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7->''"The World Wide Web is like a spider's web -- full of dirt and bugs."''
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9''[[http://sabrina-online.com/ Sabrina Online]]'' is a UsefulNotes/{{Furry|Fandom}} Webcomic created by Eric W. Schwartz, who consistently managed to release the comic's monthly batches of strips on time for twenty years (1996 to 2016) and now does story strips as the mood desires.
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11The comic's story revolves around the SliceOfLife tales of Sabrina, a quiet, nerdy skunk who works as a web designer. Unable to find another job after being replaced by a clip-art library, Sabrina finds work as the webmaster for ZZ Studios, a porn studio run by its star and namesake, Zig Zag. The tone is gently restrained, with an uncomfortable heroine growing used to her new job--and an eventual love interest--while her friends around her (including her living ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' figures!) have their own personal adventures in life and love.
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13Schwartz brought the series proper to an end on the 15th of September 2016, twenty years to the day of the first strip's publication. His announcement said the final strip wouldn't be ''the'' last, but subsequent stories will be on a "when the mood strikes" basis rather than monthly updates to the comic. Of course, contributing to the strip's [[https://www.patreon.com/SabrinaOnline Patreon]] account can encourage the mood to strike him more often.
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15The first after-series comics deal with Sabrina's pregnancy and birth of her daughter Danielle, with later comics showing the lives of her, her family (immediate and extended) and friends as the years pass. Previews of upcoming new comics can be seen on Schwartz's [[https://www.patreon.com/SabrinaOnline Patreon]].
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17Not to be confused with Franchise/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch, or the 1954 film ''Film/{{Sabrina|1954}}''. Is related to ''ComicStrip/SabrinaAtSeeCAD'', a comic written from 1993 to 1994 and--while having some of the same characters--is [[SchrodingersCanon not exactly canon]] to ''Sabrina Online''.
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20!! ''Sabrina Online'' contains the following tropes:
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22* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline265.GIF Zig Zag glued miniature dildos onto some of Sabrina's Transformers]], [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline266.GIF Sabrina eventually admits that it's kinda funny.]]
23* AllMenArePerverts: Sabrina made the mistake of [[ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet announcing she is female in an IRC room]], and this was the result.
24--> [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline18.GIF "Then I deleted the IRC client and set the original disk on fire."]]
25* AllThereInTheScript: Thomas's parents (Roy and Sarah Woolfe) are named in notes in their debut strip, and Amy's father (Carl Squirrel) is named in the title of the debut strip for Amy's parents. {{Averted}} with Amy's mother (Carrie), as well as Sabrina and R.C.'s parents: Warren and Endora ([[NoFullNameGiven last name unknown]]), and Conrad and Rainflower Conrad, are named in-strip.
26* AltarTheSpeed: Discussed but averted as seeing it on a sitcom doesn't mean it will work. Amy wanted to marry before having the baby out of wedlock, but instead, the marriage happened after the birth, resulting in the baby crying during the ceremony.
27* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents:
28** R.C.'s parents are open and accepting parents who are very concerned to find out whether his sex life with Sabrina is as fulfilling as it should be, mortifying the shy man beyond belief. His father pushes it even further by asking "what it's like with a skunk girl" because he'd always fantasized about it. For example, the first time Sabrina met R.C.'s parents, they slipped into his apartment (they have a key) while they were sleeping naked after a night of sex. Also, apparently R.C.'s dad ''grabbed Zig Zag's ass'' at their wedding. Not that she minded, just that she never expected Sabrina's parents-in-law to be so open. He did it again when they were gathering for the birth of Sabrina's child. Richard's mother, Rainy, apparently has ''no'' problem with it, claiming they have a deal where he's allowed to grab Zig Zag's ass once for each ass of a James Bond she's grabbed (they're even now apparently).
29** Then there's [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline70.GIF Amy's dad:]]
30---> '''Carl:''' CARRIE!! Come out and meet your grandchild!!\
31'''Carrie:''' My WHAT!?
32* AnimatedOuttakes: The {{Creator/Pixar}} style outtakes included as a bonus print feature in ''Sabrina Online A Decade in Black and White.'' Including R.C. being replaced briefly by a [[TheOtherDarrin sack of Idaho potatoes]].
33* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Tabitha to [[FunetikAksent Sabeena]]. As of the more modern comics, she's grown out of it and become more of a BrattyTeenageDaughter to her parents.
34* ArtEvolution:
35** Averted for the first 20 years; the art style and quality didn't change from [[http://sabrina-online.com/1996-01.html 1996]] to [[http://sabrina-online.com/2016-03.html 2016]] with the exception of holiday strips and the final strip. Starting from 2017 the strips have higher resolution, colour and different panel layout (2x6 instead of 3x1, 4x1 or 5x1). As of [[http://sabrina-online.com/2021-01.html 2021]] the author's been gradually changing characters' clothes and hairstyles and aging them up. He also redrew several scenes from the old comic — like Amy meeting Tom — in the new style.
36** In the story arc [[https://www.sabrina-online.com/2021-01.html "A Meeting of Moms"]] the art is less detailed as if done in a rush.
37** Even comparing the characters to their pre-strip appearances has several noticeable changes such as Sabrina's longer tail in ''ComicStrip/SabrinaAtSeeCAD'' and Amy Squirrel's lack of a shirt in her appearances in various Amiga magazines.
38* ArtShift:
39** Every 100 strips, the main comic was in color, [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline200.JPG such as this one.]] As of the end of the main strip and the strips now being as the author feels, they're all in color.
40** Sabrina's webcomic that is an {{expy}} of herself drawn in a grittier style. Lampshaded to no end.
41** [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline262.GIF One strip]] is done by Mat Sherer in his style of ''Webcomic/BadlyDrawnKitties''.
42** Used when showing panels from ''Lena's''.
43* ArtifactTitle: The comic is called ''Sabrina Online'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin because it debuted online]], but that didn't stop the series from keeping the name when the strips were converted into printed omnibuses with their own exclusive comics that have never been published onto the official site.
44* ArtisticLicenceGeography:
45** Although the comic is explicitly set in the real-life location of Columbus, Ohio, and adheres to real-life geography on a broader scale (correct interstate numbers and travel times between cities for example), in [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline80.GIF this strip]] the given address of Double Z Studios - 632 Industrial Pkwy, Worthington - is fictional, as there is no street with that name in that particular suburb. The closest road with that name is a rural highway well to the west.
46** The studios [[http://sabrina-online.com/2017-01.html in the Baby Steps comic]] are seen to be located in a dense industrial block immediately adjacent to the downtown area and within walking distance of at least 2 restaurants. Real-life Worthington is a mostly residential area 10 miles from downtown Columbus.
47* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Zig Zag's trial for beating up Sabrina's mugger. RuleOfFunny and RuleOfDrama (as well as CourtroomAntics cliches) were in full effect.
48* AssholeVictim: The dude who mugged, and later nearly killed, Sabrina had Zig Zag beat the shit out of him. This proved to be the beginning of a very long -— and, arguably, well-deserved -— HumiliationConga.
49* AsideGlance: Often enough to smash the fourth wall.
50* AuthorAppeal: Sabrina's Amiga advocacy, the talking ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' figures, and, by [[WordOfGod Schwartz's own admission]], the inclusion of Zig Zag.
51* BackForTheFinale: (A ''very'' pregnant) Carli and Spike (who had been OutOfFocus for a few years) show up in the final strips as virtual guests (via livestreaming) at Sabrina's wedding. Carli goes into labor, but refuses to go to the hospital until she actually sees Sabrina say "I do."
52* BarefootCartoonAnimal: The entire cast.
53* BerserkButton: Zig Zag has several.
