History ComicStrip / SafeHavens

* TheyDo: After more than a decade of buildup, Samantha and Dave got married.

** As the more unusual elements of ''Fastrack'' have faded away (while going UpToEleven in ''Havens''), the crossovers have dwindled. With the bulk of the ''Havens'' cast having spent three years in space, this trend seems set to continue. (Technically, the entire Mars mission is bankrolled by Fastrack, but in practice, this is represented by occasional appearances by Dethany on a monitor. It is never mentioned in ''Fastrack'' and may even be set in that strip's future, if a line Wendy says in ''Fastrack'' about how Rose really should tell Dethany about the Mars mission if she expects Dethany to lead it is any indication.)

* UpToEleven: Laptop the border collie can herd anything, even on a microscopic level.

* AdultFear: Samantha worries whenever she suddenly realizes that her baby is unsupervised.

* CripplingTheCompetition: During a basketball game, the opposing team's coach instructed one of his players to injure Dave on the knee that had already been injured to take him out. Unfortunately for them, Dave (who for some context wore a visor and headphones at this point of his life) had recorded the whole conversation. Once he and Samantha exposed it, both player and coach got kicked out of the sport, with the coach having to pay damages to Dave as well. The injury didn't keep Dave out too long, but it contributed to the weakening of his ligaments, leading to the end of his NBA dreams when they finally snapped (while he scored the NCAA championship winning point for Havens U, no less). He would eventually make a career in Europe.

** Often caused continuity problems thanks to King Features' colorists, who did not remain consistent with crossover characters, e.g. Patina being a redhead in ''Fastrack'' but having brown hair in ''Havens''.
** As the more unusual elements of ''Fastrack'' have faded away (while going UpToEleven in ''Havens''), the number of crossovers have dwindled. With the bulk of the ''Havens'' cast set to spend three years in space, this trend seems set to continue. (Technically, the entire Mars mission is bankrolled by Fastrack, but in practice this is represented by occasional appearances by Dethany on a monitor. It is never mentioned in ''Fastrack'', and may even be set in that strip's future, if a line Wendy says in ''Fastrack'' about how Rose really should tell Dethany about the Mars Mission if she expects Dethany to lead it is any indication.)

* DoofyDodo: Samantha successfully cloned two dodos, who turned out to be paragons of stupid, self-destructive behaviour.

* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler: Maria the time traveler. A twist eight years in the making. Incidentally this makes Leonardo the Grandkid from the Future.]]

* MisterSeahorse: [[spoiler: Thomas, thanks to the nature of merfolk]].

* OneSteveLimit: Defied when Samantha names her baby after midwife Maria. [[spoiler: May still count as a straight example though, cause ''they're the same person''.]]

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Palmtop eventually reveals that she outlived all her puppies except Deke because they chose to stay dogs while she and Deke live as humans.

* PubertySuperpower: Maria says she gained the power of TimeTravel only at puberty. This doesn't seem to be binding as Leo develops his powers at a younger age, but then again he ''is'' a prodigy.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Averted. Characters keep aging and situations keep changing.

* [[SecretRelationship Secret Marriage]]: [[spoiler: Jenny and Luis.]]

* [[spoiler:YoungFutureFamousPeople]]: Dave and Samantha [[spoiler:are the grandparents of Leonardo Da Vinci.]]

* PutOnABus: More a case of Left Behind By The Bus; the dodos decided to stay behind and make Mars their home. [[TheScrappy Few readers were sorry about this development.]]

* DumbDodoBird: Samantha successfully cloned two dodos, who turned out to be paragons of stupid, self-destructive behaviour.

* PubertySuperpower: Maria says she gained the power of TimeTravel only at puberty.

* AliensStealCable: Whatever is on Mars trying to destroy/communicate with Samantha's crew is using canine language to do so...which it picked up from old ''Series/{{Lassie}}'' broadcasts.

* OneSteveLimit: Defied when Samantha names her baby after midwife Maria.

** As the more unusual elements of ''Fastrack'' have faded away (while going UpToEleven in ''Havens''), the number of crossovers have dwindled. With the bulk of the ''Havens'' cast set to spend three years in space, this trend seems set to continue. (Technically, the entire Mars mission is bankrolled by Fastrack, but in practice this is represented by occasional appearances by Dethany on a monitor. It is never mentioned in ''Fastrack'', and may even be set in that strip's future, if a line Wendy says about how Rose really should tell Dethany about the Mars Mission if she expects Dethany to lead it is any indication.)

** As the more unusual elements of ''Fastrack'' have faded away (while going UpToEleven in ''Havens''), the number of crossovers have dwindled. With the bulk of the ''Havens'' cast set to spend three years in space, this trend seems set to continue. (Technically, the entire Mars mission is bankrolled by Fastrack, but in practice this is represented by occasional appearances by Dethany on a monitor. It is never mentioned in ''Fastrack'', and may even be set in that strip's future.)

* FreakyFridayFlip: Variant: Samantha and Dave, thanks to accidental lab potion ingestion, are turned into physical duplicates of each other. [[spoiler:On their WeddingDay, no less.]]

** As the more unusual elements of ''Fastrack'' have faded away (while going UpToEleven in ''Havens''), the number of crossovers have dwindled. With the bulk of the ''Havens'' cast set to spend three years in space, this trend seems set to continue.

* SuppressedMammaries: The female high school basketball team once posed as the male team with this method. ItMakesSenseInContext.

* Crossover: Frequently with ''ComicStrip/OnTheFastrack'' (see SharedUniverse below). One noteworthy crossover in the early 2000s featured Rose Trellis of ''Fastrack'' and Samantha's mother both running for political office, with one sequence occurring simultaneously in both comics.

** Even more so when Maria says to Samantha, "[[spoiler:Hi, mom.]]"