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| 3 | ''[[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/ The Whiteboard]]'' is an unusual paintball-themed UsefulNotes/{{Furry|Fandom}} Webcomic about an Alaskan airsmith polar bear named Doc and his animal friends (all of them {{Funny Animal}}s) as they play paintball, deal with ornery customers of Doc's shop, and [[HilarityEnsues cause crazy stuff to happen]] by building machines '''way''' [[TimTaylorTechnology more powerful than is necessary]]. [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/index.html Read it here.]] If you haven't read it, you can always start [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb001.html at the beginning]]. |
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| 6 | !!''The Whiteboard'' provides examples of: |
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| 10 | [[folder: Tropes: A to C]] |
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| 12 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: It's not completely clear, but it's hinted that Doc may be one of these to Pirta. And [[GirlsHaveCooties Kasi]] is definitely this to Jinx. For now. |
| 13 | * AbusiveParents: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1345.html Pirta worries Jinx's parents are this]] as he's always hanging around the store. [[AvertedTrope However]], it turns out that he hangs out there a lot because he has [[MassiveNumberedSiblings eight sisters]]. Pirta is satisfied with that response. |
| 14 | * AcquaintedWithEmergencyServices: Doc has the emergency services, National Guard, and window replacement guys on speed dial. Another comic showed that the fire department has a switchboard indicating what emergency he needs them for now (many of them explosions of some sort). |
| 15 | ** Anthony, a construction and repair contractor, decided to stop by Doc's shop and check if there was work to be done because he ''hadn't'' heard from him lately. |
| 16 | * AlcoholHic: |
| 17 | ** Jinx, in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb250.html this]] New Years Eve strip has his speech interrupted with hics after one drink (being only ten or so years old). |
| 18 | ** In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1127.html this]] strip, a no-neck who's had a few too many has his comment peppered with hics. |
| 19 | * AllJustADream: Jinx's and Kasi's ForcedTransformation battle, from [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3416.html #3416]] to [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3435.html #3435]], is a result of Howie's AcidRefluxNightmare. |
| 20 | * AllMenArePerverts: To varying degrees, pretty much all of the males in the comic have made sexually charged comments about female characters, or in the extreme cases attempted to sneak peeks of the women in varying states of undress. |
| 21 | * AllOfThem: [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb628.html Swampy is phoning a window repair company]] after yet another bout of [[StuffBlowingUp explosive]] [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]]: |
| 22 | --> '''Swampy''': Hey, Rog, they want to know how many windows got damaged this time.\ |
| 23 | '''Roger''': Um...\ |
| 24 | '''Swampy''' ''(to the receiver)'': I don't even know why I asked. He's just gonna say "all of 'em".\ |
| 25 | '''Roger''': No, I think the one in the bathroom hasn't broken... |
| 26 | * AmusingInjuries: They are usually inflicted upon one or another of the resident [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkies]]. Swampy more often than not. |
| 27 | * AndIMustScream: As usual, PlayedForLaughs. [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2645.html Here]] Doc and Roger have burnt to ashes, and are waiting for UnexplainedRecovery to kick in (Swampy went looking for the key tool -- a dust pan). One pile of ashes complains about itching nose. |
| 28 | * AnimalStereotypes: Most of the non-human characters display some obvious stereotypical behavior from time to time, like [[DogStereotype dalmatians manning the emergency response center, waiting for a fire or other emergency]] have a task common to their species. |
| 29 | * AnimatedActors: [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3251.html This strip]] and several of the following strips show the crew at Doc's Machine shop getting back into action after the artist / author took a short break. |
| 30 | * AnnoyingArrows: Doc treats [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1100.html tranquilizer darts]] much the same way. (Being a large polar bear [[{{Determinator}} running on adrenaline]] and [[MustHaveCaffeine caffeine]] helps.) Ditto [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1723.html a chemically enhanced arctic fox]]. Then, there was some [[NoodleIncident offscreen event]] involving [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1758.html Roger, grenade launcher, riot armor and arrows.]] |
| 31 | * AprilFoolsDay: Many April Firsts since the beginning have had a special strip, on the general theme of FanService. In 2009, the author changed the front page to look like a directory listing, including folders for "alternate storylines", a "passwords" text document, and a well-executed Rickroll. Readers actually called the site's host to warn them of the security hole. |
| 32 | ** In the 2018, the shower gag (see below) [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2576.png was pulled on Tawny]]. [[CatsAreSnarkers She outright]] '''[[CatsAreSnarkers DISSES]]''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall the guys unseen for it]]! |
| 33 | --> '''Tawny''' ''([[DeadpanSnarker sarcastically]]):'' The shower gag again? [[IShallTauntYou Nice try, guys, but April First]] ''[[IShallTauntYou was yesterday]]''. |
| 34 | *** ItMakesSenseInContext because April 1st, 2018 '''''DID''''' fall on a Sunday. |
| 35 | * ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: When asked how exactly Doc pays for the frequent shop rebuildings and massive amounts of damage done by his projects, the only answer he's ever given is "[[TheGovernment DARPA]]". Later he's shown to have [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1147.html several roomfuls of money]]. However, if [[http://s55.radikal.ru/i150/1304/b5/11d1f33cd6d1.png this non-canon filler]] is to be believed, those are 1-dollar bills. |
| 36 | * ArbitraryWeaponRange: The comic has [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1279.html a strip]] during the first zombie apocalypse arc where Doc is reminded how this applies to grenade launchers. |
| 37 | -->'''Roger''': "You just wasted ''one'' guy with a three hundred dollar bullet!' |
| 38 | * AreWeGettingThis: Daryl managed to take down Doc using one of Doc's ''special'' paint grenades. [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2008.html Red asks if anybody got it on video.]] Bandit had 2 [=GoPros=] and an iPhone. |
| 39 | * ArtifactOfDoom: The Wormhole Gun. Doc's great-grandfather Vladimir found it approximately 100 years before it was built, and Doc's grandfather Morgan is trapped in a small area of the house due to its effects. |
| 40 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: |
| 41 | ** While Doc and Roger are working on a gun with a fusion reactor that can shoot paintballs through time, it's speculated that the following would happen after a core failure: "There would be a massive influx of gamma rays, the core would overheat, fuse, possibly go critical, and detonate. In fact, if the Transwarp barrel were operating, the explosion could collapse the Morris-Thorne wormhole, rupturing the fabric of space/time and destroying the universe." And "the DVD player would probably stop working too." |
| 42 | ** Inverted by Doc after Roger tells him that he (Roger) and the others were being sneaky about planning a Christmas party because they weren't sure Doc wanted to have another party so soon: |
| 43 | --->'''Doc:''' So you're saying you thought I wouldn't like the chance to quaff Dew, eat chips, meet girls, and maybe staple Swampy to the ceiling again? |
| 44 | ** Doc has this to say about leaving dishes in the sink too long: "You leave dishes in the sink, they pile up, fester and get moldy, the mold eventually comes to life, gains sentience, escapes, grows to monstrous proportions, and then goes on a big wild rampage downtown, destroying buildings, eating fire hydrants and raising everyone's insurance premiums again." |
| 45 | * ArtEvolution: |
| 46 | ** It's a bit hard to tell, but Doc's appearance, along with the other regulars, has been refined since the beginning strips. |
| 47 | ** A much more significant one happened the final time Roger pushed the SchmuckBait button; the comic was entirely black-and-white up to that point. |
| 48 | * ArtifactTitle: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb001.html The]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb002.html first]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb003.html five]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb004.html strips]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb005.html were]] doodled on a whiteboard at the author's workplace, before being photographed for online publication. He changed to using a computer to create the comic after that. There was a sixth one on the whiteboard [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto4th02.html in honour of the Fourth of July]], but after that, the titular medium was not used until five strips ([[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto15th-1.html June 19]], [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto15th-2.html 20]], [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto15th-3.html 21]], [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto15th-4.html 22]], and [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto15th-5.html 23]], 2017) that commemorated the comic's 15th anniversary. Then Doc went back to doing the strips normally. |
| 49 | * AttackPatternAlpha: Combined this with NoodleImplements [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1262.html here,]] when discussing strategy on an "outlaw" [[note]]little to no rules[[/note]] paintball field. |
| 50 | * AuthorAvatar: Doc is more or less the author as a polar bear. |
| 51 | * AwesomeButImpractical: |
| 52 | ** There's a recurring joke about newbies trying to use paint grenades, which fit neatly into this trope due to the rarity with which they actually ''work.''[[note]]And most paintball enthusiasts would debate the "awesome" part of the trope.[[/note]] |
| 53 | ** Subverted when Doc goes on a caffeine-deprived rampage with a [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill paint minigun]] and an invisibility cloak. [[spoiler:[[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2000.html He's eventually taken out by a paint grenade]] when 100+ players with high-tech markers couldn't hit him.]] |
| 54 | ** The new ''prototype'' marker Robin won is so impractical that it requires a computer that nobody except ''overclockers'' would currently have: a Windows PC (with a ''5 [=GHz=]'' processor and 32 GB of RAM), a ''USB 4'' cable, fingerprint analyzer, neural port interface, retinal scanner, an Occulus Rift, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a note from your mother]]. The owner's manual is as thick as a telephone directory. It also requires knowledge in SQL (the database is needed for the Bernoulli Inducer Control maps), containment fields (for injecting tritium) and the use of a ''Cray supercomputer'' [[spoiler:[[CrazyPrepared (which Roger happens to keep a spare in his truck for)]]]]! Just the list of the ''features'' it has make no sense: 5G capable, firing from the cloud, web-enabled fire modes and its own Facebook page! |
| 55 | * AwesomePersonnelCarrier: |
| 56 | ** The 2010 ZombieApocalypse story arc featured an apparently up-armed version of the APC from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', its firepower consisting in part of an [[MacrossMissileMassacre ungodly amount of guided missiles]] as well as [[MoreDakka several machine]] [[GatlingGood gun turrets]]. |
| 57 | ** Before that, Doc fitted a regular [=M2A3=] Bradley IFV with a hot tub, complete with girls and probably an entertainment system, as a gift for the Army after the RealLife capture of Saddam Hussein, in 2003. |
| 58 | ** Sandy's simple 4 door car was very nearly turned into one of these, when she asked Doc to find out why the Check Engine light was on. She regretted it immediately, but by the next panel, Doc and Roger already had it mounted (upside down) on a lift and a set of missiles and a larger engine with a supercharger installed. |
| 59 | * AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] by Jinx who has convinced his dad to buy him a chain saw. As well as doing... other [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1425.html things]]. |
| 60 | * BarefootCartoonAnimal: {{Lampshaded}}: |
| 61 | -->'''Swamp Fox:''' ". . . why do I even ''own'' [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb825.html socks?]]" |
| 62 | * BearyFunny: Subverted in one Christmas eve strip. Nobody expects a mauling, when Doc wears Santa's hat, but he's perfectly capable of it. |
| 63 | * BearsAreBadNews: The comic has 4 bears, three of whom are bad news to anyone that happens to annoy them: |
| 64 | ** The protagonist, BigEater GadgeteerGenius grumpy airsmith polar bear Doc. |
| 65 | ** His friend and a regular client brown bear Bruno. Sometimes described as "old, fat and slow", but more of a CoolOldGuy. |
| 66 | ** Another friend of Doc, [[ComedicSociopathy bad-tempered]] scary-looking obnoxious panda Gino. Usually appears when [[HilarityEnsues situation already went out of control]] and escalates it or [[DropTheCow takes the story in entirely new direction]]. [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1323.html Like a skunk spray in the aftermath of zombie invasion.]] |
| 67 | ** Averted so far with Cara, another polar bear and Doc's apparent love interest. She is surprisingly even-tempered. But she is still a [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2422.html polar bear.]][[note]]Inspired by a documentary about mating polar bears.[[/note]] |
| 68 | * BehindAStick: In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1822.html this strip]], during a paintball match Bandit peeks out from behind a tree that is in no way thick enough to actually hide him, even with his normal slenderness. His peeking out almost makes it look like his head and neck are sprouting from the tree like a branch. |
| 69 | ** Taken to extremes (or taken to ''[[MindScrew something]]'') when Bandit ''[[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2053.html manages to hide behind HIMSELF.]]'' |
| 70 | * {{BFG}}: Entusiasically indulged in. |
| 71 | ** ''Paintball'' guns! Most would be illegal in the sport, especially the railgun and rocket-launcher. |
| 72 | ** And then there's [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/sketchbook/gunex.gif this]] beauty, from the real 2005 AprilFoolsDay strip. [[note]]Which one is the "beauty" is left as an exercise for the audience.[[/note]] |
| 73 | ** And one of the latest ones was found [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb1967.html in this strip]] by a little girl in the back of Roger's truck. After she asked permission to use it (Roger was manning a drone with VR gear at the time), she went to the chronographer stand and fired it. If Roger's calculations are right, the stand is now someTIME around last week on Tuesday. |
| 74 | * BigBallOfViolence: With claws and fangs bared, Doc gets into a fight with another shopper over the last of an item on sale. [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb559.html Nobody outshops Doc on]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping) Black Friday.]] |
| 75 | * BigDamnKiss: Doc gets one [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2189.html in 2017]] with newcomer Cara, which is spicy enough [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2191.html to cause flames to shoot out of her ears]] - though that might just be [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce the hotwings]] he'd eaten beforehand. |
