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2[[caption-width-right:350:Gina Diggers and Dreadwing]]
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4''Gold Digger'' is a [[LongRunners long-running]] US comic from Creator/AntarcticPress with [[{{Animesque}} manga-inspired art]], written and drawn by Creator/FredPerry. The first appearance of the characters was in the anthology title ''Mangazine'' Vol. 2 #11 (September, 1991). They then got their own eponymous 4-issue miniseries (September 1992-March 1993). This proved successful enough to make ''Gold Digger'' Vol. 2 an ongoing. 50 regular issues were published between July 1993 and June 1999, plus a number of annuals. These issues were mostly in black-and-white. The series was then relaunched as a full-color series. Vol. 3 started in July 1999 and is still ongoing, becoming one of the flagship series of the company. After a utterly impressive 30 year run, Perry decided to end the series with issue #301 in 2023.
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6The story centers around the adventures of the kind, nerdy, and idealistic scientist [[GadgeteerGenius inventor]], [[AdventurerArchaeologist archaeologist and explorer]] Gina Diggers; and her BoisterousBruiser, [[ActionFashionista fashionista]], [[LastOfHisKind were-cheetah]] adopted sister/bodyguard, Britanny "Cheetah" Diggers, as they search the world (and others) for relics of the distant past.
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8The third sister, Brianna, is the goofy mental and physical combination of Gina and Britanny, accidentally created in the process of removing a curse gained during one of their adventures. She combines Gina's thirst for mysteries, scientific acumen, and libido with Britanny's low attention span and thirst for action, fashion, or entertainment (plus a portion of her werebeast strength). Hence, she likes action-technology of any kind, especially if explosions are involved. She is usually accompanied by her trademark childlike little Peebo robots.
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10If, as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the name]] and the AdventurerArchaeologist trope implies, the sisters seem more intent on digging up valuable treasures to fund their lifestyle than searching for actual knowledge, they invariably make up for it by becoming [[AccidentalHero unwitting heroines]] in the process, usually with the help of their friends, and with time, Gina [[CharacterDevelopment evolves]] into a more idealistic character.
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12It is popular enough to have several spin-offs, usually four-issue miniseries.
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14Fred Perry has also made an OVA, ''WesternAnimation/GoldDiggerTimeRaft'', based on his original, pilot story from 1991. He basically did ''[[DancingBear everything]]'' except for the voice acting and music composition, while still producing the main series. The first part of the animation was released in 1999, and last part was finally completed and released in 2010.
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16[[http://www.antarcticpresslibrary.com/ Now has an online library!]] And a Character sheet that needs wiki love.
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18Not to be confused with the (completely different) [[GoldDigger character archetype]] -- even though that very trope ''is'' a derisive (and largely undeserved) InSeriesNickname for [[AdventurerArchaeologist Gina]].
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21!!''Gold Digger'' contains examples of:
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26* AbortedArc: Dreadwing's first attempt to conquer Jade Realm produced a couple.
27** Debra gets framed for the murder of one of the Wild Magi's leaders by Serpentus. In order to establish peace with the Wild Magi clans, Debra prepares to surrender herself to them and be tried in their courts. This plot thread has not been continued or even mentioned in five years.
28** The potential alliance between Dreadwing and the Wild Magi falls apart after Dreadwing attacks and kills one of their leaders, Grubbermun, after the mage intentionally antagonizes the dragon in order to ruin the proceedings. Likewise, his alliance with an Elder Abyssalisk comes to an abrupt end after Debra tricks it into thinking Dreadwing attacked it.
29* AbusivePrecursors: There are a few, like the Dynasty.
30* ActionDuo: Gina and Britanny, BrainsAndBrawn.
31* ActionMom: Julia; Britanny after Tifanny's birth. Brianna, too, after one issue saw her daughter Roquette come back from the future with a message for the Diggers family and crew.
32* AdventurerArchaeologist: Gina, Penny, Erwin, and many others.
33* AirborneAircraftCarrier
34* AIIsACrapshoot: The Pee-bees: Brianna's AI bullets that only target "bad guys". Too bad they aren't very smart, [[AllCrimesAreEqual and see people jaywalking, squirrels taking acorns, and even someone stealing a kiss]] as "bad guys".
35** Her standard Peebo AIs, on the other hand, avert it and are much more well behaved, even if they do like going "boom" on bad guys. (It's just that they have a much better idea of what a "bad guy" is).
36** Peebri, however, wraps around to this trope again, in much the same way a childish Brianna would act.
37* AliensInCardiff: A pretty awful lot of earth-shaking events and appearances by superpowered beings have taken place in Decatur, Georgia (a suburb of Atlanta), thanks to the [[BadassFamily Diggers]] [[WeirdnessMagnet family]].
38* AllWomenAreLustful: Gina and Brittany especially, but females in this series tend to gravitate towards the aggressive side when it comes to guys. Brianna had a similar attitude towards Genn back when s/he still had a male form and Brianna was still trying to get past her inherited feelings for Stryyp.
39** Even now that all four main female characters -- Gina, Brianna, Brittany, and Penny -- have either steady boyfriends (the first two) or husbands (the latter two), they still take plenty of opportunities for ogling other men, whether they're named characters or not.
40* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: A LawyerFriendlyCameo of [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] filled this role from off-screen for Gina for a while. Before settling their feud, Penny was usually portrayed this way to Gina.
41* AmazonChaser: Stryyp, who, though blessed with some above-human physical attributes, is attracted to Britanny despite how she's bigger, stronger, faster, and a better fighter than he is.
42* AmbiguousSituation: The comic ends with [[spoiler:Gina maybe or maybe not BackFromTheDead, or going on a time loop, or at least deciding to exploit the TimeyWimeyBall to lead the cast on a more proper ending for her extremely geeky adventures by reenacting the closing credits of ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension''.]] The only thing that is sure is that [[spoiler:Britanny is amused that Gina is still ''that'' much of a nerd.]]
43* AnimationBump: Fred obviously learned a lot over the course of making the movie. The last part, and the couple of shots he re-animated in the earlier parts for the finalized version, really stand out against the original footage.
44* {{Animesque}}: Among the oldest examples still being produced.
45* AdvancedAncientAcropolis: All of Gina's archaeological cave-hopping excursions are this, and as expected, they were all occupied by AdvancedAncientHumans or HumanAliens at one point or another. Jade Realm has these as well, but some there are still occupied by their builders even in the present day.
46* ArtificialHuman: Brianna, Array, Raphiel, the whole Amonian race[[spoiler:, including Ayane, if flashbacks and psychic flashes are to be believed]].
47* {{Author Appeal}}: Fred definitely loves his were-creatures. Ironically, he dislikes certain varieties. A furry/TF fan, he apparently is not.
48* BadassBoast: A ''brutal'' one, courtesy of Gothwrain.
49--> '''Gothwrain''': You want [[spoiler: Tifanny and Britanny]]? Tough. They're '''dead'''. I fed them to the '''Lich'''. '''Now #@$% off.'''
50* BadassFamily:
51** The extended Diggers/'Gia family includes a highly-decorated FBIAgent-slash-member of TheMenInBlack, one of the greatest mages on the planet, Jade's Armsmaster, one of the greatest scientists on the planet, her adopted sister who is also a PersonOfMassDestruction, their hybrid clone-sister who is an incredibly powerful techno-magician, and their children.
52** Kevin Koss' family is composed of [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of famous fictions like the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU version of Colonel Nick Fury]] and [[Franchise/GIJoe Martin F. "Roadblock" Hinton]], essentially an army made of [[OneManArmy One-Person Armies]]. Ironically, and tragically, [[spoiler:[[DeconstructedTrope having this much badassery]] on the other side of the table measuring her up is [[ObnoxiousInLaws one of the (accidental) reasons]] why Penny dumps Ace temporarily.]]
