This comic contains examples of:
- A Hell Of A Time: In Hell you can play video games and do whatever you want, but you have to sing songs with all the lyrics replaced by "party".
- Alt Text: Used for comments or additional punchlines.
- Better Than It Sounds: as is said in the above image.
- Cloudcuckoolander: T-rex.
- Chekhovs Gun: Explained in this strip
of the "Literary Technique Comics" series. May involve Pop-Tarts.
- Cursed With Awesome: Applied to several tragic Greek figures (sometimes in rather contorted ways) in this strip.
- Curse Cut Short: As the Alt Text for this episode says, "it's not swearing if you don't enunciate the last phoneme. PRO TIP"
- Cut And Paste Comic: It's the Ur Example.
- Dada Comics: The premise is played surprisingly straight, and the sheer repetition of the art eventually makes it all feel perfectly normal.
- Defictionalized: Fans occasionally make Choco-Chops and send them to Ryan North.
- Dis Continuity: T-Rex attempts to improve his life by declaring less favourable parts non-canon.
- The Ditz: T-Rex, although he can be highly intelligent at times. He is not, however, a Genius Ditz (except when he is).
- Dont Explain The Joke: Flaunted with "Jokes Explained!"
- Emoticon: OGC
- Empathic Environment: Explained as a part of the concept of the "pathetic fallacy" in this strip of the "Literary Technique Comics" series.
- Fan Fic: The subject of this strip. You kiss in my story.
- God: Only T-Rex can hear him. He speaks without punctuation, in all-caps, and is somewhat of a ditz himself.
- King Of All Cosmos: God.
- Lampshade Hanging (every once in a while, a joke about the parameters of the comic, eg here or this one lampshading the lampshading.)
- Also explained/parodied in this strip, also from the "Literary Techniques Comics" series.
- Magic Feather: It all goes wrong in this strip.
- Male Gaze: Discussed in this strip, especially as it pertains to Video Games.
- Mirror Universe: a Story Arc that involves this and one of the few art-changes in the comic's history starts in this strip.
- No Pronunciation Guide: drom-iss-ee-oh-MY-muss
- Prequel: Parodied in this strip, and further applied to Shakespeare in this one.
- Never Give The Captain A Straight Answer: Discussed here.
- Painting The Fourth Wall: God talks in BOLD ALL CAPS. The Devil meanwhile speaks in BIG RED LETTERS, and the raccoons and cephalopods ARE UNNERVINGLY ITALICISED.
- Remix Comic: Technically, every strip after the first one; fan-made Remix Comics of it are, of course, also common.
- Satan: One of the odder incarnations of the Adversary in fiction, he's a nerd obsessed with Video Games whose voice comes in from the bottom of the panel. Like God, he talks in all-caps without punctuation.
- Secret Keeper: Parodied in this strip, where T-Rex is "the worst Lois Lane ever".
- Self Referential Humor: The strip above, among other things.
- Shout Out: Recently, a back-and-forth with Andrew Hussie involves Ryan watching him eat dinner. (Archived here.)
- Slap Slap Kiss: Discussed and combined with car chases in this strip.
- Straight Gay: Utahraptor (and by extension... T-Rex?). It's not a big deal, and is seldom mentioned.
- Sophisticated As Hell: T-rex's entire friggin' speech pattern.
- Tempting Fate: Subverted in this strip. In the past, T-Rex has had parties ruined by God, which led to embarrassment with the ladies.
- This Is For Emphasis, Bitch!
