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the TVtropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document
—Jeph Jacques
Marten Reed, an indie-rock fan living in Northampton, Massachusetts with an adorably sociopathic little robot, runs into a girl at a bar, Faye Whitaker, a barista who's just moved from Savannah and needs a friend, but adamantly no more than a friend. She then accidentally burns down her apartment building while making toast and needs a place to live - namely, Marten's couch. Before long, he meets Faye's coworker Sara, who falls just out of panel just in time to be replaced by her sultry, gothy boss Dora Bianchi.
Then, beginning at strip 500, everything changes.
One of the most prolific webcomics out there, with over 1600 installments and counting, QC has evolved into a humorous ongoing chronicle of the lives of a group of young urban twentysomethings, as they deal with life, fall in and out of love, and maintain a healthy level of sarcasm. Would almost be a slice of life comic if the cast didn't include a handful of cute lil' robot sidekicks.
Can be found here . A print collection is coming, featuring re-lettered and sometimes re-drawn versions of the first arcs.
This series provides examples of:
- A Date With Rosie Palms: What Steve is faced with after his girlfriend injures herself.
- AI Is A Crapshoot: Presumably at some point in the Back Story, Marten paid good money for Pintsize...
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: "MOTHER!" Amongst others.
- Anime Hair: Every now and again. According to faye, Dora's "makes you look like a goth cassowary".
- Animesque: Some of the characters' expressions and other little things. One particular little thing: Momo, pictured here, here, and here.
- In the authors comments, Jeph explains that Anime-style anthro-P Cs have a supply of opaque, viscous goo they can excrete for the express purpose of emulating cute anime sweat drops.
- Another example is Marigold's adorable little :3 smile in this comic.
- Arguably the whole comic has been becoming more and more influenced by anime. The Character Focus on Hannelore has a lot to do with this.
- Word of God says that one of the biggest influences on QC is Azumanga Daioh. It's not hard to see some of the parallels.
- Art Evolution: "If you don't like the art, wait two weeks!" Forum and newspost comments suggest Jeph flagellates himself over last year's art and merely hates this year's, so he's constantly striving to improve it. Easily noticeable in the early strips compared to today's (for an example, take a look at this recent post on Jeph's livejournal, wherein he redrew the first comic in his current style. Also, compare old and busted with new hotness), but even modern-day strips can appear completely different.
- You could call it "chin drift". Seriously, how far forward the character's chins are is a fair gauge of how recent a page is.
- Easily noticeable with recently-introduced characters. Marigold in her debut compared with nowadays is virtually a completely different character- turning a flat-chested skinny girl into a curvy, busty one.
- You may have noticed that after the recent art shift, everyone gained mass. Even Marten, who is supposedly weedy, and Tai, who is tiny.
- Art Shift: The flashbacks from Faye's past.
- Ascended Extra: Angus. He appeared multiple times as a joke character, then popped into focus after Faye dropped Sven. Now it seems likely that Marigold is falling for him.
- Ass Shove: Happens to Pintsize.
- Author Appeal: The once-constant and still numerous indie rock references. Also "Will I ever get tired of drawing my characters in Victorian-era-esque clothing? All sources point to "no"."
- Author Avatar: Averted - Marten is not Jeph Jacques, to the surprise of fans who meet him. He once posted a picture on Live Journal of them meeting: Rule 34 responded quite quickly.
- Actually, it's something of an inverse of what happened to Penny Arcade. As Jeph said, Martin started out as his mouthpiece but grew into a completely different person.
- The Baroness: Tortura seems this type.
- Be A Whore To Get Your Man: Faye and her mother discuss the benefits of this.
- Beard Of Sorrow: Steve, after a break-up.
- Beat Panel: EPIC use in 1557- <Beat>... <Beat>... ROCKET ROOMBA!!!
- Benevolent Boss: Scott, Dora, Tai.