| 76 | * BigLippedAlligatorMoment: To celebrate [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1500.html the 1500th strip,]] a big can-can line appears out of nowhere on Red's paintball field with most of the main cast, leaving behind some debris in the last panel along with a very confused Pirta. [[invoked]] |
| 77 | ** The other bar patrons '''witnessing''' the BigDamnKiss [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2190.html between Doc and Cara]]. [[JawDrop A real jaw-dropper]] for those who thought Doc would strike out. |
| 78 | * BigNo[=/=]BigYes: The players are all trying to get Doc (who is on an unconscious sugar jag), and [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2000.html two people have a perfect shot at Doc]]: The "'''''NO!'''''" comes from Robin (who had a perfect shot on him), and the "'''''YES!'''''" comes from [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2003.html Darryl]], who got Doc with a paint grenade. |
| 79 | * BigRedButton: [[RascallyRaccoon Roger]] stumbles across [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autobutton01.html one of these]] in [[GadgeteerGenius Doc's]] shop. HilarityEnsues when he [[SchmuckBait can't stop pressing it]], with various responses suggested by TWB fans. |
| 80 | * BiggerIsBetterInBed: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb886.html Both]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb890.html genders]] get a light dose of this with the "miracle coffee" - only works on women, though. |
| 81 | * BiggerOnTheInside: Doc's pickup truck, which [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2021.html has a big-screen TV]] and [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2105.html myriad other amenities]]. They even [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2019.html installed a doorbell]]! |
| 82 | * BlandNameProduct: If you look closely at the background, you can see Doc carrying a [[ChainsawGood Khil chainsaw]], while more recently Jinx can be seen with his brand new [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1427.html Khil Jr.]] chainsaw. Clearly a pastiche of Stihl and Skill power tools. |
| 83 | * BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Howie's sells hot wings in several heat levels [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2135.html Hot, Extra Hot, Screaming Insanity and Death by Nuclear Inferno]]. The Nuclear Inferno wings are a bit too much for [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2136.html most mere mortals]]. Doc still finds them [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2138.html "A bit on the bland side"]] despite flames and smoke coming from his ears. |
| 84 | * ABloodyMess: In one strip, after [[ItMakesSenseInContext a flood of replicated beer]] "[[RussianReversal threw everyone out of Howie's bar]]", Sandy momentarily freaks out at the sight of Jinx covered in red stains. In the next strip, [[spoiler:he's perfectly fine, and Howie identifies the stains as his hot-wing sauce, though it does [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1643.html burn]] a bit]]. |
| 85 | * BreakingTheFourthWall - Leaving the frame, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb972.html here]]. |
| 86 | ** A combination of this, AsideGlance, and TemptingFate in [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3606.html this strip]]. |
| 87 | * BreastExpansion: A pot of KlatchianCoffee grants the women who drink it a temporary increase of their bust size. |
| 88 | * BrickJoke: Several bricks take a long time to come back. |
| 89 | ** A long time coming. Early on in the comic, Doc makes a [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb075.html comment]] about how he keeps a bone around for anti-cheating and safety lectures, so people take his threats of eating them seriously. Cut to a few years later, when Bandit recalls [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb599.html his first experience with paintball...]] |
| 90 | ** Doc's Special Grenades. First used in a game of Everyone vs. [[ThoseTwoGuys Larry And Daryl]] (where Daryl tossed it says it's [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1120.html "The best 40 bucks he ever spent"]]. More than 6 years later, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2003.html it's STILL the best 40 bucks he ever spent]]! |
| 91 | ** If this counts, it's one over ''15 YEARS'' in the making! |
| 92 | *** The week of June 19-23, 2017 was done in the same marker-on-whiteboard technique as the first 5 "strips". |
| 93 | *** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb003.html Behold the third strip]], published June 20, 2002, which has Doc asking if he should burn the shop down, delete the website, shave his head and move to Tibet. Fifteen years (and two days) later: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto15th-4.html he's living in the mountains, wearing a monk's robe and has shaved his head.]] |
| 94 | *** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb001.html The very first strip]] also got [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto15th-2.html a follow-up]] about Doc's tardiness. |
| 95 | ** The wormhole gun took almost exactly 20 years to return, with an intermediate return in the middle. |
| 96 | *** It is first seen demonstrating itself [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb183.html here]], on August 11th, 2003. It gets fired in the next strip. |
| 97 | *** Late May and early June of 2011 gave us the [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1368.html "Playing with Wormholes"]] arc. |
| 98 | *** On July 7th 2023, Doc examines the contents of a forgotten [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3800.html vault in the basement]], which is never commented on afterwards. |
| 99 | *** And somehow yet again on December 11th 2023 at a [[https://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3909.html mansion]] Doc's great-grandfather had built (who is the same one that built the forgotten vault in the basement in the above example) being apparently utilized as a power source. |
| 100 | ** In a newly discovered basement of Doc's shop, Doc and Roger speculate what's behind an [[https://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3754.html intimidating door,]] with Roger suggesting a hundred year old box of leaky dynamite. Fast forward a year to when the group is exploring the basement of Doc's great-grandfather's mansion, and Doc rips open a door with [[https://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3936.html exactly what Roger speculated]] only 1000 times worse. |
| 101 | * BringMyBrownPants: The Fire Dept. captain mentions [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1720.html a need to change his pants]] after running into Jinx while he was [[HulkingOut Hulked up]] by a batch of Doc's [[GargleBlaster weapons-grade Mountain Dew]], which turned him from a three foot tall arctic fox kit to a feral-looking giant that's taller than even Doc, and has a rather unhappy expression to boot. |
| 102 | * BuffetBuffoonery: It's stated that the Chinese restaurant where Pirta used to work had to discontinue its buffet due to [[BearsAreBadNews Doc]] [[BigEater eating a whole Tibetan yak's worth]] every time he went. |
| 103 | * ButtMonkey: Usually Swampy, but occasionally happens to Roger. Even Doc gets a little of this from time to time. |
| 104 | * {{Callback}}: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1824.html This strip]] gives a nod back to [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb489.html Sandy's first game]], where Rainman suggests reading a pamphlet titled "Coping with loss" after she asks what to do taken out of the match by a hit, with Bandit offering one such pamphlet to a generic player he managed to sneak up on to tag out. |
| 105 | * TheCameo: |
| 106 | ** Nearly every Halloween, other comic characters show up for Doc's party, sometimes costumed as still others. The list is extensive. |
| 107 | ** Later crowd scenes, like [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1879.html this one]] are sometimes populated with cameos as well. |
| 108 | * CarnivoreConfusion: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Rainman wanted lettuce on his half of the pizza. Swampy wanted field mouse and ground squirrel while Jinx wanted lemmings. The author keeps track, which species appeared as characters and which as food. It doesn't apply to cameos, though. |
| 109 | * CastOfSnowflakes: The furry cast is, for the most part, easily identifiable. The humans... [[OnlySixFaces not so much.]] |
| 110 | * CasualKink: A downplayed example [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1524.html here,]] with Pirta comparing her boyfriend Jake to General Patton, saying she needed to get Jake an outfit to match the general's iconic uniform, but doesn't mention a riding crop. Sandy asks about it, and Pirta responds that they already have one. |
| 111 | ** When Doc is helping them move, Sandra [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2323.html rushes Doc out of Swampy's bedroom]] so she can deal with the "t- ''old family photos''" under the bed. [[spoiler: They're actually a box of her Thin Mints]]. |
| 112 | * CensorSteam: The steam from a scalding-hot [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb970.html cup of coffee]] serves to conceal a nude Pirta's nipples from the viewer during a DreamSequence Doc is having after being knocked unconscious. |
| 113 | * ChainsawGood: Jinx getting his dad to buy him a chainsaw for a [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1427.html Halloween]] costume, of Ash from ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness''. |
| 114 | * CheekCopy: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1044.html Swamp Fox]] made one, as a Valentine to Sandy. |
| 115 | * CheshireCatGrin: Bandit gets one of these when Doc [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb129.html upgrades Bandit's firepower]] in one game. |
| 116 | * ChivalrousPervert: The main male (adult) characters are, well, ''[[AllMenArePerverts guys]]'', but they do have standards. Best shown during Pirta's first paintball game when some guy in a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghillie_suit ghillie suit]] snapped a picture of her with his phone while she was in a state of undress[[note]]she was stripping off some layers to better cope with the heat. Snow Leopards, heavy clothes, and Mr. Sun do not work well together[[/note]]. When the crew found out, Roger jammed the phone to keep it from getting onto the Web while Doc tracked the guy down and "[[TheEasyWayOrTheHardWay persuaded]]" him and his friend to delete it. |
| 117 | * ClownCar: Red asks Doc if his truck was bought from a circus clown after seeing a bunch of players and gear being unloaded. Doc says no, but notes that [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb448.html it uses the same technology.]] Among the things located in the truck are [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2017.html a basement with a couch]] and [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2021.html big-screen TV,]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2105.html Barcaloungers with seatbelts, a desk, a tea cart, and a piano.]] |
| 118 | * CobwebJungle: When Pirta and Sandy get back to the store after a day at the paintball field, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2237.html the store has become this]] as a joke on [[WebcomicTime just how long it took to chronicle the events of that day]]: ''[[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1789.html two and a half years]]!'' [[labelnote:Dates]](April 28, 2014 to October 28, 2016)[[/labelnote]] The length of that story arc was, of course, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2220.html lampshaded at the end.]] |
| 119 | * ComfortFood: For Kasi, it's [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1308.html cocoa with little marshmallows.]] |
| 120 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Sandy is railing against "upgrades" done to her car by Doc (which include offensive weaponry) in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1563.html this strip,]] he insists on pointing out the difference between rockets and missiles (unguided versus guided), a launcher for the latter mounted on her car. All Sandy wanted was a MINOR tune-up to bring her car's performance back up to factory spec. |
| 121 | * CompensatingForSomething: Done subtly in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1577.html this strip]]. During a zombie apocalypse, one fireman asks another why the latter's gun is bigger than his. The second fireman's reply? "Genetics." |
| 122 | * ConeOfShame: Miki is seen wearing an [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2854.html Elizabethan Collar]] after a date with a firedog, apparently it went [[DestructoNookie really well]]. |
| 123 | * ConjoinedEyes: The "generic" anthro furries that have more or less replaced the featureless "bubblehead" no-neck humans all tend to have conjoined eyes, although much of the older, more regular cast have eyes that are separate from one another. |
| 124 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Bandit is forced, via [[DuctTapeForEverything being duct taped to a couch]], [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb389.html to watch a Martha Stewart show marathon after pulling a prank on Doc and Roger]]. |
| 125 | * CoolCar: |
| 126 | ** Doc and Roger attempt to upgrade Sandy's car to this level, starting with [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1559.html this strip.]] See ComicallyMissingThePoint, below. |
| 127 | ** The local [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1568.html emergency]] [[CoolGarage response center]] has one with [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1569.html tires larger than most passenger cars.]] |
| 128 | * CoolGarage: The first one was Doc's shop, but now the Emergency Response Center has one of their own, mostly to house their giant fire truck. |
| 129 | * CoveredInGunge: Most paint grenades don't work very well. Doc's Special Grenades, on the other hand, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1120.html work very well]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2001.html indeed.]] |
| 130 | * ComicBookTime: combined with LeaningOnTheFourthWall in a series of meta-jokes about how an arc about the events of one long day at the paintball field, and subsequent events, spanned two-and-a-half years.... |
| 131 | * CrazyPrepared: |
| 132 | ** Doc has a flamethrower stashed away [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb987.html in case of zombies, aliens, rampaging ninjas, or uncleaned refrigerator.]] |
| 133 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1185.html Sandy's surprised that the shop has an alarm for an indoor snowball fight.]] |
| 134 | ** One storeroom is equipped with 2 metric tons of Alka-Seltzer. |
| 135 | ---> '''Roger''': "You've seen Doc eat, right?" |
| 136 | * CrossOver: |
| 137 | ** TWB and ''Webcomic/{{PVP}}'' had a crossover for a PaintballEpisode, but [[AbortedArc it was cut off before the planned story finished]]. |
| 138 | ** A brief subtle cross over, a quantum coffee maker dinosaur from ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' pays a visit to Doc's shop, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1379.html here.]] |
| 139 | * CurseCutShort: [[SubvertedTrope While it's clearly said in full]], [[PaintingTheMedium the word itself is cut short by the panel]] in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1875.html strip #1875]]. |
| 140 | ** Expletive also hidden by a speech bubble when [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2266.html Sandy is surprised by New Year's Day decorations suddenly appearing.]] |
| 141 | * CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: |
| 142 | ** Sandy threatens Doc that she will [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1370.html cut off his ears with piano wire and staple them to his knees.]] |
