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In its time, it has shifted from being a simple gag comic with rather short arcs to a complex tragicomic tale of friends living in a mad world and trying to find fulfilling lives in them. It has helped create or popularize a ton of webcomic tropes, and it repeatedly hangs [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] over every single trope it uses, and [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] a few dozen more.
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In its time, it has shifted from being a simple gag comic with rather short arcs to a complex tragicomic tale of friends living in a mad world and mixing elements from just about every genre, trying to find fulfilling lives in them. it, and occasionally saving it. It has helped create or popularize a ton of webcomic tropes, and it repeatedly hangs [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] over every single trope it uses, and [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] a few dozen more.
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* CallBack: In a [[http://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=2#1997-10-10 1997 strip]], Riff and Torg goof off teleporting in Trolorian Gogo-Dancers. When one of their coworkers protests, they discuss throwing her out into space but settle for just her clothes. In a [[http://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=72#2020-03-04 2020 strip]], in the Anima dimension, they encounter members of the same race, who worship the goddess Troloria. During a party, they drunkenly call themselves "Torloria's Ogo-Dancers" and a pair of of party goers discuss whether to toss Riff out of the party or just his clothes.
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* CallBack: In a [[http://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=2#1997-10-10 1997 strip]], Riff and Torg goof off teleporting in Trolorian Gogo-Dancers. When one of their coworkers protests, they discuss throwing her out into space but settle for just her clothes. In a [[http://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=72#2020-03-04 php?chapter=72#2020-03-09 2020 strip]], in the Anima dimension, they encounter members of the same race, who worship the goddess Troloria. During a party, they drunkenly call themselves "Torloria's Ogo-Dancers" and a pair of of party goers discuss whether to toss Riff out of the party or just his clothes.
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* CallBack: In a [[http://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=2#1997-10-10 1997 strip]], Riff and Torg goof off teleporting in Trolorian Gogo-Dancers. When one of their coworkers protests, they discuss throwing her out into space but settle for just her clothes. In a [[http://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=72#2020-03-04 2020 strip]], in the Anima dimension, they encounter members of the same race, who worship the goddess Troloria. During a party, they drunkenly call themselves "Torloria's Ogo-Dancers" and a pair of of party goers discuss whether to toss Riff out of the party or just his clothes.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Both Gwynn and Torg have had symbolic, prophetic dreams of things to come, specifically about Oasis and Zoë.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Both Gwynn and Torg have had symbolic, prophetic dreams of things to come, specifically about Oasis and Zoë. Gwynn has one of these about [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020114 Zoe being burned alive]]. Too bad she [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=090707 forgot about it]] until seven years later. Torg has also had prophetic dreams about the same event, and possibly an event following them.
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* ItTastesLikeFeet: [[http://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=72#2020-03-02 Torg thinks]] [[CordonBleughChef Gwynn]]'s blue-cakes taste like a giant pink eraser without the added teeth-cleaning effect. Riff thinks it's more like shoe-leather with a rotting foot still in the shoe, and an aftertaste of BS.
-->'''Gwynn''': Don't hold back, guys. Tell me what you ''really'' think.
-->'''Gwynn''': Don't hold back, guys. Tell me what you ''really'' think.
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler:According to the Fate Spiders, the Great Tangle will cause reality itself to break down if its not fixed.]]
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** [[spoiler:According to the Fate Spiders, the Great Tangle will cause reality itself to break down if its not fixed.]]
** [[spoiler:According to the Fate Spiders, the Great Tangle will cause reality itself to break down if its not fixed.]]
** In the Anima dimension, evil people figured out how to invoke YourSoulIsMine, allowing them to increase their psychic power by killing other people and stealing their animas. They annihilated most of the population stealing animas, bringing the about the downfall of their entire civilization and continued to hunt people down even afterwards. The situation got so bad that it was ultimately only resolved via [[spoiler:DivineIntervention, when the goddess in charge of their world was forced to rewrite how the entire anima system worked.]]
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* MagicOrPsychic: Psychic powers don't appear much in the main universe, but both magic and psionics exist as separate forces. Magic is powered by mortals abusing the Fate Web to manipulate probabilities. Psionics are generated when the synapses are magnified, such as in the Anima dimension, where electricity has far more effect.
