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->''Within the first week of my attendance, I began noticing a number of strange occurrences. The most prevalent of these oddities being the fact that I seemed to have obtained a second shadow.''
->-- '''Antimony'''

->''My school had one of [[TheWorldTree these]]. No wait, they had a bike rack.''
->-- '''[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=89 Tom Siddell]]'''

''[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/index2.php Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' is an UrbanFantasy / {{Sci-Fi}} {{webcomic}} by Tom Siddell about a [[StrangeGirl strange young girl]] attending an [[ExtranormalInstitute equally strange school]].

As Antimony Carver begins classes at the eponymous [[CampbellCountry U.K.]] BoardingSchool, she soon notices that [[CityOfAdventure strange events are afoot]]: a [[LivingShadow shadow creature]] follows her every footstep; [[InstantAIJustAddWater a robot calls her "Mommy"]]; a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Rogat Orjak]] smashes in the dormitory roof; odd birds, ticking like clockwork, [[MysteriousWatcher stand guard]] in out-of-the-way places. Stranger still, in the midst of all this, Annie remains [[EmotionlessGirl calm and polite to a fault]].

Meanwhile, Annie befriends the [[GadgeteerGenius technically-minded]] Katerina Donlan. The two serve as foils for one another: Kat's energetic, outgoing personality plays off Annie's reserve and awkwardness, catalyzing most of their character development.

Kat soon gets roped into Annie's investigations of the Court's mysteries, but every answer they receive [[KudzuPlot only raises more questions]]: about [[ExtranormalInstitute the school]], about [[CreepyChild their fellow students]], about [[TheLostWoods the woods just across the river]], and about [[MysteriousParent their own parents]].

Each chapter is a self-contained StoryArc. However, after several chapters, connections begin appearing between seemingly unrelated plot threads, suggesting that [[MythArc everything is converging on some confrontation or big reveal]]--but the exact nature of the convergence [[JigsawPuzzlePlot remains tantalizingly (or frustratingly) unclear]]. Though the story draws on some [[NightmareFuel dark childhood fears]], [[EarnYourHappyEnding there is more than enough optimism (both innocent and realistic) to offset it.]]

You really should [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1 start from the beginning]].

The comic is also being published. The hardcover ''[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/book.html Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation]]'', which collects the first 14 chapters, is available online and at many comicbook shops and general bookstores.[[hottip:*:For those interested in minutia, this isn't the first print version of ''GC''. Back in 2006, Tom published the first seven chapters as a paperback through Lulu.com. This is the reason for the "Treatise" page at the end of Chapter 7. This paperback was discontinued months before ''Orientation'' was announced.]] The second hardcover book, called ''[[http://twitpic.com/fkh3v Gunnerkrigg Court: Research]]'' will be out in the near future.

Now, for SomethingCompletelyDifferent, check out [[http://webcomics.com/2009/04/21/learning-from-webcomics/ this article]] about a teacher using ''Gunnerkrigg'' as a teaching aide for his English As A Foreign Language class.

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[[quoteright:175:''For further information and spoilers, see:''\\
--[[Characters/GunnerkriggCourt Character Sheet]]\\
--[[Analysis/GunnerkriggCourt Analysis]]\\
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''For wild speculation, see:''\\
--[[WMG/GunnerkriggCourt Wild Mass Guessing]]\\
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''See also the series' Crowning Moments of:''\\
--[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/CrowningMomentOfAwesome/GunnerkriggCourt Awesome]]\\
--[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming/GunnerkriggCourt Heartwarming]]\\
--[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/CrowningMomentOfFunny/GunnerkriggCourt Funny]]]]

!!This comic provides examples of:

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[[folder: Setting ]]

