Line #44 Webcomic/WhenSheWasBad


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2	[[caption-width-right:741:''There was a little girl/Who had a little curl''\
3	''Right in the middle of her forehead.''\
4	''And when she was good/She was very, very good''\
5	''But when she was bad/She was horrid!"'']]
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7	''[[http://whenshewasbad.thecomicseries.com When She Was Bad]]'' is a webcomic about PsychoLesbian [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonist]] Gail Swanson, who gained superpowers when a mysterious cloaked man zaps her, in a [[MagicalGirl magical girl]] [[SuperHeroOrigin story]] gone wrong. It's about her fights, her triumphs, her losses, her lackeys...and maybe her love life. If she can ever get the guts to ask the girl of her dreams out.
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9	It's also about her [[TheChosenOne heroic]] counterpart, AlphaBitch Amber Price, who eventually [[ResignedToTheCall resigns]] into her role, and tries to use her powers for good, especially against Gail Swanson.
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12	!! This show provides examples of:
13	* AnimalsHateHim: Gail's cat Torq says Jasper gives him the creeps.
14	* ArtEvolution: From [[http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/129250/1-8/ this]] to [[http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/970885/15-4/ this]]. The proportions are still weird, but you can't say it hasn't improved dramatically.
15	* AttemptedRape: A flashback reveals that this is one of the reasons Gail hates Amber. [[spoiler:Amber's boyfriend attempted to rape Gail. Gail suspected that Amber put him up to it.]]
16	* AxeCrazy: Gail and [[spoiler:Coyote]]
17	* BerserkButton: Gail and Sean appear to share one -- [[spoiler:sexual threats towards women]]
18	* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Sean disarms a cop this way when breaking Jasper out of prison.
19	* BlessedWithSuck: Amber gets super strength and Gail gets... to talk with her cat. [[spoiler:At least, that's what she first thinks.]]
20	* BloodKnight: Coyote, Coyote, COYOTE.
21	* BreastAttack: [[http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/297539/6-20/ During the armored car robbery.]]
22	* CarFu: As seen [[http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/631281/12-22/ here]].
23	* TheChosenOne: Amber is, according to the Order.
24	* CursedWithAwesome: Gail's secondary power always changes; This means she has all kinds of weird powers, talking to animals, [[WalkingTechBane disabling any technology she nears]], {{telepathy}} and [[spoiler:[[PlayingWithFire pyrokinesis]]]].
25	* DisabilityImmunity: Anthony, who's been deaf since birth, is immune to Gail's mind-reading. She can't hear his thoughts because he doesn't associate words with sounds.
26	* EroticEating: [[http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/447501/9-8/ How Gail ate ice, from Tabitha's perspective]].
27	* EvenEvilHasStandards: The group's reaction to [[http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/659068/extra-a-little-arteest/ Tabitha's horrible (drunk) sketch]].
28	** More seriously on [[http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/1577952/18-21/ this page]]
29	** Later chapters establish that Gail and her team draw the line at murder, which is why she [[spoiler:decides to send Jasper back to prison.]]
30	* EvilLaugh: Gail breaks out in one when robbing a bank for the first time.
31	* FakingTheDead: Max pretends to die after being shot in the chest by Jasper. However, it doesn't take long for his deception to be uncovered.
32	* FourEyesZeroSoul: Jasper.
33	* FlyingBrick: Amber has {{Flight}}, SuperStrength, and moderate SuperToughness, explained as being necessary for her to use her strength without hurting herself. She also claims the MostCommonSuperpower, at least in comparison to Gail.
34	* {{Gayngster}}: Connor Hammond.
35	* HealingFactor: Max has one for his role as Amber's bodyguard. It's initially very powerful, but decreases over time as Amber becomes stronger and less reliant on him.
36	* {{Hypocrite}}: The Order turns women into heroines, yet refuses to allow women into their ranks. [[spoiler:They let trans-women in, but constantly identify them as male.]]
