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* AbandonedLaboratory: These are the primary legacy of [[CovertGroup Orsintos Labs]], an FBI initiative to research paranormal leads by any means necessary. Of their bases, we've seen a zombie research site that was taken over by the zombies, a facility built to house a [[SummoningRitual thaumaturgical experiment]] that ended up getting everyone killed, and a center for studying ghosts and various psychic powers, demolished aboveground, leaving only a [[CreepyBasement dungeon furnished with torture equipment]].

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* MagicOrPsychic: In the main universe, abusing Khronus's Web of Fate allows mortals to use magic. The Anima dimension lacks a fate web, making mortal magic impossible, but it has a another system created by different deity that makes it possible for mortals to use psionics.

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* MagicOrPsychic: In the main universe, abusing Khronus's Web of Fate allows mortals to use magic. The Anima dimension lacks a fate web, making mortal magic impossible, but it has a another system created by a different deity that makes it possible for mortals to use psionics.


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* MajorityShareDictator: * This is how [[spoiler:Dr. Schlock]] took over Hereti-Corp, by negotiating 20% stock compensation for employment while already owning 32% of the corporation through shell companies. He promptly fired and imprisoned the previous [=CEO=], since majority ownership allowed him to "make board and executive changes at will".
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* FutureSelfReveal: Hereti-Corp executive Dr. Newguy, [[TheFaceless never seen without a bag over his head]], attends a time-flux experiment upon [[YouHaveFailedMe disgraced]] agents Drake and Tyler. Tyler gets zapped first, ending up in the past, where he leverages his knowledge of anime futures to build a new identity with a doctorate and a diagnosis of extreme rosacea: Dr. Edris Ilba Newguy. He then escapes with Drake before she can be subjected to the horrifically painful experiment too.
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* MascotsLoveSugar: TeamPet Kiki the ferret loves sugar almost as much as [[DistractedByTheShiny shiny things]]. When she gets her paws on sugar in large quantities or very concentrated form, she gets incredibly, hyperkinetically active. Riff weaponizes this at times by giving her pixie sticks, after which she tends to leave Kiki-shaped holes in walls or anything else that gets in her way.
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%%* TheCakeIsALie: [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/090916 This strip.]]

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%%* * TheCakeIsALie: In [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/090916 This strip.]]this strip]], pie is used as a simple but fraudulent incentive for a [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul brainwashed]] Riff to play along with the scheme to get him periodically functional again.



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%%* MistakenForTerrorist* MistakenForTerrorist: After dropping Riff off at the airport so he can [[ReassignedToAntarctica relocate to Alaska for his job]], Torg realizes that, since Riff has never quit a job before without launching an all-out war against his employer, he might not realize there are less drastic ways of getting out of his position. Cue running through the terminal screaming, "You don't have to blow them up! You don't have to kill everyone!", followed by a brief stay at Guantanamo Bay.
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* AccidentallyRealFakeAddress: Sam supplies an Accidentally Real Accidentally Fake Address when he abbreviates "St. Paul, Michigan" as "St. Paul, [[UsefulNotes/Minnesota MN]]". Consequently, the vampires monitoring his "private" Internet chat with hostile intent charge blindly into a vampire hunter convention.

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* AccidentallyRealFakeAddress: Sam supplies an Accidentally Real Accidentally Fake Address when he abbreviates "St. Paul, Michigan" as "St. Paul, [[UsefulNotes/Minnesota [[UsefulNotes/{{Minnesota}} MN]]". Consequently, the vampires monitoring his "private" Internet chat with hostile intent charge blindly into a vampire hunter convention.
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* AccidentallyRealFakeAddress: Sam supplies an Accidentally Real Accidentally Fake Address when he abbreviates "St. Paul, Michigan" as "St. Paul, [[UsefulNotes/Minnesota MN]]". Consequently, the vampires monitoring his "private" Internet chat with hostile intent charge blindly into a vampire hunter convention.
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* CorporateWarfare: The R&D wars pit all of the {{Evil Corp}}s and supervillains of the world [[EvilVersusEvil against one another]], using private armies and secret weapons developed by {{Mad Scientist}}s. In the Dimension of Rain, Hereti Corp won a PyrrhicVictory only after the world was in ruins and reality itself had become fragile. In the main universe, Hereti Corp wins before the public even notices anything is happening.