53* BalloonBelly: [[WingedHumanoid Charlotte]] has had this happen to her at least once, leading to her being MistakenForPregnant.
54* BattleCouple: Husband and Wife team, Gothwrain and Sherisha, have been ''elite'' at this trope since the last age of magic. Just [[CurbStompBattle ask]] Theodore, Julia, Jzu-Jzu and Stryyp.
55** Theodore and Julia Diggers are themselves a notorious battle couple.
56** There have been a number in the twenty-five-plus years the series has been in print. Brittany and Stryyp; Genn and Séance; Gina and Ryan Tabbot when they were a couple; the elf couple, Tark and Mesha; B-list villain Tirant and his girlfriend Array, who could create entire personalities complete with bodies and powers to match any situation; Julia's students Gar and Luann, and numerous others.
57* BecomingTheMask: Madrid's Gina disguise is so powerful, she starts to take on Gina's abilities and personality traits. [[spoiler: Eventually, the Madrid personality gives up and dies, leaving a more-or-less mental clone of Gina with Madrid's memories]]. However, this doesn't stop her from wondering if her earlier selfish, abusive nature isn't just buried under all of Gina's memories and abilities when she comes across some beefcake-y, interplanar frog-monks and their injured but ultra-powerful guardian, and her first thought is to seduce and ride one until he breaks. Subtracto assures her that the Madrid she used to be wouldn't be worried about hurting others.
58* BerserkButton: Brittany goes '''apeshit''' whenever Stryyp is hurt or nearly killed.
59** Do NOT threaten Dreadwing's hoard.
60--->'''Dreadwing:''' "I was going to save you for last, ''vermin''. Your torture was going to coerce Gina into completing the repairs of the Time Raft for me. But you threatened my treasure. My precious artifact. I can persuade Gina by ''other'' means, you must '''PAY'''. I haven't done [[BreathWeapon this]] in a long time. [[PreMortemOneLiner Let's see if I'm rusty.]]"
61** Invoked by [[spoiler: Gothwrain and Sherisha]] when the pair [[spoiler: reveal the truth behind Dr. Digger's father's death and then kill his mother a moment later]], just so he would be baited into killing them. [[spoiler: It works like a charm.]]
62* BestHerToBedHer: Brunhildegard (Gina's [[SilverVixen grandmother]]) was cursed with this by a rebuffed suitor who happened to be a wizard. This put her in a really bad mood, so she started shoving people out of her way while walking through town. One of those people was a [[SupernaturalMartialArts Spirit Monk]] named Tsunami, who instinctively flipped her over with his martial arts. She then became fixated on figuring out how he beat her. After spending a long time following him and studying his every move, she beat him in a rematch with his own techniques, by which time she'd realized that she had fallen for him.
63* {{BFG}}: Brianna's favorite trope.
64* {{BFS}}: Shinryuken's Size-Mitar. Remember, [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars there is nothing his Colossal Blade cannot cut!]]
65* BigBad: Dreadwing, as a more present threat.
66** The Umbra, which even the planet-scorching, genocidal Dynasty fear, is more of an across-the-multiverse threat.
67* BigBeautifulWoman: Mikra and Nadesko are two thickly built giantesses who are both monster hunters as well as professional wrestlers. As their names imply, their [[AssKicksYou fighting style]] is based off of R. Mika from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', meaning they get plenty of fanservice and booty shots.
68* BigMonsterCuteName: "Flakey", the 2-kilometer-long [[GiantEnemyCrab kraken]].
69* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Almost every character is either a hero or a villain. Anyone who doesn't fall under this description is basically seen as a JerkAss or an IneffectualSympatheticVillain. More often than not, such characters give up their moral position to join the heroic side when push comes to shove.
70* BlessedWithSuck: Ayane, the mixed-martial artist known to her fans as "Mistress", is a true sweetheart...and incredibly lonely due to her cold, cruel eyes that creep out everyone she meets. There is hope, though: Jotaru the Djinn has a crush on her and can even look her in the eye without fear. Did we mention that some Djinn in this series have their eyes in their torso instead of their face?
71** This comes back in later issues when she saves Brittany’s daughter Tiffany from a pair of deadly “pawns,” magical defense wards that copy any intruder’s abilities and skills with the sole intent to kill. Earlier in the issue, Ayane’s eyes creeped out Tiffany, but after saving her life and winding up in traction for a few weeks, Ayane finds she – not as Mistress but as her previous wrestling persona Ninja Kitty – has a new fan.
72* BloodKnight: PlayedForLaughs and as a cautionary tale. Brianna LOVES any opportunity to use her multiple [=BFGs=] and sets of PoweredArmor. She's tested fate plenty of times by [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong sarcastically hoping]] her current adventure wouldn't lead to any such incidents where she had such opportunities, but she's never sought out a fight or an opportunity to use them. On the other hand, Luann Geas, one of Julia's students, has had to be warned about accidentally developing the "Murder Fist" technique, which is described as this trope constantly seeking the adrenaline-fueled high experienced in battle, during her training under Julia as a Shun Leep Gentle Fist practitioner.
73* BodyHorror: Ether vents, a type of Gaoblin magitech that manifests itself as huge, open HOLES through the users' bodies. While [[AllThereInTheManual the supplemental]] ''[[AllThereInTheManual Tech Manual]]'' [[AllThereInTheManual series]] provides some explanation, it's not entirely clear how these biologically WORK, considering the huge missing sections of muscles, bone, major organs and occasionally BRAIN involved.
74* BoisterousBruiser: Brianna, Xane.
75* BrawnHilda: "Grammy" Brunhildagarde Brigand, Julia's mother and the Diggers sisters' grandmother.
76* BreakoutVillain: The dragon Dreadwing was originally just a one-shot villain for the pilot story, which ended with him as a skeleton. ''Now'', he's the ManBehindTheMan for many of the plotlines past and present, and is dueling with Ancient Gina across most of time with virtually all the other characters as pawns. [[spoiler:Subverted in that none of his plans have actually worked and he was eventually betrayed by the very same pawns he had enslaved, leaving him powerless and boneless.]]
77* BreastExpansion: Britanny, when she [[VoluntaryShapeshifting goes from human form to hybrid form]]. This is also a major reason why she prefers to stay in Hybrid form as much as possible. (Well, actually, because she's taller, stronger and faster, but this side benefit comes with the rest.)
78** A side effect of Anahata priestess magic. As Lana's magic reserves increase, so does her bust size.
79* BrokeEpisode: In an issue about halfway through the regular black-and-white series, Penny offers to save Gina and Brit from the IRS if they'll cover her niece's fast food job for a day. Ace even talks Penny out of gloating over it and convinces her to finally bury the hatchet with Gina.
80* BrooklynRage: Roxy Rabinowitz (AKA Dark Bird), leader of the Night Flight airborne mercenaries, has a strong Brooklyn accent and a BIG chip on her shoulder, especially when dealing with Ace. She also [[spoiler:recently took over a country led by her estranged sister]], who was a large source of the aforementioned rage (not to mention [[OffToBoardingSchool the aforementioned Brooklyn]]).
81* BuffySpeak
82* BurgerFool: Penny forces Gina to work at one of these before she'll loan her enough money to avoid bankruptcy.
83* ButWeUsedACondom: Brianna used the latest in hi-tech contraceptives to keep Zan's boys from baking any bread in the oven. [[spoiler: They succeed anyway due to Brianna not remembering to keep the batteries charged, and thus Roquette is conceived.]]
84* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: For all the nasty things Dreadwing does despite being under Ancient Gina's thumb and under threat of her punishment, she tends to let him off lightly because she still needs him for his half of the Infinity Engine, Negative Infinity, [[spoiler:as part of her plan to stop the Umbra and save all reality]], and Dreadwing ''knowing'' this is a big part of the reason why he keeps doing said nasty things. This prevents her from smiting him despite obviously wanting to do so ''very much''.
