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8	->''"This is fine. I'm okay with the events that are unfolding currently. That's okay. Things are gonna be okay."''
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10	''[[http://gunshowcomic.com/ Gunshow]]'' is a {{web comic}} made by Creator/KCGreen. Starting off as a small gag a day strip, the jokes became more complicated over time. Over time it has developed a spanning continuity, with some recurring characters such as [[FanBoy the Anime Club]] ([[Webcomic/TheAnimeClub who now have their own page!]]), The Rabbits and [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant The Hairy Criminal]]. There is also Graveyard Quest, a {{story arc}} that [[Webcomic/GraveyardQuest has its own page.]] However it still remains a largely a gag a day comic, with the continuity being mostly composed of {{Mythology Gag}}s.
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12	The comic was discontinued Christmas of 2014. Two years later, [[https://raccoonfootproductions.tumblr.com/post/136727099697/sketchamagowza-i-animated-kc-greens-comics-for ten strips were animated in the form of station idents]] on Creator/AdultSwim. KC would go on to write {{Webcomic/BACK}}, write and draw Webcomic/HeIsAGoodBoy, and draw [[http://carlocollodispinocchio.tumblr.com/ an adaptation of]] Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio.
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14	But let's be honest. You're probably here for [[WatchItForTheMeme the "This is fine" dog]], aren't you? Naturally, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oBx7Jg4m-o his strip was one of the aforementioned station idents]], voiced by none other than Creator/DanaSnyder.
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16	Many of the characters would be brought back for Green's later comic ''Webcomic/{{Funny Online Animals}}''.
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19	!!This webcomic provides examples of:
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21	* AllThereInTheManual: Between KC's Website/{{Twitter}} page and Midnite Surprise blog sketches, he'll drop little tidbits about the cast; such as revealing The Rabbits' names as Tom and Paul.
22	* AlternativeRock: If you're [[http://gunshowcomic.com/252 not sure]], then it's alternative.
23	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Great Frog is this to Cool Frog.
24	* AnimatedAdaptation: 10 strips were made into Creator/AdultSwim idents.
25	* ArtEvolution: A couple years will do that.
26	* AffectionateParody: [[ComicBook/ScottPilgrim Skylar Popcollar]], and the Hairy Criminal's [[ComicBook/TalesFromTheCrypt Tales From The Creep]].
27	* AuthorAppeal: [[http://gunshowcomic.com/471 Mocked in "Piss World",]] where the GM of a tabletop RPG with a [[ToiletHumor urination fetish]] keeps inserting piss-related nonsense into his game, [[MegatonPunch much to the annoyance of the other two.]]
28	* BigRedDevil: Satan, and later, Ima.
29	* BlackComedy
30	** Combined with SadistShow and DiabolusExMachina[=/=]DeusAngstMachina in [[http://gunshowcomic.com/468 Two Friends]]. GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP
31	* BlandNameProduct: [[http://gunshowcomic.com/470 Googos Maps]].
32	* BreakoutCharacter: The Anime Club started as a one-off joke and grew into a rather large story and one of the more visible cast members in the entire lineup.
33	* BrickJoke: Comic 319 explains why the rabbit got killed in 111
34	* BodyHorror:
35	** [[http://gunshowcomic.com/362 Sad Worms.]]
36	** Ima combines with Satan after [[ItMakesSenseInContext she ate him as a wolf during a worldwide wolf invasion.]]
37	** [[http://gunshowcomic.com/475 The Turkey's Hole]]
38	** Question Hound in "On Fire" and the final strip. When he first gets burned alive, his body is melting badly and his eyeballs are coming out of his eye sockets. By the time of the final strip, his eyes are shrunken in, the meat and skin of his forearm has come off the bone, and he's looking like a melted monster of his former self.
39	* BookEnds: The [[http://gunshowcomic.com/1 first comic strip]] was about Question Hound. In [[http://gunshowcomic.com/899 the last comic]], the two youths do not find the fortune, just Question Hound.
40	* CallBack: This [[http://gunshowcomic.com/648 Question Hound strip]], which became a meme, is echoed by [[http://gunshowcomic.com/899 the last comic]], in which QH says all of the former strip's dialogue in reverse order (ending at "it'll all be fine") as the house burns down.
41	* CastOfSnowflakes
42	* CelestialBureaucracy
43	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Ima. Actually, lots of people, but she stands out since she's a recurring character.
44	* ContinuityCreep: More recent comics usually build on past comics, rather then the one off jokes the comic started with. The biggest example is [[http://gunshowcomic.com/383 the office arc]], where all the office characters (Ima, Satan, etc...) and almost all the other characters (minus the Anime Club) work in the office owned by one of the rabbits, who funded the company with the bag of carrots the other rabbit's been trying to steal from him.
45	* CoolShades: Cool Frog and Dave, from the Anime Club.
46	* CurbStompBattle: Literally. [[http://gunshowcomic.com/389 With a stapler]].
47	* CyanidePill: Roger from the Suicide Club decides to use cyanide pills, until he discovers he confused them with his father's viagra.
48	* DastardlyWhiplash: [[http://gunshowcomic.com/233 The Villain]]
49	* DealWithTheDevil: [[http://gunshowcomic.com/346 parodied.]]
50	* DissonantSerenity: The dog in [[http://gunshowcomic.com/648 On Fire]]. He tries to assure himself that "this is fine" and that "things are going to be okay"...while the room is on fire...and his body melts.
51	* DrowningMySorrows: [[http://gunshowcomic.com/331 Where Mom is.]]
52	* EasyAmnesia: [[http://gunshowcomic.com/806 The Ol' Peanut Can Full of Snakes Gag]]
53	* EasyRoadToHell: Apparently you can go to hell just for being a jerk or a creep.