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* MagicOrPsychic: Psychic powers don't appear much in In the main universe, but both magic and psionics exist as separate forces. Magic is powered by abusing Khronus's Web of Fate allows mortals abusing the Fate Web to manipulate probabilities. Psionics are generated when the synapses are magnified, such as in the use magic. The Anima dimension, where electricity dimension lacks a fate web, making mortal magic impossible, but it has far more effect.a another system created by different deity that makes it possible for mortals to use psionics.
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* SoulEating: What brought about the end of what had been a {{Utopia}} up until then. [[spoiler:In the Anima Dimension, everyone has an "Anima", an EmpathyPet produced as a psychic projection. Someone figured out how to harvest other peoples' animas to augment their own psychic power and took over. The resulting psionic war killed off most of the population. One of the few survivors actively hunts down every other survivor she can find and continues to devour them]].
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* SoulEating: What brought about the end of what had been a {{Utopia}} up until then. [[spoiler:In the Anima Dimension, everyone has an "Anima", an EmpathyPet produced as a psychic projection. Someone figured out how to harvest other peoples' animas to augment their own psychic power and took over. The resulting psionic war killed off most of the population. One of the few survivors actively hunts Even then, there were those who would hunt down every other survivor she can they could find and continues continue to devour them]].
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* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: According to Schlock, mortal magic is powered by abusing the god Chronos's Web of Fate. When outside the Fate Web's bounds, such as beyond Earth's atmosphere, magic doesn't work and you have to rely on normal science. Intrinsically magical entities, like magical objects and even demons tend to have trouble surviving and risk perishing when they run out of their internal stores of magic. Having said that, some other dimensions ''do'' have other forms of magic that are not powered by the Fate Web.
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* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: According to Schlock, mortal magic is powered by abusing the god Chronos's Web of Fate. When outside the Fate Web's bounds, such as beyond Earth's atmosphere, magic doesn't work and you have to rely on normal science. Intrinsically magical entities, like magical objects and even demons tend to have trouble surviving and risk perishing when they run out of their internal stores of magic. Having said that, some other dimensions ''do'' have other forms of magic that are not powered by the a Fate Web.Web. The Anima Dimension for example has the goddess Troloria's tapestry of anima, a system that makes it possible for the residents of her world to use psionics.
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* ScavengerWorld: The Anima Dimension develops to become an extremely high tech civilization, complete with {{Brain Computer Interface}}s, {{Robot Maid}}s, and hover technology. Then they figure out how to [[YourSoulIsMine murder people and and steal their animas]] for greater psychic power, triggering a massive war that kills off most of the population. The survivors are left too busy hiding from anima hunters to maintain their civilization, and it ultimately takes thousands of years for the situation to stabilize. By the time it finally does, they have reverted to an agrarian society, albeit with some high tech leftover to scavenge.
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* TheSociopath: In the Anima Dimension, they are called "bedeviled", and they are the source of most of that dimension's problems. Whereas the emotions of most people are on display via their [[EmpathyPet animas]], bedeviled are able to fake different emotions, allowing themselves to get away with their crimes uncaught. Fortunetely, special people called "seers" are able to detect them and form the bulk of the Anima dimension's police force.
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* SoulEating: What brought about the end of what had been a {{Utopia}} up until then. [[spoiler:In the Anima Dimension, everyone has an "Anima", an EmpathyPet produced as a psychic projection. Someone figured out how to harvest other peoples' anima to augment their own psychic power and took over. The resulting psionic war killed off most if not the entire population]].
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* SoulEating: What brought about the end of what had been a {{Utopia}} up until then. [[spoiler:In the Anima Dimension, everyone has an "Anima", an EmpathyPet produced as a psychic projection. Someone figured out how to harvest other peoples' anima animas to augment their own psychic power and took over. The resulting psionic war killed off most if not of the entire population]].population. One of the few survivors actively hunts down every other survivor she can find and continues to devour them]].
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* PsychicPowers: The Anima Dimension's electicity magnifies the synapses, resulting in all sapient beings having an EmpathyPet. It is possible to use one's EmpathyPet to interact with other peoples' minds.
