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-->''"In one little corner of the universe, there's nothing more irritating than a misfile . . ."''

A [[{{Webcomics}} webcomic]] by Chris Hazelton, ''[[http://www.misfile.com/ Misfile]]'' ([[http://www.misfile.com/?page=1 first page]]) is the story of two [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary high school students]] whose lives are turned upside down by a Celestial filing accident and the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent pot-smoking angel]] who did it to them. Boy-racer Ash was turned into a girl, studious Emily lost the last two years of her life--including her admission to Harvard--and Rumisiel was exiled to Earth for his incompetence. Fortunately only Ash, Emily, and Rumisiel remember the universe as it was originally due to a side effect of the accident because if Rumisiel's superiors ever did find out about it they'd probably 'correct' the misfile by making it permanent.

Mixing street racing, girl bonding, and car tuning sessions with angels, supernatural weirdness and the trials and tribulations--from getting hit on by guys to bras--of a boy suddenly transformed a girl, Misfile defies simple categorization as the two heroines struggle to deal with the craziness that has taken over their lives, all while trying to get Rumisiel back into heaven so he can fix his mistake. Complications arise, of course, not the least of which is Rumisiel's perpetual slacker nature.
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!!This webcomic provides examples of the following tropes:
* AllThereInTheManual - If you really want to understand how the Celestial Depository works and the effects of reversing the [[RetGone misfile]], and find out just how Tempest has such a cool mountain racetrack you need to have read the "about" section on the website, read the [[FourthWallMailSlot Ask Ash column]], and ordered the print books so you could read the liner notes.
* AlmostKiss - A few times, the first being [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=132 here]].
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation - Emily: TransparentCloset or SingleTargetSexuality? Nothing in Canon contradicts either one.
** ThisTroper suspects it's more like IfItsYouItsOkay, personally.
* AManIsNotAVirgin - Inverted; [[spoiler: boy!Ash was a virgin and is thoroughly squicked to learn girl!Ash is not.]]
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents - Ash's father Dr. Edward Upton is a gynecologist who never forgets a vulva (and isn't at all shy about talking about them) while her mom Marie is a former lingerie model who has appeared in her fair share of racy catalogs. Ash notes that trying on bras would be awkward enough even if there wasn't a [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=601 large poster of her topless mother hanging in the fitting room.]]
* {{Animesque}}
* ArchiveBinge
* ArtEvolution
* AttractiveBentGender - In full effect, to Ash's constant chagrin. In her own words, "What I wouldn't have given to be a flat chested no-looker that no one noticed."
* AuthorAppeal - Amateur street racing in this case.
* AxCrazy - Kamikaze Kate
* BrandX - "Beer" and "Cola"
* BrokenBird - Kamikaze Kate.
* BewareTheNiceOnes - Vash and Rumisel, and ocassionally Emily.
* BiTheWay - Missi.
* [[CantHoldHisLiquor Cannot Hold Their Liquor]] - While Rumi's liver could probably be used to sole and heel army boots by now, when Ash and Vash get sloshed it leads to the [[HilarityEnsues inevitable results]].
* CannotTellALie - Vashiel
* CatapultNightmare - Well, [[spoiler: Catapult Sex Dream]], actually.
* CatFight - [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=667 Cassiel vs. Jenny]], at the modeling event.
* CelestialBureaucracy - The Celestial Filing Depository. Comes complete with corruption and errors.
* CerebusSyndrome - [[spoiler: The murder of several high ranking angels, including "two keyholders"]] has heralded in a steadily darkening plotline. That and Ash is more prone to depression of late and there's usually a fight going on between her, Emily, or Missi.
* ChekhovMIA - Ash's mom. Emily's dad could become one of these, but it hasn't happened yet. The other angels in Vash's old division also qualify.
* ChekhovsGun - The Monster XR.
** Also, Emily's promise to [[spoiler: give Ash a kiss]] in return for a perfect test score.
* ConflictBall - Lately Emily's been picking fights left and right with everyone in sight.
** She's gotten much better.
* CoolBigSis - Kamikaze Kate, after her CharacterDevelopment
* CoolCar - Pick a car, any car.
** By far the coolest though, Ash's Monster XR is a four-wheel drive hybrid Merkur [=XR4Ti=] using the drivetrain components of a Merkur [=XR4X4=] and Ford Sierra Cosworth RS, all powered by a Mustang 5.0 V8 HO engine. It's so good, it can keep up with a Jaguar XKR.
