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* CallBack: Quite a few strips expand on throwaway jokes used in Rosenberg's other webcomic, ''Webcomic/{{Goats}}''. Crab City, Good Hitler, Corn God, Space Wizards, those three giant faces from the Pink Dimension...

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* CallBack: Quite a few strips expand on throwaway jokes used in Rosenberg's other webcomic, ''Webcomic/{{Goats}}''. Crab City, Good Hitler, Corn God, Firewall, Space Wizards, God being dead but once having been a pirate named Larry, those three giant faces from the Pink Dimension...

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* {{Cyberpunk}}: ''Film/BladeRunner'' gets parodied with a series of strips in which we see the future of resident HardboiledDetective (actually an accountant) Sam Greeley, where he's now an accountant who hunts replicants.



* NeoNoir: Parodied with a series of strips in which we see the future of resident HardboiledDetective (actually an accountant) Sam Greeley, where he's now an accountant who hunts replicants.
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* FantasticDrugs: The short-lived Dark Michael and Percival subplot had them smoking Rewind (each hit of which changes a random event in your past) and pure, uncut Moral Superiority.

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* FantasticDrugs: The short-lived FantasticDrug: Dark Michael and Percival subplot had them smoking Rewind (each hit introduce us to Rewind, each toke of which changes alters a random event in your past) and pure, uncut past. Later, they get their hands on a bag of Moral Superiority. Superiority, which is pretty much what you'd think.

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* CorruptChurch: The religion of the Corn God. They're quite stunningly commercialistic, their deity is a crook, and every year have a Holy Day where they choose a new group of people to ostracize via spinning wheel.

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* CorruptChurch: The religion of the Corn God. They're quite stunningly commercialistic, their deity is a crook, and every year have a Holy Day where on Cornmas they choose a new group of people to ostracize via spinning wheel.


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* FantasticDrugs: The short-lived Dark Michael and Percival subplot had them smoking Rewind (each hit of which changes a random event in your past) and pure, uncut Moral Superiority.


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* NeoNoir: Parodied with a series of strips in which we see the future of resident HardboiledDetective (actually an accountant) Sam Greeley, where he's now an accountant who hunts replicants.
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* {{Expy}}:
** At one point we see stand-ins for Jon and Phillip from Rosenberg's other comic, ''Webcomic/{{Goats}}''.
** The Murdercops are the ''Film/BluesBrothers'' as homicide detectives.
** Doctor Whoa, who's basically ''Series/DoctorWho'' as a LovableSexManiac (but gradually losing the lovable part).
** Star Trek Week features many to different ''Franchise/StarTrek'' characters.


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* VampireDetectiveSeries: Dracula Jones was a recurring character for awhile. One of the downsides of hiring a vampire detective is brought up when he drains his client shortly after solving the case.
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* DeadlyGaze: Horace Greenstein gives one to a TV host who mocks owls. While watching the host's show from the comfort of his own couch!
--> '''Guy at the TV studio''': Oh, god... he's watching again.


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* OminousOwl: Horace Greenstein, an owl lawyer whose creepy gaze is so unnerving that anyone subjected to it immediately caves in to Greenstein's (unspoken) demands.

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* CallBack: Quite a few strips expand on throwaway jokes used in Rosenberg's other webcomic, ''Webcomic/{{Goats}}''. Crab City, Corn God, Space Wizards, those three giant faces from the Pink Dimension...

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* CallBack: Quite a few strips expand on throwaway jokes used in Rosenberg's other webcomic, ''Webcomic/{{Goats}}''. Crab City, Good Hitler, Corn God, Space Wizards, those three giant faces from the Pink Dimension...



* WizardsFromOuterSpace: Space Wizards are a bit of a running gag. In an early comic, a barfly reminisces about wanting to be one in his younger days, a dream he never lived out (he blames the economy).

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* WizardsFromOuterSpace: Space Wizards are a bit of a running gag. In an early comic, a barfly reminisces about wanting to be one in his younger days, a dream he never lived out (he blames the economy).economy).
* YouClonedHitler: Good Hitler, a (fictional?) clone of Hitler who became a secret agent. The same agency who made him also made one of Kim Jong Un.
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* AmateurSleuth: Parodied with Kassel, a hot dog vendor who uses his knowledge of condiments to be a forensic consultant for the police.



* CallBack: Quite a few strips expand on throwaway jokes used in Rosenberg's other webcomic, ''Webcomic/{{Goats}}''. Crab City, Corn God, Space Wizards, those three giant faces from the Pink Dimension...



* CorruptChurch: The religion of the Corn God. They're quite stunningly commercialistic, their deity is a crook, and every year have a Holy Day where they choose a new group of people to ostracize via spinning wheel.



