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| 6 | * QuantityVsQuality: Marigold has a sealed (and possibly only) copy of ''Colo-Rectal Mecha Dorm Room'', the horniest hentai movie of all time. All physical copies were supposed to have been destroyed and Marigold plans to sell hers to help fund [[spoiler:May's body replacement.]] Subverted when she reveals it's only worth about eighty bucks. |
| 7 | -->'''Marigold:''' There's rips of it online. It's the horniest anime ever made but it's also ''terrible''. |
| 8 | * QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Pintsize behaves like this when his locale setting is changed to British. |
| 9 | * QuoteToQuoteCombat: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2243 #2243]] features an idiom battle between Marten and Tai. Marten wins. |
| 10 | * TheRant: Sometimes rather long and detailed, sometimes an indecipherable drawl, and sometimes just a simple "honk" or "comic comic comic". |
| 11 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: |
| 12 | ** [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=187 According to Marten]]. |
| 13 | ** A more meta example in one of the [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=10 earliest comics]] where the word 'rape' was replaced by 'hump.' Jeph left it fairly clear that the change was made after the fact. |
| 14 | * RapidFireComedy: Sometimes. It's supposed to be a gag-per-day format, aside from strips about relationships and angst. Most jokes are supported by snide comments from somebody else present in the same panel. If the strip features no beat panels and buildups, it can make each panel like that. |
| 15 | * ReadingsAreOffTheScale: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1056 Hanelore's new gong's power level is]] OverNineThousand. |
| 16 | * ReadTheFreakingManual: It turns out that some AIs are guilty of not reading the manuals for the bodies they occupy. |
| 17 | ** When she does read the manual, Roko is amused to discover that her new body can change its "skin" color at whim. [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4183 But Yay points out that her previous body had the same capability.]] |
| 18 | ** Similarly, [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4418 Millefeuille didn't know that she has voluntary control of her own hairstyle.]] |
| 19 | * RealityIsUnrealistic: Occasionally complaints crop up about the ImprobablyFemaleCast, but it turns out that Northampton really is roughly 60% female and 40% male, largely due to the presence of the all-girls' Smith College. (Represented as "Smif College" in the QC universe.) |
| 20 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot: A week of unplanned guest comics ran in late October and early November 2011 due to an extended power outage caused by the late-October snowstorms' damage to what were already temporary post-Hurricane Irene repairs to the Western Mass power grid. |
| 21 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Bubbles [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3763 drops one on]] Pintsize so vicious that even Faye is stunned. |
| 22 | * RecklessGunUsage: Marten [[JugglingLoadedGuns doesn't observe]] ''taser'' safety and [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=529 accidentally shocks himself]]. Of course, he ''was'' drunk. |
| 23 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: |
| 24 | ** [[spoiler:Faye issuing a death mandate to Pintsize against Sven's latest hook-up.]] |
| 25 | ** Dora gets her turn when [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1754 Hanners asks Sven]] on a pretend date. |
| 26 | ** Faye gets HER turn when [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1808 "convincing" Dora to get a therapist]]. |
| 27 | ** And again Dora, when [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2770 she learns about Sven's antics regarding Faye]]. |
| 28 | ** Leda, one of the AIs working in Idoru, gets these when she mentions that [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1997 the launch codes weren't deleted from her database when she was transferred from a nuclear ballistic missile submarine to a standard civilian chassis.]] |
| 29 | * RefugeInAudacity: |
| 30 | ** Mentioned in [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=305 305]]. |
| 31 | ** Executed in [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=982 982]], somewhat {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=989 989]]. |
| 32 | ** An unintentional example can be found in [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1115 1115]]. |
| 33 | ** Another complete with "You know what, never mind. I'm sorry I asked." in [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3010 3010.]] |
| 34 | * RefusalOfTheCall: Zig-zagged when [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4867 Claire is offered a job creating the information services department for an entire community that AIs are building off the coast of Nova Scotia]]: |
| 35 | -->'''Marten''': So did you take the job? |
| 36 | -->'''Claire''': [''irate''] '''Did I take the job?!''' I'm '''completely''' underqualified and their entire organization seems like a shambolic '''mess'''! |
| 37 | -->'''Marten''': Oh. |
| 38 | -->'''Claire''': ... So we need to pick some dates to go up and see what it's like. Then I'll decide. |
| 39 | -->'''Marten''': [''startled''] Oh! |
| 40 | * RememberTheNewGuy: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1640 Dale]]. |
| 41 | * {{Retcon}}: |
| 42 | ** Cosette's last name used to be Beaumarchais. Now it's Hurlbut. |
| 43 | ** Also, Marten's father's boyfriend [[spoiler:and now husband]] used to be [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1516 an environmental engineer]]. Now he's [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2378 a golf instructor]], although given their age, it's entirely possible that he retired off-panel. |
| 44 | ** When Hanners' dad [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1011 sends her a robot boyfriend]], Faye says "[=AnthroPCs=] are one thing, but you don't see fully humanoid robots running around everywhere." A few years later, yes you do, and this isn't presented as something new in-universe. |
| 45 | * RevealShot: In [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4003 one strip]], Sven is alone in the frame, pouring his heart about about his troubled relationships with Dora and Faye... and then in the final frame, we pull out to reveal that he's been doing this to a completely uninterested May, who's taking a break from work. |
| 46 | -->'''May''': Buddy, I don't even know who you are.\ |
