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| 6 | ''[[https://pbfcomics.com/ The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' is a webcomic and newspaper comic strip by UsefulNotes/{{Rochester}}ian cartoonist Nicholas Gurewitch, first published in the Syracuse University newspaper ''The Daily Orange'' before appearing in several mainstream newspapers around the world. It's notable for its very [[BlackComedy black]] and [[SurrealHumor surrealist humour]], which specialises in juxtaposing [[SugarBowl whimsical settings]] with [[BlackComedy morbid subject matter]]. It's kind of like ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'', except with cutesier art and more murder. |
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| 8 | Most of the tropes that the comic encounters, it subverts. {{Art Shift}}s are frequent; it goes for either a very intricate or very simplistic art style, depending on the joke. Has a habit of CrossingTheLineTwice, and sometimes three or four times. At some point, it will probably ruin your childhood. Maybe your adulthood, too. |
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| 10 | ''Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories'', a reprint of the original webcomic and additional artwork, won the 2008 Eisner Comic Book Industry Award for Best Humor Publication. The comic is currently on semi-hiatus, and updates every once in a blue moon. |
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| 12 | Compare ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal''. |
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| 16 | !!This webcomic contains examples of: |
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| 18 | * AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: A pair of kids enter one in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/secret-mutant-hero-team/ Secret Mutant Hero Team]], only to find [[spoiler:a team of hideous mutant molerats]]. |
| 19 | * AbusiveParents: Many examples of kids being dicked around by parents, [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood usually played for dark comedy.]] |
| 20 | * AnAesop: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/deeply-held-beliefs/ "Deeply Held Beliefs"]] points out how when it comes to personal beliefs, acting like a TautologicalTemplar does ''not'' translate well in reality, no matter the topic. Harassing people and treating them as evil monsters over their opinions not only makes them recalcitrant to your point of view, but it also alienates neutral parties and makes them reluctant to take your side because [[NotHelpingYourCase you look like such a vicious, unreasonable]] {{Jerkass}}. |
| 21 | * AffairHair: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-blue-hair/ "The Blue Hair"]] subverts this trope, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} finds a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin blue hair]] on his lover and sets out to get Beast. [[spoiler:Played with as the last panel shows that hair comes from a blue lion plush next to the girl's bed]]. |
| 22 | * AfterTheEnd: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/post-apocalyptic/ "Post Apocalyptic"]] parodies ''Literature/ThePostman'', with the delivery of a sweepstakes entry. |
| 23 | * AIIsACrapshoot: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/adam-2-0/ Averted in Adam 2.0.]] The robot was curious and compassionate, but when they gave him a HeartDrive aka [[HumansAreBastards humanity....]] |
| 24 | * AllYourPowersCombined: Features a {{Deconstruction}} of this, in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/guntron/ this]] comic, where a Anime/{{Voltron}}-like hero team combine into a giant gun. |
| 25 | * AnimalNemesis: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/svens-revenge/ Mocked in this strip]], where a diver kills a scar-eyed ThreateningShark to avenge his father's death, [[spoiler:only to find that Scar-Eyed Sharks are actually a common species]]. |
| 26 | * AnthropomorphicTypography: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/b/ A typically acerbic twist]] on this idea. It depicts lowercase letters, who are children, bullying the lowercase letter b, for being "butt-ugly". Their class reunion comes, and the uppercase letter B now stands for [[SheIsAllGrownUp "beautiful"]] (or, perhaps more likely, "boobs"). |
| 27 | * AppropriateAnimalAttire: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/cuniculus-vulgaris/ Parodied]] when a realistic (and thus naked) rabbit gets into hot water in a land of fully dressed {{Funny Animal}}s. |
| 28 | * ArtShift: In addition to the art style changing drastically between strips, from very simplistic and cartoony to highly realistic and detailed, there are often changes within a single strip to drive home the punchline. |
| 29 | * AssInALionSkin: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-last-unicorns/ A halfway literal example]]: a donkey disguising himself as a unicorn. |
| 30 | * BadassTeacher: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/shop-class/ Mr. Ortego]] lost his hand in some pretty hardcore circumstances, although he denies it, saying it was a woodcutting accident. |
| 31 | * BaitAndSwitch: Most strips end this way. |
| 32 | * BaseBreakingCharacter: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/skub/ Skub]], in-universe. Made more hilarious because we, the outside viewer, get no context as to why what looks like a can of ointment causes such violent debates. Some fandoms have even adopted "skub" as a by-word for "Base Breaking Character". |
| 33 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A boy in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/one-more-day/ "One More Day"]] wishes for his Gramps to be alive for one more day... too bad Gramps is [[BuriedAlive still in his coffin.]] |
| 34 | * BedroomAdulteryScene: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/love-lizard/ A funny one]] where the couple are Anole lizards and the interloper sneaking out is a Chameleon. |
| 35 | * BestialityIsDepraved: Subverted in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/disgusting-ted/ "Disgusting Ted"]]. We see a man leering lustfully at a horse's rump, and his friend being disgusted by that... [[spoiler:but all three are actually centaurs, and Ted's friend is disgusted because the girl centaur is too young.]] |
