East Elliot: The world doesn't revolve around you, you know.
Jacopo Graill: Well, could somebody please tell the world that? Because I don't think it knows.
— Book 1: All My Tomorrows
Chain of Implausibility is an as-yet-unpublished webcomic by Pablo360 that centers around teenaged wizard-in-training Jacopo Graill and the many, many, many, many, many, many people he meets along the way. It's planned to be a followup to another unpublished webcomic, A Doctor, a Lawyer, and a Necromancer (YOU try to figure it out).
Tropes forced to pertain to Chain of Implausibility against their will:
- Anthropic Principle: Deconstructed. Much of the pain in the webcomic is, according to characters in the Dome of Canonicity, caused by the very fact that this is a webcomic.
- Artistic License – History: Sort of. Much of the history is real, but some of it is made up. Justified due to gratuitous time travel, The Illuminati, and the rise of the Hungarian Empire.
- Beyond the Impossible: Occasionally, things happen that go against the laws of physics. There are physical laws governing this phenomenon, which can be broken.
- Catchphrase: Tracy and Jennifer have, "We don't promise and we tell no lies," taken from "Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart" by Fountains of Wayne.
- Child by Rape: East.
- Clock Roaches: This is Fate's job.
- Clones Are People, Too: Very much so with the three people who could be considered clones of Axel Rod: Lexa/Lex Rod, Steph Rod, and Xael. They all have very different personalities, and nobody treats them as non-people. Also, Xael is technically a clone of Lex[a], but who's counting?
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Max Headroom. He's a Genius Ditz, but his genius is only in matters related to time travel, so he mostly comes across as a ditz.
- Domed Hometown: The cities on Artemisnote , as a necessity due to the thin atmosphere of Artemis, and made more practical through superstrong polymers launched to Artemis using magnetic railguns in crasher pods instead of traditional rockets. Simce Magitek is treated like ordinary technology, this could also be a case of Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane from our perspective.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Used several times throughout the comic.
- When Dr. White realizes that Bloom's sister was responsible for shooting Jacopo, and Bloom was in on it, she's understandably pissed.
- Much, much worse later on, when Lexa steals all of the Kannendisel except the Death of Time and runs off to another universe, unable to be tracked down.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Allyson Bleach, AKA Anne Bonny.
- Historical Person Punchline: Mels Hanford's father is actually Felix Mendelssohn. Ends up being Played for Drama, as her mother Amelia has to keep this a secret from the Temporal Armada, lest they revoke her time machine for fucking with time.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Maramunts, like Tracy, are half-human and half-munt. Nobody knows for certain why the two species are similar enough genetically that they can have kids together, but apparently they can.
- Insistent Terminology: It's not the Moon, it's Artemis.
- Meta Guy: Axel Rod, once he becomes The Teller of Wendlock. Also, everyone inside the Dome of Canonicity.
- More than Three Dimensions: Three dimensions of space, two (or three) of time, and two for the Köllering forces. Plus more, but they're in other layers of reality or something. Nobody really understands it.
- N.G.O. Superpower: OIM, although it tries to hide this fact through anonymized "seed corporations".
- My God, What Have I Done?: Jennifer Azalea, in prison, realized what the Savage-Eye are and that by killing Martha New Brunswick she killed one of the few people who weren't about to be affected by them.
- Nice Girl: East Elliot, to balance out Jacopo's No Filter tendencies. Of course, she does occasionally hold grudges, like against her father...
- Very Special Episode: Somewhat parodied with "Cross Country", where the moral is
"Don't rape people." - Rage Against the Author: Derrick Cadew, after being blasted into the Dome of Canonicity by East, teams up with Sharon from A Doctor, a Lawyer, and a Necromancer to end the webcomic and all of the pain that is required for it to exist.
- Shout-Out: Everything in Munroe is basically based off What If #24
by Randall Munroe and the thoughts it inspired. (See [1], bottom)- To Pinky and the Brain: Right before World War III, Erin Roe asks Dr. Mit Amal what they're going to do. His response? "Try not to Take Over the World."
- Street Urchin: "Janbiya", before being adopted by Mohammad Min Karbala and becoming Karima.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Axel, Lexa, Xael, and Steph. In fact, two of them (Axel and Xael) are among the few people who can shapeshift better than the shapeshifting alien race, the Gordians.
- Who Shot JFK?: The point of one of the time travel episodes. It was an alien, but so was JFK.
- World War III: The War of the Seven Empires. It wasn't called World War III because by this point, there were colonies on Artemis, which did not participate in the war. Total destruction of the Earth was averted because the Teller, previously afraid to return to his homeworld because the immense power he would wield could make him go Drunk with Power, suddenly became Neutral No Longer for long enough for Howard to have the best party ever thrown and the war to be resolved via a drunken game of Apples to Apples.
- You Can't Make an Omelette...: When Tracy demonstrates the Anne LeAnne doubleshot:East: I'm pretty sure that's physically impossible.Tracy: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few [[Metaphorgotten fundamental laws of physics]].