| 47 | '''Sven''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Exactly! Exactly. Who am I?]] |
| 48 | * ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma: When someone references Raven's indecipherable status (Is she just a [[TheDitz Ditz]] given to being unusually insightful, or a GeniusDitz who uses ObfuscatingStupidity?), Raven responds, [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=542 "I'm a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in an AWESOME rack!"]] |
| 49 | * RidiculouslyHumanRobot: All of the AIs prove to be this more and more as the strip goes on. |
| 50 | * RightInFrontOfMe: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2621 One of Tai's friends]] voices her disbelief at how [[spoiler:Dora's ex has no problems with the fact that she and Tai are in a relationship]], without realizing that the guy in question, Marten, is standing right next to Tai. Marten, however, is too amused at the scene to say anything. |
| 51 | * RingAroundTheCollar: Marten gets [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1528 shanghaied]] into cosplaying a {{yaoi|Genre}} character wearing [[http://qcjeph.livejournal.com/107252.html#cutid1 collar, tie, cuffs and no shirt]]. |
| 52 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Implied if Marten [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2425 had done anything]]. |
| 53 | --> '''Clinton''': Damnit, [[BewareTheSillyOnes my hand is stuck is murder-mode]]. Let's go to the grocery store, I need to find something trachea-like for it to crush. |
| 54 | * RoboRomance: |
| 55 | ** A minor side plot involves a robot romance between background characters Seven and Jeremy. |
| 56 | ** There's also at least one relationship between a human and a robot that's highly romantic on the robot side, but that doesn't strictly fit within the trope definition. |
| 57 | * {{Robosexual}}: |
| 58 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1900 Only hinted at]]. |
| 59 | ** [[spoiler: Faye and Bubbles]] were hinted as such [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3669 here]] and [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3671 here]]; later strips confirm it. |
| 60 | ** Some of the more humanoid [=AnthroPCs=] are [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1998 obviously meant to cater to this]], such as the prototype of one that [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1459 looked like Jude Law]] with a prehensile GagPenis. It's also mutual. Momo has fantasized about Sven before, and Pintsize is a LovableSexManiac. |
| 61 | ---> [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1658 No one is quite sure who decided it would be useful for artificial intelligences to posess [sic] libidos, but it is generally agreed that it would be more trouble than it is worth to remove it. Besides, the horny little buggers would revolt.]] |
| 62 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1506 Hannelore's dad (might have) had sex with a computer.]] |
| 63 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3929 Tilly and Station are now a couple]], although given Station is an AI running a space station with a holographic avatar, what form that relationship might take is anyone's guess. |
| 64 | ** Sven and May hook up and work this trope fairly hard, even into ExtremeOmnisexual [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4096 territory]]. |
| 65 | * RoboShip: |
| 66 | ** In-universe, [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3341 Claire ships Faye and Bubbles]], although Marten is sceptical. |
| 67 | ** May also appears to [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3369 think this is a possibility.]] |
| 68 | --->'''May''': For what it's worth, I think you're all right. I hope you and Bubbles make up and have a million babies or whatever.\ |
| 69 | '''Faye''': How would that even work?\ |
| 70 | '''May''': I dunno, ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' meets ''[[Film/TheFly1986 The Fly]]''? |
| 71 | * RobotBuddy: [=AnthroPCs=] in general, and Pintsize and Winston in particular. |
| 72 | * RobotGirl: Momo has [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1658 the weirdest dreams...]] |
| 73 | * [[BestialityIsDepraved Robot Sex Is Depraved]]: When Marten jokes that he imagines this is how AI was invented, Hanners says she once asked her father (who invented the technology), but he ''panicked and avoided answering the question.'' |
| 74 | * RobotsThinkFaster: Subverted; [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2285 Momo explains]] that the vast majority of her processing power is taken up just maintaining her sentience, and she doesn't experience time any differently than humans. The big AIs might think faster, but their minds are too alien to translate into human terms; thinking on a human level is just a subroutine to them. |
| 75 | * RobotWar: Put on indefinite hold, mostly because the robots realized that if they won they'd be in charge, and who wants that responsibility? |
| 76 | * RoommateCom: The webcomic begins with 20-something Marten Reid and his Anthro PC Pintsize. The first "arc" has Marten and his buddy Steve hanging out at a bar, bitching about their love and work lives. Marten soon gets a roommate in Faye, and they form a group of True Companions along with Marten's OCD neighbor and Faye's coworkers. |
| 77 | * RosesAreRedVioletsAreBlue, you are really hot, let's fuck. [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1189 Yes, it's Sven]]. |
| 78 | * RuleOfCool: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2110 The lens flare was added because lens flares are awesome and if you disagree you are dumb.]] |
| 79 | * RuleOfFunny: Most of the crazy stuff that happens, but Hannelore's obsessive-compulsive disorder deserves special mention since, as an OCD sufferer himself, Jacques can hardly be said to have not done the research. |
| 80 | * RuleThirtyFour: |
| 81 | ** [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=715 Mentioned here]]. [[RulesOfTheInternet Rule 35]] is discussed and given the name "Quantum Fetish Mechanics". Rule 49 and Rule 44 are also implicated. |
| 82 | ** Mentioned by name [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1435 by Pintsize, of course]]. |
| 83 | * RunningGag: |
| 84 | ** The word "dang/daaaang", usually in response to something sexual. |
| 85 | ** Surprise-kisses on Friday. [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=564 So far]] [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1079 there have]] [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1735 been]] [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2055 four]]. When there was [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1724 a kiss that WASN'T posted on Friday]], Jeph lampshaded it in the news post for that day. |
