Line #15 Webcomic/LifeWithLamarr


1	->''"Contains sex, drugs, emotions, swearing, lulz, science and headcrabs!"''
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3	''[[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php Life with Lamarr]]'' is a {{Fan Webcomic\|s}} by [=Co Fiori-McPhee=] taking place in an [[TransplantedCharacterFic alternate]] ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' [[TransplantedCharacterFic universe]] in which [[AbsentMindedProfessor Dr. Kleiner]] and [[TheAlcoholic Barney Calhoun]] are room-mates, Eli is a hippy, Magnusson went crazy and controls an army of headcrabs and Dr. Breen despite being [[TakeOverTheWorld Administrator of Earth]] still has time to chase up [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking late rent payments]].
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5	Spread over 5 "Books":
6	* The Headcrab King (Episodes [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=1 1]] - [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=24 24]])
7	* The Free Children's Commune (Episodes [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=25 25]] - [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=60 60]])
8	* Land Sakes (Episodes [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=61 61]] - [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=101 101]])
9	* The House of Longfigger (Episodes [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=102 102]] - [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=195 195]])
10	* El Headcrab Gigante (Episodes [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=196 196]] - onwards)
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12	!!''Life with Lamarr'' provides examples of:
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14	* AbsentMindedProfessor: Dr. Kleiner.
15	* AmazingFreakingGrace: Cubbage and This One preform it at [[spoiler:Lamarr's funeral]].
16	** However the actual recording was the author's father.
17	* AmusingAlien: Lamarr and This One.
18	* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Ned Land.]]
19	* AuthorAvatar: In a BreakingTheFourthWall [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=79 episode]] [=Co Fiori-McPhee=] appears as himself when the "filming" of the episode is interrupted revealing himself as an InUniverse director.
20	* AxCrazy: Earl is a fairly nice guy most of the time. But, as shown [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=91 here]], it doesn't take much to set off his BerserkButton.
21	* BSideComics: Cubbage & This One Sunday Comix.
22	* BawdySong: The Cactus [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=139 sings one]].
23	* BerserkButton:
24	** Earl when someone insults Roderick.
25	** NEVER mention anything about Schnorbert's [[GagNose nose]] unless you have deathwish...
26	* BrainBleach: [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=57 The Citizens' reaction]] to seeing [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=56 this]].
27	* BreakingTheFourthWall
28	* BringMyBrownPants: [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=4 “It’s a little late for that Doc!”]]
29	* ButtMonkey: Barney when the occasion calls for it.
30	* CameBackWrong: That One.
31	-->"We remember Black Mesa... But we have forgotten how to do math... Blurrrrrrr..."
32	--> - [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=167 Cubbage & This One Sunday Comix #13: Reel-incarnation!]]
33	* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: This One.
34	* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: Alyx to Gordon Freeman.
35	* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Inverted with Ned Land, who turns out to have actually been alive the whole time. At least, until he presses Earl's BerserkButton...]]
36	* DisintegratorRay: Magnusson's Neek Ray, which he later fits into his pet T-Rex's [[RuleOfCool eye sockets]].
37	* DrivenToSuicide: [[MeaningfulName Roderick Thanatos]] [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=100 when faced with the prospect of being with Earl for the rest of his life]].
38	* DrunkenSong: Dr. Breen sings one, however it's not the song that gives it away, it's the fact he's singing at all. Also he isn't drunk, he's high.
39	* [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Dude, He's Like, In A Coma!]]: Gordon Freeman is in a coma and Alyx has started a relationship with him.
40	* EasyAmnesia: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]- Dr. Kleiner automatically assumes that it will happen after Breen hits his head, but is quickly proven wrong.
41	* EverybodyMustGetStoned: The plot of Book Two: The Free Children's Commune.
42	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Cactus, because well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin he's a Cactus]].
43	* ExpositoryThemeTune: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7TMrodLEYo The "Cubbage & This One" theme]]. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that its description of the show is wrong.
