* HollywoodHomely: In the Zbeng! 1 story "God Zbeng! the Queen", we discover that [[AlphaBitch Maya]] was once ugly and unpopular girl named [[MeaningfulRename Aya]]. Or well, she's *supposed* to be ugly - but even with her unkept hair, thicker eyebrows, slightly bigger nose and frumpier clothing she looks more average than anything (which is especially glaring as most ugly characters in Zbeng! [[{{Gonk}} avert this trope and then some]]). Aya's redesign in Maya's Personal Zbeng! makes her look a lot more genuinely ugly.
* TearJerker: The strip written after PM Rabin's assassination, in which Uri Fink tries to write a normal strip while dealing with his grief.
* ValuesDissonance:
** Some of Jinji’s antics, considered amusingly annoying in the 90’s, will be viewed today as straight-up sexual harassment.
** Similarly, Asher beating the living shit out of fellow students, which is played for comedy.
** Yaron’s love life. One strip from the mid-90’s features him being serially [[JustFriends Friendzoned]] by girls he crushes on; he finally succeeds with a girl he goes out with but doesn’t really care for (as part of one of Jinji’s schemes), since she’s attracted to the callous, “jerky” attitude he displays as a result. In another strip, Noga is berated for leading him on, since she treats him as a friend and a shoulder to cry on about other boys without realizing he’s romantically interested in her. From a modern feminist perspective, the whole thing seems like a blatant “Nice Guy” narrative and is quite uncomfortable to read.

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