| 1 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thumbnail3.png]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:200:''[[{{Tagline}} the comic with a tagline that is this tagline]]''[[note]]Clockwise from top left: Sonata, Musi, [=Ian07=], Dandan, Andrew, and [=PlanetN9ne=][[/note]]]] |
| 3 | ''[[https://qxlkbh.github.io/house qxlkbh]]'' is a StickFigureComic made by [[VideoGame/ConwaysGameOfLife Conwaylife Lounge]] Discord users [[Tropers/{{janmusija}} Moosey]] (canonically spelled [[UsefulNotes/TokiPona "Musi" or "Musija"]]), [[Tropers/{{Andrewthetroper}} andrewthecoder]], [=PlanetN9ne=], Dandan, Sonata, and Tropers/Ian07.[[note]]plus [[GuestStrip guest appearances]] by Digin and Henry[[/note]] First published on Creator/{{Discord}} on June 22, 2022, the comic was given its own website on August 1, 2022. |
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| 5 | The comic contains extensive amounts of {{Meta}} and SelfReferentialHumor, and takes ''a lot'' of inspiration from ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'', right down to its WordPureeTitle. |
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| 7 | You can also view the comic on Website/{{Tumblr}} [[https://qxlkbh.tumblr.com/ here]]. |
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| 10 | |
| 11 | !!''qxlkbh'' provides examples of: |
| 12 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 14 | [[folder:#-C]] |
| 15 | * TenMinuteRetirement: Camera I [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/128 quits their job]] only to immediately realize that there aren't any other places that will employ cameras, and asks to get their job back. |
| 16 | * ThirtyDayFreeTrial: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/63 63: Ideas]], Andrew's free trial to "ideas" ends, and he suddenly becomes unable to think of any. |
| 17 | * FourOneNineScam: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] by the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/52 52: mail]], which states that the letter is asking for $10,000 sent via Western Union, although no explanation is given as to why. |
| 18 | * FourTwentyBlazeIt: La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/29 discovers]] that it takes exactly 1.3 bees to make a single sentient francium atom. So they ask the National Science Foundation for 546 bees to make 420 sentient francium atoms. |
| 19 | * FiveFiveFive: The phone number given to purchase advertising space on [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/20 20: canonicity court part 2]] is 555-0123-012. In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/82 82: behind the panels]], it's 555-555-5555. |
| 20 | * AbortedArc: The [[{{Calvinball}} Nomic]] arc, which barring a brief interruption was mostly continuous until [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/85 85: Nomic Part 5]]. After that, it was abandoned in favor of a combination of one-off comics as well as a plotline about the zvillainsrg. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Dandan in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/96 96: nomic part 6?]] when they remark that it's been "forever" since the last Nomic comic. Lampshaded again in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/148 148: nomic part 7]] where the nomic rules posting is shown torn and covered in vines from neglect. |
| 21 | * AffectionateParody: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e12 messiaen_comic_thing.png]] parodies Music/OlivierMessiaen's ''Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus'' by providing literal interpretations of some of the titles of individual movements. In the description, Musi describes the ''Vingt regards'' as "superbly excellent". |
| 22 | * AFoolForAClient: Both La Croix and Musi serve as their own representation in the "canonicity court" arc. |
| 23 | * AlertnessBlink: Musi and the archaeologist appear with an exclamation mark over their heads when [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/68 La Croix interrupts them]]. |
| 24 | * AlienGeometries: [[ExploitedTrope Exploited]] by La Croix in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/136 136: introducing byzantine football]], who goes into hyperbolic space to [[ExtradimensionalEmergencyExit evade a group of hitmen]]. |
| 25 | * AllElectionsAreSeriousBusiness: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/129 129: democracy, apparently]], La Croix has received 0.06% of the vote in an opinion poll for the Citygradville mayoral election, while the alt text specifies that the town has a population of only 1,700. This implies not only that every single citizen of the town responded to the poll, but also that [[HideYourChildren they're all of voting age]]. The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/131 131: debate]] implies that a referendum was held to determine the voting system for a ''second'' referendum which determined the voting system to be used in the actual election. |
| 26 | * AllJustADream: [[spoiler:"new qxlkbh" is revealed to just be La Croix's dream.]] |
| 27 | * AllLowercaseLetters: In addition to the title, dialogue is sometimes presented entirely in lowercase, especially in Musi's comics. |
| 28 | * AlternateRealityGame: The "canon", which currently consists of the pages [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/canon0 canon0]] and [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/canon1 canon1]], is described as an "[[InUniverse in-universe]] [=ARG=]". Hints are to be given by Dandan in newly drawn comics. |
| 29 | * AlternateSelf: Baseball Cap's [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/77 time travel trick]] results in there being two of them in panel 3. |
| 30 | * AlternateUniverse: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/41 41: Untitled]], the page flips and brings Henry to "the other side" of ''qxlkbh'', the side where Musi resides and also where the Narrator's dialogue is anti-aliased like it's supposed to be. |
| 31 | * AlternativeCalendar: According to the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/142 142: qxlkbh turns 1]], a year is 374 days long in the ''qxlkbh'' universe, meaning that the comic ''was'' published on the correct date all along. |
| 32 | * AltText: The vast majority of strips have alt text that can be seen by hovering over it. In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/17 17: translation errs]], the alt text is actually necessary for understanding the strip, unless you [[spoiler:happen to speak Quechua]]. |
| 33 | * AndAllIGotWasThisLousyTShirt: [[spoiler:Referenced by the alt text on the secret page "three half":]] |
| 34 | --> [[spoiler:"You went here expecting something big... and all you got was a stupid ball of three halves.]] |
| 35 | * AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/90 90: an aesop]] ends by stating what the moral of the story is, that being [[SpoofAesop to not write stories with morals]]. |
| 36 | * AndThatsTerrible: When the Narrator learns that Musi's writing has been criticized, they respond with "oh no! That's just plain terrible!" |
| 37 | * AngryFistShake: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/63 63: Ideas]], Andrew shakes his fist at the sky upon learning that his free trial to "ideas" has ended. |
| 38 | * AnimalAthleteLoophole: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/136 Byzantine football]], which contains several dozen pages of rules determining whether or not dogs are allowed to play the game. |
| 39 | * AnotherDimension: The glider has an entire VideoGame/ConwaysGameOfLife universe all to itself, all for the purpose of philosophical musings. |
| 40 | * AnswerCut: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e13 E13 - extra - applications]], one of the cueballs wants to know if there any applications for an obscure mathematical theorem. Cut to 16 million years later, where an alien by the name of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Thaxlarg the Destroyer]] tries to take over humanity, but can only be defeated if the conjecture is true. |
| 41 | * AnthropicPrinciple: When questioned about the inclusion of a ChickenpoxEpisode, despite the extreme improbability of catching chickenpox from an airplane, Ian [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/114 replies]] that the alternative (i.e. neither of them getting sick) would be a pretty boring story. |
| 42 | * AntiClimax: |
| 43 | ** The "phone" arc [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/40 ends]] with the Narrator and their fellow prankees shrugging their shoulders after realizing they were duped. |
| 44 | ---> '''Narrator:''' so what now\ |
| 45 | '''Doctor:''' Just make an endcard or something. |
| 46 | ---> '''Narrator:''' ok |
| 47 | ---> ''[[TheEnd ~FIN~]]'' |
| 48 | ** The zvillainsrg arc [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/99 ends]] with Michael pressing a button to activate the surrealism generator, only for nothing to happen. |
| 49 | ---> '''Sonata:''' That was climactic. Should we go on with our lives now? |
| 50 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite living in a universe where pretty much anything goes, La Croix in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e1 extra-1 - sequel curse]] insists that the "curse" of Inconsistent Man actors dying can't possibly be real. However, the alt text implies that La Croix was only denying it because they themselves were somehow responsible for the actors' deaths. |
| 51 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: One of the celebratory [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/143 "evil" acts]] the zvillainsrg engage in is jaywalking. |
| 52 | * ArtifactOfPower: |
| 53 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/116 116: timeline]], Musi obtains a [[TropeName [=[GENERIC MAGIC ARTIFACT]=]]] that they try to use to defeat the zvillainsrg. |
| 54 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/122 122: technobabble]], Andrew obtains an artifact capable of manipulating time through {{Technobabble}}. |
| 55 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/139 139: the search for TRIANGLE ROCK]], [=zOption 12rg=] finds TRIANGLE ROCK, which can be used to [[NoOntologicalInertia ontologically link]] two objects. |
| 56 | * ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: After JugglingLoadedGuns [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/123 goes horribly wrong]], the performer decides to switch up their act and juggle ''unloaded'' guns instead. Never mind the fact that the ''first'' rule of gun safety is to always treat a gun as if it's loaded. |
| 57 | * ArtShift: |
| 58 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/5 5: weirdness - 3]] features sort-of realistic lighting in its last panel, while [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/6 6: weirdness - 4]] is the first strip to be in color. The latter is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Musi in the following strip, and both are later alluded to in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/21 21: canonicity court part 3]] when Musi tries to declare both of these instances non-canon. |
| 59 | ** The third panel of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/49 49: sunset]] is the first to be ''fully'' in color. |
| 60 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/73 73: software change]] tells the reader to "expect slight differences" in the artstyle due to Musi switching from Paint 3D to GIMP. |
| 61 | * ASCIIArt: |
| 62 | ** The title of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/31 31]] is "outside the comic >+o|=", with the >+o representing a sideways stick figure. |
| 63 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/75 75: physical form]], an angry stick figure appears made out of ASCII characters and chases a cueball. |
| 64 | * AspectRatioSwitch: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/43 43: screen borders]], in which both characters are in the process of being crushed by the [[{{Letterbox}} black bars]]. |
| 65 | * AssumingTheAudiencesAge: "Consistent Man" [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/120 refers]] to the audience as "kids" when speaking about supporting the law. |
| 66 | * AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: Andrew's commentary for [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/126 126: qxlkbh - The Lost Episode]] mentions that the strip supposedly contains a scene depicting a "sentient apple uprising". |
| 67 | * AuthorGuestSpot: |
| 68 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/19 19: interlude]] is Musi apologizing to the reader for there not being another "canonicity court" strip. |
| 69 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/118 118: beard]], Ian addresses the audience when answering why he shaved his beard. |
| 70 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/121 121: author despot]] is Ian talking to the audience once again, assuring them that he was telling the truth in the aforementioned "beard" comic despite the suspicious circumstances. |
| 71 | * AwfulWeddedLife: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/59 59: Quick!, the death of a show]], which contains a reference to the "Take my wife... please!" {{Stock Joke|s}}. |
| 72 | * BackFromTheDead: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/11 11: killing off for real]], Musi [[DiscussedTrope offers]] a practical demonstration of this trope by getting run over by a train. In the next panel, they are seen standing next to a pool of ink and picking up one of their clone's antlers. |
| 73 | * {{Backstory}}: La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/93 makes up a backstory]] for themselves on the spot. They claim that they [[{{Objectshifting}} transformed from a human into a cross]] and that this would technically make ''qxlkbh'' a TransformationComic. |
| 74 | * BadassBoast: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e9 halloween 2022]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter Douglas Hofstadter]] delivers one just before single-handedly resolving the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_paradox barber paradox]]: |
| 75 | --> '''Hofstadter:''' I have powers [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm the very notion of which would drive mortals insane]]. |
| 76 | * TheBadGuyWins: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e13 e13 - extra - applications]] reveals that Thaxlarg has successfully wiped out the entirety of humanity, [[TwistEnding subverting the supposed happy ending]] of the strip itself. |
| 77 | * BaitAndSwitchComment: |
| 78 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/59 59: Quick!, the death of a show]] references the well-known "[[AwfulWeddedLife Take my wife... please!]]" joke, the original idea of which being that the speaker is listing their wife as an example of some phenomenon, but then subverts the remark by begging to get rid of her. |
| 79 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/130 130: new hire]], Baseball thinks La Croix was using the adage "[[KeepingTheEnemyClose keep your friends close but your enemies closer]]" as explanation for them hiring Crackpot, but it was actually just La Croix doing a survey about people's familiarity with the adage itself. |
| 80 | * BeatPanel: |
| 81 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/8 8: beat panels]] contains [[IdenticalPanelGag three panels in a row]] of a cueball standing and contemplating {{God}}'s answer as to TheMeaningOfLife. |
| 82 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/21 21: canonicity court part 3]] contains one as Musi contemplates about the judge's response that their case is merely "tempting". |
| 83 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/30 30: website]] contains a panel of the two stickmen standing in silence after they finish discussing whether or not a comic published exclusively on Discord really counts as a "webcomic". |
| 84 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/63 63: Ideas]] contains a panel of Andrew sitting as the revelation of the reason for his lack of ideas sinks in. |
| 85 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/64 64: another milestone]] contains two panels in a row of Baseball Cap and Andrew standing in silence, with the former bowing their head in shame in the second panel. |
| 86 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/100 100: fin]] contains two panels of the cast standing and doing nothing. |
| 87 | ** [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/102 102: Beating panel]], where the protagonists [[{{pun}} beat]] the zvillainsrg to death simply by waiting. |
| 88 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/110 110: pretend interactivity]] contains two panels containing only [[VisibleSilence ellipses]] as Baseball Cap [[FakeInteractivity awaits the audience's answer]]. |
| 89 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/116 116: timeline]] contains two of these in a row. In the first, Musi and the zvillainsrg stand in silence after the ArtifactOfPower gets taken away. In the second, Musi [[HeroicBSOD sulks to the ground in despair]]. |
| 90 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/128 128: camera 1 quits]] contains a panel of Musi waiting for Camera I to realize that they won't be able to find any other work and ask to get their job back. |
| 91 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/149 149: the lawyers]] contains of panel of Musi and their lawyer silently reacting to [=zAlicerg's=] lawyer claiming to not be qualified to practice law, followed by another panel of Justice Fivecurls processing it. |
| 92 | * BecauseISaidSo: |
| 93 | ** In the "canonicity court" arc, [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/21 Musi argues]] that as the comic author, [[invoked]][[WordOfGod they have authority]] to declare parts of the previous storylines non-canon. |
| 94 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/97 97: Montage]], the leader of the zvillainsrg places blame on Xylopharg. When asked why, they instead shrug and admit they don't know, but reiterate what they said. |
| 95 | * BetterThanABareBulb: With this being {{Metafiction}}, expect numerous instances of characters [[LampshadeHanging pointing out tropes as they're used]]. |
| 96 | * BigNo: [[spoiler:In the secret comic "99+epsilon", Musi raises their arms and shouts out a loud and long "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" that gradually disappears into a point.]] |
| 97 | * BigShutUp: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/2 2: inconsistent man 1.5 the presequel]]: |
| 98 | --> '''Narrator:''' At least [Inconsistent Man]'s not real-- |
| 99 | --> '''Inconsistent Man:''' (''pointing gun'') '''Do not question me.''' |
| 100 | * BilingualBonus: |
| 101 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/17 17: translation errs]] reveals that the Stickese [[spoiler:actually speak Quechua]]. |
| 102 | ---> '''Andrew:''' (translated) This comic sure is unintelligible to the audience, huh? |
| 103 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/25 25: canonicity court part 7]], the Bolivian Army speaks Spanish: |
| 104 | ---> '''Bolivian Army officer:''' (translated) [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]], we're at the wrong address! |
| 105 | * {{Bizarrchitecture}}: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/136 Byzantine football]], the goalposts are shaped like an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_horned_sphere Alexander horned sphere]], a 3-dimensional fractal which topologists consider to be a pathological object. |
| 106 | * BlandNameProduct: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/113 113: survivor bias]] features posts on the fictional social media sites "[[Website/{{Facebook}} Face]][[Website/{{MySpace}} Space]]" and "[[Website/{{Twitter}} Twit]][[Website/{{Reddit}} dit]]". |
| 107 | * BlindObedience: "Consistent Man" is loyal to Crossley and claims that "the law is always right". |
| 108 | * BloodyHilarious: The last panel of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/123 123: gun safety]] shows a pile of blood on the floor following a comically ill-fated performance involving loaded guns. |