| 36 | * BlackComedy: The entire comic runs on it, playing disturbingly dark material [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]]. |
| 37 | * BlindIdiotTranslation: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-schlorbians-strike-again/ The Schlorbians]] attempt a DefaceOfTheMoon, but they evidently need to get a grasp on "Human Terminology". |
| 38 | * BloodyHilarious: There is a lot of gore in the comics, always PlayedForLaughs. |
| 39 | * ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/space-disaster/ "Space Disaster"]] depicts a pair of astronauts stranded on the moon and watching the apocalypse occurring on Earth. |
| 40 | -->'''Astronaut:''' Well... who's the genius now, Mr. We-won't-have-time-for-board-games-in-space? |
| 41 | * CaptainErsatz: The blond guy who is apparently Little Mac (who has brown or black hair depending on the game, but never blonde, though the shade of brown he sports in Super Punch Out is close.) [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/punch-bout/ in this parody of Punch-Out!!]] |
| 42 | * CarnivoreConfusion: PlayedForLaughs in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/mr-rex/ this comic featuring dinosaurs in class]], with a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' professor teaching a class of herbivores. |
| 43 | -->'''Mr. Rex:''' See me after class, Pete. |
| 44 | * CassandraTruth: When asking for an answer in "Quiz Kid", the recipient is rather miffed to be handed a sketch of an ejaculating penis...except that he's taking sex ed, so that is the right answer, apparently. |
| 45 | * CatUpATree: In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/kitty-stuck-2/ "Kitty Stuck"]], however it has a morbid ending. |
| 46 | * CaughtWithYourPantsDown: In "Caught", a husband is found masturbating in his "man cave", but it all takes a happy turn. |
| 47 | * CharlieAndTheChocolateParody: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-golden-ticket/ "The Golden Ticket"]] ponders how it would be different if Wonka runs a meat factory instead of a candy factory (note the ArtShift to Quentin Blake) |
| 48 | * ClownCar: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/honk/ "Honk"]] shows what happens when one crashes due to a DrunkDriver. |
| 49 | * CombiningMecha: The [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/guntron/ Guntron]] is a team of Anime/{{Voltron}}-like heroes combining into a giant gun. The kicker is that the bullet is ''also'' part of the mech and contains a pilot, [[BlackComedy until it isn't once it's fired.]] |
| 50 | * CompletelyOffTopicReport: Played with: The corporate report on "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/weeaboo/ weeaboo]]" costing the company money is on-topic. That it causes the attendees to chant "weeaboo", yank down the unfortunate presenter's trousers, and spank their ass is not. |
| 51 | * TheComputerIsYourFriend: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/truancy-bot/ Truancy bot]], is a well-intentioned, though not very apt, robot. |
| 52 | * CoolUncle: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/uncle-duncan/ Crazy Uncle Duncan]] stages a gladiator fight for his nephews, which they really enjoy. [[spoiler:Until the real lion shows up.]] |
| 53 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: The people of [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/durab-inc/ Durab Inc.]] are willing to make an [[UnwittingTestSubject unwitting little child]] cry [[spoiler:just to test the quality of their latest paper tissues]]. |
| 54 | * CosmeticCatastrophe: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-other-girls/ Elana, the vampire girl]] ends up with one. |
| 55 | --> '''Elana's mother:''' The other girls can see vhat ze hell zhey are doing! |
| 56 | * CrapsaccharineWorld: The comics usually start out as cutesy, but end up dark, deconstructive, and often gory. |
| 57 | * CreepySouvenir: A kid gets particularly disturbing [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/memorabilia/ Memorabilia]] from an Ancient Roman gladiator fight. |
| 58 | * CruelTwistEnding: |
| 59 | ** Exaggerated in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/marthas-orphanage/ "Martha's Orphanage"]]. First, Santa doesn't visit the titular orphanage, then it catches fire... [[spoiler:and then it gets attacked by a GiantSpider]]. |
| 60 | ** In "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-jubilee/ The Jubilee]]" a bunch of happy faced clouds that are holding up rainbow swings come by to pick up children at a playground and they cheerfully float away on the swings, sadly leaving a wheelchair bound child behind. But then another cloud comes by with a handicapped carrier held by its rainbow, taking him into the sky... [[spoiler:[[AppeaseTheVolcanoGod only finding out he and the other children are being sacrificed by being dropped into a volcano named "Aranaktu"]]!]] |
| 61 | * CutAndPasteComic: For the more elaborate art. |
| 62 | * DealWithTheDevil: |
| 63 | ** In "Puppy", a man barters his soul for a puppy. Despite it being a selfless wish, he still ends up in Hell. |
| 64 | ** In another strip, a man sees a dead bird on the ground, and expresses sorrow. The devil then appears, and grants his wish: [[BaitAndSwitch a really long penis]]. |
| 65 | * DefaceOfTheMoon: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-schlorbians-strike-again/ The Schlorbians]] attempt to insult humanity by writing a message on the Moon. Unfortunately for them, they are very bad at spelling. |
| 66 | * DepravedKidsShowHost: More like Depressed Kids' Show Host in "Catch Phrase" (The host committed suicide after being dogged by his silly CatchPhrase -- which was then engraved on his tombstone.) |
| 67 | * DesignatedVillain: InUniverse, "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/billy-the-bunny/ Billy the Bunny]]" shows Mean Old Farmer Ben chasing some rabbits away and being portrayed as the villain of a [[ShowWithinAShow fictional children's book]] for it. The "punchline" ([[BlackComedy if you can call it that]]) is Ben's family facing famine due to said rabbits eating all his crops. |