54** Bringing up her past as anything other than a set of facts (and even that chafes).
55** It's also hinted that Zig doesn't take kindly to anyone who tries to [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline209.GIF hurt her or her friends.]]
56** An arc launched in December 2010 implies she doesn't take kindly to the [[ForumSpeak G.I.F.T]] in action.
57** In June 2014, a psychiatrist states outright that she has several buttons that can cause her to react adversely.
58* BigNo: When the Decepticon figures heard that [[http://rigby-jones.net/es/sabrina/art/SabOnline517.gif Sabrina was getting a replacement]] ''Revenge of the Fallen'' Optimus Prime... after what went on ''before'' Timothy stepped in, you can't blame them in the least!
59* BigSisterInstinct: If Zig Zag has anything to do with it, Tabitha will ''not'' be acting in adult movies.
60* BookEnds: One of the first storylines was of Amy's new boyfriend Thomas, which led to Amy's pregnancy, complete with a comic showing her egg facing down a swarm of sperm. The main comic ended with Sabrina and Richard's wedding, followed by their honeymoon, and a direct CallBack to that comic to show Sabrina's pregnancy.
61* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Zig Zag [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline595.GIF complains]] of her lack of friends to hang out with:
62--> With the others it's about business, or sex... or sexy business.
63* BreakingTheFourthWall:
64** Special strips for holidays - most especially April Fools - will be completely and utterly medium-aware. The main storyline has [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline306.GIF some]] [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline477.GIF moments]] of this as well.
65--> '''Amy:''' Must be tough waiting so long to get a car. ''[points out to the viewer]'' To them, too.\
66'''Timothy:''' ''[Waves 'Hi']''
67** A bonus story for the strip's 400th strip depicts the cast as actors having a wrap party celebrating the occasion. To drive in the meta humor further, the characters admit their "off-camera" lives are very much the same as the ones depicted in the comic strip, with the exception of revealing DawsonCasting going on with Timmy's stunt double.
68* BreakoutCharacter: Zig Zag, to the point that the December 2010 and June 2014 groups of strips focus on her--and don't feature Sabrina at all.
69* BritishBrevity: ''Sabrina Online'' is sort of a webcomic version of this, since Schwartz produces an average of three or four strips a month. Not much for a webcomic, but usually enough to keep fans happy, as the archive site presents them as one long comic.
70* TheBusCameBack: Michael Fox, Sabrina's boyfriend in the non-canon ''ComicStrip/SabrinaAtSeeCAD'' appears in the bonus story about Amy and Thomas' wedding where he is Thomas' best man.
71* ButWeUsedACondom: {{Discussed}} and mildly {{fauxshadow|ing}}ed [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline172.GIF prior to Sabrina and R.C.'s first time.]] R.C. mentioned the condom he had was sitting in his wallet for a couple years. Fortunately, nothing goes wrong, and Sabrina doesn't get pregnant until their wedding night at the end of the series.
72* ButtMonkey: R.C. becomes this in "Baby Steps", the first post-series series. He ended up seeing more of the birth than he needed to see (much like Thomas before, with Timmy's birth), and also cracked multiple ribs when Sabrina crushed him during labor pains. And he was knocked around by a rush of family and friends when they went to see Sabrina and Danielle after the birth.
73-->'''Richard:''' Uhh... if not for the baby, this would be the worst day of my life.
74* BuxomBeautyStandard: ''Tabitha'' of all characters is impressed by Zig Zag's assets, and tells her that she hopes to be as well endowed when she grows up to be able to "[[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey boss boys around]]." Cue Tabitha's surprise when Zig Zag points out that she believes ''Endora'' actually is a larger cup size than her.
75* CanonDiscontinuity: The pre-Sabrina Online series ''ComicStrip/SabrinaAtSeeCAD'' depicts several characters which got axed from the eventual canon of the later strip such as Sabrina's boyfriend Michael Fox (no, not ''that'' Creator/MichaelJFox). The events of See-CAD are [[https://www.sabrina-online.com/SOY5_addendum.pdf completely retconned]] by the later more famous series per WordOfGod.
76* CallBack:
77** The strip ends with [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline815.JPG #815]], and a direct call back to [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline14.GIF Strip #14]].[[note]]Implying the conception of Danielle, their daughter from the FlashForward strips.[[/note]] It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]].
78** Amy's father (during the bonus print exclusive story about Amy and Thomas' wedding) mentions a date Amy had when she was 16 where the guy taking her out attempted to take advantage of her, a call back to the various ''At the Movies'' shorts staring Amy which Eric had made while in college.
79* CallingTheOldManOut: Fairly early on, Sabrina gently but firmly tells her mom to back the hell off.
80* CarnivoreConfusion: Handwaved, but still happens pretty frequently with characters regularly eating meat (even with UsefulNotes/McDonalds being mentioned as existing in-universe). Skunks and racoons are both omnivores so its TruthInTelevision, but where the meat comes from is never explained.
81* CassandraTruth: R.C. at first doesn't believe that Sabrina works at a porn studio, but later he was clarified that she only works on the movie covers and website rather than ''star'' in any of them.
82* CaughtWithYourPantsDown:
83** In one of the early strips, Sabrina decides to indulge in some [[UnusualEuphemism one-handed typing]] with her (then still-unseen) internet boyfriend, Richard. She's just getting into... things... when her roommate, Amy, walks in on her. (This later earns Richard the nickname "Sticky Fingers".)
84--> '''Sabrina:''' '''[[GetOut GET OUT!!]]'''
85** Also in that time-frame [[LovableSexManiac Carli the Chinchilla]] was eavesdropping on Sabrina and Richard during '''''THAT''''' session.
86* CerebusSyndrome: [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline641.GIF Strip #641]] begins a near-serious MoodWhiplash arc with Sabrina surviving a deadly encounter with the same mugger from [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline205.GIF Strip 205]]. While she tries her best to make light of her situation in the hospital, [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline650.GIF Zig Zag]] and [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline651.GIF Amy]] aren't so forgiving.
87%% * CheerfulChild: Tabitha.
88* ChekhovsGunman: The mugger Sabrina sprays in [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline205.GIF Strip 205]]? He reappears in [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline641.GIF 641.]] [[OhCrap And he recognizes Sabrina.]]
89* CosmicDeadline: Self imposed by the author, who feeling that the strip was beginning to stagnate; recognized the approaching 20th anniversary and chose it as the end date for the series. The result is the last few years of the series rush through plot development that had been previously held back to set up the approaching finale.
90* CoolBigSis: Zig Zag, to Sabrina's younger sister (by 19 years), Tabitha.
91* CoolShades: Tina Lynx is always seen with these. [[spoiler:They're later explained as being needed due to light sensitivity.]]
92* CovertPervert:
93** Sabrina, as shown [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline55.GIF here]] when she peeks in on R.C. in the shower.
94** In the same strip, we see how her decision to wear [[NudeColoredClothes skunk-print pants]] makes her look like she's showing her bare ass to everybody.
95* CursedWithAwesome: Doesn't actually happen by trope in the comic, but the phrase itself (word for word) is on [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline566.GIF one guy's shirt]] in a recent strip... [[spoiler:before he gets curb-stomped by a '''VERY PISSED-OFF''' Zig Zag.]]
96* CutawayGag: Lampshaded and crossed with a ShoutOut [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline505.GIF here]].
97-->'''Sabrina:''' It's tough keeping up with Tabitha, isn't it?
98-->'''Zig-Zag:''' You're telling me! It's harder than picking camera angles for a scene with an elephant!
99-->''[Cutaway to a camera's eye view: only the top of Zig's face is visible, with an elephant looming the background]''
100-->'''Zig-Zag:''' Can you see anything?