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* CorporateWarfare: The R&D Research and Development wars pit all of the {{Evil Corp}}s and supervillains of the world [[EvilVersusEvil against one another]], using private armies and secret weapons developed by {{Mad Scientist}}s. In the Dimension of Rain, Hereti Corp won a PyrrhicVictory only after the world was in ruins and reality itself had become fragile. In the main universe, Hereti Corp wins before the public even notices anything is happening.
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%%* * CorporateWarfare: The R&D wars.wars pit all of the {{Evil Corp}}s and supervillains of the world [[EvilVersusEvil against one another]], using private armies and secret weapons developed by {{Mad Scientist}}s. In the Dimension of Rain, Hereti Corp won a PyrrhicVictory only after the world was in ruins and reality itself had become fragile. In the main universe, Hereti Corp wins before the public even notices anything is happening.
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* NamesTheSame: [[invoked]]{{Discussed|Trope}} about three different characters [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/131113 who all at some point were named]] "[[spoiler:Sluggy]]"

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* BookcasePassage: The TrapDoor in Brie Meighsaton House is opened by a nearby lever that's also a candlestick.



* EarlyBirdCameo: Two of the main characters in Chapter 68 get these. Dr. Vistuvius first appears in a single panel of Chapter 67 as a potential ally to the heroes, at which time they decide not to make contact with him. Sylvia's role in Chapter 8 goes little beyond NominalImportance, and it's easy to miss that, unlike her fellow vampires, she isn't shown being KilledOffForReal after her NonLethalKO. It's nevertheless a long time between her appearance then and her adventures in Chapter 68 ([[SynchronousEpisodes synchronous]] to Chapters 66 and 67).



* EscapedFromTheLab: Kiki joins the cast as one of several lab animals Bun-bun breaks out as he makes his own escape from incarceration.



* HorrorHost: The first K I T T E N storyline (but not the sequel) is presented as an episode of "Bun-bun's Theatre of Horrors", with Bun-bun BreakingTheFourthWall to take the narrator gig.



* PopUpTrivia: [[ShowWithinAShow Dr. Viennason's Guide to Timeless Space]] comes with "Pop-Up Cudbitz". Unlike real-life implementations, these bonus facts are printed on actual signs that dangle next to Dr. Viennason as he presents his wisdom for the video recording, and he doesn't quite conceal his disgust when they are insulting to him (which happens surprisingly frequently).



** The "Meannwhile..." strip by Ian Mcdonald was also fond of this, in particular the Angel being defeated thanks to ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''` Lucy-pulling-the-football-away running gag.

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* SoleSurvivingScientist:
** Dr. Schlock, in a BadFuture, uses a time machine to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong by sending [[spoiler:Berk]] back to avert the apocalypse in the present. He also sends himself back twenty years further to live out his life.
** Torg and Gwynn briefly encounter an alternate-dimensional Riff who, having accidentally replaced everyone else in the world with butterflies, has already moved past trying to fix the problem and into DrowningHisSorrows, with a reasonable start on a BeardOfSorrow too.
** In the Dimension of Rain, [[spoiler:both of them fill this role]]. After [[PyrrhicVictory winning the Research and Development Wars]] (and controlling what remained) through excessive use of dimensional flux agitation, [[spoiler:Dr. Schlock]] split his time between ruling 4U City and monitoring the breakdown of the fabric of reality. Then [[spoiler:Riff forced his way back into the dimension]], [[FromBadToWorse causing even more damage than had already been sustained]]. In the face of this catastrophe, they teamed up [[spoiler:and put 4U City into "[[AmnesiaLoop a holding pattern for society]]"]] so they could devote their attention to the hard work of repairing dimensional stability. Since [[spoiler:Schlock's death, Riff]] has carried on the scientific work alone, delegating oversight of the city to [[spoiler:an ArtificialIntelligence [[AIIsACrapshoot with its own agenda]]]].


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* ThirdPersonFlashback: When Torg flashes back to a [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee secret mission]] he sent Zoë on, most of the action is naturally from Zoë's point of view. Even if we assume she briefed him on the details afterward, though, there's still [[https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=64#2012-08-10 a short scene]] occurring after Zoë had left the building, which the author, noting that it's "unknowable to Torg", helpfully dubs a "[[PerfectlyCromulentWord flashbatical meanwhile]]".
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* InCaseOfXBreakGlass: Torg has had to break his EmergencyStash of pants several times over the course of the comic.

