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| 6 | [[caption-width-right:350:''Sinfest'' in its early days. From left to right: Percival, Pooch, Criminy, Monique, Squigley, and Slick.]] |
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| 8 | ''[[http://www.sinfest.net Sinfest]]'' is a {{webcomic}} by Tatsuya Ishida, an outgrowth of a strip he originally created for the UCLA college newspaper. It's one of the [[LongRunner longest-running]] webcomics around, with over [[ArchivePanic 6,700 strips]] as of spring 2019. |
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| 10 | ''Sinfest'' began in 2000, and started out as a light-hearted comedy revolving mainly around the goofy antics of Slick, a ComicStrip/{{Calvin|AndHobbes}}-esque teenaged "pimp" who was always trying to look cool and pick up chicks, and his [[MsFanservice hot friend]] Monique, who spent her days flirting with hot guys (of whom Slick never qualified). Other prominent characters included {{God}}, [[{{Satan}} the Devil]], UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, Buddha, and the Dragon, an embodiment of Eastern religion; Seymour and Li'l Evil, raging fanboys of God and the Devil respectively; Squigley, a stoner pig who is one of Slick's pals; The Artist, a comic artist and Ishida's AuthorAvatar; Percival and Pooch, the Artist's cat-and-dog duo; [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Criminy]], a sheltered bookworm and mutual friend of Slick and Squigley. |
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| 12 | In its early years, ''Sinfest'' was mainly a gag-a-day comic with little regard for continuity. In addition to the humor based on the cast's foibles, it routinely played with BlackComedy scenarios, drug- and sexually-themed humor, and subversive pokes at the nature of religion and morality, among other topics and {{Running Gag}}s. Slick and Monique's odd friendship/rivalry/something was the foundation of the comic and focus never strayed from it for long, but after a few years, other storylines became prominent, such as Criminy's chaste romance with one of the Devil's succubi, the Devil becoming a more serious antagonist, and revelations about Li'l Evil's backstory, as well as politically-themed gags and overall development for many characters. |
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| 14 | However, in October 2011, ''Sinfest'' began a ''huge'' shift in theme and focus with the introduction of the Sisterhood. The comic quickly ditched almost every aspect of its old nature and turned toward a radical brand of [[UsefulNotes/{{Feminism}} second-wave feminism]]. From that point on in the world of ''Sinfest'', society was brainwashed by a [[Franchise/TheMatrix Matrix]]-like Patriarchy controlled by the Devil which the Sisterhood fought against, and the comic's world was connected to [[DarkWorld an alternate reality where greed, lust, and other traits fueled by the Patriarchy are the norm]]. The Sisterhood became part of the main cast, if not the main focus, while characters with little influence on the comic's new themes such as God, the Dragon, Buddha, and even Criminy were either [[DemotedToExtra barely seen]] or [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome completely ignored]]. The Sisterhood's influence drastically changed both Monique and Slick; with the two breaking up and the former coming out as a political lesbian. |
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| 16 | Then in 2019, seemingly overnight, ''Sinfest'' saw yet another radical shift in theme, this time towards far-right political conservatism. To an outside observer, the current setting now seems like the polar opposite of what was preached in the past decade, with "woke" movements and groups becoming quite literally demonised, and subplots endorsing anti-vaxx rhetoric, the "[=QAnon=]" conspiracy theory, and increasingly virulent transphobia and antisemitism. The one common thread remaining is a severe indictment of the sex industry, but the less said about any of this, the better. Beyond that, storytelling trends introduced in TheNewTens remain in practice. Several new characters have been introduced, and the comic is focusing on extended storylines that can run for weeks at a time, with once-regular gags and characters only occasionally showing up. ''Sinfest'' now is so different from its former self as to almost be a new comic, which could make an ArchiveBinge a jarring experience. |
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| 19 | !!This webcomic provides examples of: |
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| 21 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 23 | [[folder:A-E]] |
| 24 | * AbortedArc: |
| 25 | ** For a while in 2012, it was nearly impossible to find a strip that didn't have something to do with the sisterhood. Then around mid-September the strips more or less abruptly stopped. However it seems to be starting up again as of the beginning of 2013. |
| 26 | ** This can be hard to detect in this comic, because he frequently intersperses the comics of an arc with filler strips and even other arcs, so an arc may be just dropped. |
| 27 | ** The Pro-Obama strips have been gone for a few years, though Squigly recently [[ContinuityNod invoked him]] before busking for cash. |
| 28 | * ActivistFundamentalistAntics: Seymour often falls into this territory; even God dismisses him as a "loony fanboy". |
| 29 | * AllGaysArePedophiles: A number of 2020s strips surrounding education focus on various queer and trans people being groomers who use their ideology to infiltrate schools where they gain access to children. 2022's Zombie Hunting strips in particular have a groomer zombie disguising itself with a pride flag to elude the police; a reference to the belief that queer movements encourage and shelter pedophiles. |
| 30 | * AlliterativeList: From [[https://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2018-01-10 2018-01-10]], the destroyed Pimpbot's status message: |
| 31 | --> [[AC:Pimpbot Down]]\ |
| 32 | [[AC:Pimpbot Down]]\ |
| 33 | [[AC:Dismembered]]\ |
| 34 | [[AC:Dismantled]]\ |
| 35 | [[AC:Destroyed]] |
| 36 | * AesopAmnesia: |
| 37 | ** Xanthe gets angry over [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-10-04 Slick leering at a woman]] wearing a midriff revealing shirt and tight pants and Xanthe treats the woman with courtesy. That's a fine message to send... if ''the previous comic'' hadn't been about ''[[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-10-03 Xanthe yelling at Monique for wearing those kind of clothes]]''. |
| 38 | ** An even worse one. Xanthe has been constantly angry at men for leering at women and judging them on basis of their attractiveness. Again, that's a fine message to send. The problem occurs when [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-04-29 a woman starts leering at men and judging them on basis of ''their'' attractiveness]] and Xanthe treats Squigley with scorn for complaining about it. Uh, Xanthe? Wasn't that the sort of thing you exist to criticize? |
| 39 | ** A story-wide example occurs as the strip suddenly cut from its Sisterhood era to its "Anti-Woke" era, where things the Sisterhood were portrayed positively for doing and believing are now portrayed as evil and caused by the Devil himself. What makes this worse is that the strip itself makes little or no effort to reconcile or justify this change in messaging, meaning the Sisterhood are still portrayed positively despite still standing for almost everything the strip now stands against. Another one to note is that the [[ButtMonkey eternal whipping boys]] Slick and Squig practically have their CharacterDevelopment set back to square one, since they spent the entire Sisterhood era (nearly a decade in real time) trying to become more accepting and progressive, only to be left on the wrong side of the message shift since for men, that's too close to being "Woke", which is now a bad thing. |
| 40 | * AfterActionPatchup: Fuchsia treats Criminey's cuts, after he reaches her in Hell. |
| 41 | * ArtEvolution: The art style and drawing pattern of the series has improved in quality over time. Even with the heavy plot-shift, the art has continued to become more complex and regardless of receptions to the plot, the art itself is quite nice. |
| 42 | %%* AGlitchInTheMatrix: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-05-20 Brought to you by the revolution.]] |
| 43 | %%* ALadyOnEachArm: Satan, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-09-17 here,]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-07-12 here,]] and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-11-18 here.]] |
| 44 | %%* AliensStealCattle: [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-08-13 Xanturian invaders.]] They lose a staring contest, though. |
| 45 | %%* AllJustADream: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-07-08 This]]. May count too as {{Foreshadowing}}. |
| 46 | %%* AllMenArePerverts: See [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-11-08 here]] and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-03-08 here]] |
| 47 | %%** [[IncorruptiblePurePureness ...except Criminy]], although with a smidgen of impurity, he might have avoided [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-10-14 breaking Amber's heart]]. |
| 48 | %%* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: [[spoiler:Lil' Evil, in his backstory as a child.]] |
| 49 | %%* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The Devil. Also the Succubi after ArtEvolution. |
| 50 | %%* AndZoidberg: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-02-18 ...And these guys]] |
| 51 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Many of the secondary characters, including [[EagleLand Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty]], [[TheGrimReaper Death]], now "reaping" souls via modern assassination tactics and weaponry, and Dragon, the embodiment of all eastern religion. |
| 52 | * AnthropomorphicVice: After withdrawing from booze, pot, and porn for five days, Squigley starts seeing anthropomorphized joints and liquor bottles. |
| 53 | * AntiMagic: The simplest explanation of how the Reality Zone works. All forms of magical flight fail, pits to hell can't be created, and unnatural creatures either revert to a natural form (as in Squigley's case) or are slowly harmed (as with the devils.) |
| 54 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-08-31 Vainglorious]] seems to be able to get around it. |
| 55 | %%** Then again, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-10-10 Lil E]] does too. |
| 56 | %%* AntiVillain: |
| 57 | %%** One stage in Fuchsia's CharacterDevelopment. No longer a villain now. |
| 58 | %%** Tangerine is ObliviouslyEvil. |
| 59 | * {{Anvilicious}}: InUniverse example. After Monique's latest heckling, Slick lampshades that she may be too blunt with her feminism and should try more subtle terms. This upsets her. In the next strip, we see Slick explaining the ramifications of being too blunt with these sorts of viewpoints. |
| 60 | -->'''Slick:''' You can't go around bashing people with a sledgehammer! You hit people on the head, you're gonna get a reaction. |
| 61 | * AppealToForce: TheDevil's {{HellHound}}s [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-01-12 make it clear in no uncertain terms to Slick]] who's '''not''' to blame for the state of his life, or more accurately that morning's hangover. |
| 62 | %%* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Sadly belated, but [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-03-01 still good]]. |
| 63 | %%-->'''Tangerine:''' Isn't [[EvilIsPetty that]] your hero? |
| 64 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-07-19 "The pornography. The imperialism. The exploitation of others."]] Though this might be unintentional, considering the wrong order and Ishida's preachyness. |
| 65 | * ArtShift: The art style will often change depending on the mood of the scene. Humor is in a simplified 'cutesy' style, while drama is a bit more detailed and manga-esque. |
| 66 | %%** Also [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-10-24 the reality zone]]. |
| 67 | %%*** Along with some of the [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-04-09 alternate-reality strips]]. |
| 68 | %%* AscendedExtra: Fuchsia, starting around late 2008. |
| 69 | %%* AsideGlance: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-05-08 This]] strip, with the story starting three strips earlier [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-05-05 here]]. |
| 70 | * AttractiveBentGender: Monique looks good, even as [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-20 Androgynique]] and Badass 'Nique. Both mess with Seymour, though. |
| 71 | * AuthorAvatar: The Cartoonist. Originally an anonymous background character simply assumed to be the author, he has recently put himself in the spotlight. |
| 72 | * AuthorGuestSpot: Tatsuya Ishida is a semi-regularly occurring character, both as Pooch and Percy's owner and for LeaningOnTheFourthWall moments. A RunningGag is the comparison between him and [[AGodAmI God]] as the two "creators" of the comic's universe. |
| 73 | * AuthorTract: While it did exist to some extent during the comic's hey day in the aughts,[[note]]Tats was never clearly big on organized religion and supported Obama even in the early days.[[/note]] the comic tended generally towards light humour and general satire, it later adopted a more preachy, "redfem" tone. Most people probably forgot ''Sinfest'' even existed until its creator started popping off [[https://preview.redd.it/0vsj8rkd3w051.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=72672cf074e79ed72248008c8ce2db0ad0815a05 some]] [[https://i.redd.it/s9tm4jafaj941.png gender-critical]] strips that foreshadowed the comic's downward spiral into it's currently and equally preachy "anti-woke" tone. |
| 74 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Subverted and inverted [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-11-01 here]]. Perhaps zigzagged, because they're still sitting next to each other. |
| 75 | %%** Played straight [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-01 here.]] |
| 76 | %%* TheBackwardsR: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-10-18 State Sponsored Comik Strip 2]]. |
| 77 | * BattleCry: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-27 Squigley's]] is about as opposite to a BadassBoast as you can get, but the sentiment makes it more awesome. |
| 78 | %%* BarehandedBladeBlock: By Jesus. Against Death's scythe. Which he ''[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-08-15 broke]]''. |
| 79 | %%* BelligerentSexualTension: Occasionally, Monique and Slick. Also, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-03-29 Free Hugs]] mini-arc. |
| 80 | %%* BerserkButton: |
| 81 | %%** Seymour [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-16 pushes]] Fuchsia's...and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-19 regrets it]]. |
| 82 | %%** And following that, a very understated one for the usually soft-spoken and mild-mannered Criminy [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-19 here]]. |
| 83 | %%** And then Forky [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-10-15 tells Fuchsia]] someone was hunting it. Things ''almost'' got messy. |
| 84 | %%* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-01-02 Mr. "X"]] |
| 85 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: |
| 86 | ** Criminy. After Seymour drove off Fuchsia, he raised his voice in anger for the first time. |
| 87 | ** The new Fuchsia is kind and gentle. It's unwise to piss her off. See BerserkButton for a pair of nice examples. |
| 88 | %%* BigBrotherIsWatching: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2004-06-03 ...it's flip-off time!]] |
| 89 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-12-30 It's flip-off time again]]. |
| 90 | %%** Also, when [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-02 Slick's laptop caught some spyware]] that made it follow the owner to toilet with webcam on. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-11-30 See?]] |
| 91 | %%** Also [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-09-25 This]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-09-30 this]]. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-10-01 It's bomf-off time]]. |
| 92 | %%** Baby Blue and Fuchsia. Succubi. Probably helps their job too. |
| 93 | %%* BigDamnHeroes:[[spoiler:And an awesome moment for [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-27 Squig.]]]] |
| 94 | * BiggerThanJesus: {{Inverted|Trope}} in a strip titled [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-28 "Agent"]] where the Devil offers to become Jesus's personal agent and make him "Bigger than Music/TheBeatles." |
| 95 | * BilingualBonus: The binary Slick's Slickbook laptop spouts out actually translates to relevant messages. |
| 96 | %%* {{Bifauxnen}}: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-20 Androgynique]] |
| 97 | %%* BigOMG: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-12-25 Apparently Satan likes]] WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic. |
| 98 | %%* BigNo: |
| 99 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2003-11-19 From Lil' E]]. |
| 100 | %%** Slick [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-11-24 REALLY]] should have saved frequently, '''and''' backed-up frequently. |
| 101 | %%* BlackAndWhiteMorality: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-07-22 Played with.]] |
| 102 | %%* BlatantLies: Not surprising, The Devil and his minions are prone to this, as seen [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-11-20 here]]. |
| 103 | * BloodBath: With the comic's antisemetic bent, there is a depiction of Blood Libel, wherein Jews use human blood for sinister purposes. [[https://sinfest.xyz/view.php?date=2024-02-05 Golem 2]] features the Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu, taking a bath in blood and drinking it in a wine glass. |
| 104 | * BlushSticker: The boy Baby Blue had a crush on, in flashback. |
| 105 | * BodyHorror: The comic's anti-trans bent puts a lot of focus on trans surgeries, depicting them as horrifying and unnecessary. Or particular note is the [[https://sinfest.xyz/view.php?date=2023-07-30 Chestfeeding]] arc which depicts a baby aged into adulthood but as a transman with crude top surgery scars and mutilated arms where the skin was taken for a phalloplasty. |
