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1This comic has lots of characters... But don't worry! There are a number of distinct "themes", so most of the characters are restricted to just one theme... [[CrossOver Most of the time]]...
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3
4* BackFromTheDead: Considering how inept Deaths are, this is common.
5
6[[foldercontrol]]
7
8!!!Themes which debuted in the comic's first year (2003)
9
10[[folder:Me]]
11
12![[Tropers/{{Dmmaus}} David Morgan-Mar]]
13
14The creator of the comic himself has his own theme, usually revolving around working on the comic, his everyday life, and later, being on the run from Death.
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16* AuthorAvatar: He ''is'' David Morgan-Mar, though the comic transcripts always refer to him as "Me" even when this makes no grammatical sense.
17* GameMaster: EarlyInstallmentWeirdness featured him as the GameMaster of ''every'' theme. This quickly faded away from every theme except Fantasy and Space, and eventually them as well.
18* GrandfatherParadox: Once went back in time to murder his past self, resulting in a RealityBreakingParadox when he later ''refused'' to do so.
19* MediumBlending: The "Me" theme is told through photographs of David himself, rather than the standard photographs of LEGO figures used through most of the themes.
20[[/folder]]
21
22[[folder:Fantasy]]
23
24An RPG campaign that is a big spoof on ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. The game system used for the campaign is intentionally inconsistent. One of two themes in the comic told primarily through gaming miniatures rather than LEGO figures.
25
26! Lambert
27The group's merchant. Highly protective of his money.
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29* BigEater: While hobbits count "second breakfast" among their multiple daily meals, Lambert also indulges in second ''supper''.
30%%* {{Hobbits}}: Obviously.
31* IncrediblyLamePun: He's the originator of the hobbit puns that show up every hundred strips or so.
32
33! Alvissa
34The group's elf and bard. Also the OnlySaneMan of the group.
35----
36* AllThereInTheManual: The fact that she's a bard went entirely unmentioned in the original run of the comic; in strip #4298, 17 years into the comic, Mordekai is surprised to learn she's not a cleric.
37
38! Mordekai
39
40The group's thief. But never call him that.
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42* InsistentTerminology: He's a LovableRogue not a thief!
43* KleptomaniacHero: He steals from everyone they meet.
44* LovableRogue: Insisted being called that instead of thief.
45
46! Kyros
47
48The group's wizard. A pyromaniac wizard that frequently kills off his teammates.
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50* TheFriendNobodyLikes: To the point that none of his companions mourned him when he got pulled into the abyss by a Balrog.
51%%* GodGuise: He likes to do this according to his character biography, although not seen in the story.%%He likes what?
52* KillItWithFire: His usual response to problems is to apply fireballs until they are no longer problems.
53* LastOfHisKind: His character biography mentions he's the last survivor of an unknown civilization.
54* {{Pyromaniac}}: Fire magic is basically the only kind of magic he knows, but he's damn good at it and loves to use it.
55* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: How did he kill a Balrog? More fire!
56
57! Draak
58
59A lizardman hired by Lambert to help with the group (and protect his money from Mordekai).
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61* BadassBookworm: He's the smartest guy in the group.
62* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: He can speak only in monosyllables in English, but, in his native tongue, he speaks very eloquently.
63* GeniusBruiser: He's a great big lizard man who's highly intelligent.
64* HulkSpeak: He speaks in this sort of simplistic grammar, plus never uses any word that has more than one syllable.
65* RaceNameBasis: Due to the rule of writing his dialogue (that he only speaks in monosyllables), he cannot pronounce the names of any of his teammates. Therefore, Alvissa is "elf", Dwalin is "dwarf", Kyros is "mage", and Mordekai is "rogue". Lambert, however, he calls Bert.
66* SmarterThanYouLook: His brutish appearance and limited grasp of English belie a deep understanding of scientific concepts.
67
68! Dwalin
69
70Your old stereotypical dwarf with Scottish accent. Got persuaded to join the group by Kyros.
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72* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Unashamedly, he is an axe-wielding, alcohol-drinking, thick-bearded Scotsman who lives in an underground kingdom and has a grudge against elves.
73* SixthRanger: He debuts and joins the party much later in the story than the other five.
74
75[[/folder]]
76
77[[folder:Steve and Terry]]
78
79A spoof of ''Series/TheCrocodileHunter''.
80
81! Steve
82
83A herpetologist who loves getting up close and personal to dangerous reptiles--and then wrestling them! Has wrestled crocodiles, snakes, a shark, and Cthulhu.
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85%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
86* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Literally -- he's wrestled down Cthulhu several times. He's also wrestled to death the Death of Being Wrestled to Death by Steve. Yes, this gets the Paradox Department involved.
87* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: He finds dangerous things fascinating.
88* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The author vehemently (jokingly) denies that he is in any way inspired by Creator/SteveIrwin.
89* OnlyOneName: He's only ever called "Steve", even when it would make far more sense for a last name to be mentioned, as part of NoCelebritiesWereHarmed above.
90* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Wrestling is his preferred method of combat, to the point that there's a Death ''specifically for people that he's wrestled to death''.
91
92! Terry
93
94Steve's wife and voice of reason.
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96* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: As with Steve, the author denies any connection between her and Terri Irwin; notably, they spell their first names differently.
97%%* OnlySaneMan: To Steve.
98
99! Cthulhu
100
101"Mighty Cthulhu is one of the Great Old Ones, an Elder God who lies in eternal deathless sleep in the sunken nightmare city of R'lyeh. Even being aware of his very existence is enough to push strong men to the brink of insanity. Not that that would ever stop Steve."
102-Irregular webcomics character description
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104%%* EldritchAbomination
105* MixAndMatchCritter: How the author made his LEGO Cthulhu: his body is a theropod dinosaur, its head replaced with a giant octopus, and his "wings" are made of the sails on the backs of other LEGO dinosaurs.
106* {{Revenge}}: He wants revenge against Steve for killing him several times.
107
108! Charity Collector Guy
109->"Hi, I'm campaigning for greater community awareness of trigonometry."
110
111A guy who regularly volunteers to collect money for a variety of unusual charitable organizations. [[spoiler:Even volunteers as a subsitute Death briefly.]] Also an expert in origami [[spoiler:and astrophysics.]]
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113* AlmightyJanitor: His aforementioned unusual combination of expertises make him very helpful in one of the latest attempts to reboot history.
114* IncrediblyLamePun: A lot of his appearances have this as the punch line.
115
116! Jane Goodall
117
118A cryptozoologist turned primate researcher and reluctant ally to Steve. She's in touch with the Yeti.
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120* DeadpanSnarker: Very often. Especially when confronted by Steve.
121* KnightInSourArmor: She protects the world from paranormal threats and grumbles about it the whole time.
122* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Averted; unlike Steve and Terry, there's no ImplausibleDeniability that she's based on the real Jane Goodall. One strip sees Morgan-Mar receiving a (fake) phone call from Goodall criticizing the comic, while in another, an opportunity he had to meet her for real produced a strip in which she recognizes and slaps him.
123* PrimAndProperBun: Made from a blob of blu-tack.
124[[/folder]]
125
126[[folder:Space]]
127A sci-fi theme; the campaign-themed EarlyInstallmentWeirdness of the comic presented it as a campaign featuring the same four players as the Fantasy theme. A story about a group of interstellar merchants on the ''Legacy''. Even more so than the Fantasy theme, most of the story is told via gaming miniatures, although LEGO figures pop up occasionally, especially when the heroes are trapped in cyberspace.
128
129! Serron
130
131A sparrial, a cat-like alien, and the one who does most of the actual 'merchanting' on the ship. He's very greedy and has a penchant for bad ideas. Has the same player as Kyros.
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133* CatFolk: He is a sparrial, an alien resembling a humanoid feline.
134%%* ComedicSociopathy: Very common.
135%%* {{Greed}}: One of his defining characteristics.%%Is?
136
137! Paris
138
139The ship's pilot. Was dead for a while. Has the same player as Alvissa.
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141* DeathIsCheap: Constantly subverted. She ''could'' come back via cloning, but her crewmates keep accidentally screwing up her chances. She eventually comes back as a ghost, and then is brought back to life when the universe is destroyed and then recreated.
142* GenderBlenderName: In the campaign the ''Space'' theme was based on, Paris's player intended her to be male (and named after Paris of Troy), but everyone else assumed her to be female, and [[SureLetsGoWithThat the player went with it.]]
143* MistakenForUndead: Inverted; she is a ghost but, due to the sci-fi setting, often mistaken for a holographic projection. Her character bio even expresses annoyance at the fanbase for having themselves made this mistake during the story arc in which the ship's power went out.
144%%* OnlySaneMan
145* OurGhostsAreDifferent: As a ghost, she was partially transparent, insubstantial, and glowed in the dark. She could interface with the ship's controls to pilot it.
146* TokenHuman: She's the only human in the otherwise alien crew of the ''Legacy''.
147
148! Iki Piki
149
150The ship's scientist and diplomat, a fungoid alien called a pachekki. Has the same player as Mordekai.
