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* KnowsTheRopes: Hat Lad briefly uses a piece of rope as a whip weapon against Owie's clone.



* WhipItGood: Hat Lad briefly uses a piece of rope as a weapon against Owie's clone in this manner.
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* DiscriminateAndSwitch: When Owie sees the author in [[OldFriendNewGender her new design]], he complains about "impressionable sperg kids" being so distanced from God as to call themselves... atheists.

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* DiscriminateAndSwitch: When Owie sees the author in [[OldFriendNewGender her new design]], he complains about "impressionable sperg ghost kids" being so distanced from God as to call themselves... atheists.



* SelfDeprecation: The AuthorAvatar (referred to in one scene as "Spergy"), is portrayed as narcissistic (to the point of refusing to recognize a badly drawn panel as hers) and insane, with the implication that she drugged and kidnapped the protagonists to [[IShouldWriteABookAboutThis gather material for a zany CYOA]], and claiming to have received the stigmata of... UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin.

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* SelfDeprecation: The AuthorAvatar (referred to in one scene as "Spergy"), AuthorAvatar, is portrayed as narcissistic (to the point of refusing to recognize a badly drawn panel as hers) and insane, with the implication that she drugged and kidnapped the protagonists to [[IShouldWriteABookAboutThis gather material for a zany CYOA]], and claiming to have received the stigmata of... UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin.
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** The scene right after Mr. Owie's clone dies. The characters all get blurry zoom-ins, and then Hat Lad and Mr. Owie's heads are badly superimposed above the clone when they insult him.

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** The scene right after Mr. Owie's clone dies. The characters all get Hat Lad gets a blurry zoom-ins, zoom-in, and then Hat Lad and Mr. Owie's heads are badly superimposed above the clone when they insult him.
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** Hat Lad, upon brandishing his new whip, talks about how much he'd like to quote Music/{{Devo}}'s "Whip It" as a PreAsskickingOneliner if he knew the lyrics.

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** Hat Lad, upon brandishing his new whip, talks about brings up how much he'd like to quote Music/{{Devo}}'s "Whip It" as a PreAsskickingOneliner PreAsskickingOneLiner if he knew the lyrics.
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* ArtShift: Inexplicably happens on occasion. At one point, Mr. Owie is drawn as a bald man with a cleft chin when he says sunglasses make him look good.

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* ArtShift: Inexplicably happens Happens on occasion. At one point, Mr. Owie is drawn as a bald man with a cleft chin when he says sunglasses make him look good.
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* TropeName: The author owns over a dozen copies of a movie titled ''SOME CHEAP ASS HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER'', which Mr. Owie reportedly thought was very bland.

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* TropeName: The author owns over a dozen copies of a movie titled ''SOME CHEAP ASS HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER'', which BLOCKBUSTER''. Mr. Owie reportedly thought was very bland.remembers seeing it, and mentions how bland and generic it was.
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* EyeScream: Owie at one point presses his heels into Hat Lad's eyes when he's laying face-up in front of the author.

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* EyeScream: Owie at one point presses his heels feet into Hat Lad's eyes when he's laying face-up in front of the author.
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* EmbarrassingNickname "Mr. Owie", rather fitting for a badbutt gangster. He's completely oblivious to this, of courses.

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* EmbarrassingNickname "Mr. Owie", rather fitting for a badbutt gangster. He's completely oblivious to this, of courses.course.
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* EverythingIsRacist: Parodied. When the white curly-haired boy is told to fuck off for his ableist tirade about ''sunglasses'' being for snowflakes, he cries about how, as a white boy of America, he will be placed in a gas chamber and "shamed for [his] ethnicity and racial purity!".



* EverythingIsRacist: Parodied. When the white curly-haired boy is told to fuck off for his ableist tirade about ''sunglasses'' being for snowflakes, he cries about how, as a white boy of America, he will be placed in a gas chamber and "shamed for [his] ethnicity and racial purity!".


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* ShowWithinAShow: "The Submarine in Yellow", a crossover of WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine and Literature/TheKingInYellow. We never get to actually watch it, for better or worse.


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* TropeName: The author owns over a dozen copies of a movie titled ''SOME CHEAP ASS HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER'', which Mr. Owie reportedly thought was very bland.
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* OntologicalMystery: How or why the characters got where they are is unclear. The building itself is even titled "LARGE STRANGE BUILDING WHAT THE MAIN CHARACTERS ARE STUCK IN".
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* EvilDoppelganger: Mr. Owie runs into one when he tries to exit his room. It's mentioned that he has a father who used to show him boomer comics on Facebook, implying he's either his own person or inherited every aspect of Owie's life.