101-->'''Cameraman:''' Maybe if I backed all the way out of the room...
102-->''[Cut back to Zig and Sabrina, the latter looking very confused]''
103-->'''Sabrina:''' What the hell was THAT!?
104-->'''Zig-Zag:''' Hey, we work in media! We should have more power to set up random cutaways than [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy some fat New England guy]]!
105* DarkAndTroubledPast: Zig Zag. Most of [[http://sabrina-online.com/2015-02.html the May and June 2015 strips]] go into the details.
106* DarkHorseVictory: Grimlock winning the election for leadership of Sabrina's ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' collection. Sabrina figured Optimus Prime would be the likely winner, but Arcee points out that Sabrina has [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline356.GIF a dozen versions]] of Optimus, and split the vote.
107* DeathGlare: Amy does a truly magnificent one in [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline118.GIF this strip.]]
108* DelayedReaction:
109-->'''Sabrina: [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline207.GIF "I COULD'VE BEEN KILLED!"]]'''
110* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: In [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline679.GIF this strip]], Sabrina's mugger blurts out a comment that proves he's TooDumbToLive.
111* DidYouJustHaveSex: Unsurprisingly, Zig Zag has a sixth sense about this sort of thing.
112* DisasterDominoes: A pretty humorous example in "Skunk's Day Out" during the amusement park visit. First it's small incidents: Sabrina finds herself getting sick on the roller coasters, Endora had to be physically pried off a roller coaster, Zig Zag is stunned by Tabitha asking her about her job as a porn star and sex, people getting over-charged for various food items, etc. [[spoiler: By the end of it two of Zig's employees had managed to drag almost all of the amusement park's security guards into an orgy in the bushes, and Sheila causes the whole group to be chased out by an angry mob after she is accused of practicing ''Skunkface.'']]
113* DisproportionateRetribution: [[{{Troll}} Say mean things on the internet]] about Zig Zag and she'll hunt you down to administer [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline566.GIF beatings]] and/or [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline564.GIF psychological]] [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline565.GIF torture]].
114* DoNotCallMePaul: The one time Sabrina calls Zig Zag by her real (last) name, Zig Zag pointedly tells her "my name is Zig Zag."
115* DontYouDarePityMe: Zig Zag refuses to blame any of her behavior [[FreudianExcuse on her tragic past]], and hates it when anyone tries.
116* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: Averted at the porn convention hotel when Sabrina slaps some sense into Zig. Zig snaps out of it and admits that she went too far and nearly fell into the same patterns that she suffered herself, leading into some CharacterDevelopment and a closer friendship for the two. Not that Zig stops from [[LovableSexManiac teasing the hell]] [[RuleOfFunny out of Sabrina either.]]
117* DVDBonusContent: Print collections include occasional bits of author commentary, extra art, gag-outtakes, and bonus stories ("A Decade in Black and White" for example contains the entirety of ''ComicStrip/SabrinaAtSeeCAD'', a bonus story detailing Amy and Thomas' wedding, and a spectacularly fourth wall shattering "400th Comic Wrap Party" story, along with art pieces from fans of the series).
118* EmbarrassingNickname: In the FlashForward, Timmy prefers to be called "Tim" at age 16.
119* EveryoneHasStandards: In the Fast Forward arc, Zig Zag outright refuses to let Tabitha do work in the porn studio, other than the office stuff, citing that she's known the girl since she was five and Tabitha is practically her little sister.
120* ExactWords: [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline655.GIF "I don't know any zebras."]]
121* EyeScream: Zig Zag gets a scare (cue AtomicFBomb) when she wakes up and finds she has a subconjunctival hemorrhage of the eye, but her doctor says that it's essentially just a bruise. She then decides to make the temporary protective eyepatch work for her by filming some pirate-themed porn.
122* FantasticRacism:
123** [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline381.GIF Zig Zag, as a mixed-breed (her grandfather was a Siberian Tiger and her closer ancestry were skunks), was deemed "too exotic" for mainstream TV or movies, so she went into porn instead]]. She got bullied in school, too.
124** When Sabrina and Richard were dating, Endora wasn't too thrilled that she was dating a raccoon. When Danielle was born, Sabrina feared that attitude would be extended to her, expecting Endora to add "...for a raccoon" when she said Danielle was beautiful. [[TookALevelInKindness But that never came]], to Sabrina's relief.
125* TheFaceless: Both Carli's husband Spike and Thomas' father are wolves who, possibly as a species trait, are much taller than anyone else, thus they are only "shot" from the neck down for long periods to avoid awkward scene angles. Spike has had his face shown on his first (at the time unnamed) appearance, and several times more since (he was sitting, so his head was level with Carli's).
126* FlashForward: The strips for October 2015 through February 2016 [[PlayingWithATrope play with]] this trope; they're set in NextSundayAD, but they're written as if the characters had aged in RealTime since the story began (while the rest of the strip uses WebcomicTime) and set between a mental space out of [[spoiler:R.C. asking Sabrina to marry him and her saying yes]]. Things that have changed in the past fifteen years are that Sabrina and RC [[spoiler:have a 14-year-old child named Danielle who's a tech genius]], Amy and Thomas [[spoiler:have a second child--a daughter named Carrie]], Endora [[spoiler:has dementia]], and Tabitha has a job as Zig Zag's errand girl[[note]]Zig Zag said outright she'd never employ Tabitha herself in porn, as she sees her as a little sister.[[/note]] while also still lusting over Timmy--who wants to be called Tim now. Notably, [[spoiler:Danielle has been a tech addict since birth]].
127* ForcefulKiss: When Zig Zag kisses [[spoiler: Endora of all people]] at the start of 2024's ''Stripes & Links.''
128* FourFingeredHands: The entire cast has them.
129* FrameBreak: [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline41.GIF Sabrina once grabbed the comic frame.]]
130* FridgeHorror: Sabrina experiences this InUniverse [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline207.GIF after she fends off a mugger]].
131* FriendsWithBenefits: Invoked in [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline369.GIF this strip]]; Zig Zag is this with just about all her single friends, including (especially?) her best friend and confidant Tina Lynx.
132* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
133** [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline496.GIF Rocket ship!]]
134** [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline419.GIF Zig Zag kisses Endora after their first meeting.]] Cue a cartoonish EyeTake and synchronised faint from both Sabrina and her father Warren.
135* GenderBender: Not in the main strip itself, but in an associated animated short titled [[https://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/anims/eric_w_schwartz/RemotePossibilities2.anim.html Remote Possibilities]] where a magic remote turns Sabrina into an Franchise/IndianaJones like character... and Sabrina promptly panics once looking down ''"his"'' pants.
136%% * GenkiGirl: Carli.
137* GirlOnGirlIsHot: [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline570.GIF Some people watching the studio's webcam show certainly think so.]]
138* GirlsBehindBars: [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline677.GIF While in jail]] Zig Zag is annoyed that she doesn't have a cellmate to play out any "jailhouse dominance fantasies" on.
139* GirlsNightOutEpisode: ''Skunks' Day Out'' splits the cast by gender with Sabrina, Endora, Tabitha, Zig-Zag and several of the porn movie stars going to a theme park [[spoiler:and wreaking havoc in the process]]. Meanwhile R.C. and Warren have a guy's day together.
140* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual:[[spoiler: In the flash-forward strips, Danielle wears a pair of smart-glasses which function like a modern day smart-phone. She is able to set up a reservation for her parent's anniversary by blinking with the glasses on. Sabrina later asks her to leave them behind while at the restaurant so Danielle can talk to the other people there and not be distracted by the glasses.]]
141* GoodAngelBadAngel: [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline38.GIF Happens with Thomas]] when he finds out Amy is pregnant with Timothy.
