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1* AssPull: Used intentionally in one of the modern issues for Dennis the Menace's strip. First Walter and his friends get struck by lightning and possessed by Viking ghosts, then it turns out there's an unexploded missile at the bottom of the lake, along with a WWII submarine. Then the editor rightfully asks why it's there in the first place, breaking the 4th wall. The writer's excuse? There's a "secret tunnel" connecting it to the sea, and the Germans were stupid enough to go into it during the Second World War.[[note]]This is probably inspired by ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' episode "Castle De'Ath", which also inspired the Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD story "Dark Moon Rise, Hell Hound Kill" — and was in its own turn inspired by a Tommy Hambledon short story by "Manning Coles" — which was later rewritten to change the U-boat full of escaped Nazis to a Russian sub full of spies...[[/note]]
2* AudienceAlienatingEra: A few of the comic's longer-running strips have been through this at one point or another:
3** The mid-late 2000s through to the early 2010s for Minnie the Minx, which first saw an unpopular outfit redesign and an increased emphasis on gross-out humour, and then attempted to reverse course on this, only to end up copying original artist Leo Baxendale's style perhaps a little ''too'' slavishly.
4** For Roger the Dodger, the years in-between artist Robert Nixon's leaving the comic in the early 1970s, and then returning to it halfway through the following decade. The artists who tackled the strip in-between his two runs tried their best, but just couldn't re-capture what he brought to the strip.
5** While Billy Whizz has been up and down in popularity over the years, the one period agreed by seemingly everyone to be his low point is Graeme Hall's run as artist from 2001 to 2003. Many of the flaws that had been building up under previous artist Vic Neill's otherwise quite popular run -- most notably Billy becoming an incredibly bland character, and the depictions of his super-speed being visually uninteresting -- became far more glaring, resulting in him nearly being dropped altogether after he finished near the bottom of a readers' poll in early 2003, before the staff took a punt on handing the strip to ''Beano'' newcomer Wayne Thompson, which ended up salvaging the character.
6* BaseBreakingCharacter:
7** The comic's own market research found that Calamity James was viewed as either the best strip in the comic or completely awful, with no middle ground at all. The strip was ultimately dropped after 17 years because the new editor disliked it. Poor James really [[TheWoobie can't catch a break]].
8** Robbie Rebel had detractors accusing it of being a terrible modern update of Dennis, not helping Dennis' stories appeared in every issue alongside Robbie's strips, which gave them enough fodder to compare.
9* CrossesTheLineTwice:
10** Much of what [[CosmicPlaything Calamity]] [[BornUnlucky James]] [[AmusingInjuries is put through]] tends to fall into this, if you don't feel that the abuse goes too far.
11** Meebo and Zucky's cartoon violence included decapitations.
12* HarsherInHindsight: [[http://the-slipper.blogspot.com/2016/06/that-time-minnie-minx-met-jimmy-savile.html One comic]] from 1986 had Minnie the Minx go on ''Jim'll Fix It''. This aged poorly following the revelations about Creator/JimmySavile.
13* HilariousInHindsight: Subverted with Billy the Cat and his cousin/partner Katie whose real names are [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor William and Kathleen]].
14* LesYay: The ''Blind Date'' parody in Fun-Size Beano No. 23 ends with Daisy rejecting all three boys (Ernest, Calamity James and Walter the Softy) and instead choosing to spend her holiday with the host, Minnie the Minx.
15* MemeticMutation:
16** The comic magazine itself was the first of its kind for DC Thomson, so most of the comics it created after it and ''ComicBook/TheDandy'' were shallow imitators.
17** ''Jimmy and His Magic Patch'' became a nickname for mismatched cloth patches on repaired outfits.
18** Lord Snooty became a slanderous nickname for a middle-to-upper-class person trying to relate to poorer people, and failing (UsefulNotes/DavidCameron, for example, was lampooned as "Dave Snooty" by ''Magazine/PrivateEye''). Ironically, Snooty himself didn't befriend the children as Ash Can alley for a PR stunt, but because he could be himself outside of his royal duties and envied their lack of responsibility. It makes one wonder if the inventor(s) of the nickname understood the source material...
