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D.L.D. is an unpublished comic series made by yours truly. What started out as a series of simple Dexter's Laboratory fancomics when I was 9, turned into an actual series with loads of characters, crazy plots, and two or three jokes a page.

In a nutshell, it's a cartoonish Horror Comedy.

In a more detailed explanation, the comic follows the adventures of three siblings; Lovable Alpha Bitch D.D., Deadpan Snarker Luke and Insufferable Genius Dexter. And yes, D.D. and Dexter are from Dexter's Laboratory (with their personalities exaggerated to absurd levels.), while Luke is an Author Avatar (one of two; I'll explain that later). Together, they form a group called D.L.D., which solves various supernatural cases, for just 42 Euros per client! The monsters of the week range from vampires, werewolves and zombies to man-eating sofas, soul-sucking ice-cream, haunted girls' bathrooms and the such.

This comic, with its 24 year run, has used many tropes, including, but not limited to...

• Aborted Arc + Cosmic Retcon + Story Reset: 373 episodes have been erased from existence - both in-universe and out - so the series could start over from episode 120. Thus a lot of the characters and plots are no longer with us... at least until I put everything they way it was after a week or two.
• Act of True Love: Well, sort of. When Veronika found out from Victoria (who can predict the future) that all the characters will be killed of and replaced with new ones, she decides to stop that from happening, but changes her mind when she finds out that among those new characters will be a guy who will help one of her other sisters get over her dead fiancee (Veronika didn't know she and the others will later come back to life, but still let things take their course).
• Aerith and Bob: The series mixes English names (Dexter, Lisa, Sally,...) with Croatian names (Veronika, Klara, Mirela,...)
• All Love Is Unrequited: Happens to a lot of people:
  • Lisa's crush on Ammy goes unnoticed by the latter.
  • Luke's crush on Prescott never got beyond that, given that Prescott is dead and was straight when he was alive.
  • Tina is in love with Luke and frequently stalks him, but that's all there is to it.
  • Klara and Yoko fought for Thompson's affections, but he ended up with Maiya, so the two of them were left high and dry.
• Attack of the Killer Whatever: Back in the old days, the D.L.D. had to deal with a killer stone wall, Killer Rabbit, killer donuts, donuts that make you kill, killer Barbie doll (and later a killer teddy bear), killer snowmen, the sofa and the ice-cream mentioned above, and so on...
• Bad Humor Truck: The episode Evil Ice Cream not only features an ice-cream man who sucks the souls of his customers through his ice cream, but also an ice cream monster.
• Better than a Bare Bulb: Lampshade hanging by the motherload.
• Bloodier and Gorier: Only in Bloody Hilarious form; if there's blood, chances are something un-serious is the cause of it.
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: One example would be when Metropolis Newz reported how the D.L.D. fought vampires, werewolves and vampire werewolves.
• The Bus Came Back: Several such cases, in which characters were Put on a Bus, only to come back after a looong time:
  • Dr. Kvasimodo's assistant Lucy's last appearance was in episode 50, only to reappear in episode 134.
  • Klara and Damjanka, along with Stella, had their first appearance in episode 117. Both Klara and Damjanka became part of the main cast later on, with Stella seemingly forgotten. They mentioned her in episode 140, but she finally returned in episode 489.
  • Prof. Smartttypants appeared somewhere in the first 40 episodes, then returned in episode 493.
  • Rex, the evil alien, had his first appearance in episode 79, and returned in episode 494.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: A rare non-villainous version:
  Woman:D.L.D.! How great it is to see you again!
  D.D.: Again?
  Woman: You know, you rescued me and the tenants of our building from those zombies? Everybody almost died?
  D.D.: (stares blankly)
  Woman: Nothing?
  D.D.: Look, lady, the day you and your tenants were attacked by zombies was the scariest day of your lives... but for us, it was Tuesday!
• Cannibal Clan: The Parody Episode of the film Gnaw, titled Gnaw Gnaw Gnaw Burp!, has the D.L.D. and their friends encounter a family of cannibals.
• Cast Full of Gay: There is one confirmed gay character (Luke), one asexual character (Dr. Apartheid), seven lesbian characters (Lisa & Ammy, the Lady in Grey & the Lady in Lightgreen, Kittenwoman & Ally Lizzen, and Lucy) and one bisexual character (Zoë).
• Cast Herd: The first cast was divided into duos (Mee-mee & Lee-lee, Lisa & Ammy, Death & Satan, etc.), trios (D.L.D., S.G.T., the Hugwartz gang, the staff of D.L.D.'s school, etc.), and quartets (the League of Extraordinary Villains). The second cast simply mashed all the newbies together.
• Clip Show: Every x90th episode is a clip show, or at least a comic book version of one:
  • Episode 90 has Oprah Winfrey host D.L.D.'s clipshow where they're the guests who provide commentary for the clips. It ends with Oprah going crazy and the D.L.D. killing her.
  • Episode 190 has the D.L.D. host their clipshow, but ends with their rivals the S.G.T. who use the opportunity to release their tell-all book detailing every horrible thing the D.L.D. has done, causing the D.L.D. to lose their job to the S.G.T.
  • Episode 290 has the characters reminisce previous episodes while being stuck for the who-knows-how-many time in the Demented Dimension.
  • Episode 390 is the S.G.T.'s Hostile Show Takeover wherein they host their own clipshow with their commentary.
  • Episode 463, Luke + Tina, is a clip show dedicated to the relationship between Luke and his stalker Tina, from when we first met Tina in episode 49, to now, when they're kinda-sorta friend-ish.
  • Episode 490 is a collection of the sexiest and most Fanservice-y moments of the series.
• Comic-Book Time: Averted; the characters get older every year.
• Coming Of Age Queer Romance: In the episode Medusa's Brokeback Mountain, while Medusa is terrorizing Hugwartz, Luke and Zarry Mopper discover a mutual attraction.
• Crack Pairing:
  • Krazy Kouples, a Valentine's Day Episode dedicated to crack pairings, has these temporary couples:
    • Ammy & Principal Dummydoor
    • Principal Peterson & Ricky Smithins
    • Gina & D.L.D.'s dad
    • Lee-lee & Dr. Apartheid
    • Dr. Kvasimodo & Sylvia
  • The Sequel Episode, Krazy Kouples 2, had these pairings:
    • Thompson & Sylvia
    • Damjanka & Principal Dummydoor
    • Lona & Charmaine Ladis
    • Klara & Dexter
    • Marion & Tina
• Crisis Crossover: In Never Say D.D., a giant flood forces the D.L.D. and a bunch of cartoon characters to seek refuge on D.D.'s ark. What follows is:
  • D.D. reads Frankie's diary and reveals Frankie is in love with Mr. Herriman.
  • Ben 10 in one of his alien forms attacks everybody and is put to sleep, so now he's Ben 9.
  • Betty Boop keeps seducing everybody.
• Darker and Edgier: Subverted. Yes, there's swearing, gore and sex, but only in the form of Precision F-Strike, Bloody Hilarious and Naked People Are Funny.
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • Vampires Can't Buy Me Love - While the D.L.D. are on vacation in France, Lisa & Ammy have to defend the city from a horde of vampires.
  • Zarry Mopper and the Cookies of Death - Zarry and Meina must uncover an evil plot of Girl Scouts who sell poisonous cookies.
  • Zarry Mopper and the Secret of the Secret Pot Stash - Just as principal Dummydoor allows marijuana in Hugwartz, an inspector named Bellafux Lesyay comes to the school, and Zarry and Meina must search for a mystical pot stash.
  • Evil Villainy for Dummies - The League of Extraordinary Villains want to join the United Villains, but first must prove their worth.
  • Failemont - In a Parody Episode of MTV's Valemont, Sally accidentally gets into a college for vampires.
  • The Laughable Mermaid - Yoko and Zhao-Len discover an underwater mermaid kingdom.
  • The 99-year Old Virgin - Principal Dummydoor is dating the Wicked Witch of the West.
• Denser and Wackier: At first, the series used typical horror monsters like werewolves, zombies, ghosts, etc. As the years went by, the supernatural cases involved stuff like a robot with Hitler's brain, an evil living dakimakura (anime body pillow), pop stars battling in Humongous Mecha, and so on.
• Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?:
  • In Monster High School High, it's implied Klara and the Witch God (who is a giant humanoid with a goat's head) had some sort of relationship in the past. In the end, the two are eating ice-cream while having casual conversation.
  • Luke is seen having drinks with Female Stu (a female version of the Eldritch Abomination from the Demented Dimension; she looks just like her male counterpart, except with a pink bow and lipstick).
• Double-Meaning Title: The 500th episode, Here To Stay; it refers to the Demented Dimension, which no matter how many times it gets destroyed, it still remains, but to the series as a whole.
• Downer Ending + Gainax Ending + "Everybody Dies" Ending: All of these tropes apply to episode 120, They Luke'd Up and Screamed; Luke attemmpts to kill the entire cast so he could take over the comic and make it better. Unfortunately, things do not go well, as everybody (including Luke) dies under a collapsing building and gets Killed Off for Real. In the next episode, we are introduced to a new cast of characters, a new D.L.D., and everything seems just fine... until the old cast rises from their graves and they are not happy with their replacements...