* AcademyOfAdventure
* BoardingSchool
* CampbellCountry
* CircusOfFear: Mort's creation to scare Paz.
* CityOfAdventure: Gunnerkrigg Court -- a school resembling an industrial complex the size of a city (with its own park!), just next door to a creepy forest.
* DarkWorld: A dark city, the evil twin of Birmingham.
* ExtranormalInstitute: the Court, though most are [[{{Muggles}} unaware of the weird goings-on]].
* TheLostWoods: Gillitie Wood.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Girl riding fox-possessed toy BigBadassWolf. [[BiologicalMashup Tree-armed wolf humanoid]]. A cab pulled by robot horse quoting Milton's ParadiseLost. Lawn-mowing and fire prevention via laser cows. Praying mantis meteo-robot. Proselytising parkour robot.
* NoOSHACompliance: The Year 7 dorms and the bridge to the Woods.
* RaygunGothic: The plot of Dr. Disaster's simulator.
* RuleOfCool: ''[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=604 Laser cows.]]''
* UrbanFantasy
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: We've been given just enough information about Gunnerkrigg's location to know it doesn't fit anywhere on our map of the U.K.
** Although the 'town lost in the deeps of the forest' is [[RobinHood very common]] in British mythology.
* WhiteVoidRoom: The inactive holosimulator.
* TheWorldTree: A Cherry Tree in the artificial habitat room; it is there Annie starts to open up to Kat.
** It has been recently been revealed that that Cherry Tree (and others like it) actaully comes from the Gillitie Wood.

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[[folder: Narrative / Themes ]]