| 68 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Baskins' father in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/for-baskins/ "For Baskins"]] ships the title character overseas in a monkey cage for... suggesting he sell his own father's watch to buy a monkey. |
| 69 | * DistractedByTheSexy: The father of the victim in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/bully/ "Bully"]] forgets about admonishing his son's attacker and instead makes out with the bully's mother. |
| 70 | * DopeSlap: Of all the places to start a FoodFight, [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/food-fight/ a third-world country is not the best.]] |
| 71 | * DoubleEntendre: In the [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/mrs-hammer/ "Mrs. Hammer"]] strip, a man with a hammer for a head discovers that his wife (a wooden plank) has a screw stuck in her. Cue him beating up his screwdriver-headed neighbour. |
| 72 | * DrunkDriver: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/honk/ "Honk"]] has a drunk driver crash a ClownCar into a tree. |
| 73 | * DudeNotFunny: In-universe, [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/no-survivors/ "No Survivors]] shows that an airplane crash is not a good opportunity to be creative with your marriage proposal. |
| 74 | ** Again with the FoodFight strip mentioned below. Neither the time nor the place, fella. |
| 75 | * EarthShatteringKaboom: Caused by PuppyDogEyes in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/executive_decision/ "Executive Decision"]]. Yes, ItMakesSenseInContext (just barely). |
| 76 | * EggMacGuffin: The plot of [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/baby/ "Baby"]]. (Too bad it's not a pretty little birdie that hatches...) |
| 77 | * EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: Often {{subverted}}. |
| 78 | ** In "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/rainbow/ Rainbow]]", a rainbow turns out to be the eyes of a giant monster. |
| 79 | ** In "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-jubilee/ The Jubilee]]", children sit on rainbows attached to smiling clouds. And are then [[AppeaseTheVolcanoGod sacrificed by being dropped into a volcano]]. |
| 80 | ** In "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/book-world/ Book World]]", a rainbow appears when the kids enter the book (and on the poster encouraging them do to that) to represent how fun reading can be. Their [[TomeOfEldritchLore choice of book]] turns out to not be so fun. |
| 81 | ** [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/1988-2/ The collaboration with Gudim]], shows a guy smiling below a small rainbow in the first panel, and the next panel shows a circular rainbow with a skeleton, implying the guy died from hunger/thirst and his soft tissue decomposed. |
| 82 | * EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies: |
| 83 | ** Happy Birthday, [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/miggs/ "Miggs"]] has a gangster surprised with sweet puppies due to a cake mix-up. |
| 84 | ** [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/news-puppy/ "News Puppy"]] has a father reveal that he got a puppy by pulling down his newspaper... which contains an article linking puppy saliva to brain damage and penis rot. |
| 85 | * EvilTeacher: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/mr-rex/ Mr. Rex]], who just so happens to be a tyrannosaurus rex serving as a teacher at a school for dinosaurs, ''eats'' his students as punishment for misbehavior. |
| 86 | * EyeBeams: The dad in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/fun-bot/ "Fun Bot"]] has these. It MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext. |
| 87 | * TheFaceOfTheSun: In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/no-one-is-thirsty/ "No One Is Thirsty"]] a cheerful anthropomorphized Sun tries to help out some kids whose lemonade stand isn't doing much business by getting just a ''little'' bit brighter. Cue everyone in the neighborhood (and presumably the whole world) collapsed from heat exhaustion, followed by ''Sad'' Face of the Sun. In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/sun-love/ "Sun Love"]] both the Sun and the Earth have faces, and are in love! Earth says "Oh, kiss me!"--the last panel shows the world is now a sea of flame, with burning skeletons straight out of a depiction of a nuclear holocaust, and a burning ''baby carriage''. |
| 88 | * FantasticRacism: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/bad-apple/ "Bad Apple"]] implies this is the situation between fruits and vegetables, after an apple is beaten up by a carrot and broccoli for spraying 'seedless' on a car. |
| 89 | * FingerInTheMail: After Colonel Sweeto is outed as a chocolate spy, the Chocolate Kingdom [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/colonel-sweeto/ receives a box containing his "nut"]]. |
| 90 | * FoodFight: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/food-fight/ Not something The Red Cross approves of]]. |
| 91 | * ForbiddenFruit: Implied in "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/deeply-held-beliefs/ Deeply Held Beliefs]]". An anthropomorphic pie chart is chewed out for believing in white with pink bars representing an unspecified deeply held belief, which just causes that section of the chart to grow bigger ''and'' also makes the pie chart in the back gain that belief. |
| 92 | * FromBadToWorse: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/marthas-orphanage/ Poor Martha's orphanage.]] First Santa forgets them, then the spiders attack... |
| 93 | * FurryReminder: The yellow and orange snails in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/snail-harassment/ "Snail Harrassment"]] apparently need to be reminded that all snails are hermaphrodites. |
| 94 | -->'''Orange snail:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Dude, I think she just called you gay.]] |
| 95 | * FutureImperfect: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/now-showing/ A futuristic society forgets some of the details about WWII.]] |
| 96 | * GagPenis: In exchange for your soul, The Devil will give you one like rope! |
