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''[[http://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/ Jack]]'' is a [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] webcomic by David Hopkins. The main character, Jack, is a rabbit who is also TheGrimReaper. Most of the stories take place in the afterlife or involve death in some form.

Oh, and fair warning, this comic can get very ''very'' '''''very''''' {{NSFW}}: gore, sex, swearing, and all around blasphemy can be found. Went on a long hiatus for a twofold reason: Mr. Hopkins was figuring out the last few arcs that would wrap up the comic and due to something that happened with a former fan that nearly resulted in legal action on both sides. It is now back on a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule.

Now has [[Characters/JackDavidHopkinsSupernaturalCharacters character]] [[Characters/JackDavidHopkinsMortals pages]] under construction. A complete downloadable archive of the strip can be found [[https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbtcr67tr4aaf0w/Jack%20Complete%20%281.0%29.rar?dl=0 here,]] as the former website has gone completely offline at Hopkins' request. A new website can be found [[http://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com here.]]

On January 18, 2021, David released most of his characters to the public domain. Though the post has since been deleted, [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/blogarchive/40583 it has been confirmed]] that fans are still allowed to use those characters for future stories. A new writer, Darkwing Dude, has been running the website and creating new content with David works on his final story, with new writers and artists encouraged to send in their own stories to be added to the canon. He is set to continue running the comic as a whole after David finishes up his final four-part arc.

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!!This webcomic provides examples of:

* ActionGirl: Farrago, Central, Brisk, Lita, and [[spoiler:Specks]], though all with varying degrees of competency. Generally, angels fare far better than mortals when it comes to fighting in Hell.
* AerithAndBob: Often due to the incorporation of readers' {{original character}}s.
* AfterlifeAvenger: Lita kills herself with the express purpose of going to Hell and killing her father, the notorious serial killer and rapist Drip who raped her mother, a second time.
* AfterTheEnd: Some chapters are set after apocalyptic events. [[spoiler:In fact, almost the entire comic, save a handful of chapters, actually occurs after an apocalypse which wipes out most life on Earth. Including the original denizens of the planet - humans.]]
* AllLovingHero: God is one of these, effectively claiming to love everyone, in every possible way. Though she ends up being a dark version that is prone to inflicting strict and cruel punishments on those she "loves" if she thinks it's for their own good. She even claims to still love Lucifer/Satan despite banishing him to Hell and is content to let him back into Heaven if he apologizes.
* AlwaysAccurateAttack: In "Undying", Lucifer has a shotgun which never misses its shot and will kill multiple targets when fired.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Surprisingly used with restraint. Only Jack, Jill, Drip, and Lita are shown to be unnatural colors that wouldn't be found in nature. In Jack and Jill's case, this can be explained as being [[spoilers: the first of their kind. The scientists who created them likely wanted an easy marker to be able to find them should they break out, something that is actually done in real life with animal test subjects.]] Drip's bright blue coloration isn't explained. Lita's color is inherited from her father, thought it is a far more diluted blue than Drip's thanks to being half-rat and half-raccoon.
* AnimalIsTheNewMan: [[spoiler:The world used to belong to humanity. That was until Jack killed them all, giving rise to the furries]].
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Several characters are personifications of one of the SevenDeadlySins, the one that they committed most JustForFun/{{egregious}}ly in life. Jack is Wrath.
* ArchEnemy: Among the villains that Jack faces, Drip and Dr. Kane stand out.
* TheAristocrats: Drip tries telling one of these jokes to the starfish demons. [[EvenEvilHasStandards It actually grosses them out.]]
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In-universe. Arthor doesn't really know that much about cancer himself (however he does know that cancer is a group of diseases), but his speech to the press essentially tells them cancer is caused by evil monsters.
* ArtShift: During the "The Once Was Swan" arc, the art style changes several times [[spoiler:due to [[{{Pride}} Emily]] repeatedly hitting her mirror due to suffering VillainousBreakdown]]. It goes back to normal by the end of the chapter.
* ArtStyleDissonance: It's a comic set in the BloodyBowelsOfHell, done by an artist whose biggest influence is ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''. Also apparent in the side arcs focusing on Arty and Vinci, which have an adorable cuddly style reminiscent of Chuck Jones
* AscendedExtra: Within the series' universe. [[spoiler:When humanity died in the Human-Furry War and furrykind failed to learn from man's mistakes, God ensured that the ensuing history would follow that which came before (sans biological-warfare-apocalypse) as closely as possible. However, certain furry works of fiction, such as ''ComicBook/{{Extinctioners}}'' and ''WebVideo/TheFundayPawpetShow'', are now mainstream works.]]
* TheAtoner: Too many to count, but Jack seems to be the most prominent one.
* AuthorAppeal: Hopkins has said in a fan interview that he hates women, owing mostly to his [[FreudianExcuse issues with his own mother]]. This explains a ''lot'' about how some women are written in ''Jack''. This also explains [[AuthorAvatar the use of Drip as one of Hopkins' avatars]], as Hopkins also says Drip was created to be a personal coping mechanism and outlet for these negative emotions which he freely admits are wrong (he claims real-life violence against women outrages and disgusts him).
* AuthorAvatar:
** [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1544#content-start Pepe Val Pew]], the Fursona of Dave Hopkins, appears both as Pepe Val Pew and as {{Satan}}. Interestingly, only when appearing as Satan does he appear to be able to discuss plot points and openly break the fourth wall, other appearances are little more than cameos. He has also identified himself as Drip in various places, and Hopkins himself is a widely-criticized yet still somehow popular book author in-universe.
* AuthorTract: The pro-life themes get pretty thick, not to mention the lavish attentions paid to women being abused in various ways (and, most infamously, being made to apologize to their abuser). One example comes from "Fnar the Unborn": Jack says that presumably raising Fnar would have saved his mother's soul and she wouldn't have gone to Hell. This is important because this is the only time in the ''entire comic'' that it's suggested that a character is be able to do anything to redeem themselves ''while living'' after doing some minor thing that [[EasyRoadToHell would have otherwise damned them]].
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Most of the characters are fully clothed except for footwear.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor[=/=]LiteralGenie: Hell tends to twist a person's ideals and fantasies - if all you really ''want'' is to belong, then [[AssimilationPlot oh, you will.]] If you want to forget, then day after day, [[GroundhogDayLoop that's what happens.]] If you want control over life and death... ''[[TheGrimReaper well...]]''
* BigDamnHeroes:
** Jack and Reckonin pull this off in "Wednesday's Child" when they save Wendy and Anna and again in "Sever the Hunger" when they kill Bob and Lisa.
** Brisk in "Megan's Run" a few different times while she's in Hell. Notable since she's a mortal and not a Sin or angel.
* BigNo: A few over the course of the comic, but the biggest one surprisingly goes to [[spoiler: Drip, when the TomatoInTheMirror reveal hits him after Satan tricked him into killing his own parents.]]
* BlackComedyRape: Happens a lot, [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale usually to men]].
* BlessedWithSuck: Most of the characters who are punished with being anthropomorphic personifications of the SevenDeadlySins are given far greater powers than a normal denizen of Hell. However, they're [[InformedFlaw unable to actually enjoy the activities that embody their lust]]. The angel Central told Jack that one of the reasons the Sins were given power was so that they would not seek out redemption, continuing their punishment in Hell.
* BloodyBowelsOfHell: One punishment for those who are guilty of the sin of Lust is being fused into a huge, writhing gob of meat, similar in form to a Gibbering Mouther from TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons.
* BodyHorror: All the time in Hell. See BloodyBowelsOfHell above, for one instance.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Inverted after a fashion, starting [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1696/ here]]. It's called the 7th wall.
* BreakTheCutie: Good, decent, cute people get REALLY broken and abused, sometimes just for ''being'' good, decent and cute.
