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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Ditz: T-Rex, although he can be highly intelligent at times. He is not, however, a Genius Ditz.
- 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.
- 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.
- Prequel: Parodied in this strip, and further applied to Shakespeare in this one.
- 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".
- Slap Slap Kiss: Discussed and combined with car chases in this strip.
- Tempting Fate: Subverted in this strip. In the past, T-Rex has had parties ruined by God, which led to embarrassment with the ladies.