85* CaptainErsatz: The [[Anime/{{Voltron}} Vaultron]] force, the [[WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|1985}} Edge Guard]], and [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Dr. Peachbody]].
86** Then there's the WesternAnimation/TeenTitans in Tif' and Char's school adventures.
87*** And their teacher, Miss Giggle (think ''Mission: Magic!'') who has a darker complexion and a pretty funny explanation for her blobby hairdo: Her cat is permanently curled up on top of her head from a failed teleportation experiment.
88** Fauntleroy's Platinus is like a {{Gender Flip}}ped ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' (A sentient EmpathicWeapon that assumes the form of {{Stripperiffic}} "ChainMailBikini" armor for her male host...because she's a pervert.)
89** More recent storylines have included prehistoric CaptainErsatz versions of the WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}, WesternAnimation/JayceAndTheWheeledWarriors, the WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}, Franchise/GIJoe's Cobra (earlier, one of Dark Bird's crew is a former member), WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake and WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite as a psi-bard and prism battle priestess, respectively, and [[WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983 Sheila and the Dungeon Master]]. Fred ''likes'' his Captain Ersatzes.
90** The whole series sometimes appears to thrive on this, from species to certain characters. The beauty of it, at least for characters who reappear frequently, is that after the initial joke of their first appearance, they rapidly develop their own personalities so that their initial expy status becomes negligible, while still allowing the joke to work. ''E.g.,'' an orange-and-black werejaguar named ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} is introduced, but is thereafter almost always addressed as just "Gar," and his personality is nothing like Jim Davis's cat. His sister Sheila borrows a hefty amount of stuff from the ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983'' cartoon character (being the team's redheaded "stealth specialist", for example), but other details go in a different direction (such as her human form being an AmazonianBeauty).
91** One or two issues include characters similar to the mane six of WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic as (human) amazons… [[spoiler:[[RuleSixtyThree male amazons. That like to run around either near-naked or actually naked]]]].
92** Mr. Keldoor is obviously [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]], while Lynda is Evil-Lyn.
93* CarFu: Gina pulls the ultimate example in issue 300, [[spoiler:by killing the BigBad Gothwrain DeaderThanDead thru a super-spell that pulls power from the primordial forces of the Multiverse that summons a spectral Gina-Mobile and rams him right into the nucleus of said primordial power.]]
94* CardCarryingVillain: Almost every villain in the series relishes how evil they are and will gleefully go out of their way to cause pain to others, even if it causes the failure of their plan.
95** That is, until they are given some character development. Even some of the most venomous and selfish of antagonists in the series get a dose of this as you get into the issues beyond 100 (or just 50 of the color series). Many come off as [[AlasPoorVillain sympathetic, pitiable]], or even [[AntiVillain well intentioned and agreeable.]]
96** Tirant deserves special mention. He was part of a family of heroes, and his parents died while they were fighting a super-villain. At their funeral, he noticed that everyone in his family since the 1920s had died fighting for justice. The revelation caused him to reject the life his parents had chosen for him. Instead, he devoted his life to becoming everything a hero isn't. [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn He became a hero again]]...[[RedemptionEqualsDeath mere seconds before his death.]] We'll see if that sticks, since Dreadwing's blackmailing Array into helping him with the promise of resurrecting Tirant.]]
97* CerebusSyndrome: A milder case, as the comic has never lost its overall sense of humor and more whimsical fantasy elements, but a case all the same. Many elements that were one-off incidents from early in the comic are reviewed and revealed to be either more significant than the heroes knew at the time or part of a [[ThanatosGambit conspiracy that has been running since the dawn of time itself.]] Sometimes an event is revealed from the incident's villain's perspective, often resulting in said villain [[AlasPoorVillain gaining a certain measure of sympathy from the readers.]]
98** Heck, there is even an instance of [[spoiler:[[RapeAsDrama a woman (though dragon she may be) who was quite brutally tortured and raped, fueling a misguided and misdirected quest for revenge against two arguably innocent bystanders. It later led her to attempt using another character's innate and always-on fear-aura against her rapist, who had a recently discovered weakness to it.]]]]
99* TheChessmaster: Gothwrain, Dreadwing, and Ancient Gina so far...
100* ChildByRape: [[spoiler: Debra is a product of her mother T'mat's rape by Dreadwing.]]
101* ClarkKenting: Agency Zero, especially Agent M, formerly the most recognizable hero on Earth. Pinky & The Cheets.
102* ColdIron: Aura magic and unenchanted metal do not mix well; even the strongest aura mages tend to have trouble with it.
103* TheCommiesMadeMeDoIt: Crush; although somewhat justifiable, she notably refused a GetOutOfJailFreeCard and chose to do the time for the crimes she committed, proving she did have moral fiber.
104* ContinuityNod: In the movie. Despite it being based on the first ''Gold Digger'' story ever, Fred added a couple of nods to the continuity that's built up since then, letting the viewer know that Gina and Dreadwing are going to be at this for a long time.
105* CoolShades: Charlotte wears a pair for a mission and imagines herself in a {{Blaxploitation}} film. Sadly, she loses them and reveals that she's really scared out of her mind and is using the shades as a coping mechanism. But then she finds them again and powers through the mission.
106* CoversAlwaysLie: Not because the publisher is trying to fool buyers, but because Fred Perry constantly thinks of [[WhatCouldHaveBeen new storylines to replace the already advertised comic]]. Subverted in that, on occasion, if the story changes have gone too far, Fred will replace the cover.
107* CovertPervert: Vaphne presents herself as a scholarly maiden and claims to be saving herself for Mr. Right, but when she turns on her fertility goddess powers, several of her classmates several of her classmates find out she's been having naughty fantasies about them.
108%%* CreepyTwins: Montara; they are also HalfIdenticalTwins.
109%%* CuteMachines: The Peebos
110* CuteMonsterGirl: Just about everybody, even the ''males''; Crescens was when she was young, but grew up to be kind of terrifying.
111* DarkActionGirl: numerous, including Link and Zelda (Get it?), two of Erwin Talon's employees.
112** G'Nolga, Julia Digger's arch-rival on Jade.
113* DemonHead: Theodore's "Flaming Skull Bit".
114-->'''Brittany:''' "Most fathers polish a shotgun in front of their daughters' dates.... ''My'' Dad magically sets his ''head'' on fire!"
115* DistractedByTheSexy: Pretty much the entire cast is guilty of this one, but Gina takes the cake: in Issue 105, she and a male colleague nearly ''destroyed the world'' by daydreaming about each others' naughty bits instead of focusing on the DoomsdayDevice they were supposed to be disarming.
116** Going even further, Gina got hit hard by a Dire Charm spell cast on the codpiece of an invader to Jade-Realm during a lynchpin battle for the secret of a certain temple. [[spoiler:The invader was actually Alt!Monty being directed by Alt!D'bra to enchant and kill Gina while she was stunned by the spell on his junk.]] After being saved by Monty, Gina still had to let the effects burn their way out of her system, which led to no end of unbidden naughty thoughts of fucking his brains out and a fair amount of involuntary twerking. Fortunately for Gina, Monty was familiar with such effects and wasn't embarrassed or offended by Gina's advances.
117* DivergentCharacterEvolution: This tends to happen when a ShoutOut sticks around. For example Gespenst, the Lagann-machine mentioned in the Shout Out entry below tends to stay connected to the robot body she later built for it, and has been becoming a character in his own right.
118* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Issue 220 features Snuggy, the banished Amazonian sorceress. In order to sate her Amazonian breeding urges, Snuggy kidnaps men (mostly non-human male animals that she [[ForcedTransformation shapeshifts into human form]]) and hypnotizes them into having sex with her. In order to speed up the gestation process, Snuggy uses forbidden magic to rob her partner of nine months of their lives in exchange for her instantly giving birth. This means she keeps men as baby-makers until the magic process ends up killing them (via an apparently inevitable glitch in the spell that takes nine ''centuries'' from their lives sooner or later). While the wrongness of this isn't ignored, the situation is still greatly PlayedForLaughs, and Snuggy gets away with [[KarmaHoudini no comeuppance]] (other than the aforementioned banishment). Even worse, after Madrid and T'mat rescue Dao from her, they do nothing to try and stop her or rescue her other captives. (True, they have a greater mission on their minds at the time, but even if they've considered reporting Snuggy for someone else to punish, no mention is made of it.)
119** On the other hand, she has a literal ''army'' of [[ChildSoldiers her children]] who have inherited her skill with magic (to the point where Debra, a powerful dragon, has trouble when they attack her, especially since she's trying ''not'' to kill them) and are blindly devoted to her. If they piss her off too badly, she might join with Dreadwing. Taking care of her later, after sufficient careful planning, might become a more appealing option.
120* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Kia equates hacking into its system with rape.
121* DomesticOnlyCartoon: The three ''Time Raft'' videos (later combined into a single, hour-long feature) were animated entirely by Fred Perry.
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125* EldritchAbomination: The previous universe that existed before the current one died, [[spoiler:but didn't stay dead. The ''entire previous universe'' has come back as an impossibly vast undead horror, clawing its way out of cosmic oblivion and making its way to the current universe, intending to [[CosmicHorrorStory overwrite all of existence]].]] Ancient Gina's entire [[GambitRoulette plan]] is to somehow prevent this.
126** It's possible that [[spoiler:the previous universe's mass is being drawn to the current universe due to multi-dimensional gravity, and it will hit the universe in vectors of more than three dimensions, so nowhere is safe. If there are survivors of the previous universe, they likely have their own plans]]. Still eldritch because no human science can predict how to evade or deflect the unyielding overkill attack; only someone like Gina and her multi-cultural/multi-species family could.
127** [[spoiler:Said entity is called the Umbra, a SpacetimeEater that is described as an "anti-quantum" enemy and is ''so'' alien it ''cannot manifest itself into normal reality while observed''. Thus, it copies and consumes sections of space-time, and plucks survivors from meals beforehand to use as pawns to kill anyone who might observe it]].
128* {{Expy}}: Aljabra Gihom, an expy of Fred's "Level UP!" Mithra character Calcula Mihgo–herself a CaptainErsatz version of Osaka from ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh''.
129* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Dreadwing, TheSociopath that he is, interprets good intentions as having secretly selfish motives. For example, when he challenged his childhood friend and lover, T'Mat, for rule of dragon-kind, she was forced to fight him either to the death or his surrender. Since he wouldn't back down, she had to [[FakingTheDead make it look like she killed him]], but actually nursed him back to health later. He assumed that he was going to be MadeASlave by her and fled while still injured.
130** This is actually part of why his plan to destabilize Jade by turning its nations against one another fails: He never anticipated that Debra would be able to overcome his deception, or that the nations could work together like they did even after this was revealed.
131* EvilTwin: Brianna and Madrid, until their respective {{Heel Face Turn}}s.
132** With a shot of {{FridgeBrilliance}}: Madrid's current persona allows the author to write either solo "Gina" stories about Madrid the explorer with Dao and Subtracto, or ensemble "Gina" stories about Gina the professor with her students and family.
133* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: [[NothingIsScarier Something]] is trying to enter our universe with the intent of eating it like a turkey dinner with all the fixings. In issue 224, we find out this trope is full effect multiple times over, with some universes trying to delay the great evil, while others appear to work for it.
134* FaceHeelTurn: A magical mishap turns Theo's father Jonathan into the evil Lich King. [[spoiler: Later revealed as another in a long line of machinations by [[TheChessmaster Gothwrain]] to end the Diggers family for all time.]]
135** [[spoiler:The Umbra incites these in the alternate universe versions of the characters to ensure their cooperation in exchange for promising to restore their timelines.]]
136* FakeCrossover: The series really skirts the line of this, such as when Gina mentions receiving a [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget computer book from a girl with a weird uncle]]. (Mind you, the girl in question eventually became a full-fledged character).
137* {{Fanservice}}: Choose a page at random, chances are good there's some there.
138* FantasyKitchenSink
139* FlyingBrick: Agent M.
140* FullContactMagic: Aura mages like Dr. Diggers tend to make a lot of motions, especially with their hands, when casting spells.
141* FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler:When she happens to be an Expy of [[Franchise/RickAndMorty Rick Sanchez]] that has decided to make you her personal Expy of Morty, then yeah, little Tiffany 'Gia has a good reason for that.]]
142* FrenchMaid: Link is an AmazonianBeauty who wears rather...undersized French maid outfits on missions.
143* FunPersonified: The series as a whole.
144* FutureBadass: "Ancient Gina"[[spoiler:, apparently Madrid-Gina's future self sent back in time to take TheSlowPath to the present]]. Also "Charles" and "Prof. Cee", Charlotte's alterfuture selves.
145* GadgeteerGenius: Gina and many others
146* GainaxEnding: Invoked [[spoiler:InUniverse. Gina dies in issue 300 and she seems to be DeaderThanDead, so Britanny goes to her place in the family tomb to play ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'' to reminisce good times… and it turns out that Gina's adventures with the TimeyWimeyBall [[AmbiguousSituation may]] have led to her figuring out how to make time loop and the whole cast ends up reenacting the closing credits of ''Buckaroo Banzai'' with Gina in Buckaroo's spot.]]
147* GambitRoulette: Gothwrain's plan to break free of his enslavement; Dreadwing's plan to take power from Ancient Gina; and Ancient Gina's plan to save the universe, which includes the other 2 roulettes.
148%%* GenderBender: A male character drank a potion specifically designed for women. Guess what happened.
149%%* GirlsBehindBars: ''Gold Digger'' #82
150* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Natasha, ruler of the undead, who would rather let her kingdom be wiped out than be humiliated by a higher power.
151%%* GoodScarsEvilScars: T'mat and Dreadwing.
152%%* HalfHumanHybrid
153* HappilyAdopted: Brittany is an orphaned were-cheetah, taken in as an infant by Theodore and Julia Diggers and raised as a sister to their own daughter, Gina. They see her as nothing less than family, and the feeling is mutual.
154* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Monty's ghost girlfriend. And Tiffany's future self (which makes an awful lot of sense, because [[spoiler:she's an Expy of Rick Sanchez.]]
155* HealingWinds: There's a Ki healing skill called "Renewing Breath". It is exactly what it says on the tin — the user focuses his ki on healing while hyperventilating and then a breath that heals them back to top form. Julia Diggers accidentally manages to de-age her body back to its prime (mid-twenties) when she first uses it. Later on it is revealed that the Renewing Breath can be used to revive someone who is recently deceased at a great cost to the people applying it.
156* HeelRealization: Madrid has a moment of clarity when she realizes that her ChronicBackstabbingDisorder needlessly ruined a chance to escape capture and imprisonment.
157* HeelFaceTurn: Redemption is a major running theme in this comic. Many of Gina and Britanny's enemies become their best friends and allies. Mesha, Tark, Brianna, Penny, Charlotte, Jetta...[[spoiler:Erwin Talon, G'Nolga, Madrid, the Lich King, actually Patriarch Jonathan Diggers...]] Although it should be noted that of the above, plenty of them were either {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s or just a {{Jerkass}} (with Penny as one bitchy but not really that horrid rival), had outside influences compelling them to villainy (like Charlotte or [[spoiler: Jonathan, also called the Lich King]]), or did suffer extremely before turning around (Madrid) while still having to genuinely show such change.
158* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Gina Diggers, the titular "Gold Digger", dies in issue 295. The remaining five issues of the series see various characters, including a grown up Tiffany, try to step into her shoes and figure out how to defeat the series' FinalBoss. And then through time travel shenanigans Gina dies again… [[GainaxEnding or does she]]?.]]
159* HighOnHomicide: An eventual revelation of the Shun-Leep School of SupernaturalMartialArts (which is used by various heroes) is that it has a series of forbidden techniques called "The Murder Fist". Not only are these so powerful as to be a near-OneHitKill TouchOfDeath (and pretty violent, at that), but a side effect on the user's body is a heroin-like euphoria that is incredibly addictive, leading people who use the Murder Fist to eventually become hyper-violent BloodKnight types and even the occasional SerialKiller. This plot point overall is a double-barreled ShoutOut to the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' Satsu No Hado and ''Franchise/StarWars''' Dark Side of the Force. (Never let it be said that Fred Perry doesn't know how to apply his ReferenceOverdosed.)
160* HiveMind: Array is a variant; each [[MesACrowd duplicate of herself she creates]] has an independent personality which returns to her mind when she reassimilates her body. However, they all share the same general goals.
161* HotLibrarian: Kahn, librarian of the Library of Time.
162* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: The giant women of Monster Isle live alongside men who are much smaller (though still larger than the human standard). Their "equipment" has evolved in a way that allows for breeding. Should one of the women mate with an outside male, she could end up crushing him (although Portia claims that, while harder, it's not impossible).
163* HumanityEnsues: Fauntleroy is a dragon cursed to stay in human form. When he finally finds the {{MacGuffin}} he needs to return to dragon form, he decides to wait and [[HumansAreSpecial see if there's more he can learn from being human]]. [[spoiler:He's later sealed into a younger human form with an oversized collar-like device in an attempt by his father, who conscripted Gina -- the only human who can read draconic writing (aka Ribbon) -- into helping, to erase the selfish dragon they'd known and essentially raise Faunty "the right way."]]
164* HumongousMecha: Played with in that "humongous" is relative. The series has Vaultron, which, as the name implies, is a combining battle robot. But it's piloted by Leprechauns, meaning it's about as big as the average (human) grade-schooler. Ditto for its opposite number, Gaollion.
165** Played more straight with Gespenst, who is genuinely huge, even larger than some dragons.
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169* IWasQuiteALooker: Grammy Brunhildagarde.
170* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Dr. Diggers tried his best to disarm the werewolf leader, but in the end the only werecheetah left to save was baby Britanny.
171* InTheNameOfTheMoon: A literal example in the movie: After Brit's deadline passes and she can morph back to werecheetah form, she quotes the exact line before putting Gina in a headlock and bestowing noogies for calling her "Igor" when she was stuck in human form.
172* InvincibleHero: The heroes are starting to become this, particularly after the time skip in Issue 201. They have become so incredibly smart, powerful and well-equipped that few can oppose them. Anyone who was capable of threatening them before is either indisposed, dead, or now on their side. Many of the opponents (especially returning villains) that they fight now barely qualify.
173** A good example of this is when Julia dominates Serpentus in battle when no one else could even touch him.
174** Despite this, it remains to be seen if Dreadwing will triumph over Gina and Co. or not. [[spoiler:Roquette gives one possible future where Dreadwing gains control of the Infinity Engine and proceeds to wipe out the entire cast with the exception of Roquette and Tiffy, Brianna's and Brittany's daughters respectively, but Roquette is colored as an UnreliableNarrator due to both the constantly shifting timeline because of the Time War, and the fact that some of the details of her account sound way too much like an eight-year-old talking out of her ass to avoid getting in trouble.]]
175* IfItsYouItsOkay: In ''Warnerd of Mars'', one of the locals falls in love with Gina: a female local, who replies that she also is only into dudes...but also into Gina. To be fair, their evolution and environment mean that they find sweat extremely arousing, and Gina sweats a lot while there.
176* KiManipulation: Several of the martial artists, especially the ninjas, and Ryan Tabbot.
177* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:Tifanny's cousin, Roquette "Rocket" Diggers]]
178* KillerRabbit —er, Wabbit.
179* KudzuPlot: A pretty bad case, highlighted by the fact that the websites hawking the comic often contain cover previews and summaries for upcoming issues...but then Fred gets an itch to go growing the plot in some other direction entirely, and the previewed issues often have completely different covers and subjects, with the original plots dropped to be completed off-camera, if that.
180** Lately, however, a good portion of those storylines have begun to be tied together to the MythArc. (See below.)
181* LaserGuidedKarma: Gothwrain. Gets Brittany and her infant daughter kidnapped by the Lich King, nearly gets Gar killed, convinces the woman who enslaved him to side with him, reveals that he killed Theo's father, kills his mother (a sapient magical artifact) right in front of him, POUNDS Theo's berserk buttons with a jackhammer, tricking him into casting a spell that opens a gateway to a paradise he discovered, and retires with his former mistress, now his lover, to another dimension, where they give themselves eternal youth. Their reward? [[BigBad Dreadwing]] shows up, presumably beats the shit out of both of them, and re-enslaves them both.
182* LawyerFriendlyCameo
183* LeeroyJenkins: [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Team Noob]], ridiculously over-armed leprechauns with no idea where they are, what they are doing, what their mission is, how to operate their equipment, or how to not blow themselves up in 5 seconds, but using binoculars and bazookas backwards hasn't slowed down their enthusiasm yet. The ''GD Tangent'' WebComic has a similar setup as the TropeNamer, with a ShoutOut as well.
184* {{Leprechaun}}s: [-WITH TANKS AND [[MobileSuitHuman MECHA]]!!-]
185* LoadBearingBoss: Invoked after Julia's fight with Serpentus[[spoiler:, in which she uses magic-proof Dwarven chains to tie him to the room in such a way that ten tons of rock will fall on him if he isn't untangled very, very carefully]].
186* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: Mostly whenever the story takes place on Jade, as many anthropomorphic characters co-exist with other humans or humanoid species in that dimension. On Earth, they usually work under a [[TheMasquerade masquerade]], save for a few special places around the globe.
187* LovableSexManiac: Britanny (until her marriage; then, she concentrates all her considerable energy on Strypp) and Gina. Ironically, the latter used to be a {{Geek}}y ShrinkingViolet, until her [[TheLadette more outgoing]] sister Britanny had enough of her reclusive attitude and, to make a long story short, broke her out of her box. The result? Gina became "boy-crazy" ''even by "boy-crazy extraordinaire" Britanny's personal standards''. The latter doesn't know whether or not she should regret "helping" her sister.
188--> '''Britanny:''' '''You've gotta be joking!!!''' You're '''gorgeous'''! Look at you! Look at '''''these'''''! <[[AC:[[SkinshipGrope HOIST]]]]>
189--> '''Gina''': '''Eek!''' (Narrating): "I remember thinking: 'Jinkies! Where did '' those'' come from'?"
190--> '''Britanny:''' Do you know how many gals would '''kill''' for [[BuxomBeautyStandard a nice, firm set]] like '''yours'''??? What man wouldn't fall all over himself just to get to '''talk''' to you? From now on, when you think of guys, think of broad, masculine chests...! ''(Gina looks bewildered.)'' Strong, handsome buns!! Hard, rugged muscles...! ''(A small smile graces Gina's lips.)'' And all of the warm, yummy things you can do with them...! ''(Gina's face breaks into a full-blown, "Uh-oh"-worthy CheshireCatGrin.)''
191--> '''Brianna (narrating):''' I remember a sharp change in Gina's attitude toward men that moment. (And her being '''boy-crazy''' ever since.)