Thanks to the Cosmic Retcon mentioned above, all of this was reversed and nullified.

• Eldritch Location: The Demented Dimension: It's a vast desolate desert-like world where everything is in one color (which randomly changes), and is home to weird bug-like creatures. And let's not forger the resident...
  • Eldritch Abomination: A giant worm-like monster. It's as big as a skyscraper. It has millions of tentacles. And also, 30 mouths. Later on it turns out there's more of them, though in different sizes.
  • The episode How the Demented Dimension Came to Be reveals the Dimension is actually a Patchwork World Gone Horribly Wrong made by a team of mad scientists and all its residents and monsters are the result of mutations and inbreeding.
  • Sex Tourism: Sex in the Demented Dimension has the D.L.D., with no other option to make money, open the Dimension to straight women and gay men who are willing to pay money to have sex with the Dimension's locals, who don't care about the gender of their partner.
  • Horrible Hollywood: One episode reveals Marvel Studios is filming the latest Avengers movie in the Dimension, not just because it's the perfect location for a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, but also because it's a way to save money on special effects.
  • Finally, in Decay of the Demented Dimension, as the Dimension is breaking and falling apart, Dexter, Dr. Apartheid, and Dr. Kvasimodo work together to restore it and put it back together. In the end, they set the color to black and white ("Just like this comic!"), which is why it's then renamed the Dull Dimension.
  • At the end of Hit Landfill, the M.V.M. (a group that functions as a Guardian of the Multiverse) completely destroy the Dimension, so it doesn't bother anyone again.
  • The milestone 500th episode Here To Stay not only brings the Demented Dimension to its former state, but some other stuff as well...
  • Here's a handy list of buildings that were built in the Dimension:
    • A tourist agency
    • A mall
    • Apartment buildings
    • The aforementioned Marvel film studio
    • A fun theme park (Dementeddimensionland)
    • A hospital for the residents of the Dimension, which is run by Mee-mee
• Episode of the Dead: The episodes Zombie day, Zombie & Me and Dial A for AAAAAA!.
• Escalating Punchline: A variation occurs when in one episode, Dexter is running away from a mad gardener who wants to kill him. First they run on foot... then on unicycles... then on bicycles... then on tricycles... and then they're in a car, looking utterly confused.
• Expy Coexistence: Some time after the episode Anti-Hogwarts was made, which introduced Zarry Mopper, principal Dummydoor and the rest of the Hugwartz gang, the episode Fantastic Beasts and where to Kill Them had the D.L.D. travel to the actual Hogwarts to, well, kill some fantastic beasts, and even interact with some of the Hogwarts characters.
  D.D.: [while flying past Ron and Hermione] Hermione loves Ron!
  Hermione and Ron, in unison: WHAT?!
• Fanservice: If the scene can be spiced up with fanservice, it WILL be. Heck, during 2011-2012 there was so much Clothing Damage and Panty Shot, the series was practically Ecchi, though this has since died down.
• Fantasy Kitchen Sink: We've got witches, ghosts, demons, vampires, werewolves, aliens, mad scientists, all in the same place.
• Future Me Scares Me: The episode Stories from the Future - Part 2 in which the D.L.D. are visited by their 13-year old selves who have traveled from the past (namely, Part 1 which was made 10 years earlier). The younger D.L.D. were not happy with the many changes over the years and attempted to go back in the past and make sure to change the future, only to have their memories of the encounter erased.
• Gag Series: Zig-zagged. At first it was fairly light, then became more and more sillier to the point of absurdity, now throwing in some seriousness to all that sillyness.
• Gender Bender: In the episode Horrors in the Girls' Bathroom, a Parody Episode of the Hentai games Water Closet and X Change, the haunted girls' bathroom turns Luke into a girl, though this only lasts for that one episode.
• Guardian of the Multiverse: The M.V.M., which stands for Minor Viewers of the Multiverse. They observe what happens through the universes, and the group is made of Blue Luke (from the Blue Dimension), Lucy (from the Opposite Gender Universe) and Daisy Davenport (from the alternate version of Metropolis, River City).
• Hellhound: Dog Walker; Taxing, Raging had D.D. be a dog walker for such a beast.
• Horrorscope: One episode had Anisha write the horoscope for the school website on a magic computer that made the predictions true in very literal ways.
  Taurus: Don't lose your head.
  [Marcy's head flies off her neck]
  Gemini: Don't rock the boat.
  [Hunter and Day are hit by the Titanic in the middle of the school hallway]

