History Webcomic / TrueMagic

* StaticStunGun: The guards wield collapsible metal batons that can stun people. Since it seems to channel the nobility’s inherited magic, [[Mundie peasants can’t wield the batons,]] and receive a shock if they touch it.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Provides the page image. A Giant's Skeleton snatches up the Direwolf menacing the party.
* AmazonChaser: The bandit leader [[http://www.true-magic.com/view.php?id=84 is mightily impressed]] after Joe and Jen's mother kicks his groups' collective asses.
* AristocratsAreEvil: They're the primary antagonists of the story. Though that doesn't mean there aren't [[http://www.true-magic.com/view.php?id=247 some exceptions]].

* BlatantLies: "If you ''ever'' threaten a priest again, I'll smi-" AltText: "He was going to say, 'smile and turn the other cheek'. Honest!"

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Jen reprimands Kiku for holding a sword in his mouth: "Oh, Kiku. Don't put that in your mouth! You don't know where it's been!"

* CloseCallHaircut: [[spoiler: In the first run, Kiku accidentally pokes Joe's eye out. In the current run, a similar scene is shown, but instead, Joe is only given a CloseCallHaircut. He later gets another one to even up the other side.]]

* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Defied [[http://www.true-magic.com/view.php?id=172 when the Sergeant slaps some powder out of his subordinate's hand]], pointing out that it'd be easier to analyze ''chemically'', as it could be anything from a variety of poison to his wife's biscuit mix.

* GiantSpider: Kept as pets when the World was dark, mostly because nobody coult tell them appart from [[CuteKitten cats]].

* HeadInTheSandManagement: Sarge finds the captain's office empty, with a RopeLadder out the window and an apologetic note. Prior to this, his orders were to make sure that [[spoiler: the deaths of ''all'' the prisoners in their care]] could be proven [[BlameGame to not be their fault]].
* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: One of the city guards refuses to wear his because "[[http://www.true-magic.com/view.php?id=77 it makes my hair look stupid]]." This is his explanation when his sarge tells him off for getting hit over the head. Kiku later demonstrated [[http://www.true-magic.com/view.php?id=119 that the helmets aren't all that useful]], either.

* ImagineSpot: Joe thinking of staying at the nightclub. He sees Bob as a magician, Kiku hunting rats, himself as a ladies' man, and [[StupidSexyFlanders Henson]] [[HoYay in a thong]].

--> [[http://www.true-magic.com/view.php?id=95 "...which is why the long-haired gents wear ponytails around here. It's more masculine, you know?"]]
* TheMagocracy: The decendants of the Preists of Lucien have become the Nobility of the world, as they're the only ones able to use magic.

* MissingMom: Bob's got one, [[http://www.true-magic.com/view.php?id=295 as the bandit leader is dismayed to find]].
* MomentKiller: Henson is [[http://www.true-magic.com/view.php?id=164 in the middle of a badass speech]], when he's interrupted by "the therapy bunny".

* MundaneUtility: The first Miracle the preists do? Heat up some cold coffee.

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: After commoners complain about the priests' deeds and Lucideus demands they change their ways, [[spoiler: the priests turn against Lucideus and seal him up.]]

* {{Shibboleth}}: Nobles salute each other by making their hands glow. Since peasants can't do that, it serves to weed out anyone trying to enter The City illegally.

* TournamentArc: [[spoiler:The heroes get thrown into an arena known as "The Pit" after getting dragged down into the Dusk to Dusk nightclub.]]
* UseYourHead: Henson tries this on the [[spoiler:sand monster's stone]] to break it. It commends for a clever idea, but poor technique.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Jen, to get into a nobles' school.

* WouldntHitAGirl: Played straight with one of the thugs who attacks the heroes ("My mom told me not to hit girls"), and ''inverted'' with the girl in question ("My mom told me not to hit boys who don't hit girls").

* {{Bishonen}}: Everywhere you look! It's gotten to the point that men tend to wear their (long) hair in a braid, since its the only way to tell them from the women.

* Jen: TheChick, uses a halberd to shear sheep. A WholesomeCrossdresser for the sake of pretending to be a noble.

* DarkskinnedRedhead: Kiku.

* NiceHat: The priests'. Lampshaded by the AltText.

* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Green-Haired]] Man: Strangely eager to tell Henson something "of the utmost life-changing gravity." We don't know what it is, yet. [[http://www.true-magic.com/view.php?id=485 Page 485]] reveals his name as Gauthicus.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Check out panel [[http://www.true-magic.com/view.php?id=88 three:]] Long [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair?]] Check. Heart-themed necklace? Check. Frills? Check. Actually a girl? Sorry.

* FluffyTheTerrible: One of the PuppeteerParasite sand monsters is named "patches." However, Patches is a [[MinionWithAnFInEvil monster who isn't particularly monstrous.]] Its partner Spike, however, is mean enough for both of them.

* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Green-Haired]] Man: Strangely eager to tell Henson something "of the utmost life-changing gravity." We don't know what it is, yet.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The pair at the gate has one who believes that HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic,

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Quite subverted. The guards might not be paragons of virtue and civic duty, but they see through the group's ruse easily.

* AristocratsAreEvil: They're the primary antagonists of the story.

* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Defied [[http://www.true-magic.com/view.php?id=172 when the Sergeant slaps some powder out of his subordinate's hand]], pointing out that it'd be easier to analyze ''chemically''.

* HeadInTheSandManagement: Sarge finds the captain's office empty, with a RopeLadder out the window and an apologetic note.