| 143 | ** After a long session of planning strategy, Pirta points out to Jake that if he tries to get her up before 10 am, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1779.html she'll staple his tail to the headboard of their bed.]] |
| 144 | ** In one strip, Doc threatens Roger with removing Roger's tail (details left unsaid, but in context probably not gently) and sticking it in his ear. |
| 145 | ** Don't call Tawny "Thunderbuns", or you'll end up [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1931.html sleeping on a couch, in a dumpster, whilst probably on fire.]] |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[folder: Tropes: D to G]] |
| 149 | * DamnYouMuscleMemory: Pirta falls afoul [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1151.html of the verbal type]] when greeting a customer, falling back on her restaurant server greeting experience. |
| 150 | * DecontaminationChamber: After Gino [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1323.html scared]] Jake (the [[SmellySkunk skunk]]), Jake had to be [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1331.html decontaminated.]] In a large laundromat. The automated defense system [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1326.html mistook his spray for a chemical or biological weapon.]] |
| 151 | * DestructoNookie: |
| 152 | ** Miki's firefighter date [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2854.html left her (happily) wearing]] a ConeOfShame. |
| 153 | ** Later, Doc and Cara break a bed. The event registers on the seismometer at the local tsunami warning center. |
| 154 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1559.html this strip]], Sandy reveals that she is having automobile issues. [[GadgeteerGenius Doc]] [[MadScientist promptly]] responds. Sandy promptly [[{{Facepalm}} facepalms]] and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this trope. |
| 155 | * DidYouJustHaveSex: Most of the main cast run across this trope regarding Doc and his new LoveInterest Cara. [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2284.html The conclusion takes a little while for Swampy]]. |
| 156 | * DistantReactionShot: Happens several times, being that many of the story arcs are about StuffBlowingUp. |
| 157 | * DoesThisMakeMeLookFat: Asked of Swampy by Sandy about paintball gear, in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb509.html this strip.]] |
| 158 | -->Run Swampy! It's a trap! |
| 159 | * DontAskJustRun: |
| 160 | ** Doc's "oops" [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb440.html "tend to have a minimum safe distance".]] |
| 161 | ** Used literally by [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2052.html by Robin to Bandit.]] |
| 162 | ** Swampy's reaction to learning about the hazard level of a room filled with 100 year-old, leaky nitroglycerin based explosives. |
| 163 | -->'''Doc:''' [[https://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3937.html "One of Jake's farts could probably set it off."]] |
| 164 | * DopeSlap: Delivered from time to time. |
| 165 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb171.html Doc, delivering one to Roger.]] |
| 166 | ** [[https://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3862.html Doc to Swampy.]] |
| 167 | * DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: |
| 168 | ** The male characters are quite free to beat up other male character and the female characters are quite free to beat up male characters, but no males have been seen or mentioned as beating on females. [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1449.html This strip]] and the one after it shows that Pirta hit Doc hard enough for him to have another near death experience. |
| 169 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1594.html This guy]] had been [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1587.html previously injured]] by the same person, you'd think he'd be justified a little payback. |
| 170 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1093.html The same person]] punches someone out cold as a 'message' to Doc. Sensing a pattern? |
| 171 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1153.html and again...]] |
| 172 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: |
| 173 | ** Doc tends to drive [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb901.html several times speed limit]]. [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb669.html On mountain roads.]] With [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb900.html little]] [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb903.html regard]] to warning signs and barriers. Often in [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb260.html heavily modded]] vehicles. Roger's unexpected improvements to the vehicles [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1545.html contribute to crashes]] too. The cast are OK with that, if a bit nervous, but do [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb108.html warn newcomers]]. And sometimes even they [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb285.html can be surprised.]] |
| 174 | ** Of all people, Cara, who used to ice race, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3213.html is capable of this.]] She once drove from her coffee shop to the paintball field, a trip that would take ''Doc'' twenty minutes, in five. In a Volkswagen Beetle. |
| 175 | * DrivingStick: Most cars have an accelerator pedal and a brake pedal. Manual equipped ones will add a clutch pedal. A few older cars and most full-sized trucks have an additional pedal to apply the parking brake. [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2110.html Doc's truck]] has 8 pedals for some reason. And a gear shift knob that looks like it operates a transmission in a [[Series/IceRoadTruckers big rig]]. |
| 176 | ** Later on, Roger explains that Doc's truck [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2207.html ...has eighteen clutch pedals and a three dimensional shift pattern]]. |
| 177 | * DropTheCow: The author's confessed that he makes something [[StuffBlowingUp explode]] whenever he can't come with a good punchline, and has quoted ChandlersLaw. |
| 178 | * DuctTapeForEverything: |
| 179 | ** Doc uses duct tape to fix anything, as well as using it to remind people not to take off their helmets during a paintball match. Usually because he can't find the stapler instead. |
| 180 | ** As a temporary repair to Jake's car after the driver side front door is broken off its hinge, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb975.html duct tape is used to stick it back on the car.]] |
| 181 | * TheEasyWayOrTheHardWay: Doc [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb736.html makes such an "offer" to someone]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb712.html who took pictures of Pirta removing her top.]] The person who actually took the picture accepts the "easy" option. However, the one to whom the picture got sent, before [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb733.html Roger jammed the signal]], [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb742.html doesn't,]] with [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb750.html painful results.]] |
| 182 | --> (guy hands over phone) "You make a strong and vividly illustrated case."\ |
| 183 | '''Doc''': "We all have our hobbies. |
| 184 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: At the start of the comic, the FunnyAnimal main cast were treated as something unusual in a human world. The author soon dropped the "something unusual" angle as not really being where he wanted to take the webcomic, and since then has gravitated over time towards making more of the characters anthropomorphic animals, finally going all-anthro in 2012. |
| 185 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: Sandy's reaction to seeing A.J., a buff tiger construction worker, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2552.html is to drool into a dry mop]]. |
| 186 | * EpisodeOfTheDead: There was a localized ZombieApocalypse for the [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1275.html 2010 Halloween special]]. Which Doc and Roger took as an excuse to test their arsenals... with MoreDakka in unbelievale amounts. |
| 187 | * EscalatingWar: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1596.html Snowball fights.]] Well, that and everything else, but especially snowball fights. |
| 188 | * EveryCarIsAPinto: {{Lampshaded}} in [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb639.html this strip]], with the main cast viewing a scene from a [[ComicStrip/BloomCounty Billy and the Boingers]] movie with the car on the screen about to hit a cactus. |
| 189 | -->'''[[RascallyRaccoon Roger]]:''' Watch - the car will explode before it even hits the cactus.\ |
| 190 | '''Doc:''' It's not a [[Creator/JerryBruckheimer Bruckheimer]] movie, you know. |
| 191 | * EveryManHasHisPrice: A customer needing his marker fixed in a hurry [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb849.html bribes Doc with a case of Mountain Dew]]. It works. |
| 192 | * EverythingTryingToKillYou: In one game, whoever tags an out-of-it and well-armed Doc gets a brand-new, not-even-announced marker. Cue this trope. |
| 193 | * ExplainExplainOhCrap: Swampy gets hit with this when he realizes he's just sent a pair of drunk [[GadgeteerGenius gadgeteer geniuses]] [[https://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb179.html back to their lab]]. |
| 194 | * ExpressiveEars: Especially applies to species with large triangular ears: foxes, lynxes, dogs, to lesser degree raccoons and housecats; lagomorphs too, but too large ears prove somewhat unwieldy. Swampy and Sandy are prime examples as foxes with most screen time. |
| 195 | * TheFaceless: Swampy, who is almost never seen without his face obstructed by his hat or some object, and almost every human character, by virtue of having indistinct circles-for-heads. |
| 196 | * FailsafeFailure: Things blow up regularly in this webcomic. One of the reasons for this is that the fail-safes never work in this comic. |
| 197 | * {{Fanservice}}: [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autoaf05.html April]] [[http://the-whiteboard.com/auto040106.html Fool's]] [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autoaf07.html Day]] tradition! The 2014 edition [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwbaf14.html brought in some cheesecake, too]]. [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2576.html The April 2, 2018 Strip parodied the shower gag]], which had Tawny's shower yanked open--but Tawny was in an undershirt, brushing her teeth. (April 1 was on a Sunday that year). |
| 198 | * FanserviceFauxFight: A recurring gag is promising the event (pillow fight, mud wrestling or [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autonewyear09.html pie fight]]) and not delivering. Usually as AprilFools or some jubilee. Often, the girls refuse to participate, there are some [[NoodleIncident technical difficulties]], or it happens [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb10ya.html behind curtains]]. However, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1527.html practice]] of the [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1845.html 3-girl paintball team]] and the subsequent [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3028.html tournament]] make up for it. |
| 199 | * FastballSpecial: Doc is prone to throwing people into the air for his benefit: |
| 200 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb155.html Tossing Jinx as a scout.]] |
| 201 | ** [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb942.html Throwing a fellow team member with the flag to the team's station when surrounded by the opposing team.]] |
| 202 | ** At her request, he [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1351.html launches Kasi at Jinx]]. |
| 203 | ** Done by Tawny to Packrat [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1270.html when he called her "Thunderbuns"]]. |
| 204 | ** Howie the bartender isn't averse to the tactic, either, launching Bandit in pursuit of a fleeing Doc during a snowball fight, in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1603.html this strip.]] |
| 205 | ** Doc helps [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3576.html Roger's wife]] dive into the pool this way, followed by her husband calling out a "fastball cannonball!" |
| 206 | * FinallyFoundTheBody: When Packrat was thwarted in his attempt to steal the Wormhole Gun [[https://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3204.html he and his team vanished, with only Roger and Doc remembering them even being at the field.]] When Doc and the gang are investigating a house that might belong to Doc, they discover [[https://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3912.html things did NOT go well for Packrat]]. |
| 207 | * FireBreathingDiner: |
| 208 | ** During a visit to Howie's, a new hot wing recipe made fire spurt out of [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2138.html Doc's ears]]. He thought them a bit bland. |
| 209 | ** The same batch of hot wings had the same effect on Doc's new LoveInterest [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2191.html here]]. |
| 210 | * FirehouseDalmatian: The local fire department is full of anthropomorphic Dalmatians, but is currently run by a German Shepherd and also has a cat as a member. |
| 211 | * ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: In the 2003 Halloween party storyline, there's a [[TheCameo Cameo]] by [[Webcomic/SchlockMercenary Kevyn Andreyasn]], who's wearing his normal outfit from his "home" comic. He explains it as [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb218.html coming dressed as a clone of himself.]] |
| 212 | * ForeignQueasine: No, not the moose-burgers. Those are pretty tame. Try ''deep fried '''walrus'''''. Then again, Doc ''IS'' a [[AnimalStereotypes polar]] [[BigEater bear]]. |
| 213 | * FourFingeredHands: In the first few strips, Doc was depicted with 5-digit hands, but shortly after the strip's name became an ArtifactTitle, the character design was changed to have 4-digit hands, with a note by the author explaining the change. |
| 214 | ** {{Lampshaded}}, of course, when [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2581.html Jinx says it's like you need five-fingered hands to play Moonlight Sonata]]. |
| 215 | * FunnyAnimal: When the comic started, only the main cast were funny animals, while almost all of the rest of the cast were no-neck bubbleheaded humans with no distinctive facial features. The artist later experimented with more realistic humans, but then around 2012 went with the entire cast being funny animals, converting fan favorites [[ThoseTwoGuys Larry and Daryl]] from bubbleheads to squirrels without any commentary on the change InUniverse. |
| 216 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: Roger's IV drip starts as [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3460.html type Q-positive blood]], and over the course of the next two weeks makes its way through R-positive, prune juice, and "hi-test". This may have contributed to the inevitable explosion. |
| 217 | * FurriesAreEasierToDraw: For years humans were drawn as people with floating heads. The non-human cast is drawn somewhat better, but only somewhat. The animals mouths are seldom seen, even when they're talking. They're usually only seen if they're shouting. The technical and mechanical devices though, oh-ho, they're drawn exquisitely! According to several posts by the author on the TWB forums in August 2011, he was working on overcoming the problem with drawing humans, with more human characters being given actual details instead of undefined "floating bubbleheads", and [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1405.html the results]] [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1403.html were impressive]]. But a few months later he decided to drop humans altogether. He did use [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1481.html generic human faces]] to replaced "the no-necks" when he retroactively coloured strips for winter and spring of 2012, but after that all one-shot characters have been anthropomorphic animals. Also of note is converting [[ThoseTwoGuys Larry and Daryl]] -- the no-necks who gained some depth over time -- to [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1853.html squirrels.]] |