** It's no better exemplified than with Fnar, the Innocent in Hell. An unborn baby who died with his mother, Fnar was given the form of a small child and told that he's to stay in Hell for the time being but that Hell will not affect him since he did not do anything to be damned personally. His role in the comic is to wander through people's personal tortures not quite grasping what's going on, and acting as Jack's MoralityPet. Fnar even manages to acquire a girlfriend (a deformed demoness introduced in a previous arc as the killed-as-an-infant child of that arc's protagonist) and a pet (a Rework, which is a Film/TwentyEightDaysLater style feral zombie). Fnar fails to notice anything off about either, and they both become very much fond of him in turn. Everyone likes Fnar and wants to be nice to him (and those that don't stay uninvolved in his dealings) until Fnar is told he is finally going to leave Hell. This event is treated with a lot of build up and celebration, [[spoiler: until Fnar's father Drip, serial rapist in life and the Sin of Lust personified in death, figures out his connection to Fnar and molests him right before he was to leave, spoiling his innocence at the last minute. This causes Jack to have a HeroicBSOD where he lashes out at an angel who had been one of Jack's few true friends, spoiling their friendship.]]
** ''ARC XXXII: Been Reading Job'' has a broken cutie. Fangs described himself as a Christian, but became upset about being a social outcast, with it changing to anger when observing celebrations for being free from alcohol or leaving rehab (due to molesting children), when Fangs received no recognition for avoiding alcohol or not requiring rehab. The story shows his breaking point when he perceives that people are expected to be flawed, and chooses to become wrathful.
* BroadStrokes: The canon timeline is confusing, as time does not exist in Hell, so the plot wanders across earth's timeline. Plus, the "history repeats" stuff makes the timeline confusing and possibly broken. The timeline gets really confusing when characters from ''[[http://rtd.vitenka.com/Rtd1/index.phtml?page=00 Rework The Dead]]'' start appearing in Jack. The two works seem to fit together, but it's hard to figure out how. [[spoiler: Drip is the main problem. Are both Drips the same person? If so, Lita grew up during the events of Rework, but as we see her death and see her alive in the background of "Two For You" both of which are noticeably rework-free. So either the ability to recover from a ZombieApocalypse ridiculously quickly is one of the lesser known furry attributes, or Drip died multiple times in the same universe, once killed by a rework that looks ''exactly'' like his hell-form (which given the {{Reincarnation}} and [[EscapedFromHell escaping from Hell bits]] may be possible). Or it's paralleled but related universes. [[TimeyWimeyBall Or the damage to the time line is worse that it originally seems.]]]]
* BrokenAesop:
** The "Hell is That Noise" arc tells the story of Todd, a fox who served in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and obeyed the order to kill over a hundred children, a decision he regretted. When he comes home, he learns that his wife committed suicide, and Todd ends up committing suicide as well. In Hell, [[NeverMyFault he refuses to take responsibility for his actions]], arguing that he [[JustFollowingOrders just followed orders]] and "''fate''" [[YouCannotFightFate already decided what would happen in his life]]. Everyone in Hell (including Satan) [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out on this]] and that what happened to him was [[NiceJobBreakingItHero his own fault]]. The Story essentially wants the reader to see Todd as irresponsible for following such an order, that he should have refused and that he should accept it's all his fault, but the problem is that a good deal of the tragedies that happened to him were beyond his direct and conscious control, including the action that condemned him to Hell. Later on, it's revealed that the major that ordered Todd to shoot the children was ''The Devil'' in disguise, who pointed out that the children would likely grow up to attack the country, and that Todd is a soldier and must obey orders. Todd would still be screwed even if he had chosen to refuse the order, because the devil tricked everyone into believing that he was a general, meaning that Todd would likely be arrested and killed for treason, and other soldiers would simply follow the order in his place, not knowing that the general is an impostor. So, as a result, the story simply prove that Todd's argument that he was a [[CosmicPlaything pawn of forces beyond his control]] is ''[[StrawmanHasAPoint correct]]'' [[StrawmanHasAPoint all along]]. There's a reason why [[CreatorBacklash David Hopkins isn't fond of that arc]].
** The non-linear nature of time in Hell tends to screw around wildly with the concept of free will and personal choice; the Devil ''often'' resorts to directly manipulating the circumstances of the past and future in order to compel his victims to act, and then [[NeverMyFault blame them for it all.]] This is most notable with ''Drip'', of all people. His grandmother took him in after his parents were killed, directly blamed him for their deaths and used that guilt to force him to perform sex acts with her, setting him on an escalating path of sexual violence and depravity until he finally died. After spending time in Hell and being raped literally ''thousands'' of times, the Devil gives him the choice of becoming the Sin of Lust, sweetening the deal with a chance to get revenge on his granny and a treasured memento of his mother, but with a cost: the murder of two people. Drip agrees, because at this point, it hardly makes any difference...[[spoiler: and then he realizes that the two people the Devil has just had him brutally kill were ''his own parents'', sealing off a StableTimeLoop. And yet, the Devil closes his argument by saying that it was always Drip's choice, and it was always his own fault, just like Grandma said.]]
** We find out from literal Word of Sheep God that souls need pain to grow and change, and this is the reason for all suffering in the universe and the reason why life can't be fair for the good of all... but then she rescinds death on Susan and directly intervenes to give her a good, healthy, happy life full of love and family, and she gets to save many children (because of course saving children is what good women who lives good lives do in this universe) which practically guarantees she'll get into Heaven when she dies; this is ''explicitly'' a gift for Megan as an act of contrition on Sheep God's part. So apparently, Sheep God ''is'' willing to just fix some people's lives after all and let them bypass all that growth from pain, She just has to feel ''obligated'' to do it first. Furthermore, even though this bending of the rules is -- again -- an explicit act of contrition, it comes with a pricetag. Megan is not only sent back to relive life again on Earth, but deliberately subjected to a hard, painful one.
** The basic premise of Hell is that everyone in Hell has the power to free themselves, but that's just plain not true. Most of Hell's denizens are either being so constantly tortured they don't have time to think about anything but escaping whatever DisproportionateRetribution is being inflicted on them, being trapped in a dark stasis, unable to move and utterly without hope or even basic human contact, or, most often, having their memories removed so they can't recall the sin they're supposed to repent. And that doesn't even cover those few, like Lita and Silver Blue, who ''do'' manage to realize their sin (and gain "open" eyes) but ''still can't get out of Hell'', and only managed ''that'' because they had help from the powers that be. ''Nobody'' is capable of getting out on their own once they're in.
*** A woman who goes to hell for killing her daughters (because she thought her husband only wanted a son) meets the warped, monstrous shades of said daughters. She realizes what she's done, repents, and then embraces them, accepting the role of motherhood she once rejected (something that has been stated to be enough to save a woman's soul before). This is everything that is supposed to be required for a soul to find redemption and escape Hell, but the daughter-monsters tear her to pieces anyway.
** Much ado is made about sin and the nature of choice, but Heaven and Hell are both guilty of subverting mortal free will. During his life, Drip is [[AuthorAppeal allowed to rape and murder a girl]] while Farrago and Jack watch. Jack says it's because it has to be his choice, and that this event is what locks him into becoming the Sin of Lust. Cue many, many strips later, when Central locks Bob and Lisa in a freezer in order to prevent them from going their separate ways and, each without an accomplice, be forced to end the cannibalistic lifestyle that marked them as the Sin(s) of Gluttony and thus "escape" punishment. So, ''Drip'' got to decide for himself to become a serial rapist for so long that he desensitized himself to his own moral dilemma and thus lived a long, fruitful life of rape and incest while Heaven did nothing, but the Vorshes had to be murdered by an angel, lest they ''become better people''.
*** There's also the premise of the comic. Humanity was wiped out and God forced the universe into a global reset, but with furries instead of humans. Which would be fine, except that God is ''forcing'' furrykind to re-enact human history exactly. This means that the furry counterparts to history's worst villains (for instance, Furry Ed Gein or Furry Pol Pot) lived, died, and went to Hell for the sins that God forced them to commit.
** Suicide is wrong and gets you sent to Hell, even if you ''accidentally fell'' to your death, and Jack doesn't get a choice in how he serves his duty as the Reaper. Unless, of course, you're a woman who commits suicide because she had a miscarriage! Apart from the not-subtle insinuations that ''not'' killing herself over it would make her a bad mother and thus deserving of Hell, Jack lets Joann see Hell up close, then lets her escape back to her husband so she can [[MadonnaWhoreComplex give birth to twins.]] So, Jack ''does'' have a choice, and sometimes suicide is okay after all!