It ended with the horoscope being removed from the website because, according to the editor, kids were more interested in stuff like Instagram celebrities "like Kylie Jenner and others."

• Improbably Female Cast: 30 females, 15 males.
• Inconsistent Episode Lengths: The episodes can be anywhere from 2 to 20 pages long, depending on the story. The number of panels per page is also inconsistent; it started with 25 panels, then 20, now it's 16 panels per page.
• Intra-Franchise Crossover:
  • Lavaman's Crossover is a crossover episode between this D.L.D. and DLD New School. Mainly it's about how Lavaman returns to Earth from space, and the D.L.D. send him via portal into the DLD New School universe, so he becomes their problem.
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: The D.L.D. started out as nine-year olds and are now in their 30s.
• Lighter and Softer: The series often becomes less Horror Comedy, and more supernatural comedy, though this inconsistently fluctuates.
• The Lost Lenore:
  • Vicky's dead lover Georges Blanchard, whom she was engaged to back when she was in Paris with her family in 1919. Sadly, both of their families were against the relationship, and it all ended when Georges was hung for having an affair with a witch, while Vicky and her family fled. Vicky is still not over him, and even speaks Gratuitous French as a way to hold on to the memory of him.
  • Luke's dead crush Prescott, a tragic case of Incompatible Orientation. Their relationship was the center of these episodes:
    • The Long-ass Goodbye (in which Luke helps Prescott's ghost get back to his grave; their trip is intercut with flashbacks showing their friendship)
    • Greetings from Lower Ann (a case in the titular town where Prescott is buried has the D.L.D. go there, with Luke being forced to confront the ghosts from the past)
    • One More Long-ass Goodbye (short remake of the above episode)
    • Broken off Chalk (parody of the Mind Screw comic Streak of Chalk, in which Luke is stranded on an island where he inexplicably finds Prescott)
    • The "LukeScott" Arc, inspired by WandaVision, in which Luke uses a magical wishfulfilling stone to create the perfect sitcom-like reality with him and Prescott, but other characters keep interfering.
    • Greetings from Lower Ann (short remake of the eponymous episode)
    • Son of Prescott - In a case of Someone to Remember Him By, Luke meets Prescott's and his girlfriend Emma's son, Blake. Luke even offers to babysit Blake, but...
  Emma: This isn't going to be like Lolita where you fall in love with my son?
  Luke: What?! Oh, gross! He's 7 years old, 'the Hell is wrong with you?!

In the end, Luke babysits Blake, but keeps seeing Prescott everytime he looks at him, to which Emma assures him that the same thing happens to her.

• Eurydice and Lenore is a whole episode dedicated to lost love and moving on, as it focuses on Luke and Vicky, and their respective Lost Lenores.