| 218 | * FurryFemaleMane: Most of the female cast are given human style hair on their head, while with the exception of Jake none of the males do. When [[GenderBender Roger was gender-bent]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autobutton06.html after getting zapped due to pressing]] [[SchmuckBait a button labeled "do not press"]], his female version instantly grew human style hair. |
| 219 | * FurryReminder: While the funny animals in the cast for the most part act entirely human, sometimes animal behaviors can be seen. |
| 220 | ** Jake, a [[SmellySkunk skunk]], [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1323.html turns into a spray grenade when surprised.]] He's also used this as a threat at least once. |
| 221 | ---> '''Jake''': Don't make me angry Swamps. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.[[note]]ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk ShoutOut[[/note]]\ |
| 222 | '''Swampy''': Er, your safety's on, right? |
| 223 | ** In the [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1569.html Oct 5, 2012 strip]] canine anthros are shown hanging their heads out of the windows of a moving truck as would RealLife dogs, and [[LampshadeHanging get called on it by the feline driver]]. |
| 224 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1587.html Pirta reacting to a rat character as an ordinary cat would a mouse.]] |
| 225 | ** Doc and Pirta, being a Polar Bear and Snow Leopard respectively, don't need to wear much during the winter months. In fact, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1155.html they find it quite cozy]], which irks the hell out of the rest of the cast. On the flip side, Pirta has a [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1529.html bit of a problem]] with the heat during paintball matches. Doc, of course, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1536.html has his own method of heat control]], to the annoyance of Roger who'd like to ''drink'' the beers in the cooler instead of having them used in Doc's pants. |
| 226 | * GadgeteerGenius: |
| 227 | ** Both Doc and Roger are very good at what they do. When they work together, they make very dangerous machines like PoweredArmor or markers that mess with the time-space continuum. |
| 228 | ** Jinx seems to be on the way to becoming one, after figuring out how to connect a [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1839.html taser to a bullwhip.]] His father also expressed concern over his [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1426.html skill with a propane torch.]] |
| 229 | * GaleForceSound: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb024.html Doc using new speakers]] makes it almost impossible for a customer to enter the store, thanks to having to push against the force from said speakers. |
| 230 | ** In a {{Downplayed}} version, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1875.html Red's screaming in Roger's face]] is enough to blow Roger's face fur back. |
| 231 | * GangstaStyle: A custom work order for a paintball marker has the ammo bin put on the side, so that when held this way it can feed the paintballs normally. Doc and Roj seem unimpressed, but hey, it's work. |
| 232 | * GargleBlaster: Several cast members understand this trope. |
| 233 | ** Doc's custom "weapons-grade" Mountain Dew can do strange things to those who consume it and aren't Doc, including [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1718.html a toxic or hallucinogenic effect, with the possibility of some kind of an unpredictable mutagenic effect that can turn the one consuming it into a monster.]] |
| 234 | ** Doc asks for "a Dew and something interesting to chase it with." Howie serves up something from a glowing hot crucible [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2124.html here]]. In line with both Doc's and Howies's idea of how this trope should play out, it is spitting glowing hot embers. In keeping with the description of the original TropeMaker, it has [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2127.html ''interesting" results]]. |
| 235 | ** His coffee also qualifies, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2553.html as the reaction can be loud enough to be heard from the next room]]. |
| 236 | * GatlingGood: Doc makes a [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1783.html paintball gatling gun]] with curved barrels that cause it to shoot in arcs, even around corners with some electronic adjustments. |
| 237 | * GeekyTurnOn: Of the gearhead variety, as Cora is [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3215.html an excellent driver with a hell of an engine]] in her otherwise plain-looking car, making a 20-minute commute in just ''five'' minutes. And [[StealthPun Doc might have to go see a doctor]] in [[RagingStiffie four hours]] as a result of the ride over. |
| 238 | * GenderBender: After pressing a button with a ShmuckBait warning sign, in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autobutton06.html this strip]] Roger is transformed into a woman. |
| 239 | * GenreSavvy: After meeting an attractive female polar bear and while being pestered by a drunken rabbit wanting his destroyed car replaced, Doc can clearly see the "bad episode of ''Series/ThreesCompany''" level train wreck fast approaching and [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2164.html slams on the brakes to head it off]]. |
| 240 | * GirlsHaveCooties: When suggested that Kasi has [[PuppyLove a crush on him]], Jinx replies [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1354.html "Ew! I'd rather kiss a chainsaw!"]] Of course, she's also [[CatsAreMean the reason for all the band-aids he's wearing]], so it's sort of an appropriate comparison. |
| 241 | * GirlsWithMoustaches: [[OnlySaneWoman Sandy]] greets a customer to Doc's shop, and is told by the customer that he wants to deal with a male employee. She ducks behind the counter, and comes back up with [[PaperThinDisguise a fake moustache]] on her face, asking again if she can help him. |
| 242 | * GlobalWarming: |
| 243 | ** [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1153.html This strip]] has Doc start to launch into a rant about GW, only to be interrupted by a mallet to the head. |
| 244 | ** Several weeks later Alaskan weather inspired a snow-cleaning arc: |
| 245 | ---> '''Swampy:''' ''(from under the snow)'' [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1170.html "Al Gore is full of @#$!"]] |
| 246 | * TheGlomp: Nothing says "I love you" like playing [[Franchise/{{Alien}} facehugger]] on one's loved ones. Just ask [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb399.html Tawny]] and [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2085.html Robin,]] both of whom wrap themselves around the head of their respective targets. |
| 247 | * GoingCommando: In the 2014 [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween strip]], Howie's girlfriend is wearing a hazmat suit as her Halloween costume, as her take on "sexy" {{fanservice}}y womens' costumes. As it's a full-body suit save for her tail (for character identification purposes, according to Doc Nickel on the forum), Howie asks her how it's sexy. Her response: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1855.html "Easy... I'm not wearing anything under it."]] |
| 248 | * TheGrimReaper: The standard skeleton in a cloak showed up a couple times in one-shots to pick up a marker, while Doc came face to face with a [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1088.html somewhat less traditional psychopomp]] at the end of the "Doc [=ODs=] on caffeine arc". |
| 249 | * GroinAttack: Pirta and Rainy come [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3226.html face-to-face in a paintball match]]. Unfortunately for Rainy, he was standing while Pirta was crawling. |
| 250 | ** Rainy's shots [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3227.html wound up going into]] VictoriasSecretCompartment, sparing Pirta the female equivalent. |
| 251 | * GuestStrip: |
| 252 | ** On [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autobutton05.html this page]] there's not only the regular strip by Doc Nickel involving a big red SchmuckBait button, but an additional, related strip drawn by ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'' writer Scotty Arsenault. |
| 253 | ** Kathy Garrison of ''Webcomic/CarryOn'' contributed several strips to hold things over while Doc Nickel was having computer problems, resulting in a week of non-canon strips featuring one of her ''Carry On'' characters, who had been given a cameo in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1879.html this strip.]] [[note]]The guest strips are currently unavailable on the main site, but Doc N has said that he'll put them up on the [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/sketchbook/index.html sketchbook page]] when he gets a chance.[[/note]] |
| 254 | * GunStripping: In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb113.html this strip]] Doc manages to field strip Jinx's marker before he even finishes saying "Let's have a look" between the first two frames, leaving a bewildered Jinx wondering how Doc managed it. |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder: Tropes: H to L]] |
| 258 | * HairTriggerExplosive: Doc [[https://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3935.html rips the door]] from a room containing about [[https://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3936.html six tons of century old, leaky dynamite]]. Doc subsequently [[https://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3937.html explains the hazards]] [[DontAskJustRun to Swampy]]. |
| 259 | * HalloweenEpisode: There's almost always has a Halloween-related story around October. Mostly it's just parties where [[TheCameo cameos]] from other webcomics abound, but on occasion it's a full story arc, like with the 2010 and 2012 ZombieApocalypse story arcs. |
| 260 | * HandOrObjectUnderwear: Used in [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autoaf07.html this]] strip, when an AprilFoolsDay gag results in Sandy getting exposed [[ShowerScene while taking a shower]]. |
| 261 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Multiple hoisting operations have occurred here. |
| 262 | ** For the 2004 Halloween storyline, the theme of the party was to wear as a costume whatever was being worn when Doc called the person to extend the invitation. The tables get turned on Doc when someone calls ''him'' with the invite, catching him when he was [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb371.html in the shower.]] When Swampy points out that Doc has been hoisted, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb372.html in the next strip]], we find out that it's Roger getting revenge for Doc catching him at the dentist office while getting some work done. |
| 263 | ** A RulesLawyer badger who was using [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1684.html a rules interpretation depending on a technicality about what counts as a hit]] to make things difficult for others playing at Red's field gets some comeuppance in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1688.html this]] and the following few strips. When the badger seeks to complain about the CurbStompBattle of everyone on the field against him, Jake points out that according to the same set of rules the badger was (mis)using, nothing says that the teams have to be the same size, complete with a LampshadeHanging in the last panel of [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1690.html this strip.]] |
| 264 | ** Another time, Swampy gets to [[LampshadeHanging point out]] that Sandy managed to hoist herself. |
| 265 | *** The hoisting begins [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2175.html here]], then [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2177.html this page]], followed by [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2179.html this page]], then Sandy discovers [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2194.html the crane]], followed by Swampy's [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2195.html lampshade]]. |
| 266 | * HumongousMecha: Apparently Doc is building one [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1154.html here]]. |
| 267 | * HyperspaceMallet: Often used by Doc against customers. Sometimes appears much larger. Subverted in some instances where Doc's mallet is seen in a glass case behind his desk. |
| 268 | * IdiotBall: Frankly, Jinx. When the group encounter a "ghost" at a mansion, Jinx disappears. When they find him later, [[https://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3892.html Jinx explains that when they saw a ghost, he spotted a dumbwaiter and tried to use it to go upstairs to see what was projecting it.]] Thing is, Doc made it CLEAR not to split up, and this is a dumbwaiter in an old, dilapidated house. When Jinx tried to use the dumbwaiter as an elevator (he's small enough to fit inside); [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the rope broke and the dumbwaiter crashed into the basement]]. Jinx is very lucky; not only did he survive the plunge with minor injuries, he ended up behind a ''boarded-up door'' and Doc was there to get him out. |
| 269 | * IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: [[https://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3844.html When a homeless guy hears where Doc and the crew are heading]], [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he is already putting some considerable distance from himself and everyone else]]. |
| 270 | * IfYouDieICallYourStuff: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb585.html Roger detonates a Febreze bomb in Doc's office.]] When Doc emerges and grabs Roger [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb586.html to drag him off for a mauling,]] Roger calls for Swampy to avenge him. Swampy's response: "That depends. Can I have your Platform/PlayStation?" |
| 271 | * IHaveAFamily: In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb644.html this]] strip, after watching an awful movie Doc threatens a janitor with violence over it. The janitor pleads for pity on account of having three mouths to feed. [[SubvertedTrope Two goldfish and a gerbil,]] which is sufficient to get the janitor off the hook. |
| 272 | * ImaginedInnuendo: |
| 273 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1348.html "Brass nipples" are an actual component of a paintball marker,]] contrary to what Pirta thought when a customer at Doc's paintball shop asks for some. |
| 274 | ** When Packrat's porcupine friend wants the spheres that keep his spines from puncturing stuff removed, he says "Now help me loosen my balls, will ya?" [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3147.html His friends crack up, much to his embarrassment.]] |
| 275 | * InconvenientSummons: Inverted, Doc goes to visit the Observers while the jackal is still bathing. |
| 276 | --> '''[[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3187.html ...you're early.]]''' |
| 277 | * IncrediblyLamePun: {{Lampshaded}} in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1340.html this]] strip, after Pirta says to a grumpy Doc, who's NotAMorningPerson, that he's a real bear in the morning. |
| 278 | -->'''Doc:''' I'd say it's too early for puns...but that presumes at some point there's a correct time for them. |
| 279 | * IndianBurialGround: Tawny asks if the "outlaw" paintball field (where safety rules are ignored) is something like an old burial ground where [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1229.html "they only buried the really stupid ones."]] |
| 280 | * InfiniteCanvas: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1206.html This strip]] is made in a vertical alignment, and goes far beyond the three panels of a regular strip. |
| 281 | * InMemoriam: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autoinmemoriam.html A strip was posted in the wake of Bob Gurnsey's passing]] as a way to honor and thank him for inventing paintball. |
