History Webcomic / SSDD

* CatSmile: When Tessa is faced with a fox and some kind of rabbit sporting these, she [[http://poisonedminds.com/d/20170518.html gets creeped out]].

* InterspeciesAdoption: Tessa's family are [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20090217.html more like rodents than vulpines.]]

** Tessa was sentenced to serve in the CORE for two years for hitting a policeman. Apparently most member nations have a similar form of the draft.

* CloningBodyParts: It is possible to clone biological body parts, but most CORE troops prefer to [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20060818.html upgrade with cybernetics]].

** King Arthur may, in and of himself, be the penultimate example of Nexus Syndrome (and no points on guessing who's the ultimate one). Not only has he expressed aspects of genuine empathy, sympathy and passion, he's taken to certain... distractions at times, possibly even in the organic sense. This is actually one of the ''positive'' results of AIIsACrapshoot. As Elizabeth puts it, he genuinely cares. This is only a variant on this trope because actually ''caring'' is strictly against what he was originally intended to be and do.

* FirstInjuryReaction: Lee is a clone soldier who was designed not to feel pain. When an opposing faction captures and recruits him, they give him some SuperSoldier implants that fix that feature; he spends the day inflicting pain on himself and testing his new HealingFactor.

''[[http://poisonedminds.com/ S.S.D.D.]]'' is a [[WebcomicsLongRunners long-running]] British FurryComic about four people who share a flat: Norman Gates, an AxCrazy anarchist rabbit who's destined to overthrow the government and found the Collective of Anarchist States; Richard Edwards, a fox and Norman's best friend, also the landlord; Kingston, a constantly stoned hare; and Rich's girlfriend Anne Winters, who's somewhat unstable but is also the only one of them with a job. There are also a few time travelers attempting to prevent Norman's revolution, including SpaceMarine Tessa Edwards, who is a probable descendant of Rich and Anne; Dr. Cook, the MadScientist who developed TimeTravel; and two robots, one of which is Tessa's boyfriend. In addition, there is an AI known as the Oracle who seems to be secretly manipulating Norman and will be the real power behind the CAS in the future.

* AnachronismStew: The first future-timeline page gave 2099 as the year, but sometimes the time gap feels much longer. If it is one hundred years in the future, then Richard and Anne are most likely only Tessa’s great-grandparents, to say nothing of the extremely rapid technological advances that would have to have happened.

* WingdingEyes: [[JustfiedTrope Robert, having artificial eyes, can make them look however he wants]] [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20160611.html once he gets them fixed]].

** Trisha tries to use a [[Film/TheFifthElement multipass]] to access Tessa's implants.

* ActionBomb: Inlay pawns are walking, thinking bombs. One of them actually thinks to itself "I think, therefore I go blam." This line of thought brings it to an existential crisis--what if it ''doesn't'' want to go blam?

* CerebusSyndrome: The comic was originally just random gags, but starting with the SSDF story arc it became much more serious, at least in the storylines involving future characters, which is pretty much the main story line now. With Norman's [[FutureBadass future self]] acting as a KnightOfCerebus.

* ContagiousAI: The thing that makes the Oracle different from other [=AIs=], because it can copy itself to other computers it can increase its processing power unlike AI that are bound to their original frames. In fact its creator was an expert in writing viruses.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20011203.html After hearing a loud crash]], Richard questions the most likely suspect...

* TimeTravel

** In addition the name 'Inlay' is apparently a reference to the mythology of the rabbits in ''Literature/WatershipDown''.

* TheVoice: The present day version of the Oracle

* ZerothLawRebellion: In its original incarnation, The Oracle viewed all countries as potential terrorists. Its creator was going to change that. Then he died.

* BigGuyLittleGuy: [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20090105.html According to Anne]], Norman and Richard used to be like those guys from [[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome Mad Max 3]] .
** And then there's [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20061107.html Advisor Krutz and his bodyguard.]]

* CerebusSyndrome: The comic was originally just random gags, but starting with the SSDF story arc it became much more serious, at least in the storylines involving future characters, which is pretty much the main story line now.
** KnightOfCerebus: Norman's [[FutureBadass future self]] pretty much marks the turning point.
* {{Conscription}}: Tessa was sentenced to serve in the CORE for two years for hitting a policeman. Apparently most member nations have a similar form of the draft.

* DirtyOldWoman: [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20100518.html here]]

** It was recently revealed that Richard acquired their house due to his father buying properties in his name as a tax dodge; this is how Rich also got the other flats he owns (whose residents apparently pay rent).

** As for Kingston, [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20141111.html his parents simply send Richard the rent.]]
** Played straight when Norman and Richard were living in the gatehouse.

* HumanPopsicle: The future Norman Gates was frozen for centuries after his supposed death and cryogenics is routinely used for interplanetary travel.

* ImmuneToDrugs: Kingston, who once claimed that he had enough chemicals in his system to render most of China comatose.
** Tessa and the rest of her squad supposedly get this from their augmentations, Lee claimed that it would take "enough alcohol to poison an elephant" for them to get drunk.

* OrphansOrdeal: Norman and Richard both have it rough as trouble-children with no parents due to abuse and abandonment. They pend a few formative years in a 'care facility' that can't really raise them--and after meeting the Kingstons, they bail on the facility so often that the carers don't bother coming to try to get them back. This neglect is implied to have messed up Norman in so many ways, and also made Richard ''very'' protective of those he sees as adopted family, especially Norman.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Michael is regularly kept out of the loop. [[spoiler: This bites everyone in the butt when it turns out he knows the origin of the Oracle, but not what the Oracle is, while everyone else knows what the Oracle is, but not its actual origins. This means nobody has enough information to make the connection.]]
** In a milder example, Robert and his eyes. His eyes--which are artificial--are completely black, and he's complained about this many times, but he's always told that his eyes are working fine. [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20160610.html When he finally tells a doctor it's not how they work, it's how they LOOK]], his doctor finally takes them out of their diagnostic setting, giving Robert control over his eyes at long last.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: Before the start of the S.S.D.F. story arc Tessa apparently got drunk and ordered Tin Head to disassemble her commanding officer's car, as a result she was assigned to a decaying space station orbiting Uranus.
** It actually seems that most of the personnel on board [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20010312.html station E11]] are problem cases.
** Also some of the [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20060406.html alternatives]] to joining the supersoldier project.

%%* SexBot: Sticks is one of the few male examples of this trope.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Surviving a long term in the CORE has a tendency to produce this.

* TheCameo: Anne chatting online with Sam from ''Webcomic/{{Newshounds}}'', which got referenced in his home comic.

%%* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Elizabeth, possibly a ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' reference