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* EvilDoppelganger: Mr. Owie runs into one when he tries to exit exits his starting room. It's mentioned that he has a father who used to would show him boomer comics on Facebook, implying he's either his own person or inherited every aspect of Owie's life.life.
* EyeScream: Owie at one point presses his heels into Hat Lad's eyes when he's laying face-up in front of the author.
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: Feigned by Owie when he demands Hat Lad to give him his pencil, and Hat Lad says he's not being polite. "JOHN 4:30: 'IF A MAN ACCUSEST THOU OF AN ACT OF RUDENESS, YET WHILST DENYING A FAVOUR OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE, LET IT BE CERTAIN THAT SUCH A MAN IS A HYPOCRITE.'" [[note]]The actual John 4:30 is "Then they went out of the city, and came unto him."[[/note]]

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* AsTheGoodBookSays: Feigned by Owie when he demands Hat Lad to give him his pencil, and Hat Lad says he's not being polite. "JOHN "John 4:30: 'IF A MAN ACCUSEST THOU OF AN ACT OF RUDENESS, YET WHILST DENYING A FAVOUR OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE, LET IT BE CERTAIN THAT SUCH A MAN IS A HYPOCRITE.'If a man accusest thou of an act of rudeness, yet whilst denying a favour of utmost importance, let it be certain that such a man is a hypocrite.'" [[note]]The actual John 4:30 is "Then they went out of the city, and came unto him."[[/note]]
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** Mr. Owie figures that if God is connected to every being with a soul, then atheists must be either robots or autonomous gasoline pumps.

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** Mr. Owie figures that if God is connected to every being with a soul, then atheists must be either robots or autonomous gasoline pumps.pumps... and searches in vain for an unleaded button on one.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: A one-shot character argues that, since sunglasses might be worn by people with visual sensory issues, anyone who wears sunglasses is [[AssociationFallacy encouraging people to have disabilities]], and helping the "SWJs" ''[[SlipperySlopeFallacy prevent kids from being fully abled.]]''

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* InsaneTrollLogic: InsaneTrollLogic:
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A one-shot character argues that, since sunglasses might be worn by people with visual sensory issues, anyone who wears sunglasses is [[AssociationFallacy encouraging people to have disabilities]], and helping the "SWJs" "[=SWJs=]" ''[[SlipperySlopeFallacy prevent kids from being fully abled.]]'']]''
** Mr. Owie figures that if God is connected to every being with a soul, then atheists must be either robots or autonomous gasoline pumps.
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* BleepDammit: "JESUS SAID BE NICE TO UR NEIGBORS U D***M FUK"

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* BleepDammit: Quoth the doppelganger of Mr. Owie during a particularly heated dispute: "JESUS SAID BE NICE TO UR NEIGBORS U D***M FUK"
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* InsaneTrollLogic: A one-shot character argues that, since sunglasses might be worn by people with visual sensory issues, anyone who wears sunglasses is [[AssociationFallacy encouraging people to have disabilities]], and helping the "SWJs" ''[[SlipperySlopeFallacy prevent kids from being fully abled.]]''


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* EverythingIsRacist: Parodied. When the white curly-haired boy is told to fuck off for his ableist tirade about ''sunglasses'' being for snowflakes, he cries about how, as a white boy of America, he will be placed in a gas chamber and "shamed for [his] ethnicity and racial purity!".
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* NestedStoryReveal: The comic up to Hat Lad's head exploding was all part of a tabletop game. Then his head explodes ''again'', and it's revealed [[MindScrew they were playing a tabletop game ''about'' a tabletop game]]. (The events of the game-within-a-game were apparently based on what actually happened to them, though.)

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* NestedStoryReveal: The comic up to Hat Lad's head exploding was all part of a tabletop game. Then his head explodes ''again'', and it's revealed [[MindScrew they were playing a tabletop game ''about'' ABOUT a tabletop game]]. (The events of the game-within-a-game were apparently based on what actually happened to them, though.)
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* BodyPocket: Spergy, a cartoon ghost, inexplicably has one, which Hat Lad pulls a piece of rope out of when he needs to fulfill the command "UNTIE BOOR".

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* BodyPocket: Spergy, The author avatar, a cartoon ghost, inexplicably has one, which Hat Lad pulls a piece of rope out of when he needs to fulfill the command "UNTIE BOOR".