| 97 | * GallowsHumor: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/capital-punishment/ The game Hangman takes on a whole new meaning.]] |
| 98 | * GoneHorriblyRight: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/hug-bot/ Hugbot]] is ''adorable''. Especially when he tries installing a nuclear reactor. |
| 99 | * GulliverTieDown: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/gnome-bubbles/ "Gnome Bubbles"]] combines this with EyeScream. |
| 100 | * HairTriggerAvalanche: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/hey-goat/ Shouting is all that's needed in "Hey Goat".]] The bodies are not exposed until the following spring. |
| 101 | * HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/mr-rex/ Mr. Rex]] wears a shirt, tie and glasses, but no pants. The clothes signify his higher status as teacher in a class of non-clothed dinosaur children. |
| 102 | * HollywoodChameleons: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/love-lizard/ "Love Lizard"]] has a chameleon blending in with the walls of a bedroom to avoid being caught sleeping with a lizard's wife. |
| 103 | * HollywoodHistory: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/now-showing/ Because battles in WWII]] were mainly between British-Jewish Lancers on Zebras and Nazis armed with laser guns and WWI-era Kaiser Helmets. |
| 104 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The principal in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/kinder-interview/ this]] comic. |
| 105 | -->Principal: "What makes you think you'd make a good kindergarten teacher?" |
| 106 | -->Interviewee: *smiles with fanged mouth and gorily rips head off with bare hands* |
| 107 | -->Principal: "I like your style." |
| 108 | * HumansAreBastards: The implication after [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/adam-2-0/ this robot]] is given 'humanity'. |
| 109 | * HumanSacrifice: To [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-jubilee/ Aranaktu]], who accepts all "gifts." |
| 110 | * HurricaneOfPuns: "Harlot's Web", a NSFW parody of ''Literature/CharlottesWeb,'' sees the spider taking everything it writes in its web from the dirty talk of the hot farmer's daughter and her farmhand lover ([[DoubleEntendre "ONE FINE ASS", "GREAT COCK", "SWEET PUSSY"]], etc.), only for the farmer to assume each one is referring to one of his farm animals. |
| 111 | ** It all culminates when the web reads "CHRIST BABY OH GOD PUT IT IN," to which the farmer is angry about. [[spoiler: He then sees his daughter is pregnant, and [[DoubleSubversion her giving birth is treated just the same as the birth of Jesus Christ.]]]] |
| 112 | * IKnowMortalKombat: Jeremy applies his skills at Tetris in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/game-boy/ "Game Boy"]] to clean his room. |
| 113 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The bully in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/nice-shirt/ Nice Shirt]] learns that unicorns are real, the hard way. |
| 114 | * ImpossiblePickleJar: [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] encounters one in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-green-menace/ "The Green Menace"]]. Of course, he's only able to open it once he transformed into Hulk. |
| 115 | * InevitableWaterfall: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/raft-friends/ The bird couldn't stay on that raft forever, and they both knew it...]] |
| 116 | * InkblotTest: The titular character in "Psychoanalyst" tries to pick up one of his patients with a lewd inkblot, and gets slapped for it. |
| 117 | * InterspeciesRomance: |
| 118 | ** [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/bacon-egg/ Bacon Egg]] features one between a pig and a chicken, who get discovered when the farmer cracks open an egg and discovers a strip of (somehow already cooked) bacon inside instead of a yolk. |
| 119 | ** "Not Today" features a somewhat creepy example with an adolescent girl and her talking pet rabbit. |
| 120 | ** "Different" features a voluptuous fairy and/or butterfly who turns down a male butterfly's affections but its later seen having sex with a mouse. |
| 121 | * IntrepidFictioneer: Played for horror (of course) in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/book-world/ Book World]]. It really wasn't a good idea to pick a TomeOfEldritchLore as a good book to use to "Enter a new World". |
| 122 | * JumpingOutOfACake: Double subverted when [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/miggs/ "Miggs"]] got the wrong cake. [[spoiler:Miggs got the cute puppies, and the gunman meant to shoot Miggs ended up at the Animal Lovers' Society meeting.]] |
| 123 | * KungFuJesus: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/spelling/ JESUS VS. GANESH]] [[CoolVsAwesome IN A BATTLE FOR SOULS]] (actually prayers for the spelling bee). |
| 124 | * LilliputianWarriors: Intruders approach! [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-agronox/ Release the Agronox!]] |
| 125 | * LiteralManeater: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/zarflax/ "Zarflax"]] looks like a beautiful naked woman who offers some "space sex" to an astronaut. The spaceman isn't buying it; fortunately for him, as Zarflax is an alien monster with a large VaginaDentata. |
| 126 | * LiteralMetaphor: The boxer in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/punch-bout/ "Take on the world"]] gets to do just that. |
| 127 | * LongerThanLifeSentence: In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/life-sentence/ Life Sentence]], consecutive life sentences mean that when the convict dies and reincarnates, the reincarnation is kept in prison despite being a baby. |
| 128 | * LoveItOrHateIt: InUniverse, Skub hand lotion. It's supporters and detractors predictably get along like matches and gasoline. |
| 129 | * MakeAWish: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/wishing-well/ The Wishing Well.]] It actually works, but everybody only gets one. |
| 130 | * MeasuringTheMarigolds: In "Loring's First Theorum", ''everything'' is math, including naked women. |
| 131 | * MediumBlending: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/keep-on-truckin/ Keep on Truckin'...]] looks like a happy cartoon. It turns out to be what rats see while on LSD. |