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* {{Utopia}}: Torg considers the Anima Dimension's industrial period to be in many ways considered idealic. It differs from the main universe primarily in two ways. For one, everyone has an EmpathyPet, which makes deception impossible. For another, they do not have a concept of property, and everyone will freely give everyone else what they need. There are no wars, and their rulers are genuinely good people. Overall, it is the friendliest and most peaceful dimension the gang has ever visited. However, the Anima Dimension is not without its own problems. While most of the people they disenfranchise as outsiders are declared so for being lazy, otherwise functional people can also be marked as outsiders for being antisocial. And though slackers are only a tiny minority, the lack of capitalist incentive does still mean that their technology develops more slowly than in the main universe. Additionally, the lack of private property means that they see no problem with taking extremely dangerous experimental technology without its inventor's permission for study. [[spoiler:It ultimately ends five thousand years later, when unscrupulous people figure out SoulEating and take over, triggering a war that kills off the entire population.]]
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* {{Utopia}}: Torg considers the Anima Dimension's industrial period to be in many ways considered idealic. It differs from the main universe primarily in two ways. For one, everyone has an EmpathyPet, which makes deception impossible. For another, they do not have a concept of property, and everyone will freely give everyone else what they need. There are no wars, and their rulers are genuinely good people. Overall, it is the friendliest and most peaceful dimension the gang has ever visited. However, the Anima Dimension is not without its own problems. While most of the people they disenfranchise as outsiders are declared so for being lazy, otherwise functional people can also be marked as outsiders for being antisocial. And though slackers are only a tiny minority, the lack of capitalist incentive does still mean that their technology develops more slowly than in the main universe. Additionally, the lack of private property means that they see no problem with taking extremely dangerous experimental technology without its inventor's permission for study. [[spoiler:It ultimately ends five thousand years later, when unscrupulous people figure out SoulEating and take over, triggering a war that kills off the entire population.]]
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** In the Anima dimension's distant future, [[spoiler:it is mysteriously empty of living people, the evidence suggests that everyone's physical bodies died a decade ago, and robots continue to maintain everything on autopilot]].
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* {{Utopia}}: The Torg considers the Anima Dimension is Dimension's industrial period to be in many ways considered idealic. It differs from the main universe primarily in two ways. For one, everyone has an EmpathyPet, which makes deception impossible. For another, they do not have a concept of property, and everyone will freely give everyone else what they need. There are no wars, and their rulers are genuinely good people. Overall, it is the friendliest and most peaceful dimension the gang has ever visited. However, the Anima Dimension is not without its own problems. While most of the people they disenfranchise as outsiders are declared so for being lazy, otherwise functional people can also be marked as outsiders for being antisocial. And though slackers are only a tiny minority, the lack of capitalist incentive does still mean that their technology develops more slowly than in the main universe. Additionally, the lack of private property means that they see no problem with taking extremely dangerous experimental technology without its inventor's permission for study. [[spoiler:It ultimately ends five thousand years later, when unscrupulous people figure out SoulEating and take over, triggering a war that kills off the entire population.]]
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* GhostPlanet: The Dimension of Pain.
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** The Dimension ofPain.Pain, where the original inhabitants were wiped out. There are still plenty of demons though.
** In the Anima dimension's distant future, [[spoiler:it is mysteriously empty of living people, the evidence suggests that everyone's physical bodies died a decade ago, and robots continue to maintain everything on autopilot]].
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** In the Anima dimension's distant future, [[spoiler:it is mysteriously empty of living people, the evidence suggests that everyone's physical bodies died a decade ago, and robots continue to maintain everything on autopilot]].
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* WrongAssumption: Eearlier in the first alternate dimension arc, the captain thought [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/971019 he was the hero]] but apparently he was a DecoyProtagonist.
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** Much earlier in the first alternate dimension arc the captain thought they were in a [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/971019 macho action movie]] (seriously, his last words).
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* RealityEnsues: While stuck in an alternate dimension where [[spoiler: everyone's emotions are literally on display to be read,]] Torg [[spoiler:spends months laboriously cobbling together a ring in secret so he can propose to Zoe. She turns him down because he's been avoiding her without explanation and keeping secrets.]]
