Line #45 Webcomic/FurthiaHigh


1	->''"I'm the last known human in the world... about to face my first year at public High School. I'm scared out of my goddamn mind. please wish me luck."''
2	-->-- '''Kale Williams,''' ''[[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20080128 Furthia High]]''
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4	[[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/ Furthia High]] is a UsefulNotes/{{Furry\|Fandom}} comic following Kale, the only human in a world very similar to our own as he enters High school. It begins as a Gag-of-the-week type affair, though more recently the comic has taken a more serious turn. [[LastOfHisKind Kale]]'s friends include Bruce, an eccentric fox; [[HeavySleeper Campy]] a seemingly narcoleptic rabbit poet, and [[TomBoy Ashley]], a strong-willed cat and the muscle of the group.
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6	Was reset in 2007, the old canon can be found [[http://furthiahigh.comicgenesis.com/ here]].
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8	!!This webcomic provides examples of:
9	* AdorableFluffyTail: Commented on [[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20101011 twice]] with [[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20101018 Hugo's tail]].
10	* AllThereInTheManual: Background characters are randomly generated (though they do occasionally get promoted to main characters), and the first time they appear, a few details are printed at the bottom of the comic. Sometimes these are ''hilarious''.
11	-->'''Tom''' (Dog, Male, Straight, Junior) one day hopes to become an astronaut and become the first furry to leave the solar system. Not because he wants to be famous or remembered or accomplish something great, mind you, it's just that he ''despises'' the Sun.
12	* ArtEvolution: Compare today's pages to the first page of the old canon, or even just the first page of the current canon.
13	* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Kale's battle with [[spoiler:himself]] in his sub-conscience.
14	* BerserkButton: A LOT of characters seem to have these. To name a few:
15	** Bruce: Don't try to get between him and his friends. Connor learned this the hard way... Also, don't touch his special area...
16	** Ashley: Don't act stupid, annoying, and furthermore like BRUCE. Don't be Gus, either, unless you feel like getting maimed or muzzled.
17	** Eve: Don't be insensitive or a jerk to your peers cough Lupin cough.
18	* BigDamnHeroes: [[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20120703 Lucy showing up in the nick of time to save Fale from Hugo]]
19	* BoyishShortHair: Ashley has short, chin-length hair and she's very tomboyish.
20	* CampGay: Max, Bruce's father. And if he was telling the truth about their past... experiences... Hugo might also be this.
21	* CerebusSyndrome: Starts [[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20080929 here]].
22	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Campy's initial shtick in the beginning of the comic seemed to be that he drooled a lot, slept all the time, and almost never spoke. By the time it reaches the school dance story line, he becomes much more developed.
23	** Lupin has also become more three-dimensional, especially when you consider that his role at the beginning amounted to being a jerk and beating the crap out of Kale for no conceivable reason. Nowadays he's still a jerk, though.
24	** And then there's Gus, who initially was nothing more than one of Lupin's lackeys who had a crush on Ashley. Come the Autumn Ball, he got slightly more development, but nothing one wouldn't expect. And then, later on, he suddenly had what was essentially an ''entire arc'' devoted to his latest attempts at getting Ashley to like him.
25	* CheerfulChild: Kale's little brother, Tyler.
26	* ChekhovsGunman: Eve.
27	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Bruce is waaaaaay out there...when Kale does a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind (long story), we learn that the size of aspects of a character's personality is determined by the amount of influence they have on him. Bruce's Id is the size of a building.
28	* ComicalOverreacting: Bruce again.
29	* ContinuityReboot
30	* ConvenientComa
31	* CurseCutShort: [[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20091211 "We interrupt this curse word loud enough to frighten the elder gods to bring you kittens! Your regularly-scheduled comic will return shortly."]]
32	* DeadpanSnarker: Fox Kale.
33	* DeathByChildbirth: What happened to Bruce's mom.
34	* DoggedNiceGuy: Gus has been trying to gain Ashley's affection for a looooong time now. After seeing some of his more outlandish attempts, it's kind of understandable why she's so annoyed...