| 86 | ** The specials list on the blackboard at Coffee of Doom. |
| 87 | ** The broadsword under the counter at Coffee of Doom, which is used and fooled around within various comics. |
| 88 | ** The Bros, a pack of guys who appear chanting "Bro!" whenever the word is spoken. |
| 89 | ** The Victorian-dress bar. |
| 90 | ** Responding to unusual happenings with an exasperated "This fucking town..." |
| 91 | ** When Emily tries to sass the customers in proper Coffee of Doom fashion, she [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3113 resorts to insisting a customer's name is "Bleminda."]] Not much later, the [[GotMeDoingIt whole staff is calling her Bleminda.]] Eventually, it starts spreading to [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3533 her friends.]] |
| 92 | ---> '''"Garbaldo"''': My name isn't-\ |
| 93 | '''"Bleminda"''': Just roll with it. |
| 94 | ** [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1889 Post-coital party]] [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2060 Arbor Day decorations]]. |
| 95 | ** After the [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2407 "Steve eating cereal"]] comic, Jeph will frequently reference the event after dramatic strips. |
| 96 | ** Coffee Of Doom has been trading roasted coffee beans for pastry with The Secret Bakery, but the roasting process seems to frequently go askew. First Dora [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1934 forgets to roast extra beans]], then it's full of spiders, [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3533 then]]... |
| 97 | ---> '''Hannalore''': Here's this week's beans. I made sure the raccoon didn't get in them this time.\ |
| 98 | '''Elliot''': Raccoon? ... This time? |
| 99 | ** "Butts Disease", a condition where artists become obsessed with butts and can only draw butts is referenced fairly often. It actually first appeared in a [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1910 guest comic]] before spreading to the main comic and even appearing in other guest comics. |
| 100 | *** As of [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4089 late 2019,]] the disease appears to be entering its final stages. |
| 101 | ** Holding some sort of celebration when characters get together. With a banner that says "Happy Arbor Day 2003", because that's the only one they have. |
| 102 | ** A short-lived Running Gag was that every time Faye hugged Bubbles, she would bonk her head on Bubbles' armour. This has been discontinued since Bubbles took her armour off. |
| 103 | * RussianReversal: In Soviet Russia, [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=145 cake mixes you!]] |
| 104 | * SandInMyEyes: Angus after [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2004 this]] touching moment. |
| 105 | * SarcasticConfession: Of sorts. [[spoiler:Hannelore's first meeting with Marten.]] |
| 106 | * ScareQuotes: When Bubbles says slang terms, her speech bubbles include quote marks around them. Faye says she can hear the quote marks, and Bubbles says it's because of micro-pauses. |
| 107 | * ScaryLibrarian: Claire isn't exactly a frightening person, being a dorky woman with a penchant for puns. However, that doesn't stop the Cubetown rumor mill from turning her, through the power of GossipEvolution, into a terrifying librarian who [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4960 once shushed someone to death.]] |
| 108 | * ScaryShinyGlasses: |
| 109 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1693 Somebody]] likes [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion NGE]]... [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1771 Somehow]] he can even do it without a light source! |
| 110 | ** [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2282 He is not the only one]]. Amazingly, she can do it without even wearing glasses. |
| 111 | ** Dale's constantly-shiny-from-any-angle-regardless-of-ambient-light glasses are [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2487 eventually revealed]] to be [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual backlit AR specs]]. |
| 112 | * SceneryCensor: |
| 113 | ** Two conveniently placed bottles [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=519 protect Raven's breasts]] from us while she flashes Sven. |
| 114 | ** [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1915 Mieville gets in on the act.]] |
| 115 | * SchizoTech: Despite everything being the present day, sapient AIs are a noticeable minority and orbital space stations are considered normal [[TakeThat (PDFs appear to be obsolete.)]] |
| 116 | * ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: Hannelore's father. |
| 117 | * ScoobyStack: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=676 Lampshaded.]] |
| 118 | * ScrewYourself: Roko has a dream involving the ghosts of her old and new bodies. [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4116 It ends with them making out.]] |
| 119 | * SecondLawMyAss: Pintsize. He loves making obscene jokes and generally being a pain in everybody's ass (so no real regard for the first or second law, although he generally does no real harm, just annoyance) and some of his stunts are predictably bad for his own well-being (such as eating a slice of cake, even though he knew it'd damage his hardware, so he also doesn't give a damn about the third law). |
| 120 | * SeinfeldianConversation: Constantly, such as: |
| 121 | -->'''[[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=857 Marten]]:''' I got a haircut.\ |
| 122 | '''Dora:''' You got a haircut?!\ |
| 123 | '''Faye:''' He got a haircut! |
| 124 | * SelfDeprecation: TheRant in many strips: |
| 125 | ** From [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1704 #1704]]: |
| 126 | --->Don't worry, this isn't a setup to hire a new [=CoD=] girl. The last thing my comic needs right now is another female character!*\ |
| 127 | * watch- having said that, I'll introduce one tomorrow. |
| 128 | ** From [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1705 #1705]]: |
| 129 | --->COMING MONDAY: SIXTEEN BRAND NEW FEMALE COFFEE OF DOOM EMPLOYEES, EACH WITH HER OWN ADORABLE QUIRK!\ |
| 130 | j/k\ |
| 131 | I hope |
| 132 | ** [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2066 #2066]] has Jeph appearing as an extra in the first panel. TheRant says: "Cheer up, stupid-looking guy in the first panel" |