* HardboiledDetective: Sam Greeley fits the bill almost perfectly. Except he's actually an accountant. And a crab. But he has the PrivateEyeMonologue down cold.
--> So that was the Case of the Murdering Murderer. Solved. Shady would see justice in two to four years plus a couple of years for the inevitable repeal process. Lucy would rest in peace. And me? The name's Sam Greeley. I'm an accountant. ...One time I counted the stars with a girl named Lucy.



* ShoutOut: Tons to various sci-fi shows, or just to whatever Rosenberg is watching at the time.



* WarForFunAndProfit: Discussed {{anvilicious}}ly [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2010/06/29/the-price-of-glory/ here]]

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* WarForFunAndProfit: Discussed {{anvilicious}}ly [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2010/06/29/the-price-of-glory/ here]]here]]
* WizardsFromOuterSpace: Space Wizards are a bit of a running gag. In an early comic, a barfly reminisces about wanting to be one in his younger days, a dream he never lived out (he blames the economy).

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* AudienceParticipation: There used to be a weekly poll allowing viewers to determine which dimension would get revisited.

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* AudienceParticipation: There used to be a weekly poll allowing viewers to determine which dimension would get revisited. This ended with a strip showing an AuthorAvatar declaring he was abolishing democracy in favor of totalitarian dictatorship.


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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: There's one in approximately every strip.


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* GodIsEvil: The Corn God is kind of horrible. He's been imprisoned repeatedly for drug and violent offenses, and he routinely passes up opportunities to prevent disasters so he can make public appearances on toast.


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* KillerRabbit: The Mother of All Bunnies looks like an adorable rabbit crossed with a Xenomorph Queen.


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* StepfordSuburbia: Outer Suburbitron, where ghosts popping out of your hot cocoa and urging you to commit murder is apparently just taken in stride.
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-->'''Thief:''' I think the pizza wants me to murder?\\

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-->'''Thief:''' ->'''Thief:''' I think the pizza wants me to murder?\\
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* BunniesForCuteness: The whole point of the Bunnies Planet in the Zones of Adorable.
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* InsultToRocks: Used [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2016/02/24/the-persistence-of-trump/ here]] in reference to (who else) [[KickTheSonOfABitch Donald Trump]].
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* TeenyWeenie: Implied [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2010/06/16/one-night-stand/ here]], provided you actually know what the [[ShownTheirWork Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction]] is.

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* TeenyWeenie: Implied [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2010/06/16/one-night-stand/ here]], provided you actually know what the [[ShownTheirWork Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction]] is.is.
* WarForFunAndProfit: Discussed {{anvilicious}}ly [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2010/06/29/the-price-of-glory/ here]]
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* CallARabbitASmeerp / ExpospeakGag: Crops up multiple times, especially [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2010/06/22/have-you-seen-the-lungports-on-her/ here]]
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* AuthorAvatar: Either Jon himself or some thinly-veiled version of him will pop up fairly frequently, either to put himself into a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2015/11/06/star-trek-rosenberg/ parody]] or [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2015/11/20/war-never-changes/ make a pseudo-philosophical statement]].
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* ConfusingMultipleNegatives: The punchline of [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2010/06/18/the-worst-birthday-ever/ this comic]].
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* TheSociopath: Cornelius Snarlington in spades.

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* TheSociopath: Cornelius Snarlington in spades.spades.
* TeenyWeenie: Implied [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2010/06/16/one-night-stand/ here]], provided you actually know what the [[ShownTheirWork Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction]] is.
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* GeniusBonus: Only science nerds will understand [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2010/06/16/one-night-stand/ this comic]].
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* GeniusBonus: Only science nerds will understand [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2010/06/16/one-night-stand/ this comic]].
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* AudienceParticipation: The author used to post a poll allowing viewers to determine which dimension would get revisited.

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* GirlfriendInCanada: All but {{invoked}} in [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2013/07/10/long-distance/ this comic]] by an {{Expy}} of [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Harry Kim]].
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* TheMultiverse: Obviously.
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* AuthorAppeal: The Franchise/StarTrek-related comics that pop up once every so often.
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* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Both Cornelius and his arch rival Horace apply.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: An interesting example, in that most of the characters don’t even have names and only make a single appearance. But that aside, there’s still the Dungeons Divers (Eddie, Thief, Bront, Bryn), Sciencemaster Adler, Cornelius Snarlington, Horace Greenstein, Original God, Corn God, Duck Thompson, Good Hitler, Sam Greeley…