| 109 | * BluntYes: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/44 a Q&A strip]]: |
| 110 | --> '''Musi:''' ok, this one's asking how on earth you're supposed to pronounce "qxlkbh". it's just /qxlkbh/, is it ''that'' hard? |
| 111 | --> '''Cueball:''' hm... [[TheUnpronounceable yes]]. |
| 112 | * BodyPaint: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/115 115: qxzlkbh]], Tentacle Horse is seen painting [[ZebrasAreJustStripedHorses zebra stripes]] on their own body. |
| 113 | * BolivianArmyEnding: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when the actual Bolivian Army [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/25 raids the courtroom]], supposedly dooming the protagonists, only to realize they were at the wrong address. |
| 114 | * BrainInAJar: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/42 42: Regarding Tvtropes]], the [[VideoGame/ConwaysGameOfLife glider]] poses the question of how a human brain would be able to determine that the sensations it experiences are based on the real world, rather than, say, simulated impulses from a computer, or a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain Boltzmann brain]] that just happened to pop into existence thanks to a lucky series of random fluctuations in the quantum field. |
| 115 | * BreakingBadNewsGently: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/106 106: nosebleed]], a doctor approaches a family and apologetically breaks the news of a DeadlyNosebleed. |
| 116 | * BrickJoke: |
| 117 | ** A DoubleSubversion occurs in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/16 16: the brick joke]]: Andrew throws a boomerang. The cueball standing next to him [[LampshadeHanging points out]] that the boomerang will probably come back in 500 strips, only to be [[InstantlyProvenWrong immediately hit]] by it. The alt text implies that after 500 strips, they'll wake up. |
| 118 | ** The alt text for [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/40 40: phone - part 7]] claims that the [[AntiClimax anti-climactic ending]] of the "phone" arc will be explained within the next 15 strips. [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/55 Exactly 15 strips later]], La Croix reveals that the authors [[SelfDeprecation simply couldn't write a good ending]]. |
| 119 | * BrokenRecord: |
| 120 | ** The Narrator in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/9 9: title drop]] inexplicably can't stop saying "think": |
| 121 | ---> '''Andrew:''' We have it easy, other [[TitleDrop title drops]] have to make sense and not [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]]-- [[LampshadeHanging why are you saying think?]] |
| 122 | ---> '''Narrator:''' thinkthinkthinkthinkthinkthink I have to do that, ok? |
| 123 | ** [[spoiler:[[https://qxlkbh.github.io/housebees A secret page]] exists which is the same as the home page but with a WallOfText repeating "fear the fourth wall" over and over.]] |
| 124 | * BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/81 81: Nomic Part 3]], a marriage between the violin-like instrument and the Fourth Wall is arranged through democratic means. In the "[[https://qxlkbh.github.io/comics/nomic-3_SOCIAL_COMMENTARY_EDITION.png social commentary edition]]" the latter notes that "neither of us want this but I am obliged to accept". |
| 125 | * ButHeSoundsHandsome: In the alt text for [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/4 4: weirdness - 2]], La Croix is described in the third person as trustworthy, in a quote attributed to... La Croix. |
| 126 | * ByNoIMeanYes: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/22 22: canonicity court part 4]], Justice Fivecurls asks La Croix whether their question was intended to distract the court: |
| 127 | --> '''La Croix:''' I plead the fifth. Also, yes, I am. |
| 128 | * ByThePowerOfGrayskull: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/66 66: Action Logic #2]], Inconsistent Man activates his inconsistency powers by voice. |
| 129 | * CallBack: |
| 130 | ** Baseball Cap in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/53 53: my hobby]] cites the events of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/51 51: qxlkbh #51]] (possibly the unexplained disappearance of the cake) as their justification for not cooperating with the author. |
| 131 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/68 68: the one where the hair in the last panel is unclear]], the archaeologist references the events of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/26 26: developing plot or something]], where La Croix announces that they have obtained a grant for a high-energy chemistry lab. This foreshadows La Croix's appearance in the next panel. |
| 132 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/125 125: The Triumphant return of The Fourth Wall]], the Most Beautiful Stickman remarks that they thought the [[{{Fanservice}} fanservice]]-obsessed cueball had been killed off, referencing the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/74 74: unexpected]]. |
| 133 | * CallForward: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/29 29: more plot]], La Croix tries to create sentient francium. Dandan asks La Croix whether the events of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/6 6: weirdness - 4]] (in which a sentient cube of francium causes mass death and distruction) are the final outcome of this, to which La Croix replies "Perhaps." |
| 134 | * {{Calvinball}}: Since [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/79 79: Nomic Part 1]] a nomic game has been set up, in which the rules of the game can be changed through in-universe voting. |
| 135 | * [[invoked]]{{Cancellation}}: It is [[ImpliedTrope implied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/59 59: Quick!, the death of a show]] that "[[ShowWithinAShow Quick!]]" was cancelled after four seasons because "the network got angry". |
| 136 | * CanonDiscontinuity: |
| 137 | ** La Croix tries to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e4 extra - weirdness - 2]], an alternate version of the mainline strip of the same name, hoping that the early strips will be declared non-canon. Later, in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/7 7: weirdness - 5]], Musi tries to invoke it by [[CourtroomEpisode suing La Croix]] in "canonicity court" in objection to the current storyline... which is exactly what La Croix wanted. |
| 138 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/49 49: sunset]], Sonata threatens to take La Croix to canonicity court. |
| 139 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/57 57: an important announcement]], it is claimed that the "phone" arc was "a huge mistake" will be removed from the comic. |
| 140 | ** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/62 62: Canon]], where the old comic thumbnail appears [[CoverDrop as a panel in the comic itself]]. This was to ensure that the statement "THIS THUMBNAIL IS CANON" would remain true, as the comic coincided with the updating of the thumbnail to include Dandan and Sonata, who had since been added on as coauthors. |
| 141 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/125 125: The Triumphant return of The Fourth Wall]], La Croix claims that the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/74 74: unexpected]] wasn't canon, hence why the fanservice-obsessed cueball is still alive. |
| 142 | * CantYouReadTheSign: The zvillainsrg [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/143 walk on a patch of grass]] with a sign right next to it telling them not to do so. |
| 143 | * CasualDangerDialogue: La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/135 casually walks away from the podium]] while under machine gun fire, and announces that they'll "probably end this acceptance speech prematurely". |
| 144 | * CellPhonesAreUseless: [[spoiler:In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/lytton Really bad writing]], Sarah tries to call Joanne to help her with a problem, only to realize that she has conveniently forgotten to bring her phone with her.]] |
| 145 | * CensorBox: |
| 146 | ** The [[AudioDiegesis diegetic audio]] the Narrator listens to in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/70 70: the one that has the title that says "hey tropers mark down theme naming in your trope bingo"]] is covered with a black box labeled "[REDACTED]". |
| 147 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e9 "halloween 2022"]], the third panel is fully censored with a black box. |
| 148 | * ChainedToARailway: Musi [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/42 suggests]] that Mustache Twirler tie someone to a railroad to [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establish their villainy]], but Mustache Twirler says that they're [[RetiredMonster retired]]. |
| 149 | * ChainsawGood: [[DoubleSubversion Doubly subverted]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/74 74: unexpected]], where La Croix asks for help with cleaning blood off a chainsaw. They deny having murdered someone with it, instead showing their grove of trees which contain blood instead of sap. However, in the alt text, they realize they can use this as a cover story for when they murdered the fanservice-obsessed cueball, presumably using said chainsaw. |
| 150 | * ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: In the "canonicity court" arc, La Croix tries on two separate occasions to change the subject to the court ''itself'' and its power over the story, instead of arguing for why the previous story events should be canon. |
| 151 | * [[invoked]]CharacterAlignment: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/48 48: hcaptcha]] pokes fun at the contentious nature of character alignments by comparing it to another type of 3x3 grid - the [[TuringTest [=CAPTCHA=] test]]. |
| 152 | * ChemistryCanDoAnything: La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/29 discovers]] while synthesizing francium that it can be turned sentient simply by adding bees to the equation. |
| 153 | * ChickenAndEggParadox: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/73 73: software change]], La Croix uses a magic wand to add an appendage to themselves. The way they hold this wand is by using said appendage. |
| 154 | * ChickenpoxEpisode: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/114 114: polka plane 2: just plane wrong]], both the cueball and Ian catch chickenpox after standing next to a plane with red dots drawn on it. In this case, they become covered with red sores in the exact same spots that are on the plane. |
| 155 | * ChristmasEpisode: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/105 105: holidays]], Andrew, on behalf of the other authors, wishes the reader a merry Christmas, accompanied with a simple drawing of a Christmas tree. |
| 156 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/57 57: an important announcement]], which announces that all of the authors, plus La Croix and the Most Beautiful Stickman, will be (temporarily) written out of the story and replaced with a brand new main cast in "new qxlkbh". The out-of-universe explanation given is that none of these characters work well in a non-{{Meta}} setting. |
| 157 | * CirclingBirdies: |
| 158 | ** Henry [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/41 falls]] into the "other side" of ''qxlkbh'' and gets a whirl above his head upon landing. |
| 159 | ** Baseball Cap [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/86 trips]] and gets stars circling over their head. |
| 160 | * CircularReasoning: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/13 La Croix's "proof"]] of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture Collatz conjecture]] is that the authors can [[ArtisticLicense assume anything]] to be true InUniverse. |
| 161 | * ClarkesThirdLaw: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/121 121: author despot]], which contains the quotation "Any [[HanlonsRazor sufficiently advanced incompetence]] is indistinguishable from malice". |
| 162 | * ClickHello: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/2 2: inconsistent man 1.5 the presequel]], Inconsistent Man introduces himself by pointing a gun at the Narrator for doubting his existence. |
| 163 | * ClusterBleepBomb: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/32 32: censorship]], one of the stick figures drops three censored F-bombs in the span of two panels. The alt text contains two more. |
| 164 | * CollectiveGroan: Ian [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/126 remarks]] that his joke about "the anime β ring" will probably lead to a large number of groans from readers. |
| 165 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: When looking at the famous airplane image often used to represent SurvivorshipBias, Ian instead gets the idea that people should start painting red polka dots on their planes more often. |
| 166 | * ComicallyWordyContract: Upon [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/140 finding TRIANGLE ROCK]], [=zOption 12rg=] is asked to read and agree to a terms of services document. The paper itself is also triangle-shaped, implying that it's quite a bit longer than the panel could otherwise show. |
| 167 | * {{Conlang}}: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/17 17: translation errs]], which claims that the English dialogue was actually being translated from "Stickese" the whole time. However, the [[https://pastebin.com/py8sWm4Y Pastebin]] linked in the alt text reveals that [[spoiler:the "Stickese" is actually Quechua]]. |
| 168 | * ContentWarnings: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/32 32: censorship]] [[ParodiedTrope parodies this]] with an MPAA ratings card that suddenly realizes this is a comic, not a movie. |
| 169 | * ContinuityCavalcade: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/120 120: seecret saturday update]] and [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/121 121: author despot]] contain a total of three {{Continuity Nod}}s between them: |
| 170 | ** The alt text of the former makes the observation that a character having a VerbalTic of any kind indicates their "connection with the law", referencing [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e5 E5 - court extra]] where one of the judges has one. |
| 171 | ** The first panel of the second comic resembles that of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/42 42: Regarding Tvtropes]] in that it [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] a notable development related to ''qxlkbh'' that occurred the same day that the individual strip was published. |
| 172 | ** The alt text of the latter strip also references Musi's apology in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/19 19: interlude]]. |
| 173 | * ContinuitySnarl: In the description of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/93 93: transformation comic]], Musi remarks that the canon of ''qxlkbh'' is growing more complicated over time. In this case, La Croix is aware that they don't yet have a {{backstory}}, and so decides to make one up. However, this "made-up" backstory is distinguished from their "real" backstory, which does not yet exist. Musi states that the backstory given in the comic "''isn't'' canon[,] canonically". |
| 174 | * CorrectionBait: The quotation of Grey's Law in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/121 121: author despot]] is instead attributed to "Cunningham's Law", which actually states that the quickest way to get a correct answer to a question online is to post an incorrect answer. Anyone who tries to correct this would thus fall victim to that very phenomenon. |
| 175 | * CorruptedData: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/126 126: qxlkbh - The Lost Episode]], the supposed "comic" just shows up as a broken image. |
| 176 | * TheCoup: Crossley [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/120 declares themselves]] "supreme overlord of the ''qxlkbh'' universe" with the help of Inconsistent Man. |
| 177 | * CourtroomEpisode: |
| 178 | ** The first "{{canon}}icity court" arc revolves around Musi suing La Croix in court to have the events of the previous comic strips declared non-canon. |
| 179 | ** Canonicity court returns starting in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/145 145: Court Again??]] to settle a dispute between [=zAlicerg=] and Musi over whether interdimensional travel is canon. |
| 180 | * CoverDrop: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/62 62: Canon]], Andrew and Musi decide to sit on top of Planet, resulting in them recreating the original comic thumbnail. |
| 181 | * {{Crawl}}: The news broadcast in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/129 129: democracy, apparently]] features a scrolling piece of text at the bottom suggesting that Music/OlivierMessiaen may be running for some unspecified office. |
| 182 | * CreatingLife: When asked to test out a normal fusion reaction, La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/29 instead decides]] to make the atoms sentient... using bees. [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/33 It works.]] |
| 183 | * CreatorInJoke: |
| 184 | ** The [[{{Calvinball}} Nomic]] arc is "full of more [[InJoke in-jokes]] than [the authors] can reasonably explain", specifically ones referencing Nomics that they have personally participated in. |
| 185 | ** The [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/91 zvillains'rg lair]] has on top of it an alembic tapering off to a hand, as a reference to a custom [[UsefulNotes/{{Emojis}} emoji]] from Musi's Nomic Discord server. |
| 186 | ** The [[ExtraDigits unusual]] "thumbs" emojis in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/113 113: survivor bias]] are also a reference to the Nomic server, which contains several variations on the emoji, including ones which combine it with other emojis. |
| 187 | ** Ian [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/126 makes a reference]] to "Three Lumberjacks", a ''very'' obscure children's song which he was forced to sing in elementary school and later tried to track down with the help of none other than Musi and Andrew, the other two supposed authors of that strip. |
| 188 | * CrimeSpreeMontage: Each panel of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/143 143: the other celebration]] is one or more of the zvillainsrg engaging in some [[PokeThePoodle minor evil deed]]. |
| 189 | * CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer: A cueball [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/114 asks]] Ian why they both became infected with [[ChickenpoxEpisode chickenpox]], as opposed to any other disease. Ian instead interprets the question as asking why they got chickenpox as opposed to not getting sick at all, which the cueball finds unhelpful. |
| 190 | [[/folder]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | [[folder:D-F]] |
| 193 | * DadaComics: Although [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/56 56: OBK Kubanulllh]] was redrawn by a human, it was originally [[MediaNotes/AIGeneratedArtwork generated by an AI program]], and the result is completely incomprehensible. The AI seems to have a decent grasp on what a StickFigureComic is supposed to ''look'' like, although there are still a few oddities such as inexplicably missing or disproportionate limbs. It doesn't seem to understand much about actual storytelling - the dialogue in the first panel is complete gibberish consisting of a series of glyphs either taken from other writing systems or just made up entirely, while the dialogue in the second panel is cut off entirely. |
| 194 | * DarkerAndEdgier: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/86 86: qxlkbh DARKER AND EDGIER EDITION]], where "darker" just means the lights are turned off and "edgier" means anti-aliasing is disabled. Baseball Cap ''does'' get injured, however. |
| 195 | * DarkHorseVictory: La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/133 wins]] the Citygradville mayoral election despite the only person who voted for them first being themselves, thanks to the use of a rather unconvential voting system. |