192** Brianna may have gained both of their sex drives combined, as [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments she used to chain her panicked boyfriend to the bed to have her way with him]]. [[RuleOfFunny Xane is the most extreme of all, as she regularly drools while taking concealed clothes-removing x-ray photographs of any attractive male within sight]]. She is getting some LaserGuidedKarma from [[HoYay Crush]], though.
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196* MagicFromTechnology: Gina eventually gains a working knowledge of draconic magic by analyzing extradimensional technology.
197* MagicMusic: Bardic Song Magic
198* MeatOVision: Britanny experiences this when Tark's CharmPerson spell misfires in the "Time Raft" OVA.
199* MesACrowd: Array
200* MilitaryMashupMachine
201* MissingMom: Several examples, including Gina's ActionMom Julia [[spoiler:and until recently, Britanny herself]].
202* MistakenForPregnant: Charlotte in one chapter; while riding a plane with Gina, she gorged herself on peanuts and pretzels to the point she got a pregnant-like BalloonBelly. Seeing her come waddling down the aisle, groaning in pain from her stomachache, a doctor actually mistook her for a pregnant woman who had gone into labor.
203* MoralityPet: Ironically, Madrid and Platinus were this to each other.
204** Merigold is this to G'Nolga.
205* MoralMyopia: One of the main themes of the comic is that revenge is wrong and only serves to make everyone more miserable. However, when someone wrongs the protagonists, they'll be the first to try and get payback. This often ends up biting them in the backside without them even knowing it. [[spoiler:Most notably, their attempts to get back at Zero have prevented him from killing Dreadwing on two separate occasions. The first time, it allowed Dreadwing gain control of Gigliathon. The second time, Dreadwing would have gained the power to kill them all if wasn't for an unexpected AssimilationBackfire.]]
206* MuggleBornOfMages: Gina is the daughter of Jade-Realm's most powerful mage and its most accomplished warrior. She has absolutely no talent in either skill set. Her father realized this and was the one who persuaded her to pursue a career in science. (Her mother managed to teach her a how to throw a punch, at least.)
207* MundaneMadeAwesome: Ancient Gina's "Millennium Pimp Slap", one of a class of spells of legendary power, warps space and time to open a portal behind the target...to [[MegatonPunch let the caster slap him upside the head]]. It requires such nigh-infinite power to execute that it causes EVERY MAGE IN THE SERIES to sense a disturbance in the Force!
208* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: Gina goes through this as a result of all of her friends and family getting married and having kids. However since she was the one who stressed to Nez that marriage and family would get in the way so stressed out about broaching the subject to him. Some of the things she came up with were.
209** [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe Ultimatum]]: Cornering him and forcing the issue.
210** [[TheBabyTrap Subterfuge]]: Use Brianna as an example and opt for the ButWeUsedACondom approach.
211** NoGuyWantstoBeChased: Just asking him
212* MythArc: Numerous plotlines and characters, at first seemingly unrelated, have begun to be revealed to be tied together to an overarching storyline concerning Future Gina trying to save the Universe.
213* NemesisAsCustomer: One arc held a variant: because of being flat broke, Gina Diggers accepted a dare from her rival Penny Pincer that if she could make it through a day working at an [[BurgerFool extra-crappy]] {{Expy}} of Taco Bell, Pincer would give her the money she needed and bury the hatchet for good. Gina not only had to endure all of the typical comedic horrors of working for a bad food establishment, but also the humiliation of the actual part of the prank that Penny planned, which was to have Gina's archaeology professor at college come in and see his most promising student working there.
214* NeverMessWithGranny: Brunhildagard Brigand, leader of the Barbarian War-Council.
215* NeverMyFault: A lot of the more irredeemable villains in the series usually operate under this logic. For example, in a rant to her rival, Ace, Dark Bird explains the reasons for her revenge, and a good portion of them were are own fault, stemming from her need to prove herself as the world's the best jet fighter. She basically whines that it's Kevin's fault for ''not losing against her''.
216** Dreadwing, being TheSociopath that he is, refuses to accept that every loss of his to Ancient Gina, or anyone else, stems from his own shortcomings, impatience, and inability to see glaring snafus in what are otherwise brilliantly devious schemes.
217* NeverTrustATrailer: The advance descriptions of the issues usually seem to reflect early drafts of the plot rather than the finished copy. (See the KudzuPlot note.)
218** The covers for each issue also fall under this, for the same reason.
219* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: The Ninja Pirate Leprechauns. (Correction: Ninja Pirate MECHA Leprechauns.)
220* NoodleImplements: Subverted. When Dreadwing attacks a settlement, the leader tells an underling to get a ladder, beer, fireflies, and a feather duster. Curious, Dreadwing goes to see what thing could be made with such devices:
221--> [[spoiler:'''Sign:''' They do naught but lure thee hither. ''Kaboom'']]
222* NoSelfBuffs: Genies in this 'verse cannot use their wish-granting powers at their own behest, only for the desires of others. They originally just granted each other's wishes, but Madrid's attempts to find a way to overcome this limitation caused many to be MadeASlave. One ''can'' increase their strength to protect someone else though.
223* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Gina, Penny, Erwin, etc.
224** Gina does note that she and Penny have different scientific specialties in which each could readily best the other.
225* OrcusOnHisThrone: Ancient Gina prevents Dreadwing from taking direct action against Gina and her friends. Indeed, he and Gina haven't even spoken to each other since he returned in color issue 50. In defiance of the "sitting around" part of the trope, though, he's actually spent his time building alliances and amassing resources for his strike against Ancient Gina. He's had... mixed results.
226* OurMonstersAreDifferent, Particularly:
227** AllTrollsAreDifferent: Trolls are green-skinned, tall, strong humanoids who heal fast and grow larger and stronger with age. Young ones of both sexes are often quite attractive. They've got something of a reputation as being less civilized, but that's largely because of prolonged wars with the elves that wrecked a lot of their old civilization; there are plenty of smart trolls, including martial artists and archmages, and as a species, they come off no worse than the other humanoids. They have a grudge against elves, but that goes both ways and isn't universal. There's some evidence trolls and elves are even distant relatives.
228** OurDragonsAreDifferent: They're the bio-engineered "children" of the Saurians, a race of sentient dinosaurs (and thus avian in nature), can shapeshift into humanoid form, and come in several varieties.
229** OurGeniesAreDifferent: They are descended from {{Magitek}} toys of the Nomad Artificers that GrewBeyondTheirProgramming and were physically altered by their transition from the previous universe to the current one. They come in several shapes and varieties as a result, such as having eyes on the torso or multiple sets of arms, but are all incapable of granting their own wishes.
230** OurGoblinsAreDifferent: The Gaoblin were once a race who fought alongside the Dynasty as their willing army. But when their masters ran for quasi-space, the Gaoblin were abandoned to the rest of the universe. In order to hide from the universal lynch mob out to kill, they slaughtered passive slave-races of the Dynasty like the Eldritch, [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Trolvic]], [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Atlantians]], and Krynn, then genetically disguised themselves to be indistinguishable from the originals. This ruse went on for so long that that those who were changed [[BecomingTheMask forgot that they were ever another race to begin with]]. Only those who stayed on the Dynasty's planetoid-ship, Oblivion, remained true Gaoblin.
231** OurMermaidsAreDifferent
232** OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: One of the main characters is one of the few remaining were-cheetahs. Other werecreatures include lions, tigers, rats, and of course, werewolves. Each subspecies is able to shift between human, animal, and a "WolfMan"-style hybrid form. All of the weres retain their rationality in each of their forms, although they need to learn to control their instincts during childhood. Although the weres are separate species, they are capable of spreading therianthropy to humans if they choose. (Doing so requires a bite ''and'' an active desire to alter the target's aura.) They were originally created by a wizard as super soldiers before said wizard was betrayed. They have a HealingFactor for everything except attacks by another {{werebeast}}, silver, magic, and Dwarven steel.