35	** He's finally managed to have a genuine heart-to-heart moment with her (as opposed to the usual fist-to-jaw), but they're still not together.
36	* DramaticThunder: Bruce planning to sabotage the Autumn Ball.
37	* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:Kale's Fox Self. With a muzzle that long, how did he manage to wear that thing anyway?..]]
38	* EmpathicEnvironment: Kale's fight with Lupin
39	* EnemyWithin: [[spoiler:Kale's Kit persona tried to kill him before he managed a ceasefire agreement.]]
40	* EvenNerdsHaveStandards: [[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20080414 Played for]] HypocriticalHumor here.
41	* FanGirl: Lucy
42	* FantasticallyIndifferent:
43	--> '''Kale''': [[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20120814 Y'know, I'm not even surprised by this stuff anymore.]]
44	* FieryRedhead: Ashley has red hair and a fiery temper to match.
45	* FreudianTrio: Kale and his other personalities, Fox Kale (Id) even refers to him as "Ego".
46	* FunetikAksent: Campy's southern accent.
47	* FurryConfusion and CarnivoreConfusion: Parodied and averted in [[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20090227 This strip]]
48	* HammerSpace: Bruce sometimes seems able to pull large objects like his LARP sword out of nowhere. Kale and "Mask" do the same in their fights but it's somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] given that [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind they're fighting in Kale's mind.]]
49	* InterspeciesRomance: Kale/Eve (human and lemur) and Campy/Connor (rabbit and jackal). Also Kale's adoptive parents (cougar and tiger), and Connor's (horse and squirrel).
50	* JerkJock: Lupin. However, he's shown to also be a fairly good cook.
51	* KudzuPlot: The storyline involving Mask seems to be turning into this. Likely why there's so many breaks from that subplot to focus on more simple and lighthearted things.
52	* LargeHam: Bruce. Pretty much goes with the territory.
53	* LastOfHisKind: The central premise of the comic is that Kale is the last human among a population of anthropomorphic animals, or at the very least the last human he's aware of. [[spoiler:Technically not the case since Kale is actually an animal turned ''into'' a human, but effectively he still fits this trope since he doesn't seem to interested in undoing the change.]]
54	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "Wow, good timing. As if some guy wrote it in a comic."
55	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:Kale. Cyrus, Max, and Hugo all seem to know something about his past and transformation into a human.]]
56	** [[spoiler: Recently Lucy got added to this list of people who know. [[AvertedTrope Fortunately she seems to be willing to tell Kale about what she knows]].]]
57	* TheLostLenore: Bruce's mom is this to his dad, Max. Her death hurt him so profoundly that he swore off of pursuing women ''forever'' after it happened, and so he became the CampGay father he is now.
58	* LoveAtFirstSight: Happens when Bruce sees Lucy at the museum.
59	* MeaningfulName: Lupin again; he's a wolf.
60	** In the original canon, Bruce's last name was Renard. A renard is basically a male fox, so... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin yeah.]]
61	* MistakenForGay:
62	** [[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20100716 Kale by Campy's mother]].
63	** Happens to Bruce when his father catches him giving Conner a make-up kiss (a forced one by Campy's demand). It was probably one of the happiest moments of Max's life, though.
64	* NonIndicativeName: Campy is indeed gay but not really [[CampGay campy]] at all.
65	* NoteToSelf: Kale's coma sequence is just a prolonged version of this.
66	* OddlyVisibleEyebrows: Played straight with just about everyone '''except''' Kale. Despite being virtually the ''only'' character whose eyebrows we should actually be able to see, he subverted this for a time by having simple lines for eyebrows. He plays it straight in more recent comics, though.
67	* OutOfFocus: Kale, definitely. In a nutshell, he goes from "our humble hero, the last human on the planet" to "that human kid who shows up every few panels and can't seem to stop getting injured". Thankfully, it looks like the story will be switching focus back to him soon.