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%%* TheCakeIsALie: [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/090916 This strip.]]



* CorporateWarfare: The R&D wars.

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* DeadGuyPuppet: Zombie-Head-On-A-Stick.

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* TheDitz: Nearly everyone except Zoë.

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* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: It is implied Grahammy is one.

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* {{Dystopia}}:
** 4U City.
** The Alternate Future where K'Z'K rules with its army of Deadels is another good example.
** The Dimension of Lame was certainly heading in this direction once the demons took over.

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** Also, K'Z'K's job description.

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* EvilOverlord: "His Masterness"

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* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: How Aylee was born. Well, except for the "face" part.
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* FanService: Done and lampshaded [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/980712 here.]]

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* FieryRedhead: Oasis is [[spoiler:literally]] one.

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* FriendToPsychos: The Zalia family to Oasis.

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During a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARPmOwpyzLQ top 10 webcomics list]] the youtuber found great difficulty describing just what Sluggy Freelance is about. By about halfway through he starts having fits. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPoA5qAHqFU Here's the Sluggy segment by itself.]]

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During a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARPmOwpyzLQ top 10 webcomics list]] the youtuber found great difficulty describing just what Sluggy Freelance ''Sluggy Freelance'' is about. By about halfway through he starts having fits. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPoA5qAHqFU Here's the Sluggy segment by itself.]]



* GirlsNightOutEpisode: Coincidentally titled "Girl's Night Out."

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* HordeOfAlienLocusts: Aylee's species.

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* HurricaneOfPuns: Lampshaded like all get out.

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* {{Jerkass}}: Kent, {{Satan}}.

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* JustEatHim: [[http://archives.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971018 Here.]]

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* KillerRabbit: Bun-bun; The Evil

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* McNinja: Kusari, most likely.

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* MindScrew - A good portion of the comic is this.

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* MistakenForTerrorist

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* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Lampshaded with extreme prejudice multiple times.

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** The very early storyline "The Sci-Fi Adventure" mixes references to Franchise/StarTrek [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/971002 starting here]], StarWars [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19971005 here]] and Franchise/{{Alien}} [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19971012 here.]]

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** The very early storyline "The Sci-Fi Adventure" mixes references to Franchise/StarTrek ''Franchise/StarTrek'' [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/971002 starting here]], StarWars ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19971005 here]] and Franchise/{{Alien}} F''ranchise/{{Alien}}'' [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19971012 here.]]



** The Punyverse Saga is a mix of parodies of CombiningMecha anime (such as Anime/{{Voltron}}), ''StarWars'', and Lobo from Creator/DCComics.
** The recurring 'Torg Potter' storylines are more critical parodies of Franchise/HarryPotter.

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** The Punyverse Saga is a mix of parodies of CombiningMecha anime (such as Anime/{{Voltron}}), ''StarWars'', ''Anime/{{Voltron}}''), ''Franchise/StarWars'', and Lobo from Creator/DCComics.
** The recurring 'Torg Potter' storylines are more critical parodies of Franchise/HarryPotter.''Franchise/HarryPotter''.



* [[TheCakeIsALie The Pie Is A Lie]]: [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/090916 This strip.]]



* RedOniBlueOni: Oasis and Kusari.

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** Parodied in one of the stick figure fillers (InSpace), where wearing a red shirt makes you a magnet for random gunfire.

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** Parodied in one of the stick figure fillers (InSpace), (JustForFun/InSpace), where wearing a red shirt makes you a magnet for random gunfire.



* [[ReplacementGoldfish Replacement Frog]]: Hereti-corp has a [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/110210 rather long-standing]] account with the local petshop don't they.

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* [[ReplacementGoldfish Replacement Frog]]: ReplacementGoldfish: Hereti-corp has a [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/110210 rather long-standing]] account with the local petshop don't they.






* {{Spoonerism}}: The source of many a PunnyName. For example, in the Punyverse where everyone has a food pun based named, the leader of the Zorgon race is Zorgon Gola (Gorgonzola) and [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20120301 Riff, Torg and Zoe play]] a game called [[TabletopGame/SettlersofCatan Kettlers of Satan]].

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* {{Spoonerism}}: The source of many a PunnyName. For example, in the Punyverse where everyone has a food pun based named, the leader of the Zorgon race is Zorgon Gola (Gorgonzola) and [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20120301 Riff, Torg and Zoe play]] a game called [[TabletopGame/SettlersofCatan [[TabletopGame/SettlersOfCatan Kettlers of Satan]].