44	* FaceDoodling: Usually happens to Barney, when he's passed out from drinking.
45	* FeatheredFiend: Baron von Tailfeathers, according to [[MeaningfulName Peter Orniphobe]] at least.
46	* {{Flashback}}: Used alongside {{Flashback Cut}}s.
47	* FlashbackCut: Used in various episodes.
48	* FluffyTheTerrible: Magnusson's pet T-Rex is named Mr. Nibbles and his [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Ninja Fast Headcrab]] is named Noodles.
49	* FourthWallMailSlot: Previously, Breenmail.
50	* GagPenis: [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=44 Eli]].
51	* GenericName: The Vortigaunts all seem to have them: This One, That One and Little One.
52	* GoodAngelBadAngel: Barney has a pair.
53	* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kleiner thinks it wise for him and Barney to get out of City 17 because [[spoiler:the broadcast revealing that Mossman is Breen's mother]] only aired inside the Citadel because the broadcasting was down due to a system reboot meaning Kleiner and Barney are one of the few people who know the secret.
54	* HypocriticalHumor: Barney has a tendency towards it.
55	* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:Gordon, who (although under the influence of drugs at the time) ate off Eli's leg...and [[{{Squick}} wang]].]]
56	* InfallibleBabble: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] when Barney mentions that [[GreatGazoo the Vorts]] are rumoured to be able to preform resurrections and Kleiner argues that it must be true because it's a rumour. It is played with because in an earlier comic This One had already confirmed that they can preform resurrections, it's just Barney and Kleiner had never had it confirmed to them.
57	* IntercontinuityCrossover: When Webcomic/NSFWComix's Cuthwald was assumed dead he started appearing in City 17. When Cuthwald was revealed to have been alive NSFW Comix had a comic where Manly Man was reading a newspaper dismissing Cuthwald sightings in City 17.
58	* InterspeciesRomance:
59	** Whilst high on ''[[DrunkOnMilk Pez]]'', Kleiner starts to come onto Lamarr (although granted, to him she looked like [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]]).
60	** In Book Three, Lamarr has a fling with a Houndeye.
61	* KilledOffForReal: WordOfGod says that yes, [[PosthumousCharacter Roderick]] is DEFINITELY dead. And nothing will bring him back.
62	* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Breen and Mossman (who isn't under the influence), actually they do more than kissing, [[spoiler:which later becomes {{Squick}} when it is later revealed that Mossman was Breen's Mother]].
63	* LovableSexManiac: Dr Kleiner.
64	* LoveTriangle: In Book Three with Kleiner, Barney and Mel.
65	* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Mossman is Dr. Breen's mother]].
66	* LukeIMightBeYourFather: Dr. Kleiner might be Alyx's father, however her mother "took rather a lot of lovers".
67	* MauveShirt: Sunbeam, an ex-combine elite who is a member of the Free Children's Commune. [[spoiler: Turns out to have been TheMole the whole time when he remembers his original mission and aids Breen with [[MoralEventHorizon massacring the entire commune]]. Shortly afterwords, he suffers a KarmicDeath when Barney runs him over during his escape from White Forest]].
68	* MeaningfulName: Earl Beathan, Roderick Thanatos, X. Ben Dibble-Redshirt and Peter Orniphobe.
69	** Beathan derived from Scottish Gaelic ''beatha'' meaning "life" and Thanatos being the Greek name for the [[TheGrimReaper personification of death]]. Earl carries around the corpse of Roderick because of the belief that he is still alive.
70	* NoNameGiven: The Cactus, [[AllThereInTheScript sort of]], while it is never mentioned in the comic [[WordOfGod the author says]] his name is [[OnlyOneName Timothy]].
71	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: It's easy to not take Dr Breen very seriously at first. However, after he [[spoiler: orders the mass slaughter of the Free Children's Commune]] he quickly reminds everyone exactly WHY he's the BigBad in the first place.