| 133 | * SeriousBusiness: For Marigold, [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Horde vs. Alliance]] is [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1668 SERIOUS]] [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1680 BUSINESS]]. Followed up on [[FingerTenting later with a]] [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1693 shout-out]]. |
| 134 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Marten lapses into this when drunk. |
| 135 | * SexForSolace: Referenced and {{defied|Trope}} after [[spoiler:Dora breaks up with Marten...]] |
| 136 | -->'''[[TheCasanova Sven]]:''' Oh, and if you need some meaningless rebound sex, I know TONS of slutty chicks who'll-\ |
| 137 | '''Marten:''' OKAY THANK YOU BYE |
| 138 | * SexualEuphemism: In the world of QC, where some robots walking around have realistic genitalia, it's insensitive to refer to them as being "anatomically correct". The [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4140 proper phrase]] is "human standard".[[note]]Given the extent to which at least one of the AI characters has managed to have tons of sex with a human in spite of not having realistic genitalia, this is pretty reasonable.[[/note]] |
| 139 | * SexySantaDress: QC's Christmas comics! |
| 140 | * ShapedLikeItself: The bottom text on [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4266 this strip]]: "millipedes: nature's millipedes" |
| 141 | * SheCleansUpNicely: Marigold [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1880 hates this trope]]. |
| 142 | * SheIsAllGrownUp: Happens in Momo's fantasy shot. |
| 143 | * ShipperOnDeck: |
| 144 | ** Dora ships [[spoiler:Angus/Faye]]. |
| 145 | ** Hanners ships Marigold/Francis (the scientist from John Ellicott's space station). |
| 146 | ---> '''Hannelore:''' ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis MARIGOLD. HE. IS. FLIRTING. WITH. YOU!]]'' |
| 147 | ** Marten {{lampshade|d trope}}s this immediately afterwards. |
| 148 | --->'''Marten:''' "You're really ''dead set'' on that 'reasonable number of babies', huh?" |
| 149 | ** Marten and Faye [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2226 both ship]] Dora/Tai. |
| 150 | ** A drunken (and concerned about her own lack of long-term relationship) Mrs. Reed tries to blatantly set up [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2379 Marten/Claire]]. Later on, Tai openly states "OMG I SHIP IT" when she learns that [[spoiler:Marten and Claire are a couple]]. |
| 151 | ** Faye and Bubbles had virtually the entire cast pushing them to hook up, assuming they already had or [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3341 shipping them]] in the meantime, for hundreds of strips while their relationship was platonic and Faye was uninterested in sex with anyone. This included a [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3664 psych PHD]] overtly trying to push Faye into the ship. |
| 152 | *** Faye and Bubbles get together as a couple while Hannelore is off around the world. When she returns she can't resist doing this again: |
| 153 | ---->'''Bubbles''': Ah, Hannelore. Greetings.\ |
| 154 | [''Faye and Bubbles stand there looking at Hannelore, who stands there smiling at them expectantly. Finally:'']\ |
| 155 | '''Faye''': [''as Bubbles puts her arms around her and smooches the top of her head''] Happy to oblige.\ |
| 156 | '''Hannelore''': [''squees''] |
| 157 | * ShipSinking: |
| 158 | ** Jeph is fine with shipping his characters (and his characters shipping other characters, and shipping mutually fictional media) as long as he approves of the ship. He did not approve of Marigold/Hannelore, so he shot down the popular ship complete with LampshadeHanging (and TakeThat) [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1492 here]] and [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1544 here]]. A major stated reason is dislike of heterosexual characters being shipped homosexually when there are several bi and homosexual characters already. |
| 159 | ** Faye/Marten. Although put on hold before The Talk and his relationship with Dora, it was specifically sunk [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1737 here]], [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1739 two strips later]], and [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1807 these]][[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1838 two]]. |
| 160 | ** [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1792 Marigold/Tai.]] |
| 161 | * ShipTease: |
| 162 | ** The entirety of the first 500 strips could be considered a ShipTease for Faye/Marten. |
| 163 | ** As well as every time any of their relationships with a third party end. |
| 164 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1740 You bastard.]] |
| 165 | ** Hannelore/Sven: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1768 Unexpected twist?]] Well, [[GenreSavvy not really]]. The possibility that some shippers out there probably are tearing their hair out? Likely. |
| 166 | ** Hannelore and Marten's [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=532 first meeting, conversation and interactions including some traditional]] ShipTease. Her characterization changed quite a bit later. 1500 strips and 5 and a half years later they get some new JustFriends styled ship tease, when [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1984 Strip 1984]] involves Marten pondering what he wants and needs from and out of life. The first thing he does upon figuring it out is to go straight to Hannelore. [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2147 Strip 2147 has Hannelore's father instantly think that Marten was the friend who taught Hannelore that physical contact is a good thing]]. And that the physical contact was sex. [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2152 Strip 2152 has a character assume they came up to space together for zero g sex]] and the word JustFriends starts getting thrown about. |
| 167 | ** Tai/Dora was teased from #2200 on. [[spoiler:They eventually do hook up.]] |
| 168 | ** Marigold/Sven, Marigold/Dale, Marigold/Angus, Marigold/Hannelore--Jeph likes Marigold. |
| 169 | *** Two out of these four have been sunk, but [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2485 Oh boy, was the Marigold/Dale]] [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2486 ship teased]]. |
| 170 | ** Ever since Claire admitted to Marten that she's [[spoiler:transgender]], they've both been getting a lot of scenes together. It gets particularly blatant when Marten goes to his father's wedding and brings her along as his guest. |
| 171 | *** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2405 "I am trolling you guys pretty hard"]] |