* DiscriminateAndSwitch: When Owie sees Spergy in [[OldFriendNewGender her new design]], he complains about "impressionable sperg kids" being so distanced from God as to call themselves... atheists.

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* DiscriminateAndSwitch: When Owie sees Spergy the author in [[OldFriendNewGender her new design]], he complains about "impressionable sperg kids" being so distanced from God as to call themselves... atheists.



* LudicrousPrecision: At one point, Mr. Owie's doppelganger is attacked by a fairy with a magic wand, and the comic proceeds to explain every little effect the attack caused (including changing his answer to the [[InkblotTest Rorschach inkblot test]] had he not already taken it a very specific amount of time ago)... then it ambiguously states that he "lost some health from his health bar".

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* LudicrousPrecision: At one point, Mr. Owie's doppelganger is attacked by a fairy with a magic wand, and the comic proceeds to explain every little effect the attack caused (including changing his answer to the [[InkblotTest Rorschach inkblot test]] had he not already taken it a very specific amount of time ago)... [[SubvertedTrope then it ambiguously states that he "lost some health from his health bar".]]
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* LudicrousPrecision: At one point, Mr. Owie's doppelganger is attacked with a blast from a magic wand, and the comic proceeds to explain every little effect the attack caused (including changing his answer to the [[InkblotTest Rorschach inkblot test]] had he not already taken it a very specific amount of time ago)... then it ambiguously states that he "lost some health from his health bar".

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* LudicrousPrecision: At one point, Mr. Owie's doppelganger is attacked by a fairy with a blast from a magic wand, and the comic proceeds to explain every little effect the attack caused (including changing his answer to the [[InkblotTest Rorschach inkblot test]] had he not already taken it a very specific amount of time ago)... then it ambiguously states that he "lost some health from his health bar".
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* LudicrousPrecision: At one point, Mr. Owie's doppelganger is attacked, and the comic proceeds to explain every little effect the attack caused (including changing his answer to the [[InkblotTest Rorschach inkblot test]] had he not already taken it a very specific amount of time ago)... then it ambiguously states that he "lost some health from his health bar".

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* LudicrousPrecision: At one point, Mr. Owie's doppelganger is attacked, attacked with a blast from a magic wand, and the comic proceeds to explain every little effect the attack caused (including changing his answer to the [[InkblotTest Rorschach inkblot test]] had he not already taken it a very specific amount of time ago)... then it ambiguously states that he "lost some health from his health bar".

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* AsTheGoodBookSays: Feigned by Owie when he demands Hat Lad to give him his pencil, and Hat Lad says he's not being polite. "JOHN 4:30: 'IF A MAN ACCUSEST THOU OF AN ACT OF RUDENESS, YET WHILST DENYING A FAVOUR OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE, LET IT BE CERTAIN THAT SUCH A MAN IS A HYPOCRITE.'" [[note]]The actual John 4:30 is "Then they went out of the city, and came unto him."[[/note]]



* BleepDammit: "JESUS SAID BE NICE TO UR NEIGBORS U D***M FUK"
* BodyPocket: Spergy, a cartoon ghost, inexplicably has one, which Hat Lad pulls a piece of rope out of when he needs to fulfill the command "UNTIE BOOR".



* DiscriminateAndSwitch: When Owie sees the author stand-in in [[OldFriendNewGender her new design]], he complains about "impressionable sperg kids" being so distanced from God as to call themselves... atheists.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Hat Lad kills the Mr. Owie clone for... hiccupping in earshot of him.

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* DiscriminateAndSwitch: When Owie sees the author stand-in Spergy in [[OldFriendNewGender her new design]], he complains about "impressionable sperg kids" being so distanced from God as to call themselves... atheists.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Hat Lad ultimately kills the Mr. Owie clone for... for hiccupping in earshot of him.



* EvilDoppelganger: Mr. Owie runs into one when he tries to exit his room. It's mentioned that he has a father who used to show him boomer comics on Facebook, implying he's either his own person or inherited every aspect of Owie's life.



* NestedStoryReveal: The comic up to Hat Lad's head exploding was all part of a tabletop game. Then his head explodes ''again'', and it's revealed [[MindScrew they were playing a tabletop game within a tabletop game]]. (The events of the game-within-a-game were apparently based on what actually happened to them, though.)

