Line #12 YMMV/SluggyFreelance


1	* ArchivePanic: Even if you skip the FillerStrips, you still have around a decade.
2	* ClicheStorm: [[YellowPeril Doctor Nofun]] [[BaldOfEvil is a blend]] [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain of several]] [[CardCarryingVillain villain stereotypes]] all packed into one character.
3	* CrazyIsCool: Torg's moments of victory prior to when he TookALevelInBadass - for example, his apparently inane practice of keeping around "Emergency Pants", which go on to become absolutely vital [[ChekhovsGun a few strips later]].
4	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Lots of characters of varying major-ness. As far as the main cast is concerned, Sasha. At the other end of the spectrum there's Pasquirlio, the squirrel that was Kiki's business partner and turned out to be [[spoiler:Donald Trump's living hairpiece]].
5	* EpilepticTrees: Just read the forums. Especially about Oasis, whose precise nature has probably been specc'd on more than anyone in history except religious figures and [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]].
6	* FanNickname: Before we found out anything about it, the 4U City dimension was nicknamed "The Dimension of Rain", rhyming with Dimension of Pain and because it rains constantly.
7	* HarsherInHindsight:
8	** The Steve Irwin CaptainErsatz "The Demon Hunter" gets stabbed in the chest with a nautically-themed spear. Could also qualify as CrossesTheLineTwice, as it does happen a second time, [[spoiler: when his assistant/wife betrays him.]] Needless to say, these strips ran ''years'' before Irwin's real life death in a disturbingly similar manner.
9	** The gag week where UN weapons inspectors are incapable of finding Bert living in the house was based on then-current events: the UN's inspectors in Iraq had reported that Saddam had no [=WMDs=]. This sounded pretty unlikely at the time and the inspectors were widely mocked. After the war, though, this gag week got a lot less funny when America didn't find [=WMDs=] either.
10	* HilariousInHindsight: The arc where the group first meets the Lysindra vampires was funny enough in 1998. Come 2005 and ''Twilight'', and the attack of the vampire Kullen and the fact that Torg has a mind that vampires can't read, and it's hilarious how well ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' gets mocked.
11	* IKnewIt:
12	** The use of the Minion Master as a [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Gun]] was figured out by the forumites fairly easily.
13	** This trope is the reason the forum has a separate section for fan theories that Pete Abrams does not look at.
14	* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Pete had told the fanbase ''for years'' that [[spoiler: Zoe was going to die]]. [[spoiler: By the 4U City arc, she was brutally burned, drugged into a coma, and Riff was told that she cannot survive off of the machines keeping her stable. However, this information has been relayed to him through a character known for duplicity and the use of a surveillance tape]]. Eventually, [[spoiler:Riff used time travel and nanobots to bring her back]].
15	* MoralEventHorizon:
16	** Played straight and subverted by the same action: Oasis murders [[spoiler:Monica]], someone the readers know is an evil spy trying to bring about the downfall of the main cast. However, nobody (including Oasis) knew this fact. And up to this point, Oasis had not done any permanent damage to anyone the main cast would identify as innocent, meaning that for many of them (and Oasis herself) the event has become a MoralEventHorizon. Also subverted when she [[spoiler:burned Zoe alive. Zoe ultimately got better and Oasis has since made efforts to redeem herself.]]
17	** [[spoiler:This could also be seen as the end of an extended MEH crossing by Dr. Schlock, who not only set Oasis off again by ordering the death of Feng, but manipulated Riff to go against Oasis, and blocked out Torg's call to Riff thus depriving Riff of vital information.]]
18	** Bestseid crossed the horizon when it was revealed he has been [[spoiler:feeding ZHOAS (Jane) brains again. Made even worse by the fact that they are probably the brains of "innocent" random minions. Either way Jane is crazy enough when lucid that this is a bad thing.]]
19	* NightmareFuel: Some of Oasis' darker descents into insanity, especially during the "Fire and Rain" arc.
20	-->'''Oasis''': [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/020122 GOD WHY DID YOU MAKE TORG LIE TO ME?]]
21	** [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/161213 JESUS! Poor Tyler...]]
22	* SeasonalRot: Opinion varies on where it started, what exactly's been going wrong, or whether it's still "good," and while many people feel that it's nowhere near what it was in the nineties and early 2000s, others think that despite the [[CerebusSyndrome changes]] it's just as good as it ever was. A regular target of this criticism is the "Oceans Unmoving" arc due to it being the first time Pete admitted that he was actively struggling to finish his storylines due to their complexity having grown too much.
23	* ShallowParody: The Harry Potter parody arc is often cited as one of the strip's lowest points, in part because it both said nothing new about the series it was making fun of and because several of its jokes were about things that weren't even ''true'' (like claiming Hogwarts semesters only last a week).
24	* TheWoobie:
25	** Torg, for being unable to be with the woman he loves due to circumstances beyond his control. Zoe, for her perennial ButtMonkey status. Even Oasis has her [[TheWoobie Woobie]] moments, despite being an AxCrazy StalkerWithACrush.
26	** Also, some believe Zombie-Head-On-A-Stick is quite pitiable.

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