| 106 | * BondageIsBad: The pre-September '11 Sinfest portrayed BDSM (as well as bisexuality and polyamory) as being satanic, the depraved ways of devil girls. However, this was part of the EvilIsCool and EvilIsFunny mood that the comic was running on those days. Post September '11 Sinfest still demonizes BDSM (because BDSM only exists because all men hate all women and also because trans women exist), but now on a much more serious level. Besides BDSM itself being used as a metaphor for all kinds of evil, the comic now includes three deeply evil BDSM-themed characters, "Bondage guy", "Bondage" and "Domination". Unlike the devil himself, these three sadistic devils have so far show no redeeming qualities whatsoever and no goals or personality traits beyond their complete devotion to evil BDSM Patriarchy. |
| 107 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy : BOMF! Several supernatural characters have demonstrated the ability to call upon hidden aspects of mortals' personalities and render those aspects dominant, with the magnitude of the effect dependent on the degree to which the aspect was originally present in hidden form. The Buddha just temporarily calms people, but Jesus and Satan can cause permanent changes to behavior and appearance (well, permanent till the other reverts their work.) Several strips suggest more precise rules as to how this works, but taken as a whole they contradict each other--the primary influence seems to be the RuleOfFunny. |
| 108 | %%** Evidently, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-03-14 Illuminati drones]] can be [[IncrediblyLamePun enlightened]] too. |
| 109 | %%* BrickJoke: The strip of [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-01 June 1st 2009]] and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-06-01 June 1st 2010]]. Either this or a CallBack. |
| 110 | %%** The [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-07-23 return]] of [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-04-20 banana burritos]]! |
| 111 | %%** A relatively short BrickJoke, but a BrickJoke nonetheless. In [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-04-18 this April 18th, 2002 strip]], Slick and Monique discuss the whole "Men from Mars and Women from Venus" thing when Monique jokingly suggests that Slick is from Uranus. "Back to your planet, butt boy!" [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-04-24 six strips later]] after the topic had generally been dropped, Monique still can't help bringing it up again by calling him "butt boy" and telling him to "Go back to Uranus!" It probably [[ItMakesSenseInContext made absolutely no sense to Criminy]]. |
| 112 | %%*** Even funnier? An alien lands before the Gay Guy and declares "Uranus needs gays!". The alien being looks exactly like ''Seymour''. |
| 113 | * BrokenAesop: Since becoming an AuthorTract on radical feminism, a lot of the comic's depictions of women, men, the social construct of the gender binary and patriarchy tend to throw themselves and/or each other under the bus when the concept doesn't fit neatly into the metaphor. |
| 114 | ** The fembots are a metaphor for women who are unaware of the patriarchy because they've been indoctrinated into it since birth. This would be fine, except for the part where they're ''literal machines'' complete with gaming console controls, contrasted by the actual flesh-and-blood prostitutes who work alongside them. The comic depicts the fembots as terrorized victims fighting for their freedom, but InUniverse, they're highly sophisticated sex toys that have violently turned against their users. |
| 115 | ** "Sex Work is Work" is bullshit patriarchal propaganda because it can't be "work" if it's ''exploitation''... except that in-universe, prostitution is openly legal. The two recurring sex worker characters ''also view it as work''. Sapphire chooses to be a stripper and is free to refuse Sam's offer to pimp her out (and internally refuses again when her strip club hikes her dues) and the unnamed porn star requests a new '''job''' from Abby's booth, so yes, in the world of ''Sinfest'', sex work ''is'' work, it's just that it's really shitty work. It also doesn't help that most of the cast does just fine without having a job at all, and when they need money for plot reasons there's always an opening at the factory. |
| 116 | ** The "Gender Fluid" arc condemns trans women for their patriarchal appropriation of feminine identity, with Xanthe rather explicitly stating that biological sex is what determines a person's gender... which doesn't mesh very well with the Sisterhood's prior condemnation of the gender binary, and ''really'' clashes with Monique's character development since the comic switched to a radfem perspective. Although she's never claimed to be anything but female, Monique's new design is pointedly boyish, and she went from happily flirting with people of all genders to being exclusively lesbian. So, if a man decides to be more feminine, he's wearing female identity like a Halloween costume, but if a woman decides to be more masculine, she's liberated. And that's not even getting into the pre-radfem ''Androgynique'' arc, where Monique literally cross-dresses for the express purpose of 'picking up bitches'. |
| 117 | ** Pretty much all the positive peace-and-harmony Aesops from the pre-radfem comic have been ground into a fine powder now that we have a narratively-endorsed protagonist with "Kill All Men!" as a catch-phrase. |
| 118 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-08-21 This]] seems to be an... odd [[FreudWasRight weapon choice]] for a radical feminist. |
| 119 | ** All that preaching about the objectification of women doesn't work when even [[https://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-04-06 even Monique has a literal price tag.]] It might not be money, but fact that the tag exists means that ''every'' girl is potential property, they just don't all cost the same currency. |
| 120 | ** The strip's entire assertion that transwomen can't be real women hits a bit of a snarl when you remember that [[BecomeARealBoy a large part of the fembots' character arc]] is that they, non-human machines desiged to look and programmed to act like women, ''can'' be real women if they believe they are, to the point that the Reality Zone transforms one into a real, flesh-and-blood human when she enters it. Tats seemed to catch on to this contradiction because, at some point during the "Anti-Woke" era, the strip pretty much completely gave up on the notion that the fembots were anything more than disposable machines that were only designed to look like people, to the point that almost all of them are now just the Devil's mindless minions and attempting to reprogram or liberate them is never mentioned again. |
| 121 | ** The "Anti-Nazi Goggles" are used to essentially accuse the "Woke" of invoking GodwinsLaw in who they go after and justifying any violence with that, which doesn't really have that much weight coming from ''Sinfest'' nowadays. Calling out extremist violence might have some weight to it if the strip itself hadn't spent the past decade narratively endorsing characters that call for and engage in extremist violence regularly, calling out demonization used to justify violence might carry some weight if the strip itself hadn't spent the past decade portraying anyone the author disagrees with as being literal agents of the Devil himself, including the "Woke" people in question being portrayed as subhuman savages akin to a ZombieApocalypse, and the horror of this "brainwashing" might carry a bit more weight if Monique's heroic induction to the Sisterhood wasn't accomplished by having her wear the "Patriarchy Blocker" glasses, which does practically the same thing as these goggles. |
| 122 | *** On another level, the horrors of the "Anti-Nazi Goggles" would probably hit a bit harder if not for the fact that the strip in its modern form [[GodwinsLaw directly and openly compares social media companies to Nazis]] (to the point that even their headquarters are [[PuttingOnTheReich designed to look like scenes straight out of Nazi Germany]]) because they ban right-wing pundits who break their site rules, and [[https://sinfest.xyz/btphp/comics/2021-07-25.jp explicitly endorsed running over rioters with a vehicle]], something that in the context of American politics is itself widely considered to be at best an act of vigilantism and at worst an act of terrorism. |
| 123 | ** Related to the above, the strip might have a difficult time being effective at railing against things like doxxing and "Cancel Culture" when it was portraying the Sisterhood doing exactly that as perfectly justified up until just a few months before it took up that new crusade. |
| 124 | ** The 2023 strips comparing illegal immigrants to literal alien invaders and how flaky liberals will get people killed by accepting them hits a bit of a snag in its messaging the longer it goes on, since the aliens are never actually shown doing anything besides walking around and assimilating pretty peacefully (uncharacteristically so for some of the aliens shown, like the [[Film/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]] and the villains from ''Film/MarsAttacks''). It also doesn't help its case that a later strip posed the question, "Where are all the ''good'' immigrants?" and then showed a bunch of other alien characters caught up in customs and legal immigration, the problem being that out of the four characters shown as "good immigrants", ''none'' of them immigrated legally or formally; [[Franchise/{{Dragonball}} Goku]], Franchise/{{Superman}} and [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial ET]], simply crash-landed on Earth with no documentation and would legally be considered illegals, and the fourth, an alien from ''Franchise/ToyStory'', is just an Earth-made toy designed to look like an alien. As even another blow to the narrative, Goku even ''was'' originally sent to Earth to destroy it, but changed his ways and became its protector instead. |
| 125 | * BullyingADragon: |
| 126 | ** "Bad Behavior", where Seymour antagonized Fuchsia. Given that on their first meeting, Fuchsia [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-01-11 set him on fire]], he really should have known what he was getting into. |
| 127 | ** A couple of devil bullies mess with Criminy and Fuchsia on one occasion. Between the [[BadassAdorable two of them and Tomey]]... well, the bullies definitely end up worse off. |
| 128 | ** When Lil'E was in kindergarten, two boys tried to bully him. But if you mess with the [[spoiler:son of the Devil you make his dad angry.]] Those boys were lucky to escape with just a few burns. |
| 129 | %%* ButterflyOfTransformation: A common motif. |
| 130 | %%* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-08-29 Tatsuya Ishida]]. |
| 131 | %%** Also used by God to turn into calligraphy [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-09-13 here]]. |
| 132 | * CallBack: Fairly early on in Fuchsia's progression from willing servant of evil to Crim's girlfriend and reluctant PunchClockVillain, she saw parallels between herself and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-31 a butterfly]]. Almost 18 months of strips later, Crim invades hell to visit Fuchsia, and then has to make a quick escape that lands him in the Reality Zone. Shortly after arriving there, he [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-10-17 observes both a butterfly and a caterpillar nearby]]. |
| 133 | ** Both of which may be a callback to an earlier moment [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2003-02-18 involving Criminy]]. Also, in one Sunday strip, after The Devil and Baby Blue try to re-devil Fuchsia, we see her staring off after a butterfly as well. |
| 134 | *** When Fuchsia finally [[spoiler:runs out on the Devil-mansion]], she leaves [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-20 a painting of a butterfly]] as a gift to Baby Blue. |
| 135 | %%** Another one comes with [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-28 Criminy's gift to Fuchsia]] -- [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-06 the one thing she takes out of the Devil's manor with her.]] |
| 136 | %%* CallingYourAttacks: "ASS!" or "BAM!" |
| 137 | * CampGay: That one gay man that Slick ran into, who now is sort of the default gay character. |
| 138 | * CannotSpitItOut: Subtly with Slick. He had admitted to himself and Squigley that he truly does love Monique. However, he has been unable to tell her or explicitly show his affections for her either out of insecurity or outside forces. |
| 139 | * CannotStandThemCannotLiveWithoutThem: |
| 140 | ** Monique and Slick are very self-centered, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-10-27 can't even hold their eyes on each other]], don't really know what they want for more than a few minutes... yet [[GreenEyedMonster neither will allow anyone else to approach the other]]. |
| 141 | ** In a minor arc, after Slick finds out he was created [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-01-15 'from leftover parts,']] it is revealed God did in fact create someone for him, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-01-16 Monique]]. This implies that they are meant to be together, but their insecurities with themselves as well as what they want get in the way when outside forces don't interfere. |
| 142 | ** Monique looks at a guy she considers attractive, then [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2005-03-31 he reminds of Slick, and finds this a turn-off]]. It's such a huge turn-off that [[HypocriticalHumor she starts hitting on him right on the next page]]. |
| 143 | %%* CartoonJuggling: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-10-05 Pooch does the arc]], much to Percy's displeasure. |
| 144 | %%* CasanovaWannabe: Slicky |
| 145 | %%* CastOfSnowflakes |
| 146 | * CatchingSomeZs: Multiple: |
| 147 | ** In [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2001-05-30 2001-05-30]], Monique references it before she sleeps with a "Z": |
| 148 | ---> I'm-a catch some '''Z'''s |
| 149 | ** In [[https://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2018-05-17 2018-05-17]], Devil Squigley says "ZZZZ" in his sleep. |
| 150 | ** In [[https://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2019-10-11 2019-10-11]], drones after a sleep spell go "ZZZZ". |
| 151 | %%* CatholicSchoolgirlsRule: Just having [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-06-10 'Nique describe it to Seymour]] made his [[YourHeadAsplode head explode]]. |
| 152 | * CatsAreMean: |
| 153 | ** Subverted in that Percival, while often acting like a jerk, actually does care about Pooch (though he'd never admit it). |
| 154 | ** Also played straight when he thought it would be funny to make a "catse" screen saver. |
| 155 | %%* {{Catfight}}: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-10-21 Monique and Fuchsia, lampshaded immediately]]. |
| 156 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-01-21 Pillow fight]], Monique vs. both Devil Girls. |
| 157 | * CerebusSyndrome: |
| 158 | ** About halfway through the comic's run, several darker elements came into play. The Devil became much more straightforwardly evil; the succubi and Death became regular characters; Hell and the tortured souls within started appearing regularly; and Uncle Sam showed up and became corrupt, then broke. Despite this, the series stayed comedic, due in large part to CharacterDevelopment. |
| 159 | ** But played more and more straight as time goes on and more and more strips designed without a joke are posted. The jump has pretty much been made at this point; the only jokes are at the expense of causes the author disagrees with, and the comic is so serious that he seems to be attacking them instead or parodying them like he used to. |
| 160 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-04-17 Mid-April 2016]], the [[ItMakesSenseInContext Reality Zone sign]] is shown, badly damaged, being torn up as the bubble of "reality" is disrupted and then blocked off, effectively removing the last element of Old Sinfest from the map. |
| 161 | %%* ChainsawGood: Behold... [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-27 Chainsaw Jesus]]! |
| 162 | * CharacterDevelopment: Every main character has had some sort of serious character development. Those who have not completely changed their outlook on life (Monique, & Fuchsia) have been given a third dimension (most visible in Slick & Crim) with the only possible exceptions being Pooch, God, and the author avatar. The short version is Slick & Monique are considerably less selfish, Squig and Crim are braver, Fuchsia and Baby Blue have distinct personalities, Lil'E and Seymour are less dogmatic, and the Devil doesn't do comedy so much anymore. The longer version is: |
| 163 | ** Slick started out as an egotistical jackass, but took a turn to being a better person, going so far as to admitting he loves Monique. He even lost his tie, and got new shades that are not pitch black. However, that seems to have reversed itself to a degree. After a match with a succubus, he's become part devil, switching between the two personas without his knowledge. |
| 164 | ** Monique used to just be a rather two-dimensional materialistic attention whore/slut and is now a crunchy activist feminist. She's also cut her hair, gone to a [[AmbiguousGender much more androgynous look]], and now considers her past an OldShame. |
| 165 | ** Fuchsia started out as genuinely evil, but now is in love with Criminy, quit working for the Devil and is now essentially a soft-hearted (but short-tempered) human with a few extra features (check how her design has changed). |
| 166 | ** Criminy used to hide himself away in his Fortress of Knowledge; as his relationship with Fuchsia progressed, you saw less and less of the Fortress, until [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-11-15 you see him completely without it.]] His hair is also a little more natural, where prior it was always 'in place'. |
| 167 | ** Seymour used to be a hard conservative who attacked anything outside his narrow ideals. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-04-03 After learning a hard lesson in humility]] he now shows Tangerine [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-05-04 respect.]] He's still conservative and holds a grudge against Fuchsia and Baby Blue (they messed him up) but he's not quite so fast to attack now. He also seems to genuinely care about Lil'E, especially after Lil'E's recent amnesia. |