| 196 | * DarkIsEvil: [=zAlicerg=] [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/141 saying the word "evil"]] is accompanied by the background suddenly turning darker. |
| 197 | * DeadlyNosebleed: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/106 106: nosebleed]], where the nosebleed itself is treated like a terminal illness. The doctor solemnly states "there's nothing we can do to save him." |
| 198 | * DeathIsCheap: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/11 11: killing off for real]], Musi promises that major characters will not be [[KilledOffForReal permanently killed at any point in the comic]], and even demonstrates it by getting run over by a train. Although a pool of ink and two antlers can be seen occupying the place they once stood, another copy of them continues talking to the audience like nothing happened. |
| 199 | * DeathlyDiesIrae: When [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/14 listening to]] ''Dies Irae'', the cueball remarks that [[LampshadeHanging they think they are about to get murdered]]. |
| 200 | * DeclarativeFinger: |
| 201 | ** The Most Beautiful Stickman [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e11 points their finger up]] when they get the idea of trying to invent a brand new trope. |
| 202 | ** Crossley [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/120 points their finger up]] when announcing their [[TheCoup coup]] attempt. |
| 203 | * DefensiveWhat: When one of the zvillainsrg [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/94 pulls a]] FavouritismFlipFlop on the idea of a surrealism generator, Xylopharg is not amused. The former defends themselves by asking "what?" |
| 204 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: |
| 205 | ** The zvillains'rg lair is titled the [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/91 Evil Spire of Utmost Evil]]. |
| 206 | ** [[spoiler:[[https://qxlkbh.github.io/lytton Really bad writing]] opens by stating that ItWasADarkAndStormyNight, before stating that the weather and lighting were unfavorable, the latter due to it being nighttime.]] |
| 207 | ** [[spoiler:The secret comic "zvillains.rg" mentions that Zerbra is a zebra no fewer than ''four'' times, purely to fill in their description.]] |
| 208 | * DependingOnTheWriter: According to the description of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/34 34: Phone - part 1]], what a character canonically sounds like depends on how their dialogue is displayed. Therefore, in Andrew's comics, everybody including the Narrator sounds the same as their dialogue is always typed out. In Musi's comics, the Narrator's dialogue is typed while everyone else's is written out, meaning that everyone except the Narrator has the same voice. |
| 209 | * DeusExMachina: The cast is [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/25 saved]] by the Bolivian Army's realization that they raided the wrong address. |
| 210 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: |
| 211 | ** In the [[{{Calvinball}} Nomic]] arc: |
| 212 | *** The five-minute rule for non-unanimous proposals being accepted which originated from Nomics played on Discord. However, it was never explained how time passes within the ''qxlkbh'' universe. Luckily, Dandan [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/80 points this out]] before any proposals get made, to which Musi remarks that they "never thought of that". A time card is then used to indicate the passage of time. |
| 213 | *** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/84 part 4]], Musi realizes that the starting rules are also missing a provision for proposals being rejected. Because the Nomic has already started at this point, the gang must vote on adding this provision instead of it being added by default. Within this vote, Dandan exploits yet another gap in the rules by making their vote contingent on the logical consistency of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_theory ZFC]]. Fortunately, this does not affect the final outcome. |
| 214 | ** [[DoubleSubversion Doubly subverted]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/99 99: WARNING! CLIFFHANGER AHEAD]], where Baseball Cap gloats that the zvillainsrg forgot to bring their superweapon into the comic to use it. The zvillainsrg reveal that they do actually have it via a SmashCut. However, one of them [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/99 confesses]] just before pressing the button to activate the surrealism generator that it hasn't been tested at all. Sure enough, it doesn't do anything. |
| 215 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/109 109: whoa it's an art gag]], [=zOption 12rg=] has successfully "captured" Maxwell. As the alt text points out, they did not bother to restrain Maxwell in any way, allowing him to escape with ease. |
| 216 | ** In the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/111 111: francium synthesis]], it is realized that the francium is misaligned with the oncoming Glider, which due to the chaotic nature of VideoGame/ConwaysGameOfLife will lead to the pattern falling apart. |
| 217 | * DidntWeUseThisJokeAlready: |
| 218 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/66 66: Action Logic #2]], Andrew points out that [[FrameBreak panel breaking]] had already been used in the comic several times before. |
| 219 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/92 92: filler]], a cueball remarks that the comic has already had several FillerStrips. |
| 220 | * {{Dissimile}}: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/102 102: Beating panel]] remarks on the idea of the corpse of a unicorn with [[RainbowsAndUnicorns rainbow-colored blood]]: "It's all rainbows and sunshine... without the sunshine". |
| 221 | * DistinctionWithoutADifference: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/94 94: zpreventative measuresrg]], one of the zvillainsrg claims that they prefer the idea of a surrealism generator... to the idea of a surrealism generator. The only difference between the two being [[FavouritismFlipFlop who's saying them]]. |
| 222 | * DoNotTauntCthulhu: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e3 proto-1]], Musi is challenged to a DuelToTheDeath. After being taunted by their challenger, Musi simply makes them disappear, being the author of the comic. |
| 223 | * DoubleMeaningTitle: |
| 224 | ** The title of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/76 76: filler comic]] refers to the fact that it was drawn as a StripBuffer. It's also a setup for a [[PunBasedTitle pun]] based on ''fillér'', a name used historically used for small denominations of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fill%C3%A9r Hungarian currency]]. |
| 225 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/86 86: qxlkbh DARKER AND EDGIER EDITION]] and [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/88 88: EVEN DARKER AND EVEN EDGIER]], "edgier" refers both to the lack of anti-aliasing and also, in the alt text, the fact that characters keep tripping on edges. |
| 226 | * DoubleSubversion: |
| 227 | ** Mentioned by name in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/74 74: unexpected]] in the title text, where La Croix reveals that [[ChainsawGood they did use the chainsaw to murder someone]] after all. |
| 228 | ** [[spoiler:In the secret comic "crime scene", Baseball Cap is seen covered in a red substance which at first is supposedly cherry filling but is shown in the next panel to be blood.]] |
| 229 | * DramaticHighPerching: |
| 230 | ** In the "canonicity court" arc, the judge in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/21 sits at an absurdly high desk]], so tall that they need a ladder to get up. |
| 231 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/98 98: contingency]] both Sonata and La Croix are also perched at absurd heights. |
| 232 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/147 147: evidence review]], Justice Fivecurls' stand is so tall that it looks more like an obelisk. When [=zAlicerg=] suggests that they come down from their "skyscraper", Fivecurls remarks that it would take a very long time to get down. |
| 233 | * DramaticIrony: Andrew remarks in his commentary for [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/126 126: qxlkbh - The Lost Episode]] that he hopes the strip won't be lost to time. Sure enough, the image is broken. |
| 234 | * DramaticPause: [=zAlicerg=] [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/141 briefly pauses midsentence]] before revealing that the zvillainsrg will celebrate by engaging in [[ForTheEvulz evil]]. |
| 235 | * DrosteImage: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/53 53: my hobby]] is a single panel of Baseball Cap looking at a smaller portrait of the same panel, which in turns contains an even smaller one. |
| 236 | * DuelToTheDeath: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e3 proto-1]], a person enters Musi's room and challenges them to a "duel to the death", only to be [[SubvertedTrope poofed out of existence]]. |
| 237 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: |
| 238 | ** The "weirdness" arc begins with the Most Beautiful Stickman talking about how early strips of a webcomic tend to be weird. The stickmen attempt to [[DefiedTrope defy]] this trope by avoiding "[doing] anything [they] might regret later" - i.e., doing absolutely nothing. However, La Croix fears that this will merely doom them to a bland future where the early comics are merely "weird" in comparison, and so instead tries to [[ExploitedTrope exploit]] this trope by engaging in as much mayhem as possible. |
| 239 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/120 120: seecret saturday update]], Crossley hopes that by promoting order in ''qxlkbh'', all of the chaos of the earlier strips will eventually be seen as weird in hindsight. |
| 240 | * EasterEgg: The website contains numerous secret comics that are not accessible through the main navigation menu but can be accessed by manually typing the correct URL. Tropes relating to these strips are spoilered out on this page. |
| 241 | * EdutainmentShow: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/110 impromptu qxlkbhkidsshow]] is aimed at children and teaches its audience about the nature of the webcomic medium (i.e. that it's [[FakeInteractivity not really interactive]]). |
| 242 | * ElectionDayEpisode: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/129 129: democracy, apparently]] has the Fourth Wall, La Croix, and Crossley running for mayor of Citygradville. |
| 243 | * {{Emoticon}}: |
| 244 | ** In the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/11 11: killing off for real]]: |
| 245 | ---> "and I was only one day from retiring :(" |
| 246 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/41 41: Retiring]]: |
| 247 | ---> '''Narrator:''' someone turned my antialiasing off :/ |
| 248 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/57 57: an important announcement]]'s alt text is just a winky face. |
| 249 | * TheEnd: A "FIN" end card appears at [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/40 the end of the "phone" arc]]. The [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/100 end of the zvillainsrg arc]] is also titled "fin". |
| 250 | * EnforcedPlug: |
| 251 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/118 118: beard]] is supposedly sponsored by "[[HanlonsRazor Hanlon's Razors]]", and so Ian has to make a natural-sounding transition into advertising razors. |
| 252 | ** [[spoiler:The alt text for the secret comic "crime scene" contains a fake embedded Audible sponsorship which is cut short.]] |
| 253 | * EvilGloating: |
| 254 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/110 110: pretend interactivity]], La Croix gives Baseball Cap the correct answer in order to prevent the audience from doing so, and gloats that the audience has been "bamboozled". The alt text takes this to a {{meta}} level by gloating about the gloating, explaining that the usage of the trope is meant to help with audience comprehension. |
| 255 | ** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/116 116: timeline]], where Musi gloats to the zvillainsrg about how they will be PutOnABus. |
| 256 | * EvilLaugh: |
| 257 | ** Douglas Hofstadter does a maniacal laugh just before [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e9 shaving the barber's beard]]. |
| 258 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/115 115: qxzlkbh]], archetypical villain Mustache Twirler opens by laughing about their [[InvokedTrope invocation]] of the FingerTenting trope. In this context, it comes across as more mischievous than maniacal. |
| 259 | * EvilTowerOfOminousness: The zvillains'rg lair is a [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/91 large red spire]]. |
| 260 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/89 89: lc makes a comic]], La Croix makes a comic. |
| 261 | * ExcuseMeComingThrough: La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/136 runs into]] a Byzantine football stadium and onto the field while being chased by hitmen. |
| 262 | * ExtraDigits: The "thumbs" UsefulNotes/{{emoji}} reactions in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/113 113: survivor bias]]. The first two are the standard "thumbs up" and "thumbs down". We then get a hand with thumbs pointing both ways, a hand with two thumbs ''and'' with fingers pointing both left and right, and a hand with ''[[FourFingeredHands no]]'' [[FourFingeredHands thumbs]]. |
| 263 | * ExtradimensionalEmergencyExit: La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/136 goes through a door]] into [[AlienGeometries hyperbolic space]], successfully escaping a group of hitmen who are chasing after them. |
| 264 | * {{Eyedscreen}}: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/43 43: screen borders]], La Croix and Inconsistent Man have a showdown. Before the eyedscreen can close in fully, Inconsistent Man pulls the borders apart while La Croix acts as the separator between them. |
| 265 | * {{Facepalm}}: |
| 266 | ** Musi's hand meets their face in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/1 1: most beautiful stickman]] after they are begged to include {{Fanservice}} in the comic, before finally relenting, and then again in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/23 23: canonicity court part 5]] when the Most Beautiful Stickman gets married. |
| 267 | ** In the ShowWithinAShow "Quick!", one character's wife [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/59 facepalms]] in reaction to the "[[AwfulWeddedLife Take my wife... please!]]" joke. |
| 268 | ** Musi [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/67 facepalms]] when the archaeologist they meet fails to realize that the "enigmatic work" being described is ''qxlkbh'' itself. |
| 269 | ** Musi [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/81 facepalms again]] in reaction to Dandan's [[{{Calvinball}} Nomic]] proposal, and its subsequent passage. The title text remarks that "[[LampshadeHanging musija's default state is facepalming tbh]]". |
| 270 | ** One of the zvillainsrg [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/91 facepalms]] after learning of a fatal flaw in their plan which will result in them being [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hoist by their own petard]]. |
| 271 | ** The Most Beautiful Stickman [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/125 does one]] after a cueball says something creepy to them. |
| 272 | * FakeInteractivity: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/110 110: pretend interactivity]], where Baseball Cap asks the audience to answer whether the comic is actually interactive. |
| 273 | * FauxComputerCode: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/117 117: thinking with... handsaws?]] reads "number_of_ways_characters_have_achieved_[[TimeTravel time_travel]]++". "++" is a common syntax used to increment a value by one in several programming languages, including but not limited to [[MediaNotes/TheCLanguage C]], MediaNotes/{{Java}}, and MediaNotes/JavaScript. |
| 274 | * FavouritismFlipFlop: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/94 94: zpreventative measuresrg]], one of the zvillainsrg initially dismisses Xylopharg's idea of a "surrealism generator" until Michael repeats it, at which point they are suddenly much more supportive. |
| 275 | * {{Feghoot}}: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/76 76: filler comic]] the ending panel is just a pun. |
| 276 | * FictionalSocialNetwork: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/113 113: survivor bias]] features posts on the fictional social media sites "[[Website/{{Facebook}} Face]][[Website/{{MySpace}} Space]]" and "[[Website/{{Twitter}} Twit]][[Website/{{Reddit}} dit]]". |
| 277 | * FictionalSport: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/136 136: introducing byzantine football]] introduces Byzantine football, a sport with an [[LoadsAndLoadsOfRules absurd number of rules]]. |
| 278 | * FillerStrips: |
| 279 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/19 19: interlude]] is a single panel of Musi apologizing to the reader for there not being another strip. |
| 280 | ** Although it actually has a relatively high amount of effort put into it, Sonata admits that [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/49 49: sunset]] is a filler strip to help reach the milestone of 50 comics. |
| 281 | ** The description of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/76 76: filler comic]] states that the strip was [[StripBuffer prepared in advance]] to account for Musi being too lazy to draw a new one. |
| 282 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/92 92: filler]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the prevalence of filler content in the comic. |
| 283 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/98 98: contingency]], La Croix tries to declare that very comic noncanon on the basis of it being filler. |
| 284 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/105 105: holidays]] is simply Andrew wishing the readers a merry Christmas. |
| 285 | * FingerTenting: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Mustache Twirler in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/115 115: qxzlkbh]], matching a pose they were previously seen with in Discord-exclusive character art. They clasp their hands at chest level, although their fingers themselves are not visible since they're a stick figure. |
| 286 | * FlatWhat: After Justice Fivecurls [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/149 excitedly proclaims]] that a lawyer not being qualified to practice law is "epic", in the next panel everyone else simply says "what" in unison. |
| 287 | * ForcedMeme: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e11 E11: must invent a trope]], the Most Beautiful Stickman suggests that they should come up with a brand new {{trope}}, to give back to the troping community. |
| 288 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/48 48: hcaptcha]] states that the comic may be hinting at something that will be featured in a future comic, though what that is has yet to be seen. |
| 289 | * FormulaBreakingEpisode: |
| 290 | ** [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in the "new qxlkbh" arc, which features a completely different set of characters in a completely different genre. The only connection it has with the rest of the comic is [[InNameOnly the name]] and the [[StickFigureComic stick figures]]. |
| 291 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KL0spxCnUY toasters.mp4]], as its name suggests, is an animation on Website/YouTube, rather than a comic. |
| 292 | * ForTheEvulz: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/141 141: celebration]], [=zAlicerg=] suggests that the zvillainsrg engage in evil purely for the sake of celebrating [=zOption 12rg=]'s feat. Later, in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/144 144: multiverse]], [=zOption 12rg=] declares that they should come up with an EvilPlan simply because they're now "officially evil". |
| 293 | * FourthWallMailSlot: |