68	* ProgressivelyPrettier: Inverted? with Gus, who at the start of the comic is very thin, but over time seems to be growing more and more pudgy because of his training as a food critic.
69	* RealMenWearPink: Lupin is revealed to be an aspiring chef despite being the meanest bully at school. Given that he apparently cooks his family's Thanksgiving dinner each year, and he was able to win second place in a pasta cooking contest. With ''hamburgers''.
70	* RetGone: The author's official position is that Felicia simply never existed in the new canon.
71	* SeriousBusiness: Speed plushie-making tournaments, apparently.
72	--> '''Ashley''': You'd be suprised how brutal it gets. People have died.
73	* ShadowArchetype: Kale's [[spoiler:repressed memory of him being a fox and being subjected to experimentation to cause him to be human.]]
74	* ShoutOut: Numerous. Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann is an obvious influence on the author, as the DJ at the Fall Ball [[strike: rips off]] [[strike: borrows]] pays homage to a quote or two from Kamina, and has his shades. Kale's ShadowArchetype also (apparently, we're only told in retrospect) uses [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Hollow Ichigo's]] speech about horses and kings. More recently, the "For Amy" flowers from the Creator/VincentVanGogh ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode.
75	** [[spoiler: Fox Kale]]'s mask has a striking resemblance to [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Tobi's]].
76	* SmellySkunk: Subverted with Hugo -- he doesn't smell because he's a skunk but because [[SmokingIsCool he's a constant smoker]].
77	* SpotlightStealingSquad: Wait, Campy isn't the main character?
78	* StraightGay: Campy. The revelation that his date to the Autumn Ball was Connor shocked Kale quite a bit (but not [[IKnewIt Ashley]]) and he has no overtly gay tendencies that have been observed.
79	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Christmas 2009.
80	* TechnicalPacifist: Kale.
81	* TheGlomp: Bruce is a fan of these.
82	* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Ashley is hotheaded, bossy, and physically violent, [[OneOfTheBoys mostly hangs out with guys,]] and enjoys martial arts, weight training, and punk rock. However, she also enjoys making plushies and even owns a few dresses and skirts. She attributes her girly side to her dad, who raised her as his little girl and is very feminine and cute himself. This trope is especially evident by how her bedroom looks. Her bedroom has punk rock posters, a punching bag, weights, and... a bunch of stuffed animals. There's also a significant amount of pink.
83	-->'''Eve:''' Everything in this room kind of... conflicts with each other.\
84	'''Ashley:''' Yeah, I get that a lot. You'll get used to it.
85	* {{Tsundere}}: Ashley is a type A.
86	* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's never stated how far into the future the comic takes place (at least a couple generations) but most of the time you wouldn't know that it isn't yet another "present day" furry comic.
87	** Though recently a floating "retro" robot [[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20101120 was shown]].
88	** This is even {{lampshaded}} by the author, who admittedly sometimes forgets that the comic takes place in the future.
89	* ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer: Kale's [[spoiler:internal conflict]].
90	* WebcomicTime: Mocked by the author of course. From 294 to 313 it's been five months on the regular schedule, but in-universe it's only been maybe a few minutes. May or may not be justified as taking place during a dream.
91	--> '''[[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20121016 Alt text]]''': Oh, hi Eve, time to wake up from your five-month-long night's rest.
92	* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: [[http://furthiahigh.concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20091130 Eve's plan to get Gus together with Ashley]]. In the end, it fails just about as miserably as every other plan, although Gus ''does'' manage to learn from it and finally get a concession out of Ashley.
93	--> '''Eve''': Don't worry, [[TemptingFate there is absolutely no way for this to go wrong in any conceivable way]].
94	* WhamLine: [[spoiler: I...know you were turned into a human from a fox, Kale. And I...may or may not know who did it.]]
95	* WingDingEyes: Bruce on seeing Lucy for the first time in #233.
96	* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Being a hammy [=LARPer=], Bruce lapses into this sometimes. This is taken up to eleven when asking out Lucy for the first time.

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