- Beware The Nice Ones: Hannelore is NOT TAKING YOUR SHIT ANYMORE.
- Bifauxnen: Tai, especially in early strips when she bound her breasts.
- Big Lipped Alligator Moment: The 666th strip. Also, the "hell ass balls" couch. To a lesser degree, strip 1135 features Dora, Tai, and Marten with random mustaches that go away in the next strip, though they were hiding from the naked old people fucking each other...
- The mustaches were for Cinco de Mayo. The annoying part is that Jeph only alluded to it on Twitter and forgot to mention it in the daily commentary...
- Bi The Way: Yes, Dora is attracted to women. Yes, she's in a monogamous relationship with a man.
- In a funny coincidence, Marten's MOTHER is the one who made her realize she likes girls...
- Also, Pintsize. He expresses desire for breasts and steal's women's underwear, But he has had at least one relationship with another male. Although, Since they were both robots, It might not matter.
- Raven also refers to herself as "bi" in a Tweet, although if she is she does seem to lean more toward the Anything That Moves side of things.
- Body Horror: Pop!
- Bottle Fairy: Partial deconstruction. Faye adopts many of the traits involved (funny accent- her original Southern one, a more comical, boisterous attitude, etc.), but then comes deconstruction- others become concerned for her alcoholism, and parts of her personality are much more reserved. The rest of the cast are better matches- being college-town musicians and young adults in general, they partake in the booze with great regularity. It's pretty much their token "This is how we introduce people to the group" scene now.
- Brain Bleach: What Marten needs after he finds out how Dora discovered she was bi...
- Breakout Character: Hannelore has recently won a poll by a landslide naming her as the most popular character, shocking the author. Quite a ways for what was a supporting one-note character added to an already sizeable cast.
- Brick Joke: Maybe if we put on a spoiler it will go faster.
- It came back again and looks to be starting a new plot line. Checov's Boomerang Perhaps?
- Bromantic Foil: Steve
- Brother Chuck: Sara (see above); created without any real character, she just vanished after Dora appeared. It became a long-running gag that she was "eaten by an Allosaurus", but no characters would ever mention her after the first 100 strips except in one or two Mythology Gags.
- Burger Fool: Notably avoided; Dora did threaten Faye with having to wear an apron again but since they were discarded in the first place to better show off The Merch...
- And by that we mean the T-shirts. Get your mind out of the gutter!
- Butt Monkey: EVERYBODY. This strip lives on the shattered dreams of the characters and shippers alike, with the exception of Marten and Dora.
- Cargo Ship: Momo-tan x anatomically-correct-Sousuke-doll 4eva!
- Catapult Nightmare: In this strip and the following one.
- Cats Are Mean: Dora's cat, Mieville. Even Pintsize agrees.
- Cerebus Syndrome: The strip started as a boy and his robot, but in no time moved to sarcasm and joking about music and music fans, while developing the relationships between the characters before taking a turn for the dramatic about #500, while retaining the joke-a-day format..
- Jeph lampshades this in the commentary/news for strip #1481.
- Character Blog: Marten, briefly; every major character recently got a Twitter feed.
- Chaste Hero: Hanners, Marigold.
- Chekhovs Gun: "Damnit Angus, I told you I have a raid!" Guess who gets introduced later on?
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Dora drifts into this at times.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Word Of God has explicitly compared Hannelore to Osaka.
- Commuting On A Bus: This or Put On A Bus for many cast members. Raven in particular is now focusing on scholastic pursuits, and hasn't shown up for ages, despite once being a huge part of the strip.
- Completely Missing The Point: Hannelore does a lot of this, as evidenced by this strip.
- Couch Gag: The specials board.
- Corrupt The Cutie: Hannelore, slowly but surely. (For the second link, you'll need to see the setup first).
- Crowning Moment Of Awesome: "Let's Finish This..."
- Crowning Moment Of Funny: Several; this troper puts forth strip 1349.
- Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming: Please tell me I'm not the only one who went "Awwwww!" when Dora finally kissed Marten in If You Need Me I Can Always Be Found?
- I know I didn't, but back then I was still rabidly Marten x Faye.
- Cute Bruiser: Faye, literally.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Cosette, as shown here.
- Dark Skinned Redhead: Ellen in older strips: exhibit A.; now that the other characters aren't so pale, Ellen's skin is not significantly darker: exhibit B., and Tai.
- Deadpan Snarker: Especially Faye and Dora, sometimes Marten.
- Death Glare: Don't get between Cosette and her date. Not ever.
Luna: I saw... I saw a tunnel of light, with my granddad waiting at the end, waiving to me...
Marten: Jesus, I thought she was going to go all Temple of Doom on you and pull your heart out through your chest!
- Defictionalization: Most of the T-shirts sold in the store were first worn by members of the cast.
- Jeph has also released quite a bit of music under the Deathmole name. Enough for several albums, in fact. It's quite good- wholly instrumental post-metal composed entirely by Jeph.
- Depraved Bisexual: Pintsize, Possibly. He flirts with/harrasses women throughout the comic, Steals Faye's underwear, and compliments random women on their breasts, But he has had at least one relationship with another male. Since it was a male robot, Though, It might not count. Possibly subverted in that he seemed to actually care about him.
- Deus Angst Machina: Parodied in one strip, and it involves bears, aliens, and the Illuminati.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: this comic, followed by this one.
- The Ditz: Raven is not the sharpest of minds, but shows hints of being brighter than she seems...
- Disability Superpower: Hanners' OCD-fueled counting ability makes her a hell of a drummer, which she describes as "counting with your whole body." After a brief explanation by Marten, she's playing like an old pro.
- Does This Remind You Of Anything: After Angus and Marigold's spontaneous dancing...
- Dogged Nice Guy: Angus
- Doomy Dooms Of Doom: The coffee shop at the center of the series is called Coffee Of Doom.
- And the sign on its bathroom door says "Restroom of Doom!": exclamation theirs. Though they once lovingly referred to it as "The Cave Of 40 Asses".
- There's also the news post for this strip.
- Dream Sequence: Here, here, and here. To quote Deathmole Jacques, "I could do one of these dream-comics for every single character and I STILL wouldn't be tired of the conceit. I am so weird."
- Drink Order: As with real-life indie coffeehouses, Coffee of Doom customers are advised not to use Starbucks' faux-Italian size names.
- They're often equally derisive of drinks such as lattes, frozen coffees, and basically anything that's not a straight-up coffee or espresso.
- Drowning My Sorrows
- Dysfunction Junction:
- Faye: Her father's suicide and her subsequent nervous breakdown.
- Hannelore: Raised on a space station by a mad scientist, with a Corrupt Corporate Executive for a mother.
- And so obsessive-compulsive she makes Adrian Monk look normal.
- All of the other characters have more-or-less normal backgrounds (at least as far as we know). And yes, this is counting Marten's mother's job, as that doesn't seem to have caused Marten any trauma.
- Not necessarily trauma (other than the occasional bit of needing Brain Bleach), but it does seem to have given him a rather less-than-normal outlook on certain things.
- Dude Not Funny: Faye calls this on suicide jokes. In response, Angus calls it on jokes about Marigold.
- Eagleland: Pintsize at one point claims his destructive, belligerent and annoying behavior comes from his American locale settings.
- He does become very civil and even kind when switched to British English language settings. The characters speculate as to how much of that is real personality change and how much is Pintsize being Pintsize.
- Also frequently invoked by the characters, with more than a bit of Western-Mass "alternative" condescension.
- Embarrassing First Name: Raven goes by her middle name because she despises her Welsh first name, Blodwyn.
- Expy: Jeph mentioned in a recent forum post that he designed Marigold to be essentially "an Anglicized version of Konata from Lucky Star."