| 132 | * MentalPictureProjector: The titular machine developed by scientists in "The Dreamcatcher 3000". Alas, they end up losing their funding when their subject has an EroticDream about the senator that's overseeing their funds. |
| 133 | * MeritBadgesForEverything: A rather vulgar example in "Boy Scouts" involves the troop leader taking the scouts to have sex with a prostitute. |
| 134 | * MindScrew: In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/freaking-vortex/ "Freaking Vortex"]] an astronaut crash-lands on what looks like a BabyPlanet. Except that it's actually his own helmet, and he winds up looking down at an infinitely regressing miniature version of himself, having crash landed on his own head. (Also, his bald spot is getting worse.) |
| 135 | * MissingReflection: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-other-girls/ This strip]] explores how inconvenient no reflection is for makeup application, with a young vampire girl trying to do so and making a mess of herself. |
| 136 | * MoodWhiplash: The comic as a whole thrives on this. [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/carolyn/ "Carolyn"]] stands out even more than most PBF strips, being a pure tragedy in which a young child holds up a crayon and asks a teacher "What color is this?", which the teacher at least sees labelled as "the color of her hair", ending with the teacher curled up in a fetal position on the floor of the classroom. |
| 137 | * TheMole: In the strip [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/colonel-sweeto/ "Colonel Sweeto,"]] the eponymous officer of the Candy Kingdom's army is interrogated by the king about how he was the only survivor of the Chocolates' massacre of Lolly Town. When the king strikes him with his sceptre, Col. Sweeto is revealed to be a chocolate piece with a hard sugar coating. The final panel shows the chocolates opening a package from [[DeepCoverAgent Agent Sweeto]], only to be horrified to see it contains his nut, which was most likely extracted from within his body after [[ColdBloodedTorture being tortured to death]]. |
| 138 | * MoodDissonance: Disturbing events tend to be combined with a cutesy art style. |
| 139 | * MoodWhiplash: Comics tend to start out SickeninglySweet and then end up ridiculously dark, or vice-versa. |
| 140 | * MoonRabbit: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/moon-bunny/ Subverted]] when the rabbit turns out to be ''massive''. |
| 141 | * NonHumanHead: Frequent. |
| 142 | ** People with musical instruments for heads are the characters of "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/harmony/ Harmony]]"; the bassoon's father is not pleased at her settling to marry a lowly whistle. |
| 143 | ** People with rock, paper, or a pair of scissors for heads get into an argument over seating in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/shotgun/ "Shotgun"]], which they decide can only be decided one way... [[SubvertedTrope gladiatorial combat]]. |
| 144 | ** [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/mrs-hammer/ "Mrs. Hammer"]] is about a hammer-headed man discovering that his wife (a plank of wood) has a screw embedded in her. |
| 145 | ** While at first the characters are angled so it isn't obvious, the twist in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/sweet-deal/ "Sweet Deal"]] is that the people all have teeth for heads and can be murdered with excess sugar. |
| 146 | ** [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/hard-read/ "Hard Read"]] involves two people with books for heads; they break up when one of them finds the other's been using a copy of Cliffs Notes. |
| 147 | ** [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/preserves/ "Preserves"]] has a peanut butter-headed man marrying a jelly-headed woman, only to be disgusted when her 'will pop if seal is broken' lid pops when he takes her veil off. |
| 148 | ** The characters in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/bad-apple/ "Bad Apple"]] are rival gangs of fruit- and vegetable-headed people. |
| 149 | ** [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/genius-sir/ "Genius, Sir"]] shows a war between soldiers with dice for heads and dominoes for heads. |
| 150 | ** "Electro Sutra" has two women with batteries for heads, um, trying to get their relationship to spark, as it were... |
| 151 | ** "Technorgy" features a large group of people with various technology-related heads (a computer, a calculator, a flashlight, a camera, etc.) doing just what the title says. A second panel shows that one of the participants later gave birth to a smartphone-headed baby. |
| 152 | ** [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/shocked/ "Shocked"]] has a mother and daughter with electrical outlets for heads, a hopeful suitor for the daughter whose head is a plug, and a motorcycle-riding BadBoy with a fork head with whom the daughter elopes. |
| 153 | * NoodleIncident: How Mister Ortega lost his hand in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/shop-class/ "Shop Class"]]. Apparently, he figures the kid would never believe the story behind it, so keeps it to himself. |
| 154 | * NotDistractedByTheSexy: Doctor Loring in "Loring's First Theorem" just can't avoid reducing everything to geometric proofs. |
| 155 | * NotInFrontOfTheParrot: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/boss/ "Boss"]] shows the danger of discussing a KlingonPromotion with a parrot in the room. |
| 156 | * OddOrganUpTop: "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/sweet-deal/ Sweet Deal]]" has people with teeth for heads and thus, able to be [[TheToothHurts killed by excess sugar]]. |
| 157 | * OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: Exploited by an opportunistic donkey in "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-last-unicorns/ The Last Unicorns]]" |
| 158 | * OrWasItADream: In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/falling-dream/ "Falling Dream"]], a (rather featureless) figure is falling in the middle of a blue sky with puffy white clouds. Then he wakes up in bed ([[CatapultNightmare sitting straight upright, of course]]). Whew! Then a (rather featureless) figure comes smashing through the ceiling, landing right on top of the person in the bed, killing him or at the very least giving him a nasty knock. |