| 282 | -->'''Doc''': Indirectly, I owe him for what I am today, and that's not the sort of debt that is easily repaid. Rest in Peace, Bob. And thanks. |
| 283 | * InnocentInaccurate: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1357.html While playing]] some ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' at Doc's, it's implied that Kasi's game character "teabags" Jinx's character. |
| 284 | -->'''Jinx''': ...[[BeatingADeadPlayer why do you keep crouching over my guy?]]\ |
| 285 | '''Kasi''': Isn't that what you're supposed to do? |
| 286 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: Doc's antics regularly drive Red to drink. |
| 287 | ** In a caffiene withdrawl-induced stupor, Doc blunders destructively about, tossing trees, prompting Red to pull out [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1925.html a flask.]] |
| 288 | --> '''Red''': [[Film/{{Airplane}} Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.]] |
| 289 | ** During a weekend where [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1868.html he winds up getting over a hundred players]] and being told that they're almost out of paint, Red requests the entire bottle of whiskey, rather than just a flask of it. |
| 290 | * InnocentInnuendo: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1348.html In this strip]] Pirta beats up a customer who asked for brass nipples for his paintball gun, thinking "he was trying some perverted pick-up line!" |
| 291 | * InterspeciesRomance: Jake (skunk) and Pirta (snow leopard), Kasi's mother (Cheetah) and Howie (wolf). Technically Snowshoe (Canadian Lynx) and Tawny (Bobcat) as well, but it's fairly hard to tell unless you [[AllThereInTheManual check the cast page]]. |
| 292 | * ItCameFromTheFridge: Twice, both times it was a tentacled monstrosity. |
| 293 | * ItTastesLikeFeet: Doc thinks [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1049.html that Red Bull tastes like "Rancid axle grease".]] |
| 294 | * ItMakesSenseInContext: In [[https://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3954.html this strip]] Doc is explaining the wormhole gun's indestructability. Roger [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] from this trope by name. Though he's not sure why. |
| 295 | * ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1344.html "Oh, my mom doesn't have anything against caffeine."]] |
| 296 | * JawDrop: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2190.html Just about EVERYONE]] when Doc [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2189.html gets a kiss from a female polar bear.]] |
| 297 | * JumpingOutOfACake: Used for the [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb323.html second anniversary strip,]] although Doc's plan to use a cutting laser to cut the cake threatens the survival of the unseen woman inside. |
| 298 | * KickMePrank: In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb767.html this strip]], swampy sticks such a sign to Roger's back. The text on it reads "If you can read this, run like hell", and is attached with the text facing inward, so other players can read it through the prototype {{invisibility cloak}} that Rog is wearing. |
| 299 | ** As well, In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb777.html this strip a few days later]], it's revealed the other side of the sign is a target, playing the trope straight. |
| 300 | * KillSat: Roj used one in a game [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb139.html once]]. |
| 301 | * KissOfDistraction: Kasi uses [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1358.html a smooch of distraction]] to beat Jinx in a video game. His reaction [[GirlsHaveCooties wasn't quite blissful]], however. |
| 302 | * KlatchianCoffee: |
| 303 | ** The crew of ''The Whiteboard'', after (or in the middle of) a particularly interesting New Years' party (and that's saying something), manages by accident to create a coffee strong enough to cure astigmatism, boost intellect, and [[BreastExpansion add a cup size to women]]. The effects are temporary. |
| 304 | ** Snowshoe tells of a day that he tried Doc's coffee, to keep him going for a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping) Black Friday]] sale at the store he worked at that started at 4 AM, and finally got to sleep at 8 PM... the following Tuesday. [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2741.html He didn't even finish the cup.]] |
| 305 | * LamePunReaction: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb308.html Found here]]. |
| 306 | -->'''Doc''': What the heck is this? It looks like a furry bat!\ |
| 307 | '''Roger''': Obviously that's a hair club for men. ''(After getting hit over the head by Doc with said club)'' ...see how useful that was? |
| 308 | * LethalChef: Sandy describes Swampy's cooking as something like "Less Lethal". [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3380.html 3380]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3381.html 3381]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3382.html 3382]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3383.html Clearly Swampy doen't belong in the Kitchen]]. |
| 309 | * LetsGetDangerous: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb956.html One round of paintball]] shows us a "bubblehead" who at first acts like an idiot, "stayin' here to defend th' flag" in a center flag game[[note]]meaning that his base has no flag to defend[[/note]], but as the round progresses he basically winds up winning it for his team singlehandedly, and without a lot of effort. |
| 310 | * LimitedWardrobe: Doc's closet is shown to be filled with almost nothing but black T-shirts. In a FourthWallMailSlot comic he later explains that it's because they're cheap and hide grease stains. While Swampy's dresser is found to contain [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2327.html two paintball jerseys, one pair of pants, one pair of boxers, and two spare hats]]. |
| 311 | * LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: Originally the regular cast members were funny animals in a world where many of the people were featureless "bubblehead" humans, due to [[FurriesAreEasierToDraw furries being easier to draw]], but starting in 2012 the artist started using funny animals exclusively for all characters, regulars or otherwise. [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1853.html Fan-favorite recurring "bubbleheads" Larry and Daryl became squirrels,]] from suggestions on the forum. |
| 312 | * ListOfTransgressions: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1248.html A cop has a list of complaints]] [[LongList several pages in length.]] |
| 313 | * LogicBomb: One [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1684.html gets dropped on Red]] by a player arguing that a ball that breaks in the gun counts as tagging the player out, between "friendly fire" rules and hits on equipment counting as a hit on the player. |
| 314 | * LongRunner: The comic has been on the net since June 2002 and reached 3000 strips on Jan. 27, 2020. |
| 315 | * LoopholeAbuse: Cross-country skis are perfectly acceptable on a Paintball Field. |
| 316 | * LukeIAmYourFather: In a variation of the trope Jinx's friend Kasi turned out to have been Howie's stepdaughter. Both of them knew, but it was certainly unexpected for the readers. |
| 317 | * LuminescentBlush: Sandy shows one of these when the usual crowd is cheering Swampy's having slept with her the night before. |
| 318 | [[/folder]] |
| 319 | |
| 320 | [[folder: Tropes: M to R]] |
| 321 | * MacrossMissileMassacre: Launched from their AwesomePersonnelCarrier in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1283.html this strip]] as a response to a [[ZombieApocalypse zombie outbreak]]. |
| 322 | * MagneticWeapons: Roger's [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb121.html paintball rail gun.]] |
| 323 | * ManInAKilt: Bruno in a [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2624.html one-off]], Red tried to convince him to wear underwear. |
| 324 | * MassiveNumberedSiblings: Jinx and his 8 sisters. |
| 325 | * MassOhCrap: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2023.html Everyone was happy that Daryl finally won a match with a paint grenade.]] Then everyone learned that Daryl's prize was a ''whole case of Mark 40 paint grenades!'' |
| 326 | * MathematiciansAnswer: In a FourthWallMailSlot strip, this is Jinx's response when asked [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2230.html what the best perk of hanging around Doc's shop is]]: "The toys, the danger or all the hot girls who think you're cute?" |
| 327 | * MatterReplicator: Doc and Roger [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1622.html build one]] for the sake of teleporting mugs of beer directly to the consumer. |
| 328 | * MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: During Doc's date with [[spoiler:Cara]], laser beams can be seen in the distance outside her window in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2426.html this strip]], [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2427.html this one]], and [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2431.html this one]]. Several strips later, we discover that Roger spent that same night [[spoiler:fighting a bunch of robots, and the colors of the lasers involved match those seen in the above strips.]] |
| 329 | * MeatVersusVeggies: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb231.html "Vegetables are what food eats."]] Poor Rainman, who is a rabbit in a cast full of carnivores. |
| 330 | ** Doc is seen on a date with a panda (which are 99% herbivore) who expresses disgust over seeing him eat meat. |
| 331 | * MisappliedPhlebotinum: Multiple cases. Doc uses a teleporter to get pizza delivered to his shop, and Roger once built a Tokamak fusion reactor into an Autococker. |
| 332 | * MoralMyopia: After Pirta uses her tail as a means of drawing fire without putting herself at risk, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3224.html her opponent complains to the ref]] - who promptly points out that the opponent, a rabbit, had used the same tactic earlier that day with his ears. |
| 333 | * MoreDakka: [[ZigZaggingTrope Lampshaded, averted, played straight, mocked, and wholeheartedly indulged in many times.]] |
| 334 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3122.html In this comic, BOTH teams ascribe to this tactic.]] |
| 335 | * MustHaveCaffeine: Doc. Just like [[AuthorAvatar the man he's based on]], Doc likes to spend long hours at the workbench and knocks back "pick-me-ups" like water. As a result he pretty much runs on the stuff, and he often resorts to brewing his own concoctions because the regular stuff "isn't strong enough". Course, in later strips it's gotten a bit exaggerated. |
| 336 | ** In an early "Q and A" strip, Doc states that if he could have one superpower, it'd be "never need to sleep" |
| 337 | ** Goes to ridiculous levels when the refrigerator full of Mountain Dew is crushed, the coffee machine wasn't fixed from its ''last'' misadventure, and Doc resorts to drinking energy drinks. By the [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1058.html 5-gallon bucket.]] |
| 338 | ** Improving coffee machines is high on Doc's activity list. Like when having found a BMW motorcycle engine. |
| 339 | * MyEyesAreUpHere: Cara to Doc due to Doc being an incurable gearhead. Doc had been [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2306.html inspecting the underside of Cara's car]] and [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2307.html she objected]]. |
| 340 | * MyInstinctsAreShowing: In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1587.html this]] and following strip, feline Pirta pounces a rodent customer, her instincts getting the better of her. |
| 341 | * MysteriousAnimalSenses: Occasionally, when the field is fogged over Red's solution is to have the [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2942.html rabbits play against bloodhounds.]] |
| 342 | * NakedApron: Pirta [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2376.html sports one]] when greeting Jake on their first night of living together, even thinking "[[LampshadeHanging Better not forget]] [[{{Fanservice}} the cheesecake]]!" |
| 343 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1651.html Sandy and Pirta]] disagree, at least when the person in question is Doc. The sight of him naked sends them into catatonic shock. |
| 344 | * NearDeathExperience: Starting [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1084.html here,]] though a bit unusual as the manifestation is telling him he ''should'' have died. A long time ago. |
| 345 | --> "Son, you use high explosives just to make breakfast. We're amazed you made it past puberty." |
| 346 | * NewYearsResolution: Many characters make those, with predictable results. One year Roger managed to break about ten out of a dozen on the very first day. |
| 347 | * NoMouth: Character are often drawn without mouths unless they are being particularly vocal. |
| 348 | * NonMammalMammaries: Pretty much all of the regularly depicted female funny animals (all based on mammal species) are rather well endowed with human style breasts, which isn't treated in the comic as being unusual in any way. |
| 349 | * TheNoseless: Just about every human drawn in the comic has a mostly featureless "bubblehead" head, save a brief period in 2011 where the artist experimented with more detailed humans, with noses being one of the details left off. |
| 350 | * NoodleImplements: An overcaffeinated Shoey and Tawny consider something with [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2829.html whipped cream and a feather duster]]. |
| 351 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 352 | ** How it happened isn't shown, but in the background of the last panel of [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1542.html this strip]] the golf course that Roger and Doc are playing at is shown to be a disaster-strewn wreck. Doc is talking with a police officer, who asks "... a golf club?", to which Doc replies "Well, we did modify it a little." |
| 353 | ** Whatever happened between Doc and Packrat has yet to be told, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2969.html Red]] and [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2970.html Swampy's]] guesses being way off. |
| 354 | * NostalgiaFilter: Sent up in the paintball domain starting [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1143.html here]] and in the next strip, comparing paintballing in the past to that in the present. |
| 355 | * NotThatKindOfDoctor: While Doc may have been working on becoming a doctor at one point, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb995.html judging from the boxes in his basement,]] in spite of the nickname he isn't actually one, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb380.html but it beats having the ER staff laugh at you again.]] However, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb221.html Doc's medical skills were probably why the ER staff laughed at him in the first place.]] Later, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2153.html when he introduces himself to Cara]] he explains away the nickname as being due to WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoons. |
| 356 | * OhCrap: |
| 357 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb689.html Sandy and Pirta find out about Doc's webcam.]] |
| 358 | ** When Roger heard his new {{BFG}} go off at the chronographer station: |
| 359 | ---> '''*KRAKOOM!*\ |
| 360 | Roger:''' ''[[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb1971.html SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP!]]'' |
| 361 | ** Doc tears open a door in the basement of his great-grandfather's rundown mansion and finds a room stacked to the ceiling with boxes labeled "explosives." 3 guesses what he says. |
| 362 | *** Swampy is confused as to why this is a big deal since Doc and Roger play around with high grade explosives for fun on an almost daily basis. When Doc explains that it's old dynamite leaking unstable nitroglycerin that could be set off by the slightest breeze, Swampy steps on the gas outpacing Doc. |
