| 1 | %% When referring to Vaarsuvius (or other elves), as it is with all cases of AmbiguousGender, the grammatically correct pronoun is "they". |
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| 3 | TheOrderOfTheStick/TropesAToC | TheOrderOfTheStick/TropesDToF | '''Tropes G to I''' | TheOrderOfTheStick/TropesJToL | TheOrderOfTheStick/TropesMToO | TheOrderOfTheStick/TropesPToR | TheOrderOfTheStick/TropesSToU | TheOrderOfTheStick/TropesVToZ |
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| 5 | !!!''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' provides examples of the following tropes: |
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| 10 | * GambitPileup: |
| 11 | ** On one side we've got Roy's mission to kill Xykon (initially because of the Blood Oath he inherited from his father and subsequently to save the world), Haley earning her father's ransom (except her father was actually taken on the orders of the Thieves' Guild, and unknowingly ratted out by her uncle, who was trying to secure the freedom of his son) and Durkon's 'mission' in the human lands (essentially an exile). More recently there's Belkar feigning character development to better serve his needs, V atoning for the ''Familicide'' spell, and [[spoiler:The High Priest of Hel possessing Durkon working for, well, Hel.]] |
| 12 | ** On the other alignment, Xykon wants to control the Snarl... but so does his "servant" Redcloak (on behalf of the Dark One and goblinkind), the Inter-Fiend Cooperation Commission, Nale and the Linear Guild, and possibly Tarquin. |
| 13 | * GameBreaker: [[invoked]] |
| 14 | ** The characters usually don't get a chance to take advantage of such, but [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0767.html strip #767]], in which Haley uses a potion of Glibness, is an exception. [[{{Munchkin}} Enterprising players]] have noticed that, [[RulesLawyer according to the Rules as Written]], a Bluff check roll of 20 or better can convince people of some really ridiculous things -- and Glibness gives a whopping '''+30''' to Bluff checks![[note]]For those who don't know the rules: A Bluff check is an opposed roll against the target's Sense Motive skill. A Bluff check for a lie that is ''literally'' impossible to believe has a -20 penalty. Glibness, again, gives +30. A character under its effects and with even a single rank in Bluff can claim to be the moon and will, more often than not, be believed. Haley has a lot of ranks in Bluff.[[/note]] |
| 15 | ** The homebrewed spell ''Familicide'', which kills ''everyone'' related by blood to the target, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill and then kills everyone related by blood to those people]]. [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius gets access to it when their soul is spliced with that of the damned necromancer who created the spell, and a single casting kills a quarter of the black dragons in the world... plus any HalfHumanHybrids descended from them. Which included the entire Draketooth family. Whoops.]] However, due to the precise requirements of the casting, ItOnlyWorksOnce. |
| 16 | ** In-universe, Tarquin states that bards are [[{{nerf}} underpowered]] because by rights their sheer GenreSavvy should let them rule the world. [[spoiler:Later in the story, his own attempts to use GenreSavvy to his advantage [[WrongGenreSavvy illustrate precisely why this isn't the case.]]]] |
| 17 | * GameplayAndStorySegregation: The comic's universe runs on 3.5 Edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' mechanics, but the author frequently ignores the game rules in favor of telling a good story. |
| 18 | ** For example, Tsukiko is a Mystic Theurge, which means she should have very high Intelligence and Wisdom scores to cast both wizard and cleric spells, yet she is regularly outsmarted and makes some very, ''very'' foolish decisions. Probably justified since she's also insane, and SanityHasAdvantages. |
| 19 | ** Then again, most of the builds are pretty craptastic. Like Belkar's halfling, dual-wielding ranger with really low wisdom. Or V specializing in evocation and banning necromancy and conjuration.[[labelnote:*]]To be fair to V, when (s)he chose the specialization the world was still running on an older edition of D&D where that build was far better.[[/labelnote]] While they both have their moments of weakness, they tend to do okay most of the time. |
| 20 | ** A number of Azure City characters have Samurai as their social rank, but none of them have any ranks in the actual class (which mechanically is like a fighter but not as good). This causes some confusion when the Order first meets Miko. |
| 21 | ** The effects of the Girdle of Masculinity/Femininity are removed with a simple Remove Curse spell. While generic cursed items that mimic the effect can be gotten rid of this way, the actual Girdle requires either a wish spell (and even then it's a coin flip) or direct intervention from a deity to remove. |
| 22 | * GangInitiationFight: Required for entry to the Barbarian Guild. Only one-on-one combat is required, but [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0133.html Belkar turns it into a brawl anyway.]] |
| 23 | * {{GASP}}: |
| 24 | ** Elan's reaction to the line [[spoiler:"Elan -- I am your father."]] |
| 25 | ** Elan's reaction to [[spoiler:Laurin Shattersmith disintegrating Nale's body]]. |
| 26 | ** Haley's reaction on seeing [[spoiler:Crystal coming back as a flesh golem]]. |
| 27 | ** The High Priest of Heimdall's reaction to [[spoiler:the reveal of the High Priest of Hel's presence at the Godsmoot]]. |
| 28 | ** The High Priestess of Odin's reaction to [[spoiler:seeing a whole host of vampires invading the moot]]. |
| 29 | * GateGuardian: Each member of the Order of the Scribble is charged with protecting one of the five magical gates that prevent the Snarl from reemerging and destroying reality. |
| 30 | ** Dorukan's Gate is protected by Dorukan himself, who placed powerful magic sigils on the gate to prevent evil-aligned creatures from accessing it and built a huge dungeon to aid in its defense. |
| 31 | ** Girard's Gate is protected by Girad Draketooth and his family, who hid the pyramid where the gate is located with numerous illusions. |
| 32 | ** Kraagor's Gate is protected by numerous ultra-powerful and nasty monsters. |
| 33 | ** Lirian's Gate is guarded by Lirian and creatures of the forest. |
| 34 | ** Soon's Gate is protected by the Sapphire Guard, an order of paladins founded by Soon himself. |
| 35 | * GelatinousEncasement: |
| 36 | ** A [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/GuestStrips.html filler strip]] has Roy and Haley discussing fruit-in-gelatin dishes while fighting a gelatinous cube that's engulfed Belkar and Elan. |
| 37 | --->'''Belkar:''' Less talk, more slashing damage.\ |
| 38 | '''Elan:''' I'm a pineapple chunk! |
| 39 | ** It is later shown [[spoiler:after Hilgya's return]] that [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1114.html dwarves organize gelatinous cubes races,]] with the jockeys encased within the monsters (presumably with magical items preventing them from getting digested). |
| 40 | --->'''Announcer:''' --and "Dessert Rider" edges out "Jiggly Picasso" for the win! |
| 41 | * GenderBender: The Girdle of Femininity/Masculinity, or Belt of Gender Changing. Roy ends up wearing it starting strip #235: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0235.html "Oddly, He Can Still Get Dressed in Under a Minute"]]. The strip where he changes back {{Defie|dtrope}}s all three of the Laws of Gender Bending: He's [[FirstLawOfGenderBending changed back easily and after not very long]] when Durkon dispels the ClingyCostume, he [[SecondLawOfGenderBending didn't enjoy being a woman very much,]] and he didn't feel [[ThirdLawOfGenderBending any compulsion to act differently]] apart from some emotional upheaval he puts down to dealing with unfamiliar hormones. |
| 42 | * GenreBlindness: Displayed by the Godsmoot attendees: [[spoiler:the High Priest of Hel has a penchant for getting one of them alone, then delivering a PreMortemOneLiner before draining them. He's done this twice, and both times, they only gives him a quizzical look before dying, despite ''knowing'' he's a vampire.]] |
| 43 | * GenreRefugee: The inhabitants of Cliffport. The city is a very steampunk/modern setting in a world that otherwise ''tries'' to be aesthetically medieval. There are even ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''-inspired airships and the crew from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' appears as cameos, with Elan and Thog trying to pass as Locke and Mog until their disguises are blown. There's also some wacky PoliceProcedural cliché cops. |
| 44 | * GenreSavvy: Displayed by most characters at some point or another. Most notably: |
| 45 | ** Elan. Though his genre-guided predictions are contradicted on occasion by subversions, Elan's sense of drama is surprisingly useful -- it's even how he joined the [=OotS=]. Basically, he's Genre Savvy when it comes to standard fantasy but not so much when concerning his own story. [[spoiler:Elan's GenreSavvy backfires when he [[FridgeHorror realizes that his dad's plot will actually work.]]]] |
| 46 | ** Tarquin, both recreationally and professionally -- he maintains power over an empire through it. His Genre Savvy, however, becomes increasingly unreliable the more he indulges in his delusion that ''he's'' the primary villain of the comic and that Elan is the primary hero, leading him to become increasingly unstuck. |
| 47 | ** Tarquin also believes that bards, being GenreSavvy incarnate, should be "ruling the entire cosmos by now, instead of wasting time singing in taverns." |
| 48 | ** In the final arc, Roy makes an important tactical decision ([[spoiler:rush Team Evil and hope for the best or play for time in the hopes they can waste the villain's spell slots before using all their own buffs]]) based entirely on whether Elan thinks they're at the end of the story or not. |
| 49 | * GetARoom: [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1202.html After the entire party is turned]] into SuperSmoke by the ''wind walk'' spell, instead of flying straight, Haley keeps doing a convoluted trajectory around her lover Elan (including shaping her mist trail like a HeartSymbol). |
| 50 | -->'''Elan:''' Haha, Haley, what are you doing? You're gonna crash into me!\ |
| 51 | '''Haley:''' I'm trying to mingle all our cloudstuff together\ |
| 52 | '''Elan:''' Oh, good idea! Our gall bladders barely know each other!\ |
| 53 | '''Belkar:''' Ugh, get a room. |
| 54 | * GilliganCut: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0251.html "If you want to bring us before your liege, you'll have to drag us there in chains."]] |
| 55 | * GirlOnGirlIsHot: In strip #794, Elan mentions Haley can "make out with any of our recurring villains you want". The title of the strip is [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0794.html "We Recommend Tsukiko"]]. |
| 56 | * GiveMeASword: Horace Greenhilt to Roy in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0497.html "The Grand Fighter"]]. |
| 57 | -->'''Horace:''' ROY! Heads up! |
| 58 | * GiveMeBackMyWallet: Two {{Street Urchin}}s [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0673.html bump into Durkon]] and [[PercussivePickpocket steal his purse]]. When they open it, it just contains a teasing note from Haley -- who they discover has somehow managed to pick ''their'' pockets in return. |
| 59 | * GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1297.html Serini makes the gesture]] [[spoiler:toward Calder the red dragon, pointing out that, unlike the Scribblers, the Order of the Stick won't spare him.]] And Mimi, [[VisualPun being a mimic]], does the same. |
| 60 | * GladiatorGames: A main source of entertainment in the Empire of Blood, and part of the judicial system. |
| 61 | * GladToBeAliveSex: Roy and Celia, [[spoiler:though it is more Glad-to-Be-Alive ''Again'' Sex.]] |
| 62 | * GlobalAirship: The ''Mechane'' takes this role. |
| 63 | -->'''Bandanna:''' No, just 'cause you have an airship now does ''not'' mean that [[TakeYourTime the main plot will stand still while y'all fly around and finish up all the sidequests you missed]]. |
| 64 | * TheGlomp: Haley to Elan along with an aggressive kiss, after discovering he [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys stole his new clothes after breaking out of prison]]. |
| 65 | * GloriousDeath: Dwarves place great cultural emphasis on dying with honour because [[spoiler:Hel claims the souls of the dishonored dead]]. Death in battle and HeroicSacrifice are classic ways to go, but death by booze also counts, if only to respect the tenacity of dwarf livers. |
| 66 | * TheGlovesComeOff: |
| 67 | ** Notably done by [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius]], who reaches this point when [[spoiler:unleashing a SuperpoweredEvilSide by making a literal DealWithTheDevil]]. As expected for this trope, the results are not exactly what anyone hoped for, and leads to some solid CharacterDevelopment for all involved parties. |
| 68 | ** Also shortly after played straight by [[spoiler:Xykon when Vaarsuvius teleports into his EvilTowerOfOminousness. As "a challenge to his rep", Xykon meets them with everything he has, including taking advice from his minions.]] |
| 69 | * GodivaHair: Yes, on a stick figure: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0752.html Haley grows her long hair back]]. |
| 70 | * GodIsDispleased: [[spoiler:ThePaladin Miko]] slips from KnightTemplar to TautologicalTemplar and ultimately plays JudgeJuryAndExecutioner against her liege lord, an offense so great that her entire pantheon [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0408.html manifests]] to [[DePower strip her]] of her [[spoiler:paladin]] powers. |
| 71 | * GodsHandsAreTied: |
| 72 | ** The Domain Agreement means that gods can't be selective with whom they grant spells to. Even though Thor is a good guy, he can't simply revoke an evil cleric's ability to cast Weather Control -- that is, unless he wants Hel to retaliate by denying any good clerics Cure Disease. |