142%% * GoodBadGirl: Tina Lynx.
143* GoryDiscretionShot: The comic dealing with [[spoiler: Sabrina's stabbing]] cuts from the mugger recognizing her to someone finding her and calling 911.
144* TheGrimReaper: Comes for [[spoiler: Sabrina [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnXmas12.JPG after her stabbing]]]], only to realize he's made "a clerical error" and goes away.
145* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Sabrina looks like one of these, but is actually wearing [[NudeColoredClothes skunk-print pants.]] This is repeatedly lampshaded, as all the other characters in the strip wear full outfits ([[BarefootCartoonAnimal except for shoes]]).
146* HandOrObjectUnderwear: Used frequently, for instance when Sabrina and Richard have their first time together, Sabrina's hands or arms are always over her breasts.[[note]]Played with a bit in the prior ''See-CAD'' series though, when Sabrina falls asleep in the shower its her fur that censors out any details.[[/note]]
147* HandsOffParenting: Richard's hippie parents.
148* HarmfulToMinors:
149** Upon learning that Sabrina is stuck babysitting her sister Tabitha and her friends son Timothy, Zig Zag invites them all to the studio for some company. Despite Sabrina's worries about the obvious, Zig has everyone baby proof the studio and move their recordings to the back so neither child would find them, thus defying this trope. Tabitha almost opens a "toy room" while there.
150** Tabitha later searches who Zig Zag is on her computer leading to the discovery that "there's lots of photos of her naked and hugging other people!" out there. It forces Sabrina to childproof Zig's website.
151* HatedItemMakeover: Sabrina adorns her workspace with some ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' figures while working as a webmaster at Zig Zag Studios. During Sabrina's day off, Zig Zag gets mischievous, and "embellishes" Sabrina's figures. The next day, Sabrina goes about her business, until she notices something off about her surroundings. She bursts into a studio where filming is underway to roar, "Who put phalluses on my Transformers?!" Zig Zag, ''in delicto flagrante'', starts laughing her tail off.
152* HeadTiltinglyKinky:
153** [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline559.GIF Zig Zag is baffled by what her client wants her to do]]--and so is the reader, as it's all blacked out. "Don't you want me to take my clothes off?"
154** Or, for a slightly earlier one: [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline556.GIF "I'd pay you fifty bucks to watch you do something suggestive with a banana."]] and [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline323.GIF "How did all this porn get on my system?"]]
155%% * HerCodenameWasMarySue: Sabrina's webcomic.
156* HereditaryWeddingDress: PlayedForLaughs. While preparing for her wedding with RC, Sabrina is gifted her mother’s wedding dress and she tries it on at Zig Zag's studio. [[https://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline795.GIF The dress ends up being so ugly]] that Zig Zag immediately offers to bring Sabrina dress shopping.
157* HeterosexualLifePartners: Admittedly Zig Zag isn't straight... but her relationship with Sabrina ends up like this with time [[spoiler: particularly after therapy where Zig Zag finally recognizes her platonic ''love'' for Sabrina as the therapist helps her recognize not all forms of friendship or love are the physical sorts.]]
158* HeWhoFightsMonsters: When Zig Zag discovers her name is a BerserkButton on ImageBoards, she goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
159* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Richard's first appearances were as "RC", Sabrina's unseen online "friend".
160* TheHedonist:
161** Zig Zag. So much. The first major friend she hadn't slept with was Sabrina--and not from lack of trying.
162** A lot of the staff at the studio could count too, with Sabrina and Darke Katt possibly being the only exceptions.
163** R.C.'s parents also count.
164* HeelRealization: In [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline752.GIF this]] July 2015 strip, Zig Zag's counseling about her past makes her realize her past antics (like hunting down to attack the people who insulted her online, physically attacking the mugger who almost murdered Sabrina, and her sexual harassment of Sabrina to the brink of nearly raping her) is behavior ''exactly'' like her abusive father.
165* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: SubvertedTrope. Sabrina ''looks'' like one of these, but she's actually wearing skunk-print pants. [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline57.GIF Lampshaded in this strip.]]
166* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Carli, a chinchilla and her husband Spike, a wolf. Also, Thomas' parents, a fox and another wolf, respectively.
167* HulkSpeak:
168** Grimlock, one of the Transformers figures who was running for president, delivers a [[http://rigby-jones.net/es/sabrina/art/SabOnline480.gif speech using this]]. All the Grimlocks speak this way.
169** And when trying to face [[http://rigby-jones.net/es/sabrina/art/SabOnline331.gif down]] a [[http://rigby-jones.net/es/sabrina/art/SabOnline338.gif certain Transformer-terrorizing toddler]]... [[http://rigby-jones.net/es/sabrina/art/SabOnline341.gif with hilarious results]]!
170* HumiliationConga: What happens to the mugger in the January 2013 strip when not one, but ''several'' of Sabrina's friends track him down.
171* {{Hypocrite}}: The comic had a series of strips [[http://sabrina-online.com/2010-04.html in December 2010]] which has Zig Zag go on a tirade ala ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack''. Zig Zag gets offended by comments received online about her, and [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline566.GIF Comic 566]] involves her beating up a guy who said mean things about her because he thinks [[InternetJerk he can say anything on the Internet without consequences.]] The Hypocrisy stems from the fact that Zig Zag is the owner and star of her own porno company, an industry that has historically relied on First Amendment rights to stay in business, the actors of which were constantly under belittlement and lawsuits pertaining for their rights to work in adult films, and sometimes assaulted for doing so. What Zig Zag just did was commit real-world, premeditated, first-degree assault against a random guy who, while they were certainly unpleasant, did not deserve physical violence. [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline569.GIF Comic 569]] has Zig Zag mention that, yes, lots of people '''did''' press changes against her, and [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline681.GIF we eventually learn]] that Zig Zag was convicted and paid a fine.
172* HypeAversion: InUniverse Example. Zig-zagged; [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline574.GIF when Sheila recommends]] ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Sabrina reacts by saying that she's "just not caught up in pony hype," but asks to be called if any robots show up. Not long afterwards, [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline576.GIF Pinkie Pie joins Sabrina's toy collection.]]
173* HypocriticalHumor: When Endora objects to Sabrina and Richard getting married, [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline786.GIF Warren reminds her that her own parents objected to their marriage]]. She can only respond with a DeathGlare.
174* IBangedYourMom: Zig-Zag takes this to its logical extreme by tracking down a teenage [[InternetJerk cyber bully]] who called her an unattractive slut online and ''[[NotHyperbole actually having sex with his mom.]]''. Then, after the son comes home to see Zig Zag sitting next to his mother, who's wearing [[SexyShirtSwitch an oversized shirt and panties]], Zig Zag twists the knife by coyly whispering "I fucked your mom!" right in his ear.[[note]]Said mom, now named Helen Dish, has since appeared on Schwartz's adult site; her profile states that Zig gave her a job as a porn star, much to her son's dismay.[[/note]]
175* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In a variation, Zig Zag is more ''infatuated'' with Sabrina than in love, knows it, and just wants her to loosen up and enjoy life more.
176* IWasQuiteALooker: Sabrina 15 years into the future laments having gained weight, though R.C doesn't seem to mind.
177* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer:
178** [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline194.GIF Zig Zag to Richard]]... in '''''SCARY''''' detail.
179** When [[spoiler: a mugger ''stabs'' Sabrina and leaves her for dead (she gets better)]], Zig tracks him down and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats him to within an inch of his life]] with her bare hands.
180* InformedAbility: Before going into porn, Zig Zag was aiming to be a professional actress. Subverted when said abilities were shown during a visit to Sabrina's family, leading to a subtle funny moment...
181-->'''Endora:''' I don't see how someone can be taken seriously with a name like that.