- So of course unlike Konata she's overweight, antisocial, and a complete slob. ... Did we mention the Eagleland thing above already? Okay good.
- Fan Nickname: The line often gets blurred between a fan nickname being adopted in-universe by the characters and in-universe nicknames being picked up as second nature by the fans. "Hanners" is probably the most commonly-used one both in and out of the comic.
- First Girl Wins: Averted...so far.
- Flanderization: A few members of the cast, but Hannelore is the strongest. Although Your Mileage May Vary, and this could come off as completely hilarious...Characterization Marches On - the circumstances under which she was introduced would be out of character for her now: Marten too, probably...
- Referenced later on when Dora asks Hanners, "If you have OCD, how come you have, like, ten earrings and you smoke?". Hannelore handwaves an answer by saying, "Well, a girl has to have some glaring inconsistencies in her life."
- The piercings are better-explained here, and anyone who works at a tattoo & piercing shop can vouch for the truth in Hannelore's statements: i.e. they're the most sterile places imaginable. She also explicitly says she was on "powerful anti-anxiety meds" that made her "not herself". A Lampshade Hanging, really.
- Pintsize wasn't always /b/ personified. He used to just be kinda silly.
- Faye herself points out that she used to be a "bitch with issues", but now that she's in counseling and getting to the root of her issues, she's "just a bitch".
- Foreshadowing: "It's pretty quiet, although the lady who lives in 226 vacuums at odd hours sometimes."
- Friends With Benefits: Sven and Faye have a thing like this for a while.
- Gargle Blaster: The vintage whisky they bought once. Delicious as it was, it glowed and came with a health warning.
- Generic Cuteness: Most of the cast is quite young: early to mid-20s., and the parental characters are somewhat unconvincing. For instance, Marten's mom has facial characteristics similar to the core cast, but with a single wrinkle and an older-woman's hairstyle. Dora's father only manages to look his age because he's portly and bald.
- Genius Ditz - Raven.
- Girlish Pigtails: Momo-tan.
- Marigold has had her hair in pigtails as of late as seen "here".
- Girl On Girl Is Hot: So say the turkeys.
- Gorgeous Period Dress: For rent at a local theme bar.
- Also the reason Wil got hired at said bar.
- Grandma What Massive Hotness You Have: Acknowledged in-universe with Marten's father.
- And his mother, for that matter.
- Groin Attack: A couple.
- In one strip, a drunk and passed-out Faye accidentally headbutts Marten in the crotch just prior to vomiting.
- In this strip - "Metal foot...to...mantenna array! Pain level...Shatnerian...in intensity!"
- Happy Holidays Dress: QC's Christmas comics!
- Hates Being Touched: Hannelore. Faye as well, but she's mellowed out a bit with time.
- Head Tiltingly Kinky
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel: "MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP!!!!"
- Hollywood Pudgy: Faye, arguably Averted- she's regarded as a very attractive woman in-universe, but is a bit self-conscious about her weight (her rear end is quite large, but this is seen as a plus by many). Many real people have the same hang-ups, so it's a kind of deconstruction of the trope.
- Marigold considers herself fat as well (despite being thinner than Faye- she has really low self-esteem), so counts in her own mind.
- Hot Mom: Of course Marten's mom is hot - she's a BDSM porn model.
- If You Ever Do Anything To Hurt Her: Veronica warning Faye, Faye warning Dora, Dora warning Sven...
- Imagine Spot: the last panel of this, but that's a subversion, the next comic reveals that it's not imagined at all, the comic's world simply is that bizarre.
- Played straight here.
- Also, Marigold gets one here.
- Informed Ability: Not an "ability" per se, but Faye has always supposed to have been quite curvy and big-bottomed. The first hundred or so strips utterly failed to show this, with no discernible difference between her and Dora. Currently she actually fits: made more notable by the fact that the rest of the main cast are built like bulimics (or at least your average indie concert-goer), with the exception of Marigold.