** Committing murder in the Jackverse is considered a one-way ticket to Hell, regardless of good intentions. Specks not only kills and murders a convicted pedophile who serves his (disappointingly brief) time and is released -- she tortures him horrifically. [[spoiler:She's made an angel that's allowed to work in Hell for it.]]
* BugWar: Arc XXIII "[[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/748/ Debts]]," which takes place in the future of the furry earth.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Darkly subverted. [[spoiler:Doctor Thalmus thinks that developing a cure for cancer entitles him to molest children, even going so far as to hold the cure hostage when Aurthor finds out. No one else seems to agree with his viewpoint.]]
* ButchLesbian: Specks has a "mannish" appearance (to the point of it not being immediately obvious she ''is'' female when she first appeared) and for the most part doesn't act in traditionally "female" ways, but later on is shown to be attracted to other females.
* CameBackWrong: In the first part of "Two for You," the woman who was resurrected [[spoiler:keeps wanting to go back to the afterlife. [[DrivenToSuicide She eventually kills herself to do so]].]]
* TheCameo: The news crew of ''Webcomic/{{Newshounds}}'' makes an appearance starting in this [[http://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/219/#content-start strip]].
* CardboardPrison:
** Worryingly, temporarily escaping Hell without being reconciled with your sins is possible. More optimistically, getting and staying out if you reconcile them is possible and permitted.
** For that matter, who designs a holding area and lab for an untested GM creature of human level intelligence [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/732#content-start that you can break out of with a fork?]]
* CheerfulChild: Fnar, though the mere fact that he is one despite the context he's in also pushes him into CreepyChild territory. [[spoiler:His reincarnation, Randy,]] is a clearer example.
* ChekhovsGunman: All the souls Jack has collected end up coming back several arcs later.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Fnar deconstructs this trope, by showing that a cute, genuinely innocent and pure kid who doesn't quite understand the horrors of Hell can be as scary as said horrors.
* ChurchOfHappyology: All of [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1041 Arc XXIX]] is a thinly veiled TakeThat to That One Church.
* CosmicPlaything: Hopkins makes this one [ZigZaggingTrope zig and zags]] this when it comes to Todd: He believes himself this, so he becomes this, with the Devil controlling his life. Then he realizes the Devil told him about the Seventh Wall, which means he can invert it and make the cosmos (or at least the comic strip) his plaything[[spoiler:, right? ''[[OutGambitted Wrong]]'']].
* CrapsackWorld: Hard to place, as the comic is largely set in Hell, and our viewpoint of events is skewed. While there ''are'' some very optimistic bits, the facts are that [[spoiler: humanity has been wiped out, humanity's successors are doomed to make the exact same mistakes as humanity in the same order.]] Hell may as well have a revolving door as far as some of its worse repeat offenders are concerned, and there's a ZombieApocalypse as well as an AlienInvasion waiting in the immediate future. God seems to have taken a "hands off" approach to things, leaving the fate of the world to mortals, angels and Sins, of which only the worst of the Sins seems to have a clear plan.
* CursedWithAwesome: Most of the Sins.
** Drip, as Lust, has an endless stable of victims, an entire coliseum that will host a sadistic sexual torture game for him whenever he wants (and then he gets to keep the "winner" for his own use), people who service him sexually of their own volition just to keep him happy, and since he's already in Hell, he can't be further punished for any of it (unless you count the other Sins getting revenge a punishment). The only drawbacks? He can no longer gain physical pleasure from the act of rape, and cannot touch his victims in life unless they give themselves to him willingly. While this upsets him greatly, he can still satisfy his sadism and controlling tendencies.
*** However, as time goes on, he becomes more and more unstable and less interested in his role as Lust.
** The Vorshes, as Gluttony, are cannibals who have improved strength and speed and can devour entire people easily. The main downside is that everything in hell tastes terrible, which leads them to try to escape from hell to get fresh meat. They also have an ironic punishment of being connected to each other despite hating each other.
** Jack himself has incredible power, being perhaps the most dangerous of the sins in terms of his personal prowess at combat, and gets to send evildoers to hell - something he always wanted to do in life. However, this act is no longer satisfying to him, and this fact is a major feature in spurring his redemption. As Wrath, he has a lot more power to do good than even most angels do, as there is little that can be done to punish him for breaking the rules save direct combat - something he is very skilled at.
** Dr. Kane, as Envy, has an enormous army of mindless followers, the Reworks, as well as a number of other minions. He presently seems to be planning some sort of mass takeover, so remains driven by his lust for power that he had in life. There is no obvious drawback to his condition, though he seems forever unhappy with what he has and driven to have more.
** Vince, as Greed, has an entire city under his control, and even though he was tortured by his former followers, it has only made him into more of an icon. There is no obvious drawback to his status as a Sin, as he has all the followers he could ever want.
* DaysOfFuturePast: Apparently, when furrykind annihilated the human race (their creators), they ended up being knocked back into at least medieval society, working their way back up to what we would call the present day and beyond. An obvious piece of evidence for this is the first official playing card deck, which shows that when Farrago was alive, she was a medieval-style knight or warrior.
* DeadToBeginWith: Most of the recurring characters are dead, or have been dead at some point.
* DeathTakesAHoliday: In a [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1172 couple]] of [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1173 fancomics]]. Oddly enough, things work out better when Jack isn't on the job.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of a WorldOfFunnyAnimals [[spoiler: or AnimalIsTheNewMan. From the beginning, the reason why "furries" existed is because they were genetically modified by humans to essentially serve as fodder for less than savory tasks, engineered to act and think like humans but never actually look like us. Hell, they were never meant to have the same ''rights'', since they were made without the ability to reproduce. Yet they could still think and feel all the human emotions, like rage and hatred, which the first of them Jack demonstrated the best, which is why he essentially nuked the world so hard, the entire timeline was reset, with furries now taking the place of humans. And the reason for this is because God intends for them to '''repeat all of human history'''. That's right; first, the reason anthropomorphic animals were like us is because they were made to be like us, but only to a degree, and the reason they are now living in a world just like ours, but with them in our place, is by divine meddling. And because they've taken our place, this means they are victim to the requirements to either be absolved or damned forever.]]
* DeliverUsFromEvil: Fnar's mother Jinx. She becomes saved after he declares her love for her son and adopts a bunch of demon girls who were killed as infants by their mother.
-->"Your mother did some pretty bad things. But she would have been a good mommy, and maybe it would have saved her soul."
** Averted with Molly, Todd's wife, who attempts the same thing by embracing the children she killed but is instead slaughtered by them, but that's possibly because she's insane and didn't truly know what repenting her sins meant.
* DeusExMachina: Wow, it was a really good thing some random kid just happened to [[GunsInChurch bring a gun to school]] so he could shoot Brian and stop him!
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: One chapter had the focus character in this situation.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
** [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/284/#content-start A demon]] [[TemptingFate insisted in calling]] [[BerserkButton Fiver by his name]]. It does not end well for him.
** Edmond Vade [[InvokedTrope invokes it]] when he discovers a style of martial arts that allows him to take on Jack in hand-to-hand combat. Unfortunately for him, he eventually fails.
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** In the "What's Pissing off Dalton" story arc, Dalton kills a man because of his speech impediment that causes him to draw out his "s" sounds, which annoys Dalton due to his chronic headaches.
** Also, Hell, for some of its victims. Not so much because they don't deserve punishment, but because the punishments are meant to teach them what they did wrong in life so they can realize their sin and repent, while often being too obtuse or too terrifying for the victim to interpret, or just plain designed to be hopeless. What ''can'' a person learn from being sealed naked into a wall with their arms, limbs, and head covered, and the rest left exposed to be raped by a monster?
** And Hell in general, considering how incredibly easy it is to get there. Does anybody really deserve to go to Hell for committing suicide because they ''accidentally'' fell to their death?