*ArcWords: "She died and we did nothing."
* AdultsAreUseless: Subtly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]].
* AmplifierArtifact: Blinker Stones.
* AnachronicOrder: Chapter 11, "Dobranoc, Gamma", and Chapter 18, "S1".
* AnimalMotifs / AnimalStereotypes: Wolf, Fox, Cat, Insects, Birds.
**Coyotes and Owls
* ArmlessBiped: [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=174 Enigmarons]]!
* ArtificialLimbs: Made of wood.
* BlahBlahBlah: [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=519 Here]].
* BlessedWithSuck: Zimmy[[spoiler:'s reality altering powers would be really cool if she could control them. And if she didn't suffer terrifying hallucinations.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Eglamore and Kat, on three separate occasions. Two were played straight, one was a subversion.
* BodyMotifs: Lots of emphasis on the [[EyeTropes eyes]].
* BrainBleach: Kat after meeting Ketrak. "I need new eyes and a new brain!"
* CatchPhrase: Mr. Eglamore: "Ladies." (In greeting)
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:The [=TicTocs=].]]
* {{Chiaroscuro}}
* ClingyMacGuffin: Blinker stones - but only when the owner wants them to be.
* CosmeticCatastrophe: The results of Kat's first attempt to use makeup were not pretty.
* CrossoverCosmology: Reynardine and Ysengrin are based off Renard the fox and Ysengrimus the wolf, respectively, from Medieval European folklore. Muut, Coyote, and the Glass-Eyed Men are from Native American myth. There's also a several ghosts, fairies, and, for good measure, a flashback montage featuring every [[TheGrimReaper psychopomp]], ever.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/CrowningMomentOfAwesome/GunnerkriggCourt Many examples.]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/CrowningMomentOfFunny/GunnerkriggCourt Several.]] Mort is especially good at bringing out the laughs.
** Also, anything involving the laser cows.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: This series [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming/GunnerkriggCourt is full of them,]] but Annie and Kat's moment in the cherry tree is probably the most cuddly. ThisTroper could not help going awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Not the lethal kind, but curiosity starts several plots, and often proves helpful when combined with compassion.
* CurseCutShort: [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=197 Rain!]] Also, an odd example on the last page of Chapter 15.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Guides; Zimmy.
* DeathGlare: "[[http://gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=18 Hello, Winsbury. Can you wither a little, please?]]"
* DefaceOfTheMoon: Thanks to Coyote's [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=492 friendly help]], [[spoiler: Annie "[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=503 may have some explaining to do]]". [[OrWasItADream Or may not]].]]
* DemonicPossession
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Spacemonauts! The evil Enigmarons are threatening the Earth from their moon base '''on the moon!'''"
** Don't forget the ''creepy space aliens from outer space''.
* DungeonBypass: Andrew can do this unconsciously.
* EasilyDetachableRobotParts: [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=421 Sometimes]].
* EmbarrassingFirstName: George Parley. Not hard to figure out why ''she'' goes by her last name.
** Potentially a [[EnidBlyton Famous Five]] reference? For a while it was a perfectly acceptable name for a girl in the UK...
**In context- Basically her father was a famous psychic. Pretty much one of the best ever. So, for some reason, he decides to write the birth certificate in advance for his unborn child. He gets ''almost'' all of it right. Just the only small detail of- guess what? Gender. So, they fixed that, but didn't actually change her name.
* EnvironmentalSymbolism
* EpicHail: One of the many uses for Blinker Stones.
* EsotericMotifs: Stange symbols abound at the school -- although some signs are less "mystical" than you'd expect.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt:
--> '''Antimony''': Andrew, she's all over you '''all the time'''.
--> '''Reynardine''': Ah, has a creature ever perfected the art of denial as finely as a human?
* FanGirl / OtakuSurrogate: Kat. Obsessed with robots, dance music (especially Orbital and The Prodigy), videogames, comicbooks, and ''TheXFiles''. Kat rules. It's nearly impossible to predict who or what may elicit the next "{{Squee}}!"... Last time it was robot praying mantis' turn to be [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=638 cuddled on sight]] (it definitely looks pretty cool, but is it RidiculouslyCuteCritter?).
* FantasticAesop: Lampshaded. [[spoiler: "Hmm, there's a lesson in all this." "Okay. Let's hear it." "Never let sixty angry kids use a herd of laser cows to take over your house."]]