233* OurSoulsAreDifferent:
234** Auras, which aura mages use to cast magic, are described as the soul's "skin". Thus, if something has an aura, it has a soul. An aura is also incapable of lying.
235** The auras of weres interlay with their bodies, which is what allows them to change forms. Silver actually damages their auras, causing "soul char".
236* OutOfFocus: Frequently, thanks to the large cast. At one point in the series, an entire year's worth of comics passed with only brief cameos from Gina and Brittany, AKA ''the main characters''.
237* PapaWolf: Theodore Diggers, Stryyp
238* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish
239** [[spoiler: "User: Password, Password: User!"]]
240* PerkyFemaleMinion: Six, Array, Skippy.
241* PetTheDog: Regular antagonist [[EnfanteTerrible Erwin Talon]] protects the newly orphaned Charlotte and takes her in for purely altruistic reasons in an AlternateUniverse.
242* PinballProtagonist: Gina only occasionally plays a central role in the ongoing story, usually being absent or in a supporting role when major events happen, or we get to see events play out from multiple Ginas' perspectives, i.e. Madrid-Gina and Gina herself[[spoiler: and of late, all the Ginas that were betrayed by the Umbra and decided to fight against it]].
243* ThePlan: All chessmasters in this series are about these. [[GambitRoulette Gothwrain]], [[TheStarscream Dreadwing]], and [[XanatosGambit Ancient Gina]] just to name a few all have their own, and all seek to [[GambitPileup come out on top]].
244* ThePowerOfHate:
245** Serpentus uses his magic to rip the hatred others have for him from their auras and form weapons out of it.
246** Dreadwing channeled eons of his hatred for Ancient Gina into a stasis dimension to call upon later in his planned rebellion.
247* PowerPerversionPotential: Array has multiple bodies and minds, all of which both love their boyfriend Tirant and can shapeshift into different women. This has been lampshaded.
248* PressureSensitiveInterface: The defunct [[TheSeventies 1970s]] superhero team the Wonder Friends has a base full of hi-tech vehicles [[{{Expy}} based on]] the Series/{{Thunderbirds}}. The old members, now part of [[TheMenInBlack Agency Zero]], still have access to them, and they still work... but the onboard AIs will only oblige to work if they are approached dramatically. Just pushing the launch button won't do. You have to SLAM it down while saying a battle cry!
249* ProtagonistCenteredMorality:
250** T'mat wanted to get revenge on Tark and Mesha for their role in Dreadwing's crimes, forgetting or ignoring the fact that he had enslaved them. The arc that followed saw her commit acts of kidnapping, torture, murder, attempted murder and various acts of terrorism. While the comic doesn't justify her actions and she eventually abdicates her throne, she is never formally punished for what she did. All her actions during this arc seemed to be forgotten by the main cast, as they are never brought up again.
251** Once Penny went to a museum to bid for the ancient "Amulet of Embarrassment" that was cursing it. Erwin Talon came by at the exact same time and tried to steal it for his own research, but Penny and Charlotte stopped him. Penny then paid ''eleven cents'' for the item, since the museum's curator was desperate to get rid of it, meaning that Penny could bid whatever she wanted. Keep in mind that Penny is extremely wealthy, and one of the main morals of the protagonists is supporting museums and archaeology.
252* ProWrestlingIsReal: The 'Ultimate Fighting Federation' competitions are a mix of real mixed martial arts competitions and pro-wrestling showmanship with intros and personas. The showmanship parts are optional for the fighters, but a good way to make money for those who want to make a living of it.
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256* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: Debra is a product of her mother T'mat's rape by Dreadwing.]]
257* TheRealRemingtonSteele: WordOfGod states that Perry skipped the middleman on Mistress[=/=]Ayane; her first story still has some of the plot points—"back after X years"—to support the original plan that [[spoiler:the "Mistress" was supposed to be Julia Diggers' temporary wrestling gimmick]].
258* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Gina Diggers has created hundreds of inventions that could solve half the world's problems in a week, but instead of donating or marketing them, she uses them to assist in her archaeology and to help her friends. Mind you, as far as the reader knows, Gina doesn't release the best and biggest of her discoveries to the public since her house and lab are filled with artifacts that otherwise would be in a museum.
259** Gina Digger's dislike of treasure hunters becomes a bit of a BrokenAesop when you consider this.
260** It's sorta lampshaded in issue 207; when Gina's inventions screw up, they tend to '''really''' screw up.
261** However, the ''Gold Digger'' world at large isn't exactly "normal". Hyper-tech, HumongousMecha, and pest exterminators who deal with super-powered rodents are all ''background elements'' of the world. This is strongly exemplified when ChildProdigy supervillain Erwin Talon, a boy who has made his own genetically modified mages and muscle(wo)man bodyguards, goes to an advanced school for super-folk and finds himself ''falling behind''.
262** One major historical event in the series is that there used to be a very big, flashy, government-sponsored superhero team. Key words being "used to". Following an enormously Pyrrhic victory, it was determined that such a high-profile team was actually the cause of a lot of the villains they fought, because having such prominent would-be rivals made a lot of people who otherwise would've led mundane (or at least less antagonistic) lives fashion themselves as evil geniuses. The solution was to still have a powerful hero team, but to avoid attracting attention to avoid inspiring more would-be evil masterminds. An influx of super-tech could probably do the same thing.
263* ReviveKillsZombie:
264* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Tirant and The Lich King]]
265* RedundantParody: Perhaps unavoidable with how many things the series homages, but present all the same. One early issue has Gina find [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985 the Sword of Omens]], which is shortly thereafter destroyed by the Demon Mouse in the tomb to show how surprisingly powerful the mouse is. Thing is, because the Sword of Omens was the most powerful thing the Thundercats had, and because the show was a cartoon in which they weren't allowed to show anybody actually get hurt, the the show itself sometimes demonstrated TheWorfEffect by having the Sword of Omens get broken.
266* RefugeInAudacity: When Keldoor calls Lynda with some crazy story about how he's in another time and place that he won't remember later, giving her specific details on how to kidnap Tiffiny 'Gia to prevent their kingdom being ruined, she replies that it's too weird not to be true.
267* TheRival: Penny Pincer, though she does a full HeelFaceTurn about halfway through.
268** Also Jetta, [[HeelFaceTurn at first]].
269** G'Nolga to Julia Diggers, [[HeelFaceTurn but she's getting better]].
270* RousseauWasRight: The story has a very sympathetic tone; no matter how heinous the acts somebody has done, if they were simply misguided without direction, they are usually afforded compassion and given a new chance to start over and do good.
271* RuleThirtyFour: Some of it drawn by Perry himself.
272* SarcasticClapping: During her trip with Gina to explore Dreadwing's mymior (treasure trove, re: knowledge, spells, etc.), Brianna plays it straight and lampshades Fauntleroy's sarcastic clapping at the same time.
273* SassyBlackWoman: Penny; Britanny's voiced like this in the completed version of the "Time Raft" OVA.
274* SelfRestraint: (''Who?'' ''Where?'') (Wrong self-restraint) (oh)
275* SharedUniverse: ''Gold Digger'' has characters cross over to and from Ben Dunn's ''ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool'' frequently, even resulting in several {{Crisis Crossover}}s.
276* ShoutOut: To just about every [[TheEighties '80s]] or classic [[WesternAnimation cartoon]], many, many {{video games}}, and HumongousMecha anime.
277** In fact, the shout-outs have become so common, numerous, and close to the source material that some critics feel it's led to a bit of SeasonalRot, that the homages have come a little too close to crossing the line into just yanking whatever he likes from other canon and using it directly. (Example: Gina basically just builds herself an exact copy of the Lagann, complete with similar abilities to hijack whatever it attaches to.)