| 168 | *** After his run-in with Cupid, he became a bit goofier, but also became [[TookALevelInKindness nicer,]] having comforted [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-10-24 Squigley]] and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-11-14 the succubus Sapphire.]] It's shown [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-11-15 here]] how much he changed compared to his counterpart from the Sisterhood. |
| 169 | ** While not as much as Fyoosh and still very much a CardCarryingVillain, Baby Blue is shown to have a genuine soft spot for Fuchsia and possibly some jealousy towards Criminy. |
| 170 | *** More recently, Baby Blue deliberately lied to The Devil, saying she couldn't find Fuchsia, after she saw her friend [[SleepCute napping together with Criminy under a tree.]] |
| 171 | *** And it has recently been indicated that Blue may have joined the Devil ''before'' becoming a a Devil Girl after [[spoiler:seeing him resurrect a dove as a bird demon after her prayers failed to save it, or possibly after TheDevil consoled her for flunking out of divinity school]]. |
| 172 | *** Blue has been promoted in TheDevil's business to a high-ranking position, possibly second in command, with a corresponding outfit change. TheDevil scolds Milton: "[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-12-20 Don't]] '''[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-12-20 ever]]''' [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-12-20 question my deputy's orders again]]." |
| 173 | *** Yet she is far from abandoning friends and acquaintances. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-08-17 She still sleeps with Fuchsia's soft pitchfork, and has one of Fuchsia's paintings on the wall of her room.]] She [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-09-28 watches Monique and Abby escape the mansion]], and keeps their secret. Later, spotting Fuchsia in the news feeds of the search for the runaway weaponized fembot copies: |
| 174 | ---->'''Blue:''' [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2015-03-19 "Shit. What are you '''doing''', Fyoosh?"]] She cuts all transmissions until Fuchsia is gone from the scene. |
| 175 | ** Recently, we've been looking into the past of Lil'E and seeing what he's like without his devil worship. |
| 176 | *** Without his memories, he's less of a jerk that most of the cast. He's also intelligent enough to take the hints about what kind of person he used to be, put them together logically, and come up with something that worries him. |
| 177 | ** The Devil went from being a funny 'classic cartoon' style of character to being a true source of malice. He rarely seems to use his lemonade-style soul-buying stand anymore. |
| 178 | *** He it has also been implied that he has a Tragic Backstory involving [[spoiler:Lil'Evil's mother]], and that in his own strange way he cares about his [[spoiler:son]]. |
| 179 | ** Squigley has been grappling with his life of excess. He ran away once to try to escape gambling debts, has dealt with his problems with food and pot. Most recently, he's been trying to deal with his addiction to pornography. |
| 180 | %%* TheChase: Death. Annually, to the year, and to the zombie. |
| 181 | %%* CheekyMouth: As result of ArtEvolution. |
| 182 | * ChekhovsGun: |
| 183 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-21 Those]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-26 "glitter points"]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-10-03 come]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-10-23 in]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-11-20 handy]]. |
| 184 | ** The "Reality Zone" too, since it seems to have the power to incapacitate things of Hell. Forky lost consciousness upon entering and recovered upon leaving. The Devil is apparently afraid of the place, as he refused to enter and create a hell hole there. Instead, he replied "show's over" when asked and walked away. Tangerine actually started to burn like a vampire in sunlight when she went in. Fuchsia started to disintegrate after a few seconds in it, but was fine when she left. |
| 185 | ** A particular request, made to the Devil, only to be denied, has passed through several people since, affecting each of them. |
| 186 | * ChewToy: Seymour in 2011 gets lots of screen time dedicated to making him suffer. Not that the fan base [[TheScrappy minds]]. |
| 187 | * ChildrenAreTenderHearted: An infant Lil' E cried over the shooting of an angel. |
| 188 | * ClingySleepers: Whenever Fuchsia naps with Criminy, she tends to cling to him affectionately. Not that Crim ever seems to mind. [[https://sinfest.xyz/view.php?date=2012-02-26 Seen in this Sunday strip.]] |
| 189 | %%* ClothingDamage: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-09-18 Monique binding her foot.]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2001-05-09 Monique fighting Slick East Side style.]] |
| 190 | %%* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: For [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-05-23 Squigley]] |
| 191 | * ColonyDrop: In one strip, God drops a mountain on top of Slick in non-response to the philosophical question of whether God can create a mountain that He can't destroy. |
| 192 | * ColorfulThemeNaming: The succubi are named and nicknamed after the color they are. Amber, a human, may have been inadvertent, as it's a common girl's name, and she was named before the strip first began the Succubi color-themed naming. |
| 193 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: |
| 194 | ** The Cartoonist's FanBoy [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-04-06 misunderstands "Spotting blacks"]]. |
| 195 | ** After Art/LadyLiberty and her friend play around jumping in Nana's pile of leaves, [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-06-27 they gather the leaves back up into the pile]]. |
| 196 | --->"You can jump in now." |
| 197 | ** {{Subverted}} [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-06-29 two days later]] when Nana jumps into the pile. |
| 198 | ** In Jail, Seymour [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-11-01 tries to grab for the guard's keys]]. The guard (and Seymour's cellmate) think that Seymour was grabbing the guard's butt. |
| 199 | ** After Seymour and his cellmate escape from jail, and his cellmate spends the night, they wake up the next morning: |
| 200 | --->'''[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2017-02-11 Former Cellmate:]]''' Give me Daps.\ |
| 201 | '''Seymour:''' ''[puzzled]'' Daps?\ |
| 202 | '''Former Cellmate:''' Daps.\ |
| 203 | '''Seymour:''' Um... Okay...? ''[taps Cellmate's hand several times]'' |
| 204 | %%* CommonalityConnection: Zendaps because both the Buddha and Monique have worry beads. |
| 205 | %%* CompressedAbstinence: In [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-08-29 Begin Countdown]]. |
| 206 | %%* ConflictingLoyalty: An issue for [[AntiVillain Fuchsia]] and [[TomeOfEldritchLore Tomey.]] [[spoiler:Or rather, [[HighHeelFaceTurn it WAS an issue for Fuchsia]].]] |
| 207 | * ContinuityCreep: As noted above, the comic has had little to no regard to continuity in its earlier years. But extended story arcs began taking shape before so long. And old throw-away gags from earlier days have also been brought back and expanded upon, including Squigley's ability to [[WrongContextMagic fly his couch while high]]. |
| 208 | %%* ContinuityReboot: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-01-18 Spoofed]] a few weeks into 2010. |
| 209 | * CoolBigSis: |
| 210 | ** 'Nique acted as one to Criminy at one time. She was quite protective of him if she thought he was in danger. |
| 211 | ** Likewise, Tangerine is one to Lil'E. |
| 212 | * CoolCat: Percy is a perfect example of "cats are cool" via "cats are aloof," where he ''thinks'' he's too cool for everyone around him, and acts accordingly. |
| 213 | * CoolHorse: The [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-09-18 winged horses]] Tangerine and 'Nique watch in the tree. |
| 214 | %%* CoolOldLady: |
| 215 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-12-02 Nana.]] |
| 216 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2017-11-17 The Year 2017.]] |
| 217 | * CoolShades: Probably the look Slick was going for, although he doesn't pull it off as well as he thinks he does. |
| 218 | %%* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: |
| 219 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-02-04 Classic.]] |
| 220 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-05-28 This]] also counts. |
| 221 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-01-14 Because Slick knows Squiggly better than Devil]]. |
| 222 | %%* CoolVersusAwesome: Or more like "[[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-11-12 Hotness vs. Sexyness]]". |
| 223 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive Several characters such as Mickey Mouse, WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, Tom the Cat. Homer Simpson and Charlie Brown [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-10-26 appear as leaders of different major crime families]], with the Devil as ruling Don of the Five Families. |
| 224 | * CrackPairing: In-universe -- in particular, between Baby Blue and Jesus in a [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-05-02 Sinfest Fan Fiction]] read by Seymour: |
| 225 | -->'''Seymour:''' [[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels Wrong, wrong, wrong]], '''wrong'''! '''So''' not canon! |
| 226 | * CrapsackWorld: The flying Humongous Mecha lands in one in [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-10-10 Compass]]. |
| 227 | * CreepyCrossdresser: The 2020's and onward depict trans women as creepy, ugly, sexual predators forcing their way into women's spaces. Numerous GNC characters have their gender non-conformity equated to sexual deviancy and depicted as a threat to women and children. |
| 228 | * CrossoverCosmology: The main focus is Christian but Buddha and the Dragon (representing Eastern religions in general) have also shown up. In fact Buddha and Jesus are pals. |
| 229 | * CrushBlush: When Baby Blue confessed her attraction to a boy, he blushed. |
| 230 | %%* CueTheFlyingPigs: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2001-12-24 Over there!]] |
| 231 | * CuteBookWorm: Criminy is a rare male example. |
| 232 | * CuteMonsterGirl: Fuchsia, Baby Blue, and Tangerine. All of the succubi. |
| 233 | %%* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: As seen in [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-10-05 this strip]] |
| 234 | * TheDarknessGazesBack: Invoked and heartwarmingly subverted [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-07-20 Criminy and Fuchsia]]: |
| 235 | -->''When you look into the abyss...\ |
| 236 | the abyss also looks\ |
| 237 | into you.\ |
| 238 | And then you spend the afternoon together.'' |
| 239 | * DeadpanSnarker: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-01-19 The storekeeper.]] Possibly a ShoutOut to the children's book, ''No Flying in the House''. |
| 240 | -->Ma'am, no flying inside the store. |
| 241 | * DealWithTheDevil: |
| 242 | ** Right from the first strip, Satan's been offering them. This has not generally worked very well. |
| 243 | ** [[AuthorAvatar Cartoonist]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-07-22 sold his soul for fame, fortune and]] [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal fangirls]]. |
| 244 | * DepravedBisexual: Formerly the Succubi. It is still possible that numerous unnamed succubi who never appear still perform the former roles of Blue and Fuchsia. However, the principle succubi are no longer depraved, and bisexuality has been kept under wraps. |
| 245 | * DespairEventHorizon: |
| 246 | ** Fuchsia, after dealing with Seymour's FantasticRacism one too many times, sees her angry face reflected in the water and begins to wonder if she really ''doesn't'' belong in our world, and promptly throws herself back into Hell. Criminy follows her to Hell the hard way -- by digging, to pull her back. |
| 247 | ** Monique may be fast approaching hers after [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-05 learning she may have helped condemn a million men to hell.]] She doesn't seem [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-06 to be]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-10 taking it well.]] But Slick is [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther working on]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-17 bringing her back]]. |
| 248 | * DevilInPlainSight: Quite literally. He takes [[SadlyMythtaken Cerberus]] out for walks around the neighborhood and flicks off God from hilltops. At the same time, God regularly speaks to people in the form of giant hand puppets in the sky. |
| 249 | * TheDevilIsALoser: And it's God's favorite pastime to remind him of it. |
| 250 | %%* DiabolusExMachina: Must you kill off '''[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-04-29 everyone??]]''' |
| 251 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: |
| 252 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-12-30 This]] HopeSpot in Slick and Monique's relationship leaves TheDevil speechless. |
| 253 | ** Heartwarmingly {{subverted}} with [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-08-04 Lil'E's first "POMF"]]. Tangerine and Lil'E dance around, taunting the watching drones and "Dad" in particular. How does TheDevil respond? He goes off to his secure vault and uploads a video titled, "first_bomf". |
| 254 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Done by MMX at the end of his run. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-01-03 Death gets right back up]], albeit, visibly worse for wear -- with InstantBandages on his [[ParodiedTrope hat]]! |
| 255 | %%* Either an {{exaggerated}} "DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu" or a {{downplayed}} "DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu": God appears with a finger puppet mocking Aunt Kate. [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-05-07 Aunt Kate magics the puppet to fly off and repeatedly swat God's hand with its broom]]. Something even TheDevil [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-09-01 didn't dare try]] when [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-08-25 mocked by God]]. |
| 256 | * DirtyOldMan: The comic depicts 46th US President Joe Biden as this being a depraved senile pedophile. |
| 257 | * DisproportionateRetribution: |
| 258 | ** [[SeriousBusiness Eternal Vengeance]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-03-02 for tripping.]] Y'know, cause he wasn't looking where he was walking. |
| 259 | ** Glossy kills MMXII because he stole her bike. |
| 260 | %%* DistractedByTheSexy: Seymour and Monique, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-06-09 here]]. |
| 261 | * TheDitz: Monique has taken on elements of this since the strip took a turn for the LighterAndSofter. |
| 262 | * DemotedToExtra: Criminy after the Patriarchy arc. Some fans see this as suspicious due to him being the most likely character to be able to successfully debunk Glossy's views on men. |
| 263 | * DragQueen: Squigley dresses up as "[[UsefulNotes/SarahPalin Sarah Piglin]]" in a number of strips. |
| 264 | * DrowningMySorrows: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-12-29 Uncle Sam does this]] either because of the massive destruction wracked by his HumongousMecha, or because he almost killed Lady Liberty in the destruction. |
| 265 | %%* EEqualsMCHammer: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-11-29 Literally]]. ("It's kinda like science!") |
| 266 | * EasyAmnesia: Happens to [[spoiler:Lil' Evil]] starting [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-09-23 here]]. Justified, it's the Lethe. Yes, ''[[Myth/GreekMythology THAT]]'' [[Myth/GreekMythology Lethe.]] |
| 267 | %%* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: A LiteralMetaphor --[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-02-19 poor thing]]. |
| 268 | %%* EroticEating: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-06-22 'Nique's method of inspiration]]. |
| 269 | * EurekaMoment: [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe And lo]], [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-08-30 Bishounen Jesus appeareth unto Seymour]] in a dream, and saith unto him: |
| 270 | -->'''Jesus:''' My Child, put down the weapon... Love is the way. |
| 271 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Early on, it was shown that The Devil had a few issues with some of Slick's [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-04-25 requests]] to combine LesYay with IncestSubtext, though it was due more to feasibility than actual moral qualms. |
| 272 | * EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Of all people, apparently ''Jesus and Blue'' [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-03-04 did]]. Currently not known whether this is canon or a one-off gag. |
| 273 | * EvilCostumeSwitch: A lot of characters don't actually transform, but they have darker sides. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-04-07 Here]] we are shown three characters who transform. When Seymour is being bad or not obsessing over religion (or at least not in a negative way) he wears his police cap sideways, Uncle Sam wears a corporation hat instead of a flag hat, Slick transforms or has his [[LiteralSplitPersonality split personality run wild]], Squigley transforms into a werewolf, and the Artist wears a hat backwards and sprouts horns. Subverted partially by Seymour who occasionally wears his hat like that when he's high on love. The Artist, Uncle Sam, and Slick all have their lightly shaded glasses replaced with dark, pointy glasses. |
| 274 | * EvilDesiresInnocence: Fuchsia, a devil girl, first met Criminy when she was teasing him. But his quiet, gentle nature, politeness, and moments of him telling her YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre and one instance of YouAreWorthHell, prompt a HighHeelFaceTurn from her. |
| 275 | %%* EvilLawyerJoke: "[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-07-23 Well, this comes as no surprise]]". |
| 276 | * EvilMeScaresMe: |
| 277 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-19 Fuchsia]] has this reaction to her reflection after losing her temper with Seymour. In all likelihood, this was a side of herself she never wanted Criminy to see. |
| 278 | ** After getting mindwiped, [[spoiler:Lil' E]] also has this response. |