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* MultilayerFacade: Parodied in a filler arc done by several guest artists [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20000416 here,]] in which the evil mastermind is progressively unmasked as Reakk from the Dimension of Pain, Dr. Schlock, Vice-President UsefulNotes/AlGore, brilliant but mentally disturbed physicist UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, [[ScoobyDoo Kindly Old Mrs. Appleby]], and Stick Figure Shirt-Guy Tom. [[CrossesTheLineTwice And then]] Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit refuses to believe that's the final layer and ends up ripping Tom's head off.
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* MultilayerFacade: Parodied in a filler arc done by several guest artists [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20000416 here,]] in which the evil mastermind is progressively unmasked as Reakk from the Dimension of Pain, Dr. Schlock, Vice-President UsefulNotes/AlGore, brilliant but mentally disturbed physicist UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, [[ScoobyDoo [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Kindly Old Mrs. Appleby]], and Stick Figure Shirt-Guy Tom. [[CrossesTheLineTwice And then]] Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit refuses to believe that's the final layer and ends up ripping Tom's head off.
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* SuperheroOrigin: Parodied/deconstructed in the "Stick Figure Tales of Cotton" filler arc with the flasbacks to the origins of Torg's rabbit-themed identity "Captain Hippity" and Riff's "Science Boy". Torg [[SpiderMan is bitten by a radioactive rabbit]] and becomes..."Lost All My Teeth And Hair Man" from the radiation poisoning, before being cured and given super powers by aliens. Riff's [[Franchise/{{Batman}} parents are killed]] and he becomes "Orphan-Boy, [[InsaneTrollLogic with the proportionate strength of someone with no parents!]]" before being given a bazooka and scholarship to MIT by the same aliens.
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* SuperheroOrigin: Parodied/deconstructed in the "Stick Figure Tales of Cotton" filler arc with the flasbacks flashbacks to the origins of Torg's rabbit-themed identity "Captain Hippity" and Riff's "Science Boy". Torg [[SpiderMan [[Franchise/SpiderMan is bitten by a radioactive rabbit]] and becomes..."Lost All My Teeth And Hair Man" from the radiation poisoning, before being cured and given super powers by aliens. Riff's [[Franchise/{{Batman}} parents are killed]] and he becomes "Orphan-Boy, [[InsaneTrollLogic with the proportionate strength of someone with no parents!]]" before being given a bazooka and scholarship to MIT by the same aliens.
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* EmpathyPet: During the Anima arc, the gang gets stuck in a dimension where the souls of all sapient life manifest a symbolic creature called an "anima" representing their current feelings. This makes deception impossible for most people, with the exception of the bedeviled, who possess corrupted animas. As a result, it is one of the friendliest and most peaceful dimensions that gang has ever visited.
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* EmpathyPet: During the Anima arc, the gang gets stuck in a dimension where the souls of all sapient life manifest a symbolic creature called an "anima" representing their current feelings. This makes deception impossible for most people, with the exception of the bedeviled, who possess corrupted animas. As a result, it is one of the friendliest and most peaceful dimensions that gang has ever visited.visited, at least when it comes to sapient folk interactions (the wild natural fauna on the other hand included deadly giant monsters).
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* EmpathyPet: During the Anima arc, the gang gets stuck in a dimension where the souls of all sapient life manifest a symbolic creature called an "anima" representing their current feelings. This makes deception impossible for most people, with the exception of the bedeviled, who possess corrupted animas. As a result, it is one of the friendliest and most peaceful dimensions that gang has ever visited.
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* AssholeVictim: A self-proclaimed pirate who would kill a hobo for 5 bucks comes upon an apparently murdered woman's corpse and gleefully tries to look for a way to profit from it. Said corpse turns out to be a starved vampire who proceeds to feed on and kill him. Likewise, his wife, a saleswoman who in a likely reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli#Price_hike_controversy Martin Shkreli]], happened to have raised the price of children’s medicine from twelve bucks to one billion, proceeds to become said vampire's next victim.