* FetishFuel: Squee, furry fans, at Reynardine's bodacious bod! Oh, there's also Kat's LOVE for birds (although [[InterspeciesRomance the story]] that introduced that particular trait is so mind-numbingly cute that it's forgivable).
** Speaking of bodacious bods, Kat's love for birds, and FetishFuel, Muut has not only the head of an owl, but also the neck rotation. And considering how [[spoiler: Parley]] teleports when emotionally charged, Zimmy has [[CuteLittleFang (most of the time) Cute Little Fangs]] and... eyes, Anja Donlan's magic restraints, and various characters' [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] and MindControl/[[GrandTheftMe BodySnatching]] abilities, there's something for everyone.
* FracturedFairyTale: Basil's Backstory.
* FunctionalMagic: All kinds.
* GenerationXerox: Annie and Kat.
* [[GreenLanternRing Green]] [[strike:[[GreenRocks Rocks]]]] [[GreenLanternRing Lantern Ring]]: Blinker Stones--lenses for psychic powers, whose full uses have yet to be revealed.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Guardbots, Doorbot.
* HappyRain / RedemptionInTheRain: Played a bit more literally than usual with Zimmy.
* HannibalLecture: Jack pulls one of these on [[spoiler:Kat and Annie.]]
* HardLight: Dr. Disaster's simulations; the Glass-Eyed Men.
* HarmonyVersusDiscipline: In just about every sense, from magic, nature, and world view, the Court and Gillitie woods are opposed. The Court favors rational methods, control, and grey expansive industrialization. The Wood represents nature, unbound and at times terrifying.
* HoYay / RomanticTwoGirlFriendship / ShipTease: Annie and Kat, Zimmy and Gamma, Coyote and Ysengrin. For the complete details, see [[{{HoYay/Webcomics}} Ho Yay: Webcomics]]. To summarize, the issue is complicated, open to interpretation, and [[InternetBackdraft served as the spark for the ugliest arguments that the usually-easygoing fandom has seen]]. And [[ShrugOfGod Tom has remained silent]].
* HumanityEnsues
* TheHyena: Coyote
* ICannotSelfTerminate: The Suicide Fairies.
* IHaveToGoIronMyDog
* ImportantHaircut: Both Annie and Kat start wearing their hair differently after the incident on the bridge. Later, half a chapter is devoted to a visit to the barber.
* IncrediblyLamePun: "It may be empty but it's '''full''' of potential!" Kat completely unabashedly tossing off this line is just one of the many ways she's so very lovable.
* InterspeciesRomance: Sort of. Poor, poor Kat...
** Also Reynardine, who was [[spoiler: in love with Annie's mother when he was still a fox and she was still alive.]]
* ISeeDeadPeople
* IsThatWhatHeToldYou: Annie seems to have this in her future, but it's partly her own fault: she's looking for answers in all the wrong places.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot
* KidWithTheLeash / RestrainingBolt: Annie has Reynardine's leash. It seems that Rey is not pleased, though [[spoiler:he springs to her defense on his own initiative]].
* LemonWackyHello: Cherry-induced tipsiness.
* LetterMotif: Gunnerkrigg, Gillitie, Good Hope: the letter G seems to be important. One wonders what this implies about Miss Gamma Czarnecki.
* ALightInTheDistance: Annie, lost and alone in the Annan gorge, sees a light on the opposite shore. [[spoiler:Then [[ItGotWorse it gets worse]]]]
* MagicAIsMagicA: Rey's DemonicPossession follows specific rules; it's implied that that the same is true of all magic.
* {{Magic-Powered Pseudoscience}}
* MagicVersusScience: The two are compatible, but there is an ideological clash nonetheless.
* [[strike:{{Magitek}}]] ''Ethereal Sciences'': a lot, but some more than other, like literally MagicalComputer.
* MeaningfulEcho: The line "I'll save you, little girl!"
** Also, [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=36 This]]. Did he thought [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=547 she's going to take his mantle]], or what?..
* MementoMacGuffin: Annie's pendant, and later the photo of her parents as children [[spoiler: swiped from Kat's parents]]... and the toy wolf.
* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Ysengrin and the "Spankies!" [[supersecretspoiler: Though it [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=288 turns out]] to be a ruse]].
* MundaneUtility: What to do if you found out you got a scrying device with a "little" side-effect: [[spoiler: [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=520 a spirit can see you there]]]]? Right, you can use it to [[spoiler: [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=581 have a private talk with a spirit at will in the presence of other people]]]]. Three cheers for Annie!
* MysteriousParent: Both of Annie's parents, though she at least knew ''something''. Kat's parents also have odd tricks up their sleeves. She never believed in 'magic' nor saw her mother ''using'' computer, so when her mother offhandedly mentioned ''developing'' a {{Magitek}}-server before her birth was sort of disconcerting. The tattoo issue just finished her off.