* DontFearTheReaper: While played straight with Jack (sometimes), "What's Pissing Off Dalton" has Satan showing Jack who will replace him if he ever leaves Hell. Dalton will be guaranteed to lead to an all-out aversion.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: If you're content with Purgatory and don't want to reincarnate because you know you won't remember anything about the afterlife and are guaranteed a harder life than the one you had the first time (which, because you had only an ''okay'' life, is that much more likely to land you in Hell) a cadre of busty, horny angels will invite themselves into your house, refuse to let you leave no matter how many times you don't want what they're selling, and shove their hands down your pants until you admit that deep down, you really ''do'' want to fuck them despite them only teasing how such pleasure is only for entrants into Heaven. But they might let you go peacefully if you tell them that you "can't accept" their sexual assault. They're only spreading happiness and love, after all! They're angels, they couldn't do it if it wasn't good!
* DownerEnding: [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/75/ "Dinner at Arloest's"]] and both stories in [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/980/ "Two For You"]] spring to mind.
* TheDragon: Brian, to Kane.
* DrivenToSuicide[=/=]SuicideIsPainless: A lot of the recurring non-angelic cast took their own lives out of either desperation or a desire for control. No less than three recurring characters were driven to suicide by Drip.
* EasilyForgiven:
** PlayedWith regarding the denizens of Hell. Any one of them (up to and including Satan himself) is perfectly capable of ending their time in Hell at any time by recognizing their sins, repenting for them, and asking for forgiveness. Seems easy, but the people who end up in Hell tend to, by their very natures, resist doing this. At the same time, a good number of Hell's victims don't remember enough about their lives to account for their sins, [[spoiler: particularly Jack]], and thus can't repent and seek forgiveness for something they don't remember doing.
** Inverted in "Hell Is That Noise", when the mother character recognizes her sins, repents for them, and asks forgiveness of the children she killed as infants. [[spoiler:They angrily tear her apart instead.]]
* EasyRoadToHell:
** If you cannot forgive yourself for your life sins, you can't get into Heaven.
** If you were enough of a {{Jerkass}}, you go to Hell.
** If you commit suicide for any reason, you go to Hell. In "Games We Play in Hell," it was implied that accidentally jumping to your death also counts as suicide.
** If your evil was of such a prodigious magnitude that Hell does not know how to punish you, you become Sin itself.
** It is stated that if you don't believe in God, S/He cannot accept you into Heaven (but at least this version of Purgatory isn't that bad, amounting to a peaceful, idealized version of Earth).
*** If you die and go to Purgatory, angels will sexually harass you until you agree to be reincarnated and live a harder life than the one you had the first time...which practically ''guarantees'' that you will go to Hell.
** If you're an unborn child whose mother went to Hell after being murdered, you go to Hell with her! But your innocence protects you from comprehending any of the horror you witness or being harmed [[spoiler:except by your psychotic rapist sin-incarnate father.]] Fnar is called The Innocent In Hell and is told early on that he's just on standby before he can be born properly, but that doesn't really change the fact that he was sent to Hell for ''someone else's sins'', and ultimately, [[spoiler:to be someone else's punishment.]]
** If you are killed as an infant, a deformed, demonic copy of you is sent to Hell to torture your parents. Averted in part, however, as the actual soul of the child is not, though the copies appear to be thinking, feeling beings themselves.
** If you make the decision to repent your sins and live a better life while you're still on Earth, an angel may come to kill you before you have the chance to act on that decision, so you'll go to Hell.
** If you manage to make it into Hell while living, you're welcome to buy souls at auction while you're there. But if you try to go back to the living world with them, it's suddenly a sin to own souls, and you'll stay in Hell.
* EvenTheDogIsAshamed: In the ([[BizarroEpisode Non-main-story-canon]]) ''Frigid [=McThunderbones=],'' most of the cast of ''Jack'', watching the resultant movie, turn on Hopkins in disgust when they see he's written a killer snowman filler arc. When ''Drip'' is asking you "[[EvenEvilHasStandards At least spare us a]] [[Film/JackFrost1997 carrot rape scene.]]" you know [[IncrediblyLamePun Even The Rat]] [[EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt Won't Touch It.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Even DRIP of all people can feel bad about what is happening to others, [[spoiler: and when two characters are captured by Kane, Drip gives one a MercyKill and offers to do the same to another.]] He later goes on to being regular Drip, but look at his eyes in panel 4 [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1978#content-start here.]]
** In "Games We Play in Hell," were are shown how Vince (the Sin of Greed) manages his empire. He frequently make sadistic shows on his coliseum and his followers generally enjoy the "spectacle." On days when Drip is visiting, he usually suggests the "Musical Holes" game, which is a NotSafeForWork version Musical Chairs. It's noticed that very few actually enjoy this game, the rest (including [[VillainProtagonist Silver Blue]]) only pretend to enjoy to avoid punishment.
* EveryEpisodeEnding: At the end of every main story arc: "TTFN" (Ta-Ta For Now). Lampshaded in the story arc "Twist, Twist, Twist."
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Even if they do have good in them, it's clear why the damned are damned: they shift blame around and say it's all the fault of a higher power they got condemned to Hell.[[note]]Excluding those who ''were'' actually sent to Hell by a supernatural being, as it's been shown that Satan, the Sins, and even the servants of Sins can do so.[[/note]] Some of them (like Lita) get disproportionately incensed at angels whenever they see them.
* EldritchLocation: Obviously Hell, particularly in "''Mr. Smith Goes To Hell''" where the landscape changes not only in shape, but also it laws of physics and logic are distorted like a pretzel.
* EunuchsAreEvil: Fangs, Drip's third apprentice that he trained to make a living off torturing and raping women, reveals to his victim Penelope that he's not going to rape her because A) He's gay and B) More importantly, he castrated himself by removing his dick and balls years ago.
* ExactWords: Angels can restore a damned's memory with a physical gesture of love. While the norm is a kiss, for a very stubborn damned, a punch to the face can work just as well.
* ExplicitContent: Although there is the occasional display of nudity throughout the strip, "The Games We Play in Hell" has more than a bit of explicit sex, particularly of the non-consensual variety.
* FamousFamousFictional: "... before uzis, [=RPGs=], jets, bars, saws, lazers, power armor and pathmakers"
* FateWorseThanDeath: These are often used as punishments for Sins and for the damned in Hell, who due to their ability to regenerate get to relive the punishments again and again.
* TheFettered: Central's job is basically to make sure the rules get enforced down to the letter. This tends to make her less than popular with, well, pretty much everyone. She herself doesn't like it all that much either [[spoiler:and seems to be planning to step down at some point]].
* FourthWallObserver:
** The so-called insane creature named Nostrum who narrates the [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/981 "Two For You"]] arc. He also likes to [[{{Troll}} screw with the reader]].
** Abba from "Megan's Run" chats with [[AuthorAvatar "Dave"]], who appears to exist outside of the comic.
** Todd isn't so much an observer as he's able to move in between panels.
** [[{{Satan}} "Lucy"]] is not only an observer, [[AuthorAvatar he draws the comic]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** All throughout 'The Games We Play In Hell', Silverblue's internal monologue comes with a number that ticks up and down. At one point, she takes a break to briefly read from a bastardized copy of ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror''. The meaning of both of these are revealed at the end of her arc.
** When Drip promises to hurt Jack worse than Jack's ever been hurt before. [[spoiler:He hurts Jack by molesting Fnar.]]
** Randy's design. He's half-frog, which means he's got no visible nose [[spoiler: like his former incarnation Fnar.]] He also asks Lita to be his sister the minute he meets her, which is a little weird considering kids often ask new people to be their friends but not ''family'', but since Lita [[spoiler: ''was'' sister to Fnar]] it makes sense.
%%* FunnyAnimal
* FurriesAreEasierToDraw: The [[WordOfGod author himself has said he's bad at drawing humans]].
* FurryConfusion: Furries are genetically engineered, apparently, so there's nothing weird in a family of crow-men farmers being pestered by crows. There is confusion about how the furry offspring looks like: a cat-girl's elementary school-old kitten looked like a real life kitten, but {{Littlest Cancer Patient}}s looked like furry kids.
* GeniusLoci: The ground of Hell is the Sin of Sloth. He can feel every footstep and may never rest.
