RonTheDeathEater: Parodied in ''Summerteen Romance'' with the way Dave is portrayed in Karkat's fanfic. Inverted with Eridan, Gamzee, Vriska and Equius, who have all their bad traits diminished and avoided with Jack, who's pretty much the same.

* WholePlotReference: ''The Thirst of Dornamon Gary'' to Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray.

* WithCatlikeTread: Done [[CatGirl appropriately]] [[StealthPun enough]] with Nepeta in ''Hunting Lesson''. She tells Equius that she will teach him about sneaking up on prey and then immediately leaps over their cover and flying-kicks an underling in the face.

* NeverMyFault: In ''Damara'', Cronus insists that it wasn't his fault he [[spoiler:attempted to rape her]]. He even uses the classic line "[She] led me on!"

* NoodleIncident: Two in "Secret Sufferer"; Dave apparently pantsed Karkat at some point and there was a [[YouMeanXmas 12th Perigee's Eve]] when Vriska sent everyone doomsday devices. It ended with [[spoiler:the thirteenth troll]]'s death.

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-> ''Those who like [Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}] are extremely fond of the characters, yet those characters are trapped -- [[JustforPun "stuck" if you will]] -- inside a very particular narrative, which itself has been at the mercy of [[OneManArmy my ability to produce it.]] So when I think about the future of Homestuck, I envision projects which liberate the things people love about it from the story itself, and most importantly, from my intensive personal effort. So this website is the first major step in that direction.