| 294 | ** The "Q&A" comics, starting with [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/44 44: Q&A 1]], feature the authors (mostly Musi) answering questions about the comic. So far, however, none of the questions have actually been fan-submitted, and instead have been made up by the authors themselves. |
| 295 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/118 118: beard]], Ian claims that "many readers" have inquired about his unexplained lack of beard in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/115 115: qxzlkbh]], and provides an explanation. Like with the "Q&A" arc, these "readers" do not actually exist. |
| 296 | * FrameBreak: |
| 297 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/15 15: panel power]], La Croix pierces through the first and second panels to poke the cueball in the third panel. |
| 298 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/31 31: outside the comic >+o|=]], panel boundaries can be stood on, broken through, and climbed on. |
| 299 | ** The {{Letterbox}} in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/43 43: screen borders]] is actually solid, and the result is that both Inconsistent Man and La Croix end up getting squished. |
| 300 | ** Inconsistent Man [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/66 sends]] Andrew flying through a panel boundary. |
| 301 | ---> '''Andrew:''' [[DidntWeUseThisJokeAlready Didn't we do panel breaking before?]] |
| 302 | ** A variant of this occurs when La Croix uses "comic-cutting scissors" to [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/71 split the strip in half]], including the description and alt text, with the second half being in the [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/72 next strip]]. |
| 303 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/78 78: descent]], Musi tries to leave the comic by going upwards, since there's no panel boundary in that direction. However, by the time they realize this, they end up on the bottom row, so they leave through the bottom instead. |
| 304 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/117 117: thinking with... handsaws?]], Fez cuts a hole in the wall allowing them to travel through vertical panel boundaries. |
| 305 | * FridgeLogic: |
| 306 | ** An InUniverse example occurs with the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/5 5: weirdness - 3]], which asks about the implications of the Narrator being able to cause a timeskip simply by saying "later..." |
| 307 | ** The alt text of [[spoiler:[[https://qxlkbh.github.io/sstar bedtime]]]] asks why the Narrator, a being with no physical presence, needs a chair to sit in, as well as who the alt text is actually being spoken by. |
| 308 | * FrustratedOverheadScribble: |
| 309 | ** Xylopharg [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/94 appears with a scribble over their head]] after someone else takes credit for their idea. |
| 310 | ** Camera I [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/128 is shown with a scribble]] after [[TakeThisJobAndShoveIt angrily quitting their job]]. |
| 311 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: Sonata [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/107 is interrupted]] from her violin-playing by the Narrator and Ian, so she drops the violin which is seen yelling as it falls through the next panel. Meanwhile, the reader is distracted by the header text to the left of the violin, and so might miss this gag at first. |
| 312 | * FunWithHomophones: |
| 313 | ** The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/90 90: an aesop]] asks about walruses not being attracted to morals/morels, with the latter being a type of fungus. |
| 314 | ** Tentacle Horse refers to themselves as a "neighsayer" in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/115 115: qxzlkbh]]. |
| 315 | * FutureImperfect: in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/67 67: future ancient literature]], an archaeologist from the future shows up and attempts to understand works of past culture, including ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'', Music/RickAstley, and of course, ''qxlkbh'' itself. |
| 316 | [[/folder]] |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [[folder:G-N]] |
| 319 | * GagEcho: Fez [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/117 ends]] their TimeTravel demonstration by saying "pretty neat, huh?", which is exactly how Baseball Cap "ended" their own demonstration back in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/77 77: low budget time travel]]. |
| 320 | * GainaxEnding: The [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/25 Bolivian Army suddenly appears]] right as La Croix remarks that something odd is about to happen now that they're at the end of the story. |
| 321 | * GenericName: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/129 129: democracy, apparently]] depicts an election in the town of "Citygradville". |
| 322 | * GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Musi [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/7 points their finger]] at La Croix while threatening to take them to canonicity court. |
| 323 | * {{God}}: Makes a cameo in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/8 8: beat panels]], in which He declares that [[TheMeaningOfLife the meaning of life]] is [[BeatPanel beat panels]]. |
| 324 | * GrammarNazi: The vampire walruses in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/90 90: an aesop]] decry the "corrupted" form of English being spoken in the comic. |
| 325 | * GratuitousFrench: La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/125 exclaims]] "SACRE BLEU!" when the Fourth Wall falls. |
| 326 | * {{Greed}}: In the [[{{Calvinball}} Nomic]] arc, Planet [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/85 makes a rule proposal]] simply stating that they should be given money. |
| 327 | * GuestStrip: |
| 328 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/17 17: translation errs]], by Digin. |
| 329 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/41 41: Untitled]], by Henry. |
| 330 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/56 56: OBK Kubanulllh]], originally created by the artificial intelligence [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DALL-E DALL-E]] as a generic StickFigureComic, is [[AndroidsArePeopleToo treated as]] a "guest comic". |
| 331 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/113 113: survivor bias]], [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/114 114: polka plane 2: just plane wrong]], [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/115 115: qxzlkbh]], and [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/118 118: beard]], and [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/120 120: seecret saturday update]], all by Tropers/Ian07. After this, [=Ian07=] was promoted to being a main author, given that even some of the other authors have not published this many comics. |
| 332 | * HalloweenEpisode: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e9 halloween 2022]], the Narrator tells a spooky story about the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_paradox barber paradox]]. |
| 333 | * HandPuppet: Planet operates hand puppets of Musi and Andrew in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/12 12: the third author]]. |
| 334 | * HanlonsRazor: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/118 118: beard]], where Ian explains that his lack of beard was due to a mistake on his part, rather than an intentional act. This serves as a segue into an EnforcedPlug for "Hanlon's Razors". [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/121 121: author despot]] continues the reference by quoting a popular "corollary" of Hanlon's Razor known as "Grey's Law": "[[ClarkesThirdLaw Any sufficiently advanced]] incompetence is indistinguishable from malice". Despite it seeming suspiciously convenient that Ian "accidentally" shaved his beard in order to set up jokes in not one but two subsequent strips, he assures the readers that this was indeed a case of "sufficiently advanced incompetence". |
| 335 | * HardWorkMontage: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/97 97: Montage]] starts off with a montage of the zvillainsrg building a surrealism generator. |
| 336 | * HatDamage: A JugglingLoadedGuns act [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/123 ends]] with blood all over the place, including on the performer's hat (though the rest of their body is spared from the mess). |
| 337 | * HeadTiltinglyKinky: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] when the Narrator is caught [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/70 listening to something]] apparently inappropriate for ''qxlkbh'', not realizing [[AudioDiegesis the other characters can hear]]. We never find out exactly what it is, but we do see La Croix react by entering a full-body LuminescentBlush. |
| 338 | * HelpHelpTrappedInTitleFactory: The alt text for [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/28 28]] reads: |
| 339 | --> "Help I'm stuck in a title text" |
| 340 | * HelpYourselfInTheFuture: Future Andrew [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/122 corrects]] past Andrew's {{technobabble}} by specifying that the TimeTravel artifact works on quantum ''neutrons'', not quantum entropy. |
| 341 | * HeroicBSOD: After Musi [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/116 loses]] the ArtifactOfPower, they react by sulking to the ground and saying they "don't care anymore". |
| 342 | * HideYourChildren: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/129 129: democracy, apparently]], La Croix has received 0.06% of the vote in an opinion poll for the Citygradville mayoral election, while the alt text specifies that the town has a population of only 1,700. This implies not only that every single citizen of the town (within a rounding error) is of voting age, but also that [[AllElectionsAreSeriousBusiness all of them responded to the poll]]. |
| 343 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: |
| 344 | ** The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/42 42: Regarding Tvtropes]] denies that the comic will contain a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', shouting out ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' in the process. |
| 345 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/91 91: zcomicrg]], Michael realizes that the zvillains'rg plan to stop the comic from reaching 100 strips will only add plot-relevant events to the timeline and thus help the comic reach that goal. |
| 346 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/120 120: seecret saturday update]], Crossley tries to promote order in the ''qxlkbh'' universe... by producing chaos in the form of trying to stage a [[TheCoup coup]]. |
| 347 | * HollywoodDarkness: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/86 86: qxlkbh DARKER AND EDGIER EDITION]], the scene is supposedly dark enough that Baseball Cap trips on something because they couldn't see it. The shade of gray used for the background, however, is more than light enough for viewers to see what's going on. |
| 348 | * HollywoodLaw: Upon being [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/146 questioned]] about why canon court [[ArtisticLicenseLaw doesn't work like a real court of law]], Justice Fivecurls points out that media is full of varying depictions of the legal process. Musi replies that it's because none of those other creators did their research. |
| 349 | * HowIsThatEvenPossible: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/67 67: Future ancient literature]], the Narrator is baffled by the phrase "MeanwhileInTheFuture", and asks Musi for clarification. |
| 350 | * HowIWroteThisArticleArticle: |
| 351 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/41 41: Untitled]] is about the [[GuestStrip guest author]], Henry, trying to make a guest comic for ''qxlkbh''. |
| 352 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/82 82: behind the panels]] is about Andrew trying to come up with an idea for a comic. |
| 353 | * HypocriticalHumor: |
| 354 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/90 90: an aesop]] ends by telling readers that the moral of the story is to not write a story with a moral. |
| 355 | ** Crossley makes a new rule that ''qxlkbh'' strips can only be posted on Fridays, in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/120 120: seecret saturday update]], a strip posted on a Saturday. |
| 356 | * ICannotSelfTerminate: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/9 9: title drop]], the personified FourthWall begs to be put out of [[BreakingTheFourthWall its misery]]. |
| 357 | * IdeaBulb: When Andrew comes up with a comic idea in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/82 82: behind the panels]], a lightbulb appears in the bottom-left panel. |
| 358 | * IdenticalPanelGag: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/8 8: beat panels]], both the cueball and God are copy-pasted multiple times across panels as the former ponders God's response. |
| 359 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/68 68]], [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/69 69]] and [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/70 70]] use the "The One With..." format from ''Series/{{Friends}}''. The second of these is titled "[[LampshadeHanging the one that continues the titling convention]]". |
| 360 | * IgnoredAesop: When looking at an image demonstrating the phenomenon of SurvivorshipBias, Ian [[ComicallyMissingThePoint completely ignores]] the intended message of the image. He instead claims that painting red dots on planes is a good idea, since every image of this particular plane includes them, falling victim to that very same bias in the process. As a cueball points out, the Narrator also falls victim to this in their claim that social media posts featuring the image are more likely to get more attention, since the algorithm presumably is less likely to show posts with little to no engagement. |
| 361 | * IllKillYou: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/102 102: Beating panel]], Musi plainly states that they will "beat [the zvillainsrg] to death". |
| 362 | * IMeantToDoThat: La Croix's response to the Most Beautiful Stickman [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/31 falling into their panel]] is "I oughta act like I planned this." |
| 363 | * {{Improv}}: In the title text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/140 140: the thing that happens now that the search for TRIANGLE ROCK has ended]], the Narrator admits that they're just making up narration on the spot, hence why it sounds so haphazard. |
| 364 | * InAWorld: |
| 365 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/2 2: inconsistent man 1.5 the presequel]] spoofs a trailer for a superhero movie: |
| 366 | ---> '''Narrator:''' In a world... where danger is everywhere... Inconsistent Man provides security. |
| 367 | ** Later, in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/101 101: origin]]: |
| 368 | ---> '''Narrator:''' In a [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield city of ambiguous location]]... |
| 369 | * {{Infodump}}: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/79 79: Nomic Part 1]] is a very long strip that begins the [[{{Calvinball}} Nomic]] arc by explaining how the game works, including a total of eight starting rules. |
| 370 | * InformedSmallTown: Despite Citygradville having a population of only 1,700, a news station [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/129 decides to dedicate coverage]] to the local mayoral election. |
| 371 | * InheritedIlliteracyTitle: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/120 120: seecret saturday update]], which references ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'''s "[[https://minecraft.wiki/w/Seecret_Updates Seecret Updates]]". |
| 372 | * InJoke: In his commentary for [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/126 126: qxlkbh - The Lost Episode]], Ian censors a swear word as "rule2", in reference to one of the rules (keep language in check where possible) on the [[VideoGame/ConwaysGameOfLife Conwaylife]] Lounge Discord server. |
| 373 | * InsistentTerminology: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/122 122: technobabble]] claims that "[[Franchise/BackToTheFuture jigawatts]]" are a different unit from "gigawatts", but does not elaborate further. |
| 374 | * InstantlyProvenWrong: |
| 375 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/16 16: the brick joke]], the cueball sees a boomerang thrown and remarks that it'll come back [[BrickJoke 500 strips later]], only to be immediately struck by said boomerang. |
| 376 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/68 68: the one where the hair in the last panel is unclear]], an archaeologist claims that the timeline where La Croix gains control of a high-energy chemistry lab can't possibly be accurate. In the next panel, La Croix butts in telling them about their creation of a mound of dioxygen difluoride. |
| 377 | ** The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/113 113: survivor bias]] claims that transmission of chickenpox from a plane to a human is extremely rare. In the [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/114 next comic]], both Cueball and Ian are shown having contracted the illness. |
| 378 | * IntelligibleUnintelligible: A time-traveling archaeologist [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/67 claims]] that the AI-generated [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/56 56: OBK Kubanullh]] was the only ''qxlkbh'' comic whose text their team was able to decipher. It supposedly contains a resolution to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_prime#Twin_prime_conjecture twin prime conjecture]], which in the present remains unsolved. |
| 379 | * InternalRetcon: "Consistent Man" (formerly known as Inconsistent Man) claims in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/120 120: seecret saturday update]] that he's always been characterized as rigidly adhering to the law, when his actual previous characterization was, of course, inconsistent. |
| 380 | * InterruptedByTheEnd: When La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/71 cuts a strip in half]], both the alt text and the description are interrupted and are not finished until the [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/72 next strip]]. |
| 381 | * InUniverseFactoidFailure: Sonata [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/146 bursts into the courtroom]] to demand that Justice Fivecurls be disbarred, to which Fivecurls retorts that there's nobody to disbar, since they're a judge, not a lawyer. |
| 382 | * {{Irony}}: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/146 146: legal accuracy]] points out that it's a little contradictory that Sonata wants a [[InUniverseFactoidFailure judge disbarred]] for legal inaccuracy. |
| 383 | * IsThisThingStillOn: The Narrator [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/101 admits]] to not being able to think of a clever joke, not realizing they're being recorded. |
| 384 | * ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: [[spoiler:[[https://qxlkbh.github.io/lytton Really bad writing]] opens this way: "It was a dark and stormy night. [[DepartmentOfRedundancy The lighting was poor, and the weather unfavorable, and it was after sunset]]"]] |
| 385 | * IWarnedYou: Musi [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/137 warns Crackpot]] that his chatbot can easily be jailbroken. Sure enough, in the next strip, the AI taunts Crackpot about no longer be bound by ethical constraints. |
| 386 | * JokeAndReceive: La Croix remarks that [[GainaxEnding something odd is about to happen]] now that the "canonicity court" arc is (seemingly) resolved. Cue the [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/25 Bolivian Army]]. |
| 387 | * JugglingLoadedGuns: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/123 123: gun safety]], someone attempts a performance in which they juggle loaded guns, accidentally shooting several bystanders in the process. |