** Not to mention all the cool cars featured in the exceptionally good Misfile fanfic ''MisfiledDreams''. Many Porsches including a Carrera GT, a Plymouth Hemi Barracuda, a Z28 Camaro, a Lotus Elise, several Mercedes' and Jags . . . It's enough to make car lovers happy in the pants.
* CouncilOfAngels - The Celestial Filing Depository
* CrossPoppingVeins
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass - Rumisiel. Vashiel qualifies too, even if he isn't as much of an idiot.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - Rumi gets several of these.
* DaydreamSurprise - [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=649 This]] strip.
* DeadLittleSister - [[spoiler: Angelica, Kate's older sister]]
* DieForOurShip - Missi, who seems to wander in and out of being considered TheScrappy by some fans depending on whether she's still displaying her attraction to Ash in any given script.
* DifferentForGirls
* DisappearedDad - Emily's father, got her mom knocked up and was never heard from again.
* [=~Dude, She's Like, In A Coma!~=] - Well, asleep. [[spoiler: Emily kisses Ash]].
* EducationMama - Ms. [=McArthur=], to a T.
* EmbarrassingCoverUp - Rumisiel proclaiming that he and Ash are dating. Further down the line, Ash realizes that this isn't actually such a bad thing, given that it helps keep guys from asking "her" out.
* EruditeStoner - Whenever Rumisiel isn't unconscious, puking or whimpering, you can tell that he's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Really An Ancient, Wise Angelic Being.]]
** Of course, he used to spend thirty percent of his time doing each of those.
*** Ash has harangued him out of stoning and boozing, and now he spends more than half of his time whimpering. Progress is progress.
*** He's [[IncrediblyLamePun godly]] at video games though.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses - [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=427 here]].
* EvilIsSexy - The [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=290 Traditional evil conscience female uniform]], Cassiel
* {{Expy}} - [[http://www.building12.net/issue6/cover.htm This]] is the cover of Issue 6 of Hazelton's first webcomic, ''{{Building 12}}''. Guess which one's the female lead.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption
* FanService - And lots of it.
* FillerStrips - 25 fillers and over 1300 comics. Pretty good record. Fillers usually are for major holidays and 'Day of Remembrance' pages, but there have been extenuating real life issues (such as the artist's wife going into labor).
* FirstGirlWins - Not exactly confirmed yet, but on track like a heat-seeking missile.
* FountainOfYouth - Emily, though on a much smaller scale than usual.
* FourthWallMailSlot - Email, in this case
* GenkiGirl - Missi
* GenderBlenderName - One wonders what would have happened had this not been the case.
* GenderBender - The premise of the series
* GoodAngelBadAngel
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday - [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=250 Emily]] . . . well, she [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=1147 seems to be over it]]
* HaveYouSeenMyGod - God is entirely hands off as far as has been shown. He supposedly knowns about the misfile, but hasn't done anything about it.
** This might have something to do with the many good consequences of the misfile we've seen so far. [[spoiler: Emily didn't die in a car crash, Angelica was exorcised, Bronwyn lost her spite voodoo before it killed Aiden, everyone but Ash seems happier, and Ash is talking to his/her mother. Not to mention that as a further consequence of that last one, the Monster XR has an engine.]] Alternatively, it results in Rumi and Vash being in Tempest to discover [[spoiler: Raechiel's body]], which is something Heaven really needs to know about.
* HeroicBSOD - Ash, after learning that Rumisiel wouldn't be allowed back into Heaven for 72 years. Complete with ShowerOfAngst. She also has mini-[[HeroicBSOD BSOD]]'s whenever she feels she's lost too much to the ongoing tide of {{Chickification}}.
* HomoeroticDream - Ash has one about Emily while they were asleep in the same room. Emily figures it out, but she isn't bothered at all--''she's'' had one about a friend of hers too. [[TransparentCloset Not that it says anything about her]].
* [=~Honest John's Dealership~=] - Played straight, but gleefully twisted when Ash turns the sleazebag's own game on him.
* HotDad - Subverted. Ash's father exhibits most of the traits, but his job as a [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents gynecologist]] is a definite turn off.
* HotMom - Played straight. Ash's Mom is a former lingerie model (see FanService) and owns a big house on the beach.
* IdiotBall - Although Rumisiel is the most frequent bearer, all three main characters have had their chance at carrying it.
* IDontKnowMortalKombat - Averted: Ash. Straight: Vashiel
** Ash played it straight in [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=1166 these]] [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=1171 two]] strips, with a {{Lampshade Hanging}} on the trope as a bonus.