| 159 | * OutWithABang: Subverted in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/one-time-thing/ One Time Thing]], when an erupting volcano means dinosaur infidelity winds up preserved for the ages. |
| 160 | * OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They have lobster heads, for one... |
| 161 | * OverlyNervousFlopSweat: {{Subverted}}. [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/primate-checkmate/ A man playing chess with a monkey wasn't sweating]], it's just a really hot day. |
| 162 | * PaedoHunt: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/kitty-photographer/ Lampshaded to hilariously depressing effect]] in "Kitty Photographer", where a streaking toddler at just the wrong second lands a man in prison. |
| 163 | * PaperthinDisguise: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-last-unicorns/ This wanna-be unicorn male]] is a donkey in a pretty unconvincing disguise. |
| 164 | * PassingTheTorch: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/passed-on/ Passed On]] has a grandfather helping the next generation find his PornStash. |
| 165 | * PerspectiveFlip: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/billy-the-bunny/ Mean Old Farmer Brown!]] is a twist on ''Literature/PeterRabbit'', where the farmer chasing the rabbits out of his garden is just a man with a family to feed. |
| 166 | * PoliceLineup: In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/slim/ one of the gangster strips]], Slim escapes identification by gaining weight ''really'' fast. |
| 167 | * PoorCommunicationKills: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/bee/ Bee]] ends with a child with exceptional vision getting corrective surgery due to AmbiguousSyntax. |
| 168 | * PornStash: In "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/passed-on/ Passed On]]", Grandpa makes sure that his little boy gets one of his most prized possessions, even from beyond the grave. |
| 169 | * PortalBook: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/book-world/ Book World.]] Too bad they chose to jump into ''[[TomeOfEldritchLore that]]'' book... |
| 170 | * PowerPerversionPotential: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/doll-change/ Doll Change]] has a Raggedy Andy {{Expy}} use his button eye to peep on the Expy of Raggedy Anne while she's changing. |
| 171 | * ThePowerOfLove: In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/bunny-pit/ Bunny Pit]]. Love will find a way... if you can breed rapidly enough to fill a pit. |
| 172 | * PrecisionFStrike: "Barry. Shut the [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-pacific-council/ fuck]] up... seriously." Delivered to a whale that suggests evolving to adapt to the land to the other whales. |
| 173 | * PrettyInMink: A [[RedheadInGreen redheaded lady in a green dress]] also wears a white fur wrap. |
| 174 | * ProfessionalSexEd: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/boy-scouts/ One strip]] depicts a Scoutmaster furnishing ''Boy Scouts'' with the services of a prostitute so they can earn a merit badge (implied to be a "safe sex" merit badge, but even so...) |
| 175 | * PuppyDogEyes: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/executive-decision/ Wherein a race of puppies manage to convince aliens to go blow up Earth instead of the puppy home planet]], [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-mercy-of-admiral-shlork/ but be careful of overusing it]]. |
| 176 | * RazorApples: {{Subverted}} in "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-treat/ The Treat]]". A witch puts a syringe in a trick-or-treater's bag, which actually contains insulin. The family is overjoyed due to how expensive their bills for insulin were. |
| 177 | * RecycledInSPACE: An adults-only version of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' (not that ''The Far Side'' was really for kids either). |
| 178 | * RefugeInAudacity: ''Dark'' material, but it's presented so outrageously that you're just as likely to laugh as gasp. |
| 179 | * ResetButton: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/reset/ Literally in "Reset,"]] where all human progress keeps getting set back to the beginning by an accident in the Rocket Age. |
| 180 | * RoboticReveal: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/casting-call/ Casting Call]] has a contestant exposed via flamethrower for being a bit too perfect. |
| 181 | * RocketlessReentry: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/astronaut-fall/ One comic]] has an astronaut fall during a spacewalk. Reentry burns him down to a single, minuscule ash, which two children mistake for the first snowflake of winter. |
| 182 | * RougeAnglesOfSatin: The strip [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/nunez/ "Nunez"]] initially appears to be an example of this trope, as one character tells the other "Nuñez, we really need to find a way out of this de''ss''ert" as they crawl through what looks like a classic comic strip de''s''ert, a featureless space of yellow sand dunes. But the last panel shows the trope has been subverted, as the characters are actually either very tiny, or are on a table full of giant-sized de''ss''erts, and either way they are stuck on top of a cake with yellow icing. |
| 183 | * SayMyName: |
| 184 | ** [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/nunez/ NUUÑÑÑEZZZ!!!]] |
| 185 | ** [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/sgt-grumbles/ SGT. GRUUUUUUMMBLES!]] |
| 186 | * SelfParody: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/news-puppy/ News Puppy]] is an over-the-top imitation of the comic's frequent {{Diabolus ex Machina}}s. It crosses the line twice, but [[StylisticSuck so poorly]] that ''the act of line-crossing itself crosses the line twice''. |