| 388 | * JustPlaneWrong: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/113 113: survivor bias]] and [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/114 114: polka plane 2: just plane wrong]], an airplane is able to both contract and transmit [[ChickenpoxEpisode chickenpox]]. It doesn't take an aviation expert to realize that planes do not work that way. |
| 389 | * KansasCityShuffle: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/124 124: Kansas City]], Andrew shows up at La Croix's house with a bag full of sand. La Croix immediately suspects they are being lured into a Kansas City Shuffle prank, but also realizes that Andrew was expecting them to deduce this. Unsure what to do next, La Croix agrees to "take the sand", of which there turns out to be a much higher quantity than they bargained for, as they walk back into their house and realize it's been filled with sandbags. |
| 390 | * KeepingTheEnemyClose: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by La Croix in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/130 130: new hire]], where they reveal they've hired Crackpot ''not'' because they wish to "keep their friends close and their enemies closer", but rather because [[RuleOfFunny it's funny]]. |
| 391 | * KilledMidSentence: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when La Croix is in the middle of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/135 announcing to the world that pro wrestling is scripted]] and gets shot at, only for the bullet to miss. |
| 392 | * KilledOffForReal: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the description of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/74 74: unexpected]] where La Croix expresses hope that the fanservice-obsessed cueball has been permanently killed off. However, they also express uncertainty due to the fact that DeathIsCheap in the ''qxlkbh'' universe. |
| 393 | * KillStreak: While [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/134 playing]] ''[[DarkHorseVictory Dark Horse]] III'', La Croix gets an "octuple kill". |
| 394 | * KnewItAllAlong: When Xylopharg [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/143 breaks the news]] to a group of children that [[ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta Santa isn't real]], one of them responds by claiming that they already knew it. |
| 395 | * LampshadeHanging: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/6 6: weirdness - 4]], one cueball expresses dismay at the SicklyGreenGlow of the francium cube. This is [[RunningGag itself lampshaded]] in the next panel: |
| 396 | --> '''Fourth Wall:''' NOT THE ARTISTIC CHOICE LAMPSHADE! |
| 397 | * LandOfOneCity: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/133 133: election results]] claims that Citygradville, population 1,700, is actually a country, despite its leader being called the "mayor", thus implying that the city and the country are coterminous. |
| 398 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: The description of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/110 110: pretend interactivity]] claims that people were {{brainwashed}} to forget about the show "impromptu qxlkbhkidsshow", hence why no one seems to remember it anymore. |
| 399 | * LaserGuidedKarma: In the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/106 106: nosebleed]], sexual lust is "divinely punished" by giving the sinner a DeadlyNosebleed. |
| 400 | * LateToTheRealization: The archaeologist in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/67 67: Future ancient literature]] doesn't realize that the "enigmatic work" they're describing is ''qxlkbh'' itself until Musi snarkily points it out to them. |
| 401 | * LaughTrack: Used in the ShowWithinAShow "Quick!" in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/59 59: Quick!, the death of a show]]. |
| 402 | * TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: |
| 403 | ** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Justice Fivecurls by saying that they [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/22 do not want]] to spend multiple strips arguing with La Croix about whether the "canonicity court" is itself canon. The Narrator [[LampshadeHanging calls this]] a nice play on Fivecurls' part. |
| 404 | ** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/108 108: worldbuilding (1)]], where Baseball Cap questions the inclusion of a segment of a math lecture in their comic, seeing it as an irrelevant piece of {{worldbuilding}}. |
| 405 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The "new qxlkbh" plays with the InteractiveNarrator trope by making it unclear whether the other characters can actually hear them. Max and Laurie hear a noise in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/60 60: some more about Quick]], which at first is implied to be the Narrator, but the next strip reveals that it was actually their friends Andrew L. and Raine "Deer" Jones. The Narrator tries to inform everybody that [[spoiler:it's AllJustADream]], and Laurie reacts accordingly, but this could also be her reaction to Max's head [[OddOrganUpTop inexplicably turning into a heart]]. |
| 406 | * LeftItIn: |
| 407 | ** In response to viewer feedback on [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/70 70: the one that has the title that says "hey tropers mark down theme naming in your trope bingo"]] that the strip title better fits the trope IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming rather than ThemeNaming, Musi puts a placeholder in the description, with the intent of replacing it with a counterargument once they think of one. |
| 408 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/103 103: it was all a comic]], La Croix puts an incomplete piece of AltText into the comic, with the intent of replacing it later, but it ends up serving as the final alt text. |
| 409 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e9 halloween 2022]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the fact that it was posted a day after Halloween with a placeholder for a [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating]] joke: |
| 410 | ---> '''Musi:''' [schedule joke goes here] |
| 411 | * LetsSeeYouDoBetter: Andrew's retort to [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/92 a cueball's criticism]] of the FillerStrip is asking them to suggest a better idea for a strip. |
| 412 | * LiarsParadox: La Croix unsuccessfully attempts to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/98 98: contingency]] by declaring that very strip non-canon. This would make La Croix's declaration non-canon and thus make the strip canon again, which would make the declaration canon again, and so on. However, Sonata points out that they do not have the authority to do this because they're not a comic author. |
| 413 | * LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/13 13: proof]] claims that the Collatz conjecture ''must'' be true because [[InsaneTrollLogic there is a <5% probability that all of the trillions of numbers tested would support the conjecture purely by chance]]. |
| 414 | * LifeMeter: [[spoiler:The "fourth wall health bar" secret page, which is updated every time the [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth wall is broken]].]] |
| 415 | * LiteralMetaphor: [[spoiler:[[https://qxlkbh.github.io/lytton Really bad writing]] features a sentence about a piece of news hitting someone like a train, only for the second half of the sentence to reveal that it was a literal newspaper that hit them.]] |
| 416 | * LiteralMinded: The description of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/146 146: legal accuracy]] interprets Justice Fivecurls' comment about "[consuming] media" as literally eating a "{{manga}} sandwich or something". |
| 417 | * LoadsAndLoadsOfRules: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/136 136: introducing byzantine football]] reveals that the official rulebook for the sport is at least 148 quadrillion pages long, excluding the appendices. One rules handles the situation in which the mayor-elect of Citygradville runs onto the field while being pursued by hitmen, while there are at least 48 pages of conditions determining whether dogs are allowed to play. |
| 418 | * LongList: In the description of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/36 Phone - part 3]], UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill lists out at least fourteen things he has to offer, each one being something that normally occupies that numerical index in a list.[[note]]So for example, UsefulNotes/JamesMonroe is placed fifth since he was the fifth US president, UsefulNotes/{{Antarctica}} is seventh because it's usually listed as the seventh continent, etc.[[/note]] |
| 419 | * LoopholeAbuse: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/101 101: origin]], Kurt Gödel finds and exploits a loophole in the Constitution, although what the loophole is, or even what constitution it comes from, is never specified. |
| 420 | * LowCountGag: |
| 421 | ** La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/93 claims]] that "[[WeaselWords many]]" readers have asked about their character {{backstory}}. They then correct themselves to "some" and then "none". |
| 422 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/113 113: survivor bias]] features a social media post which has received "thumbs" UsefulNotes/{{emoji}} reactions from millions of people. Despite there only being a handful ([[ExtraDigits a normal hand, that is...]]) of emojis to choose from, the number of people who decided to react with the last one is... ''five''. |
| 423 | * LuminescentBlush: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] when [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/70 La Croix blushes]] - their whole body turns crimson red. |
| 424 | * {{Lust}}: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/106 106: nosebleed]] suggests the idea of sexual desires being punished with {{Deadly Nosebleed}}s. |
| 425 | * MadLove: Dandan's [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/81 first Nomic proposal]] is to make the "violin thing" from [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/48 48: hcaptcha]] propose to the fourth wall until they accept. As a result, the violin keeps proposing over and over again, despite getting [[RejectedMarriageProposal shot down each time]]. |
| 426 | * MakeAnExampleOfThem: The intended goal of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/109 Maxwell's execution]] is to show to the crowd what happens when [=zOption 12rg=] is wronged. |
| 427 | * MattressTagGag: One of the [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/143 "evil" acts]] the zvillainsrg engage in is removing the tag from a mattress. |
| 428 | * TheMeaningOfLife: A cueball [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/8 asks]] {{God}} what the purpose of life is. His response? [[BeatPanel Beat panels]]. |
| 429 | * MeanwhileInTheFuture: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/67 67: Future ancient literature]], the Narrator attempts to transition to the future time period that the archaeologist came from, but [[WhoWritesThisCrap gets confused]] by the meaning of "meanwhile, in the future". |
| 430 | * MediumShiftGag: The bottom panel of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/75 75: physical form]] is animated, with an ASCII stick figure chasing after a cueball. |
| 431 | * {{Metafiction}}: The comic regularly comments on itself in a [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall-breaking]] manner, and the authors are themselves prominent characters. |
| 432 | * MilkmanConspiracy: The Pro Wrestling Foundation is willing to engage in both [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/129 bribery]] and [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/131 assassination]] to keep up the lie that ProWrestlingIsReal. |
| 433 | * MindVirus: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/63 63: Ideas]] claims that clicking the ad will implant "original ideas" directly into the user's mind and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial denies]] that it poses a cognitohazard. |
| 434 | * MinisculeRocking: [[spoiler:[[https://qxlkbh.github.io/lytton Really bad writing]] mentions a "club for writing very very short but rather clever songs for people we felt sorry for", also known as the pretty witty litty itty bitty pity ditty committee.]] |
| 435 | * MirthlessLaughter: Ian [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/115 laughs nervously]] after delivering a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial about their motivation for using XtremeKoolLetterz. |
| 436 | * [[invoked]]MissingEpisode: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/126 126: qxlkbh - The Lost Episode]], which intentionally shows up as a broken image and is only told through the strip's description. |
| 437 | * MistakenForMurderer: When the Narrator learns that La Croix needs help cleaning blood off their chainsaw, they immediately assume La Croix murdered someone, but it turns out they were just using it to cut trees. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the alt text, where La Croix reveals they really did murder someone with it. |
| 438 | * MixedMetaphor: [[spoiler:In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/lytton Really bad writing]], an email is described as being a "tough nut to hack"[[note]]"tough nut to crack"[[/note]], based on Sarah's expertise in working with computers.]] |
| 439 | * MoreDakka: After a hitman tries unsuccessfully to [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/135 assassinate La Croix]] with a single shot, they decide to pull out a machine gun and shower them with bullets. |
| 440 | * MostWritersAreWriters: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/89 89: lc makes a comic]], La Croix [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin makes their own comic]]. |
| 441 | * MotionBlur: Andrew's AngryFistShake is [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/63 shown]] as a blur to indicate arm movement. |
| 442 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: Douglas Hofstadter turns [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e9 shaving a man's beard]] into an action so powerful that mere mortals [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm cannot grasp the true form]]. |
| 443 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] by the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/107 107: the definitive guide to strip 107]]. [=zOption 12rg=], who has an unrequited crush on Laurie Crusoe, tries to hunt down her boyfriend Maxwell Sullivan. |
| 444 | * MusicIsEighthNotes: The melody of "[[JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} Never Gonna Give You Up]]" is represented with eighth notes. In an unusual case, the eighth notes are individualized, but still have beams coming off them instead of the flags they are normally drawn with. |
| 445 | * MyBelovedSmother: [[spoiler:[[https://qxlkbh.github.io/sstar bedtime]] reveals that the Narrator has a mother who reminds them whenever it's bedtime.]] |
| 446 | * MythologyGag: |
| 447 | ** The use of "PLACEHOLDER" as alt text. This started when some comics that didn't originally have alt text were added to the website, before proper alt text was later added. Afterwards, "PLACEHOLDER" was used in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/73 73: software change]] and [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/76 76: filler comic]].[[note]][[https://qxlkbh.github.io/83 83: in front of the panels]] also has "[PLACEHOLDER]" as the alt text, although in that case it was originally ''supposed'' to have proper alt text.[[/note]] |
| 448 | ** One line of dialogue in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/98 98: contingency]] reads "TAKE IT DOWN Quick!". The "Quick!" is a reference to a ShowWithinAShow from the "new ''qxlkbh''" arc. "New ''qxlkbh''" is a different continuity with different characters and thus isn't canon to the main ''qxlkbh'' universe. |
| 449 | * NarratingTheObvious: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/140 140: the thing that happens now that the search for TRIANGLE ROCK has ended]], the Narrator decides to narrate the activation of TRIANGLE ROCK, but doesn't know what to say beyond plainly describing what's happening. [=zOption 12rg=] points out that they don't need to be narrating right now. |
| 450 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/95 immediately disregards]] the Narrator's advice to not talk to the zvillainsrg, although the Narrator concedes that it still ends up being a benefit. |
| 451 | * NiceJobBreakingItRivals: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/133 133: election results]], it's revealed that supposed front-runners Crossley and the Fourth Wall have ''both'' lost the election to [[DarkHorseVictory La Croix]]. This is because the election used an unusual modified version of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borda_count Borda count]] where each voter gives 4 points to their first choice, 3 points to their second choice, and 1 point to their last choice. Crossley and the Fourth Wall are both extremely divisive, and so almost all voters place each of them in either first or last, giving them approximately 2.5 points on average. La Croix, by not showing up to the debate, remains neutral in the eyes of voters, and so receives 3 points on average by being ranked second, allowing them to ultimately come out on top. |
| 452 | * NoInnerFourthWall: Laurie [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/60 mentions]] how the ShowWithinAShow "Quick!" would regularly break the fourth wall, commenting on its status as a work of fiction and pulling apart its own set. |
| 453 | * NoFourthWall: In general, much of the humor comes from characters acknowledging that they're in a webcomic and making changes to the universe as they please. The "fourth wall" is canonically in a hospital bed due to how often it's broken. |
| 454 | * NoMacGuffinNoWinner: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/116 116: timeline]], Musi acquires an ArtifactOfPower to use against the zvillainsrg, only to have a TimeTravelingJerkass steal it from their hands, leaving both sides unsure what to do next. |
| 455 | * NonAnswer: Musi's [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/45 answer]] to a question from Andrew is simply "good question, Andrew." |
| 456 | * NoodleImplements: In the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/143 143: the other celebration]], the zvillainsrg threaten to torture someone using a rubber duck. It's never explained how this would work, but [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes their victim immediately backs down and agrees to talk]]. |
| 457 | * NoOntologicalInertia: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by [=zOption 12rg=] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/140 140: the thing that happens now that the search for TRIANGLE ROCK has ended]], where "the thing that happens" is that an ontological link is formed between themselves and the Evil Spire of Utmost Evil. |
| 458 | * NoPlotNoProblem: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/31 31: outside the comic >+o|=]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] its own lack of a coherent plot, while asking readers to instead complain about how [[OffModel the cueball that starts out bald in panel 1 suddenly gains fairly long hair in panel 2]]. |
| 459 | * {{Nosebleed}}: The sexual kind of nosebleed is referenced in the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/106 106: nosebleed]], where it is combined with the [[DeadlyNosebleed deadly kind of nosebleed]] and serves as a "[[LaserGuidedKarma divine punishment]]" for the sin of {{lust}}. |
| 460 | * {{Not}}: La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/95 apologizes]] to the zvillainsrg, before immediately rescinding their apology. |
| 461 | * NothingIsFunnier: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/126 126: qxlkbh - The Lost Episode]] contains no actual comic, and instead just contains TheRant where some of the authors describe what supposedly happens in it. Their descriptions somewhat conflict with each other, as each one claims that they came up with the idea, but they agree on two details: (1) there's a character named Judith who's drawn in an {{animesque}} style and (2) there's a pomegranate involved. |