* GodIsFlawed: The series' interpretation of God is a being who allows all the suffering in the world to happen just because She thinks suffering makes people better and She wants people to solve their own problems, despite making it practically impossible for people to do so and allowing Satan to do whatever he pleases. She also regrets aspects of creation and knows she made it unfair, having incarnated (as Jesus Christ) to both experience the life and suffering of a mortal and offer a way to Heaven to those who consider themselves lost. Best exemplified in "The Chalkboard" short where a child named Timmy tearfully writes God why She doesn't stop War, Hunger, and the Killing of Children on Earth. The angel Farrago answers on God's behalf.
-->'''God:''' Dear Timmy, why should I stop people from doing something, when they are perfectly capable of stopping themselves?
* GoKartingWithBowser: "[[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/119/#content-start For No Apparent Reason]]" ends with Vince cornering Fnar, [[WebComic/GeneCatlow Gene Catlow, and Cotton Taylor]]... [[spoiler:and then tagging Fnar. Vince was just playing tag with him, at Jack's request.]]
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: Whilst Sins, God, and the Devil have pupil-less eyes, all non-Sins in Hell are shown with pinpoint pupils until they realize their sin, at which point they are drawn with the full pupils used by Hopkins for the living and Angels. It's also shown that those who have realized their sin can go back to the ominous pinpoint pupils, [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1043#content-start if they fall in with the wrong crowd,]] or if they've been brutalized like [[spoiler:Vinci]] in the side story [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1580#content-start "Pikri Alitheia"]] after [[spoiler:trying to defend Bashful and being half-devoured by the Gorshes]]. Vinci's eyes, however, almost immediately returned to "open", suggesting that those in Hell can regain their eyes if they remember all the progress they've already made once they respawn.
* GoodIsNotNice: God and most of the angels, particularly Central, through a sort of lawful-neutral type behavior. Heaven has many, many laws in place, and outside of the most extreme extenuating circumstances, it does not make exceptions or intervene on behalf of good mortals. God's behavior especially is so cruel and emotionally manipulative, it's given rise to AlternateCharacterInterpretation.
* {{Gorn}}: It is a very violent webcomic, although the impact is definitely lessened by subpar art.
* GovernmentConspiracy: The American government knows that furrykind was created in a laboratory by humans, who used to be the only sentient species on Earth. They currently have archaeologists doing research in the ruins of that lab, which is also heavily guarded. Anyone who blabs about furrykind's secret origins would likely be secretly killed, but given the widespread panic and existential angst such blabbing would cause (i.e. "We're all descendants of lab-grown creatures, therefore WE HAVE NO SOULS!"), this is a wise policy. However, they also have possible counter-proof of this in the form of Kane's resurrection machine, unless the Government thinks that being brought back to life sent that poor woman crazy and she hallucinated the whole thing. So if they didn't believe her, they're hiding perceived disproof of the afterlife. If they ''did'', they're hiding perceived ''proof'' of ''religion''. One wonders which would be more dangerous.
* GratuitousRape: One of the biggest criticisms of the comic; the amount of female characters who haven't been sexually assaulted at some point is quite low... and the amount of female characters who actually tried to fight back instead of just lying there and taking it is nonexistent. Estimates of exactly how much of the comic focuses on it range somewhere between roughly a quarter and a half of all the arcs.
* GroinAttack: Megan delivers the mother of all groin attacks, with a sledgehammer, to [[spoiler:Fiver after [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1910#content-start he rapes her]]. Visible cords are involved.]]
* GroundhogDayLoop: "The Games We Play in Hell" has the protagonist stuck in one, [[spoiler:until Jack intervenes to break the loop.]]
* GuileHero: [[spoiler:Specks]], who's also an AngelUnaware in Meg's Run part 2.
* GunsInChurch: "Angry Brian" contains Guns in School. Justified with Brian, since he was planning on shooting his classmates. Played straight with the NRA Preacher, who just happened to be carrying around a pistol in school.
* {{Handwave}}:
** On one page, Hopkins got so involved in the inking process that he accidentally lettered in some notes he had written to remind him how to ink things. Upon realizing he had done this he added a new one, reading "In Hell, you can see the notes."
** Done again in "Mr. Smith Goes to Hell," a comic that was published. This time, [[OffModel a hand drawn backwards]] on one of the pages is...well, handwaved in the end notes by saying that "these things happen in Hell." The publishers weren't impressed.
** Continuity errors are usually brushed off with some variation on "Time is funny in Hell."
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Taylor]] from "One Way to Win."
* HeelFaceReincarnation: It is possible for souls damned to Hell or Purgatory to be reborn as good people and be given another chance at getting into Heaven.
* HeelRealization: Jack in the last moments of his life.
* HellOfAHeaven: There's one character in Heaven, Rachel, who's implied to either be Drip or one of his apprentice's girlfriend, who has made her personal Heaven a creepy noir-themed hunting ground for her boyfriend full of victims for him to kill and rape and other predators for him to make friends with. All this is to tempt him to leave Hell and into trying life again so they can be together. People are horrified at what they see, and indeed, she seems miserable given she's created a Heaven that's not what she personally wants, but she has hope if her boyfriend arrives, his new experiences will make him a better person and he'll want a new Heaven with her.
* HeroicBystander:
** The people in the plane crash in "Falling Angels."
** Wendy and Anna in the arc "Wednesday's Child."
** Swifty at the beginning of "The Superman Project."
** Brisk all throughout "Megan's Run."
* HistoryRepeats: Furry civilization and its history are incredibly uncannily similar to human civilization's history, right down to TV shows and individual people like celebrities, to the point where it can't all have been the result of reincarnation of humans, if that was ever a factor in the repetition of history at all. The main source of this phenomenon was probably the lynching of Mr. Grimm, an anthropomorphic vulture who, not long after the end of humanity, attempted to write a manifesto detailing a new society based upon lessons learned from the mistakes of humanity. He was killed by those who didn't agree with his ideas, and those who fail to learn from history are doomed to... well, you know...
* HumanitysWake: [[spoiler:Jack killed all the humans, which is why he is the sin of Wrath and was sentenced to be the reaper. Almost the entire comic, save for a handful of chapters, are set well after this event, with the furries created by humans having taken over the Earth.]]
* IdenticalStranger: Billie, a character in the ''Cliff'' comic, is almost the spitting image of Linda, Cliff's old love. He gets them confused quite a bit. Hopkins revealed this was deliberate and that Billie's character design was created to have horns, spikes, and a long tail that could be removed to then create Linda.
* InformedFlaw: The Sins' inability to enjoy the sin they embody. Supposedly they can't derive any pleasure from committing their namesake sin, but they very obviously ''do'' enjoy it and continue to do it, especially Drip, who (being the Sin of lust) can still become sexually aroused and achieve orgasms, and he has an entire stable of immobilized women to use as toys.
** Being a Sin itself is supposed to be a terrible punishment, but being made a Sin means you get vast amounts of power, you're free to commit whatever atrocities you want without any interference, and you get to rule over the souls of the dead and use them in various ways. Even Jack, the only one of the Sins who seems to have any serious misgivings over what he is, is still far and away the most physically powerful of the seven and his duties regularly expose him to people he can punish for pissing him off.
* InnocentInaccurate: Fnar
* IronicHell: Some of the punishments of the damned rely on this trope, although given that it's a long-running webcomic set in hell there have been surprisingly few; really just Todd, Sloth and Megan's mother.
* ItsAllAboutMe:
** Most of the damned and the Sins really can't think (or care) about more than themselves. Jack in particular has a scene where he complains that ''his'' feelings were hurt because ''he'' wanted forgiveness and [[spoiler: Farrago]] distanced herself from him instead of just accepting his apology whenever ''he'' wanted, and Bob's retelling of his last days of mortal life is [[UnreliableNarrator utterly one-sided]], to the point that even his thoughts about Ellie are more about himself than her.
** God's answer to anyone complaining about the incredibly unfair rules She inflicts on people is "But it hurts ''me'' even more!", which is weird because the fact that furry history is exactly following human history is because she decreed it would be so.
* KarmaHoudini: Usually averted. One strip even had Jack [[DefiedTrope help some recently deceased souls prevent their killer from becoming one of these]].