| 363 | * ObliviousMockery: Doc's new potential girlfriend, Cara does a little of this while [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2161.html indicating that she had only seen one other]] [[BearsAreBadNews polar bear]] in town. [[StuffBlowingUp Via the evening news]]. |
| 364 | * OldMaster: It isn't often that Red actually picks up a marker and plays, but when he does, watch out! |
| 365 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: All of the regular cast but Pirta and Sandy are referred to by their field handles, and the cast's real names are often not known, let alone regularly used. |
| 366 | * OnlySixFaces: The humans (for the most part, with the exception of a brief period in 2011) only have ''one'' face. [[CastOfSnowflakes The furry cast is more varied.]] Doc Nickel isn't above a bit of a TakeThatMe on the subject, as seen in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwbaf10.html this]] AprilFoolsDay strip. [[note]]See both right-hand corners of the grid.[[/note]] |
| 367 | ** Also, in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2410a.html the comic detailing the different dalmations]], they all look identical. |
| 368 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Bandit [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb752.html suggests they skip a last game and go straight to eating.]] |
| 369 | * OpenMouthInsertFoot: |
| 370 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb591.html In this strip]] Pirta and Swampy get into a brief discussion of his nickname. After Swampy asks about her name in an idiot moment for him, he comments that he can skip the appetizer, as he'll just chew on his own foot. |
| 371 | ** In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1707.html this]] strip, a customer that's been hassling [[OnlySaneWoman Pirta]] for a date is asked if he'd be okay with the situation were their positions reversed, and she were trying to get him to cheat on his girlfriend. He accidentally lets slip that he'd be fine with cheating on his girlfriend Jenny for a date with Pirta. He winds up thrown bodily out of the store after being beat up by Pirta for his troubles. |
| 372 | * OpenSaysMe: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb3889.html When Doc hears the pained voice of the missing Jinx from behind a boarded-up door]], [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb3890.html Doc tears the door clear off its hinges.]] |
| 373 | * OrwellianRetcon: Roger pushed [[ShmuckBait the button]] for [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autobutton14.html the final time]] (according to WordOfGod), and most comics from the previous six months suddenly developed color. Roger is unaware that anything has changed, and by implication, the other characters are also unaware ([[http://the-whiteboard.com/autokachunk.html or are they?]])... and even that particular strip got retconned; it first appeared with the first two panels in black and white and the third in color. |
| 374 | * OverlyLongGag: Doc's lecture to Sandy and Pirta about the specifics of a [=CO2=] tank, thankfully made a lot more tolerable with the girls' LampshadeHanging |
| 375 | * PaintballEpisode: The author knows the game inside-and-out. He makes markers for the game, and at one point ran his own paintball field. |
| 376 | * PantheraAwesome: The cast page shows us several feline characters. |
| 377 | ** Primary supporting characters: |
| 378 | *** Pirta, a snow leopard |
| 379 | *** Cassiopeia, and her daughter Kassi, cheetahs |
| 380 | *** Robert "Snowshoe", a Canadian lynx |
| 381 | *** Tawny, a bobcat |
| 382 | ** Background characters: |
| 383 | *** Mr. Quisenberry, Jake the skunk's lion boss at the bank |
| 384 | *** Duncan, One of Jake's coworkers, is a puma |
| 385 | *** Anthony, a tiger contractor who repairs Doc's oft-destroyed shop |
| 386 | * ParkingPayback: One character parked in the no-parking zone in front of the loading bay of Doc's paintball shop/underground fortress. Doc's friends proceeded to drive a heavy excavator through said bay as if the car weren't there. |
| 387 | * PassThePopcorn: |
| 388 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb078.html Bandit and Roger enjoy a bowl of popcorn while listening to Doc smash the heck out of a telemarketer.]] |
| 389 | ** The "[[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb441.html Selling Tickets]]" variant happens occasionally too. |
| 390 | ** And again [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1729.html during the 2013 Halloween party.]] |
| 391 | --->'''Doc''': [[AreWeGettingThis Please tell me the cameras are recording this]].\ |
| 392 | '''Roger''': Damn straight. This kind of thing is Website/YouTube ''gold''. |
| 393 | ** A FanService strip (in both the literal ''and'' figurative sense) [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto040106.html has Roger eating some]] while watching Sandy. |
| 394 | ** When Doc and Roger are trying to get back to normal after switching species, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2673.html Kasi is munching on some popcorn]] while Doc and Roger's attempts are going hilariously awry. |
| 395 | ** Something caused an emergency door to slam shut, and Shoey has found the demolition saw. [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3513.html Pirta and Tawny stay and watch]]. |
| 396 | * ThePatientHasLeftTheBuilding: After Doc woke up from yet another concussion he just [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1100.html walked back to his shop]]. Nevermind the IV bag still connected to his arm or medics shooting [[AnnoyingArrows tranquilizer darts]]. |
| 397 | * PercussiveMaintenance: All over the place. It actually works every once in a great, long while, like in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1373.html this strip.]] |
| 398 | * PieInTheFace: |
| 399 | ** Doc receives one in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb383.html this strip,]] [[spoiler: ultimately revealed to have been set up by Bandit]]. |
| 400 | ** In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autobutton11.html this strip]] Doc is shown to have been hit by multiple pies after Roger had pressed [[SchmuckBait a button labeled "do not press"]]. |
| 401 | ** Sandy gets one [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autobutton04.html here]] thanks again to Roger and that button he shouldn't be pushing. |
| 402 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb469.html Weaponized on the paintball field,]] with Doc using a pie from Roger's lunch to tag out an opposing team member. |
| 403 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2045.html "Pie tag!"]], courtesy of Bandit. |
| 404 | ** The Mysterious Basement Vault arc of 2023 [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2943.html threw a pie]]. Unfortunately, it had been waiting so long, it was [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3792.html basically fossilized]]. |
| 405 | * PoweredArmor: |
| 406 | ** Roger once improvised one for reffing, but scrapped it after he fell over and needed a can opener to get back up. Some later strips suggest he might be trying a MiniMecha design. |
| 407 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1731.html Doc apparently has two suits of the stuff]]: the Mark III (His "Ref Armor") and the Mark V (Zombie Killer). Kasi borrows the later to stop Jinx, who'd been mutated by some of Doc's more experimental Mountain Dew. |
| 408 | * PressStartToGameOver: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1109.html Larry doesn't have the hang of grenades yet]], and one goes off just as Red yells "Go!", covering his entire team in paint. |
| 409 | * PrimalScene: |
| 410 | ** Of a sort. They're not Jinx's parents, but Sandy and Swamps are in a room having a romantic evening involving loads of salad oil. Said salad oil makes the doorknob too slippery to open. By the time they're let out of the room, Sandy desperately needs to relieve herself and practically knocks over Jinx as she runs to the nearest loo--wearing nothing more than her fur. According to Doc, Jinx spoke of the incident with [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2566.html "hushed, reverent tones"]], and he's pretty sure Jinx will be fine. |
| 411 | ** Another time Jinx walked in to his parents' bedroom on Valentine's Day, fortunately they still had their underwear on as they drank wine by candlelight and he had no idea what was going on. |
| 412 | * ProducePelting: Cara's Coffee [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2634.html apparently]] provided tomatoes and stale pastries for Swampy's routine on Open Mic Night. The next strip shows the aftermath. |
| 413 | * PunnyName |
| 414 | ** Pirta is Inuit for "snowpack," the pun comes from the fact that she's a snow leopard, at least according to her. |
| 415 | ** "Kasi" is Swahili for "fast" or "speed". |
| 416 | ** "[[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb216.html Can't you tell?]] I'm [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry]] [[Series/WelcomeBackKotter Kotter]]!" |
| 417 | * PuppyDogEyes: Jinx, it seems, is able to [[https://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3770.html use puppy-dog eyes over the phone]] to get Doc to agree to something. |
| 418 | * PuppyLove: |
| 419 | ** Kasi towards Jinx. At present the feeling is somewhat [[GirlsHaveCooties one-sided]]. |
| 420 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2102.html Jinx may have this to Robin.]] |
| 421 | * PyrrhicVictory: In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1189.html this]] strip, Roger describes the aftermath of an indoor snowball fight as being a Pyrrhic victory after the use of a snowblower results in Doc's office getting three feet of snow dumped into it. |
| 422 | * QuizzicalTilt: The girls do this when they discover and [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1313.html watch]] the ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' on UsefulNotes/LaserDisc. |
| 423 | * ReadyForLovemaking: On their first proper date, Cara surprises Doc by [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2421.html wearing just three articles of clothing]], with the other two [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2430.html getting featured later]]. |
| 424 | * ReelTorture: Doc [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb389.html punishes]] Bandit for spiking his shampoo with Nair by duct-taping him to a couch and forcing him to watch Martha Stewart. |
| 425 | * RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Pirta walks [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1125.html straight into one]] when she challenges others to make sexually suggestive remarks to her after one customer at Howie's gets thrown across the room for doing so. [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1127.html There's even a list of remarks, organized in alphabetical order and by degree of suggestiveness.]] |
| 426 | * RightOutOfMyClothes: |
| 427 | ** In an homage to ''Comicstrip/{{Peanuts}}'', when [[BearsAreBadNews Doc]] gets hit with a giant snowball launched from a catapult, he's blown off-panel with a "POW!", and Charlie Brown's clothes (which he wasn't even wearing) sent flying into view in the last panel. |
| 428 | ** To clean up players that have been soaked in paint from Doc's paintball machine gun, Bruno uses a pressure washer that [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1962.html blasts the players' clothes off of them]] in the process of getting them clean. |
| 429 | * RingRingCRUNCH: |
| 430 | ** Subverted in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb428.html this strip.]] Alarm clock rings. Doc's paw comes out from under the covers with what looks like a Colt 1911. [[ShuttingUpNow Clock promptly shuts up.]] |
| 431 | ** In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb291.html this strip]] Doc applies the more common version of the trope, using a mallet to smash the alarm clock. |
| 432 | * RipVanTinkle: During an arc where Doc is unconscious for days Sandy wonders out loud why he's at the hospital when the shop has an ICU now. Swampy asks if she's willing to change his bedpan and she gets the point. |
| 433 | * RoughOveralls: In strips [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2348.html 2348]] and [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2349.html 2349]], Pirta -- who is repainting her apartment -- is shown wearing overalls, likely to keep her regular clothes neat as painting is messy; she also has no undershirt. |
| 434 | * RulesLawyer: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1684.html A badger abusing paintball rules regarding broken balls counting a person out]] takes his complaints to several refs at Red's field. In retaliation, the staff arranges a game with [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1688.html everyone else against the one badger,]] which in spite of said badger's complaint [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1690.html isn't prohibited by the rules.]] |
| 435 | * RunningGag: Sandy's desk being decorated for holidays when she is away from it. |
| 436 | ** Cara's coffee shop evidently serves quite good croissants, and they're freshly polished, too. |
| 437 | * RunningOnAllFours: |
| 438 | ** In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1602.html this strip]] Bandit is shown running on all fours to catch up with others, even though normally when he runs it's on two feet like a human. |
| 439 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb972.html Doc can also manage a pretty good turn of speed]]. |
| 440 | [[/folder]] |
| 441 | |
| 442 | [[folder: Tropes: S to Z]] |
| 443 | * SaintBernardRescue: When Doc thinks Jinx and Kasi got buried under snow [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1190.html he is going to be the rescue dog:]] |
| 444 | -->Sandy! I need the first-aid kit and the avalanche poles! Call for a medevac chopper! And find my collar with the little brandy cask! |
| 445 | * SceneryCensor: Used straight [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb966.html at least]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb970.html a few]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb689.html times]], including for one {{April Fools|Day}}' [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwbaf14.html comic.]] |
| 446 | * ScheduleSlip: |
| 447 | ** Not for the comic itself, but Doc's work orders in-universe. One (unfinished) order was apparently chiseled into a [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb348.html clay tablet]] when it was placed, [[DontExplainTheJoke the implication being it was sent in several millennia ago]]. |
| 448 | ** Happens to the strip, from time to time. Usually accompanied by a filler cut-and-paste strip in which characters look like flounder with both eyes on the same side of their heads. Recently the author started using regular strips (like [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1512.html this one]]) with text replaced to some out-of-canon gag. Also accompanied by an explanation for why that day's strip isn't up. The filler strips never appear in the main archive, but some of the flounder strips can be seen [[http://the-whiteboard.com/scraps/ here.]] |
| 449 | * SecretTestOfCharacter: After [[spoiler:Packrat]] steals the Wormhole gun, which could "[[RealityBreakingParadox erase reality as we know it]]" as Roger put it if misused, Doc has Pirta hit him hard enough so that he can visit the Jackal and ask him to help fix the mess. The Jackal says he can, but at the price of [[spoiler:Doc's relationship with Cara]], which was a product of the gun's disruption of probabilities. Doc hesitates for one panel before consenting, then races to [[spoiler:Cara's coffee shop]] to check once he wakes up. The strips that follow his arrival suggest that things have changed accordingly, but this is subverted in the strip after. Doc then gets a message (via carrier) from the Jackal that he passed and "Time is not so fragile a thing". |