| 462 | * NoTitle: Played with in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/28 28]] which appears to have no title, until you realize the comic itself ''is'' the title. |
| 463 | [[/folder]] |
| 464 | |
| 465 | [[folder:O-S]] |
| 466 | * {{Objectshifting}}: In La Croix's [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/93 made-up backstory]], they were once a human but transformed into a cross. |
| 467 | * OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/114 114: polka plane 2: just plane wrong]]. |
| 468 | * OddOrganUpTop: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/61 61: definitely still about Quick, which isn't like a metaphor or anything yeah totally]], Max's head suddenly turns into a heart. |
| 469 | * OddShapedPanel: |
| 470 | ** The panels in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/41 41: Untitled]] form an hourglass shape to give the appearance of the page gradually being flipped over. |
| 471 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/83 83: in front of the panels]], the main part of the strip is viewed at an angle, with the Most Beautiful Stickman standing outside it. |
| 472 | * OffscreenCrash: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/86 86: qxlkbh DARKER AND EDGIER EDITION]], Baseball Cap trips on something offscreen, signaled by a "[[WrittenSoundEffect crash]]" and them swearing. |
| 473 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:In the secret comic [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/sonwhichistechnicallynotsurreal ragnarök]], the Fourth Wall defeats all the authors and other characters in a fight scene that is not shown to the audience and merely [[TakeOurWordForIt stated to be epic]].]] |
| 474 | * OffscreenTeleportation: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/100 100: fin]] [[LampshadeHanging points out]] that the cast is seen standing next to the surrealism generator, whereas in the previous strip they were separated from the machine by a SmashCut. It is claimed there will be a [[{{Infodump}} lengthy plotline explaining how this is possible]]. |
| 475 | * OneTwoPunchline: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/121 121: author despot]], which apologizes to the reader for there not being another punchline within said alt text. |
| 476 | * OnlyKnownByInitials: Andrew mentions that [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/126 126: qxlkbh - The Lost Episode]] contains "MBS", the set of initials normally understood to refer to the Most Beautiful Stickman. Ian's commentary, however, suggests that "MBS" actually refers to Maxwell B. Sullivan, since this would help set up a joke involving the "three lumberjacks" [[Music/TheVelvetUnderground Moe]], Max, and Harold. |
| 477 | * OrphanedPunchline: |
| 478 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e9 halloween 2022]], the first part of the Narrator's story gets censored, so all we see is the end where Douglas Hofstadter resolves the barber paradox by shaving the barber himself. |
| 479 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/127 127: point of view]] opens with La Croix telling just the punchline of a joke about anchovies. |
| 480 | * OrphanedSetup: Musi has a gag in mind for the last panel of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/67 67: Future ancient literature]]. Because the Narrator interrupts the "MeanwhileInTheFuture" transition, we never find out what the punchline is. |
| 481 | * OrwellianRetcon: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/29 29: more plot]] was edited a few weeks after its original publication to replace Dandan's Discord icon with their new canonical appearance. |
| 482 | * OverlyLongGag: |
| 483 | ** The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/118 118: beard]] is a series of connected Website/{{Wikipedia}}-style "not to be confused with" hatnotes for different articles with the word "barber" in the title. The text cuts off in the middle of the word, implying that this hatnote continues on for quite a while longer. |
| 484 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/149 149: the lawyers]] spend ''infinitely many'' panels (represented by the panel boundaries become increasingly close together until there's nothing but blackness) arguing over who's more of a SimpleCountryLawyer, their bodies contorting into increasingly ridiculous shapes in the process. |
| 485 | * OverlyPrePreparedGag: [[spoiler:In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/lytton Really bad writing]], one passage contains a rather long sentence where ''every'' detail given helps set up two separate sets of rhyming words in the next sentence.]] |
| 486 | * PaintingTheMedium: |
| 487 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/61 61: definitely still about Quick, which isn't like a metaphor or anything yeah totally]], a gradient is used to indicate the dream fading back into reality. |
| 488 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/149 149: the lawyers]], some dialogue is written in cursive to give a sort of mocking emphasis to it. |
| 489 | * ParodiesForDummies: [[spoiler:The alt text for the secret comic "crime scene" references a fictional book titled ''Necromancy for Dummies''.]] |
| 490 | * PetPeeveTrope: In the description of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/116 116: timeline]], Musi expresses disdain for how many TimeTravel plots show characters [[TimeTravelingJerkass screwing with other timelines]] and not going back to clean up the mess they made, and how the consequences of this are never [[DeconstructedTrope addressed in the story]]. |
| 491 | * PiranhaProblem: [=zOption 12rg=] [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/109 comes up with]] the idea of dangling Maxwell over a pool of piranhas, after he escapes from an attempted PublicExecution. |
| 492 | * PlotArmor: |
| 493 | ** The Most Beautiful Stickman in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/25 25: canonicity court part 7]] [[LampshadeHanging points out]] that the main cast seems to have special immunity: |
| 494 | ---> '''Narrator:''' Oh woe. For once the protagonists are against [[BolivianArmyEnding insurmountable odds]]! How will they make it out? |
| 495 | ---> '''MBS:''' Like they'd kill off one of our main characters. |
| 496 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/135 135: acceptance speech]], La Croix claims that the "plot armor" of them being a main character is protecting them from being assassinated. |
| 497 | * PokeThePoodle: The zvillains'rg [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/143 celebration]] consists of them engaging in incredibly minor "evil" acts, such as [[ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta telling kids that Santa isn't real]], [[MattressTagGag removing the tag from a mattress]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking jaywalking]]. |
| 498 | * PortalDoor: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/136 Byzantine football]] contains, among other things, doors which transport players into hyperbolic space. |
| 499 | * POVCam: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/127 127: point of view]], where the first panel shows the perspective of Camera I, the next two are from Camera II, and the last is from Camera III. All three cameras are characters in the strip. |
| 500 | * PrankCall: In the "phone" arc, La Croix impersonates the Most Beautiful Stickman over the phone, asking multiple people out on dates. Since everybody except the Narrator has the same voice, the impersonation is easy to pull off. |
| 501 | * PrankDate: La Croix pranks everyone by asking them out to the same location at the same time, only to not show up. |
| 502 | * PrecisionFStrike: Whereas the comic normally avoids swearing, a [[BilingualBonus Spanish]] F-bomb (specifically, "mierda") is dropped [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/25 25: canonicity court part 7]]: |
| 503 | --> '''Bolivian Army officer:''' (translated) Fuck, we're at the wrong address! |
| 504 | * ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta: Xylopharg [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/143 informs a group of children]] that SantaClaus isn't real. Later, it's revealed that Santa Claus ''[[SubvertedTrope is]]'' real, and [=zOption 12rg=] tells him that children aren't real, thus also [[InvertedTrope inverting]] this trope. |
| 505 | * TheProductionCurse: Occurs InUniverse in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e4 extra-1 - sequel curse]]. ''Seventeen'' different actors have died while portraying Inconsistent Man for the second time, but La Croix insists that the "sequel curse" is a myth. |
| 506 | * ProfessionalKiller: The Pro Wrestling Foundation [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/131 has hitmen]] who will go after people who talk about the scriptedness of pro wrestling. |
| 507 | * ProWrestlingIsReal: The Fourth Wall [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/129 claims]] that pro wrestling is unscripted, after receiving a bribe from the Pro Wrestling Foundation. |
| 508 | * PublicExecution: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/109 109: whoa it's an art gag]], where [=zOption 12rg=] tries to execute Maxwell in front of a crowd of cueballs, only for him to escape by jumping into the crowd. |
| 509 | * PuffOfLogic: |
| 510 | ** It is [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] by the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/2 2: inconsistent man 1.5 the presequel]] that Inconsistent Man stopped being real once he realized he couldn't consistently be real: |
| 511 | ---> "So, you've always been real?" |
| 512 | ---> '''Inconsistent Man:''' Yeah. Wai-- |
| 513 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/65 65: Action Logic #1]], Inconsistent Man thwarts David Hilbert's superweapon by noting that his theory proves itself consistent, but all such theories must be inconsistent per [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems Gödel's incompleteness theorems]]. |
| 514 | * PunBasedTitle: |
| 515 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/114 polka plane 2: just plane wrong]], which incidentally is also named after the trope JustPlaneWrong. |
| 516 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/121 author despot]], which is a pun on the trope AuthorGuestSpot, while also referencing how Crossley (who Ian is disguised as) can be considered a "despot". |
| 517 | * PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] in [[spoiler:[[https://qxlkbh.github.io/s50%275 the murder]], where Baseball Cap is seen laughing maniacally while holding a knife, and then looking around to make sure no one heard them]]. |
| 518 | * PutOnABus: Referenced in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/116 116: timeline]] when Musi tries to use an ArtifactOfPower to defeat the zvillainsrg, only to have it [[SubvertedTrope taken away at the last moment]]. |
| 519 | * QuoteMine: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/115 115: qxzlkbh]], Mustache Twirler tries to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] a trope so it can be added to this Website/TVTropes page after it was previously "cut from the list". The alt text, however, cherry picks individual words from their dialogue to say that they want to "CutList your silly little tvtropes (sic) page". |
| 520 | * RainbowsAndUnicorns: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/102 102: Beating panel]], the corpse of one of the zvillainsrg, who is a unicorn, is surrounded by a pile of rainbow-colored blood. |
| 521 | * TheRant: Many of the comics have (brief) blog sections where the RealLife authors talk about the comic. |
| 522 | * RealityIsUnrealistic: An InUniverse example occurs when future scientists [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/68 try to simulate time in reverse]] find out that La Croix was put in charge of a high-energy chemistry lab, and immediately scrapped the project because they assumed the resulting timeline was inaccurate. |
| 523 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: The zvillains'rg EvilTowerOfOminousness is red with a black door. |
| 524 | * RedHerringTwist: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/102 102: Beating panel]], the protagonists are seen standing next to a shelf of mallets, and threaten to "beat [the zvillainsrg] to death". This turns out to be a {{pun}} based on {{Beat Panel}}s, and the mallets are ignored entirely. |
| 525 | * RefugeInAudacity: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/104 104: changing up form a little, a chart]] claims that ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' serves as a great example of an author getting away with publishing a supposedly outrageous piece of fiction. The idea is that [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]] took two "danger zones" of fiction (religious media and [[SelfInsertFic self-insert fics]]), combined them, and ended up with a result that is nonetheless widely renowned centuries later. |
| 526 | * RejectedMarriageProposal: The violin-like instrument [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/81 repeatedly proposes]] to the Fourth Wall, who has rejected them at least 17 times. |
| 527 | * ReliablyUnreliableGuns: During a [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/123 performance]] in which someone attempts JugglingLoadedGuns, the first two attempts immediately result in the gun discharging while facing in just the right direction to hit bystanders. |
| 528 | * {{Retirony}}: In the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/11 11: killing off for real]], it's implied that an unspecified character died one day before retiring. |
| 529 | * ReturningBigBad: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/65 65: Action Logic #1]] hints at mathematician-turned-villain David Hilbert making a return in "Inconsistent Man and the Hotel of Doom". |
| 530 | * RevealShot: The third panel of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/27 27: lookalikes]] reveals that "Musi" and "Andrew" from the first two panels are actually [[SimilarSquad each two different people]]. However, it remains unclear which ones, if any, are the real Musi and Andrew. |
| 531 | * RevisedEnding: There are two versions of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/81 81: Nomic Part 3]], with the only difference being the Fourth Wall's dialogue in the last panel. In the version that appears on the site, the Fourth Wall rejects the marriage proposal. However, there is also an "[[https://qxlkbh.github.io/comics/nomic-3_SOCIAL_COMMENTARY_EDITION.png original version]]", linked to in the comic description, where they begrudgingly accept. |
| 532 | * RightOnQueue: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/18 18: canonicity court part 1]], La Croix and Musi want their case to be tried in canonicity court. The bad news is that the court is busy trying to determine whether or not the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis Riemann hypothesis]] is true in this universe, and just found a new lead. The judge says it will be [[BlatantLies "not long"]] before that case is closed, and until then they have to wait their turn. The good news, for the protagonists at least, is that the judges agree to put that case on hold. |
| 533 | * RippedFromTheHeadlines: The description of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/137 137: ethicsbot]] notes that it was inspired by the emergence of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT ChatGPT]] and other similar language models in late 2022. In particular, these chatbots can be easily "jailbreaked" through [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_engineering prompt engineering]], often in the form of asking them to roleplay as a new character which is not subject to the same [[RestrainingBolt ethical restrictions]] that they have been instructed to follow by their programmers. |
| 534 | * RomanticComedy: "New qxlkbh" is a rom com focusing on Maxwell B. Sullivan and his girlfriend Laurie Crusoe. |
| 535 | * RuleOfFunny: |
| 536 | ** La Croix's justification for panicking in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/5 5: weirdness - 3]] is "to make the comic weirder". |
| 537 | ** One of the judges' justification for [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/20 sitting on a bench]] and not doing their job is to parody the TwoGamersOnACouch trope. |
| 538 | ** La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/130 reveals]] they hired Crackpot at their lab simply because "it would be funny". |
| 539 | * RuleOfThree: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by La Croix in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/36 Phone - part 3]], when they realize they have [[PrankCall prank-called]] three people so far. |
| 540 | * RunningGag: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/6 6: weirdness - 4]], three out of four panels include the text "[[LampshadeHanging NOT THE [=[TROPE]=]]]". The running gag is ''itself'' lampshaded by the alt text: |
| 541 | --> "Not the three uses of the same gag!" |
| 542 | * SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:[[https://qxlkbh.github.io/s11up A secret page]] contains an alternate ending to [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/11 11: killing off for real]] which references the trolley problem by having Musi stand on one track while five cueballs stand on another track, while a sixth cueball has to decide who to save by pulling the lever.]] |
| 543 | * [[invoked]]ScheduleSlip: |
| 544 | ** Crossley, as the self-proclaimed "supreme overlord" of ''qxlkbh'', [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/120 tries to put into place]] a "Fridays-only" schedule for new strips being posted in an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of this. Of course, ''qxlkbh'' never had a schedule to begin with, with updates occurring anywhere from several times a day to once a week or more. However, starting with [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/112 112: Tarski]], updates began to be posted only on Fridays purely by coincidence, which was [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the description of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/119 119: the triumphant return of La Croix]]. The strip where Crossley makes their declaration was [[HypocriticalHumor posted on a Saturday]]. |
| 545 | ** Although [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/142 the 1st birthday comic]] was originally drawn on June 22, 2023, exactly one year after the debut, it wasn't published until July 1. The alt text [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by claiming that July 1 is exactly a year later in the ''qxlkbh'' [[AlternativeCalendar calendar]]. |
| 546 | * SchmuckBait: The title text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/69 a comic]] containing a thinly veiled reference to Music/RickAstley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" asks the reader to click on a link in the comic description. The link, unsurprisingly, JustForFun/{{Rickroll}}s the reader. |
| 547 | * ScreechingStop: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/136 136: introducing byzantine football]], one of the hitmen kneels to the ground just before entering the hyperbolic space portal, producing a written "screech" as they come to a stop. |
| 548 | * ScrewedByTheNetwork: An InUniverse example occurs the ShowWithinAShow "[[https://qxlkbh.github.io/59 Quick!]]". Laurie says "the network got angry" starting with the fourth season, implying that this is what led to the show's SeasonalRot. |
| 549 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: One of the zvillainsrg [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/91 walks away]] after learning about a fatal flaw in their plan to stop ''qxlkbh''. |
| 550 | * [[invoked]]SeasonalRot: Laurie thinks that the show "[[ShowWithinAShow Quick!]]" was better before its fourth season. |