| 73 | ** More conventionally, they won't get involved in heroics directly in case they start stepping on each other's toes; as gods the ensuing divine frustration caused by their bickering could literally come alive as an EldritchAbomination (case in point: the Snarl). |
| 74 | ** Speaking of the Snarl, they also can't get involved simply to contain it anew, or at least they don't want to: the only way to do so would be to simply destroy the world and rebuild another, and they like the current world too much [[spoiler:-- though as the Snarl gets closer to being released they start discussing it]]. |
| 75 | ** Odin reveals in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1146.html #1146]] that there are so many rules to prevent Not-Good gods from dominating Good gods. |
| 76 | --->'''Odin:''' We wrote them that way on purpose! There are fewer Good gods than Not-Good gods. If everyone could play in the sandbox all the time, there wouldn't be a lot of castles left unkicked. |
| 77 | * GodsNeedPrayerBadly: ZigZagged. |
| 78 | ** Sufficient belief can elevate ''anything'' to godhood, as first seen [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0080.html with Banjo the Clown]]. |
| 79 | ** Gods also apparently gain power as their clerics level up -- it's suggested in ''Start of Darkness'' that this is why they created AlwaysChaoticEvil NPC races in the first place, as XP-fodder for adventurers. |
| 80 | ** Parodied in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0301.html "A Brief Intermission"]]: |
| 81 | --->'''Bucket of Popcorn:''' You fools! We have been loved by moviegoers for over 50 years! Do you know the kind of power that gives us? [[AGodAmI We have become like unto tiny refreshing GODS!]] |
| 82 | ** On the other hand, it was noted that most of the gods have already existed even before the world came into being, without any followers or worshipers. [[spoiler:This is revealed to be because this is not the first world, and there have literally been thousands of worlds before this one each with attendant followers, that the gods have been forced to destroy. The gods themselves actually have stored up faith they use to survive the period between each planet's destruction, allowing their survival, which is a problem for the Dark One because he does not have the reserve faith needed to keep him going.]] |
| 83 | ** As it turns out, gods also need the proper mix of faith to sustain them as well. Odin is suffering a form of dementia because he's also a god of Magic, and the Northerners in the previous world believing that magic was dumb and for simpletons has resulted in a sort of nutritional imbalance. |
| 84 | * GodwinsLaw: Evil is measured in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0489.html kilonazis]]. |
| 85 | * GoingToGiveItMoreEnergy: The party comes across a hydra on the way to the oracle. Belkar starts happily chopping heads off left and right. Vaarsuvius wants to just blast it with magic, but Roy says to wait, without explaining why. Just as V is about to let loose anyway, the hydra collapses due to its heart no longer being able to pump enough blood to all of its heads. |
| 86 | * GoKartingWithBowser: Discussed in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0775.html "Welcome to the Arena"]]. |
| 87 | -->'''Elan:''' I know that sometimes the hero has to play baccarat with the enemy, even though logically it would make more sense for them to just be trying to kill each other. What I don't know is how to play baccarat. |
| 88 | * GoldenMeanFallacy: According to Belkar, killing one hobgoblin is a fair compromise between him wanting to kill them all and [[ActualPacifist Celia]] not wanting him to kill any. |
| 89 | * GoodAngelBadAngel: Used for [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0068.html Elan]] and [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0435.html Belkar]], with plenty of twists. |
| 90 | * GoodArmorEvilArmor: The Sapphire Guard's enchanted armor [[OnlyThePureOfHeart only grants its benefits]] to a [[ThePaladin Paladin]] in good standing, effectively requiring its wearers to be AlwaysLawfulGood. |
| 91 | * GoodFeelsGood: How Durkon was able to defeat the vampire controlling him: by feeding him memories in a narrative fashion of all the Good he did, then hitting him with the story of how his mother gave away a fortune to resurrect five people she'd never met (instead of resurrecting her husband or even growing a new arm), and then absolutely ''flooding'' him with all of Durkon's cherished memories of his five aunts and uncles. He tells Belkar afterward that he suspected that would work thanks to Belkar's advice. |
| 92 | * TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Tarquin. He may be in a position of EvilVersusOblivion, but he sees that as no reason to stop putting obstacles in the good guys' way, because they'll manage to save the world whatever happens. Tarquin knows full well that eventually this trope will come into play and he'll ultimately be defeated by a hero. His plan is to live like a god until that day comes and accept it as the price he must pay. In his own words: "sure, the last ten minutes sucked, but you can't have everything." |
| 93 | * GoodIsBoring: Averted during Roy's time in LawfulGood heaven. He gets to meet his deceased relatives, [[spoiler:play blocks with his dead little brother]], and the general attractions include a ''Tavern of Infinite One-Night Stands''. It's also explained that this is only the first level -- once people get bored with the earthly stuff, they resume climbing the mountain, with "true perfect enlightenment" waiting at the top. |
| 94 | * GoodIsDumb: Lampshaded by the strip titled [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0193.html "Because Good Is Dumb"]]. |
| 95 | * GoodIsNotDumb: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0584.html "Improbable Causes"]]. Even stated repeatedly. |
| 96 | -->'''Lien:''' Seriously, how many times do I need to go over the, "Good, not dumb," thing? |
| 97 | * GoodIsNotNice: |
| 98 | ** Roy, while LawfulGood, enjoys verbally lambasting both his friends and enemies a bit too much. Early on, he's prone to occasional moments of cruelty, such as deciding to leave TheLoad Elan in the clutches of bandits rather than rescuing him. As the story progresses, he learns to be less grouchy and value his team more. |
| 99 | ** For a guy who's waiting for a place in the LawfulGood heaven, Roy's dad Eugene is a pretty sarcastic, selfish {{Jerkass}}.[[invoked]] It's widely speculated among fans that Eugene has been shifting more and more toward Neutral over the years he's been stuck in the waiting area. But since he's been told by one of the Devas (who are, for the record, incapable of lying) that the only thing keeping him out of the LawfulGood heaven is his unfulfilled blood oath, it seems that actions taken ''after'' you die can't alter your afterlife destination. |
| 100 | ** Miko Miyazaki is ''made'' of this trope, although due to her ''extreme'' KnightTemplar tendencies, it's debatable whether she can really be considered "Good". Most readers place her as Lawful Neutral at best, LawfulStupid at worst. |
| 101 | ** Most of the Sapphire Guard practically embody this trope, at least in ''Start of Darkness''. |
| 102 | ** The elven commander also claims to be an example. |
| 103 | * GoodIsNotSoft: Any nice paladins like Hinjo or O-Chul. They don't mind bending the rules when someone is clearly trying to exploit them and have no problem killing. |
| 104 | * AGoodNameForARockBand: "[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1033.html Sonic Reptilian Unicorn]]," according to Lien. |
| 105 | * GoodNewsBadNews: |
| 106 | ** Played straight two ways in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0512.html "They've Had Time to Train, Too"]]. |
| 107 | --->'''Haley:''' ''[to a group of Hobgoblins]'' OK, I've got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is, I won initiative, so you all get a sneak attack each. The good news is, I don't have to bother thinking up the second half to that joke, 'cause you're all dead now. |
| 108 | ** Then in the same strip, the hobgoblin in the final panel gets an IronicEcho... |
| 109 | --->'''Hobgoblin:''' OK, so, I've got bad news, and I've got bad news. |
| 110 | ** Eugene Greenhilt to his son in the afterlife, [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0601.html after finding out Roy's body was turned into a bone golem:]] |
| 111 | --->'''Eugene:''' ... The good news is that I was able to conjure some books that might help you come to terms with the bad news. |
| 112 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0614.html "A Cut Above"]] has the first variety. |
| 113 | --->'''Celia:''' Well, the good news is that Belkar isn't fighting both of those thieves anymore. The bad news is, that's because the half-orc is now chasing us. |
| 114 | ** Done again in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0691.html "All Available Resources"]], with the good news and bad news being the same -- it's all in the intonation. |
| 115 | --->'''Roy:''' ''[to the team]'' The good news is, we're here! The bad news is... we're here. ''[pan out to a barren expanse of desert]'' |
| 116 | ** Blackwing delivers too. The "good news" makes kind of sense in a "we're screwed already anyway" mindset. |
| 117 | --->'''Blackwing:''' OK. Well... the bad news is that this is a scroll of Locate Creature -- which is a completely useless spell in the current situation.\ |
| 118 | The good news is that [[IHaveNoIdeaWhatImDoing I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing]]. |
| 119 | * GoodPowersBadPeople: Even evil clerics can use healing magic. Redcloack uses it to prolong torture sessions. |
| 120 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: Celia, Sabine, and the Celestials and Devils seen from time to time. |
| 121 | * GoOutWithASmile: |
| 122 | ** Lord Shojo, when Miko [[FallenHero Falls]] as a result of fatally wounding him and he takes this as a sign that the gods approve of what he's done. He resisted resurrection in a later strip, indicating he was not too sorry to be dead. |
| 123 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0464.html While she wasn't technically smiling]], Miko herself dies at least somewhat satisfied, on being told that Windstriker, her horse (and only friend) will visit her in the afterlife even though she has failed to redeem herself. |
| 124 | ** Therkla, [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0593.html here,]] thanks to DiedInYourArmsTonight. |
| 125 | ** [[spoiler:[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0877.html Durkon]]]], with a TearfulSmile because "[[spoiler:...I get ta go home.]]" |
| 126 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1129.html Durkon's father]] smiled at his wife in his last moments. |
| 127 | * GoryDiscretionShot: |
| 128 | ** [[spoiler:Old Blind Pete [[PreMortemOneLiner gets renamed to Brainy Pete]]]], naturally leading to a sickening SoundOnlyDeath by blunt object to the head. Cut to Belkar making quips while it takes place. When Celia and Haley come across the corpse a few strips later, only the legs are visible on-panel, but Celia makes a dark gag that he's "not going to be needing [a hat] anymore". |
| 129 | ** [[spoiler:Tsukiko]]'s death is a SoundOnlyDeath in which all we see is four panels of the killer watching impassively over dwindling cries of pain and horror. [[JustDesserts And crunching noises.]] |
| 130 | * GoshDangItToHeck: Used for a {{Pun}}; at the Godsmoot, one of the priest's gripes about the "archaic friggin' rules," and Frigg's high priest protests that they're not Frigg's fault, all the gods agreed to them. |
| 131 | * GoThroughMe: When Elan tries to shield a heavily wounded Roy from [[spoiler:Tarquin, Tarquin checks he has enough hit points to survive it]] and then stabs Elan so hard that the sword [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice passes right through Elan's body]] and into Roy. Taking the trope rather literally, there. |
| 132 | * GoYeHeroesGoAndDie: Elan's RousingSpeech prior to the Battle of Azure City. |
| 133 | * GrapesOfLuxury: While [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0225.html "Checking In"]], Miko sarcastically suggests that the gang take in the luxury of being fanned and fed grapes. Haley tries to get that arranged and is a bit annoyed to find that Roy gets the treatment [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0227.html later]]. |
| 134 | * GratuitousNinja: When the gods were rebuilding the world, guess what the Monkey god wanted in. |
| 135 | * GravityIsAHarshMistress: |
| 136 | ** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0437.html "Battle Momentum"]], a Death Knight keeps travelling forwards until he looks down and notices his mount has been Disintegrated out from under him. Lampshaded by V: |
| 137 | --->'''Vaarsuvius:''' [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner W. E. Coyote]]'s Law of Cartoon Inertia: Objects in motion tend to stay at the same altitude until gravity is noticed. |
| 138 | ** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0722.html "Block and Tackle"]], Tarquin and Vaarsuvius can exchange a few words before V decides to use Feather Fall on Haley, and she has yet to hit the ground. |
| 139 | ** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0806.html "Holy Enunciation"]], Elan has the time to rejoice having found Durkon, and then notice Sabine isn't holding him anymore ("Uh oh"), before falling. |
| 140 | * GreaterScopeVillain: |
| 141 | ** [[BigBad Xykon]] is the human-scale bad guy and the one really [[TheHeavy driving the main story]], but the most powerful evil presence in the comic is the Snarl, hands down. [[spoiler:Blackwing's vision of the inside of the rift shows that things may be more complicated...]] |
| 142 | ** The IFCC is somewhere above Xykon and below the Snarl. They're playing a much longer game that will ultimately result in storming the Good alignement planes and are less interested in the "Snarl Gate" plotline than the conflict that it generates. |