72	* OfCorpseHesAlive: [[MeaningfulName Earl Beathan]] does this to Roderick, however considering Roderick is decayed no one is buying it, except Earl who believes Roderick is actually alive.
73	* OnlyOneName: See above in NoNameGiven.
74	* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:Mossman and Dr. Breen]].
75	* ParodyEpisode: [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=79 Making up is Easy to - WTF?!]] is a parody of the Music/KanyeWest incident and a 4th wall breaker.
76	* PornStash: Barney has one which was found by Alyx, which he is subsequently {{blackmail}}ed with because it lacked women.
77	* PosthumousCharacter: Roderick Thanatos.
78	* PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: That One makes [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=170 a prophecy about the upcoming events]] in exchange for a melon.
79	* PunnyName: [[Website/YouTube Hugh Chube]].
80	* QuestForIdentity: [[spoiler:Dr. Breen]].
81	* RedShirt: [[MeaningfulName X. Ben Dibble-Redshirt]].
82	* RightBehindMe: Happens to a citizen who sings a rather... unflattering song about [[spoiler:Breen aften he’s eaten by Mr Nibbles]], even failing to notice the others running off (including his keyboardist)!
83	* RomancingTheWidow: Kleiner and Barney both try this with Mel.
84	* SelfServingMemory: {{Retcon}}ed in via WordOfGod to explain differences between Magnusson's flackback in Book One and Mr. Nosedive's retelling of the same events in Book Four.
85	* SharingABody: Magnusson and Herbert.
86	* ShootTheMessenger: Breen has a tendency to "ax" his messengers a favour if they ever bring him unfortunate news.
87	* ShoutOut:
88	** In [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=65 Episode 65]].
89	--> '''Barney''': "[[VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay No! I'm from the twenty-first century!]]"
90	--> '''Fisher''': "'''I''' make the [[LampshadeHanging obscure reference gags]] in '''these''' parts! '''Sic him, [[Franchise/StarWars Jango!]]'''"
91	** To one of the author's other creations, Pingu Parody Party, in the form of a man dressed as WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}} who is being hunted by a man [[PunnyName named]] [[Website/YouTube Hugh Chube]] for copyright violation.
92	* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler:Barney]] does this to [[spoiler:Kleiner]], [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=206 here]].
93	* StockBritishPhrases: Cubbage.
94	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[spoiler: [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=186 "[…] I've recorded over six hours of you and Mossman engaging in intercourse which I am certainly not going to sell on the internet! And even if I did, I most definitely would not view it for my own personal entertainment!"]]]]
95	* TakingYouWithMe: Mr. Nosedive uses this to prevent Mossman killing him.
96	* TeamPet: Lamarr.
97	* TheInternetIsForPorn: As Longfigger learns when she [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=109 re-activates the internet]], much to Mossman's annoyance.
98	* ThirdPersonPerson: The Vortigaunts, and considering their [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness verbose]] way of speaking it's hard for This One to avoid this trope.
99	* TonightSomeoneDies: Invoked via WordOfGod and an in-universe prophecy.
100	* TrickBomb: The H-Bomb which will cause every living in the blast radius to become permanently stoned and anyone with 500 kilometres of the epicenter to get serious munchies.
101	* UnexplainedRecovery: Dr. Breen, twice.
102	* UnsoundEffect: [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=139 tl;dr]]
103	* UnwantedAssistance: Kleiner's 'helpful advice' is [[spoiler:what drove Magnusson insane]].
104	* WebcomicTime: Particularly noticeable in Book Four which takes place over a couple of days but was released over 11 months.
105	* WHAMEpisode: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izotmgh44zU Life with Lamarr ~ Book Four Finale]] [[TearJerker Bring tissues...]]
106	* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=96 How Roderick Came to Be]] arc and [[http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=181 The Mossman Files]] arc.
107	* YourHeadASplode: Happens to [[spoiler:That One (the Vort with the crowbar in his head)]]. Even the sound effect was "[[UnsoundEffect ASPLODE!]]"

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