* NewTransferStudent: Annie, and later, Alistair. Suicide fairies.
* NightmareFuel: What, no mention of the weird circus Paz (the Spanish girl) runs into? Seeing that at 4:30am after having read the ''entirety'' of the Real Life section of HighOctaneNightmareFuel somehow really disturbed this troper.
** There is also the hallucinations Zimmy suffers, during which she is sucked into a cursed version of Birmingham populated by insects, giant monsters and people with no faces.
* NoodleIncident: The [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=404 cursed teapot]].
** [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=77 Zimmy's entry on the science fair]]. All we see is a microscope and people's reaction on The Thing.
*NoRestForTheWicked: Zimmy doesn't sleep.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Parley, though mostly while embracing/tormenting Smithy. Jack, [[spoiler:in one of the latest chapters, agitated by his experience with Zimmy, invades Antimony's personal space until he's bearing down on her and she's pinned against the wall. Reynardine's reaction to this can be described as "[[PapaWolf Not]] [[{{Understatement}} Best]] [[OhCrap Pleased]]"]].
* [=~Orphan's Ordeal~=]: Annie's mum is dead [[spoiler:and her dad has disappeared]].
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Reynardine, and Zimmy were called so. No guarantee the first was not a popular simplification and the second was not an invective, though.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Rogat Orjaks ("horned giant" in Slovenian) are explicitly stated to be dragon-kin, but not the same as "usual" dragons. One is [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=59 quoted]] making a distinctly TakeThat remark on the subject of "those [common dragons]".
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Mort, the Ghost with the Sword, and the boy in the hospital are all different from each other. It will probably all be explained eventually. Also, the blind man's ghost we did not saw, but Kat mentioned in her letter.
* PaperThinDisguise: Annie is clearly a robot. Just look at her antennae!
* PerspectiveMagic: Coyote uses this, being one of the fundamental trickster deities.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: The various Court Robots are comically incompetent in ways that are nevertheless far beyond the capability of any current RealLife AI. Probably a result of their {{magitek}} origins.
* RotatingArcs
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Averted, but played straight for the students who [[spoiler: used to be creatures that lived in the forest]].
* ScienceFair: Chapter 5.
* SecretLegacy: Everything we learn about Annie's parents suggests that she's following in their footsteps. Kat has inherited a thing or two as well .
* SealedEvilInATeddyBear: Reynardine although YMMV as to exactly how evil he is.
* ShadowArchetype: The recurring theme of duality in the narrative makes this fairly common in both characters and other elements of the world, though it's sometimes difficult to tell who or what the 'shadow' is. Clear-cut examples include the Annie/Kat duo, with Zimmy/Gamma as their shadow pair, and Jack, a boy intent on solving the Court's mysteries, serving as foil to Annie.
* ShapeShifting:
** {{Metamorphosis}}: The Suicide Fairies, the [[spoiler:Kershaw]] family.
** TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Reynardine claims it's his case, [[spoiler:Alistair, possibly]].
** ShapeshifterWeapon: Ysengrin.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Chapter 10: "Dr. Disaster vs. the Creepy Space Aliens from Outer Space".
* StarCrossedLovers: Kat and Alistair.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Annie and Surma. Considering how Kat and her parents avert this, Annie's resemblance is probably plot-relevant.
** It obviously affects both Reynardine and Eglamore, at least.
* SurvivalMantra: "Always remember one thing..."
* TastesLikeDiabetes: See "Crowning Moment of Heartwarming," above. The same scenes that make some readers go "awwww" make others go "ewwww."
* TeleportersAndTransporters: [[spoiler:George's power, the ability to teleport apparently. ]]
* ThemeNaming: Antimony and Surma; Zeta and Gamma; Reynardine and Ysengrin.
* WhatTheHellHero: Reynardine learning about the MementoMacGuffin bit.
* [[WholeEpisodeFlashback Whole Chapter Flashback]]: Chapter 16, "A Ghost Story", and Chapter 18, "Ties".
* WrongNameOutburst: Mr. Eglamore shouts "Surma!" when [[spoiler:Antimony falls off a bridge]].
* YourMindMakesItReal: [[spoiler:Zimmy's little CrapsackWorld]] looks like a sort of collective dream: they gone there and back and none of all present kids save participants ever noticed this.
--> '''[[spoiler:Zimmy]]''': It's only as real as you let it be.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Mort, Reynardine, Coyote.