| 143 | ** The Dark One started most of the plot by creating the Crimson Mantle. We have yet to see how involved he'll be in the climax. |
| 144 | * GreenAroundTheGills: |
| 145 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0430.html Happens to a motion-sick Roy]] clinging to Xykon's undead dragon, immediately followed by a VomitIndiscretionShot. |
| 146 | ** Roy has the same reaction from seeing Belkar's [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0358.html tortilla chips with salsa (extra chunky)]]. |
| 147 | ** Belkar inspires this again, this time to Durkon, with [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0835.html another creative use]] of the Linear Guild's kobold's head. |
| 148 | * GrievousBottleyHarm: Roy breaks a potion vial in Thog's face during the gladiator match. Ian Starshine, who sold him the potion, wonders if he [[TheScrooge should have charged him extra]] for a single-use ImprovisedWeapon. |
| 149 | * GroinAttack: |
| 150 | ** Most noticeably in the "pin [[spoiler:Roy's corpse]]" comic. |
| 151 | ** Lampshaded, [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0748.html naturally]]: |
| 152 | --->'''Belkar:''' How about nut shots? Crowds '''love''' nut shots. [[Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos Saget]] was on the air for like 8 years. |
| 153 | ** Ian Starshine apparently suffered one ten years prior that rendered him "sterile as a mule". Which makes Belkar's attempted FreudianThreat fall flat. |
| 154 | ** In "[[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1251.html Bite Size]]", Serini kicks Haley in the groin. Haley is unamused (and in pain). |
| 155 | * GroundShatteringLanding: |
| 156 | ** Roy, although [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou he takes it harder]]. |
| 157 | ** Downplayed by an Osmium Elemental summoned by Redcloak, which leaves cracks in the ground wherever it stands -- it's a good 15 feet tall and made of the densest stable element in existence. Also subtly foreshadows Redcloak collapsing the tunnel a couple of strips later. |
| 158 | * GroupHug: Thog is denied one in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0398.html "We All Just Want to be Held Sometimes"]]. Poor Thog. |
| 159 | * TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Averted more than it's played straight. |
| 160 | ** Unfortunately for Elan and Haley, Tarquin is GenreSavvy and [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0766.html he makes sure the guards are too]]. |
| 161 | --->'''Guard Instruction Manual:''' We do not have surprise inspections. Ever. Those inspectors in front of you? They're intruders. Get them. |
| 162 | ** Honourable mention also has to go to the evidently well-drilled Gobbotopia [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0512.html Dancing Lights flare code]] for alerting the entire city to the location and severity of Resistance activity, with a teleporting strike team of wights on call to respond to high-level encounters. Even the wights operate on a buddy system and have emergency whistles to summon Tsukiko in case of encountering clerics. |
| 163 | * GuiltInducedNightmare: Vaarsuvius [[VancianMagic runs out of magic]] during the Battle of Azure City and [[KnowWhenToFoldThem hides]] under an ''invisibility'' spell, leaving the nearby soldiers to be slaughtered. The memory of a soldier [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0623.html cursing them]] with her dying breath becomes a [[PastExperienceNightmare recurring nightmare]] that provokes Vaarsuvius to [[SleepDeprivation stop resting entirely]], with disastrous results. |
| 164 | * GuiltTripping: When Roy tries to refuse becoming Hinjo's bodyguard, Hinjo pretends to accept before pointing out if the latter dies, so does his people. Roy sighs, gives in, and agrees to becomes Hinjo's bodyguard but says that for a paladin, that was incredibly manipulative. |
| 165 | -->'''Hinjo:''' You're obviously not familiar with one of our key class abilities: Summon Conscience. |
| 166 | * GunshipRescue: [[spoiler:Julio Scoundrél gives the heroes an Airship Rescue when Tarquin has them on the ropes.]] |
| 167 | [[/folder]] |
| 168 | |
| 169 | [[folder:H]] |
| 170 | * HairMemento: Sigdi Thundershield carried a lock of [[BattleCouple her husband's]] beard with her on missions. It was the [[TragicKeepsake only part of his body]] available after his HeroicSacrifice, so it was [[DueToTheDead consecrated and buried]] in the family tomb. |
| 171 | * HalfBreedDiscrimination: Therkla the half-orc seems to have suffered some of this. Lampshaded by Redcloak, [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1208.html who points out]] that despite being just as AlwaysChaoticEvil as goblins, Orcs are much more accepted in human settlements because humans like to interbreed with them for some reason. |
| 172 | * HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Lizardfolks in general. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0738.html Lampshaded]] by Gannji. |
| 173 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Miko Miyazaki]], [[CloseupOnHead revealed at the end]] of a conversation she has with [[spoiler:Soon's ghost]] as she lies dying. Luckily this saves her from the fate of being [[spoiler:raised as a death knight by Tsukiko.]] |
| 174 | * {{Hammerspace}}: |
| 175 | ** Any of the weapons or gear that don't [[SticksToTheBack Stick to the Back]]. |
| 176 | ** Notably, Belkar has a lead sheet he stores in hammerspace. He uses it to block DetectEvil spells. And to bonk Miko on the head. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0281.html It's a multipurpose lead sheet.]] |
| 177 | ** {{Lampshaded}} by Minrah in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1125.html #1125]], when Blackwing produces [[AnachronismStew sunglasses]] as big as his own body. |
| 178 | --->'''Minrah:''' Where were you keeping --? [[SureLetsGoWithThat You know what? Never mind. Just do it.]] |
| 179 | ** {{Deconstructed}} when Roy needs to borrow an indisposed Haley's bow, and then discovers he has no idea where she gets her arrows from. |
| 180 | * HandWave: In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0878.html "Little Brother"]] ('''major spoilers'''), [[spoiler:Malack gets around the three-day burial normally required to raise a vampire]] with an "obscure spell that I have unearthed in the course of my research." Given the WebcomicTime that would have been involved otherwise, [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality this is probably a blessing.]] |
| 181 | * HandyFeet: Out-of-action with a broken arm, Haley manages to pull off an important shot lying down and holding the bow with her foot. |
| 182 | * HangingAround: Played for BlackComedy when Roy narrowly rescues all of the Order except Belkar the [[{{Hobbits}} halfling]] from a hanging. Turns out Belkar is [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0165.html light enough]] to be in no danger; they end up using him as a [[GrievousHarmWithABody weaponized tetherball]] in the ensuing battle. |
| 183 | -->'''Belkar:''' Hey, any chance you guys can stop eulogizing and cut me down from here? The blood's starting to rush to my head. |
| 184 | * HanlonsRazor: Goblinkind did not have a patron god until they raised one themselves, are AlwaysChaoticEvil, and were given the worst lands. Redcloak believes that this is because the JerkassGods wanted them to slave away as a CannonFodder race, existing only to provide XP at the end of a cleric's weapon. His main motive is to take the entire world hostage to make the gods acknowledge them and become equal with the other races by force. [[spoiler:The ChaoticEvil god Fenrir was their original patron, hence their alignment. He wanted a race of followers with short lives and high reproduction, but was too impatient to wait and abandoned them. Their lack of good land was simply due to careless planning.]][[invoked]] |
| 185 | * HannibalLecture: |
| 186 | ** The [[spoiler:High Priest of Hel]] gives a ''brutal'' one to [[spoiler:Durkon]]. |
| 187 | --->[[spoiler: '''High Priest of Hel:''']] Oh, ''I'm sorry.'' Did you have an evil magic spirit [[spoiler:inside your head controlling your actions]] then too? That's '''''you'''''. ''You'' said those words. You can hang there and pretend that you're so much nobler than I am, but for that ''one moment''? You felt ''exactly'' what I feel. You are who you are on your very worst day, [[spoiler:Durkon]]. Anything less is a comforting lie you tell yourself to numb the pain. And that's who I am. I am your worst day, ''personified''. Hel may have created me, but she shaped me to fit perfectly in the hole in '''''your''''' heart... No self-righteous comeback? Just as well. All the better to focus on [[spoiler:killing your friend]]. |
| 188 | ** A little later he tries to give another one to [[spoiler:Roy]]. It [[ShutUpHannibal backfires]]. |
| 189 | * HardWorkHardlyWorks: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0126.html As of always, lampshaded]] when Elan considers multiclassing to wizard. |
| 190 | -->'''Elan:''' It's true what they say: "Hard work may pay off in the long run, but laziness always pays off right now!" |
| 191 | * HarmfulToMinors: [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius's]] children are targeted by an enemy, their legs broken, and their parent crucified. And then their other parent comes in, possessed, and ''tears the enemy apart from the inside.'' |
| 192 | * HarsherInHindsight:[[invoked]] InUniverse -- Vaarsuvius' suggestion to Malack that he adopt children (citing the many orphans that live in the Empire of Blood) has become this upon the revelation that [[spoiler:Malack is a vampire.]] |
| 193 | * HateAtFirstSight: Crystal and Haley immediately despise each other after their first meeting. One comment about shoes and one comment about hair and the two are instantly willing to kill each other. Notably, this makes Crystal Haley's rival, meaning she'll always be at at least the same level as Haley if not higher. |
| 194 | * HatOfFlight: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0964.html A gnome in Tinkertown]] is seen flying with a propeller beanie. |
| 195 | * HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: [[spoiler:Redcloak kills Tsukiko when she threatens to reveal the details of Redcloak's plans to Xykon.]] |
| 196 | * HeadHat: Belkar has a RunningGag with his murder of kobolds that starts off with a kobold head hat. |
| 197 | * HeadTiltinglyKinky: From [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0789.html #789]], when the Order needs an excuse to confer in private without Tarquin listening in. |
| 198 | -->'''Elan:''' [[spoiler:Uh, Dad?]] Haley and I need to go... uh... have sex.\ |
| 199 | '''Tarquin:''' Well, you'll miss the big fight, but you do what you need to do.\ |
| 200 | '''Haley:''' Come on, V. And bring the cat, just in case.\ |
| 201 | '''Tarquin:''' ...Huh. |
| 202 | * HeadTurnedBackwards: Sabine's only reaction to a NeckSnap from Miko is to make a mildly annoyed comment while standing there with her head facing the wrong way. |
| 203 | * HealItWithBlood: [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Troll]] blood retains its HealingFactor outside the body. Other species can apply it to heal even serious wounds, so long as they don't mind growing patches of troll flesh where it touches. |
| 204 | * HearingVoices: |
| 205 | ** Haley while her mind is fractioning into different aspects of her personality. |
| 206 | ** Vaarsuvius under the Soul Splice hears the whispers of the three evil spellcasters. |
| 207 | * HeartSymbol: |
| 208 | ** A single red heart for Elan and Haley's first kiss, in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0400.html "Your Ship Has Come In"]]. |
| 209 | ** Elan and Haley get another heart symbol for their first kiss after [[NeverSplitTheParty the group split up.]] |
| 210 | ** When [[MauveShirt Kazumi and Daigo]] share their wedding kiss in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0501.html strip #501]], they each get a HeartSymbol. Like [[SinglePaletteTown everything else from Azure City]], the hearts are blue. |
| 211 | ** Normal pink hearts accompany Belkar's seduction of a female bard in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0611.html #611]]. |
| 212 | ** When [[spoiler:Celia and Roy]] are re-united in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0665.html #665]]. |
| 213 | * HeavenlyBlue: From Durkon's Holy Word to Devas. |
| 214 | * HeelFaceTurn: Thor claims that the trees surrounding Valhalla have turned against their evil kin when it becomes obvious telling the tree-phobic Durkon and Minrah that trees are largely inanimate and thus not a threat isn't working. |
| 215 | * HehHehYouSaidX: |
| 216 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0117.html "Delayed Gratification"]]: |
| 217 | --->'''Demon Roach #1:''' Yeah! Let's bug out.\ |
| 218 | '''Demon Roach #2:''' Heh... "bug". |
| 219 | ** "Splitting Up is Hard to Do": |
| 220 | --->'''Haley:''' It's the only way to [[spoiler:get Roy back, [Elan]. Durkon needs his body if he's going to raise him from the dead.]]\ |
| 221 | '''Belkar:''' Heh heh, [[spoiler:Durkon needs Roy's body]]. |
| 222 | ** When they encounter Nale, Malack asks Elan if it is definitely Nale this time, and not another TwinSwitch. Elan responds that he ''thinks'' so, unless he has a TrueNeutral triplet named [[SignificantAnagram Lean or Anel]] that he never met. [[ManChild He then giggles because he said "Anel"]]. |
| 223 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:The Reptilian Ambassador]] tries to reveal evidence of General Tarquin's conspiracy to the Empress of Blood, and is KilledMidSentence by one of Tarquin's allies. |
| 224 | * HellHound: One of the remaining magic traps in Girard's ziggurat summons a giant hell hound. |