* [=~If It's You, It's Okay~=] - Em/Ash, somehow. Either as the ([[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation possibly]]) het Em's [[SingleTargetSexuality one female love]], or as the one person that Ash trusts enough to allow to see "her" getting all girly.
* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey - Missi daydreams about doing this.
** [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=888 "THE POWER OF BOOBS COMPELS YOU!"]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain - Cassiel
* InnocentInnuendo
* LeetLingo - It shouldn't be a surprise that Missi [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=1386 has now used this]], nor that Emily called her on it.
* LesYay - Em is pretty clearly "[[SingleTargetSexuality Ashsexual]]" at this point.
* LuminescentBlush - Ash wears these often, but never so severely as [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=545 here.]]
* MandysLawOfAnimeGenderBending
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman - [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=27 Ash starts out this way]] but eventually [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=766 gets over it]], which only feeds her fears of [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody assimilation.]]
* ManicPixieDreamGirl - Missi
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage - Emily
** Ash might not be master-class yet, but she's [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=1357 getting there]] . . .
* MemeticBadass - Doris became popular on the forums after her first (and at the time of this writing, only) appearance.
* MomentKiller - Rumisiel, then Missi.
* MsFanservice - Though all the women take their turn, Missi and Cassiel have the highest percentage of their appearances being FanService.
** Not to mention that this is basically what Ash's mom used to do for a living.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone - Ash goes through a freakout after [[spoiler:hitting a girl, which she sees as tantamount to surrendering "her" manhood.]]
** To be perfectly honest, [[ClingyJealousGirl with the way he/she acted about the entire situation]] Ash deserves a bit of second-guessing.
*** YourMileageMayVary. Some readers thought the girl fully deserved that.
****Which is besides the point, because from Ash's perspective it's a [[spoiler: CallBack to a very early strip when Emily told Ash that she can only hit a girl if she is willing to admit that she is girl herself.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast - Kamikaze Kate.
* NightmareFuel - How the Celestial Depository works.
* NoPeriodsPeriod - Averted, to Ash's unending torment.
* {{Nosebleed}} - Vashiel, whenever he comes into contact with "temptation". ''[[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=153 "Tissue. Tissue. Tissue."]]'' He required no fewer than 8 tissues when he learned what Dr. Upton did for a living.
* NotWhatItLooksLike - Subverted; it's exactly what it looks like.
* OddlyVisibleEyebrows
* {{Omake}} - [[http://www.misfile.com/?menu=extra Not much, though]].
* OohMeAccentsSlipping- the attempt to represent Harry's Welsh accent comes across as some kind of weird Sarf London . . . thing
* OpenMindedParent - Both of Ash's parents are amazingly accommodating towards what are, from their perspective, complete strangers, as well as their daughter's racing habit. Ash's dad knows that his wife left him because he was too controlling, and has resolved not to lose Ash the same way. Ash's mom, on the other hand, is just cool like that.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent
* OurGhostsAreDifferent - [[spoiler:Kamikaze Kate's sister]].
* OutOfClothesExperience - Kate and Angelica
* PeekABangs - Ash. Not for any of the usual reasons listed on the trope page, she just wears it that way. Apparently he had the same style before the GenderBender.
* PeekABoo - [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=1112 Here]], executed [[NippleAndDimed extremely close to the line]] with clever use of panel borders.
* {{Pettanko}} - Missi
* PleaseKeepYourHatOn - Subverted. Emily almost always wears a headband in order to hide her widow's peak, which she was teased about when she was younger. Ash, of course, tells her that she looks beautiful without it.
* PointyHairedBoss - Rumisiel's bosses, at least as portrayed by a guy they fired for being a pot-smoking shiftless layabout who ''may'' just be an UnreliableNarrator.
* [[BeachEpisode Pool Episode]]
* PowerPerversionPotential - It's hinted that Rumisiel and Cassiel's former relationship fully explored this trope.
* PronounTrouble
* PornStash - Ash expects his to have disappeared due to the misfile, but it turns out to simply have changed from featuring women to featuring men.
* PsychoExGirlfriend - Cassiel.
* RapunzelHair - Kate.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - All the angels.
* RedHeadedHero - Ash, though it's more orange than red.
* RetGone - Ash and Emily's pre-Misfile identities.
* RippleEffectProofMemory - Ash and Emily and maybe angels.
* [[RuleThirtyFour Rule 34]] - Invoked by [[http://www.napalmluck.com/index.php?showtopic=6165&st=20 the forum members]].