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* AssholeVictim: AssholeVictim:
** A self-proclaimed pirate who would kill a hobo for 5 bucks comes upon an apparently murdered woman's corpse and gleefully tries to look for a way to profit from it. Said corpse turns out to be a starved vampire who proceeds to feed on and kill him. Likewise, his wife, a saleswoman who in a likely reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli#Price_hike_controversy Martin Shkreli]], happened to have raised the price of children’s medicine from twelve bucks to one billion, proceeds to become said vampire's nextvictim.victim.
** In the "Kitten II" arc, two of the first victims of the kitten attack during the climax are [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves the "Arny" members who betrayed the others]].
** A self-proclaimed pirate who would kill a hobo for 5 bucks comes upon an apparently murdered woman's corpse and gleefully tries to look for a way to profit from it. Said corpse turns out to be a starved vampire who proceeds to feed on and kill him. Likewise, his wife, a saleswoman who in a likely reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli#Price_hike_controversy Martin Shkreli]], happened to have raised the price of children’s medicine from twelve bucks to one billion, proceeds to become said vampire's next
** In the "Kitten II" arc, two of the first victims of the kitten attack during the climax are [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves the "Arny" members who betrayed the others]].
* DressingToDie: Before Zoe is to be beheaded, Sigurd asks to have her change out of her prisoner garb and into her modern clothes, so she can look as she did when she found her, and thus prove his claim that she's a spy. Luckily, he also gives back her shotgun and a shell, enabling Zoe to shoot the Deadel executioner and save Sigurd's life.
* FingerInTheMail: Magon sends Torg a finger that supposedly belongs to Zoe (in fact, he got it from one of the guards), to convince him that Zoe's dead.
* StabTheScorpion: [[spoiler:Torg shooting Riff]] turns out to be an accident, since he was apparently trying to shoot a {{Mook}} behnd him.
* UnhandThemVillain: When a K'Z'K-possessed Gwynn is dangling Dr. Lorna over the side of the Empire State Building, Riff demands, "Drop my mom now!", and immediately thereafter, realizes it was a poor choice of words.
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* [[WhamEpisode Wham Comic]]: [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/090612 12/06/09]] reveals one of the biggest pieces of information about Oasis to date. [[spoiler: She's pyrokinetic and many, many of her explosive exits earlier in the series that were previously assumed to be the results of things like Gwynn's magical powers or bombs going off were Oasis' pyrokinetic abilities exploding.]]
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** The "Vampires" story line was one of the first to shake up the status quo. [[spoiler:Sam and Valerie are revealed to be vampires, and the latter's death results in a resolution to the LoveTriangle involving her, Torg, Sam and Zoe]].
** [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/090612 12/06/09]] reveals one of the biggest pieces of information about Oasis to date. [[spoiler: She's pyrokinetic and many, many of her explosive exits earlier in the series that were previously assumed to be the results of things like Gwynn's magical powers or bombs going off were Oasis' pyrokinetic abilities exploding.]]
** The "Vampires" story line was one of the first to shake up the status quo. [[spoiler:Sam and Valerie are revealed to be vampires, and the latter's death results in a resolution to the LoveTriangle involving her, Torg, Sam and Zoe]].
** [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/090612 12/06/09]] reveals one of the biggest pieces of information about Oasis to date. [[spoiler: She's pyrokinetic and many, many of her explosive exits earlier in the series that were previously assumed to be the results of things like Gwynn's magical powers or bombs going off were Oasis' pyrokinetic abilities exploding.]]
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** It has been stated that Magic is ''not'' just misunderstood Science. The Web of Fate is a mystical construct created by Khronos, Father Time, in order to protect the world from the God of Destruction, K'Z'K. It defines a set of rules for the world to follow and guides its path to keep it safe. Science is the art of manipulating the world within the rules the Web defines. Magic is an incredibly dangerous, destructive force, that can bypass the web's restraints. Without magic, K'Z'K would remain SealedEvilInACan forever. But with it, he can eventually break free.
** According to Schlock, science is the art of causing things to happen using the normal laws of probability, while mortal magic is the art of abusing the Fate Web to tweak those probabilities and make otherwise improbable things reality.
** According to Schlock, science is the art of causing things to happen using the normal laws of probability, while mortal magic is the art of abusing the Fate Web to tweak those probabilities and make otherwise improbable things reality.