| 225 | * HelpingAnotherSaveFace: When [[CloudCuckoolander Elan]] is kidnapped by a bandit clan, [[TheLeader Roy]] initially refuses to help the rest of the party rescue him (since he sees Elan as TheLoad), and only joins the rescue much later after having a HeelRealization moment. Elan notices this and asks Roy about it after the rescue is over. Roy struggles to come up with a response so Haley [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0172.html lies to Elan]] that Roy came up with a complex rescue plan and the party's first rescue attempt was only to distract the bandits so [[TheCavalry Roy could enact the real rescue]]. Fortunately, Elan buys it. |
| 226 | * HenotheisticSociety: Most believers focus their active worship on a single deity despite believing in all of them. The dwarves like Durkon in particular almost exclusively worship Thor to the exclusion of the rest of Thor's pantheon. |
| 227 | * HereditaryCurse: Eugene Greenhilt made a Blood Oath that neither he nor his descendants would be able to go into the afterlife until Xykon was destroyed. This curse binds him to his oldest offspring. Apparently the rules of the Celestial Realm give you credit for a good-faith effort, though, which is why [[spoiler:Roy is able to get in]]. |
| 228 | * HeroLookingForGroup: The prequel book ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickOnTheOriginOfPCs On the Origin of PCs]]'' explores the backstories of the members of the Order of the Stick, and how Roy Greenhilt wound up assembling them into an [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits adventuring party]] to defeat sorcerer Xykon, whom his father has sworn a Blood Oath of Vengeance. |
| 229 | * HeroicTeamRevolt: Roy's refusal to go back and save Elan from the bandits has the team up in arms. Even Belkar goes back for him. Roy redeems himself after having a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment. |
| 230 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: |
| 231 | ** Two incredibly badass-looking adventurers in ''On the Origin of [=PCs=]'' (one with angel wings and a sword, the other a cloaked figure with four arms) are turned away by Durkon because Roy's already found the last two recruits he needed (Elan and Belkar). As they walk off, one suggests that they go storm the gates of Hell, but the other complains that "We did that last week." |
| 232 | ** Gather ye round, little children, and listen to the Ballad of Amun-Zora. TheCaptain of a unit from the {{Undefeatable Little|Village}} Free City of Doom, sent by her superiors to seek help from a nearby warlord to end their seven-month siege at the hands of a rival empire, is betrayed! The troops the warlord sends join the enemy's side and crush the resistance, deliberately killing her husband to free her hand, while she herself is locked away until such time as she [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty agrees to marry]] the EvilOverlord. Freed as part of some unknown scheme by his vile spawn, she escapes to become the RebelLeader, [[AvengersAssemble uniting the disparate enemies of the empire]] against their common foe. Also, she appears in about nine strips of this comic. |
| 233 | ** The halfling Frudu is occasionally shown on his mission to destroy the cursed vase known as the [[{{Pun}} One Ming]]. |
| 234 | ** The Monster in the Darkness describes O-Chul this way, as [[ExploitedTrope a ruse to make Xykon think]] the Order aren't worth wasting time over, because there's a bigger hero unaccounted for who could be a threat to his plans. In fact he doesn't really fit the trope, since he gets some screen-time playing a support role to the heroes of this story. He does get his own spin-off prequel, though, in ''How the Paladin Got His Scars''. |
| 235 | --->'''[=MitD=]:''' The [[LastOfHisKind last]] [[KnightInShiningArmour paladin]] of a [[DoomedHometown conquered city]], [[ColdBloodedTorture beaten]] but [[{{Determinator}} never broken]], [[HeroicVow sworn to stop]] the evil lich who [[ItsPersonal wiped out his holy order]]... |
| 236 | * HeWhoMustNotBeNamed: Hilariously mocked in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0254.html "Half the Elf, Double the Fun"]]. |
| 237 | -->'''Warthog:''' I think you'll really like the next one. We call him... The One Who Must Not Be Named.\ |
| 238 | '''Nale:''' Another one? Good gods, man, that's eleven so far who Must Not Be Named. Not to mention the four who Must Not Be Looked At, the two who Must Not Be Spoken To, and the one who Must Not Be Toilet-Trained.\ |
| 239 | '''Thog: thog got to use a mop!'''\ |
| 240 | '''Nale:''' If you bring me one more brat who's too trendy to have a name, I'll feed you your own tusks. [-And that includes any more "Wizards Formerly Known As" losers, too.-] |
| 241 | * HeyCatch: Unusual form -- Haley says "Catch." while firing ''two arrows'' [[spoiler:at Tarquin. Of course, she knows full well [[ArrowCatch he can catch them both]], but Tarquin is hanging on for dear life to the railing of an airship at the time, and it results in him losing his grip]]. |
| 242 | * HeyThatsMyLine: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0543.html "Shhh! Principal's Coming!"]]: |
| 243 | -->'''Tsukiko:''' "Gate"? What gate?\ |
| 244 | '''[=MitD=]:''' Hey, that's my line! |
| 245 | * HeyYouHaymaker: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0771.html Roy to Geoff.]] |
| 246 | -->'''Roy:''' Excuse me. I just wanted to let you you know that this in no way reflects my views on the differently-abled.\ |
| 247 | '''Geoff:''' Hu? What do you--\ |
| 248 | '''POW!''' |
| 249 | * HighAltitudeInterrogation: Roy and Durkon dangling the kobold oracle upside-down by a window to get a third prediction, the first two being less than helpful. |
| 250 | * HighClassGlass: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0742.html Ambassador Gourntonk]] is a lizardfolk with a monocle. |
| 251 | * {{Highly Visible Ninja}}s: The Goblin Ninjas are wearing black against a white background, but the atrocious spot and listen checks of the main characters cause them not to notice them. Even when the ninjas say things like "We're standing right here." |
| 252 | * HighOnHomicide: After [[spoiler:Crystal]] is [[CameBackWrong reanimated]] as a pain-riddled [[spoiler:FleshGolem]], she finds that she [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0981.html feels better]] when she's killing somebody. [[spoiler:Haley immediately tosses her into a lava pit to stop her.]] |
| 253 | * HighTechHeaven: Heaven has [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0487.html modern computers]], in contrast to the MedievalStasis with (occasional anachronisms for comedy) of the material world. |
| 254 | * HilarityEnsues: When Xykon describes how he got his crown, he says [[spoiler:"I stole it from a librarian in Cliffport who -- oops! -- also turned out to be an archmage. Needless to say, hilarity ensued."]] |
| 255 | * HilaritySues: |
| 256 | ** Used when lawyers abduct a Mind Flayer for breaching copyright. |
| 257 | ** {{Invoked|Trope}} by V to deal with a troublesome opponent who is also a ripoff of Drizzt. |
| 258 | ** Belkar sues Miko to prevent her from trying to DetectEvil on him. Since she's LawfulStupid, she cannot help but comply to the restraining order. |
| 259 | ** [[TooDumbToLive Rodriguez]] then tries to serve another restraining order... on Belkar. It goes about as well as you could expect. |
| 260 | * HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure: Belkar's evilness is measured in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0489.html kilonazis]]. |
| 261 | * HitAndRunTactics: |
| 262 | ** A half-ogre with a flail tries this against high-level fighter Roy. Unfortunately for the half-ogre, Roy manages to [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0216.html take advantage of his predictability]]. |
| 263 | ** Belkar wisely takes this approach to fighting Miko after breaking out of jail. Bear in mind that Miko had successfully taken the entire party alive when they attacked her head-on. |
| 264 | * HitmanWithAHeart: As seen in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0241.html "Talking Down"]], female Roy calls out the dwarven hitman on his threat to blow up the inn, noting that all of his behavior so far indicates a NeverHurtAnInnocent mindset. He backs down and admit he would never cause the death of innocents. Unfortunately, the inn gets blown up anyway after Belkar, intent on some mindless slaughter, bumps into the hitman and causes him to light the fuse by accident. |
| 265 | * HoardingTheProfits: Haley Starshine repeatedly hoards more than her share of her DungeonCrawling team's treasure -- [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0029.html once]] by sneaking ahead to loot a TreasureRoom and [[ImplausibleDeniability brazenly denying it]]; [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0129.html later]] by tricking the others into accepting worthless rocks as part of their shares. Although she gets away with it, her naked {{Greed}} causes TheLeader to distrust her for much of the story. |
| 266 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: |
| 267 | ** Happens to the Oracle twice. The first time is off-screen, when he gives a wise-ass answer to Roy's question about where Xykon is located, and Roy dangles him out the window until he answers in a more meaningful way. When Roy comes back for more questions, the Oracle tries to hint to Roy that he could just tell Roy where Xykon is going next, but Roy is too smart by half and asks a ridiculously specific LiteralGenie question that actually has a different, less accurate answer. The Oracle snarks to Roy about it, but Roy would have never done it if the Oracle himself hadn't been a jerk the first time. |
| 268 | ** Subverted. Malack [[spoiler:gives Durkon a great deal of help researching the spell Mass Death Ward. Once it's revealed that Malack's a vampire, Durkon uses the spell to give himself a great advantage over him in their ensuing fight. However, Malack reveals that part of his "help" involved preparing a password that would automatically dispel the spell at his command; after all,]] "what kind of man would help someone he just met develop a means to protect a large group of people from himself?" |
| 269 | ** Played straight when Nale [[spoiler:destroys Malack, unfolding a plan he's worked on for years, including using Malack's vampire spawn as rehearsal. Sure, it is masterly done, with just one little drawback: it frees newly raised Durkon from Malack's control. Nale seems to think that the vampire dwarf will either ignore them or join with the Linear Guild, [[EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily since he's now evil]]. But vampire Durkon instead kills Zz'dtri, forcing Nale to flee]]. |
| 270 | ** Also played straight when Bozzok [[spoiler:[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0980.html pisses off Grubwiggler]] and starts insulting Crystal-Golem... whom Haley [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0979.html had just talked to about what is really happening here.]] Crystal kills him and then proceeds to beat the crap out of his corpse.]] |
| 271 | ** During the fight with [[spoiler:Ancient Red Dragon Calder]], he has [[spoiler:Sunny]] use their anti-magic cone to prevent the magic-wielding adventurers from doing much... which Belkar turns against him when he tosses Bloodfeast into the fight, as the AntiMagic suppresses the lizard's ''[[ForcedTransformation baleful polymorph]]'' and turns it back into an ''Allosaurus''. |
| 272 | * HoistHeroOverHead: The giant devil summoned by Qarr shortly lifts Durkon above his head while the dwarf is large-sized thanks to ''Thor's might'' -- [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0591.html and puts him on fire to boot]]. |
| 273 | * HoldYourHippogriffs: |
| 274 | ** Used every now and then. |
| 275 | --->'''Tarquin:''' There's no need to run around like a cockatrice with its head cut off. |
| 276 | ** Combined with UnusualEuphemism by the elderly bandit chief, who substitutes "griffon puckey" for "bullshit". |
| 277 | ** Bandana refers to not having enough space to "swing a dead [[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Tressym tressym]]". |
| 278 | ** Thor warns that the Snarl can go through a god "like a hot glaive through an ochre jelly". |
| 279 | * HollywoodDensity: A blade made entirely of starmetal would weigh three hundred pounds, according to the blacksmith who reforges Roy's sword. But with a density like that, the small piece that Roy carries around like it was nothing would probably weigh a good twenty-five pounds. |
| 280 | * HollywoodBoardGames: The Monster in the Darkness is [[Characters/TheOrderOfTheStickTeamEvil Team Evil]]'s resident TokenGoodTeammate and it shows. This creature would rather play ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'' (and eat the tiles) with the other members than do evil. |
| 281 | * HollywoodTactics: ZigZagged in the invasion of Azure City. |
| 282 | ** The battle is heavily based on attrition warfare, with any losses being simply [[CavalryOfTheDead zombified]], but Redcloak employs some finesse by using elementals as heavy units to destroy the main wall, as well as a ninja infiltrator to open the main gate to the throne room. |
| 283 | ** Redcloak's tactics also become slightly more conservative over the course of the battle, as the [[WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife Senseless Waste of Goblinoid Life]] starts to eat at his conscience. This also spurs his decision to take his own powerful magical abilities [[FrontLineGeneral to the front line]]. |
| 284 | ** The trope is also parodied at one point, when an apparently mindless press of infantry against a stone wall is in fact a tactical decision to give their Death Knight commander ''[[WeHaveReserves a ramp of bodies to ride up]]''. |
| 285 | * HomeOfTheGods: In the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''-inspired cosmology, the gods and the spirits of the dead inhabit the Outer Planes, CharacterAlignment[[invoked]]-themed spiritual otherworlds that can be accessed through {{Dimensional Travel|er}}. |