| 279 | %%* EvilIsPetty: Probably the entire ''point'' of Lil' Evil...and considering [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-03-02 his role model]]... |
| 280 | * ExactWords: |
| 281 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2001-05-08 "Say I'm the pimp!"]] |
| 282 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-04-19 "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo! All Misogynists go Poof! Pimps and Johns and Wife Beaters too!"]] Her tank tops (for which "wife-beater" is slang, although normally for men's tank tops) have all gone poof. It is likely that everything else was too far away for her spell to affect, although she was quite lucky that her bathroom didn't go poof as well. |
| 283 | * ExiledToTheCouch: As the only married couple showed in the comic, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-05-02 Liberty does this to Sam every time he pisses her off]]. |
| 284 | * ExposedToTheElements: {{Subverted|Trope}} in one strip. Monique bundles up for the winter, but all the guys passing by her ignore her, so she decides to go out in her usual tube top and jeans, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome only to freeze instantly upon stepping out.]] |
| 285 | * EyeScream: |
| 286 | ** {{Invoked}} and {{Exploited}} when [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-13 Gypsy 'Nique gives Seymour some Biblical advice (from Jesus, no less!)]] after Seymour berates her for her lusty outfit. |
| 287 | ** Also invoked here, when the newly restored [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-06-15 Rogue Fembot puts Milton in her former place]]. |
| 288 | * EyeOfProvidence: The small flying drones used by the Devil to survail and intimidate the populace are designed as this with a pair of wings (there's also a variant that looks like a centipede). Typically their image on any item or location is an indicator the evil conspiracy controlling the world is present... when the artist bothers to remember they're supposed to be evil. |
| 289 | [[/folder]] |
| 290 | |
| 291 | [[folder:F-J]] |
| 292 | * FacePalm: The Cartoonist does this when his Fanboy [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-04-06 misunderstands "spotting blacks"]]. |
| 293 | * FallenStatesOfAmerica: |
| 294 | ** Some of the strips about the presidential elections show how low or how dictatorial Ishida regards America to be. |
| 295 | ** Sam's treatment to Liberty can be seen as this. Ishida regards USA as misunderstanding the concept of "Liberty", and continues to do things that are very douchey to her without considering what she would think about it. |
| 296 | ** The [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-10-10 Compass]] Arc portrays the USA as having fallen into a Brutal, CrapsackWorld. |
| 297 | * FanFic: Seymour is shown to be writing some about [[YaoiFangirl Jesus]] and [[Literature/AtlasShrugged John Galt]]. |
| 298 | %%* {{Fanservice}}: |
| 299 | %%** Although 'Nique and the succubi will [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-12-18 cheerfully]] dish out fanservice to all comers, it also got kinda... [[FanDisservice subverted]]. I mean, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-04-13 ew]]... |
| 300 | %%** A later strip even points out the DoubleStandard; when fans demand she show them ass, 'Nique calls Slick up on stage... |
| 301 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-07-07 And again...]] |
| 302 | %%* FantasticDrug: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-04-10 Jogs, apparently.]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorphin#Runner.27s_high Some truth in the matter...]] |
| 303 | * FantasticRacism: |
| 304 | ** Seymour in strips [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-15 3662]] and 3663 directed towards Fuchsia, which also showcases his hypocrisy since one of the core tenants of Christianity is that those who are legitimately trying to change their ways should be encouraged along that path. Made even more apparent when it was earlier shown that two angels pretty much ignore her nowadays since they know she isn't evil anymore. They even give Criminy their blessing when he digs his way to hell for her since after all, love transcends all boundaries. |
| 305 | ** Seymour does seem more sympathetic towards Tangerine, trying to help her without hurting her feelings (partially so she does not hurt him), to the point where she seems to consider him a friend. Considering his enthusiasm for this happens after getting told off by Fuchsia, it might be evidence of him trying to [[TheAtoner Atone]] himself. |
| 306 | * FemalesAreMoreInnocent: The series's credo for latest few years. Average male? Sorry, likely a "dudebro" and a creep visiting strip-clubs and contributing to the oppression of women. The ''devil girls'' will be revealed as more innocent than him. |
| 307 | * FemaleMonsterSurprise: Cerberus's sex is established when Sleaze wishes for "Hot Bitches" on Christmas Eve, and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-12-24 Cerberus appears at his door]]. |
| 308 | %%* FlatWhat: |
| 309 | %%** Percival, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-02-18 here.]] |
| 310 | %%** The Devil, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-03-12 here.]] |
| 311 | * FilibusterFreefall: The comic shifted rather abruptly from adult-oriented gag-a-day humor (which nevertheless commented on a variety of political and social issues) to a hardcore second-wave feminist theme and, by the late 2010s, extreme anti-trans views. The strip's creator Tatsuya Ishida also being a poster boy for ReclusiveArtist, the reason for this change remains unknown. [[Webcomic/CriticalMiss Grey Carter]] goes into more detail [[https://twitter.com/GreyTheTick/status/1414901004743725057 here,]] describing ''Sinfest'' as a case of a "passionate person [who] gets ass deep in [a] pet issue to the point it alienates everyone around them." |
| 312 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 313 | ** [[spoiler:Lil'E's identity as being the AntiChrist]] is hinted at at [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-06-15 these]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-06-18 three]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-09-25 strips.]] Note the blurb Ishida uses and the actual strip itself. |
| 314 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-05-29 "I will not cheat]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-06-03 taking advange of Liberty (a.k.a freedom)]] |
| 315 | ** Vainglorious is foreshadowed [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-05-23 in the graffiti of this comic.]] |
| 316 | ** Possibly [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2005-06-30 this]]. Does Slick ever get any Nookie? |
| 317 | ** The last frame of [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-08-11 this flashback]] of Fuchsia and Baby Blue as FanService waitresses becoming friends and defeating a sexually-harassing demon with holy water(!), foreshadows the two becoming demons themselves. |
| 318 | * FourLinesAllWaiting: So far, ''Sinfest'' has possibly over a dozen plotlines all going at once, including... |
| 319 | ** The Sisterhood's fight against the patriarchy. |
| 320 | ** Lil E's backstory (which itself deals with his lost mother, The Devil secretly being his father, and his Lethe-induced amnesia). |
| 321 | ** Slick trying to become less misogynistic and gain the Sisterhood's favor. |
| 322 | ** Devil Slick messing with Slick's life. |
| 323 | ** Slick rewarming his heart and discovery of sunglasses that makes him see prices on people. |
| 324 | ** Slick regaining his friendship with Monique [[RunningGag (many of these deal with Slick if you haven't noticed).]] |
| 325 | ** Monique's current political agenda as a radical feminist and how the world around her goes out of its way to go against her. |
| 326 | ** Monique's ongoing relationship with Absinthe. |
| 327 | ** Angie's adventure with Lil E and her discovering about her past life before she was a devil girl. |
| 328 | ** The Zombie's search for Fuchsia so he can have story time again. |
| 329 | ** Baby Blue dealing with her current position as a higher ranking devil girl. |
| 330 | ** Baby Blue dealing with Fuchsia no longer being with her, thus becoming more stoic and serious minded. |
| 331 | ** Vainglorious' mysterious agenda. |
| 332 | ** Seymour's ongoing homoerotic fascination with Jesus. |
| 333 | ** Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty's marriage issues. |
| 334 | ** Squigley and his random adventures (which seem to change every few months). |
| 335 | ** [[ExaggeratedTrope And many, many, many more.]] Many of which are just short drop in stories that don't come back into the webcomic's many plotlines. |
| 336 | *** EG: A woman named Amber, who Criminy went on a date with once [[TheBusCameBack (in the early years of the strip)]], came back and met with Criminy once more, where she mentions that she is now a news anchor for Hell News. Her employment was a consequence of Blue's searching Criminy's background for something less than IncorruptiblePurePureness. The search is in vain until she encounters Amber in tears after her one time with Criminy. She was now reporting live on the Rogue Fembot's rampage and being chased by police through the city. Her only purpose in this storyline was to make sure that the cameras never turned away because of ratings, even if she had to go against her higher-ups' orders. She has rarely been seen since that storyline, although [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2015-12-12 in the middle of the MMXV arc]], Fuchsia (with ''that'' look) asks Criminy about Amber. |
| 337 | %% |
| 338 | %% So what's the trope name for ''that'' look? |
| 339 | %% |
| 340 | %%* FracturedFairyTale |
| 341 | %%* AFriendInNeed: All sorts of characters -- and growing more frequent. |
| 342 | * TheFundamentalist: Seymour and Lil' Evil for Christianity and Satanism, respectively. Subverted occasionally when Seymour actually practices what he preaches, only to relapse into being a massive prick some time down the road. Again, like everything else in this comic, his flip-flopping got Lampshaded as being due to [[RunningGag the Full Moon causing a werewolf-like transformation]]. |
| 343 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-10-15 And then they revoked Seymour's Fundie Card]]. |
| 344 | * FurryConfusion: Tangerine, since she keeps her devil tail hidden within a thick padded sleeve, looks like she's a cat-girl all the time. |
| 345 | %%* GenderBender: "Trans State." |
| 346 | %%* GeekyTurnOn: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-05-14 Fuchsia to Criminy]]: |
| 347 | %%-->'''Fuchsia:''' Oooo Criminy knows fancy words... |
| 348 | %%* GiveMeASign: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-10-272 This strip.]] |
| 349 | %%* TheGlomp: |
| 350 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-09-19 From a pig!]] |
| 351 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-28 From a succubus!]] and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-05-15 again]]. Both times, Fuchsia glomps Criminy when he says something very nice and romantic. |
| 352 | * GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: During one of God's puppet parodies, the Devil mocks him, causing Slick to comment, "Sometimes I can't tell the two of you apart." |
| 353 | * GodIsEvil: Subverted; God can seem this way to some of the characters, but is generally just obnoxious and somewhat childish, with [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-07-24 occasional]] PetTheDog moments. Jesus, on the other hand, is [[JesusWasWayCool an awesome guy]]. |
| 354 | %%** So is the Buddha. The Dragon of Eastern Religion is generally awesome also. |
| 355 | %%* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: |
| 356 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-01-30 Patriarchy Blockers]]. |
| 357 | %%** Monique's {{Fangirl}} shows the Cartoonist's {{Fanboy}} [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2017-02-02 what's really happening]]. |
| 358 | * GoldenMeanFallacy: Slicky [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-04-27 tried an apple]] from the Tree of Knowledge and couldn't handle it. Slicky dived into Lethe and forgot everything. So he [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-05-24 tried to combine them]] into "Forbidden Fruit and Lethe Water Power Drink". |
| 359 | -->'''Slick:''' I KNOW THAT I KNOW ''NOTHING''! / I'M A DUMB ASS / IGNORAMUS / FOOL\ |
| 360 | '''Slick:''' [[FlatWhat WHAT THE]] [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]] |
| 361 | %%* GoodIsDumb: |
| 362 | %%** Pooch, Seymour, and, alternatively, {{God}} Himself. |
| 363 | %%** Subverted with Monique, who can be random and occasionally childish, but is far from dumb. |
| 364 | * GoMadFromTheRevelation: |
| 365 | ** To a minor degree, this is why God does not show his face and uses the hand puppets. He's showing an image of his face to two people caused a bit of a fight. Now imagine if He showed His face to a few more people... |
| 366 | ** As previously stated, when Slick ate the Fruit of Knowledge and found out he was a cartoon character, he tried to kill himself by jumping off a cliff. That works out about as well as you'd think. |
| 367 | %%* GrammarNazi: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-11-30 Oops!]] |
| 368 | * GranolaGirl: Nique starts as a generic hippy ("Peace!") and gradually [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-10-22 turns]] very liberal left-wing, frequently protesting and contesting. She's even a struggling [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-07-15 vegan]]. Lil' E even preferred her [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-06-08 as his "archnemesis"]] over Seymour as more well-intended, at least for a time. |
| 369 | * GreenEyedMonster: |
| 370 | ** Monique either has no intention of taking their relationship out of the friend zone or she [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2004-03-29 would]], but has a zero-tolerance policy for his horny clownades. But she's [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2003-01-16 jealous]]. During the "Loverboy" sequence she drives away a girl who actually liked Slicky enough to laugh off his antics. |
| 371 | ** Slick either is interested only in Monique's butt or can't hold his brain in one pile and mouth free of drool around her. When she isn't around, he wanders off after other girls all the time. But seeing her [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2005-04-14 flirting with a guy]]? No way. That's enough to [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2005-01-14 stop his own not-yet-ruined flirt]] and go decry his rival in a hissy fit so stupid that even Monique who already knows him well {{facepalm}}ed. |
| 372 | %%* GretzkyHasTheBall: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2001-07-17 Monique's schmoozin' attempt.]] |
| 373 | * TheGrimReaper: He shows up near the end of December to take down the elderly year, every year without fail. |
| 374 | %%* GroinAttack: '''[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-01-19 "I love you, man!"]]''' |
| 375 | * GroupieBrigade: After running from a mob, Death disguises himself to avoid blame for Michael's death. Accidentally, [[MistakenIdentity he gets taken for him]], and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-07-04 runs from a mob.]] |
| 376 | %%* HaHaHaNo: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2001-09-23 Make love, not war.]] |
| 377 | * TheHandIsGod: The God of ''Sinfest'' is literally a giant disembodied hand (sometimes two) and a booming, disembodied voice. Sometimes He uses a hand puppet. |
| 378 | %%* HarmlessVillain: Little E definitely. However he is [[spoiler:the [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-10-16 son of the devil]]]]. So that could change. |
| 379 | * HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Parodied with [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-01-23 Patriarchal Action Movie]], where the only lines are yells of "I am heterosexual!" while doing manly things. |
| 380 | %%* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Sam when watching [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-05-02 porn on the internet]]. |
| 381 | * TheHecateSisters: |
| 382 | ** Absinthe as the naive maiden, who despises being D-man's booth babe, still conserves her mercy and sees working for him in rose-colored glasses. |
| 383 | ** Fuchsia as the mother, who was before in Absinthe's shoes, but grew out of being a succubus to pursue love but despise being out of that life, is left quite messed up. |
| 384 | ** Baby Blue as the crone, she's working for D-man the most and is the most bitter and distant since Fyoosh left the mansion. |
| 385 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Fuchsia bounced back and forth between crushing on Criminy and actively helping Blue and the Devil antagonize Slick and Monique until her character development led her to pretty much stop being evil. {{Justified|Trope}} in that her romance with Criminy took time to develop. |
| 386 | * HeelFaceTurn: Fuchsia [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-06 made her choice without so much as a word,]] over a year in making. She went initially from toying with Criminy, to being intrigued, to straight-out crush. During her crush phase, she'd still cheerfully torment others but behaved herself whenever he was around. Over the passing of time, she started to wish to become 'normal' and feel pity for the damned. Recently she's almost completely rejected her devilish nature, flat out offering comfort to the damned and rarely being shown in her succubus outfit anymore. There's been some dark foreshadowing that this could get her killed (although none of the cast has ever died yet), but also some that shows she could obtain salvation. |
| 387 | %%* HeelRealization: |
| 388 | %%** It would seem Seymour is having one [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-01-26 here.]] |
| 389 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-12-09 Seems like]] [[spoiler:Lil'E]] is too. Not quite played for laughs. |
| 390 | * HesBack: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-01-27 Slick dons the tie]], meaning his perverted ways are making a comeback. |
| 391 | * {{Hellhound}}: Cerberus is the Devil's pet, and spends [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-12-24 her]] time menacing the cast (especially Slick) and eating mailmen. |
| 392 | %%* HighHeelFaceTurn: Fuchsia with Criminy. [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor It took time to develop]]. |