| 187 | * SeriousBusiness: In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/shotgun/ "Shotgun"]] the childish ritual of CallingShotgun to see who gets to sit up front in a car is implied to be a matter of life and death: An anthropomorphized rock, paper, and scissors are shown standing next to a car; "Rock" and "Scissors" both simultaneously call "Shotgun!" to which "Paper" [[RockPaperScissors naturally replies "there's only one way to settle this"]]. In one of the strip's many, many subverted tropes, the "one way to settle this" turns out to be gladiatorial combat (presumably to the death, or at the very least serious injury), with the two characters wielding a trident and a [[EpicFlail flail]]. In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/skub/ "Skub"]] "Pro Skub" and "Anti Skub" characters (as identified by their t-shirts) get into a violent brawl; "Skub" is apparently some kind of ointment. |
| 188 | * ShamSupernatural: "The Last Unicorns" features a donkey poorly disguising himself as a unicorn to try and seduce a tribe of female unicorns. |
| 189 | * SheIsAllGrownUp: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/b/ b]] is far more enticing when she's an adult B. |
| 190 | * ShoutOut: Several comics are dark parodies of other famous works, such as [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/153/ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]], [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/187/ Family Circus]], [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/213/ The Mario Brothers]], [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/176/ Edward Gorey]], Charlotte's Web, and [[http://i.imgur.com/DEZ6BTS.gif The Giving Tree]] (''The Unforgiving Tree'', now removed from the main site). |
| 191 | * SillyReasonForWar: In "Skub," a city-wide brawl breaks out between supporters and detractors of the emponymous skub, which is apparently a brand of skincare lotion. |
| 192 | * SingleAttemptGame: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/game-system/ "Game System"]], where YourMindMakesItReal, implying this because you can only die once, but it appears quitting the game without death is possible, since another player wants a turn, which presumably would not involve the death of the first player. |
| 193 | * SistineSteal: Parodied thanks to a meddling pup in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/barkelangelo/ Barkelangelo]]. |
| 194 | * SkewedPriorities: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/super-league/ Super League]] knows what's really important: [[MustHaveCaffeine Good coffee!]] |
| 195 | * SnowMeansLove: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/hey-goat/ Hey Goat, I love this girl!]] Cue the avalanche that gets all three of them... |
| 196 | * SnowedIn: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/missing-school/ Missing School]] shows that snow days aren't always a good thing. |
| 197 | * SoleSurvivor: In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/colonel-sweeto/ "Colonel Sweeto"]] the Candy King interrogates Col. Sweeto as to why he was the only one who escaped the Chocolates' massacre of Lollytown, and suddenly strikes him with his sceptre, revealing that [[TheMole Sweeto was a chocolate with a hard candy exterior]]. The final panel shows the Chocolates' war council opening a package from [[DeepCoverAgent Agent Sweeto]] and are horrified to see it's his nut, which is heavily implied to have been extracted after [[ColdBloodedTorture he was tortured to death]]. |
| 198 | * SpaceX: In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/zarflax/ "Zarflax"]] a beautiful naked woman invites a space-suited astronaut to have some "space-sex". ([[spoiler:Fortunately for him, the astronaut apparently already knows that Zarflax is an alien monster, complete with VaginaDentata]]). |
| 199 | * SplashOfColor: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/gamblin-man/ "Gamblin Man"]] is mostly in black-and-white; a man (who appears to be homeless or at least very down on his luck) places a bet at a racetrack. The words "a thousand on Fancy-Dancy Magic-Prancy" do appear in color (pink), as does Fancy-Dancy Magic-Prancy, who is clearly a very special equine, being a pink winged unicorn racing against other horses who are drawn in black-and-white. Too bad she doesn't actually finish the race, instead just flying off in a random direction, presumably costing the poor Gamblin Man every penny he had. |
| 200 | * SugarApocalypse: |
| 201 | ** [[http://awesomesquad.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/perry-bible-fellowship-the-lumberjack/ The friendly lumberjack who destroys a forest]] smiles at the now-homeless woodland critters... and then butchers and eats them. |
| 202 | ** In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/baby/ "Baby"]] three young girls find a mysterious egg (with cheerful polka dots) in the woods. They take it home to see if it will hatch, and even bake a birthday cake and put up a "Welcome!" banner for "Baby". Alas, the "baby" is a baby ''dinosaur'' who kills them all when it hatches. |
| 203 | ** In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/bear-police/ "Bear Police"]] some naughty kids are spraying graffiti on the wall. Here comes Mr. Bear the Policeman, along with his friend, a white dove! The Bear Policeman is, however, still a ''bear'', and he proceeds to use his bear paw to somewhat graphically knock out the brains of at least one of the vandalizing kids, before he and his bird friend go for a well-deserved cup of coffee and [[DonutMessWithACop a donut]]. |
| 204 | * SugarBowl: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/suicide-train/ Suicide Train]], wherein a man finds out the hard way that it's very hard to commit suicide when you live in a children's pastel world and everything has wings. |
| 205 | * SuntanStencil: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/cover-blown/ Cover Blown]] features the "accidentally embarrassing" version, with a guy's girlfriend's head suggestively outlined over his groin, to his wife's dismay. |
| 206 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A frequent source of the series' comedy is to ignore the consequences of a strip's premise until the final panel for BlackComedy. Some examples: |
| 207 | ** [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/disassemble/ This comic]] shows what would happen if ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' transformed into robots while their vehicle mode had passengers: the passengers get crushed to death. |