| 286 | -->'''Thor:''' Everything out here is made of ideas, when you get right down to it. [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly Even me!]] The Outer Planes are ideas that were so powerful, for better or worse, that they became places. |
| 287 | * HomoeroticSubtext: |
| 288 | ** A DiscussedTrope. The gladiator arc begins with the slavemaster warning the new prisoners of "strong homosexual undertones that will never be fully explored" if a stronger prisoner defends a weaker one. Belkar, naturally, runs with it when he and Roy encounter Tarquin. |
| 289 | -->'''Belkar:''' ''(to Tarquin)'' You look like a really handsome man, and hanging out with these sweaty gladiators has turned my friend and me totally gay. |
| 290 | ** Defied when [[spoiler:Vampire Durkon]] tells Elan that drinking his blood will not create a blood bond filled with erotic vampire subtext. |
| 291 | * HonorableWarriorsDeath: As part of deal (more like a swindle) that Loki made with Hel, only dwarves who die by honorable means will avoid serving Hel in the afterlife, any others will instantly be hers. Too bad Loki and Thor then made [[spoiler:the current world's version of]] dwarves the most honorable people in the world, with plenty of LoopholeAbuse for what counts as an honorable death. |
| 292 | * HonoraryUncle: |
| 293 | ** Roy and Nale have this in common, both referring to their respective fathers' adventuring buddies as such ("Uncle Myrtok" and "Auntie Laurin", respectively). Although when Nale uses it on-panel, he is rather sarcastic. |
| 294 | ** Durkon referred to several people as his uncles and aunts in flashbacks to his childhood. They turn out to be [[spoiler:complete strangers whom his mother had raised from the dead in place of his father, who was bound for a better afterlife.]] |
| 295 | * HookHand: |
| 296 | ** [[TheyCallHimSword Captain Axe]] has an axe hand. |
| 297 | ** Classic pirate Hook Hand in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0121.html "The Return of Mail Call"]] (though used as a corkscrew). |
| 298 | ** The High Priest of Tyr has a hook replacing his right hand. Fitting, as in Myth/NorseMythology Tyr lost his hand to Fenrir. This might be self-mutilation as part of the creed. |
| 299 | ** In this [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1201.html strip]] one of the airship crew members has a hook for a hand. |
| 300 | * HookingTheKeys: Defied in a brief gag. One of the [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0766.html tips]] on a guide to prison guards written by their GenreSavvy EvilOverlord says: "Do not keep big dangly key rings fastened to your belt in plain sight" |
| 301 | * HopeSpot: |
| 302 | ** In ''Start of Darkness'', there's a point [[spoiler:where Redcloak, reunited with Right-Eye after a lengthy period of separation, realizes how much he's missed his brother, how much he enjoys not having to worry about the Plan, and contemplates throwing it all in and starting a new life with his brother. Then Xykon shows up to put the kibosh on the reunion.]] |
| 303 | ** Awesome! The Azure City Resistance [[spoiler:has recovered Xykon's SoulJar! Now all they have to do is get it back to their base... oh. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0825.html Oh dear.]]]] |
| 304 | ** Oh, no, Xykon shows up and kills Belkar! But Vaarsuvius comes in a BigDamnHeroes move and places a ''forcecage'' around Redcloak, leaving Xykon undefended against Roy's attacks, and Roy manages to kill Xykon -- [[spoiler:oh, wait, it's a LotusEaterMachine.]] |
| 305 | ** The Order is finally on its way towards Kraagor's Gate, the last Gate preventing the re-entry of the Snarl into the world, after defeating the Linear Guild, and... [[spoiler:wait a moment, what do you mean with '''''[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0946.html Vampire Durkon is actually a High Priest of Hel with his own agenda]]'''''?]] |
| 306 | ** All but name-dropped in the title of [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1172.html "Ray of Hope",]] where it looks for a moment like Durkon has foiled [[spoiler:the vampires' plot by breaking the roof and letting the sun in]], only for the villain to realize he can simply move out of the way [[spoiler:while Durkon is petrified for breaking the rules]]. |
| 307 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: |
| 308 | ** Things would have gone a lot better for Azure City if Miko hadn't concluded that the Order of the Stick and Lord Shojo were in a vast evil conspiracy with Xykon and Redcloak based on a series of deductive leaps that would [[LogicalFallacies leave a logician weeping]]. |
| 309 | ** Tsukiko, no doubt, falling for Xykon's FauxAffablyEvil charm. The poor deluded soul seems to believe that he's hiding a caring heart under a tough exterior. Even the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Monster in the Darkness]] has worked out Xykon's status as an nonredeemable villain. She also believes Redcloak to be a spineless wimp [[spoiler:which is proven false when he kills her with minimal effort]]. |
| 310 | ** Celia as well, as shown by her misplaced trust in the guy who killed his brother in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0574.html "A Seller's Market"]] and her acceptance of Haley's lies in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0648.html "A Dish Best Served with +1d6 Cold Damage"]]. |
| 311 | ** Elan is immensely reluctant to admit that [[spoiler:his dad]] is a LawfulEvil general serving [[spoiler:(or rather, running)]] a brutal dictatorship... At least, he was until the latter [[KickTheDog kicked the dog so hard]] that he couldn't deny it any longer, though sometimes Elan chalks it up to ContractualGenreBlindness.[[invoked]] |
| 312 | ** Ian Starshine starts out seeing Elan as evil to the core and doubting any of the Order have redeeming features. He goes on to bond somewhat with Belkar, who he seems to consider less evil than the others. |
| 313 | ** Girard Draketooth is one of the "doesn't trust someone he should" variety. He believed it would take Soon and his paladins less than 12 weeks to break the non-interference oath. Soon went to his grave keeping the oath and his paladins were opposed to the idea of getting anywhere near the other gates. |
| 314 | * HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Hinted at with Belkar and Elan's comments about Owlbears. "I hope the owl was the male and the bear was the female..." |
| 315 | * HouseRules: |
| 316 | ** The verbal component of a spell is its name. The language of the speaker doesn't matter. Thus, Vaarsuvius is able to cast spells with a verbal component only even when under the effects of a ''baleful polymorph'' and thus only able to speak Lizard. (The bigger problem is the somatic component, as an elf turned into a lizard is lacking hands.) |
| 317 | ** Zz'dtri has a 3.0 edition version of the ''fly'' spell that was house-ruled in, which lasts longer than the 3.5 edition version of the spell. |
| 318 | ** The ''[[{{Flight}} overland flight]]'' spell can normally only be cast upon oneself. But in the [=OOTSverse=], it can also be targeted at other people. |
| 319 | ** ''Mass death ward'', which is normally an 8th level spell, is a 7th level spell in the [=OOTSverse=]. [[spoiler:Of course, this is a customized version of the spell that anyone can dismiss with a command word.]] |
| 320 | ** Rings of Regeneration work a lot more quickly. Normally, a Ring of Regeneration only heals 1 hit point per level per hour. Tarquin's ring can cause visible healing in a single round. |
| 321 | ** Normally, the ''protection from alignment'' spells do not have any negative effects when used to protect a creature of the alignment being protected from. But in the [=OOTSverse=], it gives them nasty headaches. |
| 322 | ** The ''implosion'' spell does not have to be an instantaneous OneHitKill and can be interrupted. |
| 323 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: Somewhat averted; sylphs like Roy's girlfriend Celia are ''supposed'' to be Small creatures, but Celia is "inexplicably Medium-sized." She's still rather petite compared to [[TheBigGuy Roy]], though. |
| 324 | * HulkSpeak: '''thog most prominent example''', but anyone with low enough intelligence score (like most orcs, ogres and a dwarf barbarian) tend to talk this way. Leading to the ultimate example, '''[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0367.html not nale, not-nale]]'''. And, being ''[=OotS=]'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0552.html lampshaded]]. |
| 325 | * HumanHammerThrow: Tarquin [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0851.html demonstrates his skill at dwarf-throwing]] while disguised as Thog, grabbing Durkon by the beard and spinning in a blur of movement (shown in a rare-for-the-comic top view) before tossing him away inside the ziggurat. |
| 326 | * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: To goblins, all the "proper" races are the real monsters. Humans, elves, gnomes, halflings... To these people, [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0707.html goblinoid lives]] are [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0539.html cheap]]. |
| 327 | * HumanShield: During the Order's fight against Hel's vampires, after dominating her, Vampire Durkon [[spoiler:orders Hilgya to give him her baby son Kudzu to dissuade Roy of throwing his sword again. Coupled with an ''anti-life shell'', the heroes are left with no safe way of hurting the master vampire]]. |
| 328 | -->'''Vampire Durkon:''' [[spoiler:Don't look at me like that. I promised not to harm the baby personally. If Roy throws his sword and hits the squirmy little brat, that's on him.]] |
| 329 | * HuntingTheRogue: A significant part of Haley's backstory. Haley was once a member of the Greysky City Rogue's Guild, until she quit due to better employment opportunities as an adventurer and due to new leadership making the organization less of a home for {{Loveable Rogue}}s and more of a haven of scoundrels. Unfortunately, [[ResignationsNotAccepted you're not allowed to leave the Rogue's Guild]], and when she returned to her hometown in ''Don't Split the Party'' the whole guild ganged up to capture her, and, even after that arc, the leader sent [[spoiler:a golem version of her old rival Crystal]] to hunt her down. |
| 330 | * HurricaneOfEuphemisms: During the Empire of Blood arc, Elan and Haley evade Tarquin several times by giving bizarre excuses (like cleaning their pet orangutan) that Tarquin [[ImaginedInnuendo assumes are euphemisms for sex]]. Tarquin then starts inventing his own euphemisms based on Elan's excuses, like "scrubbing the monkey." Subverted when Elan runs out of decent excuses: |
| 331 | -->'''Elan:''' [[spoiler:Uh, Dad?]] Haley and I need to go... uh... have sex. |
| 332 | * HurricaneOfPuns: |
| 333 | ** The first two sets of [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/Incentives.html incentive comics]]. |
| 334 | ** The [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0755.html parade]] in the Empire of Blood features far too many blood-themed puns. |
| 335 | ** The [[spoiler:[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0761.html duel between Elan and his father]]]] has probably set a new record for the amount of puns-per-panel. |
| 336 | ** [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1030.html The brainstorming session]] to find a new name for [[spoiler:Vampire Durkon]] results in plenty {{Punny Name}}s suggestions. |
| 337 | * HybridPower: The more divine "quiddities" go into making something, the stronger it is, which makes [[spoiler:the Snarl stronger than anything else in existence, as it was made by all four pantheons before killing off the Eastern gods.]] Minrah offers a PhlebotinumAnalogy about mutts being healthier than purebred dogs. |
| 338 | * HypocriticalHumor: |
| 339 | ** Roy asks the half-ogre in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0216.html "Perfect Combo"]] if it is unwise to try the same tactic turn after turn. [[spoiler:If you don't get it, Roy has been charging, and taking damage for no effect from the spiked chain/combat reflexes/stand still combo, 5 times counting the panel he asks it on. Judging by his expression in the last panel, though, he knew the cliff was there and [[GoodIsNotDumb purposely tricked the half-ogre into leaping off it.]]]] |
| 340 | ** Roy and Durkon's reaction to Haley's observation that Lawful Good types have a tendency to bully and try to force people to go along with their idea of "good" only proves her point. The strip the exchange appears in is called [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0844.html "Case in Point"]]. |
| 341 | ** The following exchange, when Roy is [[ShooOutTheClowns in no mood for hijinks]] following the news of [[spoiler:Durkon's death.]] |
| 342 | --->'''Belkar:''' Gee, I know this comic can get longwinded, but this is--\ |
| 343 | '''Roy:''' No {{breaking the fourth wall}}.\ |
| 344 | '''Elan:''' [[LampshadeHanging But Roy, you just]]--\ |
| 345 | '''Roy:''' Be quiet! |
| 346 | [[/folder]] |
| 347 | |
| 348 | [[folder:I]] |
| 349 | * IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: |
| 350 | ** [[spoiler:Tarquin, Elan and Nale's father]] remarks this about getting to [[LukeYouAreMyFather dramatically reveal his identity to his offspring]]. |
| 351 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0724.html He just wanted to keep the theme going.]] |
| 352 | * IAmNotLeftHanded: In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0064.html "Transference"]], Nale decides to try his luck fighting Roy. Roy then smiles and tells Nale this was a bad idea -- because he had been holding back the urge to beat up someone who looks exactly like Nale for quite a while now. |
| 353 | * IAmSpartacus: Parodied in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0777.html "Under the Arena"]]. |
| 354 | * IAteWhat: Durkon appears revolted and horrified after he discovers [[spoiler:what Malack's bloodwart tea contains (hint: the name describes the ingredients).]] He also (out of said horror) double-checks his new understanding of the recipe as soon as he realizes the truth. |