* SuperLoser: Sam.

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* TeleportGun: Schlock takes Riff's designs for the DFA and hires another portal expert to weaponize them. The result is a gun he can use to banish his enemies to random dimensions. He eventually plans to use a much stronger version to build [[KillSat Kill Sats]].

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* TeleportGun: Schlock takes Riff's designs for the DFA and hires another portal expert to weaponize them. The result is a gun he can use to banish his enemies to random dimensions. He eventually plans to use a much stronger version to build [[KillSat Kill Sats]].{{Kill Sat}}s.






* [[WhamEpisode Wham Comic]]:

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** [=bROKEN=] is basically a wham ''arc''. This becomes apparent when [[spoiler: Dr. Schlock has Oasis's father-figure executed while she watches helplessly, for no reason other than to show he means business]]. As the arc ends, [[spoiler: Torg is losing his grip on reality and becoming increasingly unstable, Oasis is paralyzed from the neck down in the clutches of [=HeretiCorp=], Aylee is clearly dying from a ''massive'' neck wound (she thankfully gets better), Zoë's cursed necklace has been found (which currently has no possible explanation other than her being dead), and Riff is trapped in a [[{{Dystopia}} dystopian]] alternate dimension and was seemingly shot down by a squad of armed goons while cradling Zoë's burnt corpse.]]

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** [=bROKEN=] is basically a wham ''arc''. This becomes apparent when [[spoiler: Dr. Schlock has Oasis's father-figure executed while she watches helplessly, for no reason other than to show he means business]]. As the arc ends, [[spoiler: Torg is losing his grip on reality and becoming increasingly unstable, Oasis is paralyzed from the neck down in the clutches of [=HeretiCorp=], Aylee is clearly dying from a ''massive'' neck wound (she thankfully gets better), Zoë's cursed necklace has been found (which currently has no possible explanation other than her being dead), and Riff is trapped in a [[{{Dystopia}} dystopian]] {{dystopia}}n alternate dimension and was seemingly shot down by a squad of armed goons while cradling Zoë's burnt corpse.]]



** Remember a decade ago, when we briefly thought that [[spoiler:Sasha might be a Hereticorp spy?]] The [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/120820 8/20/2012]] strip shows that we were [[EvilAllAlong right all along]].

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** Remember a decade ago, when we it briefly thought that seemed like [[spoiler:Sasha might be a Hereticorp spy?]] The [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/120820 8/20/2012]] strip shows that we were this was [[EvilAllAlong right all along]].



* {{Yandere}}: Oasis. Oh, so very much.

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* YourVampiresSuck
* ZanyScheme: Torg's plans (and sometimes Riff's). Often CrazyEnoughToWork.

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** The war between the Vorpyr, Vrykolakas, and Strakoistrat vampires effectively amounts to this, with 3 different factions of parasitic monsters at one another's throats.

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* PragmaticVillainy: A majority of the Strakoi vampires agree to unseal K'Z'K in return for the destruction of all other vampire types. One of them points out that driving humanity to extinction will reduce their food supply, but is overruled since most of them are confident this has been accounted for.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Angel [=McDevil=].
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* StereotypicalNerd: The "cloner nerds" release a plague that exponentially increases the intelligence of whoever it infects, while ''de''creasing their attractiveness and social skills to the point where they become extremely nerdy [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie]] [[NotUsingTheZWord analogues]], invoking the trope.
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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: There are several different varieties, each with their own rules.

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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: There are many different varieties, each with their own rules.

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** K'Z'K was originally the god of destruction, but was converted into "merely" an ultra powerful demon. This gave him the power to possess people.
** K'Z'K's demonic followers are spirits without physical bodies of their own. Instead, they possess mortal bodies and are able to channel their individual powers through them.
** At one point, Gwynn makes a DealWithTheDevil with a group of demon [[YourSoulIsMine soul merchants]]. They do not have physical forms, but they ''are'' at the power level of a PhysicalGod.