19** Although he may not have been the TropeMaker of TheKidWithTheRemoteControl, General Jumbo may have become an {{expy}} of this trope for British comics.
20* MisBlamed: Whenever a major narrative revamp happens to the comic, older/former readers complain of PoliticalOvercorrectness, but revamps sometimes occur because of the readers' diverse opinions or waning interests.
21** A common complaint from adults who used to read the stories in the mid-20th century is the misbehaving characters abandoning pea-shooters and slingshots, even though toys of those kinds might've been banned for health and safety reasons sometime later.[[note]]Interestingly, 2019's issue 4000 showed the characters using said pea-shooters and slingshots against evil robots.[[/note]]
22** News outlets were quick to complain when all the overweight characters called Fatty were renamed Frederick. ''Beano'' reps later revealed it was because children sent letters and emails to the studio wondering why the characters got mean nicknames, despite the nicknames intending to be empowering.
23** Lord Snooty's series became boring to new readers and was discontinued because it was a relic of an unrelatable, long-dead era where upper-class schoolboys wore top hats to class. Newspapers wrote ShutUpHannibal-like articles about how it was a big mistake and that the long-celebrated editor-in-chief Euan Kerr had gone too far. One even blamed UsefulNotes/JohnMajor's talk of a "classless society".
24* MyRealDaddy:
25** Dennis the Menace was created by artist David Law and chief sub Ian Chisholm, but it was David Sutherland's run that saw him get on the front cover. David Parkins' run, which introduced Bea, was also well received.
26** Leo Baxendale created Minnie the Minx, but Jim Petrie was her most prominent artist, handling her from 1962 until his retirement in 2001.
27** Roger the Dodger was originally created by Ken Reid, but Robert Nixon is most associated with him.
28** The Bash Street Kids were also created by Baxendale, but David Sutherland is most associated with them, having drawn about 2,100 strips. Mike Pearce and Kev F. Sutherland's runs were also well-received.
29* NauseaFuel: Olive the dinner lady's cooking looks utterly revolting, especially since it looks off due to having fungi growing on it or simply being completley off colour e.g. her green custard, or full of random objects such as fish heads and socks.
30* NightmareFuel: Jesus Christ, Meebo and Zuky is '''''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids BRUTAL]]!'''''
31* NoYay: The new Dennis and Minnie are cousins.
32* OlderThanTheyThink: A professor's son dies, so he creates a robotic ReplacementGoldfish. Is this Tin-Can Tommy or Manga/AstroBoy?
33* ReplacementScrappy:
34** In issue 3649 Walter fired his pet poodle Foo-Foo and replaced him with a cat named Claudius.
35** In ''Dennis & Gnasher'', Angel Face seems to have replaced Athena and Sugar, who were themselves [[TheScrappy Scrappies]].
36** Lord Snooty the Third was far less well-received than the original Lord Snooty, due to actually being arrogant and obnoxious, as opposed to the original, who was a perfectly nice kid (who just happened to be a lord). Thankfully, the comics went back to the original.
37* SoBadItsGood: What some fans think of the direct-to-video ''Beano'' cartoons.
38* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
39** A common complaint among older readers of newer comics. For some, the change of dimensions of the annual for the 2011 edition was [[SeriousBusiness pretty pointless and generally horrible]]. Serious enough that Nigel Dobbyn, the artist for Billy the Cat, quit, resulting in the superhero's absence from the 2012 annual.
40** The redesign of Dennis' parents, making them older versions of him and thus rendering Gran pointless.
41*** That hasn't stopped her from reappearing in the 2013 cartoon.
42*** What they in fact did - going by some of the strips themselves - is implied that time has moved on and the original Dennis the Menace has grown up and is now father to the current Dennis the Menace. The difference is easy to see - the original Dennis had a black and red striped jersey, while his son Dennis has a [[InsistentTerminology red and black striped jersey!]]