| 355 | * IBrokeANail: Elan recalls his mother frequently crying about "losing a nail" when he was a kid. When he meets his twin brother '''Nale''' who was taken by their father in the custody battle, it makes a bit more sense. Subverted in that Elan assumed it had something to do with hardware. |
| 356 | * ICantBelieveImSayingThis: Roy admits it about Belkar's opinion on the vampire. |
| 357 | -->'''Roy:''' I don't think Belkar is lying -- which, let's be clear, is not a sentence I'd ever thought I'd say -- but I also can't assume that he's not letting his anger cloud his judgment. |
| 358 | * IconicItem: Roy Greenhilt's green-hilted sword, which his family is named after and which is the reason he became a fighter in the first place. |
| 359 | * IdeaBulb: |
| 360 | ** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0025.html "Armor Begone"]], Elan gets a half-witted idea, represented by a ''candle''. |
| 361 | ** Later, in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0387.html "The Cliffport Redemption"]], a (better) idea is represented by a ''lantern''. |
| 362 | * IdenticalPanelGag: Of the separated-by-a-few-pages variant: |
| 363 | ** When the Azurite fleet is fighting against sea trolls, after defeating them once, Hinjo and Elan unwittingly dump them overboard, unaware that scrags regenerate when in contact with water. The panel where the trolls board again and attack anew is identical to the one of the first assault two pages earlier. |
| 364 | ** During a battle against frost giants, [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1056.html Haley gets slammed against the floor with a greataxe wielded by a giant cleric]]. Next page, she gets slammed again, and beyond a minor detail (the giant now having MindControlEyes), the panels are identical. |
| 365 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: Shojo knows what he's doing is morally questionable, but he did it for the good of his city. |
| 366 | -->'''Shojo:''' It's all well and good for you paladins to stick to your convictions, but if ''I'' make a mistake, half a million citizens pay for it. |
| 367 | * IdiotBall: |
| 368 | ** Elan carries this constantly for laughs because he's the [[QuirkyBard bard]]. All of the other characters alternate between carrying the IdiotBall, carrying the SmartBall, and behaving normally. |
| 369 | ** Lirian in ''Start of Darkness'' goes through more or less every power she has that WON'T work on a lich in her second duel with the newly lichefied Xykon. It's most likely a way for non-''D&D'' players to be [[LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe brought up to speed to all the powers and immunities of a lich]], but still you'd expect an epic level ex-adventurer would not try using Poison on an undead creature. |
| 370 | * IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: |
| 371 | ** The Perilous Path of Crushing Doom. |
| 372 | ** In ''Start of Darkness'' there is "Helldeathdoomfire Volcano". |
| 373 | * IDontPayYouToThink: Subverted when Belkar says this to Vaarsuvius. V angrily retorts that a wizard is not paid to do anything ''but'' [[TheSmartGuy think]]. |
| 374 | * IFellForHours: Judging from Roy's monologue, [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0443.html his famous fall]] takes at least a few minutes. ([[TalkingIsAFreeAction But then again...]]) |
| 375 | * IfWeGetThroughThis: Played with. When we first meet Kazumi and Daigo, they're [[NominalImportance nameless]] {{redshirt}}s agreeing to go on a date when this is all over, who then volunteer to hold off the enemy to cover Elan's escape... [[SortingAlgorithmOfMortality they sound doomed, right]]? Sure enough, soon afterwards Kazumi is weeping over Daigo's mortally wounded form, saying that he can't die, they were going to go on that date... [[spoiler:However, he gets better due to some LawOfNarrativeCausality silliness, and they end up getting married and being raised to the aristocracy.]] |
| 376 | * IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: |
| 377 | ** Tsukiko to Xykon. While he appreciates her magical ability (as much as he appreciates anyone), he's weirded out by her [[ILoveTheDead advances]] and tells her to keep things professional. [[spoiler: After Redcloak feeds her to her own wights and claims she was planning a coup, his reaction is basically, "Cool, we travel light."]] |
| 378 | ** The frost giant demigod Thrym's motives for supporting Hel are enigmatically hidden while the Order fight for their lives against his minions... [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1081.html turns out]] he's trying to impress her so she'll take him as her consort. He continues to [[SubordinateExcuse hang around]] as a SycophanticServant. Later, [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1170.html Thor bluntly tells him]], "Dude, she's just not that into you. You're embarrassing yourself." |
| 379 | --->'''Thrym:''' Is that all I am to you? A resource to be used in your scheme?\ |
| 380 | '''Hel:''' '''Yes!''' And I explicitly told you that from the start!\ |
| 381 | '''Thrym:''' Yeah, but I didn't think you ''meant'' it. |
| 382 | * IgnoredEnemy: A ninja and a huecuva try to kill Hinjo at the same time, but end up fighting each other instead over who gets to claim the kill. |
| 383 | -->'''Ninja:''' HEY! You got your hatred of all that's good and pure in my contract killing!\ |
| 384 | '''Huecuva:''' Well, you got your contract killing in my hatred of all that's good and pure! |
| 385 | * IgnoreTheFanservice: Roy for [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0355.html Sabine]], although he wasn't entirely unfazed by [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0035.html Haley's]]. |
| 386 | * TheIgor: Giro, Grubwiggler's stereotypical assistant. He isn't a real hunchback, though. |
| 387 | * IHaveNoIdeaWhatImDoing: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1020.html Blackwing admits it when about to read a magical scroll.]] But he puts this in the [[GoodNewsBadNews "good news"]] category, since indeed the MagicMisfire resulting from his haphazard reading is way more useful to the current situation than the actual spell on the scroll. |
| 388 | * IHaveNoSon: More accurately, [[spoiler:I have no brother: as Redcloak kills his brother Right-eye to protect Xykon, Redcloak's last words to him are "Goodbye, brother." Right-eye's last words are "Goodbye... ''Redcloak...''" a term that he saw as an insult. His last words are rejecting that Redcloak is his brother at all.]] |
| 389 | * IHaveNothingToSayToThat: Frequently used for punchlines. See [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0205.html "A Is Always A"]] and [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0485.html "Hey! You! Get Off of My Cloud!"]] (spoilers). |
| 390 | * IHaveThisFriend: A form of this is used by Roy in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0944.html strip #944]] when Vaarsuvius asks him for advice. "When I was younger... I knew a wizard." It's obvious to any dedicated reader that he's talking about his father Eugene. Note that V sees through it immediately. |
| 391 | * IKnowYouKnowIKnow: |
| 392 | ** Vaarsuvius does it [[http://www.GiantITP.com/comics/oots0789.html in strip #789]]: |
| 393 | --->'''Vaarsuvius:''' ...which in turn means that he knew that you would know that [[spoiler:he was in the empire]], and that you would know that he would know that you knew.\ |
| 394 | '''Elan:''' Which means... that I'm totally confused. |
| 395 | ** Defied by Roy when the team is discussing the extent of Girard Draketooth's duplicity in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0697.html "Stuck in the Sand Trap"]], including the possibility of a double-bluff. |
| 396 | --->'''Durkon:''' Aye, but wha if Girard thought o' everythin' ye just said, an' did tha opposite, just ta trick us?\ |
| 397 | '''Roy:''' I think we're quickly approaching the point that it doesn't matter if he did. |
| 398 | ** [[spoiler:The High Priest of Hel]] outright says it (although only in his head) when suspecting a gnome head cleric to be hiding something. |
| 399 | --->'''[[spoiler:[=HPoH=]]]:''' Say it. Come on! I know, you know, I know you know, and now you know I know! |
| 400 | ** It gets even worse when the Order [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1110.html are planning an attack on a den of vampires:]] |
| 401 | --->'''Belkar:''' This sucks! I thought we were gonna get the drop on Count Clownshoes and go all ninja stealth kill -- but now he's waiting for us so he can spring a big trap!\ |
| 402 | '''Roy:''' Now we ''know'' he's springing a trap.\ |
| 403 | '''Belkar:''' Anyone would know that! He wasn't super subtle about it, so what benefit did we get from Dwarf Mom's Greater Peepin' spell??\ |
| 404 | '''Roy:''' Ah, but he doesn't ''know'' that ''we'' know that it's a trap -- and even if he ''did'' know we know, he doesn't know that we know that he thinks he knows that we don't know.\ |
| 405 | '''Belkar:''' Sometimes I miss when you didn't bother explaining stuff to me. |
| 406 | * IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: |
| 407 | ** Celia attempts this on [[spoiler:the bone golem made from Roy's corpse. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0578.html Not surprisingly, she gets slashed for it;]] there's nothing left of the original mind in a golem, and Roy's very soul is floating around anyway.]] |
| 408 | ** Tsukiko tries this on [[spoiler:her wights when [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0830.html Redcloak takes control of them and orders them to kill her.]] Since they really are just unfeeling corpses bound to obey whoever commands them, it doesn't work.]] |
| 409 | * IllKillYou: |
| 410 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0351.html Said by Yokyok.]] |
| 411 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0419.html Miko to Belkar.]] |
| 412 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0608.html One heartfelt exchange]] between Haley and Crystal. |
| 413 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0756.html Amun-Zora to Tarquin.]] |
| 414 | * IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou: |
| 415 | ** Elan does this a few times in his origin story. When he finally "doesn't tell" a Rogue hotelier the precise location of all their valuable loot, and it's all stolen, his Paladin master has enough and rides off without him. |
| 416 | ** Thog also does this when he's captured along with Nale, and the Order is pondering how to de-petrify a sylph. |
| 417 | --->'''Thog: ha ha! they not have scroll!'''\ |
| 418 | '''Roy:''' Scroll?\ |
| 419 | '''Nale:''' Shut. Up.\ |
| 420 | '''Thog: ha! stupid talky man not have scroll nale has! ha ha!''' |
| 421 | * ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: |
| 422 | -->'''Vaarsuvius:''' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0118.html Damn it, I am a wizard, not a divining rod!]]\ |
| 423 | '''Durkon:''' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0260.html I be a healer, not a footstool!]]\ |
| 424 | '''Tinna:''' [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1099.html I'm an astronomer, not an adventurer.]] |
| 425 | * ImColdSoCold: Played for laughs in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0091.html this]] interlude. |
| 426 | * ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: Well, a post-death version, anyway, in ''Start of Darkness''. The previous bearer of the Crimson Mantle manifests in spirit form to his newly-minted acolyte, asking him to wear it and learn from it. The acolyte is reluctant to do so at first, because he's not qualified, but his master says (amid the carnage of scores of goblins being wiped out by the Sapphire Guard) that the acolyte is rapidly moving up in the church's hierarchy. The acolyte takes it, and gains powerful knowledge from it. [[spoiler:He later adopts the nickname, Redcloak.]] |
| 427 | * ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Averted for laughs: elven childhood lasts a ''long'' time. |
| 428 | * ImpactSilhouette: The Monster in the Darkness "lightly" hits Miko and Windstriker out of a tower, leaving two holes, one human-shaped and one horse-shaped, in the wall. |
| 429 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: |
| 430 | ** Roy is impaled on the nose-horn of a triceratops. He survives, albeit with severe injuries. |
| 431 | ** Two strips later, Elan attempts a GoThroughMe defence of Roy's injured body, and Tarquin stabs him so hard that the sword passes right through his torso and into Roy. |
| 432 | * ImpersonatingTheEvilTwin: Elan manages to (finally) use his twin situation to his advantage when he tricks a prisoner of [[spoiler:his father]] into attacking Nale by making said prisoner believe Nale is him. |
| 433 | * ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: [[spoiler:Malack is revealed to be a vampire, which in this universe is a spirit that takes over a body and represses the previous owner's consciousness until they cease to exist. The real Malack died centuries before the story began.]] |
| 434 | * ImpliedDeathThreat: |
| 435 | ** Vaarsuvius gets very annoyed at the rest of the Order while they're [[ForcedTransformation stuck in the form of a lizard]], and the first thing they do after being restored is to effortlessly Disintegrate a dragon that had been threatening them: |
| 436 | --->'''Vaarsuvius:''' Fascinating. I cannot help but notice that the disintegrated remains of a dragon are indistinguishable from those of a human, or a halfling, or a dwarf.\ |
| 437 | '''Roy:''' Point taken. |
| 438 | ** Subverted in another strip. Annoyed about being distracted from their research, Vaarsuvius [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0597.html threatens]] [[TheDitz Elan]]. |
| 439 | --->'''Vaarsuvius:''' Do as you wish, though I find it odd that one who just witnessed the haste with which I will remove that which distracts me from my crucial research would risk becoming just such a distraction one's self.\ |