** Played straight with Farrago, whose negligence leads to Fnar [[spoiler: being raped by Drip]] because she cares more about what Fnar's presence is doing for Jack than she does about protecting Fnar. Nobody but Jack calls her on it, and we're supposed to side with her because Jack was mean to her. And then she gets her [[spoiler: memory erased at her own request]], so she doesn't even have to deal with it herself. It says a lot for this trope when a kid gets [[spoiler: raped]] on an angel's watch and the only guy to suffer any consequences is the one who thought she should have been doing her job.
** Also played straight with Ordin,a pedophile serial killer. We see no punishment whatsoever in Hell except for when Drip tears his head off...a fairly quick death which will cause him to respawn hundreds of miles away out of any danger.
* KidHasAPoint: Fnar is the first person to figure out [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/495#content-start how to get out of hell]].
* LifeOrLimbDecision: Faced with being dragged down [[spoiler:into Drip's reach]], [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1985#content-start Megan tells Arty to chop off her tail to allow them to escape.]] Notably, ''she'' isn't the one screaming about it after the deed is done.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The Seventh Wall, actually.
* LetsGetDangerous: Private Kedge may be inexperienced and somewhat cowardly, [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/830#content-start but when pushed too far]]...
* LosingYourHead: Nostrom, who weirdly enough has the power to switch around from body to body, simply plucking his head off and putting it on another one he's taken from someone else.
* LukeIAmYourFather:
** Lita does not recognize who The Sin of Lust is upon meeting him, as his damaged hell form has little resemblance to his appearance in life [[spoiler:Jack likewise had no clue he was created by [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] Kane.]]
** It is not revealed to the reader that [[spoiler: Drip is Fnar's father]] right away, and Jack seems to have been keeping the information from [[spoiler: Fnar]] presumably to keep him from looking for [[spoiler: Drip]] (he also neglects to give [[spoiler: Lita]] the exact same [[spoiler:"your dad is Lust" info]]. Neither ]time did it help).
* MadonnaWhoreComplex: The moral worth of any given female character is illustrated by how she treats her lovers and any children she elects to care for.
* MadScientist: Kane, Nostrom, and [[spoiler:Jack during his life]].
* MagicAisMagicA: Discussed at the very end of "Harold," also counting as a SpoofAesop.
* ManipulativeBastard: Drip does it (mostly) ForTheEvulz.
** However, as much of a manipulative bastard as he was, [[{{Satan}} the Father of Lies himself]] taught Drip a harsh lesson in that there's AlwaysABiggerFish, when he thoroughly OutGambitted Drip during the process of turning him into a Sin. To go into detail: [[spoiler: He convinced Drip to sign the contract by telling him he could help find his abusive Grandmother in Hell for vengeance. After signing, he casually remarks that the only catch is that he's going to ask him to kill someone by the end of the process, and then he made Drip go on a Christmas Carol style trip down memory lane, opening all of his old wounds, reminding him of how people said he killed his parents as an infant, and deliberately agitating him. Then they make it to the last stop, where he's told to kill "Adam and Eve", a couple within the house they're in front of, and ''only'' the couple. Drip, deliberately made to think it's his old flame and the guy she ended up getting with, brutally murders them in a violent rage. When he discovers there's a baby, he decides to place him with the dead mother, only after swaddling the baby in the woman's scarf, he realizes that [[TomatoInTheMirror the baby was him, and the couple was his parents,]] [[SelfMadeOrphan meaning he really did kill his parents when he was a baby.]] Drip, at this revelation, firmly crashes into the DespairEventHorizon, while Satan reminds him that this was all his fault because it was Drip's choice not his, and ruthlessly mocks him for siding with his tormentors and becoming the very thing they accused him to be.]] [[FridgeHorror And so ends the mystery of how Satan was so sure of himself when he told Jack that Drip will never seek redemption.]]
%%* MatureAnimalStory
* MediumAwareness: Todd is aware he is in a comic. So is the Devil, and uses that to screw with Todd endlessly.
* MindScrew:
** In Arc XXVII, "Why Do I Deserve To Die", Jack delays sending a group of people to judgement after they are killed in a bombed restaurant, allowing them to figure out who among them set off the bomb. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Called as such]] toward the end of the StoryArc.
** In life, Drip trained three proteges to continue his work after he died (presumably with the thought in mind that he would one day be executed), so that the people who put him away would forever be haunted by the possibility that they got the wrong guy.
* MoodSwinger: No one character is this specifically, but some of them tend to lean on it. While some slowly express themselves, others can sob gallons of tears and punch people with almost no warning. [[JustifiedTrope However, considering what most of the cast goes through in these arcs...]]
* MondegreenGag: Susan in the Megan's Run arc seems to hear one of these every other sentence.
* {{Necromantic}}: This happened the first part of the arc [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/991#content-start "Two for You"]], though the male protagonist isn't shown as being especially evil for doing it.
* NeverMyFault:
** The damned are all over this trope like white on rice. Truly admitting guilt and responsibility for your own actions is the first step out of hell, something most of them aren't capable of. This is one of the reasons a lot of the damned hate angels; it's easier to blame an authority figure who sent you to hell (even if they didn't) than to think you might actually deserve being where you are.
** Averted with Virgil, who was in Hell only because he killed himself, but was so convinced that [[ItsAllMyFault he was guilty of the deaths caused in the Columbine-style shooting in the first arc]] that he didn't even consider the suicide an issue until eventually being convinced otherwise.
** Farrago has her memories of [[spoiler: Jack trying to kill her]] removed so that she doesn't have to deal with it. The problem is that the entire reason for it was [[spoiler: she left Fnar in Hell instead of removing him when she could have, and Jack flew into a rage over it.]] Her role in the proceedings is never addressed, and the focus is more on how she should forgive [[spoiler: Jack for killing her]] instead of any responsibility she should take for what happened to [[spoiler: Fnar on her watch.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's quite common in this webcomic for the protagonists' well-intentioned actions to backfire hideously.
** Lita made a deal with Drip ([[spoiler:without knowing who he was]]) behind Jack's back. She also ignored Cliff when he tried to warn her, allowing Drip to heal his body.
** Arloest, who used her gift to tell the future to save a couple of a highway accident. But it turned out that they where ''meant'' to die, and by saving them [[spoiler:Arloest make them immortal, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever forcing them to outlive everyone they loved]] in life]].
** The entire "Megan's Run" saga is around the titular character trying to ''fix'' what she broke. More specifically [[spoiler:she saved a little girl and friend, Susan, from death by kidnapping her from the hospital and running from the reaper, which not only made her immortal, [[NotGrowingUpSucks but also prevented her from growing up]] and having a life of her own]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** Several times, Drip has said or done things that have pushed Jack into remembering his past and becoming a better person.
** ''Brian'', of all furs, manages this in ''Frightened Virigl'' when he asks the ArmorPiercingQuestion to Virgil of why he's in Hell. It's meant to just hurt him but ends up being the catalyst Virgil needs to recognize his only sin was suicide and take responsibility for it.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: The non-canon story "Frigid [=McThunderbones=]" is loaded with nonsensical stuff that seems to have been thrown in purely for RuleOfCool reasons.
* NobleDemon: Besides Jack, a more literal example of this trope is [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1905#content-start this demon]] [[JerkwithaHeartofGold seems to have more heart them he looks to have]].
* NonhumansLackAttributes: Played straight for [[spoiler:Jack and Jill, presumably as Kane realized making the first batch of his experimental [=AIs=] self replicating was a bad move.]] Noticeably averted everywhere else.
* NonMammalMammaries: Several female birds and reptiles sport mammalian breasts.
* NonLinearCharacter: As time doesn't exist in the afterlife, everyone's already dead technically. [[spoiler:Jack and Drip winding up meeting their past selves]].
* NoodleIncident: Quite a number of them that ''still'' haven't been expanded on despite the long-running nature of the comic:
** It's hinted there's a history between Farrago and Drip, possibly a sexual one, though whether it was consensual or rape is left up in the air. Fans thought they had figured out out but it turned out to be incorrect once Farrago's backstory was revealed. (See NotHisSled for how this happened.)