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[[folder: Characters ]]

* TheAce: Jones. She's both medium (Annie's vocation) ''instructor'' "among other things" and embodiment of some sort of perfection with "SeenItAll" undercurrent. The only limitation mentioned is her inability to use blinker stone.
* BarrierWarrior: Anja. [[/folder]]

[[folder: [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive page.php?comic ID= 555 SPANG ]]
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* BedsheetGhost: Mort
* TheBlank: the Nobodies
* BullyHunter: Antimony performs a rather elegant throw on Winsbury when he's bullying Kat.
* CoolOldGuy: Dr. Disaster.
* CheerfulChild: [[spoiler:Young Antimony]]
* CheshireCatGrin: Coyote and Zimmy.
* TheChewToy: Paz. First, she was chosen as Mort's scare test subject, later [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=603 she was so happy to see]] those [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=604 cows]] and then she's been abducted by [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=623 dark hands]] with a comment "[[WordOfGod Paz is pretty unlucky.]]" from Tom.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Annie. Since roughly ''age six''.
* CreepyChild: Zimmy, [[spoiler:initially]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Annie -- emphasis on the deadpan; Reynardine -- emphasis on the snark.
* EmotionlessGirl / DefrostingIceQueen: Annie. With Kat's help, she's become more open about her feelings, but she's still remarkably calm in the face of the Court's supernatural weirdness. Also, Jones, minus the defrosting.
* EyeTropes: Hoo boy, did we mention there's [[BodyMotifs lots of emphasis on the eyes]]?
** BigOlEyebrows: Andrew Smith.
** ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Reynardine.
** BlankWhiteEyes
** CommonEyeColors: Played straight with Annie and Jones; inverted by the Donlans and the Suicide Fairies.
** DiesWideShut: Sivo.
** EyesAlwaysShut: Anja Donlan.
** GlowingEyesOfDoom: Reynardine.
** HiddenEyes: Zimmy.
** MindControlEyes: Rey's attempted possession.
** MonochromaticEyes: Reynardine and Ysengrin.
***BlackEyesOfEvil: Zimmy.
***ProphetEyes: The Regional Fairies.
** RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:Zimmy]].
** TearsOfBlood: Zimmy.
* TheFairFolk: The Suicide Fairies. Even after being turned into humans Red and Blue can be alien enough to leave Kat and even Annie round-eyed and slack-jawed. [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=332 Love for mischief]] is one of more [[ComedicSociopathy endearing and understandable]] traits of ex-fairies.
* {{Foil}}: Zimmy and Gamma to Annie and Kat, Jack to Kat.
* GadgeteerGenius: Kat.
* HappilyMarried: Mr. and Mrs. Donlan.
* HeroesWantRedHeads: Surma Carver.
* JerkAss / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Reynardine's [[ZigZaggingTrope a little hard to pin down]]. He was moody and quite obnoxious when he found out his escape from the prison only brought him the servitude. Later he adapted and mostly became Annie's self-appointed guardian and almost "replacement parent", though just as eager to embarass (or frighten) people. Also, it looks like [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=476 everything linked with Surma]] is still almost sacred for him.
** Zimmy also counts (she cares a lot about Gamma). Even Winsbury, "official" GC jerk doting on Janet.
* LadyOfWar: Jones.
* LargeHam: Dr. Disaster. Also, Coyote when he's in the mood.
* LivingShadow: Shadow2, of course.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Zimmy
* TheMadHatter: Coyote, but he has an excuse since he's a god and all.
* MasterOfIllusion: Mort
* TheMatchmaker: Jones. Well, technically, [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=586 it's a form of mediation too]]...
* MeaningfulName: Antimony Carver, Surma Stibnite, Mort, Parley.
* MysteriousWatcher: The [=TicTocs=].
* NiceHat: Antimony gets an awesome baseball cap with the bismuth symbol on it [[spoiler: when she pulls off her BatmanGambit to let the kids take over Bob and Marcia's house]].
* PhysicalGod: Coyote.
* ThePollyanna: Robot S13.
* PosthumousCharacter: Annie's mother, Surma.
* PsychicLink: [[spoiler:Zimmy and Gamma]]
* PsychoForHire: Ysengrin.
* UsefulNotes/{{Psychopomps}}: Muut, Ketrak, Mallt-y-Nos, the Moddey Dhoo, [[CrossoverCosmology others]].
* RaisedByWolves: Annie, Red, and Zimmy.
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:Zimmy]], with PowerIncontinence.
* RedHeadedHero: Annie.
* SeenItAll: Annie in regards to the afterlife.
* SnoopingLittleKid: Annie. A little girl with some lockpicks in her teddy bear.
* SpockSpeak: Annie has a mild case.
* StraightArrow: Janet with her CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* StrangeGirl: There's Annie, Zimmy, and Gamma.
* TheStoic - Annie at first. More comparable to Jones, though.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl - Annie and Kat, although it's pretty much subverted.
* {{Trickster}}: Coyote, Reynardine.
* {{Tsundere}} - Parley when she crushes on Smitty, but then again, she has a pretty abrasive attitude in general.
* {{Valkyries}} - Brinnie who was a fellow student and friend of Annie's and Kat's parents (third girl on [[MementoMacGuffin The Photo]]) is a valkyrie also known as Brynhildr. She was ''still'' not on active duty, obviously. On the other hand, she can't shirk any studies since Odin personally checks her diligence.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Annie's curiosity and desire to help constantly puts her in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's implied to be a typical property [[spoiler:of a natural medium]]:
--> '''The Headmaster''': Tell me, do you find strange things seem to happen around you?
* WomanInWhite: The ghost by the Annan river.
* TheWoobie: Poor, poor [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=440 Boxbot]].
** He does [[KickTheSonOfABitch deserve it though]], for being terrible.
*** Robox on the other hand, is quite awesome.
''For a more complete rundown, see the spoileriffic [[Characters/GunnerkriggCourt Character Sheet]].''