43* ToyShip:
44** Calamity James hopes to invoke this with Minnie the Minx. Given his luck, not a chance.
45** Similarly, Ernest in "Crazy for Daisy" hopes to invoke this with the title character but has no chance due to her utter disinterest.
46** Averted in what readers may think would be two obvious cases:
47*** Dennis the Menace and Minnie the Minx. They are in fact cousins - meaning that the penchant for red and black striped jumpers must run in the family (Dennis has another cousin, Denise, who is occasionally mentioned and who also wears a red and black striped jumper).
48*** Danny and Toots from "The Bash Street Kids". Toots actually fancies ''Dennis'' - she sent him a Valentine's card one year, and her crush is occasionally mentioned.
49* UglyCute: Minnie the Minx can be this, DependingOnTheArtist.
50* ValuesDissonance:
51** The typical climax to many "Dennis the Menace" strips would involve a Dennis being punished for his bad behaviour by being given, as some stories put it, "six of the best" - in other words, he was bent across Dad's knee and whacked on the bottom with a large slipper. It can be pretty surprising to a younger reader (ie. a reader not old enough to remember the time when smacking wasn't controversial) to realize that not only was that considered a moralistic plot element (bad behaviour results in punishment), ''you were supposed to laugh'' at Dennis's situation. Of course, recent comics don't do that.
52** "The Bash Street Kids" were often victims of this, as they appeared to attend a school stuck in the 1950s...
53*** There were references to corporal punishment (in the form of the cane, rather than the slipper) long after it was banned in British schools.
54*** Teacher wore a mortarboard ''decades'' after teachers in British state schools stopped wearing them (if they ever did).
55*** Averted, though, in that only two of the kids, Fatty and Cuthbert, ever wore anything which could be described as school uniform.
56** An old comic strip featured in the 1940 annual was entitled Hard-Nut the Nigger. Also the character Little Peanut from the late 30s to early 40s who was a stereotypical poor black boy who appeared on the logo of the first issue but did not reappear on the cover when the first issue's cover was made a poster in 2010. Also the character Polly in the Lord Snooty strip looks unfortunately like a chimpanzee and the late 1950s' strip entitled Pom-Pom - The Boy Who Brightens DarkestAfrica.
57** Little Plum would definitely not fly today, as he embodies almost every stereotype of Native Americans. Also overlaps with the cultural kind of ValuesDissonance, as he continued to appear in The2000s and early [[TheNewTens 2010s]], likely due to Native Americans having little to no presence as a minority in Great Britain.
58** It's really hard to imagine a strip like "Crazy for Daisy" flying today as characters like Ernest Valentine (who is to all intents and purposes a stalker) aren't so funny anymore.
59** This is why Walter the Softie has [[TookALevelInJerkass been more and more jerk-ish]] as of late -- in the comics, at least beginning in the 70s, Walter often was doing nothing inherently wrong except for doing activities and behaving in a stereotypically feminine way (this was actually {{Flanderization}} from his 1950s/60s depiction, which had Walter more willing to counter Dennis by underhanded means and generally acting like a bit of a jerk). Now, he's more of a SpoiledBrat nerd who quite often will antagonize Dennis just for the sake of it -- the Walter of today is a [[StopHavingFunGuys kid who wants everyone else to stop having fun and be a grownup already]], which is why Dennis hates him so much. Dennis also can't just beat him up anymore either, [[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jul/20/beano-75-year-anniversary partially because of the editors thinking]] it wasn't good story-wise to end stories with Walter being beaten all the time (although to be fair, the stories often ended with Dennis getting into trouble for beating Walter up -- which led to the issues relating to smacking as mentioned about).
60* ViewerGenderConfusion: Pansy Potter gets this from some readers even though she wears a dress shirt.
61* TheWoobie: Calamity James. ''Nothing'' ever goes right for the poor guy.

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