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** The standard demons of the main universe are spirits from another realm. Most of them are called "Possessors" and are limited to controlling a host via DemonicPossession. Manifestors can channel magic through their hosts. "Emergent" are the rarest type of demon. They can manifest physically without the need for a host, though they still have the option of taking a host if they want it.
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K'Z'K was originally the god of destruction, but was converted into "merely" an ultra powerful Emergent demon. This gave him the power to possess people.
** *** K'Z'K's demonic followers are spirits without physical bodies of their own. Instead, they possess mortal bodies and are able to channel their individual powers through them.
*** Imps are a particularly weak and foolish type of demon, but they are nevertheless Emergent. One man manages to trick and bind one, Ozzid, to serve as a PowerSource for PowersViaPossession.
** At one point, Gwynn makes a DealWithTheDevil with a group of demon [[YourSoulIsMine soul merchants]]. They do not have physical forms, but they ''are'' {{Reality Warper}}s at the power level of a PhysicalGod.



** Imps are a particularly weak and foolish type of demon. One man manages to trick and bind one, Ozzid, to serve as a PowerSource for PowersViaPossession.
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** Riff: MadScientist version, complete with SunglassesAtNight. TrenchCoatWarfare dialled UpToEleven.

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* TheScottishTrope: [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20080121 Saying Clutter Monster's name]] causes him to yell "[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk CLUTTER MONSTER SMASH!]]" and slam Riff and Torg (who he's holding) together.

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* TheScottishTrope: [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20080121 Saying Clutter Monster's name]] causes him to yell "[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk "[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk CLUTTER MONSTER SMASH!]]" and slam Riff and Torg (who he's holding) together.
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** [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/061024 The Strawman]] a.k.a. Nash Straw a.k.a. Warren Nashville, Public Accountant a.k.a. Reynold Strom a.k.a. Raymond Strum a.k.a. Reid Nash gets the full treatment: TrenchCoatWarfare, NightVisionGoggles which double as GlowingEyesOfDoom[[note]]SplashOfColor[[/note]], what appears to be a [[PostApocalypticGasmask filter mask]], NiceHat, ScarfOfAsskicking, [[BulletProofVest Knife-Resistant Vest]], GunsAkimbo... dressed all in black.

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** [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/061024 The Strawman]] a.k.a. Nash Straw a.k.a. Warren Nashville, Public Accountant a.k.a. Reynold Strom a.k.a. Raymond Strum a.k.a. Reid Nash gets the full treatment: TrenchCoatWarfare, NightVisionGoggles which double as GlowingEyesOfDoom[[note]]SplashOfColor[[/note]], what appears to be a [[PostApocalypticGasmask filter mask]], NiceHat, nice hat, ScarfOfAsskicking, [[BulletProofVest Knife-Resistant Vest]], GunsAkimbo... dressed all in black.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: God save us...
** In terms of supporting cast, ''Sluggy Freelance'' is to webcomics what ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is to animated TV.
** Just listing the ''normal'' cast takes long enough. You also have clones, various versions of characters from the same universe, alternate universe versions of characters, characters living in the past, characters from the future, characters from future alternate universes, characters who technically don't exist, at least three separate pantheons of gods...
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* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: The "Torg Potter" stories; "Oceans Unmoving".
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* WrenchWench: Sasha in is able to understand and often improve on Riff's inventions.
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* UnseenPenPal: In a lengthy storyline, Gwynn is seen conversing with a friend on the Internet: a friend who happens to be skilled at the very type of black magic she's been trying to master. His advice always leads to disaster (of the kind where HilarityEnsues, but still...) but she never seems to notice, or blames herself for not being careful enough. It's only after she's finally gotten fed up with her distrustful friends, and left on a bus to meet her 'Internet friend', that we find out that Zoe's Internet account - which Gwynn had been using - has been down for ages, and the 'friend' was actually a shard of K'Z'K the Vowelless, embedded in her brain, making her type his half of the conversation out in a word processor. He just needed to get her away from her friends so he could extend his influence to a complete possession...
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* MailerDaemon: K'Z'K slowly tried to convince Gwynn to fully give in to her powers and come over to help him, all through "chatting" on a word processor.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Neither K'Z'K nor Farahn particularly like one another. It doesn't help that both of them are selfish {{Jerkass}}es. But since both of them are locked and restricted inside the Book of E-ville, they need to cooperate to get things done. King Farahn controls K'Z'K's magical power and K'Z'K himself comes up with the plans and spells. K'Z'K's ideal scenario is to break himself free while leaving King Farahn trapped forever.

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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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* RejectedMarriageProposal: 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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* PronouncingMyNameForYou: Dr. Haught-Sheik's name is mispronounced "Hot-Chick" and "Hoochie" by other characters, much to her annoyance.

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