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152* BizarreAlienBiology: His species' reproduction involves budding and spores. And the GURPS species he's based on is even ''weirder''. It involves gender-bending every few days.
153
154! Spanners
155
156The ''Legacy'''s engineer, a mantis-like alien of unknown origin. Has the same player as Lambert.
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158* MeaningfulName: He's an engineer named after a kind of wrench.
159
160! Quercus
161
162A tree alien that Spanners has hired as his assistant.
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164* MeaningfulName: ''Quercus'' is the genus containing the various species of oak tree.
165* PlantAliens: He belongs to a species of tree beings from the planet Fagalia that apparently reproduces the regular plant way, through flowers and seeds.
166[[/folder]]
167
168[[folder:Cliffhangers]]
169
170This theme is mainly a spoof of ''Franchise/IndianaJones''.
171
172!! The Jones family
173
174! Montana "Monty" Jones
175
176The main character of this theme. An Archaeology professor who constantly needs to fight against the Nazis to take control of powerful artifacts that the [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazis will use to conquer the world]]. ''Hates'' wurst.
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178* EmbarrassingFirstName: His birth name was North Dakota Jones Junior. He prefers Montana.
179%%* NoRespectGuy
180
181! Prof. North Dakota Jones
182
183Monty's father. Obsessed with the Holy Grail.
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185%%* BigEater
186%%* PungeonMaster
187
188! Minnesota Jones
189North Dakota's father, thus Monty's grandfather. Was presumably lost after he went on dinosaur chasing.
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191* OverlyLongName: His title? The Honourable Herr Schliemannian Chair Professor Doktor Doktor Jones, CBE, DCM, JP, FRS
192
193!! [[ThoseWackyNazis The Nazis]]
194
195* MadLibsCatchPhrase: Nazi science sneers at [thing to be sneered at]! Sometimes the science part is changed too.
196
197! Colonel Haken
198
199Monty's archnemesis. Hitler-brain-in-a-jar's primary lackey when it comes to gathering powerful artifacts.
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201%%* DragonInChief
202* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be a Nazi, but [[spoiler:he enlisted to collect various [[ArtifactOfDoom Artifacts of Doom]] and is completely disgusted by genocide.]]
203%%* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a scar on his face.%%And?
204%%* HookHand
205%%* HighClassGlass: He wears a monocle.
206* LightIsNotGood: His uniform is light tan, while his alternate-universe good counterpart [[DarkIsNotEvil has a black uniform]].
207* TheMillstone: When he was [[TakenForGranite petrified]], Hitler took over Europe easily.
208* ObviouslyEvil: Let's see... DuelingScar, HookHand, [[GoodHairEvilHair stereotypical "bad-guy" mustache]], and a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] to boot.
209
210! Erwin
211
212Haken's main lackey. Is not really as committed to the Nazi principle as others, thus is a bit more reasonable.
213%%----
214%%* HypercompetentSidekick
215%%* TheMole
216
217! [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler's]] Brain
218
219Hitler's BrainInAJar. Need I say more? Anyway, he died in the Reichstag fire and his brain was put on life support by Adam Savage to win a [[ChessWithDeath bet with Death]]. Plans to take control of powerful artifacts and take over the world.
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221%%* BrainInAJar:
222* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: Hitler was burnt at the Reichstag fire and is a {{brain in a jar}}.
223* {{Ghostapo}}: He's obsessed with occult.
224* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Part of the reason that he's a BrainInAJar is because Lego, for obvious reasons, does not make Hitler minifigs.
225* StupidJetpackHitler: Complete with multiple clones of his own brain.
226%%* TakeOverTheWorld
227
228!! Others
229
230! Sallah
231
232The Jones family's Arabic friend who will always come to their rescue.
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234* BigDamnHeroes: Want to be rescued? Bet on him! Once inverted though.
235%%* NoSenseOfDirection: Inverted.
236
237! Ginny Smith
238
239A US archaeology expert who defected to the Soviets. Can and will backstab everyone.
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241%%* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder
242%%* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Complete with scorecard.
243* OverlyLongName: Her full name is Valentina Irina Ranevskaya Galina Ivana Natalya Iriyushka Anastasia Sonyechka Marinochka Ineslenka Tatyana Hvorostovskaya.
244[[/folder]]
245
246[[folder:Miscellaneous]]
247For strips that don't fit into any of the existing themes; most commonly, those featuring the Allosaurus outside the context of him menacing the heroes of any theme in particular. References to the Allosaurus's presidency are the best indication that most of the themes take place in a single universe: Me, Steve and Terry, Mythbusters, Martians, Nigerian Finance Minister, Shakespeare, and Mythbusters all being set in modern times, while Cliffhangers, Pirates, Imperial Rome, and Scientific Revolution are set in that world's past.
