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6	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/templar_arizona_02x059.gif]]
7	[[caption-width-right:350:Reagan recommends the scientific method]]
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9	->'''Scipio:''' That is absolutely the most evil thing I've ever seen you do
10	->'''Reagan:''' Bullshit. I ate that panda.
11	->'''Scipio:''' That was not a panda and you know that was not a panda.
12	->'''Reagan:''' I dunno, tasted pretty cute.
13	-->-- ''Templar Arizona'', chapter one "The Great Outdoors"
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15	''[[http://www.templaraz.com Templar Arizona]]'' is a long form full page sepia toned webcomic by the artist C. Spike Trotman. The comic takes place in a fictional version of Arizona, in a city that, if it existed in our world, would be in or near the Navajo reservation and has a that-world-only river, the Phocas, cutting through it that has been dammed upstream to the point of being non-existent in the town itself.
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17	All of this and everything else shown so far has been heavily implied to be [[ChekhovsArmoury relevant]]. Someday.
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19	Although the comic takes place in arguably a fantasy world it is better described as ''AlternateHistory'', one in which perhaps a few wars didn't go the same way as they did here, but the base culture and the basic foundations of reality are the same as in reality.
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21	[[WordOfGod Self described]] as an exercise in decompressed storytelling, it has an in-comic timeline of less than a month not including the flashbacks and the intermissions that take place at unspecified times in the {{Canon}}. The comic is available for free online and print editions that can be bought direct from Spike and, for now, through Diamond publishing. ''Templar Arizona'' has won Web Cartoonist Choice Awards for Character Design and Character Writing.
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23	In 2015, the comic got knocked offline by technical problems and is yet to be restored.
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25	[[AC:The chapters so far released are:]]
26	* 01 The Great Outdoors
27	* Intermission: The Sincerists
28	* 02 The Mob Goes Wild
29	* Intermission: Meet the Elliotts
30	* 03 And a Stick to Beat the Devil With
31	* Intermission: Little Cairo.
32	* 04 Trouble Every Day
33	* Intermission: Employee Apreciation
34	* 05 Lit
35	* Intermission
36	* 06: Creative Fiction
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39	!!''Templar Arizona'' contains examples of:
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41	%%* AccidentalPervert
42	%%* ActualPacifist
43	%%* AffablyEvil[=/=]FauxAffablyEvil.
44	* AlternateHistory: At some point, possibly ongoing, there is or was a guerilla war in Australia between the descendants of the colonists and the natives. WordOfGod is that the Nile Revivalists were founded in 1911 as a reaction to British colonialism.
45	%%* AmbiguouslyBrown: "Templar Brownish"
46	%%* AnimalWrongsGroup
47	%%* AttentionWhore: Curio.
48	%%* BandOfBrothels: The Doves.
49	%%* BelligerentSexualTension: Reagan and Scipio.
50	* BerserkButton:
51	** Don't try to dilute Barney John's movement with [[http://templaraz.com/?p=1458 publicity]] [[http://templaraz.com/?p=1469 stunts]].
52	** Likewise, you do not mess with [[http://templaraz.com/?p=1377 Gene's video games]].
53	** [[spoiler: Ben of all people who [[http://templaraz.com/2011/11/16/chapter-5-lit-page-128/ gauges out E.J.'s eye after E.J. pistol whips him.]] ]]
54	%%* BigFun: Also Reagan.
55	%%* BlackAndNerdy: Scipio
56	* BloodSport: Diesel, some kind of no-foul illegal street lacrosse/hockey/rugby hybrid
57	%%* BoisterousBruiser: Reagan
58	%%* BrattyTeenageDaughter: [[http://templaraz.com/2006/12/21/020x031/ Epiphany]], and [[http://templaraz.com/2008/08/15/030x095/ Antoinette]]. And while neither of them are his daughter Scipio has to deal with them both, poor bastard.
59	%%* BrutalHonesty: The Sincerists hat.
60	%%* CasaLaneParenting: How Gene is taking care of Zora
61	%%* CityOfAdventure
62	%%* ChekhovsGun
63	%%* ChekhovsArmoury
64	%%* ChildSoldiers: fought in Australia's guerilla war
65	%%* CollectorOfTheStrange: Dr. Bash.
66	%%* ComingOfAgeStory
67	%%* CountryMouse: Morgan
68	%%* CrazySurvivalist : The Jakes
69	%%* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[http://templaraz.com?p=1379 Gene]]. Big time.
70	%%* {{Cult}}: A guide to Templar's various subcultures can be found [[http://ironcircus.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Templar_Subcultures here]].
71	* CultureClash: Tuesday and Moze when she finds out he has a child fiancee due to an ArrangedMarriage back in Egypt that he's never actually met. Doesn't help that she's 11 although they won't actually get married until she's 18.