| 393 | * HighOnCatnip: The AuthorAvatar's cat [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2005-05-28 gets high on catnip]], even saying "that's some good stuff". |
| 394 | %%* HoistByHerOwnPetard: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-14 Criminy does this]] [[AccidentalInnuendo completely inadvertently]] to Baby Blue when she tries to play with him. Fuchsia's smug expression at the end indicates absolutely NoSympathy. |
| 395 | %%* HolierThanThou: Seymour, again. |
| 396 | %%* HollywoodHacking: Sisterhood-member Clio and her attacks on DevilTech. |
| 397 | * HolyBurnsEvil: Not only is "Big D" repulsed by angel glitter and has angel-repellent but even some apparently mortal creatures [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2005-12-29 have such a weakness]]. |
| 398 | %%* HomosocialHeterosexuality: With the aptly named strip [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-03-18 Patriarchal Bromance Movie]]. |
| 399 | %%* HopeSpot: in Slick and Monique's relationship: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-12-30 Monique and Slick]] [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu flip off]] TheDevil after he sends the troops in full-force to scare off their apparent budding love. (Too bad it didn't last... sigh...) |
| 400 | * HornsOfVillainy: When someone is BOMFed into a devil character, they get short conical horns on the forehead. However, [[DownplayedTrope the "villainy" really depends on the character in question]], as most are {{Anti Villain}}s at best, especially in the comic's current state. |
| 401 | * HotLibrarian: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-04-09 Parodied in an episode of]] ''Sinfest Nights''. Fuchsia takes on the role of the librarian, with Criminy as the [[IgnoreTheFanservice flustered patron]]. |
| 402 | %%* HumongousMecha: Usually fight giant monsters and each other out of the continuity. |
| 403 | %%** InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: ''[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-03-07 Robo Sinfest]]''. |
| 404 | %%** TransformingMecha: anything from a [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-12-31 soda vending machine]] or [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-10-12 ATM]] to a [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-10-08 church]]. |
| 405 | %%*** And [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-07-23 TV]]. That's why [[TheTelevisionTalksBack they talk back]] in ''Sinfest''. |
| 406 | %%** Sleaze is seen to be piloting one (or at least inside the eye of one) in [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-07-10 the Hero arc]], where Slick is trying to take on Sleaze once and for all. (It may be a manifestation of Sleaze, as far as we know.) |
| 407 | %%** Another one appears in [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-09-25 Gratuity]]. It's a different one. |
| 408 | %%** A flying one appears shortly after in [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-10-06 Compass]]. The navigator wants to stop and ask for directions when its navigation systems all go off-line. It lands in a major {{crapsack|world}} urban area. |
| 409 | %%* {{Hurricane Of|Euphemisms}} AccidentalInnuendo: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-14 Here]] and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-09-07 here.]] |
| 410 | %%* HypocriticalHumor: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-03-02 Stereotyping how they stereotype her.]] |
| 411 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-02-02 Seymour]] is [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-04-255 funny]] like this -- all the time. |
| 412 | %%* IcarusAllusion: The mini-arc "[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-09-13 Catch]]" -- it even ends in a postscript to Icarus story. |
| 413 | * IdiotBall: Devil Tech snatches up the ball and gleefully runs with it. One of the more blatant examples is its policy of installing unguarded computer data-ports on the exterior walls of all its facilities. |
| 414 | * IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-12-18 Baby Blue]] will destroy you. Otherwise, she won't do anything to Criminy because that would hurt Fuchsia. |
| 415 | %%* IgnoreTheFanservice: Criminy Ignores the HotLibrarian in [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-04-09 this]] strip. |
| 416 | * TheIlluminati: The Devil's surveillance definitely seems to invoke this trope. The surveillance cameras take the form of the Illuminati pyramid. |
| 417 | %%** Li'l Evil has made countless attempts to join. |
| 418 | * IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2004-01-02 Monique]], although it's more like "I have booty you must obey". |
| 419 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-12-03 Respect the poon!]] |
| 420 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: The FanGirl wants to be cool because Monique is. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-12-17 Monique handles it nicely.]] |
| 421 | * ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-12-31 Death fires two shots at MMXVI at intermediate-range and misses both times]], possibly giving MMXVI time for one last dodging maneuver before he goes out with a bang. |
| 422 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: |
| 423 | %%** Criminy, Jesus, Buddha (which for those two should go without saying), the cherubs. |
| 424 | ** If Criminy had only been a bit less Incorruptibly and Purely Pure, he might not have inadvertently broken Amber's heart in an early strip. |
| 425 | ** But above all, Pooch. He is the happiest, most positive, sensitive, good-natured thing in the world of Sinfest. The angels are occasional minor jerk-asses. |
| 426 | %%* IncrediblyLamePun: |
| 427 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-06-14 "That guy..."]] |
| 428 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-10-21 Idaho]]. |
| 429 | %%* InnocentInnuendo [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-09-07 this strip]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-14 and this strip]] |
| 430 | * InstantBandages: {{Parodied}}: After bringing down MMX, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-01-03 Death climbs out with these on his hat]]! |
| 431 | * InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Poor Squigley's fart heard around the world: |
| 432 | -->[[https://web.archive.org/web/20150905120137/http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2015-07-02 Poot Poot Poot Pooty Pooty Poot Poot Poot]]. |
| 433 | * TheInternetIsForPorn: Slick[[spoiler:'s SuperPoweredEvilSide]] and Squigley mostly are online because of this trope. Also, the Feminists try to put a stop to this, teaching about porn's harmful and degrading effects on women. |
| 434 | * InterspeciesRomance: |
| 435 | ** Criminy (human) and Fuchsia (succubus). |
| 436 | ** [[spoiler:The Devil (guess) and Lil' E's mother (human? Mother Nature?).]] |
| 437 | ** Monique (human) and Abby (succubus). |
| 438 | * IRememberItLikeItWasYesterday: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2017-05-20 Nana is thinking back]] about the youthful Lilith, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2017-05-15 who saw the good in everyone -- including]] TheDevil. |
| 439 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 440 | ** The Cartoonist's cat tries to bring down the instrument of punishment and enforcement. He brings down [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-11-07 the bookshelf on himself]] instead. |
| 441 | ** Fuchsia spent much of her time torturing Seymour so that his already fanatical beliefs would turn him into a paranoid monster so that the devil could more easily influence him (not that they considered him a threat, but more as a toy or a joke), but she was so successful that when she tries to HeelFaceTurn, Seymour's fanatical paranoia prevents him from seeing that she's changing into something better while he's being [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] into something worse by said paranoia. Since Seymour USED to be a better character, Fuchsia sometimes believes that he is right to condemn (she IS one of the people who helped to corrupt him) as [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-19 we see here.]] Basically, her past actions are stopping her from turning completely through Seymour's paranoia. All is not lost as Cupid literally shot love back into Seymour, so maybe he'll give her a chance. |
| 442 | ** [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-10-09 Xanthe described gender roles as a source of discontent and alienation]], however, it was exactly "enlightening" 'Nique that led to discontent and alienation of 'Nique, who actually stopped feeling comfortable in her life, descended into paranoia and was condemned by her fans as a result of a change in her views. Despite author's mockery, the same could be said about Slick who now, due to the change in 'Nique's ideals, lost an important friend. |
| 443 | %%* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: |
| 444 | %%** When [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-05-16 mistaken for Monique's retarded son]] by a security agent, Slick gets upset about the ''son'' part, not the ''retarded''. |
| 445 | %%** ''"[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-09-20 Diminutive?!]]"'' |
| 446 | %%* IThinkYouBrokeHim: "[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-01-04 Oops]], I broke Slicky [[RunningGag again]]". |
| 447 | %%* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: Averted for laughs when Seymour is trying to look up [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-06-13 how to fix a broken halo]]. |
| 448 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In one Sunday strip, Baby Blue holds off [[spoiler:killing Criminy after she realizes just how happy her former lover, Fuchsia, is with him.]] |
| 449 | * JerkAss: |
| 450 | %%** Slick, at his worst behavior. |
| 451 | ** Played for laughs with the Devil when he's up to his general douchebaggish behavior, and with God when he's mocking people with his hand puppets. |
| 452 | %%** Lil'E, pretty much all the time, [[spoiler:until he loses his memory and he's no longer a JerkAss]]. |
| 453 | ** Seymour, considered the biggest JerkAss in the comic, especially post 2010. Until late 2011, when he proved that he could befriend a confused demon, and that he would not hurt Lil' Evil when the latter was down. Even further after his encounter with Cupid and became more friendly (and goofier). |
| 454 | ** Glossy. However, unlike Seymour, she's always depicted as being right, even when saying the same things as Seymour. |
| 455 | * JerkassHasAPoint: |
| 456 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-08-28 Devil-Slick summed up Xanthe pretty well, even if it may not be the author's intent.]] |
| 457 | ** Seymour's words against Fuchsia. Calling her a monster who should go back to the Hell she belongs in is supposed to set him up as the {{Jerkass}} of the arc and make the reader root for the other party. But when said monster, instead of ignoring him or proving him wrong, enters into an UnstoppableRage, goes for the DisproportionateRetribution route and immediately tries to kill him, it makes the readers think he was actually right and Fuchsia's very poor anger management, added with the very poor value of life that ensues, makes her completely unsuited to live on Earth. |
| 458 | * {{Jerk Ass God|s}}: Subverted; the only character that he's consistently a JerkAss to is the Devil. God's hand puppet mockery can come off this way occasionally, although it's mostly played for laughs and some of His "victims" actually find the caricature amusing. |
| 459 | %%** God will, however, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-15 torment]] Slick occasionally. |
| 460 | %%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Percy |
| 461 | %%** Okay, Seymour USED to be better and seems to have TookALevelInKindness thanks to Cupid. It was way, WAY, over due. |
| 462 | %%* JetPack: Jesus has [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-04-26 one]]. |
| 463 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Possibly Nique, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-03-29 here.]] Also if [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-04-10 this strip]] has any bearing on canon, Xanthe has gone from simply wanting equality for women and for men to reject their Dudebro programming to saying men should be ''SILENCED'' period. |
| 464 | [[/folder]] |
| 465 | |
| 466 | [[folder:K-O]] |
| 467 | %%* KickMePrank: "Big D" once [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-01-22 did it to Slick]]. |
| 468 | %%* KickTheDog: |
| 469 | %%** Seymour, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-05-09 here]], and during the "Bad Behavior" strips. |
| 470 | %%** Devil Slick, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-03-10 here]] where he transfers the misery from Slick and him onto someone else. |
| 471 | * KickTheSonOfABitch: Seymour was abused, chased with fire, Bomf-ed, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2003-11-28 sneezed at by the Dragon]], tempted until his wire halo explodes (twice in a row), had it [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-01-11 set on fire]], The Devil [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-04-03 demonized]] him and Tangerine [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-07-10 demonized]] his ''hat''. And he not only deserved this treatment but directly brought on himself most of it. |
| 472 | * KingOfAllCosmos: {{God}} is presented as being quite the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, even asking Slick and Criminy to "pull my finger" in His first appearance. |
| 473 | * KnightOfCerebus: |
| 474 | ** The Trike Girl and her compatriots, while not villains and clearly intended to be protagonistic characters, also heralded in a more serious, issue-oriented side of the strip in earnest. |
| 475 | ** Xanthe, as the one who issued in the "Patriarchy" story arc. |
| 476 | * KnightTemplar: Seymour and the Sisterhood barring Nana (hacking fembots to go maverick and attempt to murder people in violation of the 1st law of robotics, calling God a dudebro, and saying [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-05-09 "Kill All Men"]] on multiple occasions). Seymour has however toned down considerably since [[TookALevelInKindness taking a level in kindness]] via Cupid's arrow |
| 477 | * LadyLand: The Feminists [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-06-26 make a Women Only Space.]] And [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-07-05 staunchly enforce]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-07-08 the "No Men" rule.]] |
| 478 | %%* LapPillow: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-01-23 Fuchsia and Criminy]] |
| 479 | %%* LargeHam: [[AuthorAvatar The cartoonist.]] "[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-01-30 NOBODY]] [[NoIndoorVoice CRAZIER]] [[SelfDeprecation THAN ME!]]" |
| 480 | %%* LaserGuidedKarma: Seymour literally becoming what he hates in "Bomf 4". |
| 481 | * LetsGetDangerous: |
| 482 | ** Slick has [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-07-03 decided to take on Sleaze]] (his demonic SuperpoweredEvilSide). |
| 483 | ** Tangerine, Lily, and their pet drone decide to [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-10-23 rescue Seymour from jail]]. |
| 484 | * LetsYouAndHimFight: The Devil eventually [[https://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2021-02-22 starts manufacturing]] "Partisan Hats", designed to keep people too busy fighting one another to pay attention to him, the ''real'' enemy. |
| 485 | %% * LighterAndSofter: A romantic arc from the late 2000s sealed the deal. Not that it's necessarily a bad or good thing. |
| 486 | %% ** For [[WatsonianVersusDoylist an in-universe explanation]], one could say it was thanks to [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-11-23 Buddha's zen-powered butterfly effect]] the way that Sunday strip ends. |
| 487 | * LiteralGenie: [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-12-24 2012-12-24: Dear Satan Claus]], Sleaze's Christmas Eve wish to Satan Claus to "Please bring me hot bitches" results in Cerberus with tail on fire appearing at his door. He quickly rewords his wish. |
| 488 | %%* LiteralMetaphor: |
| 489 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-07-27 "Today I'm going to wax my missile!"]] |
| 490 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-08-30 Done here with "wild oats."]] |
| 491 | %%** The consequence of Sleaze's wish for "hot bitches", above. |
| 492 | %%* LiteralSplitPersonality: Slick has a devil half (Sleaze) from being bomfed. |
| 493 | * TheLoinsSleepTonight: It can happen to anyone, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-09-25 BUT NOT UNCLE SAM!]] |
| 494 | * LonelyAtTheTop: The Devil is occasionally shown to be deeply unsatisfied with his lot. |
| 495 | * LonelyTogether: |
| 496 | %%** Seen [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-05 here]] and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-07-12 here]]. |
| 497 | ** This is perhaps the basis of Slick and Monique's friendship. They gravitated toward one another out of loneliness and have grown to be good friends as they accepted one another for how they are. |
| 498 | * LoonyFan: Lil'Evil and Seymour, in slightly different ways. Lil'E clearly has a raging crush on the Devil and desperately wants his approval, while Seymour is such a devoted goofball [[TheFundamentalist fundie]] that he regularly [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-10-02 fails to notice the actual Jesus]] since he's so busy shopping for Jesus merch. |
| 499 | %%** There's always one such clown -- [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-02-19 everywhere]]. |
| 500 | * LostAesop: Although metaphors mixing and conflicting with each others' meanings became a pretty common issue for the strip as it drifted more and more into social and political commentary, the absolute queen of them all has to be the 2020 New Year's Baby's subplot. Unlike most of the other "Year" characters, she was introduced at the beginning of the year as a baby and was taken in by the Devil, where she was raised as a celebrity spokeswoman for his aims as she aged into an adult form. The strip's apparent analogy for people thinking 2020 was an awful calendar year was that she begins aging past conventional attractiveness and people turn on her for no longer appearing in sexually objectifying ads, to the point of trying to kill her. While the commentary on sexual objectification could mean something, the problem is it's being applied to the AnthropomorphicPersonification of a particularly disliked ''calendar year'', and used to explain the dislike that in real-life was for reasons the strip never attempts to connect to her. In the end, the metaphors crash like a head-on collision and end up having no coherent message or meaning at all. |