• Mayfly–December Romance:
  • The relationship between 428-year old Veronika and regular human aged Walter.
  • Also, the relationship between Veronika's 229-year old sister Vicky and regular human aged Bludweiser.
• Meta Fiction: The series breaks the fourth wall in almost every episode, in every way imaginable and unimaginable, since the characters are aware they're in a comic book.
• Milestone Celebration:
  • Kids Gotten Badder: A Decade of Shits - The 10th anniversary special; the D.L.D. remember their "Most ____ Moments" and the episode ends with them committing suicide.
• Negative Continuity: All over the place, even though characters make references to previous episodes (even calling them such); the biggest example would be how anytime someone dies, they come back later as if nothing happened.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: The episode Robotic Lesbian Vampire Cheerleaders from Mars. They're robot girls... who are lesbians,... who suck blood... and they're cheerleaders... and they come from Mars.
• No Fourth Wall: None whatsoever. Characters refer to previous events as "several episodes ago", frequently interact with the Author, and do stuff like hit each other with their word balloons, skip in and out of panels, snark about the episode's quality, and so on.
• Non-Fatal Explosions: For example, in the episode Witchslap when an explosion occurs, and the only damage made to Veronika and Tina is their hair got messy and their clothes are slightly charred.
• Occidental Otaku:
  • Dr. Kvasimodo, Sylvia and Luke are seen at an anime convention at one point, where Dr. Kvasimodo was cosplaying as Asuna from Mahou Sensei Negima! and Luke was cosplaying as Naru from Ghost Hunt.
  • Thompson, who indulges in Gratuitous Japanese and uses anime titles as exclamations (e.g. "Ah! My Goddess!" and "What the Hellsing?!") and Yoko, who likes Cosplay so much, she converted her big sister's entire room into a closet for her cosplay outfits when the latter moved out.
• Only Six Faces
• Out-of-Genre Experience: A Normal Episode! is about Luke helping D.D. with her history homework (the next part, A Typical Episode! is about the same thing, except it involves brain juice that not only makes you smarter... but also turns your brain alive).
• Perspective Flip:
  • My Super Sweet Sixteen : Exiled in Metropolis has spoiled brat Katy Katherine sent to Metropolis by her parents in order to learn hardship, by way of the city's craziness.
  • All Roads Lead To Metropolis deals with two lost out of towners who stumble upon Metropolis and all its craziness.
• Rage Against the Author: The characters openly hate their Author.
• Random Events Plot: There's not much that holds Dial A for AAAAAA! together, though it's mostly how Mee-mee's birthday party is ruined by a horde of zombies, wit some unrelated nonsense inbetween.
• Reality Is Out to Lunch: Used literally in the episode When Reality Falls Asleep in which Reality is depicted as a woman who must be awake at all times, lest everything falls apart. When she is allowed to take a nap, all kinds of goofy and bizarre things start happening.
• Reincarnation Romance: Back in the 90s, Dr. Apartheid knew a man and a woman who were in love. When the man died, the woman was so struck with grief, she killed herself. They were reborn, but in a subversion of this trope, they were reborn as Luke and his crazy stalker Tina, thus making the romance one-sided
• Ripped from the Headlines: Real life events like the 2009 swine flu or the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis appear in the comic.
• Retcon: Let's just say that thanks to this being unpublished, I can make any Ass Pull, press the Reset Button and retcon all I want, and leave it at that.
• Rule of Funny: Used in every way possible (and impossible).
• Sadistic Choice: Parodied and Played for Laughs in I Would Rather Not, a Parody Episode of Would You Rather:
  Drek Lamebrick: Ms. Lisa, would you rather put your hand in an aquarium full of piranhas or eat a plate of cold spaghetti?
  Lisa: Uh, spaghetti.
  Drek Lamebrick: [to himself] Nobody ever picks the piranhas.
  [Later]
  Drek Lamebrick: Mr. Kvas, would you rather hold your breath in water for 2 minutes or have sex with Pamela Anderson?
  Kvas: [Aside Glance, then cut to him having sex with Pamela]
  Drek Lamebrick: What am I doing wrong?
• Screw Yourself: In Blast to the Past, Luke from 2015 ends up in 2011 where he meets his past self. It doesn't take long for the two Lukes to make wild passionate love, and once it's all over, one of them had this to say:
  Well, that was interesting. If Tina had seen this, her head would have probably exploded!
• Serial Escalation: The whole series started out as a simple horror comedy, but as it progressed, it got more and more silly, ridiculous and just plain nuts, to the point where the early episodes and current episodes are as different as day and night.
• Self-Deprecation: Every once in a while, a character would bitch about how the episode sucks, the comic sucks, the Author sucks, and sometimes all three (with many variations).
• Sequel Episode: This sextology:
  • Weirdest Episode Ever! - Luke is menaced by a flying vanilla donut.
  • Weirdest Episode Ever Strikes Back! - The D.L.D. must solve a case involving vanilla donuts that when eaten turn people very violent and aggressive.
  • Weirdest Episode Ever for Breakfast! - A nearby motel is menaced by vanilla donuts that appear out of nowhere.
  • Weirdest Episode Ever Gets Sexy! - the League of Extraordinary Villains turn four vanilla donuts into sexy women who will seduce and kill the D.L.D.
  • Weirdest Episode Ever 55: Donuts VS Buns - A local bakery becomes a battlefield between living vanilla donuts and vanilla buns.
  • Weirdest Episode Ever 666: Lesbian Witch Bakers - The titular bakers turn out to be nice and kind.
• Shout-Out: Too many to list, but let's try anyway!
  • In L.A. Flaw, the League of Extraordinary Villains' new robot looks very, um... phallic, which leads to an exchange between the characters just like the one in Austin Powers.
  • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf opens with this:
  Luke: Family, I'm dying...
  Family: GASP!
  Luke: - to tell you I got us a new TV!
  Family: Ahh.
  Luke: But I will be dead.
  Family: GASP!
  Luke: Because they'll kill me for stealing this joke from The Simpsons.
  Family: Ahh.
  D.D.: Don't worry, it wouldn't be the first time we stole a joke!
  • Airline Ammy gets its title from Airline Amy, a "Weird Al" Yankovic song.
  • Ghosts & Goblins VS Vampires & Werewolves VS D.L.D. + Lisa & Ammy features a random cameo of a goblin version of the Fantastic Four who get smushed by a Monty Python 16-ton weight.
  • At the end of Radioland Morons, Luke defeats the bat monster by biting its head off, a reference to when Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat.
  • Thompson's Laughing Mad when possessed by the supermaket ghost in Horrors in Aisle 13 is a direct reference to the laughs seen in the Higurashi: When They Cry anime.
  • In the Parody Episode of Secret Invasion (2008) featuring Luke's clones, titled Awesome Invasion, this exchange between Thompson and Luke's clone no. 14:
  Clone: Now, both of you say goodbye!
  Thompson: No, don't take Yoko, take me!
  Clone: I'm gonna kill you both, didn't I make that clear?