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** It has been stated that According to Scholar Soco, Magic is ''not'' just misunderstood poorly understood Science. The Web of Fate is a mystical construct created by Khronos, Father Time, in order to protect the world from the God of Destruction, K'Z'K. It defines a set of rules for the world to follow and guides its path to keep it safe. Science is the art of manipulating the world within the rules the Web defines. Magic is an incredibly dangerous, destructive force, that can bypass the web's restraints. Without magic, K'Z'K would remain SealedEvilInACan forever. But with it, he can eventually break free.
** According to Schlock,science the truth is actually the ''opposite'' of what Scholar Soco said. Science is the art of causing things to happen using the normal laws of probability, while mortal magic is the art of abusing the Fate Web to tweak those probabilities and make otherwise improbable things reality.reality. As such, all classes of magic reliant on the Fate Web suffer from YourMagicsNoGoodHere and start losing power when they leave the Fate Web's boundaries, such as beyond Earth's atmosphere or when in other dimension that lacks a Fate Web.
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* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: According to Schlock, mortal magic is powered by abusing the Fate Web.god Chronos's Web of Fate. When outside the Fate Web's bounds, such as beyond Earth's atmosphere, magic doesn't work and you have to rely on normal science. Intrinsically magical entities, like magical objects and even demons tend to have trouble surviving and risk perishing when they run out of their internal stores of magic. Having said that, some other dimensions ''do'' have other forms of magic that are not powered by the Fate Web.
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** Many interdimensional denizens (including humans from the Dimension of Lame, Demons from the Dimension of Pain, and Punyverse people) are English speakers. This is justified in the case of closely parallel dimensions and unexplained in other cases. Then again, one closely parallel dimension differs in the locals speaking Portuguese.
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** Many interdimensional denizens (including humans from the Dimension of Lame, Demons from the Dimension of Pain, and Punyverse people) are English speakers. This is justified in the case of closely parallel dimensions and unexplained in other cases. Then again, one closely parallel dimension differs in the locals speaking Portuguese. Lampshaded or potentially a plot point in the anima arc, where Gwynn finds it odd that everyone speaks English despite so many other things being so different about the dimension they're in, while Riff says that's probably just how parallel dimensions work.
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* EmpathyPet: During the Anima arc, the gang gets stuck in a dimension where the souls of all sapient life manifest a symbolic creature called an "anima" representing their current feelings. This makes deception impossible for most people, with the exception of the bedeviled, who possess corrupted animas.
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* InformedAttribute: Parodied with Torg and Riff's "tradition" of exchanging a beer every year for Christmas/Hanukkah. They have never yet managed to pull it off without something going wrong -- it's almost Sluggy's equivalent of ''{{Peanuts}}''' annual gag with Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown:
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* InformedAttribute: Parodied with Torg and Riff's "tradition" of exchanging a beer every year for Christmas/Hanukkah. They have never yet managed to pull it off without something going wrong -- it's almost Sluggy's equivalent of ''{{Peanuts}}''' ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''' annual gag with Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown:
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** The "Meannwhile..." strip by Ian Mcdonald was also fond of this, in particular the Angel being defeated thanks to ''{{Peanuts}}''` Lucy-pulling-the-football-away running gag.
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** The "Meannwhile..." strip by Ian Mcdonald was also fond of this, in particular the Angel being defeated thanks to ''{{Peanuts}}''` ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''` Lucy-pulling-the-football-away running gag.
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* GardenOfEden: When Torg and Aylee are staying in another dimension while the media coverage of the latter dies down, the locals have a number of mountain-based gardens, the largest of which is named Eden.
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** During the "Storm Breaker" saga, a time-travelling Torg has to take on the role of Dark Ages Warlord [[IdenticalStranger Lord Torgamous]] and attempts this, but falls afoul of CommandAndConquerEconomy.
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** [[http://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=14#1999-07-23 During the "Storm Breaker" saga, saga]], a time-travelling Torg has to take on the role of Dark Ages Warlord [[IdenticalStranger Lord Torgamous]] and attempts this, but falls afoul of CommandAndConquerEconomy.
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* AirVentPassageway: [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=001217 On the back of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, of all things.]]