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: An interesting example, in that most of the characters don’t even have names and only make a single appearance. But that aside, there’s still the Dungeons Divers (Eddie, Thief, Bront, Bryn), Sciencemaster Adler, Cornelius Snarlington, Horace Greenstein, Original God, Corn God, the Corn Pope, Duck Thompson, Good Hitler, Sam Greeley…Greeley…
* ParodyReligion: All hail the Corn God!
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: An interesting example, in that most of the characters don’t even have names and only make a single appearance. But that aside, there’s still the Dungeons Divers (Eddie, Thief, Bront, Bryn), Sciencemaster Adler, Cornelius Snarlington, Horace Greenstein, Original God, Corn God, Duck Thompson, Good Hitler, Sam Greeley…

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* AuthorTract: Internet {{troll}}s, [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalists]] and Creator/DonaldTrump all end up on the receiving end of Rosenberg’s pen, but it’s usually done so cleverly you won’t mind. After all, SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
* DungeonBasedEconomy: {{Implied}} in the flashback where Eddie recruits the other Dungeon Divers.
* DungeonCrawling: The basis of the immensely popular Dungeon Divers storyline, ''SFAM’''s longest ongoing plot to date.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: An interesting example, in that most of the characters don’t even have names and only make a single appearance. But that aside, there’s still the Dungeons Divers (Eddie, Thief, Bront, Bryn), Sciencemaster Adler, Cornelius Snarlington, Horace Greenstein, Original God, Corn God, Duck Thompson, Good Hitler, Sam Greeley…Greeley…
* TheSociopath: Cornelius Snarlington in spades.
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''SFAM''’s website can be found [[amultiverse.com here]], and you can read all comics from the beginning [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2010/06/14/parenthood/ here]].

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''SFAM''’s website can be found [[amultiverse.[[http://amultiverse.com here]], and you can read all comics from the beginning [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2010/06/14/parenthood/ here]].
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''Scenes From A Multiverse'' is a gag-per-day webcomic written and drawn by Jon Rosenberg (creator of ''WebComic/{{Goats}})'' and updated every Monday-Wednesday-Friday. As the name would imply, it consists of random sketches taking place across a vast and varied (and seemingly infinite) collection of universes. Since the setting and the cast change every day, this comic technically has one of the largest and mind-bogglingly diverse casts of characters of any work. Although this means the work as a whole has no overarching plot, particularly popular locales and characters (most notably the “Dungeon Divers”)

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''Scenes From A Multiverse'' is a gag-per-day webcomic written and drawn by Jon Rosenberg (creator of ''WebComic/{{Goats}})'' and updated every Monday-Wednesday-Friday. As the name would imply, it consists of random sketches taking place across a vast and varied (and seemingly infinite) collection of universes. Since the setting and the cast change every day, this comic technically has one of the largest and mind-bogglingly diverse casts of characters of any work. Although this means the work as a whole has no overarching plot, particularly popular locales and characters (most notably the “Dungeon Divers”)“[[DungeonCrawling Dungeon Divers]]”) get revisited and develop their own storylines.

Content can be as wildly distinct as the locations themselves, ranging from sociopolitical commentary ([[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2016/02/17/the-tantrum/ this one]] reduces the United States Supreme Court nomination process to two kids fighting over a TV) to [[AffectionateParody affectionate parodies]] of [=movies/TV/video=] games the author likes to [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2014/12/31/this-year/ utter nonsense]], or the blood-soaked antics of [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2015/01/09/welfare-state/ Cornelius Snarlington]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Business Deer]].

''SFAM''’s website can be found [[amultiverse.com here]], and you can read all comics from the beginning [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2010/06/14/parenthood/ here]].

(Not to be confused with TheMultiverse.)
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: An interesting example, in that most of the characters don’t even have names and only make a single appearance. But that aside, there’s still the Dungeons Divers (Eddie, Thief, Bront, Bryn), Sciencemaster Adler, Cornelius Snarlington, Horace Greenstein, Original God, Corn God, Duck Thompson, Good Hitler, Sam Greeley…
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[[caption-width-right:242:two of the strip’s many, ''many'' colourful characters]]

-->'''Thief:''' I think the pizza wants me to murder?\\
'''Bryn:''' I do not understand the appeal of pizza.

''Scenes From A Multiverse'' is a gag-per-day webcomic written and drawn by Jon Rosenberg (creator of ''WebComic/{{Goats}})'' and updated every Monday-Wednesday-Friday. As the name would imply, it consists of random sketches taking place across a vast and varied (and seemingly infinite) collection of universes. Since the setting and the cast change every day, this comic technically has one of the largest and mind-bogglingly diverse casts of characters of any work. Although this means the work as a whole has no overarching plot, particularly popular locales and characters (most notably the “Dungeon Divers”)

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