  Thompson: Yeah, I just wanted to quote Harry Potter before I die, you see, I liked it before I started getting into anime, and with what's been going on with J.K. Rowling, I - [gets zapped]
  • Dreamwalking on Sunshine is a whole shout-out to a key plot point in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness; mainly it's about Vicky, Luke and Tina using dreamwalking to be with their respective loved ones (Vicky with Georges, Luke with Prescott and Tina with Luke). It ultimately ends with Veronika destroying the book used for dreamwalking, and the final scene shows Vicky, Luke and Tina bitterly eating ice-cream in an ice-cream shop while Engelbert Humperdinck's "A Man Without Love" plays in the background.
• Show Within a Show: Luke draws his own comic called "Kitty Basketball", about cute cats who, well, play basketball.
  • Refugee from TV Land:
    • After drawing the comic on a magic piece of paper, the cats get out of the comic and become real.
    • In a Whole-Plot Reference of Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, the cats become real again and Luke has to save them from being erased from existence by going on a trip through the Multiverse.
• Slaying Mantis: Yes, the D.L.D. had to fight one of these, too.
• Speech-Bubble Censoring: Used in a Breaking the Fourth Wall gag. One episode had Sally, Zoë and Darla naked. Hot and skinny Sally and Zoë were shown uncensored, while fat girl Darla's body was covered by her speech bubble, to which she complained. She even tried to remove it, but to no avail.
• Speech-Bubbles Interruption: Used in Curse Cut Short instances; a character would let out a curse with another character's speech bubble containing their name cover the curse:
  Dr. Zero: MOTHER-
  Jane Goldman: Marvin!
  Dr. Apartheid: Oh, go to-
  Lady in Grey: Lucifer!
• Spin-Off: A lot:
  • L.A. - D.L.D.'s friends Lisa and Ammy in their own crazy adventures; it lasted 2 episodes.
  • S.G.T. - the cases of D.L.D.'s rivals; lasted only one page (yeah...).
  • Zarry Mopper - Parody series featuring Zarry Mopper; only one episode was made.
  • Little Witch Vicky - Vicky's own series.
  • DLD What Could Have Been - An Alternate Continuity following the many What Could Have Been 's of the series.
  • DLD Old School - Another Alternate Continuity, this one without the many changes the series has undergone.
  • Supr DLD - A Super Hero version of the comic that lasted only one episode.
  • DLD New School - Yet another Alternate Continuity, this one focusing only on the second cast of characters introduced after episode 120.
  • Stories From Metropolis - A Slice of Life series focusing on the daily lives of the D.L.D. characters.
  • DLD High - A High School AU of the series, with a focus on Queer Romance.
• Terrible Interviewees Montage: When looking for a replacement for D.D. in the episode D.D. Dies, Luke and Dexter go through a montage like this 3 times (the episode ends with D.D. coming back in a tank, angry that the Author killed her off in an anticlimactic way, so she simply returned).
• Terrifying Tyrannosaur: D.L.D.inosaurs features a T-Rex terrorizing the city.
• The End: The "The end!" tag at the end of every episode which changes its font and/or look with every appearance.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Some episodes end with either the Monster of the Week or someone else attacking the reader.
• Tome of Eldritch Lore: During the first episodes there was a mini-arc concerning the Four Books of Evil, each of which, when read, brings a huge disaster (like raising the dead, for instance). There was also a Fifth Book that when read releases a demon that brings evil and doom... through neverending parties (which is why that book is discredited).
• Trapped in TV Land: In the episode Too Sweet, the D.L.D. and Lisa & Ammy get sucked into a board game called "Melissa in Candyland", in which they meet Melissa (who is obese thanks to living in a world made entirely out of candy) and face off against the game's villain; Gloppy the chocolate monster.
• Un-Cancelled: I tried to give it up several times... only to continue with it afterwards. This comic really grew on me.
• Unicorn: D.D. and her Unicorn had D.D. find and keep a unicorn, only to fight with a little girl over him. The ridiculousness of the situation doesn't go unnoticed by the other characters:
  Mee-mee: Who do you feel sorry for the most; the unicorn, or the 32-year old woman fighting with a little girl over him?
  Lee-lee: Me, having to watch this.
• Villain Episode:
  • Evil Villainy for Dummies - The League of Extraordinary Villains attempt to join the United Villains organization (which consists of Skeletor, The Hooded Claw, Jessie and James, among others) by any means necessary.
  • Zero's Hour - Dr. Zero's Whole Episode Flashback; how he went from a wimpy pharmacist married to a female sumo wrestler to a successful (more or less) Mad Scientist
  • Ladies' Fright - A Whole Episode Flashback that reveals the Lady in Grey (of the aforementioned League of Extraordinary Villains) was a Black Widow in 1785 who married royals and later had them killed so she can have their inheritance. However, it was her fourth marriage that led to her downfall; her husband, the prince, revealed he knew her secret and told the king, just before he died. She was then sentenced to death, and had acid spilled on her head. Then she came back as a ghost and haunted her castle (later occupied by D.L.D.'s aunt) along with the Lady in Lightgreen, who in the same episode was revealed that she was The Dragon to the Lady in Grey, having to secretly kill her unfortunate husbands. When Grey was sentenced to death, Lightgreen interrupted the execution and the two tried to escape, only to be caught. Grey had acid spilled on her head, while Lightgreen was hung. Both then later came back as ghosts.
• Villain Over for Dinner: In Guess Who's Coming To Ruin Your Dinner, the D.L.D.'s mom invites not just their friends, but also their enemies, the League of Extraordinary Villains, for dinner.
• Villains Out Shopping: The members of the League of Extraordinary Villains, when they're not planning on how to kill the D.L.D., can usually be found doing stuff like shopping for groceries, playing Dance Dance Revolution, playing Twister,...
• Waxing Lyrical: This conversation between Luke and Tina, which is a reference to "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morissette:
  Tina: I came by to tell you I don't give a shit about you anymore!
  Luke: Really? Why?
  Tina: Because the love that you gave wasn't able to make it enough for you to be open wide! No!
  Luke: What?
  Tina: And every time you speak her name, does she know how you told me you'd hold me until you die? Til you die! But you're still alive!
  Luke: Tina, what the hell are you talking about?
  Tina: Well, I'm here to remind you of the mess you left when you went away! It's not fair to deny me of the cross I bear that you gave to me!
  Luke: Tina, what are you saying?!
  Tina: You... you oughta know!
  [Tina leaves]
  Luke: Crazy bitch!
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Since the beginning, and to this day.
• X Meets Y: At first the comic started out as an idea of combining Dexter's Laboratory with the horror of Dylan Dog and the humor of Garfield. However, as I grew, so did my creative influences, and the series became so much more.

