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** Played straight and subverted by the same action: Oasis murders [[spoiler:Monica]], someone the readers know is an evil spy trying to bring about the downfall of the main cast. However, nobody (including Oasis) knew this fact. And up to this point, Oasis had not done any permanent damage to anyone the main cast would identify as innocent, meaning that for many of them (and Oasis herself) the event has become a MoralEventHorizon. Her true Moral Event Horizon came when she [[spoiler:burned Zoe alive.]]

* TheScrappy: People have long since gotten tired of Bun-Bun. Entire arcs being built on him didn't help.
** People are also incredibly tired of Gwynn's selfish behavior especially when she conspired with Theresa to ruin Torg and Zoë's relationship to "protect Zoë" immediately after an arc where Torg saved Gwynn's life. Bun-Bun even had to call her out on her crap.

* Filler: More than half of the comic is random, extremely lazy filler pages that are mostly similar to each other with only minor details swapped. There are also entire -arcs- of filler.

* HellIsThatNoise: Anyone who survives the demon's spawn ([[spoiler:a litter of kittens]]) will forever jump at the sound of [[spoiler: "'''mew.'''"]]

** People are also incredibly tired of Gwynn's selfish behavior especially when she conspired with Theresa to ruin Torg and Zoë's relationship to "protect Zoë" immediately after an arc where Torg saved Gwynn's life.

-->'''Oasis''': GOD WHY DID YOU MAKE TORG LIE TO ME?

* ArchivePanic - Even if you skip the FillerStrips, you still have around a decade.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment - The Torg Potter storylines are completely self-contained (at least so far), in contrast to pretty much every other storyline which can be guaranteed to have some effect later on.

* CrazyAwesome - Torg's moments of victory prior to when he TookALevelInBadass - for example, his apparently inane practice of keeping around "Emergency Pants", which go on to become absolutely vital [[ChekhovsGun a few strips later]].

* EpilepticTrees - Just read the forums. Especially about Oasis, whose precise nature has probably been specc'd on more than anyone in history except religious figures and [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]].
* EsotericHappyEnding - [[spoiler:The heartwarming moment at the end of "Displacement" is almost enough to make you forget that ''there's a machine that displaces anything it touches by several feet heading straight for the earth's core''.]][[note]]Well maybe. Depends on the angle it started at[[/note]].
** It ran out of power and turned off just after breaking into a cavern containing dinosaurs.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment - The Steve Irwin CaptainErsatz "The Demon Hunter" gets stabbed in the chest with a nautically-themed spear.
** Could also qualify as CrossesTheLineTwice, as it does happen a second time, [[spoiler: when his assistant/wife betrays him.]]

* HilariousInHindsight - The arc where the group first meets the Lysindra vampires was funny enough in 1998. Come 2005 and ''Twilight'', and the attack of the vampire Kullen and the fact that Torg has a mind that vampires can't read, and it's hilarious how well ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' gets mocked.
* IKnewIt - The use of the Minion Master as a [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Gun]] was figured out by the forumites fairly easily.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt - Pete had told the fanbase ''for years'' that [[spoiler: Zoe was going to die]]. [[spoiler: As of this arc, she has been brutally burned, drugged into a coma, and Riff has now been told that she cannot survive off of the machines keeping her stable. However, this information has been relayed to him through a character known for duplicity and the use of a surveillance tape..]]
** And it has since turned out [[spoiler: that Riff used time travel and nanobots to bring her back]].
* MagnificentBastard - [[spoiler:Irving Schlock]] [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/110202 is slowly becoming one]].
* MoralEventHorizon - Played straight and subverted by the same action: Oasis murders [[spoiler:Monica]], someone the readers know is an evil spy trying to bring about the downfall of the main cast. However, nobody (including Oasis) knew this fact. And up to this point, Oasis had not done any permanent damage to anyone the main cast would identify as innocent, meaning that for many of them (and Oasis herself) the event has become a MoralEventHorizon.
** Her true Moral Event Horizon came when she [[spoiler:burned Zoe alive.]]
*** I always figured it came when she [[spoiler:tried to kill Zoe the first time.]] That's when the cast started regarding her as a serious threat, anyway.

