Line #45 Webcomic/AllenTheAlien


1	''[[http://allenthealien.webcomic.ws/ Allen the Alien]]'' is a strip by Platform/ComicFury users [[Tropers/PancticeSquadCutterback ataeaf]] and [[Webcomic/ZachMannAndSD zachdewd]] (for the most part, respectively the writer and artist). In it, a man named Allen is taken in an AlienAbduction. Meanwhile, his wife Bonnie is trying to write "the greatest novel ever"...
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3	The comic goes through two successions, the "main" strip, which is slightly more plot based, and the {{B Side Comic\|s}} ''Poorly Drawn Allen'', which is slightly more comedic.
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5	!!Tropes in this webcomic include:
6	* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Allen's is what sets the plot in motion.
7	* AlienAbduction: The beginning of the plot.
8	* AliensAreBastards[=/=]HumansAreBastards: RR-TWTTW says that neither are true (it's just he has anger issues and that everyone's just lazy).
9	* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Subverted. They actually speak Czech.
10	* AliensStealCattle: Discussed and averted. "[T]hat's only in your stupid earth movies."
11	* AllThereInTheManual: The character page reveals some things that aren't mentioned in the actually story (either of them).
12	* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: The character's names (including the aliens' "human" names) are in alphabetical order (not necessarily in chronological introduction order, though). '''A'''llen, '''B'''onnie, '''C'''had, '''D'''avid, '''E'''lanis.
13	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
14	** Bonnie says that when she finishes her book, she'll get the "Nobel Peace Prize For The Best Book In The World", she'll be a "world idol", and she'll be talked about on a "um... daytime progrum?"
15	** A superhero says, "I'll rape your babies, and murder you, and spoil ''Theatre/TheMousetrap''." '''Technically''' it's this trope. We think they're all equal.
16	* ArtEvolution: Zig-zagged. The artwork can be in varying degrees of quality. Though there has been something of a downward trend, because they artist is busy with outside conflicts and doesn't really have time to focus on the strip. However, it's starting to improve, cut-and-pasted strips and ''Poorly Drawn Allen'' aside.
17	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Bonnie says she's unironic, vain, unironivain, vainunironic.
18	* BringMyBrownPants: Bonnie in one strip when she notices an alien ship.
19	* BSideComics: ''Poorly Drawn Alien'', which is very much StylisticSuck.
20	* ChewBubblegum: Parodied.
21	* ClarkesLawForGirlsToys: Disscused; Bonnie points out this trope, then 565-14 remarks, "So magic was invented by a woman?"
22	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: 565-14 remarks, "So magic was invented by a woman?", when Bonnie refernces Clarke's Law for Girls Toys.
23	* CutAndPasteComic: Not normally, but one of the main strips did rip the art from an earlier strip. This did not go without {{lampshad\|e Hanging}}ing.
24	* [[CuteMonsterGirl Cute Alien Girl]]: 565-14, but she is too young to be a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe.
25	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: There is a sign saying "ER Room".
26	-->'''Allen (who is being rolled into the room)''': '''[[LampshadeHanging THAT'S REDUNDANT!!!]]'''
27	* DudeLooksLikeALady: The aliens mistake Allen for a girl; RR-TWTTW somehow think he resembles his daughter.
28	* DudeNotIronic: Bonnie says that she is so "ironic". Somebody offscreen points out that that's not what irony is. She says instead that she's "unironic, vain, unironivain, vainunironic".
29	* {{Fanservice}}: Allen is often shirtless/nude (no frontals though).
30	* GamerChick: Averted by Bonnie. Her character profile says she likes video games, but it also says she dislikes this character type.
31	* GoofyPrintUnderwear: The heart-covered boxers in this case.
32	* HumanoidAliens: They look like humans with antennae.
33	* [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Idiosyncratic Chapter Naming]]: It's always an allusion to a lyric in a song. Not the case with the strip titles, though.
34	* IResembleThatRemark: RR-TWTTW comments that humans and aliens are just "not wanting to do stuff", commenting that he's too lazy to think of the right word.
35	* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: Apparently, the English the aliens speak is translated Czech. It's entirely played for laughs.
36	* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Bonnie and Allen, according to the characters sheet, anyway.
37	* MediumAwareness: When Chad gives 565-14 back to RR-TWTTW, he comments that "the writer couldn't think up of a good subplot for her." [''sic'']
38	* MeaningfulEcho: The Father's Day strip.
39	* NonIndicativeName: Allen is actually a human.
40	* OlderThanTheyLook: Allen is about 51 and Bonnie is about 47 (as the characters page says). They don't look it
41	* PottyEmergency: Subverted. Allen comments that he needs to use the restroom, but he finds one really quickly.
42	* ProgressivelyPrettier: Inverted with Allen, who started off ''really'' attractive. Sadly, it wouldn't last.
43	* SelfDeprecation: In a caption, we get this gem:
44	-->"Yeah, MORE exposition. [[SlowPacedBeginning It gets better, we swear.]] [--[[ScheduleSlip If zachdewd can hurry it up already.]]--]
45	* ShirtlessScene: The very first panel.
46	* ShoutOut:
47	** The character page reveals that Allen's full name is "[[Manga/DGrayMan Allen Walker]] Jericho", and Bonnie's is "[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Bonnie Swanson]] Jericho".
48	** Allen's phone alarm plays [[Music/ThePolice "Every Breath You Take"]].
49	** The strip names are often this to songs.
50	** Allen mangles the infamous ChewBubblegum speech.
51	** "The Scarlet Ibis" is directly referenced.
52	** Bonnie is seen holding a ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' book.
53	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' is referenced in one strip. Specifically, "blackjack and hookers" are mentioned to be part of Bonnie's book.
54	** When Bonnie wants to try Allen's gun, she comments "''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto GTA]]'' won't suffice."
55	* StartMyOwn: Bonnie references the trope namer (''Futurama'') when her book choices is commented on by 565-14. This is why she's trying to write her own book.
56	* StickFigureComic: ''Poorly Drawn Allen''.
57	* StunnedSilence: Allen is at a loss for words after RR-TWTTW comments that the aliens actually speak translated Czech.
58	* StylisticSuck: The {{B Side Comic\|s}} ''Poorly Drawn Allen''.
59	* SuperDickery: Parodied. On the cover of a comic book, a superhero says "I'll rape your babies, and murder you, and spoil ''The Mousetrap''." In tiny font, [--*He's really doing this to help him.--]
60	* TheTreacheryOfImages: In the Father's Day strip, a younger Allen says to his father he made him a cake. It's a drawing. (He likes it, though). Cut to the same with Chad and older Allen.
61	* ThumbtackOnTheChair: Defied; Bonnie thinks about doing this to RR-TWTTW, but decides "it'd be too messy".
62	* TheUnpronouncable: How ''would'' you pronounce "RR-TWTTW" or "565-14" [[note]]Aside from spelling them out, of course[[/note]] They just get called David and Jill (but according to the character sheet, the latter prefers to be called "Elanis"), respectively.
63	* TrivialTitle: Disscused; Elanis complains about these types of titles.

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