Characters

D.L.D.

The titular trio; D.D., Luke and Dexter. When they're not arguing, fighting or insulting each other, they are solving supernatural mysteries. And even then they don't get along very well, but somehow manage to save the day.

• D.D. - Lovable Alpha Bitch.
• Luke - Deadpan Snarker.
• Dexter - Gadgeteer Genius.

D.L.D.'s Best Friends

• Lisa Hemingway and Ammy Littletown - Tomboy and Girly Girl.

League of Extraordinary Villains

A group consisting of four of D.L.D.'s former enemies (as in, enemies from previous episodes); two mad scientists and two ghosts. The only thing they have in common is the mutual hatred of D.L.D. for one reason or another. In fact, their relationship is worse than the D.L.D.'s!

The group is made of:

• Dr. Lucifer Apartheid - Mad Scientist.
• The Lady in Grey - Ghost of a Black Widow.
• The Lady in Lightgreen - The Lady in Grey's Ninja Maid and lover.
• Dr. Kvas Kvasimodo - Another Mad Scientist.

• Lucy - Dr. Kvasimodo's Cute Ghost Girl assistant.

S.G.T.

The D.L.D.'s rivals; Sally Winthrope, Gina Dazzywazzy and Tina Monotonous. It was eventually revealed Sally thought of forming a three-man group that would fight monsters and stuff like that, and that D.D. stole the idea from her (which is how their rivalry started).

• Sally Winthrope - Ms. Fanservice.
• Gina Dazzywazzy - Gonk.
• Tina Monotonous - Fat Best Friend and Stalker with a Crush of Luke's.

Others

• D.L.D.'s parents - The titular trio's mom and dad, both Expies from Dexter's Laboratory.

• Veronika Oštrić - Hot Witch.

• The staff of D.L.D.'s school - Consists of principal Pearl Peterson, homeroom teacher Ms. Elaine Peanutbrain and counselor Zhanna Dickle. The former two are only in it for the paycheck, much to the displeasure of the latter.

• Mee-mee and Lee-lee - Another pair from the original series.

• School of Hugwartz - In the episode Anti-Hogwarts, the D.L.D. visit a really crappy wizard school run by principal Al Dummydoor, and made friends with its two most mischievous students; Zarry Mopper and Meina Kinezović.

• Sylvia Croissant - Emotionless Girl with a Gag Nose.

• Walter van Heavenwing - A monster hunter that would often collaborate with the D.L.D.

• Satan - The Devil Is a Loser.

• Death - The Grim Reaper herself. Since anytime somebody dies in this series they come back later (one way or another), her job is kinda pointless. Behaves like an old spinster.

• Metropolis Newz - The local TV news station. Hosted by David Fernsberry and reported by Charmaine Ladis, it appears whenever something related to D.L.D. happens.

• The Author - The omnipresent creator of the comic. Anytime something illogical and/or unoriginal happens, the characters berate him; he usually responds by drawing a mustache on them.

Recurring extras and Living props

Characters who are neither secondary or tertiary, but whose only purpose is to fill the background.

• The 13 ghosts - A group of identical generic looking ghosts who even in their debut episode didn't pose any real threat. Since then they have appeared 3-4 times as a background gag.
• Ricky Smithins - A Butt-Monkey who always falls into embarrasing situations.
• Goth Girl and her friend - The former, a girl clad completely in black; the latter, her bespectacled redhaired friend. Usually found in D.L.D.'s school among other students.
• Katherine - A shorthaired girl also frequently found in D.L.D.'s school.
• Kool-Aid Man - Yup, the one. Used only as a background gag.

Characters - second cast

When compared to the old cast, these new ones are fairly Lighter and Softer; they don't argue or snark at each other, and even the main villain seems kind of sympathetic (until another villain shows up).

As of episode 165 they are put together with the old cast, for better or worse. As of episode 192, they are in the Demented Dimension where they're helping the Syrian refugees who have a started a new life there (since, sadly, they really had no other place to go).As of episode 244 they are back in our world.

New D.L.D.

New members Thompson, Marion and Zoë strive to be just as good as their predecessors, without all the fighting and bickering. They changed the name to Destroy Ludicrous Demons, to keep the D.L.D. name intact (and besides, if they went by their initials like the old D.L.D., they'd be called T.M.Z., and who wants to share the same name as a celebrity gossip site?).

At first it only consisted of Marion and Thompson, with Zoë joining in later (she was introduced in the first new-cast episode "Dramatic entrance! Enter Zoë"; how Thompson and Marion met was revealed in the Whole Episode Flashback "When huffy met sultry", where they both tied in a competition held by the mayor to see who was going to be the new D.L.D.). As of episode 244 they are disbanded.

• Marion - Dumb Blonde.
• Thompson Terry - Occidental Otaku.
• Zoë - Parody Sue.

Other

• Martina Latina - Spicy Latina.

• Jasmine - Robot Girl.

• Zhao-Len Chang - Former member of Z.C.Z., the Chinese D.L.D.-type group (did I mention every country in the world has a D.L.D.-type group? It does).