182-->'''Zig Zag:''' *in cheerful tone* Why? Am I supposed to be taken seriously?
183* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Subverted and lampshaded; [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline57.GIF during Amy's pregnancy, she borrows a pair of Sabrina's pants, which gives her skunk colored legs]]. Sabrina [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] to accuse the readers of thinking she was walking around half-naked the entire time. (Of course, since she's drawn before, during, and after that as being essentially pants-less, well...)
184* InterspeciesRomance:
185** Discussed in strip 68 - the first of [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/1999-01.html Janurary 1999]] between Amy and Thomas, a squirrel and wolf respectively.
186** There are several in the strip: Sabrina and Richard, and Spike and Carli. Zig Zag is the product of one in her backstory.
187* InTheStyleOf:
188** 1990s era Creator/WarnerBros cartoons, such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. In fact, some of the character roster might have actually influenced them, such as Amy, who was first drawn in 1988.
189** Arguably, Tabitha looks and acts as a Dot expy.
190** Schwartz used music from these very cartoons in some of his animations from the early '90s.
191* JailBaitWait: Adult Tabitha seems to be infatuated with the 16-year-old Timmy, who Sabrina remarks won't be legal for a few more years. Tabitha doesn't seem to mind the wait, [[SingleTargetSexuality having already decided that Timmy will be hers]].
192* JerkAss:
193** Darke Katt. A perpetual grouch who would put even [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar]] to shame, she refuses to socialize with the others in the studio, let alone be in their films. [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline198.GIF She can't stand her job as the janitor and the only reason she hasn't left is that she has nowhere else to go and that the others are polite to her, giving her money and shelter for her work]].
194** [[http://rigby-jones.net/es/sabrina/art/SabOnline513.gif Sabrina's Optimus Prime toy, which went on a rampage]] beating up the Decepticon figurines until [[EnfantTerrible Timothy]] [[http://rigby-jones.net/es/sabrina/art/SabOnline517.gif stepped in and intervened]] The toy is a [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries Movie Optimus]] toy, which explains his [[AxCrazy Ax-craziness]].
195---->'''Optimus Prime:''' "Decepticon... [[Memes/{{Transformers}} GIVE ME YOUR FACE!]]"
196* KarmaHoudini:
197** Zig Zag is initially protrayed as basically able to do whatever she wants whenever she wants to whoever she wants with little to no consequence, up to and including stalking, sexual harassment, and physical assault. Sure that having a talented lawyer takes care of the remaining lawsuits, but she [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SO_sm569.GIF still has to pay a lot of money for it]], and it's also implied that [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline624.GIF she was banned from Finland as a result of her revenge]].
198** [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Swiftly]] {{averted}} [[http://sabrina-online.com/2013-01.html for the mugger.]]
199** [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/2013-03.html Zig Zag ends up in jail]] and tried for the revenge attack, and the [[CallBack previous episode]] with the internet trolls got brought up as evidence against her. It gets DoubleSubverted when the mugger sees a recovered Sabrina and can't believe how good she looks after he messed her up, in the middle of court; it seems to earn Zig enough sympathy points for a reduced sentence.
200* LivingToys: Sabrina's toys have their own little society, complete with a president (a ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' Blackarachnia figure). They refer to Sabrina as "The Mistress".
201* LongestPregnancyEver: Amy was pregnant with Timothy from Feb. 1997 to Jan. 2000 due to WebcomicTime.
202* LongPants: [[http://rigby-jones.net/es/sabrina/art/SabOnline226.gif Sabrina wears pants that]] do not look like pants, giving her the appearance of a HalfDressedCartoonAnimal.
203* LongRunner: {{ZigZagged|Trope}} (pun not intended). The webcomic has been up for twenty years uninterrupted, but it isn't a long runner in the sense of number of strips, as it only got to 815 strips before ending, and continues now as the author feels like it with Patreon boosts. As Website/TFWikiDotNet puts it: [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Eric_Schwartz "Sabrina Online has been regularly updated for 26 years, an eternity in the sad, hellish wasteland that is the webcomic world, where hundreds of strips mercifully die every day."]]
204* LysistrataGambit:
205** [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline401.GIF Inverted]] with Spike saying he won't have sex with Carli if she doesn't stop speaking in internet speak. Later [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline406.GIF subverted]] when he grabs her by the head to stop her and it works.
206** [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline564.GIF Zig Zag]] does a variation of this to an [[TheWarOnStraw internet troll]] who essentially said she was such a slut that he wouldn't have sex with her [[TemptingFate even if she walked up to him and asked for it.]]
207* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:Sabrina doesn't seem bothered at all at being stabbed several times, including ''in the head''.]]
208* MarySue: The InUniverse reaction to [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline618.JPG Sabrina's web comic]] is that her AuthorAvatar is one of these.
209* MediumAwareness: Characters are prone to commenting on being in a comic.
210--> [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline100.JPG Sabrina, did you notice we're in COLOR now?]]
211--> So THAT's what color my fur is!
212* MistakenForPedophile: Nearly averted, but Zig Zag helps Tabitha and poses with her in a "safe for children" photoshoot dressed as Greco-Roman styled goddesses. Zig Zag is so proud of the photos she wants to put them on her ''website'' before Sabrina rushes in and explains why having a famous porn star posing with a child even in an innocent way posted on an X-rated website would ''raise a lot of issues.'' Zig Zag is absolutely mortified at the implication, and also that for once Sabrina was ''more'' StreetSmart than her.
213* MixAndMatchCritters:
214** Zig Zag is three-quarters skunk, one-quarter white tiger.
215** Danielle is half-skunk, half-raccoon.
216** Timothy is a quarter fox, a quarter wolf, and half squirrel.
217---> '''Thomas:''' Zoologically speaking, [[LampshadeHanging shouldn't this also be impossible]]?\
218'''Amy:''' Well, that's why we have [[BreakingTheFourthWall comic strips]].
219** All of Carli and Spike's [[MassiveNumberedSiblings thirteen children]] are half wolf, half chincilla.
220** Danielle is half skunk and half racoon.
221* MoodWhiplash: The surprisingly dark story arc from late 2012 to early 2013 ends with [[spoiler:one of the living ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' figures being comedically thrown out the window for an IncrediblyLamePun]].
222* MrFanservice:
223** Spike the muscular wolf was obviously made to appeal to female viewers.
224** Thomas Woolfe to a lesser extent.
225** Hoss in universe. When Zig Zag introduces a webcam service to her studio, and tells Hoss to work it. [[spoiler: Hoss is a bit surprised though when it turns out the webcam audience is primarily gay men stating "I was told there would be women here..."]]
226*** Played for laughs in a bonus "[[AnimatedOuttakes outtake]]" strip where Sabrina accidentally walks in on Hoss and Zig Zag filming adult material, with the comicly huge [[GagPenis size of the censor box]] over Hoss.
227* MsFanservice: Zig Zag, [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl obviously]]. Sheila and Amy also qualify.
228%% * MyBelovedSmother: Endora, Sabrina's ultra-conservative mom.
229* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Zig Zag finally realizes that [[AbusiveParents past as a victim]] might have [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline752.GIF caused her to victimize others]].
230* NoFullNameGiven: After two decades, we still don't know Sabrina's last (now maiden) name. (Accepted {{Fanon}} says it's simply [[SpeciesSurname "Skunk"]]). Lampshaded in [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline809.GIF Comic #809]] when they marry.
231---> Minister: I now present you all, for the first time, Mr. and Mrs. Richard and Sabrina Conrad!
232---> Someone Offscreen: Oh so THAT'S her last name!
233* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: After learning the same badger that has harrassed her Z.Z colleagues had almost killed Sabrina, Zig zag tracks him down and beats him within an inch of his life. While he was still convicted for that and previous crimes, Zig herself was arrested for assault. But the context--along with the mugger blurting out in the courtroom--allowed her to serve a brief jail sentence and pay a fine, though she needed to attend anger management.
234* NotAMorningPerson:
235** Sabrina waking up the morning after [[https://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline178.GIF sleeping with her boyfriend R.C. for the first time]].
236** Sabrina again, in the opening panels of the first post-series comic, [[https://www.sabrina-online.com/2017-01.html "Baby Steps"]] [[spoiler:(although the latter is implied to be due to her pregnancy)]]. Bonus points for Sabrina [[RingRingCRUNCH whacking her alarm clock hard enough]] to knock over her Transformers figure collection.
237-->'''R.C.''' I know you're not a morning person, but are you a bit grumpier than usual?
238** A stand-alone [[http://www.sabrinaonline2k.net/MHA/art/SabCoffee.jpg artwork]] by Eric Schwartz features Sabrina, complete with [[MessyHair bed-head]], holding a cup of coffee.
239* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: What R.C.'s dad said after revealing [[MistakenForGay he was beginning to think R.C. was gay]] before he met Sabrina.
240* NotWhatItLooksLike: Invoked: Zig Zag deliberately makes a lunchtime invitation to Richard look like a proposition for sex, much to his bewilderment.
241-->"Play along. Sabrina and I are taking you out to lunch."
242* NudeColoredClothes: Sabrina's skunk-print pants. Repeatedly lampshaded.
243* ObviousPregnancy: Amy skips from not showing to [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline54.GIF this.]]
244* OddFriendship: Zig Zag and Endora [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline814.GIF became]] [[http://sabrina-online.com/pages/SO-BStep-13.jpg friends]] after Sabrina and R.C.'s wedding.
245* OhCrap:
246** When Sabrina learns that the Z.Z, where she finds a replacement job is a porn studio.
247** When Sabrina goes to a convention with Zig Zag and discovers there is only one room -- and one bed.
248** Amy and Thomas's reaction to Sabrina moving out.
249** Zig Zag in [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline752.GIF this strip's final panel]] when she realizes that her past has made her very aggressive sexually.
250* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Zig Zag only uses her real name for legal purposes. Sabrina only knows her name because she saw it on tax records. The audience only knows her last name ([[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline88.GIF "Zumbrowski"]]). [[spoiler: The now-defunct old website of Max Black Rabbit called her Zinaida, but that may no longer be canon.]]
251* OverlyNarrowSuperlative:
252** Sabrina says that being considered the best live-action ''Transformers'' movie "is kind of like being called the best square dance caller in Hong Kong", mainly for the Autobots' excessive brutality and becoming the DesignatedHero.
253** During the 2008 election for president of Sabrina's toy shelves, an ad for Blackarachnia has her describe herself as "the first black-and-purple female Decepticon candidate from the [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Animated]] Toyline".
254* {{Otaku}}: Sabrina and R.C. ''both'', with her love of Transformers and his love of anime and Star Trek. [[spoiler: Their honeymoon (as seen in the post-series strips) is a trip to Japan.]]
255* ParodyNames: Several of the titles of the post-2016 strips such as ''[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory2 Toy Stories, Too]]'' and ''[[Film/AdventuresInBabysitting Adventures in Horde-Sitting]]''.
256* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: Toys. Sabrina's Transformers toys decide to reveal they are actually alive [[https://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline176.GIF only to walk in on Sabrina and R.C. in the act.]] The toys just assume Sabrina and R.C. are engaged in some sort of ''"network interfacing."''
257* PizzaBoySpecialDelivery: [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline335.GIF Tabitha seems to be at least partially familiar with this trope]], thanks to a visit to ZZ Studios.
258* PostKissCatatonia: [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline88.GIF "Her tongue is surprisingly long."]]
259* POVCam: The first panel of [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline606.GIF this]] comic, with Shelia leaning over into Sabrina's face.
260* PrecisionFStrike: [[http://sabrina-online.com/pages/SO-BStep-24.jpg Sabrina's birth is a bit harder than she anticipated.]]
261-->'''Richard:''' Now you see, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness she's normally]] [[GoshDangItToHeck more of a 'fudge' type person]].
262* PrisonRape:
263** The [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline676.GIF 676]]th strip implies that Sabrina's attacker is about to get acquainted with his cellmate a ''lot'' more than he'd wish. Complete with OhCrap face, of course.
264** Subverted with [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline677.GIF Zig Zag]]; when she gets arrested for beating up Sabrina's mugger, she's annoyed that she doesn't have a jail mate.
265* {{Troll}}:
266** A two-part discussion. [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline553.GIF Posters online insult and mock Zig Zag]] in the first, and [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline554.GIF she discusses it with Sabrina]]. [[ForumSpeak G.I.F.T]] is brought up almost by name in the second half.
267** The "anonymity" part has been [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline563.GIF subverted]] in that Zig Zag found out. Zig Zag then got her revenge by going to the trolls houses and: [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline564.GIF coming on to one and then walking away]]; [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline565.GIF sleeping with the mom of a second]]; and [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline566.GIF and beating up a third]].
268** Zig Zag eventually learns to [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline580.GIF use their own weapons against them]] online.
269* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Endora's [[spoiler:dementia in the Flash Forward draws from Schwartz's experience taking care of his aging parents in their latter years]].
270* ReallyGetsAround: Zig Zag, though she exaggerates this to get a rise out of Sabrina.
271* RedHerring: [[spoiler:In the first post-series arc, Sabrina and Richard initially think Sabrina is having a ''boy'' instead of the prophesized girl, and choose "Daniel" for the name. She ended up having a girl, and named her Danielle as originally planned.]]
272* RedOniBlueOni: Arguably Sabrina (blue) and Zig Zag (red), the former being a somewhat reserved computer/Transformers nut and the latter an outgoing porn star legend.
273* ResistanceIsFutile: Played for laughs [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline98.GIF here.]]
274* TheReveal:
275** [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline107.GIF Sabrina's online crush, R.C.]]
276** On the day of her wedding, Sabrina's mother Endora makes a last-ditch effort to talk her out of an interspecies marriage to a raccoon. Sabrina retaliates by ''finally'' [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline804.GIF revealing the less-than-wholesome aspects of her career]] at an internet porn studio, just to put things into perspective.
277--->'''Sabrina:''' "Suddenly marrying a sweet, nerdy raccoon doesn't seem so bad now, does it?"
278%% * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Timmy.
279* RippedFromTheHeadlines:
280** In 2008, the ''Transformers'' figures held an election with Grimlock defending his presidency against Blackarachnia. The outcome of the election was tied to the result of the 2008 U.S. election, with Grimlock representing [=McCain=] and Blackarachnia representing [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]]; Obama won, so Blackarachnia takes over.
281** In the 2020 strips the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic occurs and the [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/pages/SO-PAN-01.jpg characters comment on living with quarantine and masking guidelines.]] An attempt at a home-haircut gone wrong during the pandemic results in Sabrina wearing a short hairstyle by 2021.
282* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:
283** Zig Zag goes on one against the chat room people who made fun of her movies and performances. She takes her porn [[SeriousBusiness very seriously.]]
284** [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline647.GIF This December 2012 strip]] indicated that Amy would have this response to Sabrina's stabbing.
285** The trope was parodied in the January 2013 strips of people attacing Sabrina's mugger. First, Zig Zag beat the crap out of the mugger. Then Amy found him and gave him a kick just because she wanted to. Then Richard found him... [[SubvertedTrope but he doesn't do any attacking.]]