** Bestseid recently crossed the horizon when it was revealed he has been [[spoiler:feeding ZHOAS (Jane) brains again. Made even worse by the fact that they are probably the brains of "innocent" random minions. Either way Jane is crazy enough when lucid that this is a bad thing.]]
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:Sasha being captured by a {{Face Heel Turn}}ed Monicruel. We don't even know what she's done to her, but she clearly looks like she's been mentally (and probably physically) ''broken''.]]
* SeasonalRot - Opinion varies on where it started, what exactly's been going wrong, or whether it's still "good," and while many people feel that it's nowhere near what it was in the nineties and early 2000s, others think that despite the [[CerebusSyndrome changes]] it's just as good as it ever was.
* TearJerker - The [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/090820 finale]] of the [=bROKEN=] arc.
** Also, toward the end of 4U City Red:
*** '''Riff''': ''She was the best. The '''best''' All the craziness Torg and I put her through? She always did right. By everyone. She always '''shined'''. Remember that. Embrace that. And then let her go.''
* TheWoobie - Torg, for being unable to be with the woman he loves due to circumstances beyond his control. Zoe, for her perennial ButtMonkey status. Even Oasis has her [[TheWoobie Woobie]] moments, despite being an AxCrazy StalkerWithACrush.
** Also, some believe Zombie-Head-On-A-Stick has become quite pitiable lately.
* [[TheProducerThinksOfEverything The Writer Thinks of Everything]] - the forums are always filled with much debate as to how much is really Pete's advance planning and how much is just {{Continuity Nod}}s. The recent explanation of how a character who made his debut by suddenly arriving in Timeless Space got there (along with another character from the Oceans Unmoving arc) seems more like the latter. [[spoiler:The big [[TheReveal reveal]] about Oasis]], however...definitely the former.

* ClicheStorm: [[YellowPeril Doctor Nofun]] [[BaldOfEvil is a blend]] [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain of several]] [[CardCarryingVillain villain]] [[CompleteMonster sterotypes]] all packed into one character.
* CompleteMonster - [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/101029 The latest strip]] places Bestseid firmly in this category.

* EsotericHappyEnding - [[spoiler:The heartwarming moment at the end of "Displacement" is almost enough to make you forget that ''there's a machine that displaces anything it touches by several feet heading straight for the earth's core''.]][[hottip:*: Well maybe. Depends on the angle it started at]].

* HellIsThatNoise: Anyone who survives the demon's spawn ([[spoiler: a litter of kittens]]) will forever jump at the sound of [[spoiler: "'''mew.'''"]]

* HellIsThatNoise: Anyone who survives the demon's spawn ([[spoiler: a litter of kittens]]) will forever jump at the sound of [spoiler: "'''mew.'''"]]

* EsotericHappyEnding - [[spoiler:The heartwarming moment at the end of "Displacement" is almost enough to make you forget that ''there's a machine that displaces anything it touches by several feet heading straight for the earth's core''.]]

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Several.
** [[spoiler: Mosp's attack on Horribus.]]
** [[spoiler: Fittingly, and weirdly, Bert one gets one with his last (living) lines: "Viva la Crotch!"]]
** [[spoiler: 2003's BatmanGambit to defeat Holiday Bun Bun]]

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

* VillainBall - Cleverly averted at the end of "Holiday Wars", where Bun-bun's enemies have concocted a clever BatmanGambit that will force him to use the Deus ex Ovum (push the ResetButton)--but if Bun-bun actually fell for it, his character would suffer BadassDecay. So instead the Groundhog's shadow falls for the scheme instead, and Bun-bun is appalled to find out that because they are linked, the effects of the plan will apply to him as well unless he uses the ResetButton.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: When [[spoiler:Zoe came back]].

* [[TheProducerThinksOfEverything The Writer Thinks of Everything]] - the forums are always filled with much debate as to how much is really Pete's advance planning and how much is just {{Continuity Nod}}s. The recent explanation of how a character who made his debut by suddenly arriving in Timeless Space got there (along with another character from the Oceans Unmoving arc) seems more like the latter. [[spoiler:The big [[TheReveal reveal]] about Oasis]], however...definitely the former.
* YourMileageMayVary - Opinions on "Oceans Unmoving" widely vary, with some people considering it a PlotTumor and others thinking it was one of the cooler arcs in the story. [[AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent The fact that the cast of the arc consists of Bun-bun and a bunch of characters not seen in any other arc may contribute to the former opinion.]]
** Well, a couple of the characters made a reappearance in "Paradise" (one by appearance, one by name).

* ''FILLER''* This comic, especially in recent years, has had excessive amounts of filler.
** Don't worry, [[spoiler: it ran out of gas once it entered a valley near the center of the earth.]]

* TrueArtIsOffensive: Bert is introduced as an artist of this type, due to his crotch obsession.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080703 This.]]
** Also, pretty much anything to do with Kesandru House, but especially [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/011206 this.]]
*** Not to forget [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20011125 this.]]
** The description of [[spoiler: Zoe's fate]] in the 4U city arc. Heck, 4U city in general.
** [[spoiler:Sasha being captured by a {{Face Heel Turn}}ed Monicruel. We don't even know what she's done to her, but she clearly looks like she's been mentally (and probably physically) ''broken''.]]