• Linda Stefani - The Ditz

• Lona Lynn - Formerly the Pom-Pom Girl; now The Generic Guy.

• Bludweiser - Spear Counterpart of Goth Girl, the Recurring Extra from the previous cast.

• Darla - Genki Girl and Fat Best Friend.

• Vicky Oštrić - Cute Witch.

• Yoko Subarashii - Cosplay Otaku Girl.

• Klara - She's not so much as a Perky Goth, but a Genki Goth.

• Debra Deborah - The new anchorwoman and reporter for Metropolis Newz, a Sassy Black Woman.

• Dr. Marvin Zero - A Mad Scientist.

• Damjanka Jadranov - UberGoth.

• Hunter Terry and Day Terry - Thompson's teenage kids from the year 2040, appeared episode 163 The Terries. But let them explain:
  Day: You see... um... O.K., ah, 26 years in the future, in the year 2040, time travel will be a normal everyday thing! That's when two 16-year olds, inspired by their dad's stories, will want to go back in time to live them out themselves!
  And their dad will say "I can't let you do that, what if something happens to you?", to which they will say "It's okay, dad, even if we get hurt or even die, it would happen in the past, and we will still be born in the future!". After some convincing, he finally let them travel back in to the past. We are those kids!
  [Thompson looks flabbergasted]
  Hunter: I'm Hunter Terry.
  Day: And I'm Day Terry. We are your kids from the future!
  [Thompson, Zoë and Marion all look even more flabbergasted]
  Hunter and Day: Taa-daah!

• Maiya - Hunter and Day's mom; has a disfigured face.

Other New Characters

• Marcy - Canon Immigrant from Little Witch Vicky; a Cute Witch with a magical talking diary.
• Milly, Lilly and Filly - Alpha Bitch, Only Sane Man and Beta Bitch.
• Anisha - Vicky's Syrian best friend.
• Kittenwoman - A young superhero. While the D.L.D. fight monsters and demons, she fights lowlife criminals.
• Ally Lizzen - Kittenwoman's girlfriend.
• Other D.L.D.-type groups:
  • B.J.B. - Siblings Bailey, Jay and Brandon aim to be better than the D.L.D. at monster hunting and supernatural mystery solving.
  • S.M.S. - Elementary school kids Suzy, Mikey and Stanley protect their school, and later the city, from supernatural forces.
  • M.V.M. - Blue Luke, Lucy and Daisy Davenport secretly observe the Multiverse and intervene if necessary.

Quotes

Gina: Sally, why are we here?

Sally: Because this is a haunted house, and we're in a horror comic!

Tina: DUUUUUUUUUUH!

D.D. (possessed): Sally Winthrope, you must die!

Sally: But I have a manicure at 3'0 clock!

Dexter: Guys, you better buckle up, 'cuz it's rock'n'roll time!

D.D.: Oh, that's promising.

Po: Time for mindless violence!

Dexter: So now what?

D.D.: We have to go back! I just hope things haven't gotten worse!

[cut to Metropolis Newz]

David: This is David Fernsberry and things have gotten worse!

D.D.: So, Rex, we can solve this in two ways... nonsensical cartoon violence or calm peaceful negotiation. And we all know how we work things out around here, don't we?

Rex: Already ahead of you! [suddenly dressed as Lord Voldemort ] Prepare to die!

Dr. Apartheid: What?! No way! If me and my group are gonna be accepted into your union, then it's gonna be beacuse of our strengths and skills, not because we saved your asses! So forget it!

(beat - the rest of the League glare at him)

Leader of the United Villains: Lucifer, you're a fucking moron. An honorable fucking moron, but a fucking moron nonetheless.

Dexter: So, how's principal Dummydoor?

Meina: Still boring and old as always!

D.D.: Yeah, I always thought that as a recurring character he's pretty useless!

Dummydoor: Hello, I'm right here! And why do I have to sit on this stupid tripod?!

D.D.: 'Cause you're old and useless! Now shut up!

Tina: [to Luke] And I know how you and I will fight, my darling chocolate cake! First we'll strip naked, then you'll rub lubricant into my ass, then I'll take a cucumber, and then...

[Luke punches her]

Tina: O.K., fine, I'll take a carrot!

Dexter: Enough, both of you! Why do I always have to play the parent to you two?

D.D. and Luke: Shut up, mom!

Luke: Quick, let's kill it!

D.D.: We can't! Even though it's a horrible little demon, it's still Gina's baby, and I'm sure that as a mother, she wouldn't want-

Gina: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SOMEBODY KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!

[to the tune of This is Halloween from The Nightmare Before Christmas]

13 ghosts:

Boys and girls of every age

Wouldn't you like to see something deranged?

Come with us and you will see

This, our show called "D.L.D."

This is D.L.D

This is D.L.D.

They are full of depravity

This is D.L.D.

This is D.L.D.

They like to swear and scream

Try not to wet your panties

It's their show

Everybody scream

At the sight of D.L.D.

D.D.:

I am the one with the pretty blonde hair

Pretty in pink, that's what I wear

Luke:

I am the one who's always on crack

Drinking booze and gallons of Jack

Dexter:

This is D.L.D.

This is D.L.D.

But who could forget about me?

D.L.D.:

In this town we call home

Everyone likes our parody songs

Principal Peterson:

In this show

Our standards are very low

Everyone's waiting for the next episode

D.L.D.:

Round that corner, man

Hiding in the trash can

It's our rivals who wanna say

Sally:

Scream!

Gina:

This is D.L.D.

Tina:

Refuge in

Gina:

Audacity

Sally:

Aren't you scared?

Lisa and Ammy:

Well, that's just fine

Watch it once, watch it twice

And we will hear your cries

Stare in awe at our blight

Dr. Apartheid:

Everybody scream

Everybody scream

Rest of the League:

In this show with no pity

Veronika:

I am a witch without a goal

Just a space filler, that's my role

Mee-mee:

I am the one from the ghetto, yo

Lee-lee:

We're the onry non-whites in this show

Satan:

I am Satan, the one from Hell

Actually harmless, as you can tell

Everyone:

This is D.L.D.