** Jack mentions when he reaps Lita's soul that he recently reaped ''another'' of Drip's kids. This was a bit shocking to fans as only two of his children had ever been revealed: Fnar and Lita. But aside from this one mention, nothing else has been revealed about this child, not even their gender or species.
** One of Drip's "apprentices" reveals he had three of them: his first, Taylor, and Fangs. While the latter two have their own storylines that come to a conclusion, nothing has been revealed about the first. When Taylor talks about him, he doesn't know his name and he's even only shown in silhouette, with Taylor stating he was already dead by the time Drip started "training" him.
** Specks is [[spoiler: an angel]] because [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1958#content-start she killed a child molester.]] Considering that murder usually sends you straight to Hell, a ''lot'' of fans questioned just how bad this guy must have been if she got an exception to the rule, especially with someone as strict as Central as their leader and considering how many chances in life ''Drip'' of all people got to change his ways. Unfortunately, no more info on what happened or who this man was is give out beyond the basic explanation.
** Jinx's past. While it's clear that Drip [[spoiler: fathered her child]] it's unclear what relationship she had with him in life and whether she was a willing girlfriend (like Rachel in Heaven claimed to be with her murderous boyfriend) rather than someone he kidnapped to torture. Drip generally didn't keep his victims alive long enough to get to the point her baby was at in pregnancy when she was killed and it's unclear if it was even ''Drip'' who killed her, if it was someone else, or if she committed suicide. She states once she's found redemption that she "doesn't need him anymore", implying that perhaps she thought she was in love with him at one point and was controlled by him.
** Doctor Thalmus and Doctor Dee share such a close resemblance (Dee just missing the horn that the rhinoceros Thalmus has) that Aurthor asks if they're brothers. Dee evasively replies "Sort of" but he never expands on what that actually means.
* NoPreggerSex: Anna was rather {{squick}}ed by [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/592#content-start Wednesday's suggesting sex]] while she was pregnant, in the arc "Wednesday's Child".
* NotAfraidOfHell: Lita is first introduced in ''Short XVII: Father'' training to fight in hell, and when she dies later, explicitly tells Jack that she is going to hell for the purpose of punishing her father.
* NotHisSled: For years, fans theorized and were all but convinced that Farrago had lost her wings and been raped trying to redeem Drip, given the [[NoodleIncident vague backstory]] they kept referring to they had each other, and Drip even mentioning his stink "already being on her" when he said he'd bring her to Kane. Come the arc that tells her backstory and it turns out she ''did'' indeed lose her wings to the Sin of Lust.....it just wasn't Drip, but one of the furries that came before him, a pedophile priest Farrago had known in life.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Said almost word for word in Arc XLIV "Choosing Sides" by [[spoiler:Bob]].
-->"To be clear, I'm not here for your revolution. I don't care about redemption, and I am not for any of what you're doing. I am against '''HER'''"
* NotGrowingUpSucks: In the story arc "Megan's Run," Susan Lancaster and Megan Fairchild are not only [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1610#content-start not able to die, get sick, or remain injured]], but neither will [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1611#content-start grow old]] [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1612#content-start or mentally mature any more than their current state]].
* OhCrap: Happens a lot. It's bound to, since much of the plot revolves around people dying. The Seventh Wall has an epic one, where Todd learns how to break the seventh wall to escape Hell...[[spoiler:except The Devil, who ''controls'' the seventh wall, has kept him firmly in Hell.]] Todd never stops being fun for Satan.
* OnlySixFaces: It's not uncommon for furry comics to have characters that are distinguished only by the features of their unique species. It's less common for them to still not be distinguishable ''despite'' being radically different species. It does get a little better as the comic goes on, as shown by the ArtEvolution between Sepka's [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/193/#content-start first appearance]] and one [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1500#content-start years later,]] though never truly goes away. Averted with the arcs illustrated by other artists, which tend to have more diverse species.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: They have a sex life, to begin with...
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: The souls of the dead appear to have some physical form in both heaven, Hell AND on earth ([[RequiredSecondaryPowers otherwise they'd fall though the floor]]) this enables [[OurGhostsAreDifferent the dead to move objects,]] and kill their murderer.
* {{Precursors}}: It turns out it's [[spoiler:humanity.]]
* ThePlan: Kane's favorite MO, especially in [[spoiler:"Sever the Hunger" and "Frightened Virgil"]].
* PlotHole: There are plenty, most of them handwaved, but a couple of notable ones:
** Central says she was involved in five of the Sins' deaths and was present for all of them because she killed them once they had locked themselves into becoming their Sin of choice, but this contradicts what we know about the rest of the Sins' deaths, particularly Drip, who lived a good long while after he raped his way past the point of no return.
** Jack's angst comes mainly from his having no choice in who he reaps, and when souls try to escape him, he has to chase them and can't be avoided forever, and suicide is an instant ticket to Hell. Joann kills herself, but Jack consciously lets her view Hell to scare her straight and then lets her go back to her body.
* ThePowerOfLegacy: Lieutenant Bullock recounts how he told a fellow soldier's parents that their son died while pulling wounded men out of a fire. What really happened... [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/796#content-start well, it wasn't quite as dignified.]]
* PunnyName: Beo Wolfe. A wolf, natch, and notable for being a character created by a fan.
* RapeAndSwitch: After being kidnapped and raped repeatedly by Drip in life, Arloest chose to abandon any relationships with males out of fear and distrust, even starting new lesbian romantic relationships when returning to Earth. In "Megan's Run Part 2", Megan does this as well after her rape by Fiver, having devoted herself completely to the female Farrago afterwards.
* RapeAsDrama: The author is infamous for how poorly he handles such delicate subject matter.
* RecursiveReality: When Todd speaks with "management", he's shown comic strips of his life in hell. [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/412#content-start One page shows what's happening on the strip]]. The page also shows the next page. This was used as a way to say that the devil was in control of his like in Hell.
* RecycledInSpace: ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''... [-WITH [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom FURRIES]]-]! [-AND STUFF THAT WILL [[InformedAbility NEVER LET YOU SLEEP AGAIN]]-]!
* RedEyesTakeWarning[=/=]GlowingEyesOfDoom: Played with somewhat. Jack's eyes are pure glowing red most of the time. Since he's the reaper, people tend to take warning. But his actual [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Wrath Mode]] turns everything but his pupils black. [[spoiler: ...and those go after his memories are restored.]] The other Sins also have similar eyes. Emily has bright yellow eyes, Drip has green eyes and the others have red ones if they have them at all. God and Satan have uniquely pure black eyes [[spoiler:until "Sever The Hunger"]].
* ReligionOfEvil: Vince's cult.
* ReligionIsRight: While the comic is heavily inspired by Catholicism, (right down to the SevenDeadlySins and purgatory) it's a subversion in that where you go has ''nothing'' to do with your religion. According to Farrago, the only standard for getting into Heaven is to acknowledge God's existence and lead a good life because of it.
* {{Retcon}}: Bob starts out being just as horny and philandering as Lisa, feeling entitled to cheat on her to pay her back for cheating on him some time ago. Then we get ''Choosing Sides'', which shows us that Bob is really just a sensitive nice guy, who ''wanted'' to cheat on Lisa, but was too morally upstanding to do it, and instead he just really resented her for not having sex with him.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter:
** Fnar.
** And Randy ([[spoiler:even though he WAS Fnar]]). Only David Hopkins could make a skunk-frog hybrid look mind-blowingly cute.
*** Lampshaded by [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1094#content-start Lita]].
* RingRingCRUNCH: Silverblue stabs her alarm clock. It's not known if she always did, or if she just started because she's been woken up by the exact same sound at the exact same time each morning for 125 years.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: The spelling is pretty infuriating. "your", "angle" and so on and so forth.
* RunningGag: The demon of loneliness protesting that his mom's not a whore... and then proven wrong, once even by said mom in "Frigid [=McThunderbones=]".
* SadisticChoice: This comic being what it is, this comes up often. In one particular example, [[spoiler:Satan introduces Jack to the guy who will be replacing him should Jack actually manage to escape Hell. He's... [[HairTriggerTemper less]] [[AxCrazy than]] [[LackOfEmpathy pleasant]].]]