72	%%* CuteAndPsycho: Curio displays some of this personality type.
73	* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Andrew Pierce, Ben's editor, reveals himself as the '''king''' of this from page one:
74	--> "If you '''ever''' hand me some fucking travesty about peyote and quaaludes and Mexican transvestites, I will '''strangle''' you like a goddamn '''parakeet'''. I will twist your head '''off. Clean. Off.''' And I will do it over the '''phone'''. Everyone will be '''amazed'''.
75	** Reagan's fury when Zora turns up at Scipio's door step when she should be in school fits here, too:
76	--> "Gonna get so many pants pissed ain't nobody gonna bug you an' yer ol' man 'til yer in grad school."
77	%%* DecompressedComic
78	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Zebulon
79	%%* DesertPunk
80	%%* EvilMatriarch: Feather
81	%%* EyesAlwaysShut: Moze
82	%%* EyeScream: [[spoiler: EJ]] gets one from [[spoiler: Ben]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes of all people.]]
83	%%* FantasyCounterpartCulture
84	%%* FictionalMedia
85	%%* {{Flashmob}}
86	%%* GentleGiant: Scipio who could also be considered a GeniusBruiser. Moze also qualifies.
87	%%* GeographicFlexibility
88	%%* GutFeeling: Flannery about Gordon.
89	%%* InnocentlyInsensitive: Mesmer.
90	* InsistentTerminology: Tuesday Pryor does not dance naked, she does ''freeform naturalist eurythmy.''
91	%%* IntergenerationalFriendship: The Elliotts.
92	%%* ItsAllAboutMe: Orpha.
93	%%* KavorkaMan: Moze
94	* KissingCousins: Moze's grandfather tries to get him to court some of the temple dancers. Moze objects on the basis of their being both his cousins and underage.
95	%%* LargeHam: Regan ohsomuch. Also Orpha
96	%%* MamaBear: Feather towards Gene, also Reagan towards Zora.
97	%%* ManInAKilt: Scipio
98	* MeaningfulName: Curio. She asks a lot of questions.
99	* MundaneFantastic: Some of the weirder elements of Templar go largely unnoticed by the residents.
100	%%* MrFanservice
101	%%* MyBelovedSmother: Gene's mom Feather
102	* NakedOnArrival: Ben SleepsInTheNude and the first time we see him, he's getting out of bed. Draw your own conclusions. He gets dressed as soon as he's up, though.
103	%%* ObfuscatingStupidity: Epiphany, and Feather when she's talking to Ben. She does it a little too well and Ben suspects she doesn't like him.
104	%%* ProfessionalSlacker: Mesmer.
105	%%* QuickNip: "The State v. Regan Mancuso exhibit A"
106	%%* RefugeInAudacity: [[http://templaraz.com/2011/10/04/chapter-5-lit-page-126/ this]]. Although since it EJ we're dealing with it may be a case of TooDumbToLive instead.
107	* ScaryBlackMan:
108	-->'''Regan''':"An' I'm sure bein' a Gigantic Black Man don't got nothin' t' do with it, gi-GAN-tic"
109	** He has a dadgum chicken as a pet. That he carries around. He has the soul of a a scrawny white guy. He just happens to be large and black.
110	%%* ShellShockedVeteran: The aforementioned ChildSoldier.
111	* ShowWithinAShow: Nikki Collision's Damage Report, Mondays with Tuesday, In The Coliseum with Claudius R. Graves.
112	%%* SocialDarwinist: the aforementioned Jakes have some interesting ideas about the future of humanity.
113	%%* TheUnfavorite: Marcus, with Gene as Feather's favorite son, much to Marcus's dismay.
114	%%* TooDumbToLive: EJ Elliot [[spoiler: apparently literally at the end of "Lit"]]
115	%%* UnfazedEveryman: Ben.
116	%%* UnusualEuphemism: Mariah Girls, wet houses
117	* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Reagan keeps her flask hidden in this way.
118	* ThereAreNoCoincidences: In Templar, AZ, everything happens for a reason. Everything that you read, anything alluded to, anything that gets a passing mention, is completely relevant, and you should really consider taking notes.
119	%%* TheStoic: Gene and Scipio, though they are, on rare occasion, known to lose their shit.
120	%%* TheUnfavorite: Marcus
121	%%* TheWildWest
122	%%* WackyWaysideTribe: The subcultures, ye gods the subcultures, so far appearing more in the intermissions than in the normal comic.
123	* WebcomicTime: The whole of the comic is set to be one year in Templar.
124	%%* WeirdnessMagnet: The whole damn town, but Ben seems to have a concentrated dose of it.
125	%%* WithFriendsLikeThese: sums up Curio and Tuesday's "rival/frenemy" relationship

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