- Also, for as notorious as Pintsize is about wreaking havoc, he almost never seems to do anything more than be a nuisance while on-screen.
- Insane Troll Logic: "Shall I make you a tinfoil hat?".
- I Want My Beloved To Be Happy: Faye uses virtually these very words to Marten in strip 567.
- Jet Pack: An unusual use of it on Hannelore's roomba. Held on by what appears to be scotch tape no less.
- Jumping The Shark: Pintsize lampshades and parodies this: by name, even. here. Common opinion seems to disagree with him...
- The Krusty: Sven doesn't exactly fit the trope because he's a. young, and b. a writer, not a performer; but he has the mindset of writing music for Money Dear Boy.
- Lap Pillow: Marten, here.
- Les Yay: Faye and Dora - before Characterization Ensued. Hannelore and Marigold currently, despite - and possibly in spite of - Jeph himself saying that said pairing is not, was not and never will be happening. Then again, when has Canon ever stopped the shippers? Note that they haven't exactly flirted or anything- they've just hung out and played their personality types off of each other.
- Lethal Chef: Inverted, Faye's cooking is fine, she's more of a danger to herself when she is in the kitchen.
- Local Hangout: The coffee shop.
- Long Runner: About seven years old now.
- Lysistrata Gambit: Natasha threatens to withhold sex from Amir for a month if he doesn't agree to name the band Deathmole.
- Make Me Wanna Shout: Yelling Bird. Gods above, Yelling Bird
- Malaproper: "I might not be the sharpest bulb in the box but I'm not THAT gullible."
- Mama Bear: Marten's Mom warns Faye off of hurting him.
- Master Of The Mixed Message: Faye to Marten.
- Matchmaker Crush: In the earlier strips, Faye was telling Marten how Dora liked him and Dora was giving Marten advice on Faye.
- Memetic Outfit: Marten's "TEH" shirt and Faye's bearmonster shirt.
- The Merch: Characters will sport a new funny slogan or t-shirt in a few strips, then Jeph will talk about it in his Info post, then it will show up in the Merchandise section. Doing a massive Archive Crawl, you could see this six or seven times in a short span. It ain't called the "Questionable T-Shirt Factory" for nothing.
- Milholland Relationship Moment: Dora/Faye after Dora got together with Marten two days after Faye told him "Not now." Also numerous others, including just about any time someone confesses something to Marten.
- Misaimed Fandom: Apparently TV Tropes writers. Based on Jeph's twitter (Sep 4th, 2009) and news posts on the comic main page, he was so upset from Hanners/Marigold Les Yay shippers that he addressed how stupid he thinks that is in this comic. Of course, he also stated that this page is like "every idiotic comment in his forums on one page". Some writers take this website better than others.
- Modesty Towel: Sven wears one in strip #1081.
- Moe: This is part of the reason for Hannelore's popularity with male fans.
- Moral Event Horizon: If this spoiler
Read after the arc starting at strip 500! Guest Strip were Canon, Pintsize would have crossed it.
- Same with this: also non-canon.
- Mundane Fantastic: There are little robots everywhere, Hannelore was born on a space station.
- Mundane Utility: One of two possible explanations for caped superheroes who deliver food.
- Mushroom Samba: "When you say big words, smoke comes out of your nostrils."
- Naughty Tentacles: Inverted by Pintsize's doujinshi, "Butt Castle," which is eighty pages of tentacle monsters being raped by schoolgirls.
- Nerds Are Virgins
- Nice Hat: The Worry Hat.
- Nightmare Fuel: Tapirs..
- No Indoor Voice: Yelling Bird. It even goes over to Make Me Wanna Shout once.
- Noodle Incident: Number 402.
- Nosebleed: Female example here.
- Not Good With People: Marigold and Hannelore, type 1. To a much lesser extent, Dora and Faye, type 2.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Many fans suspect ditzy Raven is doing just this, especially since she returned to school to get a degree in Physics.