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* LudicrousPrecision: At one point, Mr. Owie's doppelganger is attacked, and the comic proceeds to explain every little effect the attack caused (including changing his answer to the [[InkblotTest Rorschach inkblot test]] had he not already taken it a very specific amount of time ago)... then it ambiguously states that he "lost some health from his health bar".
* NestedStoryReveal: The comic up to Hat Lad's head exploding was all part of a tabletop game. Then his head explodes ''again'', and it's revealed [[MindScrew they were playing a tabletop game within ''about'' a tabletop game]]. (The events of the game-within-a-game were apparently based on what actually happened to them, though.)



* SelfDeprecation: The AuthorAvatar is portrayed as narcissistic (to the point of refusing to recognize a badly drawn panel as hers) and insane, with the implication that she drugged and kidnapped the protagonists to [[IShouldWriteABookAboutThis gather material for a zany CYOA]], and claiming to have received the stigmata of... UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin.

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* SelfDeprecation: The AuthorAvatar (referred to in one scene as "Spergy"), is portrayed as narcissistic (to the point of refusing to recognize a badly drawn panel as hers) and insane, with the implication that she drugged and kidnapped the protagonists to [[IShouldWriteABookAboutThis gather material for a zany CYOA]], and claiming to have received the stigmata of... UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin.UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin.
* SistineSteal: Used when Mr. Owie reaches for Hat Lad's invisible pencil, after a scene where Owie obviously makes up a Bible passage.


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* WhipItGood: Hat Lad briefly uses a piece of rope as a weapon against Owie's clone in this manner.
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* GoshDarnItToHeck: How Owie and Hat Lad typically cuss.
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* DiscriminateAndSwitch: When Mr. Owie sees the author stand-in in [[OldFriendNewGender her new design]], he complains about "impressionable sperg kids" being so distanced from God as to call themselves... atheists.

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* DiscriminateAndSwitch: When Mr. Owie sees the author stand-in in [[OldFriendNewGender her new design]], he complains about "impressionable sperg kids" being so distanced from God as to call themselves... atheists.



* NestedStoryReveal: The comic up to Hat Lad's head exploding was all part of a tabletop game. Then his head explodes ''again'', and it's revealed [[MindScrew they were playing a tabletop game within a tabletop game]].

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* NestedStoryReveal: The comic up to Hat Lad's head exploding was all part of a tabletop game. Then his head explodes ''again'', and it's revealed [[MindScrew they were playing a tabletop game within a tabletop game]]. (The events of the game-within-a-game were apparently based on what actually happened to them, though.)



* YourHeadAsplode: Hat Lad's head is highly prone to exploding in the tabletop game worlds when Mr. Owie so much as slaps or throws a dice at him, due to his {{Minmaxing}}.
* YourOtherLeft: When the ceiling collapses on Hat Lad and Mr. Owie, and the door on the viewer's left is clearly where they have to go to advance the plot, they run to the left... ''their'' left, leading them into the same room Mr. Owie started in.

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* YourHeadAsplode: Hat Lad's head is highly prone to exploding in the tabletop game worlds when Mr. Owie so much as slaps or throws a dice at him, due to his {{Minmaxing}}.
* YourOtherLeft: When the ceiling collapses on Hat Lad and Mr. Owie, and the door on the viewer's left is clearly where they have to go to advance the plot, they run to the left... ''their'' left, leading them into the same room Mr. Owie started in.
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* NestedStoryReveal: The comic up to Hat Lad's head exploding was all part of a tabletop game. Then his head explodes ''again'', and it's revealed [[MindScrew they were playing a tabletop game within a tabletop game]].


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* YourHeadAsplode: Hat Lad's head is highly prone to exploding in the tabletop game worlds when Mr. Owie so much as slaps or throws a dice at him, due to his {{Minmaxing}}.
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The aptly-named ''Random Verb Noun Comic'' is a pseudo-InteractiveComic where all commands are supplied by a random word generator; one verb, one noun, with no regards to how senseless the resulting command sounds. HilarityEnsues. Later, another character is introduced who takes commands in the form of two random UsefulNotes/{{Emoji}}.

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The aptly-named ''Random ''[[https://mspfa.com/?s=36526 Random Verb Noun Comic'' Comic]]'' is a pseudo-InteractiveComic where all commands are supplied by a random word generator; one verb, one noun, with no regards to how senseless the resulting command sounds. HilarityEnsues. Later, another character is introduced who takes commands in the form of two random UsefulNotes/{{Emoji}}.
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The aptly-named ''Random Verb Noun Comic'' is a pseudo-InteractiveComic where all commands are supplied by a random word generator; one verb, one noun, with no regards to how senseless the resulting command sounds. HilarityEnsues. Later, another character is introduced who takes commands in the form of two random UsefulNotes/{{Emoji}}.