286* ScreamingBirth: Amy's labor was really difficult and [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline120.GIF she was hollering like a banshee]], but she was loudest when she realized just when she was signing into the hospital that she and Thomas ''[[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline114.GIF hadn't married yet]]''.
287* ScrewYourself: During the flash-forward, Sabrina briefs Zig Zag on new virtual-reality porn simulations. When told there is a mode to manually take over an avatar, [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline771.GIF Zig Zag decides to try it out.]]
288* SelfDeprecation:
289** Strip [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline49.GIF 49]] has Sabrina meet Schwartz's AuthorAvatar and call him a "loser" behind his back.
290** Strips [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline602.GIF 602]] and [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline603.GIF 603]] show Sabrina explaining her ideas for a comic project of hers (including a schedule and an art style mirroring those of ''Sabrina Online'' itself), only to have Amy criticize her choices as ridiculous. The "Lena" strips were by Schwartz's own admission his way of trying to work through a writer's block with some "painfully meta" humor. The decision to prepare to end the strip on its 20th anniversary was made shortly after the end of the Lena arc, and Schwartz used [[spoiler:the mugger who came back to stab Sabrina]] as the catalyst of change to get the ball rolling for the planned finale.
291---> '''Amy:''' ([[BreakingTheFourthWall looks straight at the reader]]) So, '''you''' buying any of this?
292** "A Meeting of Moms" has all the characters pointing out they don't wear wedding rings, and then commenting that it surely can't be because it saves the artist time while drawing.
293* {{Shareware}}: How Schwartz got his characters a public following before the launch of the webcomic was mostly via submitting his animation demos as part of CD bundles included with Amiga magazines.
294* ShapedLikeItself: Sabrina wears skunk-print pants. [[spoiler:These have since updated to shorts.]]
295* SheIsAllGrownUp:
296** Tabitha during the 15-year time skip seems to have grown quite a slender figure, which the pear-shaped Sabrina is envious about.
297** Timmy also grew up to be quite a hunk at the age of 16. [[JailBaitWait One that Tabitha can't wait to get her paws on.]]
298* ShipperOnDeck: [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline101.GIF Carli, to Sabrina and RC.]]
299* ShoutOut: So many, they have [[ShoutOut/SabrinaOnline their own page]].
300* ShowerScene:
301** [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline13.GIF "Gratuitious Shower Scene"]] seems to be a PsychoShowerMurderParody. Sabrina is showering, Amy suddenly enters and tells her she sent a nude photo with shopped Sabrina's head to all her contacts. Sabrina is excited and wants her [[ComicallyMissingThePoint to explain how to attach files to mail]]. Amy was just kidding.
302** Narrowly averted [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline55.GIF later]], when Sabrina accidentally walked in on showering Thomas, apologized, then returned to get a better look. Thomas stayed offscreen.
303* ShowWithinAShow: Sabrina's own WebComic, ''Lena's Net Adventures''.
304* SilentSnarker: Timmy does all his snarking with a thought bubble and AsideGlance a an infant.
305* SleepsInTheNude: Zig Zag. She puts on some underwear when she shares a hotel room with Sabrina to help make Sabrina more comfortable.
306* SkewedPriorities: When Amy jokingly interrupts Sabrina's shower to tell her she copied and pasted a photo of Sabrina's face onto a nude model and sent it out via email, Sabrina's shock is ''[[https://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline13.GIF that Amy knows how to use email]]'' and she promptly congratulates Amy.
307%% * SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness: It slides an awful lot.
308* SlidingTimeScale: Though only a couple of years have passed in-comic since Sept. 1996, the in-comic world has kept pace with real-world events and tech. Which makes early comic gags like Sabrina being impressed that Amy knew how to email files seem odd. This has changed post strips, with the new "as the author feels it" strips making TimeSkip in-between to keep up.
309* SmellySkunk:
310** Not all the time, but Sabrina [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline205.GIF can make it happen should the need arise.]]
311** Baby Danielle, who can't quite control her scent, which is bad enough to make Richard's eyes water when he changes her diaper.
312---> "How...how can...'''DID THE BABY EAT A TIRE FIRE!?'''"
313* SourPrudes:
314** Zig-Zag sometimes (jokingly, one should hope) [[InvokedTrope calls]] Sabrina a prude because she refuses to become a porn star and because she can sometimes get embarrassed.
315** Endora was definitely this way, though this began to melt when she became friends with ''[[OddFriendship Zig Zag]]'' of all people.
316* SpitTake: In this comic strip when Sabrina asks Richard [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline168.GIF "Are you a virgin?"]]
317* SpoilerCover: The second print collection "The Tail of Two Decades" includes the very last strip of the original run on the back cover. Since the first and second print collections were printed entirely in black & white, including the final strip on the cover was likely the only way to have it show up in full color.
318* StalkerWithACrush: The "Funny Bunny Man", as Tabitha called him (actually Max Blackrabbit, the fursona of Malcolm Earle, Zig Zag's creator).
319* SummonBiggerFish: When Optimus Prime goes on a violent rampage, the rest of the Transformers [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline517.GIF call in Timmy for help.]]
320* SunglassesAtNight: [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/pages/SO-TS2-34.jpg Tina Lynx]], who has light senstivity.
321* SurprisePregnancy: [[DramaticIrony Only a surprise to the characters]]...[[http://rigby-jones.net/es/sabrina/art/SabOnline14.gif since Eric was so kind as to show the audience Timmy's conception]].
322* TearsOfJoy: Zig Zag starts crying when she holds Sabrina's baby.
323--> "No, wait, you're right. Huh, that's weird. Wish I knew if this was from joy, or something I've suppressed."
324* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Implied to have happened before Sabrina got her first job.
325--> '''Secretary:''' [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline61.GIF Remember that one guy who looked confused whenever we said "Computer"?]]
326* ThemeNaming: [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Sabrina]], [[Series/{{Bewitched}} Tabitha, and Endora]] are all named after famous fictional witches.
327* ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet: Discussed and eventually subverted. [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline571.GIF One strip even is titled almost exactly that.]]
328* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Zig Zag had court-ordered therapy, which she continued to attend after her legal obligation had been satisfied. [[spoiler:At least until [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline792.GIF she slept with him]].]]
329* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Intentionally set up by Zig Zag when she flirts with Sabrina -- and gets clobbered for it.
330* TheStoner: Tom Woolfe's new job at a head shop in the later strips depicts his bosses as regularly being too high to nearly function, and Tom as the one sober man in the building other than his son. [[spoiler: As the flashforward shows this ends up granting him great job stability and he's still working at the head shop running the place while the shop owner is blazed out in the backroom.]]
331* ThoughtBubble: While baby, most of Timmy's dialogue is shown in one. He even has these before he was born.
332* ThreeMonthOldNewborn: [[http://sabrina-online.com/pages/SO-BStep-37.jpg Danielle]], who looks appropriately wrinkled and not-quite-fully-formed, is the size of a three-month-old. Which makes everyone calling her [[InformedAttribute "tiny"]] stand out even more.
333* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline84.GIF "Skunks Can Blush"]]
334--> '''Amy:''' Yeah, you've been home for a few hours and you're still blushing.
335--> '''Sabrina:''' I think it's burned in.
336* TokenWholesome: Sabrina in her workplace, a porn studio.
337* TomatoSkunkStinkCure: [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline205.GIF R.C. has one]] after getting caught in the crossfire when Sabrina sprays a mugger.
338* TwoGamersOnACouch:
339** [[https://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline498.GIF the trope name]] is referenced in the April Fools 2009 strip's title, which depicts R.C. and Thomas playing games on couch and discussing the popularity of gamer webcomics at the time.
340** Sabrina & Zig Zag also have a two gamers on a couch moment as well.