| 440 | ''[{{beat panel}}]''\ |
| 441 | '''Vaarsuvius:''' Because then I might be forced to remove the distraction.\ |
| 442 | '''Elan:''' I don't get it.\ |
| 443 | '''Vaarsuvius:''' YOU are the distraction in this case. Remove the distraction, which is you. Remove YOU with haste.\ |
| 444 | '''Elan:''' ...what are you getting at?\ |
| 445 | '''Vaarsuvius:''' Oh, forget it. It would take longer to make you understand than it would to research the next spell. |
| 446 | * ImplausibleDeniability: Haley pulls this in an early comic (must be that Bluff skill of hers). |
| 447 | -->'''Roy:''' So that statue had the gems pried out of it before you showed up?\ |
| 448 | '''Haley:''' Right.\ |
| 449 | '''Roy:''' ''[off panel]'' And those two goblins were killed --\ |
| 450 | '''V:''' --[[CallingCard with green arrows.]]\ |
| 451 | '''Roy:''' --and stripped of their possessions beforehand?\ |
| 452 | '''Haley:''' Looks like.\ |
| 453 | '''Roy:''' And that treasure chest, with footprints of your size leading up to it, your lockpick still in the lock, and a strand of long red hair snagged in the latch?\ |
| 454 | '''Haley:''' ''[standing in front of a sack larger than her, brimming with gold and labelled "Haley's Loot"]'' Empty when I got here. |
| 455 | * ImprovisedLockpick: Haley [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0262.html picks]] a top-quality lock on a prison cell with nothing but two bits of straw and a [[ThePowerOfLove word of encouragement]] from her love interest. |
| 456 | * ImprovisedWeapon: |
| 457 | ** Xykon kills the wizard Fyron Pucebuckle by beating the man to death with his own Wizzie Award. |
| 458 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0396.html "thog improvise!"]] -- by breaking a door off its hinges and using it to batter Haley. |
| 459 | ** O-Chul takes out a Demon-Roach, Jirix, and Redcloak's right eye with a bar of his cage. |
| 460 | ** Belkar makes an angry mob back away from him... while armed with a pebble. |
| 461 | ** Roy shows us that [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0798.html Potions aren't just for drinking]] by smashing the bottle in Thog's face. |
| 462 | ** Roy again demonstrates he can think on his feet by using [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0905.html the stone lid of Girard's casket against a couple of fiends]]. |
| 463 | * ImStandingRightHere: |
| 464 | ** Hinjo practically invokes it when [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0420.html Roy and Belkar openly discuss how to get Belkar out of his prison sentence.]] |
| 465 | --->'''Hinjo:''' I still get to make Listen checks when I'm three feet away, you know. |
| 466 | ** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1104.html "Plan of Inaction"]], the team comes up with a strategy to deal with their current situation, only for their opponents to counter every move because they were planning it ''right in front of them''. |
| 467 | * ImThinkingItOver: In the second strip, the party is split into two teams, by the traditional method of Roy and Haley taking turns choosing someone. Eventually, Elan is the only one left, and it's Roy's turn to choose. |
| 468 | -->'''Elan:''' Ooh! C'mon! Pick me!\ |
| 469 | '''Durkon:''' Are ye gonna...\ |
| 470 | '''Roy:''' I'm thinking. |
| 471 | * InconvenientSummons: |
| 472 | ** While Roy is fishing with his grandfather in the Lawful Good afterlife, the fish suddenly disappears off his hook. Roy's grandfather explains that it was summoned, and remarks that "someone must be having an underwater adventure". |
| 473 | ** Haley summons Celia (unintentionally) while she is sleeping. She is angry at first because she thinks that it's her mother to ask why she isn't married yet, but when it turns out to be Haley, that's okay with her. |
| 474 | ** In a ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' strip, a celestial dog is summoned just before it could finish the cure for all diseases. |
| 475 | --->'''Elan:''' Are you sure it's OK to summon celestials just to fight goblins?\ |
| 476 | '''Durkon:''' It's just a dog. It be no harm, no foul.\ |
| 477 | '''Fiendish Rat:''' ''[summoned by the goblin cleric]'' Darn it! I can't believe this guy summoned me RIGHT when I was alphabetizing my spice rack! |
| 478 | * IndustrializedEvil: [[spoiler:Malack's]] plan for the Empire of Blood (after the death of Tarquin and his other mortal party members) was to [[spoiler:institute industrialized mass sacrifice of sapients to Nergal, God of Death, while harvesting their blood to feed his vampire ruling caste.]] |
| 479 | * INeedToGoIronMyDog: |
| 480 | ** A pair of lantern archons resorts to this kind of excuse when the Monster in the Darkness [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0194.html begs them to hit him with their beams of light]], and they interpret it as some kind of fetish. |
| 481 | --->'''Lantern Archon #1:''' Um, yeah, so, we have to go take care of this... thing.\ |
| 482 | '''Lantern Archon #2:''' Yeah, hu, this thing we were supposed to take care of. Over there. Away from here. |
| 483 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0740.html Elan and Haley go back to their room to give their pet orangutan a bath]]. This is [[ImaginedInnuendo interpeted as innuendo]] for bonus points. |
| 484 | ** And then, having realized how this pretense is getting interpreted and that it's [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0789.html still considered an acceptable excuse:]] |
| 485 | --->'''Elan:''' Uh, Dad? Haley and I need to go... uh... [[InvertedTrope have sex]].\ |
| 486 | '''Tarquin:''' Well, you'll miss the big fight, but you do what you need to do.\ |
| 487 | '''Haley:''' Come on, V. And bring the cat, just in case.\ |
| 488 | '''Tarquin:''' [[DullSurprise Huh]]. |
| 489 | * INeedYouStronger: |
| 490 | ** During the siege of Azure City, Xykon offers to postpone his fight with Roy so that Roy can get strong enough to [[SpiritedCompetitor pose a bigger challenge]]. Roy refuses. [[UnderestimatingBadassery He shouldn't have.]] |
| 491 | ** Similarly, Tarquin refuses to fight Elan -- not because he's his son, but because Tarquin sees himself as the BigBad, and therefore feels that for the sake of the story Elan needs to get back to his existing quest, [[{{Angst}} brooding all the while]] over his [[LukeIAmYourFather newfound relation]] to an EvilOverlord, and return when he's [[TookALevelInBadass taken several levels in badass]] for the FinalBattle. |
| 492 | * IneffectualDeathThreats: Belkar tends to consider any threats to his life as this (and to be snarky about it, too), since he has a high opinion of his fighting skills. To tell the truth, he's been right thus far. There's notably the instance with Crystal: |
| 493 | -->'''Crystal:''' You little twit, I'm gonna kill you!\ |
| 494 | '''Belkar:''' Yeah, and I'm gonna drop a house on you and sing about how I represent the Lollipop Guild. C'mon, let's keep our threats realistic, shall we?\ |
| 495 | I mean, if you said, "You little twit, I'm going to temporarily inconvenience you!" I'd think, hey, she might really mean it! |
| 496 | * INeverGotAnyLetters: After meeting Tarquin for the first time, [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0751.html Elan asks him]] why he never contacted him when he was growing up. Tarquin claims to have sent Elan a letter explaining the reasons for his absence, and suspects that Elan's mother threw it away - much to Elan's shock. Given what we find out about Tarquin afterwards, [[UnreliableNarrator it's not clear]] if this is actually the case. |
| 497 | * InfernalFugitives: Three damned souls are [[SymbioticPossession spliced]] to [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius]] to fulfill a [[DealWithTheDevil bargain for power]], but break away and escape when their host's concentration is broken. The [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils archfiend]] who owns one of the souls idly mentions sending someone out to collect her, but seems unconcerned. |
| 498 | * InferredHolocaust: Invoked. [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius]] uses "[[http://oots.wikia.com/wiki/Familicide Familicide]]" on an ObviouslyEvil [[DarkIsEvil Black]] Dragon. This spell kills everyone who shares the blood of the subject, regardless of their distance from the subject, along with all who share ''their'' blood. Dragons are ColorCodedForYourConvenience, so nobody really cares about the death of about 1/4th of the planet's black dragon population. The problem is, "[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0843.html the propensity]] for both dragons and humans to [[HalfHumanHybrid breed outside their species is well-documented.]]" [[spoiler:Order of the Scribble illusionist Girard's surname is ''Drake''tooth ''[[MeaningfulName for a reason.]]'' V's Familicide spell killed every one of the Draketooth family. And as the Draketooths propagated by seducing random bystanders and absconding with the resulting children, all those bystanders, along with ''their'' families, are dead as well. At least [[WordOfGod Word of the Giant]] confirmed that [[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?287767-How-Did-Familicide-Stop/page3&p=15461169#post15461169 Draketooth was an isolated case]], otherwise the death toll could well be even higher...]] |
| 499 | * InfiniteCanvas: Occasionally. |
| 500 | ** The most remarkable example is certainly [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0443.html Roy's fall]]. |
| 501 | ** Also, Haley breaking [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0518.html the third wall]] for a change. |
| 502 | * InformedAttractiveness: A few, due to the art style. |
| 503 | ** Samantha or Haley are supposed to be very beautiful, despite having the same basic design as every other human character. |
| 504 | ** Similarly, Elan has an 18 charisma in a system where an 18 represents the peak of human perfection. He is ''incredibly'' attractive. Not that we can tell. |
| 505 | ** Julia Greenhilt is apparently the object of lust for most of the boys her age, and judging by her attempts to flirt with [[NotDistractedByTheSexy Durkon]] she's used to getting attention from older men as well ("[[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey This always works]] [[HotForStudent on my teachers]]..."). Of course, as far as the readers are concerned she's just another stick figure. |
| 506 | * InformedAttribute: Nobody is aware that Haley is wearing long pants until she points it out. |
| 507 | * InItsHourOfNeed: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0467.html Hinjo does not want to leave Azure City in its hour of need]]. It takes four separate appeals to persuade him. (And then Belkar gets into the act, just to get a chance to insult him.) |
| 508 | -->'''Haley:''' And second, Azure City's hour of need was, like, three hours ago, and you were there for that. |
| 509 | * InLoveWithTheMark: Therkla. [[spoiler:She's ultimately killed for it]]. |
| 510 | * InnerThoughtsOutsiderPuzzlement: |
| 511 | ** When the Order first meet Nale and the Linear Guild, right after they agree to team up Nale goes into a Diabolical InnerMonologue. Unlike most cases where such a monologue is implied to happen instantly or to just be for the sake of the audience, Nale's goes on for so long that eventually Haley asks Roy why the hell Nale is just standing there zoned out. |
| 512 | ** The [[spoiler:vampire spirit]] that possesses Durkon's body thinks that Durkon is showing him irrelevant memories in an attempt to invoke this trope and make the other members of the Order notice that Durkon is NotHimself. The [[spoiler:vampire]] mocks this, claiming that since it's viewing Durkon's memories at the sped of thought, no amount of stalling can take long enough to make others notice that something is wrong. [[spoiler:However, the end of the battle between the vampire, its spawn, and the Order in Thor's temple shows that a sufficiently important, complex, or weighty memory (or series of memories) ''can'' in fact distract the vampire long enough for others to notice.]] |
| 513 | * InnocentInnuendo: |
| 514 | ** Played for laughs in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0028.html "Just Like on Three's Company"]]. |
| 515 | ** One from the Monster in the Darkness: |
| 516 | --->'''[=MitD=]:''' Your screws have thumbs on them? Neat! I wonder if they can screw themselves... |
| 517 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0418.html Everyone wants a ride on Hinjo's junk.]] |
| 518 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0123.html At an inn]], Haley and Vaarsuvius share a room, while the guys are next door. The guys can hear them talking through the thin wall, and it sounds like they're comparing breast-sizes, and V asks if they can touch Haley's. The two are actually comparing some gems, and [[GenreSavvy Haley guesses]] that the guys are overhearing their conversation, thinking they're doing something dirty. |
| 519 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0970.html Bandana has never seen much use for wands.]] Now, if you remember she's a lesbian... |
| 520 | * InsaneTrollLogic: |
| 521 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0700.html Tsukiko's stance]] on TheUndead. |
| 522 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0725.html The Empress of Blood]] also gives a good example of Cum hoc fallacy. |
| 523 | ** And of the ArtisticLicenseEconomics variety: The couple that owns the potions store where V goes to buy once doesn't understand how economy works... they always charge less for one potion than what it costs. They believe that, by selling in volume, they compensate, but since the only thing they sell is potions, all of them at a loss, they do nothing but lose money. And when V points this out... '''they start a sale'''. |
| 524 | ** The ship's engineer [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1066.html drops a doozy]] after being accused of staging the mutiny because the new Captain being younger than her. |