| 172 | ** Pretty much every couple gets a couple of teases in there somewhere. |
| 173 | ** Sven/Momo get some of this. After Momo had a sexual dream about Sven, she freaks out on the few occasions that she sees or talks to him. She was horrified when she met him by coincidence while she was with May because she didn't want to let May be May in front of him. She didn't want May to embarrass her in front of him. It's hinted at that she cares greatly about his opinion of her. |
| 174 | ** Around a year was spent shipping Faye/Bubbles after the robot fighting club arc ended. |
| 175 | * ShockSite: Turns out [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1829 Marten's mom knows the Goatse guy!]] As a side note, [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/goatse his name actually ''is'' Kirk.]] |
| 176 | * ShootTheShaggyDog: An InUniverse [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1907 example]], following [[spoiler: Marten and Dora's breakup in strip 1799]]. Also counts as a LampshadeHanging and, as noted above, a ContinuityNod / CallBack in [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1965 this strip]] makes it fall under "AngstWhatAngst" territory. |
| 177 | * ShoutOut: Now on [[ShoutOut/QuestionableContent their own page]]. |
| 178 | * ShownTheirWork: Fans from the Northampton area are continually impressed by the backgrounds of the city since anyone familiar with the real Northampton can recognize the slightly-changed version of real places. |
| 179 | * ShowAndTellAntics: Referenced. Marten mentions having gotten in trouble for bringing some of his mother's (a professional dominatrix and fetish model) professional gear to school for show-and-tell. |
| 180 | * ShowWithinAShow: |
| 181 | ** The manga/anime ''Magical Love Gentleman''; Marigold is a '''serious''' fan, and introduced Hannelore and Angus to it. |
| 182 | ** The French sitcom "Hans van Klompen-Klacke", produced as a mean-spirited joke against the Dutch after they won a sporting event. Liz' Dutch parents still enjoyed it.. |
| 183 | * ShrinkingViolet: Marigold is often shy because of her low self-esteem, and has an impulse to retreat from social situations that test her comfort zone. |
| 184 | * SickeninglySweethearts: Referenced in [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=772 #772]]. |
| 185 | * ASideOrderOfRomance: Angus became a regular at Coffee of Doom mainly because he liked Faye's {{Tsundere}} attitude and WittyBanter with him. They eventually started going out, [[spoiler:until he [[PutOnABus moved away to New York]] and they broke up]]. |
| 186 | * SignificantMonogram: '''P'''enelope '''G'''aines. '''P'''izza '''G'''irl. Read into that what you will. |
| 187 | * SingleStrokeBattle: [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1485 Parodied]]. |
| 188 | * TheSingularity: |
| 189 | ** The Singularity apparently ''happens'' just before strip 1777. The effect on the cast is negligible. Apparently a lot of supercomputers got wicked smart, but since they still like humans, the effects are contained. |
| 190 | ** As of strip 3391 we may have met a post-singularity AI/agent thereof, and boy are they '''creepy'''. |
| 191 | *** But, it turns out, apparently benign, within their own BlueAndOrangeMorality. |
| 192 | * {{Slapstick}}: When much of Momo's hair is accidentally burned off, she is desperate for Bubbles and Faye to do what they have to to get her artificial hair to grow back. This turns out to involve Momo being [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3850 dunked head-first for six to eight hours in a giant bucket of solution]]. Bonus points because she's giving them a thumbs-up. |
| 193 | -->'''Faye''': [''concerned''] Are you sure--\ |
| 194 | '''Bubbles''': It is the most efficient way. |
| 195 | ** May gets a lot of this, what with her sub-par robot chassis. At one point her arm falls off, following which she trips over Dale's sword and loses half her facial myomer, having to go out in public with a paper bag over her head. Or when Pintsize doubles down on her fart noise app by 'pooping' a load of brownie batter into her face. When Faye sets about repairing May's dodgy hip socket, she notes that she found a ''pubic hair'' in there. [[spoiler: This is because May and Sven have been using said hip socket as a sex orifice.]] |
| 196 | ** Even Yay (who identifies as "gender non-committal") gets in on the act, when Cosmo the dog, thinking that Yay is kidnapping Aurelia, grabs Yay's shorts in her teeth and yanks them down at the back. |
| 197 | --->'''Yay''': We appplaud your protective instinct, but now is '''not the time''', Cosmo. |
| 198 | * SlasherSmile: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1323 Dora, what the hell?]] |
| 199 | * SleepCute: |
| 200 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=185 Subverted]] with Marten and Faye. |
| 201 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2406 Played straight]] with Marten and Claire. |
| 202 | * SlutShaming: Inverted when Faye [[spoiler:sleeps with Sven]]. She freaks out and calls herself a slut while her therapist reassures her that sex doesn't have to be bad and a casual relationship could be just what she needs. |
| 203 | * SmokingHotSex: |
| 204 | ** ''Pintsize''. |
| 205 | ** Faye's snarkgasm of '''SCORN!''': see UnsoundEffect below. "Phew! I need a cigarette!" |
| 206 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2050 Again]], from Hannelore of all people. |
| 207 | * SmugSnake: Faye and Bubbles' boss Corpse Witch. She even lampshades her smugness at one point. |
| 208 | * SocialSemiCircle: Marten's family's table at his [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2402 fathers' wedding]]. |
| 209 | * SophisticatedAsHell: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2142 The station computer]]. |
| 210 | * SorkinRelationshipMoment: Partial trope namer. |
| 211 | * SpaghettiKiss: [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2386 Done with a twist]] for how Marten's parents met. |
| 212 | * SpeechBubbleCensoring: Dora gets one for [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2584 one breast only]], the other one is behind [[SceneryCensor Tai’s arm]]. |
| 213 | * SpeechBubbles: Human characters have ellipse-shaped ones, AIs (except for Yay) have rectangular ones. |
| 214 | ** Alone of all the characters, Bubbles has a distinctive font, which looks like a slightly modified version of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A OCR-A]]. When Faye [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4273 repeats Bubbles' words]] while talking to Yay, the font in her speech bubble becomes the one that Bubbles uses. |