278*** It wouldn't be so bad if these things were just done as gags all the time, but often they're ''plot relevant'' in working just like the original reference material. Gina's [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Lagann]] knockoff's ability to, well, act just like the Lagann is extremely important in the storyline. Same with the [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Matrix of Leadership]] {{Expy}} the Edge Guard have, which was transferred in a [[WholePlotReference whole scene reference]] right down to the use of "'Til all are one." (Granted, the Matrix analogue contained a planetoid-sized spaceship in its own pocket dimension, so it didn't function ''quite'' the same. Still, Fred ''does'' love to riff blatantly on ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie''.)
279*** Issue 241 reveals that [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor and She-Ra]], with their real names [[WritingAroundTrademarks slightly changed]], existed during the comic's Age of Wonders and played a major role in the history of Earth-Realm.
280*** A similar scenario happened in Issue 260 when duplicitous dragon Ky'rha enlists the aid of troll mage [[WesternAnimation/TheDoverBoys Da'an Bakslyyde]] (bully, coward, cad and thief) to claim a living spell gifted to Dr. Diggers' old teacher, Gneiss, by the dragon elder Exthilion.
281** Website/TVTropes and Website/KnowYourMeme are mentioned in the 2010 Halloween special:
282---> Gina: Oogh...mental note: Marathon sessions at "TV Tropes" and "Know Your Meme" are ''not'' conducive to proper sleep!
283* SilverFox: A lot of elderly characters certainly age gracefully, despite all the action they go through[[spoiler:, including Gina herself]].
284* SpaceColdWar: The Time War is a conflict being fought over the prime era by the Collective and the Umbra. The Collective is a group of dead, time-displaced Ginas who ended up at the Crimson Pillars and were revived by the native, necromantic Lucavari; the Umbra is an ancient EldritchAbomination who wishes to devour all of reality and is assisted by alternate versions of the heroes, who believe that the prime era is causing their realities to fade into nonexistence. [[spoiler:It's revealed that the Umbra created and destroyed the alternate eras in order to trick the survivors into helping it. The Collective is actually made up of the broken remains of the Ginas it devoured.]]
285* SpotTheImposter: Madrid was pretty clever about this.
286* StalkingIsLove: When Ace is too nervous to ask Penny to marry him, she becomes rather obsessed with manipulating him into to doing so. She and Gina impersonate his co-workers to convince him into proposing and [[ControlFreak begin to track his every move]]. Gina begins to question Penny's rather unnerving actions and controlling mindset, and Penny admits that [[LoveMakesYouCrazy she gets paranoid over Ace]]. Having recently had to dogfight a rival -- an AcePilot almost as good as Ace himself -- in a [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross VF-1S]], with [[MechaExpansionPack FAST packs]] to boot, all to prove to the rival she deserved him did ''not'' help. Ace goes off of her grid, reveals that [[KnewItAllAlong he knew what Penny was doing all along]], and proposes to her on his on terms.
287* StartOfDarkness: Tirant, Dreadwing, the Lich King.
288* SuperBreedingProgram: A mild case with the Amazons and the Athle, with the breeding caste being the ruling class, while the Athle are treated like thoroughbreds and only breed with Amazons.
289* SuperMode: Britanny's "Tempest Mode".
290* SuperTeam: Agency Zero, a [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]-styled team that shifted to TheMenInBlack paradigm, hoping that keeping up a [[TheMasquerade masquerade]] about their activities would keep {{SuperVillain}}s from having a focus to fight against.
291* TemptingFate: '''''Invoked!''''' Brianna was a tad too bored. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.
292* TerribleTrio: Multiple cases; Erwin Talon actually has two sets on his payroll. They're each other's PsychoRangers.
293* ThanatosGambit: Gothwrain
294* TheFairFolk: Not surprisingly, since Jade is a major fantasy setting, there are a few species that consider themselves better than humans. This includes Britanny herself; she is in her were-cheetah form a good majority of the time and constantly complains whenever she must to go to her human form, which is even more petite than an average human and essentially no stronger than Gina (and thus Gina loves to tease her about it). She has gotten better about it as the series has gone on, however.
295* TimeSkip: Between issues #100 and #101 of the color series.
296* TimeTravel: Recurs throughout the series.
297* TimeyWimeyBall: This dialogue says it all:
298--> '''Tiffany''': ''Mom! Watch out!! This is the guy who wanted me kidnapped! He’s in the distant future—I think! But from the past, I think? But from the future, he saw into the past, which was my present, about my finding out what happened to his present in the past.''
299* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Stryyp isn't exactly tiny, being muscular and standing close to six feet tall. However, his were-cheetah wife, Britanny, prefers her hybrid form, which towers over him at 7' tall and weighs in at some 300 pounds of solid muscle.
300* {{Troperrific}}: One can argue that all of ''Gold Digger'' is Fred Perry's parody/homage to comics, novels, [=RPG=]s, video games, tropes, cliches and genres of all stripes.
301* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Britanny loves tuna. Charlotte the harpy, meanwhile, is obsessed with peanuts and pretzels; if enough are available, she'll [[BigEater stuff her face]] almost to the point of killing herself.
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305* UnwillingRoboticisation: Thanks to her sister's machinations, Dark Bird ends up merging with her Dynasty "Transformer" jet while being teleported to Dreadwing's realm.
306* ValleyGirl: Moisha, like, totally!
307* XanatosSpeedChess: Dreadwing and Ancient Gina are playing a rather slow version of this[[spoiler: via their own competing versions of Infinity]].
308* {{Webcomics}}: The "Ayane" and "Northern Edge" Tangent webcomics; both are currently on hiatus. Also, "Level UP!", a ''Final Fantasy XI'' webcomic by the same author, and "Action Time Buddies", an all-ages, pure-fun series in the vein of WesternAnimation/AdventureTime and WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.
309* {{Wedgie}}: Gina herself is frequently on the receiving end of these. Initially it was mostly limited to her rivalry with Penny, but as the two became more friendly this faded, and instead replaced with Gina just frequently getting them from her friends and family.
310* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Frequently averted. For instance, Brianna, the lab-accident composite clone trying to kill the Diggers sisters, now their gung-ho sister. Or Charlotte, the instant-grown harpy girl accidentally freed from the control of the time-travelling dog who fired her at our heroes, now co-headliner of a SugarWiki/{{WAFF}}y spinoff. Or Array, the sentient spell-creature that creates other living spells with their own minds, bodies, and personalities, all of whom love the villain Tirant unreservedly and are currently working for Dreadwing [[spoiler:in the hope of resurrecting Tirant after his HeroicSacrifice to save all of her selves from a monstrous catastrophe]]. [[spoiler:Aljabra Gihom is another of Array's personalities, somehow left behind when the main body was conscripted by Dreadwing, and is now part of Gina's advanced archaeology class, [[PlayedForLaughs often mistaken for an end-table but never on purpose]] She just happens to fall asleep in crouched positions while researching or writing papers.]]
311* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Dreadwing is prone to bouts of evil laughter when he thinks he's won some great victory, but this usually precludes his being shown up just as quickly. He's also shown talking to the spirits of other creatures he's assimilated over the years, so he's essentially talking to himself. Ancient Gina has yet to show any real signs of insanity.
312* WrestlerInAllOfUs
313* TheWorfEffect: Stripe. Despite a massive-power up halfway through the B&W series making him one of the two most powerful good guys, he is infamous for being hit by surprise, dropping his guard, and so on. Outside his first battles post-power up, it's rare he doesn't end up knocked out at least for a while during a fight. No wonder Agent M thought he needed training despite his skill and strength.
314** Fortunately, now that he's not adventuring in areas where he's forced to team up with everyone else, he can fight a bit more.
315** To a lesser extent, Britanny would sometimes get knocked around to demonstrate just how tough some bad guy was.
316* YourHeadASplode: Poor [[spoiler: Jzu-Jzu.]]
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