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* AirVentPassageway: [[http://www.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=001217 On the back of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, of all things.]]
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* AllJustADream: Played with, of course, in [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060924 this strip.]]
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* AllJustADream: Played with, of course, in [[http://sluggy.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060924 this strip.]]
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** One of the strips even managed to top that - [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=090612 this one (major spoiler)]] asks you to check the forums assuming the other Sluggy readers will post them ''for you''.
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** One of the strips even managed to top that - [[http://sluggy.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=090612 this one (major spoiler)]] asks you to check the forums assuming the other Sluggy readers will post them ''for you''.
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* AncientKeeper: The [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=041027 Arachnaseus]] from the "That Which Redeems" arc fills this role.
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* AncientKeeper: The [[http://www.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=041027 Arachnaseus]] from the "That Which Redeems" arc fills this role.
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* BetweenMyLegs: [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070815 In a rather bizarre fashion.]]
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* BetweenMyLegs: [[http://sluggy.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070815 In a rather bizarre fashion.]]
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* DeathIsCheap: Oasis becomes the subject of a mocking parody for a FAQ week in [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=991210 this strip,]] before playing it straight. A lot.
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* DeathIsCheap: Oasis becomes the subject of a mocking parody for a FAQ week in [[http://sluggy.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=991210 this strip,]] before playing it straight. A lot.
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* {{Flanderization}}: Sam Sein. Once the stubborn, clueless guy who couldn't take a "no" from Zoë. Now practically incapable of tying his shoelaces and pathetically excited over even the slightest possibility that a woman might not hate him. Compare [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971125 1997 Sam]] to [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/091119 2009 Sam.]]
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* {{Flanderization}}: Sam Sein. Once the stubborn, clueless guy who couldn't take a "no" from Zoë. Now practically incapable of tying his shoelaces and pathetically excited over even the slightest possibility that a woman might not hate him. Compare [[http://www.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971125 1997 Sam]] to [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/091119 2009 Sam.]]
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* {{Hammerspace}}: Half-lampshaded [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=090605 here.]]
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* {{Hammerspace}}: Half-lampshaded [[http://www.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=090605 here.]]
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* IHaveNothingToSayToThat: Zoe, in [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030731 this strip.]]
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* IHaveNothingToSayToThat: Zoe, in [[http://www.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030731 this strip.]]
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* JustEatHim: [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971018 Here.]]
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* OverlyLongGag: Dr. Viennason [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20050210 explains]] the dimension of timeless space by illustrating what happens when you run out of time supplies. By standing perfectly still for thirteen panels. Although he breaks it to surreptitiously glance at the camera if you look carefully in the tenth panel. The same trope is used for a whole sixteen panels in this [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010715 Gofotron battle.]]
* PaperThinDisguise: A popular gag. Aylee does it [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971031 here,]] the angular "Clockjerk Dudes" robot bodies always seem to fool everyone, it's used as a DescriptionCut joke [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20070423 here]] where we are primed to expect one of Dr Schlock's very realistic inflatable decoys, but in fact TheMenInBlack are fooled by an obvious small balloon.
* PaperThinDisguise: A popular gag. Aylee does it [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971031 here,]] the angular "Clockjerk Dudes" robot bodies always seem to fool everyone, it's used as a DescriptionCut joke [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20070423 here]] where we are primed to expect one of Dr Schlock's very realistic inflatable decoys, but in fact TheMenInBlack are fooled by an obvious small balloon.
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* OverlyLongGag: Dr. Viennason [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20050210 explains]] the dimension of timeless space by illustrating what happens when you run out of time supplies. By standing perfectly still for thirteen panels. Although he breaks it to surreptitiously glance at the camera if you look carefully in the tenth panel. The same trope is used for a whole sixteen panels in this [[http://www.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010715 Gofotron battle.]]
* PaperThinDisguise: A popular gag. Aylee does it[[http://www.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971031 here,]] the angular "Clockjerk Dudes" robot bodies always seem to fool everyone, it's used as a DescriptionCut joke [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20070423 here]] where we are primed to expect one of Dr Schlock's very realistic inflatable decoys, but in fact TheMenInBlack are fooled by an obvious small balloon.