This is D.L.D.

D.L.D., D.L.D., D.L.D, D.L.D.

Mom and Dad:

We're the parents without a clue

Of what horrors our kids are due

David Fernsberry:

And our job

Charmaine Ladis:

Is reporting

David and Charmaine:

About the actions of D.L.D.

Everyone:

In this show

Counselor Dickle:

Our standards are very low

Everyone's waiting for the next episode

Everyone:

Guess who's back

The gang on crack

And they're gonna do some stupid stunt

Scare! This is D.L.D.

Everybody scream

S.G.T.:

One day we will make them die

Everyone:

Oh this gang is so overrated

They can't even do their job right

This is D.L.D.

This is D.L.D

D.L.D. D.L.D. D.L.D D.L.D.

Zarry and Meina:

In your town you call home

You know you like our parody songs

Everyone:

La la la la D.L.D.

La la la la la la, bla bla bla, yecch!

Meina:I think I may have died a few times!

Death:Sometimes I wonder what's the point of my job.

[to the tune of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In from Hair]

Zoë:

In the Season 11 finale

The whole cast kicked the bucket

Then we came in to replace them

If you don't like it...

New D.L.D.:

Well, you can suck it!

Everyone:

This is the dawning of the age of new characters

Age of new characters

Age of new characters

New characters

New characters

Harmony and understanding

That is what we require

We won't be too demanding

Don't throw us into the fire

New characters

New characters

Zoë:

It's our first time so be gentle

Don't judge us by how we act

If you think the Author's gone mental

Well...

New D.L.D.:

You're right, so give him flak!

Everyone:

This is the dawning of the age of new characters

Age of new characters

Age of new characters

New characters

New characters

Let the fun times

Let the fun times begin

The fun times begin...

Mrs. Rogač: Our house is...alive?! That is stupid and doesn't make any sense!

Luke: Don't worry, it's not the weirdest thing that ever happened in this comic!

Mrs. Rogač: What comic?!

Luke: THIS comic! We live in a comic book, y'know!

Mrs. Rogač: What are you talking about, this is no comic book, this is real life!

Beat Panel

D.D.: I don't like her! She's not in touch with reality!

D.D.: Stop terrorizing this family, and give in, Evil Doll!

Possessed doll (demon voice): FUCK THE POLICE!

Persephone: The Author has another case of writer's block.

Gina: Another? And when did one of them end?

Thompson: You probably still live with your parents and fight monsters, all the same, every day! You will never move forward, and you will never experience the kind of love me and my friends had!

D.D.: O.K., you know what? Fuck you, Thompson. You're acting like you're better than us, while you spent how many years doing our job? Three! You have far less experience than us, and yet you're still being cocky!

And just so you'd know, even if I become a move/music star, I'd still hunt monsters because no matter how much I complain about it, it's still something I'm the best at, and I wouldn't do anything else!

By the way, do you even know why the Author got rid of you all? Because you're BORING. Almost all of you were the same age and the same personalities, and there was no conflict to make you look interesting, unlike us, who vary more when it comes to age and personality! I mean, you and your friends were so homogenous you may as well have had your own show on the CW!

[To the tune of Tiny Toon Adventures theme song]

We're silly and lazy

We're a little crazy

And when we're pushing daisies it's as stupid as can be!

We're young and reckless

Our stories are senseless

D.L.D.'s adventures are horror and comedy

So here in our comic it's a whole wide world apart

Next to us a first grader's drawing looks like a work of art!

The scripts are defected

We're always disrespected

Now D.L.D.'s adventures are about to start

They bother, they pester

They're D.D., Luke and Dexter

Gina uses Friendster

And Tina is insane

There's Lisa and Ammy

Look at Sally's mammies

Lucifer's a dummy

The League is super lame

In our town of Metropolis is where we get things done

Our Author's been a bother since 2001

We're silly and lazy

We're all a little crazy

It's D.L.D.'s adventures so lets' join the fun!

...

And now our song is done

[Sung to the tune of the Animaniacs opening credits]

It's time for D.L.D.

And we're quite crazy

You really won't believe

The things we do on TV

Cuz we're the D.L.D.!

Come join the Botey brothers

And the Botey sister, too

We fight monsters that'll scare the crap outta you

Like a creepy mummy

Or zombie Maya Angelou

But that just sucks so a decent episode we pursue!

We're the D.L.D.

D.D.'s dumb

Dexter's a geek

Luke likes Jackie D

And this song is offkey

Cuz we're the D.L.D.!

With the S.G.T. who're a bunch of whorey idiots

The villains come together with their retarded plots

Lisa loves Ammy

The principal's a putz

The Author flipped

We have no script

We hate him a-lots!

We're the D.L.D.

Our contracts expired in 2003

We're quite crazy

We make lotsa parodies

We're animaney

Totally insaney

Character derailney

D.L.D.!

Now you may weep!

[To the tune of the second opening of Histeria!]

Now's the time for D.L.D.

Loved from France to Germany

It's a strip filled with hilarity

Comedy, parody, with idiocy!

Here's D.D., she's quite the meanie

Luke swore off Jackie D

Dexter's good with geometry

Our cast is quite vast

Who knows how long we'll last!

Meet Lisa, Ammy, Sally and Gina

And Tina

...and here's Meina

The League of Villains suffers the most

They want D.L.D. to be toast

Our episodes are quite a load

Things will explode

We spoof everyone, from Mario to Toad

Our parodies are maladies

And the Author is really a big chode!

From Tennessee to Albany

This is agony, this song parody

The depravity is no integrity

With the personalities in D.L.D.

Insanity and hilarity

Extraordinary, it's D.L.D.

Just be wary, it can be scary

We dare thee to read D.L.D.