- Off Model: As an artist with an evolving art style Jeph produces comics from time to time where single characters look a bit strange and then return to their normal self in the next one.
- Oh Crap: For Science! Pintsize and Winslow's faces in the last panel. Natural conclusion of strip #1555.
- Only One Name: Tai, Steve, others
- Open The Iris: Inverted by Dora in strips #1323 and #1343, and Faye in #1450.
- Out Of Focus: Steve; once a major character, he'd all but disappeared for a year, leading many readers to e-mail Jacques asking about his whereabouts, leading in turn to a Lampshade Hanging strip and a request from the cartoonist to stop asking. The worry was he's been Put On A Bus.
- It wasn't the first time, either; early in the strip he disappeared for nearly a hundred pages. Then again, it is Webcomic Time... So Yeah. He returned a few months after a Lampshade Hanging, having had some rather interesting adventures while he was gone.
- The above-mentioned Angus McPhee also qualifies, though this is arguably justified by Faye's and Sven's frenemies-with-benefits relationship. He's since reappeared as a semi-regular again.
- Unfortunately, Raven has fallen into this as well, as she has not appeared in quite some time. Strip 1306 was the last she was seen, if memory serves correctly.
- It's official..
- Painting The Fourth Wall: In this strip Faye's "SCORN!" takes physical form to propel Angus out of the door of the coffee shop.
- Perky Goth: Formerly Dora, although Dora and Raven each abandoned the goth look a long time ago now.
Dora: (listening to music) "Why do I suddenly want to dance around giggling like an idiot while a smiling man in a white suit throws confetti at me?"
Faye: "That feeling is what we non-goths call "happiness". This record is its most condensed form. It is like a crack-rock of pure joy!"
- Pet Homosexual: Scott, Tai, and probably any future bosses Marten will have.
- Plucky Comic Relief: The robots in general and Pintsize in particular.
- Power Glows: Some really good whiskey.
- Precision F Strike: Although they curse a lot, seeing it come from Hannelore was just awesome.
- Put On A Bus: Often believed to be the case with many supporting characters who someday return, but Steve's exes Ellen & Meena, and Amir's girlfriend Natasha were basically excised from the cast once the relationships were over.
- Natasha has a perfectly good reason for disappearing. She is introduced as Ellen's roommate, then drags Marten into the band. When she breaks up with Amir and leaves Deathmole, none of the characters have any reason to talk to her anymore, and she's been a Jerkass for a while by that point.
- Quintessential British Gentleman: Pintsize behaves like this when Marten changes his locale to British.
- Raised By Wolves: Hannelore, raised by a clinically Mad Scientist and a Bad Boss on a space station.
- The Rant: Sometimes rather long and detailed, frequently an indecipherable drawl.
- Rape Is Ok When It Is Female On Male: Discussed and confirmed in this comic.
- Red Eyes Take Warning: Faye issuing a death mandate to Pintsize against Sven's latest hook-up.
- Refuge In Audacity: Executed in 982, somewhat lampshaded in 989.
- An unintentional example can be found in 1115.
- Robot Buddy: the AnthroPCs.
- Rule 36: Referenced as "Quantum Fetish Mechanics".
- Rule Of Funny: Most of the crazy stuff that happens, but Hannelore's obsessive-compulsive disorder deserves special mention since, as an OCD sufferer himself, Jacques can hardly be said to have not done the research..
- Sarcastic Confession: Of sorts. Hannelore's first meeting with Marten..
- Science Related Memetic Disorder: Hannelore's father.
- Scooby Stack: Lampshaded.
- Seinfeldian Conversation: Constantly.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Marten lapses into this when drunk..
- Ship Sinking: Complete with Lampshade Hanging (and Take That) here..
- Shout Out: Do the characters in the first panel of this page look familiar?
