History QuestionableContent / TropesIToL

* InTheFutureWeStillHaveRoombas: Pintsize (himself an AI) attaches a rocket drive to an actual Roomba. The Roomba flies off through the window, [[BrickJoke only to return several strips later]] - together with a family of little airborne kids!.

* InUniverseFactoidFailure: May attempts to create a clique of special pigeons by [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3551 feeding them nothing but habanero nachos]]. She is [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3555 later informed by Winston]] that all pigeons, like all birds, cannot taste chili[[note]]the active ingredient of chili, capsaicin, doesn't interact with bird taste buds. This is likely an evolutionary adaptation to ensure only birds ate the chili fruit, since its seeds depends upon being digested by birds in order to sprout[[/note]] and gets annoyed by it.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Marten [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=513 needs one]] "to throw in [his] EYES." More traditionally, though:

* ImportantHaircut: Faye gets one in a [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3136 strip]] that consists of a TimeCompressionMontage of her work in the robot shop. In the first panel she has her usual short mop, is wearing her trademark white tank top and is standing in her usual slouch; in each successive panel her hair gets longer and longer (showing how increasingly absorbed she is by her work) and her clothes get more practical, until by the final panel she's wearing an oil-stained hoodie with the sleeves ripped off, her arms are more muscular, her posture is straighter and her hair has been cut into a practical but extremely butch quiff, all of which will later send Dora [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3154 wild]] with LesYay.

* ImmediateSelfContradiction: When Faye and Bubbles are opening a repair shop, they get a [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3462 request from Pintsize.]]

-->'''Momo''': It is the end of your shift, correct? Please, come in.
-->'''Dale''': I, uh, o-okay.
-->'''May''': [''who thinks Momo can't see or hear her''] And she's so POLITE! KAWAII DESU! Excuse me while I '''shit my skirt'''.
-->'''Momo''': [''glaring at May''] And please inform your degenerate, criminal hitchhiker that I am fully aware of her presence, and if she attempts any mischief I will ensure that her storage medium has an unfortunate reassignment to the Robot Jail incinerators.
-->'''Dale''': Can--can she ''do'' that?
-->'''May''': [''beaming''] I dunno, but I like her moxy!
* InternalHomage: The strip where [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3258 Faye works off her rage and self-hatred by punching Bubbles' heavy bag until she breaks down weeping]] is this to the strip where [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3070 Bubbles works off her rage and frustration by punching her heavy bags until she curls up in the corner.]]

-->'''Bubbles''': You accomplished your mission and made a tactical retreat before the situation got out of hand. If I were your commanding officer, I would be--
-->'''Faye''': [''looking away''] You can be my commandin' officer if you want.
-->'''Bubbles''': [''eyes open wide, LuminescentBlush, vents coolant from her neck with an audible Fweee sound.''] ...Ve-very well. Let us go home and I will...debrief you.
-->'''Faye''': [[GoingCommando I'm not wearin' briefs.]]

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Faye is this when she sees Roko in her new body, and is so elated that Roko is okay that she forgets pretty much everything she knows about AIs, bodily integration and human-robot etiquette, even grabbing Roko's ears and telling Bubbles to check out the ear molding. Bubbles actually does a {{Facepalm}}. A sign of Faye's CharacterDevelopment is that she immediately realises what she's done, and spends the next couple of strips feeling bad about it.

* IJustWriteTheThing

** SSTO space travel.

* ItAmusedMe: Hannelore is up front about being crazy, but she's also more than willing to pretend to be even crazier if it would be funny -- much to the confused horror of her friends.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: A strange example, as it started out as very self-contained with four main characters. Since then, Jeph has had at least twenty be in focus at some point, and several major characters have been PutOnABus.
** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2289 Lampshaded]] when Emily invites Marten and "all of his friends" to a party.

* IAmNotPretty: Marigold. She goes on multiple sobbing rants about how bad-looking she is, despite actually being cute.