| 450 | * SelfDeprecation: Doc Nickel takes a swing at himself in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwbaf10.html this]] AprilFoolsDay strip, on the subject of OnlySixFaces.[[note]]see the top and bottom right corners[[/note]] |
| 451 | * SeriousBusiness: The regulars take paintball safety '''very''' seriously, where people removing their masks while still on the field will get it duct taped onto their head, with in one case the threat of staples as an escalation. |
| 452 | * ShmuckBait: In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autobutton01.html this strip,]] Roger is presented with a button with a warning sign reading "For the love of God do ''not'' push this button!", as a filler strip. Doc Nickel invited readers to suggest the results of pressing the button, and got several hundred replies (after expecting only a dozen or so). Strips illustrating the suggestions were usually posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. |
| 453 | * ShoutOut: Quite a few of them are for fairly old movies and old TV series, the list available [[ShoutOut/TheWhiteboard here]]. |
| 454 | * ShowSomeLeg: Pirta [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb928.html intentionally uses her looks to boost sales,]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb926.html one time]] managing to get a customer to spend [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb927.html $367.84]] on paintball merchandise. |
| 455 | -->'''Pirta:''' Show a guy a little tail and you can sell 'im a box of burnt gravel. |
| 456 | * ShowerScene: |
| 457 | ** Done as part of the 2007 AprilFoolsDay strip, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autoaf07.html here,]] much to Sandy's discomfort. |
| 458 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autoaf2012.html Done again]] for 2012's AprilFoolsDay, with Pirta as the victim. The second time the end result wasn't quite so pleasant for Doc and Roger. |
| 459 | ** And then [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autobutton07.html Doc himself]] [[CallItKarma fell victim to the gag]] [[RunningGag via]] [[RascallyRaccoon Roger's]] repeated [[ButtonMashing mashing]] of the button mentioned in the ShmuckBait entry. |
| 460 | * ShownTheirWork: In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto4th05.html this July Fourth]] strip, take a close look at Roger's shirt. "Red legs" is the nickname for US Artillery personnel, from the red stripe along the leg of their uniform pants during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. |
| 461 | * SideBet: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2190.html Everyone is astounded]] by Doc's BigDamnKiss in 2017, while Sandra and Swampy try to figure out who won the pool. The closest bet was "karate chop to the mouth". A later strip shows [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2194.html that Doc himself won it]]. |
| 462 | * SilenceIsGolden: A few times |
| 463 | ** For a paintball game, from [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb793.html #793]] to [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb801.html #801]] |
| 464 | ** For the SnowballFight arc, from [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1596.html #1596]] to [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1605.html #1605]]. |
| 465 | ** Jinx's and Kasi's ForcedTransformation battle, from [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3416.html #3416]] to [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3435.html #3435]]. |
| 466 | * {{Sideboob}}: As part of the 2012 AprilFoolsDay comic, the audience is treated to a ShowerScene [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autoaf2012.html with Pirta,]] who's turned so that only the side of a breast is showing, with fur covering other details of her nudity. |
| 467 | * SleepCute: The guys [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb286.html after the winter game]], especially Jinx. |
| 468 | * SnowballFight: |
| 469 | ** An ''indoor'' fight breaks out in Doc's office, in the story arc where Kasi was introduced, starting [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1182.html here.]] |
| 470 | ** Kasi starts another fight [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1596.html here,]] which turns into an EscalatingWar of DisproportionateRetribution, complete with LampshadeHanging by Jake. |
| 471 | * SomethingElseAlsoRises: In [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1452.html this strip]] from a trip into Doc's subconscious, he wishes a bunch of beautiful women into existence. He follows it up by wishing them naked, at which point the jackal with him has his sunglasses suddenly fly up off his nose with a "poing!". |
| 472 | * SpamAttack: Doc and Roger are worshipers in the Church of The Spam Attack, particularly the varieties involving high explosives. |
| 473 | * SpentShellsShower: During a [[ZombieApocalypse zombie outbreak]], we get [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1573.html this shower]] from the dual .50 cal machine gun mount of Doc's AwesomePersonnelCarrier. |
| 474 | * SpiderSense: Apparently, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2104.html Howie gets this]]. Especially when Doc is inbound with a truckload of rowdy paintballers. |
| 475 | * SpitTake: Doc does one of these [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2161.html here]] when he learns that his potential new girlfriend, Cara has already [[ObliviousMockery seen Doc]] [[StuffBlowingUp being Doc]] on the local news. |
| 476 | * SpoilerTitle: [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb635.html The one time]] the crew went to a movie theatre, being in the mood for some mindless violence: |
| 477 | -->'''Pirta:''' Let me guess. We're seeing the one with all the guns, fast cars and explosions. |
| 478 | -->'''Roger:''' Well, those three subjects ''are'' mentioned specifically in the title. |
| 479 | * StableTimeLoop: Starting [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1368.html here]] and confirmed [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1371.html here]], Doc and Roger have created a time-traveling wormhole that goes back about a week. |
| 480 | * StockAnimalDiet: Aside from caffeine and alcohol, Doc's diet tends to be pinniped-based products, the foxes and felines eat a fair number of rodents, and Rainy favors salads. |
| 481 | * {{Streaking}}: In the 2016 AprilFoolsDay edition, [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2075.png Pirta ran by screaming in terror]] because her clothes had suddenly ''evaporated...'' |
| 482 | ** A year later, a husky named Miki '''''WILLINGLY''''' [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autoapril1-17.png took off her clothes and ran by stark naked]] '''''[[LampshadeHanging RIGHT AFTER]]''''' [[LampshadeHanging Swampy hung a lampshade]] about April 1st! |
| 483 | *** And she did it '''[[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2826.png AGAIN]] in 2019,''' and '''[[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3540.png YET AGAIN]]''' on 2022! |
| 484 | * StuffBlowingUp: Frequently. The local fire department even has a [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1003.html separate alarm board set aside for Doc's shop.]] |
| 485 | * StuffedIntoATrashcan: Happens numerous times with a few variations. Most instances involve a heavy object to help keep the trashed individual in place. |
| 486 | ** Roger, starting [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb117.html here.]] |
| 487 | ** A potential customer [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb435.html planning to misuse a marker]]. |
| 488 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb828.html Swampy, too.]] |
| 489 | ** Also a rat in a [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1594.html mailbox.]] |
| 490 | * SuddenAnatomy: Characters usually talk without their mouths visible. Occasionally they do when they're saying something with a lot of force or emotion. |
| 491 | * SureLetsGoWithThat: The earliest example is [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb160.html here.]] |
| 492 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: |
| 493 | ** From one of the filler strips: |
| 494 | --->'''Doc:''' Hey Roj? Did you take my last Dew?\ |
| 495 | '''Roger:''' You can't prove anything! I don't even ''own'' a flamethrower.\ |
| 496 | '''Doc:''' Oooh-kay. I was just asking because...\ |
| 497 | '''Roger:''' It must've been Swampy! He probably took it!\ |
| 498 | '''Doc:''' Well, Swamps doesn't usually set fire to the fridge to cover his tracks. |
| 499 | ** And [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1496.html again after Jake has]] [[ImagineSpot a moment of mentally drifting involving imagining]] [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Pirta and Tawny getting intimate with one another]], and is startled by Sandy. |
| 500 | ---> '''Jake:''' WHAT! No! I wasn't imagining anything like that! Why do you ask! |
| 501 | ** And [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb1974.html this]] when Roger accidently let a little girl use his new {{BFG}}... |
| 502 | ---> '''Roger:''' Here you go young lady, try this one instead! I'm told it's very nice and we already chronographed it and the tank is full and I'm pretty sure the battery is charged and it's much less likely to destroy the world! You go have fun now!\ |
| 503 | '''Red:''' "Destroy the world"?\ |
| 504 | '''Roger:''' What? Nothing! Figure of speech! As far as you know! |
| 505 | * SweetPollyOliver: Spoofed [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1092.html here]] by Sandy, in response to a customer insisting on talking to one of the guys at Doc's paintball shop, by putting on a fake mustache and asking again what he wanted. |
| 506 | * TakeAThirdOption: The closest option in [[TheBet the pool]] was [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2190.html a karate chop to the mouth]]. |
| 507 | * TakeThat: |
| 508 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb319.html Taking a swing at journalists who claim paintball is a war simulator.]] |
| 509 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb417.html The password to Doc's e-mail account]] is "[[http://www.pbnation.com/ pbn]]suxxors". |
| 510 | * ATankardOfMooseUrine: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2433.html The wine that Cara has.]] The very ''name'', "Épouventable eaux d'égout" translates to "Terrible Sewage". |
| 511 | * TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Doc builds "Backup Airsmith Hologram" to stay in the shop while he goes to the paintball field. He and Roger [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb353.html agree]] that a set of recorded messages is enough for the kind of clients they normally get. [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb355.html A subversion]] follows immediately. |
| 512 | * TastesLikePurple: A [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1126.html bar fight concussion]] results in a victim of Pirta's abuse claiming that they can taste spots. |
| 513 | * TaughtByTelevision: Sandy, who had no prior experience with paintballing, is shown repairing a marker at Doc's shop after months of reading the shop's e-mail, and says she figures [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb481.html she could probably build a whole nuclear reactor]] because of that experience. |
| 514 | * TeleportersAndTransporters: |
| 515 | ** Doc made a "Pizza Teleporter" so he could get food in seconds. Unfortunately it only teleports to a specific spot on his counter, trying to send it to say, the field results in the toppings and crust separating or cheese blocking up an engine. |
| 516 | ** At Howie's bar, Doc and Roger tried making a method to teleport beer to customers. It ate most of the bar instead. |
| 517 | * TemptingFate: |
| 518 | ** In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb362.html this strip]] it starts to rain, leading to Jinx commenting "at least it's not snowing." Bandit immediately replies "Shh! It might hear you!" |
| 519 | ** Doc asks "What could possibly go wrong?" in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb657.html this strip,]] when using explosives to take care of [[ItCameFromTheFridge some seriously expired fridge food]]. |
| 520 | ** Later, when locked in Doc's shop during the cleanup following the 2011 ZombieApocalypse, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1325.html Sandy asks what trouble the guys could get into playing a game of poker.]] She and Pirta realize the error of asking that question, in the second panel, and in the last panel she gets an answer, in response muttering "yeah, yeah, me and my big mouth." |
| 521 | ** Invoked intentionally when the people at Red's paintball field can see a huge wildfire off in the distance. |
| 522 | --->'''Bruno:''' The fire would have to jump the river to get here, and I have taken precautions. (...) I washed my car and invited a bunch of people over for a barbeque this weekend. It's practically guaranteed to rain. |
| 523 | * TheBet: A pool bet involving what Doc's new LoveInterest, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2190.html Cara would do to him]]. [[DidntSeeThatComing None of them were right.]] |
| 524 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: ''Everyone else'' when Daryl gets his big prize: [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2023.html an entire crate of Mark-40 paint grenades]], [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1120.html which he and Larry can and have]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2000.html used to glorious effect]]--when they haven't gone [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1109.html hilariously amiss]]. Daryl, however, is overjoyed. |
| 525 | * ThisMeansWar: Kasi (the young cheetah girl) says to Doc, after he dumped a bunch of snow on her, "[[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1184.html You realize, of course...]] that this means '''War'''." |
| 526 | * ThisIsThePartWhere: |
| 527 | ** When [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb740.html describing to Red how her day has been so far]] on her first paintball game, Pirta says she's there because a refrigerator launched by an explosion, the restaurant she was working at was shut down due to contamination with some kind of toxic waste, and that she was brought out to the paintball field against her will. After a panel without a response, she comments that that's the time for him to show shock and dismay. He replies that except for the fridge part, her description of events was pretty normal for Doc's crew. |
| 528 | ** Doc says "This is the part where you run screaming." [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2187.html here]] to Cara after admitting that he's probably dangerous to be around. She replies that she must be using a different script. |
| 529 | * ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb567.html Sandy's blush]] shows very clearly, to the point of Doc saying it's nearly in the infrared. |
| 530 | * TimeForPlanB: When surrounded by the other team at an "outlaw" paintball field, (basically no real rules) in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1262.html this strip,]] the team goes through their options, including [[AttackPatternAlpha Attack Plans B, Delta, and Zero]] (the last involving [[NoodleImplements two zeppelins and a smoke machine]]). |
| 531 | * TimeMachine: The product of a drunken night of inventing. |
| 532 | * TimeStandsStill: Gained in a super-speed version by Doc at one point due to too many [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1059.html caffeinated energy drinks.]] We first see the world from everyone else's perspective involving multiple things (that Doc had touched) exploding and Doc suddenly being found several buildings over with multiple broken walls between his origin and destination. Then we see [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1071.html Doc's side of the story.]] While he doesn't have to deal with light shifting and air friction isn't much of a problem, he does have to deal with lack of friction between his legs and the floor and with inertia, both that of other objects and his own. |