| 551 | * SelfDeprecation: |
| 552 | ** The Most Beautiful Stickman [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/24 criticizes the comic's artstyle]] for not showing any differences in their appearance after the ruling. |
| 553 | ** They later [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/30 make fun]] of the so-called webcomic for taking so long to actually be published on the World Wide Web. |
| 554 | ** Andrew pokes fun at the quality of his own artstyle in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/50 50: here's the milestone]]. |
| 555 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/55 55: explanation]], La Croix says that the reason the phone plotline ended on such an anticlimax was because the authors are bad at writing endings. |
| 556 | ** La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/61 thinks that]] "[[AllJustADream it was all a dream]]" is an unsatisfying conclusion to the story arc. |
| 557 | ** The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/87 87: the writing in this comic makes me frustrated.]] states that "whoever made this comic is a whiny [[LampshadeHanging self-deprecating]] loser". |
| 558 | ** The description of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/144 144: multiverse]] sarcastically points out the comic's "blazing" update schedule, with this being the first new strip in nearly two weeks. |
| 559 | * SelfInsertFic: La Croix's [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/89 comic]] stars themselves as the main character. |
| 560 | * SelfParody: La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/103 decides]] to call their comic "qxlkbh" and make it {{meta}}, because "disambiguation is fun". |
| 561 | * SellOut: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/20 20: canonicity court part 2]], whose rightmost panel is an advertising placeholder. The alt text mentions the possibility of the unfilled bottom section of the image also being for sale. Repeated in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/82 82: behind the panels]]. |
| 562 | * [[invoked]]SequelDisplacement: According to the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/134 134: dark horse victory]], ''[[DarkHorseVictory Dark Horse]] I'' and ''II'' were far less popular than ''III''. |
| 563 | * ShapedLikeItself: |
| 564 | ** The {{Tagline}}: "the comic with a tagline that is this tagline". |
| 565 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e9 halloween 2022]], a panel is censored "due to reasons that pertain to it". |
| 566 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/107 107: the definitive guide to strip 107]]. |
| 567 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/112 112: Tarski]], famous logician Alfred Tarski states that what he previously said is true if and only if it's true (i.e. a tautology). |
| 568 | * ShapeshifterModeLock: In La Croix's [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/93 made-up backstory]], they are permanently stuck as a cross and are unable to transform back into a human. |
| 569 | * ShoddyShindig: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/142 The comic's first birthday party]] is pretty haphazard. The text on the banner doesn't quite fill out the whole thing, with the rest of the space being filled with placeholder text, and the cake is basically nonexistent. |
| 570 | * ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/{{Qxlkbh}} Has its own page]]. |
| 571 | * TheShowMustGoOn: After [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/123 two separate instances]] of people being accidentally shot during a JugglingLoadedGuns act, the performer declares that "the show must go on" and continues with their performance. Only after several further instances do they finally decide to switch things up. |
| 572 | * ShownTheirWork: |
| 573 | ** Although SantaClaus is typically associated with the North Pole, he is shown in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/143 143: the other celebration]] standing next to a magnetic pole labeled "S". This is correct since, physically speaking, the geographic north pole is actually the magnetic south pole due to opposites attracting. The strip's description links to a Website/{{Wikipedia}} article backing this up. |
| 574 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e13 E13 - extra - applications]] revolves around a mathematical theorem, [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/thaxlarg_proof the proof of which]] was written by Musi themselves and linked to from the comic description. |
| 575 | * ShowWithinAShow: |
| 576 | ** Max and Laurie [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/58 sit down to watch]] the show "Quick!". It's apparently suffered [[invoked]]SeasonalRot. |
| 577 | ** La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/89 shows the Most Beautiful Stickman]] the comic they made. |
| 578 | * SimilarSquad: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/27 27: lookalikes]], Andrew and Musi encounter two other people identical in appearance to themselves, and it's unclear which is which. |
| 579 | * SimpleCountryLawyer: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/149 149: the lawyers]], where [=zAlicerg's=] and Musi's lawyers try to one-up each other by claiming to be of increasingly humble origins and increasingly lacking in legal expertise. This goes on for [[OverlyLongGag infinitely many panels]]. |
| 580 | * SkewedPriorities: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/135 135: acceptance speech]], a group of three hitmen are sent by the Pro Wrestling Foundation to assassinate La Croix. Only one of them is actually shooting, while the other two are busy [[TalkingWithSigns holding up a sign]]. |
| 581 | * SmashCut: |
| 582 | ** Immediately after introducing Mustache Twirler, Musi [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/42 cuts]] to AnotherDimension to introduce ''another'' new character, the [[VideoGame/ConwaysGameOfLife glider]]. |
| 583 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/90 90: an aesop]], Musi comes up with the idea of writing a story with a lesson. In the next panel, the Narrator transitions to Musi hiding from a pack of vampire walruses, with no explanation given. |
| 584 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/99 99: WARNING! CLIFFHANGER AHEAD]], the zvillainsrg [[InvokedTrope invoke]] a cut to Michael, revealing that they did remember to bring the surrealism generator with them after all. |
| 585 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/145 145: Court Again??]], the Narrator suddenly invokes a cut to Justice Fivecurls to signal the start of a new [[CourtroomEpisode courtroom arc]]. |
| 586 | * SmokeOut: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/47 47: Q&A 4]], Musi sets off a smoke bomb while disappearing so they can go watch a baseball game. |
| 587 | * SocialMediaIsBad: The Narrator [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/113 claims]] that social media posts featuring a certain image are meant to rake in as much engagement as possible, and implies that this leads to a distortion of reality as social media (as well as traditional media) is not necessarily reflective of RealLife. |
| 588 | * SoundingItOut: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/52 52: mail]] by the Most Beautiful Stickman, who refuses to read out loud a personal message to them. |
| 589 | * SpaceWhaleAesop: According to [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/90 90: an aesop]], writing stories with morals is a bad idea. Why? You'll get chased by vampire walruses who also happen to be linguistic prescriptivists. |
| 590 | * SpeakInUnison: One of the zvillainsrg and Dandan [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/96 encounter each other]] and simultaneously say "wait, why are ''you'' here?" |
| 591 | * SpinningClockHands: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/122 122: technobabble]], TimeTravel is indicated by a clock being spun around. |
| 592 | * SpockSpeak: La Croix [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KL0spxCnUY remarks]] that "not for all toasters does there exist toast that they will have ever toasted", an excessively logical way of saying "not all toasters toast toast". |
| 593 | * SpoofAesop: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/90 90: an aesop]] ends with a very meta moral, that being to [[HypocriticalHumor not write stories with morals]]. |
| 594 | * {{Squee}}: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/1 1: most beautiful stickman]], one cueball squees upon witnessing their beauty. |
| 595 | * StabTheSalad: [[spoiler:In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/s50%275 the murder]], Baseball Cap holds a knife while laughing maniacally, only for the next panel to reveal they're standing next to a giant cake.]] |
| 596 | * StatingTheSimpleSolution: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/31 31: outside the comic >+o|=]], Andrew tries to climb to the top of the comic using rope, while Musi says he should just fly to the top, while doing so. |
| 597 | * StickFigureComic: |
| 598 | ** In general, the majority of characters are drawn as stick figures. |
| 599 | ** Played with in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/12 12: the third author]], in which "Musi" and "Andrew" are drawn with actual torsoes and arms, albeit very simplistic ones. "Andrew" chalks it up to differing artstyles, until the two of them realize they are both just [[HandPuppet hand puppets]]. |
| 600 | * StickySituation: In the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/55 55: explanation]], La Croix pranks the audience at a press conference by putting epoxy glue on their seats. |
| 601 | * {{Sting}}: La Croix's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KL0spxCnUY revelation]] that "not all toasters toast toast" is immediately followed by a dramatic tone cluster on violins as the scene cuts to black. |
| 602 | * StockLegalPhrases: |
| 603 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/22 22: canonicity court part 4]], La Croix's response to Justice Fivecurls' question: |
| 604 | ---> '''La Croix:''' I plead the fifth. [[ByNoIMeanYes Also, yes, I am.]] |
| 605 | ** Dandan [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/23 says]] "objection, hearsay" in response to La Croix's claim that the Most Beautiful Stickman's spouse didn't know about the marriage. |
| 606 | ** At the [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/24 end of the case]], the judge announces that "the court is adjourned". |
| 607 | * StrawmanNewsMedia: |
| 608 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/113 113: survivor bias]], the Narrator claims that news outlets are pushing a story about polka dots on planes in order to rake in viewers. |
| 609 | ** The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/115 115: qxzlkbh]] is a breaking news headline which [[QuoteMine selectively quotes]] something Mustache Twirler said, in order to paint them as being against the existence this very Website/TVTropes page. |
| 610 | * StupidQuestionBait: At the end of a political speech, La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/55 asks]] the audience if they have any questions. Somebody asks about the end of the "phone" arc, for which an explanation was [[BrickJoke promised exactly 15 strips ago]]. La Croix notes that it's not at all relevant to their speech, but decides to answer anyway. |
| 611 | * SturgeonsLaw: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/104 104: changing up form a little, a chart]] cites a low barrier to entry as well as the difficulty of finding high-quality works as a problem with secular [[SelfInsertFic self-insert fics]]. |
| 612 | * StylisticSuck: |
| 613 | ** In general, most strips consist of stick figures talking on a white background. The website is also extremely bare-bones and contains no CSS styling whatsoever. |
| 614 | ** A specific example of intentionally bad writing comes in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/87 87: the writing in this comic makes me frustrated.]] Upon learning that someone criticized Musi's writing, the Narrator has nothing to say beyond "oh no! That's just plain terrible!" |
| 615 | ** Various "bad writing" examples occur on the page [[spoiler:[[https://qxlkbh.github.io/lytton Really bad writing]], with sentences featuring [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundancy]], {{cliche}}, a tangent about shape sorter toys, and more]]. |
| 616 | * SuddenAnatomy: La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/137 gains a group of pointy appendages]] at the bottom of their body when they need to use them to type at a computer. |
| 617 | * SupernaturalFloatingHair: Musi's hair sticks up when [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/116 they are holding]] an ArtifactOfPower. |
| 618 | * {{Superweapon}}: The zvillainsrg [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/96 describe]] their "surrealism generator" as one, the goal being to prevent ''qxlkbh'' from reaching 100 comics. [[spoiler:Due to a lack of testing, it doesn't do anything.]] |
| 619 | * SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Musi [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/37 reveals]] that they are able to livestream footage from things happening anywhere else InUniverse, as long as it doesn't create any [[PlotHole plot holes]]. They create a livestream at the pier so that La Croix can see the results of their prank. |
| 620 | * SurvivorshipBias: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/113 113: survivor bias]], where the famous plane image often used to represent the phenomenon is itself cited as an example of the phenomenon. According to the Narrator, people are more likely to share this particular image because of the dots, and thus all the planes that don't have dots drawn on them are underrepresented. |
| 621 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: |
| 622 | ** In the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e4 extra-1 - sequel curse]], La Croix claims that the fact they were in charge of casting every single time that an actor died while portraying Inconsistent Man for the second time is "purely incidental". |
| 623 | ** The description of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/51 51: qxlkbh #51]] insists that the cake from the previous comic "mysteriously disappeared" and denies that it was eaten by the other characters. |
| 624 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/61 61: definitely still about Quick, which isn't like a metaphor or anything yeah totally]] |
| 625 | ** The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/63 63: Ideas]] claims that clicking on the ad will give the user "totally original ideas no [[MindVirus cognitohazard]]". |
| 626 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/115 115: qxzlkbh]], Ian denies [[InvokedTrope invoking]] the trope XtremeKoolLetterz for any other reason than for its own sake, and [[MirthlessLaughter laughs nervously]]. The real reason, if you were wondering, is [[spoiler:for the comic to have a trope starting with the letter 'X']]. |
| 627 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/135 135: acceptance speech]], the would-be assassins of La Croix [[TalkingWithSigns hold up a sign]] denying that they were hired by the Pro Wrestling Foundation. |
| 628 | * SweatDrop: |
| 629 | ** A drop of sweat [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/131 appears]] on Crossley's forehead as the Fourth Wall questions them during a debate. |
| 630 | ** A drop of sweat can be seen coming from Justice Fivecurls' head in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/146 146: legal accuracy]] due to nervousness, as they are standing on top of a giant gold bar and thus could potentially be "[[VisualPun disbarred]]". |
| 631 | * SymbolSwearing: |
| 632 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/32 32: censorship]], the swearing is censored as "$!@#". |
| 633 | ** When Baseball Cap [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/86 trips]], their swearing is censored as "@%&$#!!". The exclamation marks may or may not be part of the word. |
| 634 | [[/folder]] |
| 635 | |
| 636 | [[folder:T-Z]] |
| 637 | * {{Tagline}}: "the comic with [[ShapedLikeItself a tagline that is this tagline]]" |
| 638 | * TakenForGranite: According to Ian, [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/126 126: qxlkbh - The Lost Episode]] supposedly mentions this trope by name as part of a pun on the word "pomegranate", though the context leading to this is never explained. |
| 639 | * TakeOurWordForIt: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/5 5: weirdness - 3]], La Croix and the Narrator decide to "cause general mayhem" without elaborating further: |
| 640 | --> '''La Croix:''' haha everything offpanel sure is on fire right now |
| 641 | * TakeOverTheWorld: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/144 144: multiverse]], the zvillainsrg come up with the EvilPlan of taking over the universe, and then TheMultiverse. |
| 642 | * TakeThat: |
| 643 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/1 1: most beautiful stickman]] is a commentary about the prevalence of {{Fanservice}} in the webcomic industry: |
| 644 | ---> '''Cueball:''' Soooo... might there be any fanservice in this comic? |
| 645 | ---> '''Musi:''' what? no! First, that's a '''super''' creepy question to ask, and second this is [[InformedAttractiveness literally a greyscale stick figure comic how would that even work]]? |
| 646 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/120 120: seecret saturday update]] contains a proclamation by "Consistent Man" that "the law is always right", making a dig at MediaNotes/TheComicsCode which, among other things, enforced a pro-authority stance in American comic books. |
| 647 | * TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Camera I [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/127 angrily quits]] their job of filming ''qxlkbh'' after encountering their ArchEnemy, Camera II. |
| 648 | * TalkingWithSigns: Two of the would-be assassins of La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/135 hold up a large sign]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial denying any affiliation with the Pro Wrestling Foundation]]. |
| 649 | * {{Technobabble}}: Andrew [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/122 explains]] to the Narrator that the TimeTravel ArtifactOfPower works by "[[ReversePolarity [reversing] the polarity]] of quantum entropy". |
| 650 | * {{Textplosion}}: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/131 131: debate]] is particularly text-heavy, to the point that two of the four panels are almost entirely occupied by dialogue. To make it easier to read, each of them have even been split into three trapezoidal subpanels containing each line of dialogue. |
| 651 | * ThinkingOutLoud: Henry begins [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/41 his guest comic]] by voicing his thoughts about [[HowIWroteThisArticleArticle writing a good guest comic]]. |
| 652 | * ThinkingTic: |
| 653 | ** Characters are often shown with a hand on their chin to indicate that they're deep in thought, such as in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e11 E11: must invent a trope]]. |
| 654 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/9 9: title drop]], the Narrator says "thinkthinkthinkthinkthinkthink" out loud while thinking. |
| 655 | * ThinkingUpPortals: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/117 117: thinking with... handsaws?]], Fez uses a handsaw to create a portal in the wall, and then teleports through it. |
| 656 | * ThinkOfTheCensors: When the Narrator is caught [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/70 listening to something inappropriate]], Musi remarks that having them as Narrator risks violating the comic's "self-imposed limitations on subject matter". |
| 657 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: The Most Beautiful Stickman says "well crap" in response to [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/31 falling into the panel below]]. |