* PaperThinDisguise: A popular gag. Aylee does it
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* RealMenWearPink: Bun-bun once wore [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=050925 a lavender dress.]] And it was awesome.
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* RealMenWearPink: Bun-bun once wore [[http://www.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=050925 a lavender dress.]] And it was awesome.
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* RecklessGunUsage: Alt-Bun-bun [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=040607 invokes this trope,]] enough that Torg yells, "''Quit pointing that empty gun at me, it's not really for making points in conversation!''" [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since Alt-Bun-bun comes from a dimension without guns (or much in the way of violence at all).
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* RecklessGunUsage: Alt-Bun-bun [[http://sluggy.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=040607 invokes this trope,]] enough that Torg yells, "''Quit pointing that empty gun at me, it's not really for making points in conversation!''" [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since Alt-Bun-bun comes from a dimension without guns (or much in the way of violence at all).
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* SawAWomanInHalf: [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070813 Doesn't quite go as planned for Riff...]]
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* SlowLoadingInternetImage: An April Fool's day comic made good use of this trope [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060401 here.]]
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* SlowLoadingInternetImage: An April Fool's day comic made good use of this trope [[http://sluggy.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060401 here.]]
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* SnowyScreenOfDeath: In this [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=090401 strip.]]
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* SnowyScreenOfDeath: In this [[http://www.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=090401 strip.]]
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* TimeyWimeyBall: While generally glossed over for the sake of a good story, TimeTravel has worked differently in different circumstances - "The Storm Breaker" saga resulted in Zoë and Torg actually changing history (which then gave Zoë problems on a history test), but we also learn that Valerie was turned into a vampire as the result of Torg's actions in the past, even though she was a vampire before he traveled back in time. Also, Dr. Schlock from the future watched his younger self die, but he's still around because he's from an alternate doomed future that was averted in the current timeline thanks to some of the technology he sent back in time to stop K'Z'K, as he mentioned in Kiki's Virus, [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000201 here.]] K'Z'K eventually reveals that whenever someone tries to change the past, Krohnus's Web of Fate will try to steer things back to the right course. If a timeline is altered beyond the Fate Web's ability to create a StableTimeLoop, it will try to split the altered timeline into an AlternateUniverse. Fail at that, and it results in a TimeCrash.
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* TimeyWimeyBall: While generally glossed over for the sake of a good story, TimeTravel has worked differently in different circumstances - "The Storm Breaker" saga resulted in Zoë and Torg actually changing history (which then gave Zoë problems on a history test), but we also learn that Valerie was turned into a vampire as the result of Torg's actions in the past, even though she was a vampire before he traveled back in time. Also, Dr. Schlock from the future watched his younger self die, but he's still around because he's from an alternate doomed future that was averted in the current timeline thanks to some of the technology he sent back in time to stop K'Z'K, as he mentioned in Kiki's Virus, [[http://www.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000201 here.]] K'Z'K eventually reveals that whenever someone tries to change the past, Krohnus's Web of Fate will try to steer things back to the right course. If a timeline is altered beyond the Fate Web's ability to create a StableTimeLoop, it will try to split the altered timeline into an AlternateUniverse. Fail at that, and it results in a TimeCrash.
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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: [[spoiler:Lysinda was able to tempt Valerie because her husband Torgamus died in battle, which was the result of Torg going back in time to fight K'Z'K.]] See [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=990822 here]] for details.
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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: [[spoiler:Lysinda was able to tempt Valerie because her husband Torgamus died in battle, which was the result of Torg going back in time to fight K'Z'K.]] See [[http://www.[[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=990822 here]] for details.
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* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: According to Schlock, mortal magic is powered by abusing the Fate Web. When outside the Fate Web's bounds, such as beyond Earth's atmosphere, magic doesn't work and you have to rely on normal science.
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* YourMagicsNoGoodHere: According to Schlock, mortal magic is powered by abusing the Fate Web. When outside the Fate Web's bounds, such as beyond Earth's atmosphere, magic doesn't work and you have to rely on normal science. Intrinsically magical entities, like magical objects and even demons tend to have trouble surviving and risk perishing when they run out of their internal stores of magic.