54	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: [[http://gunshowcomic.com/5 An Unfunny Taco Named Jeff]]
55	* FacialDialogue: The fox.
56	* FalseReassurance: Just as Question Hound once assured himself like this, he tells the Youths that "everything will be fine" once they accept [[spoiler:that they're going to die in the attic]].
57	* FatAndSkinny: The short and tall rabbits.
58	** BigThinShortTrio: The short rabbit (big), the tall rabbit (thin) and the fox (short).
59	* FireAndBrimstoneHell
60	* FunnyAnimal: Question Hound
61	* GentlemanAdventurer: Edwidge Inkerton.
62	* TheGodsMustBeLazy: God is always showed either slacking off or playing his videogame, and when something like hell closing and all the dead sinners going to earth happens, he does nothing about it.
63	* {{Hellevator}}: In [[http://gunshowcomic.com/612 this]] strip.
64	* HellOnEarth: [[http://gunshowcomic.com/616 When hell is temporary closed.]]
65	* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: The Farm House ends with the wife bringing a new husband to the house.]]
66	* InformedFlaw: The Question Hound is a massive tool.
67	* IntellectualAnimal: Played with in [[http://gunshowcomic.com/276 Dog Problems]], where the dog switches between somewhat intelligent and a regular dog.
68	%% KingOfAllCosmos
69	* LiterallyShatteredLives: Happens to a dog named [[http://gunshowcomic.com/537 Glassie]].
70	* MarijuanaIsLSD: [[http://gunshowcomic.com/420 This]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' comic.
71	* MindScrew: The Farm House.
72	* MisfortuneCookie: [[http://gunshowcomic.com/528 Here]].
73	* {{Mummy}}: Cummy Mummy.
74	* NonIndicativeName: The Hairy Criminal isn't hairy at all.
75	* ObviouslyNotFine: It has the comic [[https://gunshowcomic.com/648 "On Fire"]], with the FunnyAnimal Question Hound calmly drinking coffee as his house burns down around him. He insists "This is fine," even as he catches on fire himself [[BodyHorror and his face melts off his skull]].
76	** After that specific comic blew up as an internet meme, the original creator Creator/KCGreen made a followup on ''The Nib'': [[https://thenib.com/this-is-not-fine/ "This Is Not Fine"]]. This time, Question Hound starts to say everything is fine, [[SubvertedTrope but suddenly comes to his senses]] and screams about the fire while scrambling to put out the flames.
77	* PermaStubble: The Hairy Criminal.
78	* PointyHairedBoss: The Boss in the office strips.
79	* RascallyRabbit: The rabbits constantly play tricks on each other.
80	* RainOfBlood: [[http://gunshowcomic.com/165 The Blood Cloud]]
81	* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Inverted. Snakes tend to be overly kind. Or at the very least, polite about their transgressions.
82	* RescuedFromTheUnderworld: When the tall rabbit goes to hell for the soul of the short rabbit.
83	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Fox.
84	* SavageWolves: The Wolf Apocalypse.
85	* ShoutOut:
86	** To ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' in this [[http://gunshowcomic.com/305 comic]].
87	** A more subtle one: these two characters from [[http://gunshowcomic.com/250 this comic]] resemble [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} John Egbert and his dad]].
88	*** Likewise there are two brief arcs about dogs with improbable god powers and immortality respectively.
89	*** He also refers to Andrew Hussie in the comments and apologizes for taking character designs.
90	** [[http://gunshowcomic.com/468 The alt text for "Two Friends" is]] Webcomic/ALessonIsLearnedButTheDamageIsIrreversible.
91	** [[http://gunshowcomic.com/423 What's]] [[ComicBook/ArchieComics Jughead]] [[Music/TomWaits Building in There?]]
92	** [[http://gunshowcomic.com/475 The alt text for this comic]] is a reference to VideoGame/CaveStory.
93	** The character of God is based off of ''LetsPlay/SirRonLionheart''.
94	** The alt text [[http://gunshowcomic.com/611 here]]: [[Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff it keeps happening...]]
95	** Based on the sound it makes, [[http://gunshowcomic.com/96 this creature]] may very well have come from [[Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault the Amigara Fault]].
96	-->'''Drr, drrr...'''
97	** One of the coworkers in the chain of information was ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}, who quickly offed himself afterwards.
98	* StockAnimalDiet: The rabbits are obsessed with carrots.
99	* SuicideAsComedy: A recurring theme.
100	* SuicideBySea: In an April Fools comic for ''Webcomic/{{Gunshow}}'' the Anime Club plans to drive their car into the lake and all drown together.
101	* SuicidePact: The suicide club.
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103	* TalkingAnimal: The rabbits
104	* ThoseTwoGuys: Rich and Steve.
105	* ToHellAndBack: The tall rabbit goes on a quest to rescue the short rabbit from hell.
106	* TotallyRadical: Cool Frog.
107	* VitriolicBestBuds: The two rabbits doesn't seem to like each other at all.
108	* TheVoiceless: Fox.
109	* WaddlingHead: The skull with sunglasses and sneakers.
110	* WholeCostumeReference: The designs of the four Suicide Club members are one to the main cast of ''Series/TheYoungOnes''.
111	* WickedWitch: Baba Yaga Jr.
112	* WithFriendsLikeThese: The rabbits have tried (and succeeded) to kill each other more than one time.
113	* WoodlandCreatures: The strips featuring the rabbits, fox, cool frog and various other critters.
114	* WorkCom: Again, the office segments.
115	%% WhiteBunny
116	* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: "Do you even know what 'embezzle' ''[[http://gunshowcomic.com/389 means]]''?"
117	* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: The way Ima becomes the devil.

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