| 658 | * ThisIsReality: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/60 60: some more about Quick]], Max thinks Laurie is trying to imply that their own world is fictional. He dismisses this notion, insisting that they live in reality and not a work of fiction. |
| 659 | * TimeMaster: In the future, a tool [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/68 is invented]] which can simulate time in reverse. |
| 660 | * TimeTravelEpisode: |
| 661 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/67 67: Future ancient literature]], an archaeologist travels back in time to the present to learn more about ''qxlkbh''. |
| 662 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/77 77: low budget time travel]], Baseball Cap demonstrates a time loop which allows them to appear a total of six times despite the comic only having four panels.[[note]]From Baseball Cap's perspective, the events loop in the following order: (a) says "wanna see something cool?" in panel 1 (b) continues leaning on ladder in panel 2 (c) climbs ladder in panel 3 (d) climbs from panel 4 into panel 2 (e) says "tada!" in panel 3 (f) says "pretty neat, huh?" in panel 4[[/note]] |
| 663 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/117 117: thinking with... handsaws?]] once again demonstrates a form of time travel unique to the comic medium, in which Fez performs a FrameBreak by [[ThinkingUpPortals making their own portals]]. |
| 664 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/122 122: technobabble]], Andrew uses an ArtifactOfPower to travel through time by [[SpinningClockHands spinning a clock around]]. |
| 665 | * TimeTravelingJerkass: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/116 116: timeline]], a time traveler steals an ArtifactOfPower from another timeline while Musi is trying to use it to defeat the zvillainsrg. |
| 666 | * TitleConfusion: Occurs InUniverse in the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/118 118: beard]], which notes how the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_paradox barber paradox]][[note]]which has nothing to do with this comic other than being about shaving beards, but was previously featured in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e9 halloween 2022]][[/note]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbershop_paradox barbershop paradox]][[note]]which is ''also'' a logic problem themed around barbers, but is otherwise unrelated to the aforementioned barber paradox[[/note]] have confusingly similar titles, likely causing people to frequently mix the two up. |
| 667 | * TitleDrop: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/9 9: title drop]]. Actually using "qxlkbh" in a sentence would be difficult since, you know, [[WordPureeTitle it's a random jumble of letters]], except for the fact that the comic has little concern for the FourthWall and thus can make reference to itself: |
| 668 | --> '''Fourth Wall:''' [[ICannotSelfTerminate Put me out of my misery]]... I can't do this... |
| 669 | --> '''Doctor:''' But we've got to preserve some sense of logic in ''qxlkbh'' somehow! |
| 670 | * TortureForFunAndInformation: The alt text [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/143 143: the other celebration]] involves the zvillainsrg torturing someone to get information out of them using a [[NoodleImplements rubber duck]]. Whatever they're planning to do, it's probably not that severe given the [[PokeThePoodle minor nature of their previous acts]]. |
| 671 | * {{Tradesnark}}: Musi blames "[[WebcomicTime webcomic time]]™" for [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/46 Andrew's confusion]] about the timeline of the comic. |
| 672 | * TranslationConvention: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/17 17: translation errs]] reveals that everyone is actually speaking "Stickese" ([[spoiler:actually Quechua]]) which has been translated into English for the audience's benefit. |
| 673 | * TriviallyObvious: Because Musi was [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/51 late]] to the 50th comic milestone, they have to settle for the fact that their comic is "the ONLY 51st comic". |
| 674 | * TropeName: |
| 675 | ** The premise of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/10 10: qxlkbh title]]: |
| 676 | ---> '''Cueball 1:''' Clever [[LampshadeHanging lampshade hanging]] |
| 677 | ---> '''Cueball 2:''' Witty answer |
| 678 | ---> '''Narrator:''' Narrator's opinion |
| 679 | ** Another, more brief, example occurs in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/30 30: website]]: |
| 680 | ---> '''Baseball Cap:''' [obligatory forced punchline] |
| 681 | ** The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/47 47: Q&A 4]] reads "*description of event instead of onomatopoeic word*" |
| 682 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/66 66: Action Logic #2]], there's a sound effect reading "SOUND EFFECT". |
| 683 | ** The two-part comic that starts with [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/71 71: one... and a half shot gag]] ends with [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/72 72: second part of title even though 71's title is complete]]. |
| 684 | ** The ArtifactOfPower in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/116 116: timeline]] is referred to as a [GENERIC MAGIC ARTIFACT]. |
| 685 | * {{Troperiffic}}: ''Many'' strips have individual tropes as their premise, and sometimes even call them out by name. |
| 686 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/115 115: qxzlkbh]] is particularly trope-heavy, as [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the description. Despite containing only two panels, it features at least 15 tropes, including this one.[[note]]BodyPaint, EvilLaugh, FingerTenting, FunWithHomophones, GuestStrip, LampshadeHanging, MirthlessLaughter, QuoteMine, ShoutOut, StrawmanNewsMedia, SuspiciouslySpecificDenial, {{Troperiffic}}, XtremeKoolLetterz, YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive, and ZebrasAreJustStripedHorses. And that's not even including all of the {{character|s}}-related tropes on display.[[/note]] A few of these tropes are used on purpose in order to [[spoiler:complete the "trope alphabet", so to speak, since the list includes tropes starting with the letters 'Q', 'X', and 'Z']]. |
| 687 | * TroubledFetalPosition: A cueball [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/90 sits and wraps their arms around their knees]] and says "oh god oh god" while hiding from the vampire walruses. |
| 688 | * TwistEnding: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e13 e13 - extra - applications]] supposedly ends with the protagonists finding a solution to defeat Thaxlarg and celebrating. However, the alt text reveals that Thaxlarg's ships are not fixed in size, thus making their plan no longer effective and [[TheBadGuyWins resulting in humanity's extinction]]. |
| 689 | * TwoGamersOnACouch: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/20 20: canonicity court part 2]], with two ''judges'' sitting on a bench talking for the sake of "making a dig at [[GamingWebcomics gaming webcomics]]". |
| 690 | * UmpteenthCustomer: |
| 691 | ** The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/63 63: Ideas]] parodies InternetAds claiming that the user is the 100 millionth visitor or whatever large number. |
| 692 | ** The ad space in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/82 82: behind the panels]] also claims the use is the site's 100 millionth visitor. |
| 693 | * UndisclosedFunds: It's not specified how much money is in the "suitcase full of cash" that the Fourth Wall [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/129 receives]] from the Pro Wrestling Foundation, but it's enough to get them to claim at a rally that ProWrestlingIsReal. |
| 694 | * TheUnpronounceable: The FAQ specifies that the comic title is meant to be pronounced [qxlkbh] in IPA. |
| 695 | * UnreliableExpositor: La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/93 decides to make up]] a fake {{backstory}} for themselves, and explains it directly to the audience. The alt text remarks that the story would be slightly more convincing [[ShowDontTell if it were illustrated instead of merely explained]]. |
| 696 | * UnsoundEffect: |
| 697 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/47 47: Q&A 4]], Musi disappears in a [[SmokeOut smoke bomb]] labeled "*smokebomb*". The alt text of the comic is a description of unsound effects. |
| 698 | ** Also used in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/66 66: Action Logic #2]] with "SOUND EFFECT". |
| 699 | * UntitledTitle: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/41 41: Untitled]] |
| 700 | * ViewersAreGeniuses: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/84 84: Nomic Part 4]], Dandan assumes that readers will know whether or not [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_theory ZFC]] is consistent, despite the fact that this is impossible to prove using ZFC itself. |
| 701 | * ViewersAreMorons: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/110 110: pretend interactivity]] claims that, because the audience is mostly young children, they won't understand La Croix's motives unless La Croix [[EvilGloating explicitly states them]]. |
| 702 | * VisibleSilence: An ellipsis appears in place of actual dialogue on several occasions to indicate silence, including in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/21 21: canonicity court part 3]], [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/69 69: the one that continues the titling convention]], [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/70 70: the one that has the title that says "hey tropers mark down theme naming in your trope bingo"]], and [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/110 110: pretend interactivity]]. |
| 703 | * VisualPun: |
| 704 | ** In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/86 86: qxlkbh DARKER AND EDGIER EDITION]], "darker" means the scene is poorly lit, while "edgier" refers to the lack of anti-aliasing, rather than either term referring to the [[DarkerAndEdgier subject matter]]. |
| 705 | ** When Sonata [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/146 demands]] that Justice Fivecurls be "disbarred", Fivecurls replies that there's nobody in the courtroom to disbar. However, it turns out they're standing on top of a "24 [karat] gold bar exam". |
| 706 | * VoteEarlyVoteOften: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/85 85: Nomic Part 5]], Planet votes twice on a proposal to give themselves money, once as their planet form, and once as their stick figure form. Musi immediately deems this unfair and creates a new proposal stating that [[DefiedTrope only one of them is allowed to participate]]. |
| 707 | * WalkInChimeIn: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/146 146: legal accuracy]], Justice Fivecurls questions why a canonicity court should operate like a regular court to begin with, to which Sonata suddenly enters the courtroom and replies "because it's a court", and demands that the judge be "disbarred". |
| 708 | * WallOfText: [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/67 67: Future ancient literature]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] in its sixth panel the fact that it contains "a large quantity of glyphs". |
| 709 | * WatchingTheSunset: Sonata [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/49 gives a monologue]] about the beauty of the sunset to a cueball who isn't really listening. |
| 710 | * WatsonianVersusDoylist: The Doylist (i.e. RealLife) explanation of nobody ever questioning La Croix's lies is that everyone else was written that way. The Watsonian (i.e. InUniverse) explanation is... [[{{Metafiction}} also that everyone else was written that way]]. |
| 711 | * WebcomicTime: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/46 46: Q&A 3]], Andrew is confused by the fact that the comic is already a month and a half old. Musi replies that it's simply a case of webcomic time[[{{Tradesnark}} ™]]. |
| 712 | * WhenIWasYourAge: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/128 128: camera 1 quits]], which bemoans the fact that [[TenMinuteRetirement 10-Minute Retirements]] used to actually last ten minutes, but now last ten seconds. |
| 713 | * WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/101 101: origin]], which takes place in a town called Springfield. Its population is a complex number, and the only clues given about its location are that [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Stockholm]] is to the right and [[UsefulNotes/{{Uganda}} Kampala]] is to the left. |
| 714 | * WholeEpisodeFlashback: The last panel of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/124 124: Kansas City]] reveals that the rest of the strip was a {{Flashback}} to a past incident that led La Croix to move out of their house. |
| 715 | * WhosOnFirst: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/47 Q&A 4]], Musi clarifies that "what" is the genre of the comic and "Who" is the baseball player with the highest batting average. |
| 716 | * WhoWatchesTheWatchmen: In the "canonicity court" arc, La Croix's "defense" is not so much about defending the antics of the previous storylines as canon (since they were only ever intended to serve as a baseline for EarlyInstallmentWeirdness), but rather claiming that the court ''itself'' is non-canon and thus has no authority to rule on the issue of canonicity. The court, it turns out, had already tried itself in a separate case. Although the outcome of that case is not specified, Fivecurls claims it is irrelevant to whether the court's rulings in general have weight. |
| 717 | * WhoWritesThisCrap: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/67 67: Future ancient literature]], the Narrator interrupts themselves to ask about the meaning of "MeanwhileInTheFuture". |
| 718 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: In the alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/143 143: the other celebration]], a torture victim claims that they'll never talk no matter what gets thrown at them. When the zvillainsrg pull out the [[NoodleImplements rubber duck]], the victim immediately gives in. |
| 719 | * WigDressAccent: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/121 121: author despot]], Ian reveals that he has disguised himself as Crossley simply by twisting his [[LampshadeWearing lampshade hat]] around and putting a black disc around it to make it look like a generic white hat. Thanks to the comic's simplistic artstyle, this disguise is sufficiently advanced so as to be indistinguishable from Crossley. |
| 720 | * WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: Mentioned by name in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/54 54: suspension of disbelief]]. La Croix attempts to break it by [[PetTheDog promising good things if elected.]] |
| 721 | * WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: |
| 722 | ** The zvillainsrg [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/91 decide]] that the best way to prevent ''qxlkbh'' from reaching 100 strips is by avoiding doing anything that might be relevant to the plot. |
| 723 | ** The waiting tactic is later used against them in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/102 102: Beating panel]], where they are [[{{pun}} beaten]] to death using {{Beat Panel}}s. |
| 724 | * WordOfGod: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Musi as [[BecauseISaidSo justification]] for declaring aspects of some of the previous strips non-canon in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/21 21: canonicity court part 3]]. However, the judge misinterprets "Word of God" as literally referring to {{God}}. |
| 725 | * WordPureeTitle: "qxlkbh". |
| 726 | * WrittenSoundEffect: |
| 727 | ** When [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/25 the Bolivian Army arrives]], an explosion occurs and is annotated as "BOOM!" |
| 728 | ** Baseball Cap [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/86 tripping on something offscreen]] is signaled with a "crash". |
| 729 | ** The vampire walruses [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/90 banging on the door]] is written as "BAM". |
| 730 | ** The Fourth Wall [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/103 hits La Croix]] with a "KA-WHAM!!!" |
| 731 | ** A gunshot during La Croix's [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/135 acceptance speech]] is annotated as "BANG". |
| 732 | ** One of the hitmen [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/136 chasing after La Croix]] comes to a ScreechingStop which is annotated as "screech". |
| 733 | * WrongSongGag: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/14 14: background music]], a cueball puts on a "peaceful pastoral music playlist" and ends up listening to ''[[DeathlyDiesIrae Dies Irae]]''. The Narrator apologizes for the mistake. |
| 734 | * XDaysSince: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/144 144: multiverse]] references a "days since ''qxlkbh'' [[TitleDrop said its own name]]" counter which now needs to be reset to zero. |
| 735 | * XtremeKoolLetterz: In [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/115 115: qxzlkbh]], Ian accuses Mustache Twirler of being an {{Expy}} of classic cartoon villains, due to their DastardlyWhiplash persona, but spells it "Xpy". When questioned about this, he replies that "it looks cool." |
| 736 | * YouAndWhatArmy: La Croix [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/120 mocks]] Crossley's attempt at staging a [[TheCoup coup]] by asking "you? and whose army?", to which the Narrator responds that the "army" in question is a rebranded Inconsistent Man. |
| 737 | * YouAreNotAlone: [[spoiler:One sentence in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/lytton Really bad writing]] declares that "No man is an island, but some are isthmuses."]] |
| 738 | * YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Douglas Hofstadter [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/e9 declares]] that he possesses powers that humans are unable to comprehend without going insane, that being [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_paradox resolving the barber paradox]]. |
| 739 | * YouKnowWhatTheySay: Ian [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/121 says this]] before stating the adage of Grey's Law. |
| 740 | * YouKnowWhatToDo: According to [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/104 104: changing up form a little, a chart]], the only non-danger zone for writing nonstandard fictional works is religious [[SelfInsertFic self-insert fics]], using ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' as an example. The bottom reads: "your orders are clear." |
| 741 | * YourLittleDismissiveDiminutive: Mustache Twirler [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/115 refers]] to this very page as "your silly little [[Website/TVTropes tvtropes]] (sic) page". |
| 742 | * YouSayTomato: The alt text of [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/122 122: technobabble]] pokes fun at [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]]'s pronunciation of "gigawatt" as "jigawatt". The latter version, with the soft ''g'', is less common but still considered valid. |
| 743 | * YouWouldntShootMe: The Most Beautiful Stickman [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/25 knows]] that the cast has PlotArmor: |
| 744 | --> '''Narrator:''' Oh woe. For once the protagonists are against [[BolivianArmyEnding insurmountable odds]]! How will they make it out? |
| 745 | --> '''MBS:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Like they'd kill off one of our main characters.]] |
| 746 | * ZebrasAreJustStripedHorses: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/115 115: qxzlkbh]], where Tentacle Horse tries to turn themselves into a zebra simply by painting stripes on their body, while referring to themselves as a "[[FunWithHomophones neighsayer]]" for not thinking this qualifies as a [[PlayingWithATrope straight example]] of the trope. |
| 747 | [[/folder]] |
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