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* ArtShift: Inexplicably happens on occasion. At one point, Mr. Owie is drawn as a bald man with a cleft chin when he says sunglasses make him look good.
* AuthorFilibuster: Parodied and defied. When a stand-in for the author literally states her intention to insert a long filibuster about how ReligionIsWrong (and tells Hat Lad to "grab a drink if you're thirsty, maybe pull over a chair"), Hat Lad knocks her out with his thesaurus.
* {{Badbutt}}: Mr. Owie has bragged about, among other things, sneaking into free screenings of R-rated Christian movies.
* CapsLock: ALL THE TEXT IN THE COMIC IS TYPED LIKE THIS. AS A GAG, SOMETIMES OBVIOUSLY COPY-AND-PASTED DESCRIPTIONS OR PLACE NAMES WILL BE IN NORMAL CASE (E.G. "YOU HAVE TO CALCULATE THE PRECISE NUMBER OF PISCESES (PISCI?) IN Heard & [=McDonald=] Islands.")
* CoolShades: Mr. Owie's sunglasses. Normally, they're completely opaque, but some art shifts render them see-through.
* DiscriminateAndSwitch: When Mr. Owie sees the author stand-in in [[OldFriendNewGender her new design]], he complains about "impressionable sperg kids" being so distanced from God as to call themselves... atheists.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Hat Lad kills the Mr. Owie clone for... hiccupping in earshot of him.
* EmbarrassingNickname "Mr. Owie", rather fitting for a badbutt gangster. He's completely oblivious to this, of courses.
* PersonWithTheClothing: Hat Lad. Mr. Owie is also referred to as "Sunglasses Guy" once.
* PurpleProse: Used as a RunningGag. For example, when looking at a table: "It would be in your best interest to acquire an enhanced perspective of the furniture."
* SelfDeprecation: The AuthorAvatar is portrayed as narcissistic (to the point of refusing to recognize a badly drawn panel as hers) and insane, with the implication that she drugged and kidnapped the protagonists to [[IShouldWriteABookAboutThis gather material for a zany CYOA]], and claiming to have received the stigmata of... UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin.
* ShoutOut:
** When the focus shifts to another character, it's typically indicated with [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto a freeze frame where the screen goes gray and red "WASTED" text appears over the current character.]]
** The response to "BOOTLEG INFLAMMATION" mentions a warehouse of [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} 7 Grand Dad]] cartridges being destroyed in a fire, and how that lead to [[NoodleIncident a long series of events]] that resulted in "one of the guys running Music/SiivaGunner" running for U.S. senator.
** Hat Lad, upon brandishing his new whip, talks about how much he'd like to quote Music/{{Devo}}'s "Whip It" as a PreAsskickingOneliner if he knew the lyrics.
** The scene where Mr. Owie asks Hat Lad where the keypad is resembles the "Drake, where's the door?" scene from Series/DrakeAndJosh.
** Both times Hat Lad's head blows up, he's asked if [[VideoGame/{{Nethack}} he wants his possessions identified.]]
* StylisticSuck:
** The scene right after Mr. Owie's clone dies. The characters all get blurry zoom-ins, and then Hat Lad and Mr. Owie's heads are badly superimposed above the clone when they insult him.
** When Mr. Owie looks for the Bermuda Triangle on the table in the tabletop game room, his head is scaled to an obscene size and rotated, whiting out part of the scenery. The scenery remains whited out when he returns to the exact pose he was in one panel ago.
* TheTreacheryOfImages: "I'm a digital stand-in for the author of this webcomic, or the author of this webcomic."
* ThrowTheBookAtThem: Hat Lad tries hitting a wall in his starting room with his thesaurus, to little effect. He later manages to knock out the author stand-in with it.
* VirtualSoundtrack: Virtual soundtrack cues are used briefly when Hat Lad battles Mr. Owie's clone, and they quickly devolve into telling the reader to listen to a song that has nothing to do with the comic, and then asking if they can [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext "pick up groceries while you're out."]]
* YourOtherLeft: When the ceiling collapses on Hat Lad and Mr. Owie, and the door on the viewer's left is clearly where they have to go to advance the plot, they run to the left... ''their'' left, leading them into the same room Mr. Owie started in.

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