| 525 | --->'''Andromeda:''' Wrong! That's not it at all! [[CommanderContrarian It just so happens that all your decisions are wrong, and the other options are right, by default]].\ |
| 526 | '''Bandana:''' If you're gonna tie my hands up, at least have the manners to stop saying stuff that's just begging for a {{facepalm}}. |
| 527 | * InsatiableNewlyweds: Once [[spoiler:Elan and Haley [[RelationshipUpgrade get together]]]], they have a hard time keeping their hands off each other. They even make use of the setting's magical and fantastical elements to enjoy some... novel experiences. Including doing it on the back of a gigantic [[Literature/{{Dune}} Sandworm]] |
| 528 | * InstantIceJustAddCold: |
| 529 | ** Vaarsuvius's [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0041.html Cone of Cold.]] |
| 530 | ** An intermittent effect of Haley's "Icy Burst" bow. It also produces a pleasant peppermint aroma. |
| 531 | * InstantlyProvenWrong: |
| 532 | ** During the fight between "Darth V" and Xykon, after being hit by a ''superb dispelling'' spell and getting woozy from Tsukiko's ''mind fog'', the soul splices inside Vaarsuvius' head reassert their presence: "Do not worry! We are still here!" "Even epic magic cannot break our--" That is, until Xykon smashes the elf with a big piece of masonry, breaking their concentration. Ganoron and Jephton's spirits immediately leave, bellying their false reassurance. |
| 533 | ** At the Godsmoot, while the High Priestess of Odin is announcing the order of the day for the meeting, Roy is ignoring her words and arguing with Wrecan that he should go looking for Belkar before he'd cause trouble. He even adds "...there's nothing anyone can say that will stop me from--" just as the Lady of Odin concludes [[spoiler:that the gods are going to vote on whether they should destroy the world or not]]. That shuts up Roy real fast. |
| 534 | * InstantRunes: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0635.html "I See a Red Robe and I Want to Paint it Black"]]. (Über spoilers!) |
| 535 | * InstitutionalApparel: Prisoners in Cliffport City wear black-and-white stripped shirts. Elan is GenreSavvy enough to know that the first thing you do after breaking from jail is to change clothes. |
| 536 | * InsultToRocks: |
| 537 | ** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0285.html "A Moment of Truth"]], V compares Belkar's mental abilities to a table. V [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0286.html later apologizes to the tables of the world]] for comparing Belkar to them. |
| 538 | ** When Belkar comments on seeing that O-Chul survived Azure City that "those paladins are like roaches", one of the [[GreekChorus Demon-roaches]] takes offence. |
| 539 | * InternalRetcon: Forms the conclusion to the [[spoiler:Greysky City]] arc, though how long it will last is unknown. |
| 540 | * InterrogatedForNothing: Redcloak tortures O-Chul for weeks after the capture of Azure City to get him to reveal details of the guardianship of the remaining Gates, details that O-Chul doesn't have because his order put HonorBeforeReason and never violated their oaths to find out. Later, it is revealed that Redcloak has known for a long time that O-Chul really didn't know anything, but has been continuing the torture anyway as a ruse to keep Xykon in Azure City long enough to solidify the hobgoblin regime. |
| 541 | * InterrogatingTheDead: |
| 542 | ** Played for laughs; Xykon needs Redcloak to cast ''Speak with Dead'' so he can ask a dead goblin where his keys are. |
| 543 | ** Later, the Order of the Stick tries the same spell on [[spoiler:a deceased Draketooth clan member.]] Just as Durkon warned, though, corpses are rather poor informants. |
| 544 | * InterruptedBath: The Oracle of the Sunken Valley apparently can't take a bath without being interrupted by a visit from adventurers. |
| 545 | -->'''Oracle:''' Jeez, I can peer into the murky depths of the future, yet I always seem to get interrupted during bath time. |
| 546 | * InterspeciesRomance: "Come here, my snuggly green cutie-pie!" The orcs are quite squicked out when hearing half-orc/half-human Therkla's (one-panel) backstory, which in a subversion of the expected RapeAsBackstory of most half-orcs, features SickeninglySweethearts. |
| 547 | * IRegretNothing: Fruit Pie the Sorcerer's dying words. |
| 548 | * IResembleThatRemark: |
| 549 | ** In the prequel ''On the Origin of [=PCs=]'', after Roy claims that wizards put too much faith in magic, his father Eugene immediately proves his point by asserting loudly that magic is perfect and all-powerful. |
| 550 | ** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0844.html "Case in Point"]], ChaoticGood(ish) Haley points out that lawful types have a tendency to make other people agree with them... or else. LawfulGood characters Roy and Durkon immediately tell her that this is absurd and to stop with the crazy talk.[[invoked]] |
| 551 | * IronicEcho: |
| 552 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0372.html "Pot v. Kettle"]]: |
| 553 | --->'''Xykon:''' Meh. As last words go, I've heard better.\ |
| 554 | [...]\ |
| 555 | '''Miko:''' Meh. As indignant speeches go, I've heard better. |
| 556 | ** Discussing Miko in [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0412.html #412]]: |
| 557 | --->'''Haley:''' Wow... So can you guys believe Miko flipped out like that?\ |
| 558 | '''Elan:''' Yup.\ |
| 559 | '''Durkon:''' Sadly, aye.\ |
| 560 | '''V:''' I find it to be entirely in keeping with what I know of her.\ |
| 561 | '''Haley:''' No, no, I meant did you expect her to flip out in that ''exact'' manner?\ |
| 562 | '''Elan:''' Oh! No, not at all.\ |
| 563 | '''Durkon:''' Nay.\ |
| 564 | '''V:''' I find it to be entirely in keeping with what I know of her. |
| 565 | ** "[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0615.html ... I intend to betray your principles]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0621.html all over the friggin' place]]." |
| 566 | ** "[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0796.html Stop]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0808.html talking]]." |
| 567 | ** Invoked with Belkar's use of "[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0602.html brought upon]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0613.html yourself]]" towards Haley. |
| 568 | ** Two for the price of one in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0936.html #936:]] |
| 569 | -->'''Elan:''' You know, the first time I met Nale, we wound up in almost this exact same situation. He wound up hanging over a pit of monsters, and I pulled him up. He didn't understand why I did it. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0069.html I told him that it was because I was the Good twin, not the Neutral twin.]]...But see, [[spoiler:Dad]], that's the thing. [[spoiler:I'm not a twin anymore.]] And you're not the '''real''' villain. Don't worry. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0929.html You'll live.]] |
| 570 | ** "[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0648.html Especially you.]]" were the last words Haley told Crystal before [[spoiler:killing her. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0978.html 330 strips later]], Crystal returned as a flesh golem rants at Haley, "''I HATE EVERYONE! ESPECIALLY '''YOU'''!''"]] |
| 571 | * IronicName: |
| 572 | ** The prequel book, ''Start of Darkness'', gives us a [[AdiposeRex fat demon lord]] named "Xyklon the Consequential". He is of no consequence. |
| 573 | ** Lord Tyrinar the Bloody was neither tyrannical nor bloody and was little more than a PuppetKing. He was mostly a whiner who would have been fine with converting the country he "ruled" into a democracy. |
| 574 | * IronicNickname: Invoked by the Thieves' Guild. Old Blind Pete, formerly "Eagle-Eyed", advises Celia that when doing business with criminals, it's best not to nickname yourself after a body part you can't afford to lose. [[spoiler:Turns out this doesn't cut it, as he learns when his old betrayed friend decides to start calling him "Brainy Pete" just before bashing his skull in.]] |
| 575 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 576 | ** Girard believed that Soon would betray the oaths for some self-appointed authoritarian reason and booby-trapped the location he gave. Given what he says about Serini and the backdoor summon clause in Dorukan's Cloister spell, Soon was the only one who didn't betray the oath. |
| 577 | ** Malack greatly helps Durkon in his research for the ''Mass Death Ward'' spell, allowing access to his extensive library and "[[StealthPun spell-checking]]" the dwarf's first draft. [[spoiler:This same spell is later the major factor giving Durkon the advantage in his fight against the vampire cleric. Though that is subverted when Malack reveals he was smart enough to leave a backdoor password specifically so the spell could't be used against him.]] |
| 578 | ** Belkar has been a sociopath pretending to have character development into "chaotic neutral" territory. It turns out he really [[BecomingTheMask HAS gotten a LOT more innocent]], and has been [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0890.html pretending]] now to be the same psycho sociopath he had been before. |
| 579 | ** Tarquin was heavily dismissive of Nale as a villain and a foil to Elan, only for his final confrontation with Elan to go almost the exact same way as Nale's first confrontation did: with him hanging off a precipice begging Elan to save him. [[spoiler:Only with Tarquin, Elan wasn't feeling so generous due to his twin's recent murder.]] Elan even lampshades it. |
| 580 | ** Despite his [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0050.html extensive multi-classing]] and self-proclaimed intellect, Nale is somehow a worse jack-of-all-trades than his brother. Elan [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0393.html clearly is the superior combatant]] and also a useful healer and support. |
| 581 | ** The Thieves' Guild wanted to spin [[ResignationsNotAccepted Haley's resignation from them]] as a ploy, so anyone who might hire non-Guild thief runs the risk of them actually being a Guild plant who will murder them for hiring scabs. Roy explicitly refused to hire Haley unless she was a Guild-approved thief because he didn't want to be murdered for hiring scabs and she had to forge her licence. |
| 582 | * IsTheAnswerToThisQuestionYes: Belkar has his own version of the response in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0798.html "Change of Plans"]]: |
| 583 | -->'''Roy:''' Belkar, can you bust out of here on your own?\ |
| 584 | '''Belkar:''' Does Durkon need to bathe more? |
| 585 | * ItHasBeenAnHonor: |
| 586 | ** Subverted in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0284.html "Shattered Expectations"]], where Roy thinks the party has been found guilty of a capital crime, only to realize [[WontTakeYesForAnAnswer that he's misheard]]. |
| 587 | ** Played straight by Blackwing in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1020.html "Scroll Left"]] as he's [[SwarmOfRats swarmed by rats]]. |
| 588 | --->'''Blackwing:''' I just want to say that it's been an honor and a privilege serving as animal buddies with all of you. |
| 589 | * IThinkYouBrokeHim: The last panel of [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0245.html "Easy Come, Easy Go"]]. |
| 590 | * IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat: Celia designs her summoning talisman to [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0529.html break from energy blasts]], completely unaware that this was not something normal humans could do at will, which leads to some [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0443.html unfortunate consequences]] when Roy fails to use it. She can also detect abjurations like the Cloister spell through the way her teeth tingle. Because she thinks everybody can do the same, she only mentions it in passing, assuming Haley already knows about it; when she finds out Haley doesn't, she actually gets angry about how worthless human(oid) senses seem to be compared to her own. |
| 591 | * ItsPersonal: |
| 592 | ** '''"[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0795.html TALKY-MAN BROKE THOG'S TUSK!]]"''' |
| 593 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0811.html "Malack. How's the family?" "HARM."]] |
| 594 | * ItsTheBestWhateverEver: |
| 595 | ** Elan has a habit of saying this, usually shortly before the other shoe drops. |
| 596 | *** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0056.html "It was the best adventure EVER!"]] |
| 597 | *** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0647.html "Woooooo! Wind Walk is the best cleric spell ever!!!"]] |
| 598 | *** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0750.html "That was the best day EVER!"]] Wait for the surprise, Elan, wait for the surprise... |
| 599 | *** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0916.html "I'm not the leader of my team, Dad. Roy is, and he's the best hero EVER."]] Now, Elan, that's very nice to say, but rather poorly timed.... |
| 600 | ** Elan is taking after his dad, and together they are going to tell "[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html the best story EVER.]]" |
| 601 | ** The Monster in the Darkness can get into this too: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0463.html "This is the best tea party EVER!!"]] |
| 602 | * IWantGrandkids: |
| 603 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0600.html Roy's mother.]] |
| 604 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0529.html Celia's mother]] too, apparently. |
| 605 | * IWouldSayIfICouldSay: Redcloak points out to Xykon that since Kraagor killed thousands of goblins while he was alive, he doesn't care what disrespectful things the lich does to his memorial statue, up to and including pissing on its face... but he then adds that this particular course of action would bring up some biology questions (presumably related to Xykon not actually ''having'' any). |
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