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[[folder: Meta ]]

* ArtShift: [[AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent City Face]], which is canon, and a slight shift when Annie is using the Blinker Stone. (Everything is generally more detailed and her hair connects panel to panel.)
* ArtEvolution: Tom is consistently evolving his art. It's most noticeable in Annie's case: Compare her design on [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=18 page 18]] with her design on [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=437 page 437]] (which, incidentally, is a FlashBack to the same scene from page 18). Most readers seem to consider the changes improvements.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=562 City Face]]
* AuthorCatchphrase: Actually, the [[ArcNumber catchnumber]] 113.
* BilingualBonus: A few Greek and Latin signs, and some Polish dialogue. ([[{{Meta4}} This troper]] compiled a list with translations -- see the bottom of [[http://metaphoragizery.blogspot.com/2008/02/word-of-tom.html this blog entry]].)
**I'd like to add that Coyote refers to Reynardine as Renard, which is french for Fox.
**Renard wasn't named for the French word for fox. The French word for fox was [[http://books.google.com/books?id=vEnhFw00bIAC&lpg=PA242&ots=w8O8NcNzC5&dq=reynard%20le%20goupil&pg=PR13 named after Renard]].
* BLAMEpisode: Bonus pages are distinctively one step away from the main continuity and may bring extra {{exposition}}, or teasers, or comedy, or something wild -- or all at once.
* ComebackTomorrow: Annie vs. Mr. Eglamore in Chapter 24. (waving a hand, after turning) "Night!"
* ContinuityNod: "[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=204 Hello Annie!]]" -- "[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=621 Hello Kat]]". Two local ones in the same chapter: "my main babe" and "[[ComebackTomorrow Night!]]".
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Dr. Disaster's simulation.
* [=~Don't Try This At Home~=]: [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=380 Here]].
* EpilepticTrees: Half the reason for posting on the forum. So worn they're [[http://gunnerkrigg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=739&page=4#28363 used]] just as a RunningGag.
---> [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=252 In my mind I am picturing a dart board with every available space riddled with darts.]]
** Spoofed in the annotation to [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=336 this]] strip's comment.
* FlashbackEffects: Textured backgrounds and rounded panel corners.
* InvokedTrope: In case ZigZaggingTrope just isn't awesome enough, [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=625 here]]'s a recursion: TemptingFate in WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong way via [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=624 intentionally]] invoking TemptingFate and WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong (as tropes), snickering.
* KudzuPlot: Comes with the JigsawPuzzlePlot. This troper has never been so happy to be so confused.
* LampshadeHanging: Just take a look at [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=499 this]] page and ''try'' to tell me it's not.
* MoodWhiplash: Chapter 6 -- from upbeat to sad in a single page. Yay.
* {{Narrator}}: Two of them, actually -- Annie and Tea.
* {{Parody}}: ButterflyOfDoom. [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=568 Here]] (see also the next page).
* RunningGag: Variations of EpilepticTrees and "Oh. It's that guy."
* SilentSceneryPanel: Often used to signal scene transitions.
* SpeechBubbles: Subtle [[PaintingTheFourthWall Fourth-Wall Painting]].
* SpoofAesop: "[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=632 Never let sixty angry kids use a herd of laser cows to take over your house.]]"
* StripBuffer: A nice thick one of 30 strips.
* TakeThat: [[http://images.wikia.com/gunnerkrigg/images//9/9d/437alt.jpg This,]] directed at someone who complained that the flashbacks weren't made obvious enough. There were a few "helpful" notes for those who get disoriented by the ArtEvolution, take jokes too literally [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=625 or both at once]].
** [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=540 The second panel of strip 540]] is hard not to interpret as a TakeThat against the fans who [[EpilepticTrees speculated]] that Jones was the third girl in the photo after Tom Siddell quite clearly said that she wasn't.
** "City Face" -- placing the [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=562 birdspeak]] into the beaks it belongs to. If it's not enough, there were FourthWall-dissolving [[http://gunnerkrigg.wikia.com/wiki/City_Face_comments comments]] (Tom said more than once that he doesn't like LeetLingo and internet loonies).
* UncannyValley - [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=645 Averted with a vengeance]], with a magic marker.
** [[BigOlEyebrows Thoroughly averted]].
* WebcomicTime: [[ThatNightFeltLikeMonths "That night seemed to go on for months."]]
* WHAMEpisode: Many little twists born of JigsawPuzzlePlot make half of the Court's charm. Well, about one quarter actually. It's also the reason why EpilepticTrees became RunningGag.
* WordOfGod: Tom Siddell frequently posts on the forum or ShoutBox to clear up confusion or give background info. ([[http://gunnerkrigg.wikia.com/wiki/Word_of_Tom See here]] for an index of such information.)
* ZigZaggingTrope: Sivo is a case of a Triple subversion of the Knight vs. Dragon story.

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