| 208 | ** [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/sun-love/ An anthropomorphic Earth and Sun love each other]]. The punchline is everyone on Earth burning to death. What did you think would happen if the Earth got much closer to the Sun? |
| 209 | * SympatheticPOV: The strip about Farmer Ben provides the trope image. From the rabbits' perspective, he's scaring them away when they try to get food to feed themselves. From his perspective, he's trying to ensure that his family doesn't go hungry. |
| 210 | * SymbolSwearing: In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/eggnancy/ "Eggnancy"]] a young rooster, upon learning that he has gotten a hen pregnant -- er, caused her to lay a large clutch of eggs -- lets loose with a string of typographical symbols in response. (These include a crescent moon and a pentacle, which are actually not that straightforward to type on a standard keyboard.) |
| 211 | * TheTalk: {{Subverted}} in [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-talk/ The Talk]], where a father decides to tell his daughter about "the birds & the bees". Then the next panel reveals that the setting is AfterTheEnd, and he's literally explaining what birds and bees were before the apocalypse. |
| 212 | * TheTetrisEffect: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/game-boy/ Causes a little boy to misinterpret how to clean his room.]] |
| 213 | * ThatCloudLooksLike: A bunny giving oral sex to a little girl in a skirt, according to said bunny. |
| 214 | * ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/dad-and-monster/ "Dad and Monster"]], where a father reassures his kid that there isn't a monster under his bed [[spoiler:except there was. It kills the kid and then pays the father]]. |
| 215 | * TimmyInAWell: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/finneas/ Or a burning building, rather.]] Subverted, naturally. |
| 216 | * TradeSnark: In [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/155/ "Gigaknight""]] the anachronistically high-tech eponymous character defeats his more medieval opponent (a rather indignant knight who "speaks" in an "old-timey" font) with a rocket-propelled lance. If you look ''very'' closely, you can see that when the crowd enthusiastically chants "Giga-knight! Giga-knight!" in response, they somehow accompany the word "Gigaknight" with a little (™) symbol. |
| 217 | * TrainStationGoodbye: "Goodbye, Stanley" subverts this, where our hero runs alongside the train just long enough to see something he'd be happier not seeing. |
| 218 | * TransformingMecha: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/refridgeron-and-magnimus/ "Refridgeron and Magnimus"]] [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/disassemble/ and "Disassemble"]] are parodies of the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''. |
| 219 | * TrappedInTVLand: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/book-world/ These kids find out]] that it's not the best idea to explore the fictional world of a satanic book. |
| 220 | * VaginaDentata: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/zarflax/ "Zarflax"]] appears to be a beautiful naked woman, but is actually an alien monster with a very toothy mouth where "her" vagina should be. |
| 221 | * VegetarianCarnivore: Dragons are apparently obligate carnivores, but [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/scorchy/ Scorchy]] promised a little girl [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome no more...]] |
| 222 | * VirginityFlag: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/preserves/ A jam jar]] apparently comes with one. |
| 223 | * WarmWaterWhiz: In [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/prank-dragon/ this comic]], some people play this prank on a sleeping dragon with a cauldron of steaming water. It ends with the Dragon's pee flooding the village below. |
| 224 | * WeWillAllFlyInTheFuture: Judging from the last panel of [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/now-showing/ this comic]], true of that futuristic (if very bad at history) society, with {{Flying Car}}s, some kind of flying chair, and people using what look to be actual hoverboards instead of walking. |
| 225 | * WhatMeasureIsANonCute: |
| 226 | ** [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/executive-decision/ Earth doesn't have puppies as cute as on Pupulon.]] |
| 227 | ** [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-mercy-of-admiral-shlork/ Standards of beauty differ.]] |
| 228 | * WhenTreesAttack: "The Unforgiving Tree," a dark parody of ''Literature/TheGivingTree'' which has since been removed from the site. |
| 229 | * WiseOldFolkFacade: One strip has an old sex offender masquerading as a sea god to [[PaedoHunt approach little children]]. In one case, he uses this disguise to comfort a child whose castle is washed away by the sea, telling him he, too, lost a kingdom. |
| 230 | * WishingWell: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/wishing-well/ This strip]] has a man wishing for true love and obtaining a girlfriend as a result. However, he sees other people leaving with wheelbarrows of money, a spaceship or Superman's powers, and clearly has second thoughts. |
| 231 | * WordSaladTitle: Let's say it's not something likely to be found on a church's bulletin board. |
| 232 | * WrittenSoundEffect: [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-offenders/ This comic]], in which the sound effects also happen to sound like racial slurs, which leads to the Iron Fist parody telling the Luke Cage parody how his fighting style is "extremely problematic". Luke's response is to break Iron Fist's back like Bane with the sound effect "CCRRCKKKRRR". |
| 233 | * {{Yonkoma}}: It's perhaps a stretch to call it this, but many strips have exactly four panels, and all are titled. |
| 234 | * YourMimeMakesItReal: A candidate for Mayor of [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/mime-city/ Mime City]] is shot dead with a FingerGun...that is, a Finger Sniper Rifle, complete with LaserSight. The police pull out their Finger Guns in response. |
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