* ScaleOfScientificSins: Dr. Kane manages all them, at various points in his life.
* ScunthorpeProblem: Inverted on the forums: the name "Matt" is changed by the filter to "Dolphinfucker". Apparently the artist's wife had a rather scary ex named Matt, who, among various other crimes including stalking her at some point, [[BestialityIsDepraved reputedly did something unpleasant involving a beached dolphin's blowhole]] (possibly more than once). He also appeared in the comic a couple of times in an IronicHell in which [[TakeThat he is the victim of rape by dolphins]].
* SelfDeprecation: Aurthor makes fun of the artist, saying that "when he's not being gorey, he's being preachy."
* SelfInflictedHell: You can't leave until you let yourself, but whether you arrive in Hell in the first place is pretty objective.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Drip was told by his horrific grandmother that he had killed his parents, in some roundabout way about his birth forcing them to live in a bad neighborhood where they got brutally murdered. But then in an arc showing how he became the AnthropomorphicPersonification of {{Lust}} it's shown that thanks to the odd nature of time in the afterlife [[spoiler: he actually did kill his parents, Lucifer led him to believe that they were an ex-girlfriend of his and her husband, and he didn't realize his mistake until he dropped their baby on his mother's torn open ribcage and got a good look at him.]] And Drip's daughter Lita is more than a bit obsessed with killing him for what [[ChildByRape he did to her mother]] and to [[ParentalIncest herself]], even committing suicide in order to follow him into hell and kill him again, though she really had no idea what she was getting into.
%%* SevenDeadlySins
* SexualKarma:
--> "Well, let me put it this way. In Heaven, they make love...on Earth, they have sex...but down here in Hell, down here...they fuck."
* ShoutOut:
** Among other things, to various other web-based furry works, ''Literature/WatershipDown'', ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'', and Music/NineInchNails.
** The afterlife is supposedly based on ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', but numerous mistakes imply that the author only has fleeting knowledge of it.
** In a recent arc, a character Richek reveals that he's seen the grim reaper numerous times and considers him somewhat of a friend, but no one else has ever seen him, and he doesn't know his name. What does he call his tall, rabbitty pal? "Theatre/{{Harvey}}!"
** Aurthor [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/217/#content-start reads Redwall]] to the children sick with cancer. The same arc shouts out to ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' again with the fact that Sue is in "Saint Ninian's Hospital.
*** [[http://rtd.vitenka.com/Rtd1/index.phtml?page=98 Obligatory link to the first example of Buster Charlie's dislike of Redwall]].
** ''Webcomic/{{Newshounds}}'' interviews Aurthur in ''Suffer''.
** [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1196#content-start The bathhouse]] in "Frigid [=McThunderbones=]" is filled with {{Shout Out}}s of random cartoons.
** Jack and Jill's coloration (green and pink, respectively) are likely a shout out to Buster and Babs Bunny of Tiny Toons Adventures, who likewise were oddly-colored rabbits.
* SoBadItsGood: Invoked in the side arc "Frigid [=McThunderbones=].". David Hopkins has quite clearly set out to use this trope in the entire arc. Not only does he parody a wide variety of awful material, but he does it in such a way it's actually funny at times (which is somewhat surprising, considering that ''Jack'' is normally a serious story comic).
* SplashOfColor:
** In "Games We Play in Hell," only red things are colored (usually blood).
** In "Two for You," [[spoiler:only Hell is colored.]]
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:Drip]] ends up being the ButtMonkey for one, ending with him [[spoiler:murdering and raping his own parents in front of his infant self,]] making him ultimately responsible for all of the tragedies that happened in his life.
* StalkerWithACrush: Cliff for Lita. Not immediately obvious but it's there.
* StealthPun: Several, but notably Edward Vade - E. Vade.
* TakeThatAudience: In the VerySpecialEpisode:
-->'''Farrago''': "[[DrugsAreBad One of Dave's fans is on drugs]]!"
-->'''Drip''': Heh...Just one?
* ToHellAndBack:
** "Megan's Run part 2" has Megan going to Hell in order to reach Heaven in a roundabout way and [[spoiler: ask God to allow an immortal child to age.]]
** "Prayer of the Mantis", back when Vince was alive he had his necromancer send a queen he captured to Hell, and four of her subjects [[spoiler: one of them Farrago]] followed to rescue her.
* TorturePorn: Generally a lot of detail is given to torture and mutilation scenes.
* TraumaticCSection: Kane threatens to do this to Wendy, in the arc "Wednesday's Child", if she doesn't cooperate with him.
* TsurimeEyes: How you can tell someone is a bad guy, generally.
* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: Evan's favourite game, "Killing Killers and the Killers who Kill Them".
* UnfortunateNames: The detective in the B-movie parody arc ''Frigid [=McThunderbones=]'': "Aidsyphilis Smallbush ... It's Greek."
* UnreliableNarrator: The point of the short animated arc "Twist, twist, twist."
* UpliftedAnimal: The characters are this. See Arc XLVI - In the Beginning.
* VerySpecialEpisode: Parodied in the story [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/848 "A Very Special Jack",]] drawn by Guest Artist Mat Sherer of ''Webcomic/BadlyDrawnKitties''.
* VillainProtagonist: Drip, especially in the stories that take place before his death. Being Hopkins' self-insert, this was probably inevitable.
* WatchTheWorldDie: The titular character did this after [[https://jackrabbit.thecomicseries.com/comics/1475#content-start triggering the collapse of civilization]] and the extinction of the human species
* WebcomicsLongRunners: This comic has been consistently running for over twenty-three years, ladies and gentlemen.
* WhamEpisode: "Sever the Hunger". [[spoiler:It reveals just what Jack did in life that made him become Wrath. Long story short, he wiped out humanity and so thoroughly wrecked the universe that he caused GenerationXerox on a cosmic scale, with furs going through the same kind of history that humans did. The kicker to this is that he himself did not know this beforehand--prior to his own demise, he asked to forget what he had done.]]
* WhamLine: When Kane first steps out of the shadows, Brian can't tell what species he is.
---> "That's not surprising. I'm from before your time, Brian. You see... [[spoiler: I'm human]]."
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Quite a few given the KudzuPlot and non-linear storyline.
** There's quite a lot relating to Drip, especially given at one point Hopkins claimed he was going to make a Drip-focused comic after completing Jack, but many of these ideas have been folded in as it seems he might have changed his mind.
*** Lita was for years assumed to be one given she appeared in only one short that led to much fan speculation about her. The fandom rejoiced when she finally appeared in ''Those That Run'' and became one of the main characters.
*** Drip is stated to have three apprentices: one who died, a cat named Taylor, and a wolf named Fangs. Absolutely ''nothing'' has been revealed about the first apprentice despite being set up as a ChekhovsGunman while Taylor and Fangs haven't been seen since their deaths, though it is implied Drip might have forcibly made their bodies join the gory Valley of Lust. A girlfriend for one of them is even shown to be in Heaven later on waiting for one of them but nothing more is done with their characters.
*** Jack mentions when he picks up Lita's soul that he wasn't expecting to pick up ''another'' of Drip's children so soon. Given Fnar was shown to be reincarnated into [[spoiler: Randy]], it couldn't have been referring to him, so there's a third child out there of Drip's.....and nothing more has ever been said about them.
*** The end of the ''Cliff' comic shows Cliff giving into Drip's influence entirely and not nearly done on the RoaringRampageOfRevenge he's set out on. Poor sales from that comic made Hopkins state that the SequelHook would not be followed up on. The next time Cliff is seen he's in Hell with only an indication that "now both eyes match" as for [[NoodleIncident how he died and got there.]]
*** ''The Screaming Barrel'', another originally paper comic, ends with Drip abruptly leaving his teenage victim Sandy on the side of the road while she cries with no indication what's to become of her. Partially this is due to the number of pages that could be fit into the comic and partially it was because Hopkins had more story arcs planned for her, including a possible one where she teams up with Richek the Russian penguin detective to expose the horrors of The Screaming Barrel itself.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Cliff essentially loses it when Lita starts to redeem herself AND fall for Farrago. That [[TeacherStudentRomance she also kissed her teacher Eric beforehand]] doesn't help.]]
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