| 215 | * SpiderSwarm: The comic has the Coffee of Doom's basement, also known ([[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2467 rightfully]]) as the Spider Zone. |
| 216 | * SpitTake: |
| 217 | ** A double one - [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=47 Et voila]]. |
| 218 | ** [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1231 Lampshaded?]] |
| 219 | ** Marten does one [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2152 in zero gravity]]. |
| 220 | ** Claire manages to do one [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2795 while drinking through a straw]]. |
| 221 | * SpockSpeak: Faye did this in the early strips, partly to disguise her [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents Southern accent]] and partly as a defense mechanism. It went away when she was drunk, and has been phased out completely as she's gotten a better grip on her issues. |
| 222 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: |
| 223 | ** Averted, with much effort on Jeph's part, with Hanners and Marigold. For a while after their introduction, Jeph had to be careful with them so as not to push the other main characters out of the spotlight. |
| 224 | ** Played ''very'' straight with Claire. After she was introduced, she was in practically every strip, though she ended up OutOfFocus briefly thereafter. Her reveal of being UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} followed by Marten bringing her along to his dad's wedding pushed her right back to the forefront -- and that was before Jeph followed up his ShipTease by putting her and Marten [[RelationshipUpgrade into an actual relationship]] ... |
| 225 | * SpySpeak: ''No, mother, the peaches are NOT ripe!'' |
| 226 | * {{Squee}}: |
| 227 | ** Dora over the idea of Faye and Angus together. [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1663 Literally, even]]. And, previously, Marigold after going out to drink with the others. |
| 228 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1708 Weaponized]] by Hannelore. |
| 229 | ** Marten and Hannelore are [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2163 practically bursting with it]]. |
| 230 | ** The QC Forums absolutely ''exploded'' with it after Claire and Marten got their RelationshipUpgrade, and even more so once they have their first time. |
| 231 | * StatingTheSimpleSolution: |
| 232 | ** When Hannelore's dad sends her a strange device, and she, Marten, and Claire spend an entire page wondering what it does, starting with disinfectant, to a targeter for orbital bombardment, to having unintended side-effects on robots that might make Pintsize super-powerful. And then Dora walks in: |
| 233 | ---> '''Marten''': Hannelore's dad sent her this weird DEVICE and we can't figure out what it's ''for''.\ |
| 234 | '''Dora''': [[StatingTheSimpleSolution Why don't you just call him and ask?]] |
| 235 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2585 Hannelore's response]] to Marigold coming into the coffee shop seeking Dale, after his shift has ended and he's already left, is to simply call him and tell him to get back to the shop to see her. ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Marigold's screams of embarrassment are priceless.]]'' |
| 236 | --->'''Hannelore''': Hi Dale, it's Hannelore. Marigold is here to see you!\ |
| 237 | '''Marigold''': AAA! AAAAAA!!!\ |
| 238 | '''Hannelore''': Yes, that's her screaming. |
| 239 | * StockSuperheroDayJobs: Inverted by [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=374 Pizza Girl]] and [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=761 Chinese Delivery Man]]. Inversion kind-of {{lampshade|Hanging}}d [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=399 here]]. Apparently the mundane is the new super! Though I suppose you'd have to be super to meet some of those delivery deadlines. |
| 240 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike: |
| 241 | ** Both [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=776 Dora]] and [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1822 Mrs. Reed]] have the same reaction to Tai. |
| 242 | ** [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3279 Faye]] and [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3340 Marten]] have the same preconception about Bubbles' stomach construction. |
| 243 | ** Winslow and Hannelore: [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3544 "What if alligators"]] indeed. |
| 244 | ** After Claire passes her exams, [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4258 Emily]], [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4259 Hannelore, and Clinton]] all independently decide to give her a build-your-own-theremin[[note]]a kind of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin musical instrument]] played without physical contact[[/note]] kit as a congratulatory gift. [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4260 Faye]] was also planning to get her one, but forgot to order it in time. |
| 245 | --->'''Claire:''' Is this a bit? Am I being pranked? |
| 246 | * StrictlyFormula: Mostly averted, though because of its day-to-day life storytelling qualities, the same situations pop up with great frequency. One of the most common plot threads in the series was Dora freaking out on Marten over something, Marten reacting negatively, the two talking to other people about their argument, then both apologizing and making up (this has happened about five times in major arcs thus far). Steve has gone through a few "has awkward hook-up with the new girl, they awkwardly go through the first stages of a relationship, then they break up" storylines so far. This is largely {{justified|Trope}} considering it's mostly SliceOfLife, and real couples ''do'' do this sort of thing all the time. |
| 247 | * StuckInTheDoorway: In [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3518 this strip]], Renee, Claire, Clinton, and Brun all try to go through a door at once while tipsy and end up stuck. |
| 248 | -->'''Renee:''' Elliot, ''push!''\ |
| 249 | '''Claire:''' Don't push! |
| 250 | * StylisticSuck: |
| 251 | ** Marigold's ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic ''[[http://questionablecontent.net/spacewizards.html Hermione and Ginny versus the Space Wizards]]''. |
| 252 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1236 This comic]], consisting of equal parts BreakingTheFourthWall (which the author normally hates), "lazily-rendered robot jokes," ridiculously blatant {{Fanservice}}, and near-total darkness (concealing more fanservice). |