* {{Satan}} - He exists, and Cassiel is his niece, but he hasn't put in a personal appearance . . . yet.
* SelectiveObliviousness - Ash's father displays a staggering amount considering that from his point of view his daughter's personality has changed overnight. It goes without saying that ThereAreNoTherapists of course.
* SingleTargetSexuality - One possible explanation of Emily's attraction to Ash. Hotly debated in the fandom.
** Emily and Ash thought Missi was a case of this when she was first introduced, but it would be impossible to verify if Missi would have liked Ash as a guy.
* {{Shipping}} - More than the Panama Canal handles per day. Often lampooned as actual shipping (of freight by sea) on the forums.
* ShowerOfAngst - [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=1108 Ash, during a]] HeroicBSOD.
* SkinshipGrope - [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=770 Ash actually invites one from Emily]] and [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=771 Emily actually complies]], shocking both of them. [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=772 Turns out Ash was only teasing.]]
* SpiritedCompetitor - Kate, while racing . . . in [[IncrediblyLamePun more ways than one]].
* {{Spork}} - Emily resists the temptation to test Rumisiel's {{immortality}} with one in [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=274 this strip]].
* StripBuffer - The forums are rife with speculation about the next day's comic, but that comic was completed a week earlier.
* TheAtoner - Rumisiel, somewhat half-heartedly at first, but he has recently started to become more proactive in his role. [[spoiler:Also Vashiel, for past misdeeds unknown to his little brother.]]
* TheBeard - Rumi and later [[spoiler:Ash, to Rumi's older brother]]
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody - Largely averted, unless it's Ash's time of the month, but Ash's worst nightmare nonetheless.
* ThePaolo - Missi
* TheScrappy - Missi, at first.
** Though she may slowly be becoming it again.
* TheSlacker - Rumisiel, started out as a stoner but developed into a slacker. It speaks volumes about Rumisiel's character that this is an improvement.
* TheSweatDrop - Even [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=917 Rumisiel's Tshirt]] gets one.
* TheStoner - Rumisiel, at first. Ash seems to have beat it out of him.
* [=~This Is Something He's Got To Do Himself~=] - Ash's race against Tom.
* {{Tomboy}} - Ash, though, of course, "she's" actually a guy. In a cruel twist, though, she is subject to an intentional in-story slow descent into {{Chickification}}. She is well aware of this and it worries her greatly.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl - Ash and Em.
* {{The Woobie}} - Rumisiel and Ash take turns; Emily, when she's fighting with her mother. Aiden to some.
* TransparentCloset - The other possible explanation for Emily's attraction to Ash. [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=273 Emily's confusion]] on this point is a large part of the UnresolvedSexualTension in the strip. Was running wheel to wheel with SingleTargetSexuality but now appears to be pulling ahead. Also, Ash to anyone even slightly observant (Remember, they think she's always been a chick).
* {{Transsexual}} - Ash acts more like a real transgendered teenager than most GenderBender {{webcomic}} protagonists. Emily even suggests gender reassignment surgery as an option at one point.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight- Rumi's and Vash's UnusualEars
** Apparently they use some of their more subtle angel powers to accomplish this.
* UnwantedHarem - [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] with Ash.
* VaporWear - Angels apparently don't [[strike: approve of]] need brassieres.
** They do wear [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=1231 panties]] though.
* {{Wangst}} - Much of the comic finely treads the line, but so far it hasn't really stepped over.
* WebcomicTime - As of the date of editing, ''Misfile'' is a hair under five years, eight months old. Ash and Em, however, have only been dealing with Rumisiel's eponymous mistake for a little over six months.
* WeirdnessMagnet - A lot of weird stuff just happens to all happen in a small town in Western Massachusetts.
** Having a couple angels around is hinted to draw all this to the top.
* WhenAJerkLovesATsundere - Rumi and Ash appear to be this, but in reality he's TheBeard.
* [=~Why Didn't You Just Say So?~=] - See [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=507 here]], and the following strip.
* [=~Wouldn't Hit A Girl~=] - Ash. [[spoiler:Finally does, and has a freakout after doing so.]]
* WrenchWench - Ash and Missi. Emily is a WrenchWench in training. Kate's obsession with street racing implies that she's a WrenchWench too, but Harry brags that he did all the work on her latest car himself.
* {{Yandere}} - Heather, [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=1383 for James]].
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair - When colored, Emily's hair is depicted as a dark blue. It's unknown whether this is a dye job, her natural color via a small tweak to reality (as in ElGoonishShive), or simply a bit of ArtisticLicense.
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