| 501 | %%* LoveEpiphany: Possibly Criminy [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-25 in this strip]]. |
| 502 | * LoveTriangle: Fuchsia getting jealous of Amber when she returns into Criminy's life. She fears that Criminy will drop her in favor of Amber. |
| 503 | * LoveRedeems: |
| 504 | ** Fuchsia has gone from evil to PunchClockVillain due to her crush on Criminy and has even [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-04-25 contemplated]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-01-23 redemption]]. This has led her to start [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-08-08 caring for the damned]] and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-07-04 helping pigs stuck in trees after adventures on magical toilets]]. |
| 505 | ** This also seems to be at work with Baby Blue, albeit in a more subtle manner. Fuchsia reforming sparked her decision [[spoiler:to protect Fuchsia rather than remain truly loyal to the Devil. As a late example, she cuts the news-feed when Fuchsia appears on the villains' side from her perspective. Earlier, she observed [[SecretSecretKeeper but protected Abby and Monique's secret exit]] from the Devil's mansion.]] |
| 506 | * LukeIAmYourFather: For quite a while, it was implied that [[spoiler:[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-10-16 Big D was Little E's father]].]] More recently, this has been [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-12-11 made explicit]]. |
| 507 | %%* MadonnaWhoreComplex: They play with this at one point. |
| 508 | %%* MagicalNegro: Parodied in [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-11-12 this strip]]. |
| 509 | * {{Malaproper}}: Tangerine is known for those, such as "Jay-Zee" for Jesus. |
| 510 | %%* MaleGaze: Defied [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-03-03 here]]. |
| 511 | %%* MalevolentMutilation: Attempted, but [[SubvertedTrope thankfully subverted]] with [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-09-30 Lil' E]]. Could possibly cross over with SymbolicMutilation |
| 512 | * MamaBear: Fuchsia has a maternal bond with her pet Forky, and was ready to burn Little E's face off when he said he was going to mount it as a trophy. |
| 513 | %%* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Deconstructed [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-02-27 here]]. |
| 514 | %%** Tangerine could arguably qualify as this for Lil' E. |
| 515 | * MarijuanaIsLSD: Squigley appears at first to be subject to this, though it later becomes apparent that marijuana gives him actual powers, and flying around on his couch is neither a hallucination nor a metaphor. (He describes himself as a "shaman.") |
| 516 | %%* MarsNeedsWomen: |
| 517 | %%** The subject of a running gag, starting [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2004-08-17 here]]. Possibly the cutest was "[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-11-08 Emotopia]] needs [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama hope]]", but almost every character gets one, from planets that need [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2004-08-19 bacon]] to planets that need [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-08-17 health care]]. Even the artist himself gets [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-11-09 one]]. |
| 518 | %%** A couple of years earlier, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-07-20 inverted]]. |
| 519 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2004-11-19 Sextron Needs Nerds]] (they must be having ''tech'' problems). |
| 520 | %%** Perfectron [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-04-24 needs villains]]. |
| 521 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-08-14 Sleeptron Needs Awakening]]. |
| 522 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-07-16 Cultron Needs Conformists]]. |
| 523 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-16 Pimptopia Needs Bitches]]. |
| 524 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-07-30 Furrytopia needs savages]]. Or maybe it just needs a good ol' Bomf? |
| 525 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-02-14 Corruptron Needs Justice]]. |
| 526 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-05-01 Uranus Needs Gays]]. |
| 527 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-08-28 Orphantron Needs TLC]]. |
| 528 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-03-25 Dudetron Needs Sex Objects]]. Except the Dudetronian picked the ''wrong'' being [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-03-24 to approach at the worst possible time]]. |
| 529 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-06-29 Pedotron Needs Little Girls]]. |
| 530 | %%--->'''The Sisterhood:''' '''DIE.''' |
| 531 | %%* {{Masquerade}}: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-10-26 Cows]] on ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''. |
| 532 | %%* MatrixRainingCode: In the strips "[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-0549 The Sisterhood 5]], [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-0550 6]], & [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-0551 7]]" |
| 533 | * MediumAwareness: |
| 534 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-04-27 Good thing the River Lethe]] was near by, or else Slick might [[GoMadFromTheRevelation have had a problem there]]. |
| 535 | ** Slick [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-01-11 tries to read Squig's word bubble]], but the font is too small. |
| 536 | %%* MelancholyMoon: Well melancholy [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-04-25 stars]]. |
| 537 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: Thanks to Criminy's influence, Fuchsia is becoming this. She now sings songs to the damned and reads them stories. |
| 538 | * MoodWhiplash: In [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-01-11 this]] strp, Lil'E finally finds Tangerine after a long time looking for her, and is happy to know that yep, they're still friends! Next [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-01-12 strip]]...[[spoiler:They manage to stop a broken in despair Rogue Fembot from commiting seppuku.]] |
| 539 | * MoralityKitchenSink: Satan is evil, if [[AffablyEvil if affably so]], [[JerkassGods God is a jerk, though not evil]], [[JesusWasWayCool Jesus is definitely good]], the Dragon is definitely neutral and Buddha while [[ALighterShadeOfGray technically neutral is also definitely a nice guy]]. The mortals, angels and demons are all over the place. |
| 540 | %%* MoralityPet: |
| 541 | %%** Criminy to Fuchsia. |
| 542 | %%** Over time, Fuchsia herself seems to be becoming one to Baby Blue. |
| 543 | * MoreExperiencedChasesTheInnocent: In a rare example of an experienced female chasing an inexperienced male, Fuschia, a [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]], starts to [[GiveGeeksAChance pursue a relationship]] with the self-described nebbish bookworm Criminy [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe because he treated her kindly and seemed more interested in her as a person]] than he was in the sexual services she offered as part of her employ with The Devil. It begins her HeelFaceTurn, in fact. |
| 544 | * MostCommonSuperpower: Directly addressed: |
| 545 | -->'''Slick:''' Would you like to join our team? BE AN X-MAN?\ |
| 546 | '''Girl:''' But I don't have super powers.\ |
| 547 | '''Slick:''' You have breasts! |
| 548 | %%* MotivationOnAStick: The Devil does this to various characters for [[ForTheEvulz lulz]]. |
| 549 | %%* MurderTheHypotenuse: Possibly in Dig 7, Baby Blue looked like she had murderous intent when she was attacking Criminy. |
| 550 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: |
| 551 | ** Monique when she realizes she's [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-05 indirectly responsible for the damnation of countless men]]. |
| 552 | ** Baby Blue has this reaction [[spoiler:[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-20 after finding a note to her from Fuchsia after trashing Fuchsia's room.]]]] |
| 553 | ** Sam after he realizes he caused [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-12 that refugee camp.]] |
| 554 | ** The cartoonist ''himself'' has one, after his [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-07-22 previous morally questionable strips]] for the sake of shock value and cheap laughs are revealed to him by Blue. |
| 555 | %%* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: |
| 556 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2005-04-12 Slick can sense Monique's flirtation with another man.]] |
| 557 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-11-13 Nana senses tingling!]] |
| 558 | %%* NatureLover: Generally a good sign. |
| 559 | %%* NerdsAreSexy: Fuchsia [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-01-29 certainly thinks so.]] |
| 560 | %%* NerdsAreVirgins: Criminy in the most obvious way possible. Though we certainly get hints that [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-01-13 Fuchsia would quite like to change that...]] |
| 561 | %%* NeverMessWithGranny: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-09-09 Ee-yup.]] |
| 562 | %%* NewYearsResolution: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-01-14 Big D]]. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2004-01-02 Monique]]. |
| 563 | * NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: |
| 564 | ** Trike Girl's energy shield power seemed to have no point than to give her PlotArmor. There are theories however, that her shield works like ''Franchise/StarWars'' (blocks energy but useless against physical attacks). |
| 565 | ** Now her trike has the power to turn into a space ship. |
| 566 | * {{Ninja}}: The 'Ninja Theatre' arcs, which take place in a feudal Japanese alternate universe, staring Slick as a ninja named Wasabi, and Monique as the Geisha Yellowtail. |
| 567 | %%* NobleDemon: Fuchsia becomes a literal example after CharacterDevelopment. |
| 568 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Done at times for political satire, such as [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Barackstar]] challenging [[UsefulNotes/SarahPalin Sarah Piglin]] in a rock-off. |
| 569 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: The conflict between [=MAGA=] and Antifa [[https://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2021-01-04 is depicted]] as EvilVersusEvil, two different groups of {{Technically Living Zombie}}s who differ only in their branding. Likewise, both groups are shown to be relatively normal people, even capable of [[https://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2021-01-23 getting along]] when they haven't been manipulated into a mob frenzy. |
| 570 | * NoWomansLand: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2001-05-088 Slick tries to make one of these]] in response to the LadyLand the Feminists set up. Unfortunately most of the men who go in are lady-obsessed and as a result, hate the Men Only Space. |
| 571 | * NonindicativeName: "Sinfest" itself, considering how little sin actually appears in current strips. |
| 572 | %%* NoticingTheFourthWall: Done in [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-04-27 this comic.]] |
| 573 | %%* ObstructiveBureaucrat |
| 574 | * OhCrap: |
| 575 | ** Criminy gets a PG version when he realizes [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-24 just how far down he's gone]] |
| 576 | ** The Devil is coming. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-30 Oh crap]]. |
| 577 | ** And now Blue when she realizes that [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-0591 Fyoosh has apparently abandoned Satan's service.]] |
| 578 | ** Lil' E [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-12-03 got it]]. |
| 579 | ** At the Ball, TheDevil's [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2017-09-12 suspicions are aroused about Vainglorious and Fuchsia]]. |
| 580 | --->'''The Devil:''' ''[to Blue]'' Reopen the search for Fuchsia. What's her connection with Vain? Did he recruit her? What kind of art is she making? I want detailed reports.\ |
| 581 | '''Blue:''' Yes, Sir. ''[thinks]'' Shit. |
| 582 | %%* OldShame: InUniverse; [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-04-08 The artist]] now regrets the tone of his previous work. |
| 583 | * OnePersonBirthdayParty: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-06-10 It's revealed]] that this was one of many BreakTheCutie moments for Lil' Evil throughout his life. |
| 584 | * OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe: "Is that a telescope or are you just happy to see me?" -- "[[http://www.sinfest.net/btphp/comics/2009-06-14.gif It's a telescope.]]" |
| 585 | * OrderVersusChaos: Satan likes to frame his conflict with God in these terms, though it seems to be a lot messier than that. |
| 586 | %%* OrphanedPunchline |
| 587 | * OutOfFocus: Slick during the early Patriarchy Arc. Lampshaded in [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-01-03 this January 2012 strip]]. On the whole, Buddha, the dragon, the angels, the zombie, and to a lesser extent Criminy have basically disappeared ever since the Sisterhood showed up. |
| 588 | %%* OutOfGenreExperience: Lots of single-page "Sinfest in X" variants. "Ninja Theatre", Mecha Anime, Disney, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-03-12 Steampunk]]... |
| 589 | [[/folder]] |
| 590 | |
| 591 | [[folder:P-T]] |
| 592 | %%* PaedoHunt: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-06-29 Pedotron Needs Little Girls]]. |
| 593 | %%-->'''Youngest Sister:''' Die. |
| 594 | %%* PalsWithJesus: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-11-18 Buddha]]. |
| 595 | * ParallelPornTitles: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-02-20 Babygotback Mountain.]] |
| 596 | %%* PassThePopcorn: Incoming {{Fanservice}}? Cue Squig with [[OffscreenTeleportation inexplicable]] chair and popcorn. |
| 597 | %%* PetTheDog: |
| 598 | %%** From [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-28 The Devil]] of all people. |
| 599 | %%** And [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-09-25 he's done it before]] too. |
| 600 | %%** Seems [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-12-09 He's still got a few more moments]] in him. |
| 601 | %%* PigMan |
| 602 | %%* PlotTumor: "Patriarchy" and boy did it grow fast (to the point where the strip has become centered on Trike Girl's actions and the ramifications of said actions). Also lampshaded by Slick in January 2012. |
| 603 | %%** It did die down, although it reappeared with a vengeance around April or May, where as of July, around half of the strips (sometimes breaking to more than half) focus on this plotline, while the plots involving Storytime Zombie, Seymour, Lil'E, Tangerine, and Criminy have mostly disappeared. |
| 604 | * PocketDimension: One can enter several pocket dimensions by crossing an invisible barrier indicated by a sign. |
| 605 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-10-12 The "Trans State"]] [[GenderBender turns anyone into his/her opposite sex]]. |
| 606 | ** The [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-01-27 "Reality Zone"]] originally turned things and objects into more realistic versions. It is probably the most used of the {{Pocket Dimension}}s, going well beyond its initial purpose. |
| 607 | *** Ordinarily, (before the art shift that began around 2015), males were half the height of females. They become normal height in the Reality Zone. |
| 608 | *** [[PigMan Squigley]] becomes an actual pig, but he can still talk. |
| 609 | *** Control of {{Fembot}}s breaks down, and they are freed. Apparently, surveillance drones also break down. |
| 610 | *** The Reality Zone begins destroying pure-blooded demons who enter. (One starts to disintegrate; one's heart appears to stop; others are set on fire.) They recover if they get out in time. Half-demons appear to be unaffected. TheDevil [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-27 refuses to enter]]. Forky was apparently killed in the zone, but revived as soon as Lil'E took him out of the zone.\ |
| 611 | \ |
| 612 | Demons apparently can build up resistance to damage in the Reality Zone, by repeating spending longer and longer times in it. Two background demons have repeatedly challenged themselves and each other to enter, and see how long they can stay before the pain becomes intolerable. Fuchsia tried that, and eventually reached the point where she could paint an entire painting inside the Reality Zone. |
| 613 | *** MMXV, the Old Year, became a youngster, thanks to a bit of water summoned by TheDevil from the FountainOfYouth. He stole Nana's flying broom for the fun of it, but [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-01-03 flew over the Reality Zone]], thanks to the [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Failure-Is-The-Only-Option]] curse, and his youth was undone. |
| 614 | ** The Friendship Zone. |
| 615 | ** The Female-Only Zone. |
| 616 | * PoliceBrutality: |
| 617 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-10-11 Explicitly shown here.]] |
| 618 | ** Various strips have shown Death curiously commenting on repeated appearances of "unarmed black male" and their like. Some are police killings. |
| 619 | %%* PoliticiansKissBabies: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2004-07-15 Slick is up for this when running for president -- the baby is less agreeable.]] |
| 620 | %%* ThePowerOfFriendship: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-20 A subtle example...]] |
| 621 | * ThePowerOfLove: |
| 622 | ** The angels' glitter has more functionality than just "Brownie points". |
| 623 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-10-08 The last panel]] suggests the Devil's "re-demonizing" [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-10-03 of Fuchsia]] hasn't fully taken. |