341* TwoScenesOneDialogue: [[http://sabrina-online.com/1999-01.html Strip 77, "Monologue or Dialogue?"]] At first it looks like Sabrina regrets what she's done and resolves to confess. Then we see that R.C. is thinking exactly the same words, and 5 out of 7 thought bubbles may as well be his.
342-->'''Sabrina:''' What have I done?
343-->'''Sabrina:''' I lied, that’s what! Just to impress someone I hardly know!
344-->'''?:''' How can I expect to start a new relationship or even a friendship,
345-->'''?:''' when I can't even be honest about who I am?
346-->'''?:''' That's it. I have to tell the truth,
347-->'''?:''' - let the chips fall where they may,
348-->'''?:''' and hope I haven't screwed things up too badly, because one thing's for sure.
349-->'''Both:''' This person's out of my league.
350* UniversalRemoteControl: The central plot point of the tie-in animated short [[https://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/anims/eric_w_schwartz/RemotePossibilities2.anim.html "Remote Possibilities"]], where a remote turns Sabrina into: a Jessica Rabbit-like character, an Indiana Jones type, Simpsons and South Park style characters, the USS Voyager from Star Trek, Zig Zag, Daffy Duck's bizarre form from WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck and perhaps most shockingly of all [[spoiler: a ''human''!]].
351* UnsoundEffect: [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline650.GIF POW! WHAM! SOCK! INJURE!]]
352* UnusualEuphemism:
353** "Holy dammit Christmas!" At least, it's a euphemism compared to what people would ''normally'' say. (And a reference to ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros''.)
354** Also Flash Forward!Tabitha's feelings for Timmy, after seeing him mowing his parents' yard.
355--->'''Sabrina:''' What is WITH you?!\
356'''Tabitha:''' Just--just LOOK at him! I wish he'd push ME around the yard.\
357'''Sabrina:''' That doesn't even make sense.
358* VanInBlack: The Van featured in [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline687.GIF this comic.]]
359* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Well, technically she's [[Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete just a girl who's a friend]], but when [[spoiler: Sabrina is stabbed by a mugger]] Zig Zag tracks him down and beats him senseless, followed up by Amy, who gives him a good kick to the ribs. [[RuleOfThree Then R.C. stops by]]--[[SubvertedTrope and does nothing, as the guy's already in bad shape.]]
360* VomitDiscretionShot: Richard's reaction to Sabrina "swap[ping] out this little strip that drains pus and fluid into the gauze" in [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline668.GIF this strip]].
361* WebcomicsLongRunners: Along with ''Webcomic/UserFriendly'', ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' and ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', the longest of the long. However, since Eric only posted 3-5 strips each month, the main series ended at 815 strips, so there's not as much ArchivePanic as the others listed here.
362* WebcomicPrintCollection:
363** There are currently four volumes collecting the series, two "A Decade in Black & White" and "The Tail of Two Decades" covering the initial 20 year run, and the other two "Baby Steps" and "Homecoming & Skunks Day Out" covering post-series strips. [[spoiler: In addition another volume has some of Schwartz's adult material under the Fur After Dark branding, set within the same universe including the expanded encounter between Zig-Zag and Helen Dish.]]
364** Even before the book volumes, print versions of the strip could be found in calendars and print magazines such as the British ''[[https://archive.org/details/AmigaFormatIssue114199809FuturePublishingGB300dpi/page/n83/mode/2up Amiga Format]]'', and compilations of single years of the strip were available in print as well.
365** The (now non-canonical) predecessor strip ''ComicStrip/SabrinaAtSeeCAD'' was a college newsletter strip. It has been reprinted in some compilations of Sabrina Online as a bonus feature.
366* WebcomicTime: The comic ran for twenty years. At the most, around two years passed, storyline-wise.
367** Yet Schwartz keeps mentioning real-life products in the comic... So basically, no more than two years have passed in-universe between Windows 95 being the most recent version of Windows, and Sabrina's toys complaining about the new ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''-based Optimus Prime figure. To reference the figure above, if one were to figure every strip wound up averaging one day of time InUniverse, time for the main cast is somehow being distorted into running at ''one-tenth'' the speed of normal time.
368** Subverted several times; Sabrina apparently went to college, and explained that she did this "in the free time between strips" when Amy questions this; another occasion, when Amy wakes up to find her pregnancy greatly developed, and asks "How long was I out?" to which Timmy replies "I don't know. How long is it between strips?"
369%% ** Played Straight, Averted, and Lampshaded simultaneously during the Flash Forward arc.
370** The post-series strips ''really'' spoof this, by pointing out somehow Zig-Zag who was older than Sabrina when she hired her is now ''29'' by the time Sabrina celebrates her ''30th birthday''. Zig-Zag casually quips about her being younger than Sabrina by responding with [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/pages/SO-BD-18.jpg "Don't look at me like that. You're the one who decided to age!"]][[note]]Sabrina's 30th birthday celebration is a nod to her debut as a character in a college newspaper.[[/note]]
371** Timmy, born January 2000, is "almost five" in March 2021.
372** Danielle born in 2016, is finally a toddler by 2023.
373** As the author stated in "Tail of Two Decades":
374--->'''Schwartz''': Conceivably, in Sabrina Online someone could have a new generation of computer or phone appear between the start and the end of the conversation. Still, I think that's become the nature of the comic, and as much fodder for humor as anything else.
375* WhamEpisode:
376** The last 2/3 of the strips released at the end of September 2012 have [[spoiler:Sabrina stabbed by the mugger she sprayed [[WebcomicTime 11 years ago]], though she does make a full recovery]].
377** In the third strip released in September 2015, [[spoiler:R.C. proposes to Sabrina]].
378* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Eric came back for Christmas 2016 to show us [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnXmas16.JPG Sabrina and R.C. showing off a sonogram of their unborn child.]]
379* WhereDidWeGoWrong: Richard's parents. They are ultra-liberal flower-child hippies, and extremely open-minded - and he rebelled by becoming a perfectly straight-laced IT graduate, working tech-support for Microsoft. His dad is convinced it's because they named him after UsefulNotes/RichardNixon as a gag; it's implied [[https://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline469.GIF he was conceived when they were celebrating Nixon's resignation.]]
380--->'''Conrad:''' --and Richard was born about a year later. It was the happiest moment in both our lives.\
381'''Sabrina:''' Sounds like you have a great relationship.\
382'''Conrad:''' We named him after Nixon as a joke. [[LittleDidIKnow Little did we know]] it'd make him into such a square.
383* WishFulfillment: In one arc, Zig Zag steals papers detailing information on a group of trolls (courtesy of a well-meaning Sabrina) and abuses them psychologically and, in one case, physically.
384* WriteWhoYouKnow: InUniverse. Sabrina starts drawing her own webcomic, which is based on events that happened previously in the comic.
385* YouAreNotReady: [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/pages/SO-SDO-32.jpg When Tabitha asks Zig Zag what sex is like]] (causing Zig Zag to do a SpitTake), Zig Zag asks her what she's seen, including porn. [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/pages/SO-SDO-34.jpg Since porn simply weirds the preteen Tabitha out]], [[JustifiedTrope Zig Zag concludes Tabitha's not quite mature enough to have her questions answered.]]
386* YouBastard:
387** While they don't explicitly say it, this is probably what Sabrina and Tina think of the [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline477.GIF viewers]] who want them to [[SickAndWrong joke about]] Zig Zag's past.
388** Or the author for even [[DudeNotFunny bringing it up in the first place]].
389* YouDoNotWantToKnow: [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline198.GIF At a Corporate Party]] Darke Katt the Janitor of ZZ Studio's, with Richard being slightly confused as to why--when she talks about her job--she hates it so much, and she quotes the trope in response to him.

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