History Webcomic / ProblemSleuth

* BigStupidDoodooHead: Team Sleuth is notoriously bad at writing insults to each other. Ace Dick calls Peoblem Sleuth [[https://www.homestuck.com/problem-sleuth/85 an "Ass Hole" (note the space),]] PS [[https://www.homestuck.com/problem-sleuth/72 can't even rhyme his insults,]] and the worst PI can [[https://www.homestuck.com/problem-sleuth/129 come up with]] is meekly stating that Problem Sleuth is ''impolite''.

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* ComicBookAdaptation: The entire comic has been compiled into 5 volumes at Topatoco.com, with commentary and a foreword by [[Webcomic/DinosaurComics Ryan North]] as well as several notes from the author. Sadly, they've all gone out of print.

* FilmNoir: The series started out as a pastiche of this before things [[GrowingTheBeard got considerably more zany]].

!!Pose as a team, because tropes just got real:

* RealityWarper: Pickle Inspector in the Imagination realm.

* ComicBookAdaptation: The entire comic has been compiled into 5 volumes at ''[[http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=MSPA-PS-BOOK01&Category_Code=MSPA Topatoco.com]]'', with commentary and a foreword by [[Webcomic/DinosaurComics Ryan North]] as well as several notes from the author.

->''"You answer the phone in a hard boiled manner. You explain to the woman gruffly that you'd love to help her out, sweetheart, but you're up to your neck in all this weird puzzle shit. You hang up."''

* ChooseYourOwnAdventure: Parodied. Some pages offer a choice between two commands. The first one leads to a very obvious Game Over, while the second one advances the story.

* FantasticAngst: Ace Dick lose his wife to crime, pursue vengeance until his son leaves him for his own crusade, end up lost and alone in a horrid swamp and having lost everything he values in his life, takes his own life. This all happened in an intense game of TabletopGames/{{Life}} with the [[ChessWithDeath Grim Reaper]].

* GasLighting: Done subtly and hilariously to the audience at the beginning.
** The reader's [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=000219 introduced to a private detective]], and the reader assumes that, as part of his profession, he possesses a gun. [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=000220 Second panel, he is commanded to retrieve his gun]], and [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=000221 the third panel shows he rebukes the notion]]. Might also cross into FridgeLogic and {{Foreshadowing}} due to answering how the audience saw the gun in the first place? [[spoiler:Through the audience IMAGINING a private detective would own one for self-defense. Now, think how the story continues late in the game]].
** Later, [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=000228 the key becomes a gun]], double subverting the command to retrieve the gun--it happens, just not right away. It could could also be more {{foreshadowing}} concerning the plot. Think about it--the key turning into the gun could parallel shit getting real [[spoiler:to shit IS real]].

-->''PS, AD and PI each have a lady counterpart, in accordance with deep seated mythology that dictates that any man secretly wishes to have sex with a female version of himself (re: Alvin and the Chipmunks, [[Disney/MickeyMouse Mickey/Minnie]], etc.) HD is PS's counterpart, NB is PI's, while AD is his own counterpart because he has a very poor imagination. So that's one duplicate AD, the one with the wig/helmet.''

* AssKickingPose: Because [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome SHIT JUST GOT REAL]].

* TheTreacheryOfImages: The window on Problem Sleuth's front door quickly turns out to just be a piece of paper taped to it. Inverted with Ace Dick, when the piece of paper taped to his door turns out to be an actual window. Then we get Pickle Inspector punching through his window, thinking it's paper... which turns out to have no glass at all, [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} just a hole with some floating letters.]]

* TheTreacheryOfImages: The window on Problem Sleuth's front door quickly turns out to just be a piece of paper taped to it. Inverted with Ace Dick, when the piece of paper taped to his door turns out to be an actual window. Then we get Pickle Inspector punching through his window... which turns out to have no glass at all, [[{{Bizarrechitecture}} just a hole with some floating letters.]]

** [[ComicBook/ThePunisher Punisher Dick]] and [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bathearst]].

* TheTreacheryOfImages: The window on Problem Sleuth's front door quickly turns out to just be a piece of paper taped to it. Inverted with Ace Dick, when the piece of paper taped to his door turns out to be an actual window.
* TurnsRed:

** [[LampshadeHanging You can't imagine]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001555 what could possibly go wrong]], unless you [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=1&p=000096 remember]] the [[NoodleIncident Unexplained Aftermath]] from ''[[SequelDisplacement Jailbreak]]''. This is [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001577 followed by]] [[HomageShot a series of homages]] to ''Bard Quest'' (each linked in the description texts).

** [[spoiler:Ace Dick also [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001577 visits the swamp]] from ''[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=2&p=000215 Bard Quest]]''.]]

** [[spoiler:Ace Dick also [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001577 visits the swamp]] from ''[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=2&p=000215 BardQuest]]''.]]

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: Subverted. The "imaginary universe" that at first seems like a shared dream world is a tangible location that can be accessed several different ways.]].