248
249! The Allosaurus
250
251A dinosaur that shows up in several themes. It's eventually elected President of the United States.
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253* AnimalAthleteLoophole: Applied to politics. Strictly speaking, the U.S. Constitution doesn't specify that the president must be ''human''.
254* BreakoutCharacter: "The Allosaurus" is easily the most popular option in Irregular Webcomics polls when available.
255* ImAHumanitarian: Ate his entire Cabinet at one point.
256* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Difficult to characterize, but "President Dinosaur" isn't on the list to begin with.
257* TheUnintelligible: "RAAARRRHH!!!"
258[[/folder]]
259
260[[folder:Star Wars]]
261A spin-off of the Space theme, this theme features various tiny vignettes set in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe.
262[[/folder]]
263
264[[folder:Supers]]
265The rarest theme, due to featuring actual comic-book art rather than photographs of David Morgan-Mar's various toys. This story tells of the League of Good Guys, four ridiculously-themed superheroes, and their battle against the Axis of Antagonists, a quartet of slightly-less-ridiculous supervillains.
266[[/folder]]
267
268[[folder:Martians]]
269A story of ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''-style Martians and their attempts to conquer Earth with the help of college student Ishmael Herman.
270
271! The Martians
272
273The last three Martians who still plan to conquer Earth, but pretty inept at it.
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275* LastOfHisKind: As they casually reveal to Ishmael at one point, they are the ''only'' three Martians remaining.
276
277! The Man in Black
278
279The shadowy government operative who denies everything out of natural.
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281* ExtraStrengthMasquerade: He denies that there are aliens when ''he talks to the Martians''. Or worse, says there's no afterlife when he's in one.
282%%* ImplausibleDeniability
283
284! Ishmael
285
286An ordinary university student who got himself tangled into the Martian mess quite often.
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288* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Well, ordinary ''college'' student, but still.
289
290! Giuseppe
291
292Owner of a local pizza place where Ishmael works.
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294* DeathByIrony: Narrowly averted. Claimed to be descendant of Allesandro Volta when rewiring his pizzeria. Guess what happens next.
295[[/folder]]
296
297[[folder:Pirates]]
298A tale of 16th-century pirates in the Caribbean. In addition to lifting some plots directly from ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', TalkLikeAPirate is a strong theme in the story as well.
299[[/folder]]
300
301[[folder:Harry Potter]]
302Like the Star Wars theme, small vignettes set in the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' universe. Once the Shakespeare theme debuted, this theme was generally relegated to being the subject of Will's fanfiction.
303[[/folder]]
304
305[[folder:Nigerian Finance Minister]]
306A spoof on the FourOneNineScam, focusing on the ''actual'' guy in charge of the Nigerian treasury, with legitimate requests that never work out because they look almost exactly like the classic scam.
307
308! Nigerian Finance Minister
309
310The beleaguered finance minister of Nigeria. Often tries to use e-mail to implore foreigners to help transfer money, with little success.
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312* FourOneNineScam: What people think he's doing when he sends them e-mails, despite being entirely sincere. Ironically, he himself falls victim to a guy claiming to be the king of Nigeria, despite Nigeria having been a republic since its independence.
313* BeleagueredBureaucrat: Nobody helps this guy do his job.
314* CassandraTruth: Nobody he sends his e-mails to actually believes that he's not a scammer.
315* SincerityMode: The heart of all his gags- he's what would happen if those scam e-mails really were from the Nigerian government.
316[[/folder]]
317
318[[folder:Death]]
319
320Adventures in the Death Department, located in the Infinite Featureless Plane of Death. Responsible for most of the comic's CrossOver elements, as they appear whenever a character dies. Characters don't often ''stay'' dead, due to the organization's incompetence.
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322%%* CelestialBureaucracy
323* NoIndoorVoice: Every death (except Charon) speaks in ALL CAPS when talks to mortals.
324* OddJobGods: Most of them watch over a very specific (and often very unlikely) aspect of death.
325
326! Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs
327
328Probably the main character of Death theme. Has really bad luck on the job. Has been the Death Of Being Sat On By A Giant Frog, Fate Worse Than Death, Death Of Being Stared At Angrily By A Giant Frog, and Death Of Being Run Through The Spleen With A Toothpick.
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330* ButtMonkey: Gets who get job shuffling the most?
331%%* EnsembleDarkhorse: Really popular.
332%%* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity
333* ReassignmentBackfire: He could lead the Deaths' Strike without being drawn to do his job because at that point, he had been demoted to Fate Worse Than Death, and as such was no longer a Death. The Head Death ends up breaking the strike by rehiring him as Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs.