37	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Amber, at first.
38	* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: Amber's first superhero costume. It got turned on her rather embarassingly.
39	* JerkAss: Amber is homophobic and a bully ([[CharacterDevelopment mellowed out somehow later in the comic]]), Ben tends often to be an asshole towards people ([[http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/2007727/22-12/ he even provoked Tabitha, the nicest person of the gang, into throwing stuff at him and threatening to hit him with a chair]]). Jasper is just plain psychotic.
40	* KnightInShiningArmor: Sean to Gail once.
41	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Max had has memories erased before joining the Order. Marisol tells him it was voluntary.
42	* LockedIntoStrangeness: When Amber gets her powers, her hair turns permanently blue.
43	* [[{{Animesque}} Mangaesque]]
44	* MoralityPet: Tabitha is usually the (ignored) voice of reason during Gail's ForTheEvulz actions and Jasper's psychotic episodes. Unfortunately, she's into [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad men/women]].
45	* NeckLift: Jasper does this when interrogating a hapless member of Hammond's gang.
46	* OhCrap: Max, when [[spoiler: Gail is about to drop a car on him]].
47	* OneManArmy: [[TheQuietOne Jasper]] and [[BloodKnight Coyote]].
48	* OrphanageOfFear: Gail grew up in an orphanage where "catching the biggest cockroaches was considered a fun past-time". She ran away from when she was eleven years old.
49	* PerkyFemaleMinion: Coyote
50	* PerceptionFilter: Gail and Amber have this is part of their powers. No matter how public Gail's crimes are, no matter how many witnesses see her, no one can recall her face afterwards. Even when Amber tries to directly tell the police that Gail is the culprit, her calls end up being ignored or forgotten. The same power also protects Amber's identity: when a recording is made of her flying, her face appears as TheBlank.
51	* PermaStubble: Sean
52	* PlayingWithFire: Gail, for a time, due to her constantly-changing secondary power.
53	* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: One of the reasons Gail thinks Amber isn't as heroic as the Order proclaims is because she is homophobic and bullied Gail in high school for being gay. [[spoiler:Amber manages to reason herself out of homophobia after fighting enough crime; Gail and other criminals aren't because they're homosexual - they're just greedy and violent thugs regardless of sexuality.]]
54	** Turns out, Amber's philanthropic doctor dad is a homophobe.
55	* PowerDyesYourHair: Before Amber got her powers, she was portrayed as a blond dickwhaffle, but after the Order gave her her superpowers, her hair turned permanently blue.
56	* PowerTattoo: Members of the Order have mystic tattoos that allow them to track each others' locations.
57	* PowerIncontinence: Gail. So far she has had the power to [[SpeaksFluentAnimal talk to animals]], [[{{EMP}} electronic disruption]], {{telepathy}} and [[PlayingWithFire [=pyrokinesis=]]].
58	* PsychicStatic: When Gail gets telepathy as her secondary power, Jasper blocks her by thinking about the Mario Bros. theme song on a loop.
59	* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Gail and Amber have SuperToughness so that they don't hurt themselves with their SuperStrength
60	* SamusIsAGirl: Coyote, the fearsome gang enforcer, is revealed to be a woman.
61	* SatisfiedStreetRat: Gail, who lived on the streets between being in an orphanage and being in a gang, and whose experiences during that time initially make her a much more effective fighter than Amber.
62	* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Gail, for a time, due to her constantly-changing secondary power.
63	* StupidSexyFlanders: [[GenderInvertedTrope Inverted:]] [[http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/1200171/17-2/ Gail has a "stupid sexy Javier" moment.]]
64	* UnwantedAssistance: In [[http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/737476/13-26/ this strip]], "Stop Helping Me" is nearly said verbatim.
65	* WalkingTechBane: Gail, for a time, due to her constantly-changing secondary power.
66	* YouNeedToGetLaid: Anna says this to Gail early on. Gail actually agrees.

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