| 253 | * SureLetsGoWithThat: When Melon meets Spookybot: |
| 254 | -->'''Melon''': Yay! New friend!\ |
| 255 | '''Roko''': Melon, this is...uh...\ |
| 256 | '''Spookybot''': Hello, Melon. We're...Yay. Yay Newfriend.\ |
| 257 | '''Melon''': Pleasetameetcha, Yay!\ |
| 258 | '''Roko''': SNRK |
| 259 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Turns out [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5203 telling a recovering alcoholic you're going to hold a booze-fuelled party at her place and all she needs to do is not drink]] is a bad idea. |
| 260 | -->''Faye:''' Get. The '''FUCK.''' Outta my shop. |
| 261 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Used often, but Hanners is the [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=525 creepy]] [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=596 goddess]] [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1093 of]] [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1609 this]] [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1638 trope]]. |
| 262 | * SweatDrop: Momo can actually do this, by oozing a special liquid out of her scalp. |
| 263 | ** Willow gets these while [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4458 attempting to make friends with Faye]], which Faye (being Faye) actually appreciates. |
| 264 | --->'''Faye''': [''stone-faced''] Are you always this chipper? |
| 265 | --->'''Willow''': [''sweating heavily''] I'm extremely intimidated by you, so I'm masking it by being cheerful and outgoing! Is it working? |
| 266 | --->'''Faye''': [''brightly''] Now see, if you'd opened with '''that''', I'da been more receptive! I like bein' intimidating! |
| 267 | * TakeOurWordForIt: Marten's dad's wedding reception. [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2405# You Should've Seen It.]] |
| 268 | * TakeThat: |
| 269 | ** Plenty to bands that Jacques doesn't like. |
| 270 | ** [[http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/3439350865/suck-it-willis SUCK IT, WILLIS]] |
| 271 | * TakeThatAudience: |
| 272 | ** Occasionally to the {{Shipping}} fanbase. |
| 273 | ** See the quote at the top of the main page. |
| 274 | * TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2530 Dale.]] When he gets the job at Coffee of Doom, immediately quits his pizza delivery job. |
| 275 | --> '''Faye:''' The sparklers were a nice touch. |
| 276 | * TechnicallyASmile: |
| 277 | ** [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1585 Hannelore]]. |
| 278 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1215 Faye]]. |
| 279 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1584 Mieville]]. |
| 280 | * TemptingFate: Sorry, Clinton. |
| 281 | -->'''Clinton''': [''relaxing at a bar with a beer''] Ahh. Here's to an uneventful rest of the evening.\ |
| 282 | [''In the next frame, the bar is a blazing wreck, and Clinton and grumpy bartender Brun are standing out in the street watching the fire service trying and failing to put it out.''] |
| 283 | * TheirFirstTime: The strip plays with a variation on the classic form with Dale and Marigold. Their initial courtship is tentative and cautious, but they eventually arrange a simple date. However, Marigold breaks out in hives out of nervousness, overdoes the antihistamines in response, and passes out just as Dale arrives. Dale then proves a perfect gentleman, putting her to bed with Momo's help and then sitting up with Momo to make sure that Marigold is okay. He's still there in the morning and makes Marigold pancakes. She [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2638 says nothing, looks at him, and takes him to the bedroom]]. After which, they settle down to a quiet relationship -- aside from the sex, which is frequent and may get a little noisy. |
| 284 | * ThemedTattoos: [[{{Tomboy}} Sam]] uses permanent markers to draw artistic designs on robots which she calls "sprays", [[PlayingWithATrope which are treated as temporary tattoos]]. In [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4701 #4701]], Beepatrice and Millefeuille show up to get matching sprays. |
| 285 | * ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted multiple times. |
| 286 | ** Hannelore has regular therapy sessions, and Faye started seeing Hannelore's therapist. |
| 287 | ** In the wake of [[spoiler:Dora and Marten's breakup]], Faye demanded that Dora see a therapist [[spoiler:because of [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1802 the stupidity of her reason]] for the breakup]], which she eventually did. |
| 288 | * {{Theremin}}: For some reason, when Claire is celebrating her exams success, three of her friends all show up with the same congratulatory gift — a theremin construction kit. (What If anything this implies is unclear, beyond the fact that they all maybe see her as a little bit geeky.) It’s not exactly a GiftGivingGaffe, but [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4259 Claire understandably gets a bit sarcastic after the third.]] |
| 289 | * ThinkingTic: Most characters will raise an index to their faces when thinking aloud |
| 290 | * ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=697 "Now we're even. Bitch."]] |
| 291 | * ThoseTwoGuys: The Bro Guys. They never fail to show up for moments of bro-ness. |
| 292 | --> [[CatchPhrase "BROS BROS BROS BROS"]] |
| 293 | * ThousandYardStare: |
| 294 | ** [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1276 Hannelore.]] |
| 295 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3259 Faye]], after her PercussiveTherapy. |
| 296 | * TimeSkip: |
| 297 | ** Between [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1310 1310]] and [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1311 1311]]. |
| 298 | ** Another between [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3119 3119]] and [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3126 3126]][[note]]Titled, appropriately enough, "Been A While I Guess"[[/note]], between which were a Christmas comic and a brief story arc about [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3121 a barbarian named Bembo.]] |
| 299 | ** Strips [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4812 4812]] to [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4845 4845]] take place over the course of one day, in which Aurelia and Marigold meet up to do a [[VirtualYouTuber VTube]] collab, which takes an unexpected turn leading to major online fallout. [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4846 4846]] begins with Clinton stating that it has been several months since this occurred. |
