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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