334* SinisterScythe: He uses one, made by cutting one blade off a lego pickax.
335
336! Death of Choking On A Giant Frog
337
338Fireballs's competitor, since he wanted to be Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs, but otherwise friendly to each other. Apparently he originally died when an aide of his shoved a giant frog down his throat.
339----
340%%* SitcomArchNemesis
341* ThoseWackyNazis: He is heavily implied to have been [[spoiler:Hitler]] in life. The comic's revival reveals this to have been just that, an implication, when he mentions that in life he was an elf from a fantasy world.
342
343! Head Death
344
345The boss. He is in charge of the Deaths' positions, and will demote and promote the lesser Deaths based on their performance. Really hates the Paradox Department.
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347* BadBoss: He seems to go out of his way to screw over Fireballs.
348%%* DeathGlare: [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/663.html Except it's not as effective.]]
349%%* ObstructiveBureaucrat
350* PurpleIsPowerful: He wears a purple cloak.
351
352! Death of Being Wrestled To Death By Steve
353The Death responsible for collecting people who've been wrestled to death by Steve. Wears a cowboy hat and a green cloak.
354----
355* ButtMonkey: He's been killed twice by Steve.
356%%* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
357* DeathByIrony: He gets wrestled to death by Steve, twice.
358%%* UnexplainedRecovery: ALthough Head Death does mention a Paradox Department.
359
360! Death of Inhaling Hatmaking Chemicals
361The Death responsible for collecting people who died by mercury inhalation. He doesn't get much work nowadays, although he gets to collect the Mythbusters (they get sent back, however). He speaks in a cockney accent, and wears a top hat because "the class system's dead".
362----
363%%* QuintessentialBritishGentleman
364* WildMassGuessing: Is Lewis Carroll from Scientific Revolution. Maybe.
365* YankTheDogsChain: He finally gets to collect the Mythbusters, but they get sent back to the land of the living.
366
367! Charon
368
369The Ferryman of the Underworld, but there is no indication of how does he fit into the organization.
370----
371* PublicDomainCharacter: From Greek mythology.
372[[/folder]]
373
374[[folder:Shakespeare]]
375The story of Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Initially presented as a timeline in which he was born precisely 400 years later than he actually was, it eventually came to light that he truly ''was'' born in the late 1500s, but before he became anything close to a famous writer, he was caught in a time warp that left him stranded 400 years in his own future. Regardless of how it came to be, Shakespeare now lives in Australia, where he works a SoulCrushingDeskJob and writes ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfiction.
376[[/folder]]
377
378!!!Themes which debuted afterward
379
380[[folder:Espionage]]
381Debuting in 2004, a spoof on Film/JamesBond, reenacting the Bond films in chronological order. Due to the theme's unpopularity -- so much so that it was the only theme ''completely excluded'' from the 2009 story arc in which the entire multiverse was destroyed -- currently only halfway through the second Bond film.
382
383! James Stud (0x0a)
384%%* AccidentalHero
385* CasanovaWannabe: Unlike Bond, he really fails with women.
386%%* PunnyName: "Stud, not Shaken".
387[[/folder]]
388
389[[folder:Imperial Rome]]
390A short-lived theme, debuting in 2005, about life in the Roman Empire.
391
392! Marcus
393
394A Roman senator.
395----
396* ConsummateLiar: He pinpoints this as the number one skill needed to be a senator.
397
398! Julius
399
400An aspiring Roman senator. Cousin to one [[UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar Gaius Julius]].
401[[/folder]]
402
403[[folder:Mythbusters]]
404Also debuting in 2005, the adventures of the ''Series/MythBusters'' (but spelled with a lowercase "b"). They have a liking for explosives and ''very often'' die in the pursuit of their mythbusting, but keep a running tally of what myths they've confirmed and busted.
405[[/folder]]
406
407[[folder:Scientific Revolution]]
408Debuting in 2008, the Scientific Revolution theme was never very prominent, but its assemblage of the greatest scientific minds in all of history were crucial to the plot of the comic's final story arc before it ended in 2011.
409[[/folder]]
410
411[[folder:Annotations]]
412An assortment of in-depth educational annotations replaced the comic when it was on hiatus from 2011 to 2015.
413[[/folder]]
414
415[[folder:Stranger Things]]
416Premiering in 2019, to date the only theme to debut after the comic's 2015 revival, the ''Series/StrangerThings'' theme started out reenacting the first season of the series, but promised to go OffTheRails -- and so it has, with the Party now exploring a real-world recreation of the ''TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors''.
417[[/folder]]

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