| 300 | * TinmanTypist: Artificial intelligences who have desk jobs ''can'' just plug into their workstations, and can also interface directly with the internet in their heads, but [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3954 some prefer]] to "work externally." |
| 301 | * ToiletHumor: A surprising amount, a symptom of what Jeph refers to as his "Butts disease" (whereby he is obsessed with butts and the inherent comedy they embody). May they never find a cure. |
| 302 | * TomatoSkunkStinkCure: The trope is invoked in [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4229 this strip,]] mostly to embarrass Elliot. |
| 303 | * TookALevelInBadass: At first, it was assumed that Steve's [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1350 'bus trip']] was the result of a drunken stupor. Then [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1406 he was more or less validated]]. |
| 304 | * TooMuchInformation: A common trope. |
| 305 | ** Marten gives as good as he gets when he meets his then-girlfriend's father, who learns that Marten's mother is a famous fetish model: |
| 306 | ---> '''Peter:''' Holy shit kid, I musta whacked it to your mom's pictures a million friggin' times! --That... that was prob'ly too much information, huh.\ |
| 307 | '''Marten:''' It's okay. Your daughter has put my penis in her mouth.\ |
| 308 | '''Peter:''' Touché, kid. Touché. |
| 309 | ** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1672 In #1672]], Marten drops a mention of his and Dora's sex life, which Faye does not appreciate. |
| 310 | --->'''Faye:''' Jesus Christ, you're like a goddamn Predator drone. You wait for Dora to set you up, and then you come in outta nowhere and drop a fuckin' tactical TMI on my head. |
| 311 | ** In [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2579 #2579]], Tai starts describing a "giant hairy mole" to Dora, who cuts her off. |
| 312 | --->'''Dora:''' ''Okay, enough, thank you'' |
| 313 | ** In [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5152 #5152]], when Ayo talks about her masturbation habits, Yemisi covers her ears. |
| 314 | * TorchesAndPitchforks: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1017 Winslow and Pintsize even wear kinda Amish-esque hats and brandish a pitchfork and Bible and look like the stereotypical]] [[BurnTheWitch burn the witch crowd]]. They go [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-fé auto-da-fé]] on Hannelore for pinching her android-"boyfriends" ass. |
| 315 | * TotallyRadical: {{Conversed}} by [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3552 Faye and Bubbles]]. |
| 316 | -->'''Faye:''' I'm gonna be honest: you sound like a mom trying to impress her kids with her command of internet slang. |
| 317 | -->'''Bubbles:''' Drat. I mean, "brutal self-own, el em ay oh." |
| 318 | * {{Touche}}: |
| 319 | ** After [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1044 Dora's dad accidentally has a TMI moment with Marten]], Marten's comeback leads to this. |
| 320 | ** A variant when Faye carelessly leaves Sam alone for a moment in the workshop, and Sam gets a minor injury. Faye goes to apologize to Sam's dad Jim, and he is properly pissed off but tells her that he considers Bubbles, at any rate, a "positive influence", so he will continue to let Sam go to the workshop. |
| 321 | --->'''Faye''': Oh, but I'm an asshole, huh?\ |
| 322 | '''Jim Bean''': In this situation? Yes.\ |
| 323 | '''Faye''': Fair. |
| 324 | * TrashOfTheTitans: Marigold's epically messy apartment, until Hannelore got to it. |
| 325 | * TrainingMontage: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2212 Marten and the interns.]] |
| 326 | * TransformationSequence: Played straight and then parodied in the [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3474 strip where Faye helps Bubbles to take off her armour]]. As a visual metaphor for Bubbles becoming more emotionally open, and being born again, it's like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon... but then, in the final frame: |
| 327 | -->'''Faye''': [''sweating bullets as she prises Bubbles' armour off with a pry bar''] T'be honest, I was expectin' somethin' more '''magical'''. |
| 328 | -->'''Bubbles''': [''sitting on Faye's bed with an expression like she's undergoing painful minor surgery''] When, in your experience, have I '''ever''' been magical? |
| 329 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Sam's friend Emmett has, at a minimum, [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4710 given themselves a permanent tattoo]], [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4711 blown up gas canisters, made crop circles to the point they were almost shot, stole a backhoe which caused them to break the town water main, and consumed enough alcohol that they fell into a ditch, broke their ankle, and nearly froze to death.]] Emmett is 15 at the most. |
| 330 | * TrouserSpace: Bubbles has been known to keep a [[DontTryThisAtHome road flare]] [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3999 "betwixt my mighty glutes."]] |
| 331 | * TruthInTelevision: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1681 The turtle humping the shoe?]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5WRkddJTA It exists.]] |
| 332 | * {{Tsundere}}: |
| 333 | ** Faye, from start to finish. [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1525 Hannelore even gave her a shirt proclaiming such.]] |
| 334 | ** Angus, [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1691 at times]]. Lampshaded by Marigold's giggle. |
| 335 | ** May is originally a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion, as her [[{{Meido}} anime maid form]] was designed to appeal to [[{{Otaku}} Dale's interests]], something she's quite bitter about. However, she gradually becomes [[DefrostingIceQueen less prickly]] and eventually has [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2514 a full tsundere moment]]. |
| 336 | * TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Mentioned by Faye when she issued a death warrant to Pintsize at someone. |
| 337 | -->'''Pintsize:''' [[AvertedTrope Actually, we put that on indefinite hiatus.]]\ |
| 338 | '''Faye:''' Damn. Okay, okay, how about if you ever [[AIIsACrapshoot lose your morality programming and go berserk]], she's the first one you kill?\ |
| 339 | '''Pintsize:''' I think I can do that. |
| 340 | * TwentyPercentMoreAwesome: Fournier-Goldman Happiness Units. |
| 341 | * TwerpSweating: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=459 Female version.]] |
| 342 | * TwiceShy: Dale and Marigold. |
| 343 | -->'''Faye:''' Meganerd and dorkasaurus, a love to outlast the ages. |
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