* AlternativeJokeInterpretation: [[https://www.oglaf.com/mistytwinkle/ Misty Twinkle]]: is the salesman withdrawing the sale of the horse because he's [[BestialityIsDepraved offended at the client's final answer]]... or because the client ''did'' successfully guess "the thing"?
* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** "[[https://www.oglaf.com/pomades/ Barber surgeon]]" was an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_surgeon actual occupation]] for centuries, though predictably, it was nothing like what [[CloudCuckoolander Navaan]] thinks it is.
** [[https://www.oglaf.com/automaton/ The chess-playing automaton]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk is also real]], though it ran on smoke and mirrors (and a short man inside the machine).
** Those warriors in "Plumes" who wear tall headdresses on their helmets to look bigger? That's generally agreed to be the actual reason behind the plumes on hoplite helmets. (Regrettably, no evidence they ever went the CombatStiletto route.)
%%* CargoShip: [[http://www.oglaf.com/potion/ "Love Potion"]] and "Fairest".
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Just about the entire comic, really.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Many, but especially Sithrak, the [[AffablyEvil surprisingly nice]] GodOfEvil. [[spoiler:[[OldShame Who's not really evil anymore...]]]]
* FanNickname: "Derpfox" for the talking fox.
* FridgeBrilliance:
** The first mention of [[MadGod Sithrak]] is by [[ThePaladin Morag the Immortal]], but we don't find out much about him. Later we meet some worshippers who believe he [[http://oglaf.com/sithrak/ tortures everybody forever in the afterlife, whether they were bad or not]]. Compared to that, immortality seems like a pretty good deal, even if [[ImmortalityHurts it does hurt.]]
** WordOfGod has confirmed Sithrak is the god of both religions, but that neither gets him entirely right. [[spoiler: Sithrak is surprised anyone's still reading his MadGod diatribes, for instance, comparing them to [[OldShame teenage poetry]]. This would suggest that Morag's beliefs are probably closer to the mark.]]
* GeniusBonus:
** The statue of the Goddess of Sex and War in the strip "Appeal to Heaven" is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burney_Relief a Mesopotamian relief]] that is sometimes considered to depict Ishtar, who was in fact (among other things) the goddess of sex and war.
** The comic "Throne of Heaven" presents a potential origin of Sithrak as the God of Creator/JackChick comics, in the style of said comics, as a critique of those comics.
** Why is the Rumpelstiltskin parody tilted "Rattleplank"? Because the original German name of the eponymous goblin, Rumpelstilzchen, approximately translates to "little rattle-stilts".
%%* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
%%** On the rare occasion that the sexual content [[http://oglaf.com/potion-girlfriend/3/ isn't]] PlayedForLaughs.
%%** "Performance Anxiety" is sweet, %%in a very sexual way.
%%** "Balcony" (NSFW).
* HilariousInHindsight: Back in 2012, the second part of "Naiads" used the idea of "delicious nymph water"[[note]]Extra Fucky![[/note]] being a beverage that people apparently drink for a punchline. Seven years later, the "gamer girl bath water" meme gave the joke a whole new twist.
* IAmNotShazam: Ivan the Apprentice is the closest thing the comic has to a main character (even though he hasn't appeared in years) and his name is not Oglaf. Oglaf himself is a minor character that only featured in a few comics.
%%* MemeticMutation:
%%** "So... thirsty..."
%%** "She... is truly my son."
%%** "Technically I have to accept that."
%%** "Sithrak's gonna fuck you up when you die!"
%%** "Once you had a life! You had dreams! Now you're just the blowjob guy!"
%%** "Really, the only surprising thing is that it didn't happen sooner."
%%** [[https://www.oglaf.com/labyrinth/ The labyrinth-builder's excited face.]] Often used in ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman situations.
%%** "I can't believe how hard my cock is right now!". Used in response to something sexually titillating.
%%** "You can't make me have fun!"
* NightmareFuel:
%%** "Bring out the goddess in me". EEEEK!
** The lady imitating an owl to seduce Chauncey [[ExorcistHead manages to rotate her head a full 180 degrees]]. (It works).
** Eight Legs of Love. A GiantSpider with a vagina for a mouth is molesting Ivan in his sleep. DO. NOT. WANT.
** The mistress killing her previous apprentice for trying to teach himself magic by casting a [[AssShove fire wand inside of him]].
** The girl who asks a man complimenting her eyes to actually have sex with them. As in, actually sticking his penis into her eye socket. [[EyeScream It goes as well as you can imagine]].
** 'Butterflies' has someone being [[PainfulTransformation slowly dissolved over eight months in order to transform them into a hot girl]]. (And he's not even satisfied with the result).
%%* ParanoiaFuel: "8 legs of love".
* ProtagonistTitleFallacy: Oglaf is simply one of many recurring side characters. If there's a protagonist, it's Ivan, and even he has been absent for over five years.
* {{Squick}}: Just about ''the entire comic'', depending on your sexual preferences, with frequent stops in BrainBleach and NauseaFuel.
** In "Jocasta Loves Oedipus", [[Theatre/OedipusTheKing Oedipus]] gets around the incest prophecy by wearing his dad's preserved penis as a strap-on while having sex with his mom.
** The [[EyeScream eyesocket sex]] in "Pinkeye". [[spoiler:Given the amount of magic and weird creatures in the comic's world, you might think the girl is actually able to regenerate her eye. Well... she doesn't ''know'' whether she can.]]
** Kronar's tribe is made of [[ManlyGay extremely manly men only]] who have mastered HomosexualReproduction. We see [[MisterSeahorse one]] of them give birth from his ass.
** In "Écorché", one of the men bathes in lye soap, which [[FlayingAlive burns away his skin]]. Apparently, this is sexy enough to make ''everyone'' get rid of their skin.
** In "Stork" there's a running gag of everything the sorceress offers being something that gives you a child. When she and the adventurer have sex, a baby is born- ''from the man's penis''. It is as painful and wrong as you would imagine.
* TearJerker: It's hard to tell what [[http://oglaf.com/lament/2/ Sandoval is crying for in this page]] but he seems genuinely upset that [[spoiler:Ivan has been put into a magical coma.]] It's actually kinda upsetting to read even if the feelings are coming from or being amplified by a drug trip.
* TheissTitillationTheory: Particularly applies to the Snow Queen's top, which has only one button (with little wrinkle lines showing that it's a bit strained) and shows off {{Underboobs}}.
%%* UglyCute:
%%** The [[http://oglaf.com/changeling/ changeling child]].
%%** [[http://oglaf.com/blanket/ Look at its little tail!]] (Safe and warm.)
%%*** You know it's adorable when even the Mistress is having an attack of CutenessProximity over it.
%%** Navaan thinks this of Ivan's cumsprites.
%%--->'''Navaan:''' Blowjobs are ''adorable!''
* TheWoobie:
** Poor Snow Queen. Poor Ari, too, come to think of it (he gets [[spoiler:his cock frozen solid and snapped off]]). She does eventually [[DoubleEntendre get a happy ending]]. Ari, not so much.
** Kronar's "son", though she does turn out to be a badass.
** That poor little changeling baby. Also UglyCute.
** Ivan gets put through so much hell that one can almost consider his [[spoiler:magic sleep]] a happy ending--if only because it means no one's gonna be bothering him for a while.

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