| 533 | * TimeFreezeTrollingSpree: Doc takes advantage of caffeine-induced super speed to, among other things, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1073.html re-arrange some furniture]] and [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1074.html give someone an atomic wedgie]]. Then, reality catches up, resulting in various explosions, fires, and Doc's comatose body being found a mile away. |
| 534 | * ToiletHumor: |
| 535 | ** Poked fun at in [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb905.html this strip,]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the abruptly {{Aborted|Arc}} ''Webcomic/{{PVP}}''/''The Whiteboard'' crossover. |
| 536 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1693.html Roger attempts to set up a camera to look in the ladies' restroom.]] There are a few problems with his plan: 1) it wasn't the ''ladies'' room Roger was crawling over, 2) it was Taco Day at the lunch wagon, and 3) Swampy is using the restroom at that particular moment. |
| 537 | * TorchesAndPitchforks: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb671.html Bruno has this exchange with Red]] just after [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb657.html Doc had blown up his own fridge earlier.]] |
| 538 | -->'''Bruno:''' Red.\ |
| 539 | '''Red:''' Bruno? Wow, that was quick.\ |
| 540 | '''Bruno:''' Turns out we had some... ''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere persuasion]]'' to get out of town. \ |
| 541 | '''Red:''' Somehow, I'm not surprised. [[LampshadeHanging Villagers with torches and pitchforks]]?\ |
| 542 | '''Bruno:''' Close. [[HomeGuard Guardsmen]] with [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier APCs]] and [[MoreDakka fifty-cals]].\ |
| 543 | '''Red:''' You guys are moving up in the world. |
| 544 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Or, in this case, Mountain Dew! Which Doc has his own brewing plant for, and makes several times stronger than the commercial variety. |
| 545 | * TwerpSweating: It's not Cara's father, but [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2384.html her friend Miki who does this to Doc]]. As she's seen Cara get hurt by previous boyfriends, and also knowing that Doc ''is'' indeed that nut she sees on television, [[JustifiedTrope she clearly has good reasons to question him]]. |
| 546 | * {{Underboobs}}: When Pirta reaches up to a mask on display, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1701.html her shirt rises up enough to unintentionally flash a customer with the underside of her breasts.]] The customer is surprised by the flash, but not unappreciative, [[AllMenArePerverts asking her to get a different mask down for him from that same display]]. |
| 547 | * UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Jake and Rainy [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1687.html plot revenge]] on a RulesLawyer who has [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1684.html been pestering]] Red, Bruno, and them. Image enhancement reveals the text in the speech bubble: [[spoiler:I'd tell you what we're going to do, but I think there's a bunch of people watching us, and I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise.]] |
| 548 | ** Lampshaded when Doc says, "[[ThisIsReality This isn't a movie]], and we're not going to try and hide the plot from whoever's watching, so I want everyone to know exactly what we plan to do." [[DoubleSubversion And the next panel says, "Twenty minutes later...."]] |
| 549 | * UnsoundEffect: On [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2820.html this page]], Cara's vintage Volkswagen makes a beetlebeetlebeetle noise. Given the car in question, it's not a big stretch. |
| 550 | * UnwantedGiftPlot: Doc gets many of such gifts returned after Christmas. |
| 551 | * UnwillingSuspension: In earlier strips, [[ButtMonkey Swampy]] had a tendency to wind up [[DuctTapeForEverything duct taped]] or stapled to the ceiling that almost qualified for RunningGag status, until his girlfriend Sandy called Doc out on it. Roger has also been suspended from the ceiling via a staple gun a few times. |
| 552 | * VanityLicensePlate: The [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1560.html Sept 12, 2012 strip]] shows the vanity plate of "FXYLDY" on Sandy's car. |
| 553 | * ViewersAreGeniuses: Some shout-outs are fairly old or obscure (or both) and there is some science which can be difficult to understand, such as Doc's explanation of teleporter physics. |
| 554 | * VisualPun: |
| 555 | ** Like many a TimeTravel story, a time travel arc in May 2011 contains a [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1368.html pair o' Docs]].[[note]]Play on "parodox", for those who missed the "pun" part.[[/note]] |
| 556 | ** [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autobutton06.html This]] strip calls Roger a tool for pressing [[SchmuckBait a big red button]], with the [[XRaySparks X-ray view while he was being zapped]] showing several of his bones being replaced by hand tools. |
| 557 | ** Gino [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2606.html looks into Cara's background]], complaining that the coffee menu is too blurry to read. |
| 558 | * WallOfText: Jinx reels off one of [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2565.html these]] following the [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters rogue]] [[AttackDrone robot]] arc. |
| 559 | * WakingUpElsewhere: The first 2014 strip has Doc waking up on a couch stuck in the middle of a desert, after a New Year's Eve party. |
| 560 | --> '''Doc''' Huh. [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1741.html That must've been some party.]] |
| 561 | * WakingUpAtTheMorgue: Doc wakes up in a hospital room underneath his paintball shop (courtesy of DARPA; ItMakesSenseInContext) covered in a sheet and with a toe tag. Why he woke up there was never explained. |
| 562 | * WalkingTechbane - [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1041.html This customer's mere touch]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1042.html makes markers fall apart.]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1043.html Ordinary hammers fare no better.]] |
| 563 | * WebcomicTime: The characters often spend most (or all) of the summer of each year playing one-days-worth of paintball. Lampshaded all over the place: |
| 564 | ** Comes up [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb051.html here]] first. |
| 565 | ** Roughly a [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb181.html year later]] in real time, they've spent 6 months going to a one day game and invented a paintball gun that launches paintballs before the marker has even been turned on. |
| 566 | ** Later, it comes up again in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1497.html this]] strip. For those at the paintball field it's been only a few minutes, but for Pirta it feels like it's been [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1491.html two weeks.]] |
| 567 | ** The most notorious use of this was one particularly epic day of paintball that took over 2 and a half years to tell. Red [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2220.html mentions not having seen his wife for that long]],, while [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2235.html Pirta and Sandy end up]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2236.html hacking their way through the jungle to find the old store]], [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2237.html which by then is covered in cobwebs]]. It even turns it up to eleven with a ''very'' outdated political banner. |
| 568 | ** The next afternoon, which itself took half a year to tell, had a running gag of Sandy finding [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2261.html her]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2266.html desk]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2297.html lavishly]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2320.html decorated]] based on whatever real-world holiday was happening at the time. [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2533.html Then she makes sure it will never happen again.]] |
| 569 | ** Since Cara's [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2151.html first appearance]] she spends the night with Doc, wakes up late, is the rest of the day at work and then meets up with Doc in her home. She then proceeds to [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2418.html hang a lampshade]] on what amounts to a day in the comic taking a year in realtime. |
| 570 | ** A page from October 2019 features Cara selling [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3792.html coffee at a fogged in registration booth]]. |
| 571 | ** The most recent storyline started [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3476.html January 3, 2022]] with a major snowstorm, resulting in the shop being completely snowed in, and Doc spending the day holding a beach party at an indoor swimming pool. [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3646.html When Mikki said the next day that it would take a few days for the snow to be cleared]], [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3645.html Doc took them outside to show that it was now autumn]]--these two strips having run that September. Cara wonders if it's attributable to global warming. [[WhoWritesThisCrap Mikki thinks bad writing may be the culprit instead]]. |
| 572 | * {{Wedgie}}: During one arc, Doc gives one to Swampy - [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1077.html it was far more effective than he'd anticipated.]] |
| 573 | ** Happens a second time [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3078.html here]] albeit with Roger giving a wedgie to Red using one of his robots. |
| 574 | ** Happens a third and fourth time with [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3313.html Doc]] and [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3321.html Roger]] themselves getting wedgies from one of Roger's robots gone rogue. |
| 575 | * WeirdnessMagnet: Doc's shop, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1173.html according to Jake]], qualifies as one of these. ([[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1099.html Pirta]] agrees.) |
| 576 | * WhamEpisode: "[[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2190.html The Big Kiss]]" story. Doc's [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1621.html bad]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2131.html luck]] with women had been [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb172.html a]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowbvd08.html recurring]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto021406.html gag]] for 14 years. Then Howie tells him there's another polar bear in town -- just to distract him. Then she proves real, then they kiss and, most importantly, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2191.html she doesn't mind being set on fire]]. Since then, Doc is often called "Morty" and has someone to actively try to impress. |
| 577 | * [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim What Does She See In Him?]]: As lampshaded on the cast page, Cara dating Doc raises that question since Doc's "That nutball that keeps showing up on the evening news". [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2345.html Cara has an answer for that.]] |
| 578 | * WhatWouldXDo: |
| 579 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1115.html Daryl asks himself that about Doc]] when on the field, but given Daryl isn't a rather large polar bear who runs a paintball shop, the possible answers don't do him much good. |
| 580 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb101.html WWJMBD]] (John Moses Browning, often considered one of the gods of the firearm world.) |
| 581 | ** Pirta asks herself what Doc would do, in a 1 vs 1 face-off against Tawny on the field, in [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1515.html this strip.]] The exact answer is never shown, but Pirta tries to surprise the opponent, and it almost works. |
| 582 | ** Subverted when Tawny asks [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1536.html what would Doc do about hot weather]]. He simply puts cold beer in his pants, which irks Roger. |
| 583 | * WhatYouAreInTheDark: When given the chance to wipe off a hit and not be seen, Rainman calls himself out. |
| 584 | --> [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb360.html "Integrity means doing what's right, even if nobody is looking."]] |
| 585 | * WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The "Beer Replicator Incident" arc has [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1646.html one]] to condense their dealing with the aftermath before starting the next arc. |
| 586 | * WhosWatchingTheStore: Early on, the issue wasn't mentioned, Doc, Roger and Swampy played together, and the store was closed. Presumably, the town is too small for any competition (besides Walmart's crappy markers). As the cast grows, it's easier to find someone to stay (often Jinx)... but usually they all leave together, anyway. Two cases stand out: |
| 587 | ** Doc did build a [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb353.html "Backup Airsmith Hologram"]], but it [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb355.html didn't work as intended]]. |
| 588 | ** After the [[ComicBookTime 32-month "Longest Day"]] storyline [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2235.html a series of strips]] shows Sandy and Pirta cleaning up the store after the day of disuse. Which looks more like decades. |
| 589 | * WorthIt: |
| 590 | ** Was getting socked for sneaking a kiss from Sandy worth it? According to Swampy, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb405.html "Oh God yes."]] |
| 591 | ** For the sake of an AprilFoolsDay gag, apparently sneaking in a look at [[ShowerScene Pirta in the shower]] [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autoaf2012.html wasn't worth it to Roger and Doc.]] |
| 592 | * WritingLines: In [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autobutton11.html this strip,]] after Roger pushes [[ShmuckBait a certain button]] that gets Doc [[PieInTheFace plastered with thrown creme pies]], he's forced to repeatedly write "I will not push the button again" on a blackboard. |
| 593 | * WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb261.html This]] strip is a ShoutOut to the trope namer, when Swampy steps out onto a rather tall snowdrift, and falls through it completely. |
| 594 | * XDaysSince: Several such signs show up occasionally, like [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb104.html "10 days since last mauling".]] In [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3280.html another strip]] Doc changes "days" to "minutes". |
| 595 | * XRaySparks: In one of the [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autobutton06.html "Don't push this button"]] strips, Roger gets zapped by a lightning bolt when he pushes [[SchmuckBait the button in question]], revealing insides that look like he's gotten some discount surgery in the past. It may be a VisualPun on "tool". |
| 596 | * YouDoNotWantToKnow: A common reaction by the regulars when Sandy or Pirta[[note]]moreso the latter, not having been around the gang for as long as the former[[/note]] asks about any particular weirdness happening. |
| 597 | -->'''Jake:''' [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb737.html "If past experience is any indication, we'll be better off not knowing."]] |
| 598 | ** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2353.html Miki describes one of her ex's interests this way.]] It's Pip from ''WebComic/SequentialArt'', by the way. |
| 599 | * YouMonster: Red calls Doc a bastard for awarding Daryl an entire crate of very effective paint grenades. |
| 600 | * ZombieApocalypse: Starting [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1275.html here,]] one breaks out during October 2010, and again in 2012 starting [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1567.html here.]] |
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