- Show Within A Show: The manga/anime Magical Love Gentleman; Marigold is a serious fan, and introduced Hannelore to it.
- Shown Their Work: one troper from the Northampton area is continually impressed by the backgrounds of the city, since anyone familiar with the real Northampton can recognize the slightly-changed version of real places.
- Shrinking Violet: Marigold.
- Smoking Hot Sex: Pintsize.
- Also Faye's snarkgasm of SCORN!: see Unsound Effect below.. "Phew! I need a cigarette!"
- Sorkin Relationship Moment: partial trope namer.
- Spit Take: A double one - Et voila..
- Spock Speak: Faye, at first, justified as she wanted to hide her Southern accent..
- Spy Speak: No, mother, the peaches are NOT ripe!
- Squick: Pintsize's thumb-toes.
- Stock Superhero Day Jobs: Inverted by Pizza Girl and Chinese Delivery Man. Inversion kind-of lampshaded here. Apparently the mundane is the new super! Though I suppose you'd have to be super to meet some of those delivery deadlines.
- Swiss Horror: Done to devastating effect on Faye in this comic involving her grandmother talking about their ancestors being boarded by "Yankee Seamen".
- Technically A Smile: Hannerlore, in this strip.
- Time Skip: Between 1310 and 1311.
- Too Soon: After Faye breaks up with Sven, she finds Pintsize in her bed, Ready For Lovemaking and sporting a Tom Selleck chest wig & moustache:
Pintsize: I know it's a little soon, but-
Faye The entire universe could have undergone HEAT DEATH and it'd still be too soon.
- Took A Level In Badass: At first, it was assumed that Steve's 'bus trip' was the result of a drunken stupor. Then he was more or less validated with this.
- Too Much Information: Angus and Marigold are roommates. It's bound to happen.
- Just that?! If two characters have so much as interacted, at least one TMI has occurred between them.
- Trash Of The Titans: Marigold's epically messy apartment, until Hannelore got to it.
- Tsundere: Faye.
- Turned Against Their Masters: Mentioned by Faye when she issued a death warrant to Pintsize at someone.
Faye: Damn. Okay, okay, how about if you ever lose your morality programming and go berserk, she's the first one you kill?
Pintsize: I think I can do that.
- Unrequited Love Switcheroo: Sorta.
- Unsound Effect: ASS-GRAB!.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Faye and Dora and many others.
- Webcomic Time: Some stretches of years can be nailed down to a few days thanks to a particularly long stretch of 'later that day' or 'the next morning'-type events; problematized further by up-to-the-minute music references. When creator Jeph Jacques was asked about this on the comic's forum, he replied "You know how glass isn't actually a solid, but an extremely viscous liquid? Yeah.".
- Well Intentioned Extremist: The VespAvenger, arguably.
- What Did I Do Last Night: In strip #1081, after Faye wakes up after having hooked up with Sven between #1079 and #1080..
- What Do You Mean Its Not Awesome: "My name is Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham. I end messes" - go on, tell me you don’t hear a cheesy action movie intro score there.
- What The Hell Hero: Faye occasionally getting called on what a bitch she's being or some action of hers is probably all that's keeping her from sliding down the slippery slope towards being a complete Jerk Sue. Of course, since a Milholland Relationship Moment almost always turns her into a Karma Houdini, just how much she avoids it may be a matter of opinion.
- Will They Or Wont They: The entire comic was built on the Unresolved Sexual Tension between Marten and Faye up until "the talk". This then happens with Faye and other guys consistently after that. Marten not so much.
- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Marten quotes this, and Hannelore turns it on its head.
Hannelore: It actually doesn't. My mom never woulda gotten where she is if she thought she was responsible for her actions.
- The Woobie: HANNELORE. You just want to hug her, except that would only distress her more.
- Yaoi Fangirl: Marigold, if her "YAOI ZONE" shirt is any indicator.
- And now, Hanners. To quote Deathmole Jacques, "This cannot be good."
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