History Webcomic / SluggyFreelance

* AirVentEscape: [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=001217 On the back of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, of all things.]]

** A reference to [[{{Animaniacs}} Wakko]]'s "Potty Emergency!" was made by a Nofun executive.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/100203 This]] comic manages to do this by presenting ''{{Up}}''... from the balloons' perspective.[[invoked]]
** Another example: Torg (as well as the viewers) see Aylee as a good character, and (mostly) not a threat, at least after she undergoes a little CharacterDevelopment. Riff, however, continues to see her as a threat, much as he sees [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Sam]]. Riff's viewpoint isn't all that sympathetic... until [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/070703 this comic]].[[hottip:*:What's that trope for "the guy who seems mean is actually being realistic and pragmatic?"]]

* DeusExMachina: Parodied and kind of lampshaded with the Deus Ex Ovum, an egg imbued with the power of Zeus that can set everything right [[spoiler: in regards to the personifications of the holidays]]. It actually works rather like a pre-planned cut-and-paste DeausExMachina, in that it's introduced out of nowhere some time before it's used, and immediately heavily lampshaded, as if Pete Abrams could see his story writing itself in a corner before he actually got there. ([[CrazyPrepared Which would be unsurprising.]])

* DeusExMachina: The heavily lampshaded Deus Ex Ovum (arguably not actually a DeusExMachina, since it's mentioned and explained long before its used and well explained.

* BoringInsult

* BeyondTheImpossible: Bun-Bun manages to piss off the Amish enough to result in a massive mob of them chasing down the group, they eventually manage to escape, but not before Bun-Bun makes a mint off of selling Game Boys to them and destroys a few barns.
** They also describe being "Screwed beyond screwed" has "Bun-Bun-on-PMS-Screwed"

* AscendedToCarnivorism: Played with; the cast always makes sure Bun-Bun doesn't get hungry, fearing he might say "What the hell, let's give meat a try."

* AuthorAvatar: [[spoiler: The Fate Spiders. "The Great Tangle" is all of the dangling plotlines (Hereti-Corp having the DFA, K'Z'K's return to the world, Zoë's role as "The Stormbreaker" and Torg's role as K'Z'K's slayer) coalescing into one giant ball of twine - with there only being two options left: People die to avoid inconsistencies or [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt all continuity]] is thrown out the window. [[CerebusSyndrome Take a WILD guess which one got chosen?]]]]

* DeadlyEuphemism: Parodied in an arc where Torg and Riff work for 'Mr. Middleman' doing jobs that ''sound'' like this, but turn out to be totally harmless, such as a vampire wanting a 'dirt nap' and someone actually wanting 'concrete shoes' for orthopaedic reasons.

* EvilVersusEvil: The "Another Year in the Life of a Villain" arc effectively sees [[spoiler: Strom, Dr. Chen, Daedalus, Kusari, and Dr. Schlock all at each others' throats (mostly Schlock's).]]

* AnyoneCanDie: There was at one point, a meme on the forum where certain characters were called [[ContractualImmortality Not Allowed to Die]]; when one of these characters was KilledOffForReal during a parody arc, the list was narrowed down to TheMagnificentSevenSamurai. [[spoiler: Now even some of them... Dead? Alive? OnlyMostlyDead? FateWorseThanDeath? Nothing is certain any more. It's getting to the point of ZigZaggedTrope.]]
* ArcWords: Plenty.

** "What...''is'' that blade?!"

*** This troper assumed [[spoiler:it became like that after Oasis used her powers]].

** The letters 'ROKEN' behind Oasis in the photo made most readers think it was a cutoff of 'BROKEN', which was indeed the name of a later arc...however, said arc revealed (in a slight cop-out) that it was in fact a cut-off of [[spoiler:PYROKENETICS - misspelled by an illiterate sign painter]].

* PunnyName: ''Everyone'' apart from the main cast. Particular mention goes to the inhabitants of the Punyverse and of Torg Potters' wizarding world.
** The book of E-ville [Elizabethville, Pa.]