| 624 | *** Her reaction to the "Spirit Fingers" of the damned confirms it. (From her horrified reaction, we can assume Blue taught them that, too) |
| 625 | *** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-08 It wouldn't be the first time]] The Devil's efforts have failed to revert Fyoosh. It's pretty much confirmed that [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-02-07 Criminy's the reason why.]] |
| 626 | * PragmaticVillainy: Devil Corp generally promotes misogyny, but within their own factories, they discourage it due to the fact that it holds up production and hurts their bottom line. |
| 627 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: Subverted in a Ninjapiece Theatre strip when Slick, the Pimp Ninja threatens Yellowtail (the Geisha Slut) with "I kill you so hard your ''ancestors'' will die!" |
| 628 | * PrecisionFStrike: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-02-10 "Aw HELL no!"]] [[spoiler:Mainly because it's ''Jesus'' saying this. [[MessianicArchetype JESUS.]] ]] |
| 629 | %%* ProducePelting: Monique gets a heck of a lot of this. |
| 630 | * ProtagonistCenteredMorality: One of the most frequent complaints aimed towards the Sisterhood and their allies. The strip constantly tries to paint their actions as heroic and morally correct, even when they come across as [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned extremists]] who are utterly convinced that their particular brand of feminism is right by default and treat anyone who doesn't immediately agree with them as either a clueless knucklehead or a misogynist. This isn't helped by the implication that their opinions are, in fact, [[AuthorTract Tatsuya Ishida's personal opinions]]. |
| 631 | ** One of the best examples as the strip ran on was after the strip began railing against "Wokeness", which was represented by "woke extremists" who are portrayed as slavering nutjobs that attack anyone who isn't "enlightened" to their point of view, but whose actions, and motives to some extent, are practically identical to the Sisterhood's, [[BeautyEqualsGoodness the only real difference being that the Sisterhood is mostly cartoony little girls and the "Woke" are all drawn as ghoulish and ugly]]. The use of "Anti-Nazi Goggles", which brainwashes people who wear them into thinking everyone around them is a Nazi is also eerily similar to the "Patriarchy Blockers" convincing any woman that wears them that everything around them is out to oppress them, and that for a long time after they first "awakened" Monique, she was basically rendered a paranoid, neurotic mess who could no longer maintain relationships with anyone she didn't agree with. Again, the only real difference in practice is which one the author agrees with. |
| 632 | %%* PublicDomainArtifact: {{Excalibur}}! |
| 633 | * PublicExposure: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-08-27 Criminy poses nude]] for Fuchsia's painting. After Fuchsia left {{Satan}}, Criminy encouraged Fuchsia to return to her original hobby of painting. |
| 634 | * {{Pun}}: |
| 635 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-01-21 Tampom poms in the unmanly part of the store]]. |
| 636 | ** [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-05-09 When life gives you demons]] make Demonade. |
| 637 | ** Vainglorious [[JumpScare jumps out]] at Lily as he [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2018-02-21 peruses Vainglorious's art]], giving him an Art Attack. |
| 638 | %%* PunchClockVillain: Literally in [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-04-26 this strip]]. |
| 639 | * PutOnABus: The Dragon, Buddha, and the Angels have basically disappeared ever since Xanthe and the Sisterhood took prominance. |
| 640 | %%* RagingStiffie: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-02-09 "He's here for you, too"]], indeed. |
| 641 | %%* RebusBubble: Prevalent in some of the later strips, especially the Sunday color strips, which usually don't have much written dialogue. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-01-06 This strip]] is a premium example. |
| 642 | %%* RecycledInSpace: A lot of one-page remake gags, like ''[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-02-11 Booty and the Beast]]'' or ''[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-04-12 Steampunk Jesus]]''. |
| 643 | %%* RedOniBlueOni: Fuchsia the Devil Girl and Baby Blue the Devil Girl. |
| 644 | * TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: |
| 645 | ** The Sisterhood is always on the side of good (done through chaos), with no ambiguity whatsoever in a world where more lawful characters are incompetent or aloof. |
| 646 | ** Although, this was notably averted once the George Floyd protests in 2020 happened in real life; despite voicing several causes the strip had previously expressed support for, the strip's commentary on the subject never acknowledged that aspect of the movement and exclusively portrayed them as a bunch of BombThrowingAnarchists who just wanted an excuse to destroy things for fun. |
| 647 | * RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-11-05 Here]]: |
| 648 | -->'''Percy:''' Is there anything in the world more ''miserable'' than a ''wet cat?''\ |
| 649 | '''Pooch:''' Ummmm... A frozen penguin? ... A shaved porcupine? Constipated skunk? ... A toothless beaver! |
| 650 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-10-24 Lil' E shouldn't have asked 'Nique]]. |
| 651 | %%* RightBehindMe: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-10-23 ...I mean, nice hellhole you got there.]] |
| 652 | %%* RosesAreRedVioletsAreBlue: |
| 653 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-02-02 Referenced near the start of the strip.]] |
| 654 | %%** Fuchsia writes one of these about Criminy [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-05-18 here]] behind the Devil's back. |
| 655 | * RuleThirtyFour: If it exists, you'll find porn of it. Even ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' and ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' '''[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-04-07 here]]''' |
| 656 | * RunningGag: Several: |
| 657 | ** Variations on MarsNeedsWomen |
| 658 | ** [[OrphanedPunchline You had to be there]] comics - discontinued |
| 659 | ** [[SoapOpera Sinfest Nights]] - discontinued |
| 660 | ** Ninja Theater - also discontinued, unfortunately |
| 661 | ** The [[Franchise/{{Batman}} <character> Signal]] |
| 662 | ** "Full Moon! Aaaagh! I'm turning into an [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent <x>]]". |
| 663 | ** Also notable is the "Sentence shared by separate characters over four panels" device. It's sometimes used for humour and sometimes for pathos. |
| 664 | ** Characters turning into kanji characters. |
| 665 | ** [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever "EEK! It's <blank>zilla]]!" Examples include Pigzilla, Pimpzilla, Bitchzilla, Fundiezilla, and Gayzilla. Usually defeated (or not) by an equivalent monster or robot. |
| 666 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-11-19 Telemarketers]]. |
| 667 | *** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-11-03 Who's behind all this crap?]] |
| 668 | ---->'''The Devil:''' Hello! |
| 669 | ** 'Nique being mistaken for a demon. Twice she intentionally posed as Booth Babe. Later both [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-01-24 Jesus]] and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-02-03 Devil]] confused her with one more Devil Girl. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-02-12 No idea why. So insulting.]] |
| 670 | ** Seymour running past Jesus without recognizing him. |
| 671 | ** A [[WindowPain rock flying through the window]] with a note attached announcing that the character's ''stereotype'' card[[note]]dudebro card, fundie card, strong women card, etc.[[/note]] is revoked[=/=]suspended. |
| 672 | ** Porn script readings. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-08-01 Possibly discontinued.]] |
| 673 | * RushedInvertedReading: In [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-04-30 this]] strip, Fuchsia out of awkwardness of her CanNotSpitItOut phase tried to pretend she's reading the book Criminy lent her, and not daydreaming about him (which is how she spent most of her time). |
| 674 | %%* SadisticChoice: She hasn't made it yet but [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-0544 recent events imply]] that Fuchsia is going to have make a decision eventually. |
| 675 | %%** [[spoiler:And so [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-06 she did]].]] |
| 676 | * SafeSaneAndConsensual: Subverted, as it invoked [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-03-26 in a way where it is only used for street harassment.]] Whether she enjoyes SSC BDSM or not, no woman is likely to enjoy being urged to "pick a safeword" by a guy she already said "no" to. |
| 677 | %%* ScalesOfJustice: They've been known to appear, typically in relation with Xanthe Justice; like [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2018-09-06 here]] and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2018-09-09 here]]. |
| 678 | * SceneryPorn: While it started out with black and white comic strips, in 2008 some [[ArtEvolution gorgeous full-colour, full page spreads started to appear]], sometimes with beautiful depictions of nature. |
| 679 | * SelfDeprecation: |
| 680 | -->'''Drone:''' Sinfest: Juvenile Humor. Lowbrow. Trashy. Cultural relevance: Low. |
| 681 | * SexIsEvil: ZigZagged during the early years of the comic but played '''very''' straight later on. |
| 682 | ** In the early strips, it's associated with Satan, and seems to be opposed to God, but [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks that doesn't mean much in this setting]]. On the other hand though, Criminy and Fuchsia are both the most loving couple but they're also [[ChastityCouple the least intimate]], and Slick seems to love Monique more after he gives up trying to get in her pants. Monique herself is also [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-05 frequently guilt-tripped]] for [[SlutShaming her provactive and flirty behavior]]. |
| 683 | *** On the first hand again, Fuchsia and Baby Blue are gay-for-pay with each other and are clearly good friends (though they're not actually in love with each other...) |
| 684 | ** Later on in the strip, the Sisterhood would constantly proclaim pornography as evil, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-07-14 which Tat seems firmly to believe.]] Also, "[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-08-20 Female Friendly porn]]" will land you in "Sinner Friendly Hell". This opinion would continue, even into the post-Sisterhood era. |
| 685 | * SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: In a series of strips where Monique dressed as a Gypsy girl, at one point she ran into [[TheFundamentalist Seymour]], who [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-13 accused her of inflaming lust]]. She paraphrases Matthew 18:9 to {{impl|iedTrope}}y that Seymour's just as inflamed. |
| 686 | * SexySantaDress: 'Nique, Fyoosh, and Blue wear them [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hbqFTPY0F3w/UNqwZvaJcVI/AAAAAAAAYzo/XebGLjAqeRY/s640/image001.png for one Christmas arc]], though the devil girls are technically Satan's little helpers... |
| 687 | * ShootTheShaggyDog: PlayedForLaughs in this strip where [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-04-29 Criminy is reading to Tomey]]: |
| 688 | -->'''Criminy:''' And so he made his way out of Hell and returned to his beloved. And together they vowed to live happily ever after.\ |
| 689 | '''Tomey:''' ''[jumps up and flames]'' But then suddenly '''ZOMBIES''' appeared and '''ATE THEIR BRAINS!'''\ |
| 690 | '''Criminy:''' Must you kill off '''EVERYONE'''?\ |
| 691 | '''Tomey:''' ''[chuckling]'' Death! Death! Death! |
| 692 | * ShoutOut: |
| 693 | ** A [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecatory]] one, considering the author's admission to it being an influence, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-24 to Calvin and Hobbes]]. |
| 694 | ** A later strip has Squigley fly past a boy and tiger in a box while he's on one of his drug induced couch flights. |
| 695 | ** The October 30th strip references ''Nighthawks'', a 1940s painting. |
| 696 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-10-31 This strip alone]] has more shout outs than you can shake a stick at. |
| 697 | ** To ''Literature/WheresWaldo'' [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-10-25 here]] |
| 698 | ** To ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' in the Reality Zone [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-08-01 here]], as well as ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]]. |
| 699 | ** Slick's words [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-01 in the second panel here]] are taken from the chorus to "Message in a Bottle" by Music/ThePolice. |
| 700 | ** The book Criminy gave Fuchsia, the one thing she felt important enough to take with her when she left the Devil's mansion, is a Shout Out to ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. |
| 701 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-08-11 The devil]] needs some peace and security to watch ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Careful that they don't just [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-0508 take over]], though. Lastly, a Horse, a Unicorn, and a Pegasus all in the same panel, in [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-0523 Paradise.]] |
| 702 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-02-08 The church's art]] has an [[WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost unusual take]] on the "Holy Ghost" portion of the Christian Trinity. |
| 703 | %%* ShowWithinAShow: "Ninja Theatre" is [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-08-26 Slick's project]]. |
| 704 | * ShutUpHannibal: Seymour's KnightTemplar passive-aggressive ways pushes Fuchsia's BerserkButton, leading her into a DespairEventHorizon. As Seymour tries to [[EvilGloating say a sermon,]] Criminy promptly tells him that he has had ENOUGH. |
| 705 | * SickeninglySweethearts: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2001-12-08 Ezekiel and Ariel]], a pair of little angels that also like harassing the Devil. |
| 706 | * SidingWithTheSuffering: Fuchsia, a succubus who worked for The Devil. Initially, she was a DepravedBisexual who would conduct [[GirlOnGirlIsHot make-out sessions with Blue]] in an effort to tempt and corrupt individuals like Squigley to the Devil. One of her other duties involved stabbing at damned souls with a pitchfork. However, after meeting Criminy, she undergoes a HeelFaceTurn, and is aghast at the idea of tormenting the damned souls. So, when no one is looking, she starts reading them stories, instead. Until, one day, she's decided she's had enough, and walks out of the Devil's mansion, blowing up security cameras as she goes. |
| 707 | %%** Also, '''[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-04 this]]'''. |
| 708 | %%* SignificantHaircut: 'Nique gets one [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-0574 here]]. We'll see if it sticks. |
| 709 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Despite the many ''many'' changes over the decades, ''Sinfest'' has generally fallen on the cynical side of this scale, though to what extent has varied in those decades. At the start, the comic sat at the cynical end, but slowly started moving towards the idealistic side thanks to an increasing amount of strips meant to be cute, heartwarming or emotional. This changed however with the coming of the Sisterhood Arc, which placed the strip very firmly back into the cynical side of the scale. And it's more or less stayed there ever since. |
| 710 | %%** The scale used to sit at the cynical end, but slowly started working its way up to the idealistic side thanks to an ever increasingly amount of strips that can't help but tug at your heartstrings. |
| 711 | %%** Sometimes Pooch will wander around looking at a couple of things, and marvel in wonder, followed by Percy, who will look at the same or similar things in fear and anger. For example, Pooch sees nature as an artist, and Percy sees nature as an enemy. |
| 712 | %%* SoapBoxSadie: The Sisterhood. |
| 713 | * SoBeautifulItsACurse: Monique. Half the time she's flaunting it, and the other half she's mourning the consequences of having dudes fall for her left and right, especially when it leads them straight to Hell...[[YouAreWorthHell literally]]. |
| 714 | %%* SomethingElseAlsoRises: |
| 715 | %%** Slick and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-055 Dilbert's ties.]] |
| 716 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-14 Criminy and his telescope]] |
| 717 | %%--->'''Baby Blue:''' The Force is strong with this one....[[SmokingHotSex I need a cigarette.]] |
| 718 | %%** As well as; [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-07-27 this]]. |
| 719 | * SpaceWhaleAesop: |
| 720 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-0534 A public service announcement]]. |
| 721 | ** Played straight and combined with a FantasticAesop with the fembots. Buying one is not only evil and sexist, but will also lead to violence. |
| 722 | %%* SpeechBubblesInterruption |
| 723 | * {{Squee}}: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-12-25 Apparently Satan likes]] ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. |
| 724 | %%* StalkerWithACrush: Fuchsia becomes one for a while after she starts to become enamored of Criminy. |
| 725 | * StatusQuoIsGod: |
| 726 | ** It seems that Tatsuya will NEVER resolve any of the [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]] between Slick and 'Nique. |
| 727 | ** As far as Slick and 'Nique, perhaps [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-07-12 this is why]]. Not that 'Nique didn't express much the same sentiments herself [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-03-20 earlier]]... |
| 728 | * StorefrontTelevisionDisplay: ''Sinfest'' loves to have characters walk past rows of televisions displaying whatever Tatsuya currently has issues with. |
| 729 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike: During a bout of Illuminati-fueled paranoia, Slick builds a pillow fort to protect himself. When Squigley shows up to check on him, he's very disappointed in Slick... Because everybody knows you gotta use couch cushions. |
| 730 | %%* StrawmanPolitical: Several cases, most notably Little Evil. |
| 731 | * StrawFeminist: Utilized frequently to depict aspects of feminism the author disagrees with as dangerous and counterproductive. Sex-positive feminism is shown as largely for male gratification and so is third-wave feminism to different degrees. Trans-inclusive feminists are all depicted as ugly and whiny; complaints about misgendering are largely dismissed as nonissues. |
| 732 | * StrawMisogynist: Slick and the Devil have been the most prominent examples and are largely PlayedForLaughs. Straw Misogynists become quite a bit more prominent in the Sisterhood storyline. They also get used to attack those who dislike the Sisterhood. |
| 733 | %%* {{Stripperific}}: The Succubi. Duh. |
| 734 | * SubliminalSeduction: All the time. "[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2003-11-01 Special messages]]" on TV. Also, Monique [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-02-07 talked backward]], just to scare Seymour. |
| 735 | * SuccubiAndIncubi: |
| 736 | ** The succubi started out tempting humans with lesbian trysts, and were often seen attending the Devil. Succubi still take that role occasionally. |
| 737 | ** Baby Blue may still be a succubus, but that's not been shown on screen since her promotion to TheDevil's office manager and her corresponding outfit shift to conservative, modest, SexySecretary[[note]]For succubi, and for her previous outfit, SexySecretary is conservative and modest.[[/note]] business suit.[[note]]She ditched "Baby" from her name in the process.[[/note]] |
| 738 | ** In fact, she receives a [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2015-08-06 sample creepy crawler]] (pun intended) drone, along with sample footage. Her response: |
| 739 | ---->'''Blue:''' Milton... you [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] creep! |
| 740 | %%* SummonBackupDancers: Done [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-02-17 here.]] |
| 741 | %%* SummoningRitual: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-0532 Interrupted.]] |
| 742 | %%* SunglassesAtNight (Slick) |
| 743 | %%* SuperDeformed [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2003-07-08 Chibi Sinfest]] |
| 744 | * SweetPollyOliver: |
| 745 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-20 here]]. |
| 746 | ** Then [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-21 this]] acknowledges the [[AttractiveBentGender odd attractiveness]] of CrossDresser Monique ("Androgynique"), possibly proving that EvenTheGirlsWantHer (which is ironically the most success any of the characters -- except [[CluelessChickMagnet of course]] for [[NerdsAreSexy Criminy]] -- have had with women). |
| 747 | %%* TakeThat: |
| 748 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-10-26 This strip.]] |
| 749 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-07-23 This one, too.]] |
| 750 | * TakeThatAudience: The Xanthe and Sisterhood storylines have proven controversial among some members of the fanbase. A number of the strips make fun of them: |
| 751 | ** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-01-30 The Patriarchy]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-02-20 filter strips]] portray anyone who doesn't like Xanthe or the Sisterhood arc as self serving misogynists |
| 752 | ** [[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-02-23 This strip]] makes fun of the fact that many of those complaining haven't stopped reading the comic yet. |
| 753 | * TakeThatCritics: |
| 754 | ** Tats is fond of labeling anyone who dislikes Xanthe, the Sisterhood, or the Patriarchy arc as a StrawMisogynist. |
| 755 | ** Taken to extremes in the [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2019-06-13 latest comics.]] Tat is now out and proudly TERF, and his latest comics pretty much outright state that anyone criticizing him or giving him grief over it is a Johnbie and hence part of the problem. |
| 756 | ** In 2022 he took to including very open slams against Website/{{Reddit}}, possibly because of the relentless mocking the strip now receives on the Sinfest subreddit. |
| 757 | %%* TakingTheBullet: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-02-19 Crimey]] for Fuchsia, although I think Cupid was aiming for him. |
| 758 | %%* TalkingInYourDreams |
| 759 | * TeamSwitzerland: Buddha acts as a neutral third party to God and the Devil. He'd be AboveGoodAndEvil if he weren't one of the nicest characters in the strip. |
| 760 | * ThemeNaming: The succubi are named after their hair colors. |
| 761 | * ThreeLawsCompliant: {{Defied|Trope}} when Curly reprograms a group of Fembots, leading them to attack the staff at the Fembot factory. |
| 762 | %%* ThroughHisStomach: Subverted [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-12-26 here]]. |
| 763 | * TinyGuyHugeGirl: |
| 764 | ** Slick is ''short.'' Also, Fuchsia and Criminy. Both are taller in the [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-07-24 Reality]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-10-24 Zone]]. |
| 765 | ** Actually applies to most of the core male cast -- Slick, Squiggley, Criminy, Seymour and Lil' Evil are roughly all half the size of the women -- with the exception of the Devil (and obviously God). Oddly enough, the male supporting cast (Jesus, Uncle Sam, etc) are all of normal height. |
| 766 | ** In the reality zone, they are the exact same size as the girls. Much more realistic. |
| 767 | %%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: When Monique and Absinthe hang out together. |
| 768 | * TookALevelInBadass: |
| 769 | ** It looked as if Criminy was about to kill Seymour. Even more so now that he is going into the very maw of Hell itself for Fuchsia. Go get her Criminy!! Now, even after suffering a long fall, he's managed to fight off a winged pitchfork from hell [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-26 with a freakin shovel.]] And then [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-10-03 uses same flying pitchfork to make his getaway]]. "Punch it, forky!" |
| 770 | ** Fuchsia herself has taken one and decided she's not going to hide her relationship with Criminy any longer. She even blows up the Devil's security alarms as she proceeds to march out of the mansion. Granted, Fuchsia always had that kind of power, but she's also always been shown to cringe at the thought of having to face her boss. |
| 771 | %%* TookALevelInJerkass: Seymour after the Bad Behavior series. |
| 772 | * TookALevelInKindness: |
| 773 | %%** Slick. To some degree, Monique too. |
| 774 | ** Seymour [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-10-23 also]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-10-24 counts]] ever since his [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-10-04 run-in]] with Cupid. Crosses over with becoming more hilarious by result, though if all it took was [[ThePowerOfLove love]] to help him become a better person, [[FridgeHorror one wonders what happened to the guy...]] |
| 775 | * TortureTechnician: Baby Blue gets creative sometimes. See: CoolAndUnusualPunishment. Chances are, all the torturers but Fuchsia (now) can be that way. |
| 776 | * TrainingMontage: Seymour [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-06-05 buffs up]] after Monique calls him on his gender confusion rant. |
| 777 | %%* TranslationTrainwreck: InUniverse example [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-07-25 in this strip.]] |
| 778 | * {{Troll}}: |
| 779 | %%** God's Devil Puppet. |
| 780 | ** Baby Blue's method of choice for causing trouble. She always has the right thing to say or do to get under people's skin. Her favorite target is Seymour, not that he doesn't [[KickTheSonOfABitch deserve it]]. |
| 781 | * {{Tsundere}}: Percival. He just can't admit how much he likes stuff. Including Pooch. |
| 782 | [[/folder]] |
| 783 | |
| 784 | [[folder:U-Z]] |
| 785 | %%* {{Ubermensch}} -- or rather Uberboy |
| 786 | %% |
| 787 | %% I suspect he's meant to be Li'l Evil, but I'm not at all sure. This really needs context, and should probably go into the Character section. |
| 788 | %% |
| 789 | %%* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-12-04 You can stand under my umbrella]]. |
| 790 | * TheUnfairSex: ...is the new fair. Since the Sisterhood appeared, the strip runs on this, depicting ''every'' man as a misogynistic jerk and ''every'' woman as a poor victim if any conflict arises. Even the Hell Girls are now characters much more moral and sympathetic than males, and as for Buddha and Jesus, we're simply not seeing much of them these days. |
| 791 | * UnresolvedSexualTension: |
| 792 | ** Between Slick and 'Nique. Squigley prefers to [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2001-04-29 phrase it]] in [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-10-06 more straightforward]] terms, though. |
| 793 | ** It was implied that [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-01-16 God did make Monique to be Slick's companion]] and even she was ready to get the call, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-01-18 the devil girls keep her from it]]. |
| 794 | %%* UnsoundEffect: All over it -- [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2001-06-29 here]], [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-23 here]], [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-07-03 here]], [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-11-02 here]], and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-10-07 here]]. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-04-14 Explore Explore]]! |
| 795 | * UnwantedAssistance: Fyoosha has tried on-and-off to get Blue to reform as well. The first attempts were shot to hell, and Baby has lost all patience with the concept of redemption. Fuchsia won't take the hint. |
| 796 | %%* VaginaDentata: The Fan Girl has been making comics about this, she even made them detachable. |
| 797 | %%* VillainousCrush: Fuchsia to Criminy. Starts her development into an AntiVillain. |
| 798 | %%* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-04-22 Observe.]] |
| 799 | * VisibleSilence: In [[https://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2018-03-19 2018-03-19]], Squiggly is scared into silence, represented with "..." after seeing Bondage Guy's MatrixRainingCode of death skulls and: |
| 800 | --> [[AC:First Rule of Patriarchy]]\ |
| 801 | [[AC:You do not talk about Patriarchy]] |
| 802 | %%* TheVoiceless: Buddha. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-01-05 Or is he?]] Which is weird, because he started out having a voice when he was introduced. |
| 803 | * WalkingTheEarth: After some [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-08-29 coercion]], Squig does this during an arc beginning late in October, 2010. In fact, he walks through [[ShoutOut a number of other comics]]. |
| 804 | * TheWarRoom: Hell's control room is shown [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-07-03 here]]. |
| 805 | * WaxingLyrical: Several |
| 806 | ** "You're like a butterfly. A wild butterfly. I will collect you and capture you." |
| 807 | ** "You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you." |
| 808 | ** "Lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice, oh, and it lights up the night...and you see your gypsyyy..." |
| 809 | * WellDoneSonGuy: As it turns out, this is a lot of what drives [[spoiler:[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-12-11 Lil' E.]]]] |
| 810 | %%** The reason he was abandoned by his father [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-12-11 here]] |
| 811 | %%*** Though he may not recall just why he is so desperate for that person's approval, considering how young he seems to have been when they stopped living as father and son. |
| 812 | ** Some of the Devil's interactions with the "Puppet-master in the Sky" seem like this turned sour. |
| 813 | %%* WeirdTradeUnion: |
| 814 | %%-->[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-04-19 "Oh, Hi. We're Unionized now." "We want a raise."]] |
| 815 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: For all his JerkAss KnightTemplar behavior, Seymour ''does'' mean well. Unfortunately his methods are fundamentalist and do not allow for differing points of view. |
| 816 | %%** The Sisterhood as well, despite their admirable goals. |
| 817 | * WhamEpisode: |
| 818 | %%** After Lil E gets [[EasyAmnesia his mind wiped by the River Lethe]], Baby Blue pulls up his history on 'Wickedpedia' showing a flashback that [[spoiler:[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-09-25 strongly implies that he's Satan's son. In other words, Lil'E is the AntiChrist.]]]] |
| 819 | %%** [[spoiler:[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-06 Fuchsia has left the building.]]]] |
| 820 | %%** [[spoiler:[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-12-04 So has Baby Blue.]]]] |
| 821 | %%** [[spoiler:[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-12-02 Slick begins realizing what's going on with his... other self.]]]] |
| 822 | %%** [[spoiler:[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2016-11-29 The near death]] [[RuleOfSymbolism of Liberty]]]] |
| 823 | %%** [[spoiler:[[http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2017-11-30 Sleaze Has Left The Building...]]]] |
| 824 | %%* WhatBeautifulEyes: Criminy, according to Fuchsia. |
| 825 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The strip zig-zags this with the fembots in a somewhat disturbing way. They were first introduced during the feminist era as a sign of women's objectification who the Sisterhood were determined to reprogram for their own ends. There were several who broke free of their initial programming and even received a BecomeARealBoy storyline. But at some point during the "Anti-Woke" era, the strip suddenly dropped the whole idea of them being humanlike like a rock, to the point that they're now almost exclusively portrayed as the mindless underlings of the Devil whose existences don't matter, and the idea of attempting to reprogram or liberate them is never brought up again. To illustrate the contrast in how this trope was portrayed with the fembots: The strip in 2014 where the Patriarchy sends an assassin fembot to kill a fembot who went rogue and decided to take the "Kill All Men" motto seriously (then detonates the assassin fembot when she refuses) was portrayed as a heinous act on par with murder. The strip in 2020 where Hekate euthanizes the three fembots she took in because they "went Woke" and started using straw progressive language was portrayed as, at worst, a difficult but justified ShootTheDog moment. |
| 826 | %%* WhenIWasYourAge: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-10-13 Uncle Sam to Slick]] -- who asks him about the uphill both ways. |
| 827 | %%* WickedCultured: Satan |
| 828 | %%** Baby Blue pulls up [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-09-25 Little Evil's entry on Wickedpedia.]] |
| 829 | %%*** Fyoosh deletes hers when she quits. |
| 830 | * WindowPain: A RunningGag of a rock flying through the window with a note attached announcing that the character's ''stereotype'' card[[note]]dudebro card, fundie card, strong women card, etc.[[/note]] is revoked[=/=]suspended. Like with Seymour [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-10-15 here]]. |
| 831 | %%* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: A TV does this after seppuku. |
| 832 | * TheWorldIsJustAwesome: There's a few moments like this and thankfully, they tend to be in the Sunday color strips, like [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-0509 this one.]] Also, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-10-273 this.]] |
| 833 | * WrenchWench: The feminist girls built a [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-07-15 playground]] in one night. |
| 834 | * WriterOnBoard: In all honesty, the strips featuring the Sisterhood tend to read more like a [[AuthorTract feminist tract]] than anything else. |
| 835 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-07-22 This strip]] could explain a lot, [[CreatorBreakdown if taken as a direct metaphor]]. |
| 836 | %%** This has been going on for years, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-09-14 ever since Obama was running for president]]. |
| 837 | * WrongContextMagic: The word "magic" is never used, but Squigley's shamanic powers are completely different from anything demonstrated by angels or devils. |
| 838 | %%* {{Yandere}}: Fuchsia seems to be one given what she says in [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-07-12 this comic]]. She has since gotten better. Possibly Baby Blue in a DepravedBisexual example. |
| 839 | %%* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: |
| 840 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-28 How]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-01-11 Criminy]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-28 regards]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-10-25 Ms. Fuchsia.]] |
| 841 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-05 When the Devil guilts Monique for sending men to Hell]], Slick tries [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-10 to cheer]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-17 her up]]. It doesn't take, unfortunately. |
| 842 | %%* YouAreWhatYouHate: Arguably the author itself. |
| 843 | * YouAreWorthHell: A ''literal'' example. Better in context, but even out of it, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-20 aw....]] |
| 844 | -->'''Fuchsia:''' Did you really come down here to save me?\ |
| 845 | '''Criminy:''' Yes. Well, ''no''. Not to ''save'' you... Just to ''be'' with you.\ |
| 846 | '''Fuchsia:''' [[TheGlomp *GLOMP*]] Even better! |
| 847 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-15 Slick's opinion of Monique]] could be interpreted as this. |
| 848 | %%* YouHaveFailedMe: Blue [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-09-23 is utterly terrified]] of this reaction from TheDevil upon his return. Fortunately {{averted}}. |
| 849 | %%* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-05 That's]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-12-12 clever.]] Guilt Trip, much? |
| 850 | %%* YourMom: |
| 851 | %%** Used by the embodiment of eastern religions [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2003-12-17 Here]]. |
| 852 | %%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-06-15 Oh snappeth!]] |
| 853 | %%* YuriFan: Slick and Squigley, which, in Slick's case, allowed him to come to terms with losing Monique. |
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