Webcomic / League of Super Redundant Heroes

Lazer Pony, Good Girl, Keith and Buckaress.

League of Super Redundant Heroes is a webcomic about a household of ineffective super-heroes (and Keith), who live in the city of Shitropolis (cough).

In their own words, "League of Super Redundant Heroes is a stupid comic made by even stupider people. Nonetheless, we hope you enjoy this web comic and return frequently as we update with new strips and try and progress from stupid to less stupid."

Originally featured four artists taking turns^note this comic being a notable exception, though not the only one, and a few comics not showing any credit. In order of first appearance they are Mr. Dork, sir.Walrus/sirWalrus, mr.Sausage and SireHappyPants^note sic. All names capitalized and punctuated as shown. The comic started as a single story arc by all four artists, but fairly quickly evolved into each artist doing his own thing, though occasionally they'll team up for an arc.

SireHappyPants left first after about five months (his last comic here). sirWalrus stayed through February, 2013, and Mr. Dork stuck around until this comic in September 2016. Since then mr.Sausage has been maintaining the comic as a solo effort.

League of Super Redundant Heroes is combination gag-a-day comic with (mostly) short arcs, with the gags and individual arc pages interspersed. mr.Sausage favors arcs, where the others mostly did gag-a-day, so as of this writing new material is mostly arcs.

Updates semiweekly.

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League of Super Redundant Heroes provides examples of:

• '90s Anti-Hero: Captain '95 parodies the concept, as a former member of Bloodsport, the Bloodletters, and Blood Blood Blood.
• Accidental Hero:
  • Lazer Pony may not be the best when he's trying to be a hero but when he gets lucky he really gets lucky.
  • And he's been able to stop at least one would-be villain solely due to his blindness, oddly enough.
  • Later, he deals with "Spider", a super-prisoner who doesn't realize a hero afraid of spiders who can shoot Eye Beams is the LAST person you wants to threaten. And Lazer Pony's rep get made.
    Purple Prisoner: ...And That's why they're rebuilding the East Wing. They say he just walked away like nothing happened.
  • Also, Bad Good Girl decides try ruining her counterpart's reputation by going out and beating someone senseless. Her randomly chosen victim is a wanted serial killer, and she gets a medal for it.
• Action Politician: Kurgh may be a reluctant mayor, but he sure does a badass job of it.
• Adjective Noun Fred: Magic Boy Steve the Harry Potter expy.
• Air Quotes: Flying-Fox Man's butler uses for "Accident" to indicate his euphemistic meaning, when telling Flying-Fox Man that:
  Butler: [Young Master Dodo] wet his bed and now he's locked himself in his room out of shame.
• All Just a Dream: A one-off strip used this gag, as "The Narrator" for the comic is a woman with a severe case of schizophrenia.
• All Planets Are Earth-Like: Lampshaded here. Justified in that all the places that a Portal Network is going to choose to link to are going to have a preference for being mutually compatible. Less justified is the fact that all of the other planets look like Canada.
• All Take and No Give: Keith. Lazer Pony alone pays the rent. Everyone else helps out in other little ways, such as by helping in their incompetent fight against crime and Good Girl doing the chores, but Keith just loafs around and spends Lazer Pony's money on his own entertainment.
• Alliterative Name: Aggravated Aviator
• All Myths Are True:
  • Many gods are superheroes, which can get awkward when gods of the same personification from different pantheons meet.
  • At least three different ancient rituals that require the planets to align are real, but they cancel each other out when carried out at the same time, which one man reasons is why no one has actually succeeded before.
  • Heroes of legend may find themselves in trouble when mortals know all the stories about their weaknesses.
• Alpha Bitch: Buckaress was this in high school.
• Amusingly Awful Aim: Buckaress's aim is impossibly bad.
• And I Must Scream: Possibly Bad Good Girl's fate. Originally, she was an just an ordinary orphan girl. But after a near-sighted priest accidentally gave her an exorcism (brainwashing) intended for a really horrible girl, it made her "more good". Bad Good Girl has claimed that she doesn't have a Split Personality per se, but that her halo makes the Good Girl persona look and act good while the real her is powerless unless the halo runs out of juice. At which point, her embittered, red-eyed, Bad Good Girl personality rebels by doing the things Good Girl won't let her do. It moves into Stepford Smiler territory when one strip makes it seem the real her is present at all times, being forced to exist in a body she can't control. However, the true nature of the curse has been intentionally left vague, and on one occasion, Bad Good Girl herself treats Good Girl as a truly separate personality.
• The Anti-Grinch: Good Girl always goes totally nuts over Christmas and tends to go overboard, so much that her friends delay reminding her of the date as long as possible. When she gains her power upgrade and forgets about it next Christmas, they are worried — until she sneezes and suddenly Christmas spirit is all over the place. Lazer Pony hints NOW they should be worried.
• Art Evolution: Beyond the art generally improving, the beginning of the comic had panels with just one color (though with various shades) until strip #59 which marked the switch to full colors. Explained in-universe by the cosmic being (a Galactus Expy) who watched the Redundant Heroes like a sitcom buying a new TV set. In an unusual bout of Medium Awareness, the characters are surprised by the color change — except for Lazer Pony, of course.
• Artistic License – Religion: Bad Good Girl wears an inverted cross to show how 'bad' she is. An inverted cross is the Cross of Saint Peter, who felt he was unworthy of being crucified in the same manner as Jesus, and is a sign of humility and is the symbol of the Pope reflecting the belief the Pope is the successor of Saint Peter as Bishop of Rome. An inverted crucifix (a cross with an image of Jesus), however, is blasphemy.
• Atrocious Alias:
  • The eponymous League of Super Redundant Heroes. Lazer Pony had registered themselves as the League of Super Heroes, but Keith went out of his way to make fun of them and asked the sadistic legal system to change it.
  • Bad Good Girl, which is Good Girl without her halo. She hates the name, but it's what stuck.
  • Ass-tronomous's chosen alias was Astronomous. Unfortunately for him, Gyrognome started calling him Asstronomous in honor of his buttocks, and the name stuck. Which is also what got Gyrognome kicked off the team.
  • A jovial superhero who was frozen in the '40s, and is being coached to re-adapt to the 21st century. His name? The GAY BASHER! Curiously, he seems quite accepting that he needs to change his identity for linguistic reasons, only asking if he can still throw around his patented "Gaymakers".
• Back from the Dead: Captain Competence was killed, but came back later. As her partner observes, it kinda takes away the significance of death.
• Badass Santa: There's a reason superheroes are all able to attend Christmas parties.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Only Good Girl can kill the demon lord, Hexagon, but she doesn't have the heart to do so, leading him to taunt her that it is only a matter of time until he recovers his powers and makes them all toast. Bad Good Girl as a Literal Split Personality, on the other hand, has no problems doing so and shoves him into Good Girl's sword.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Played with hilariously. In his first appearance, Kurgh the Conqueror — warlord and scourge of the galaxy — comes to town demanding the city submit to him. Since Shitropolis is a really crappy place to live in, let alone manage, the previous administration is ecstatic and declares the whole mess his problem now. The rest of this appearances have him suffering the total monotony of dealing with mayoral politics.
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • Good Girl's origin: An Enfant Terrible named Nicky Skanktart who was so evil an exorcism was ordered... but the priest had bad eyesisght and mixed up the rooms, performing an exorcism on someone else who then became Good Girl.
  • A man with a Face Framed in Shadow contacts the Power Group with a bomb threat. Turns out he'd just misplaced it, and is quite grateful they found and returned it to him.
• Banana Peel: On visiting another dimension, Buckaress discovers a comedy show with a character caricaturing herself, "Evelyn the Jester", whose very entrance is slipping on a banana peel.
  Buckaress: They turned me into a bubbling idiot!
  Defendress: To be fair, that happened to you twice last week.
  Buckaress: I told you they weren't there before I stepped on them!
  Defendress: I'm not having this argument again.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: Averted. Just because a Heavyworlder alien superhero can jump very high doesn't mean he can breathe in space.
• Beat Panel: Distracterella's reaction when Cat-A-Pult points out a flaw in her plan is Chirping Crickets.. complete with a tumbleweed propelled by one of Cat-A-Pult's cats.
• Beauty Equals Goodness:
  • Subverted by the Spank. So far he's been a good person and a competent superhero, but his looks...
  • Cleverly subverted with Flying-Fox Man. He's a highly competent hero with the police and media trying to uncover his identity. They have a strong lead with a handsome young billionaire... Which annoys the balding, acne-ridden, bug-eyed, ugly as get out middle-aged billionaire who really wears the mask. He is sick of everyone always thinking it's the "pretty boy billionaires".
    Flying-Fox Man: He's not.
• Becoming the Mask: Buckaress in two different ways. She was originally just an ordinary person, but she was hired as a mole in the LSR. She decided she likes being a hero, so she stayed with the League, upgraded to a more practical costume, picked up some gadgets, and found a mentor to train her.
• Big "NO!": Bolfman_123 lets out a "NOOOOOOOOOO!" (along with Skyward Scream) when he learns that Buckaress switched her costume for a much less Stripperiffic one.
• Bizarre Alien Reproduction: Something one human woman in an Interspecies Romance learns to her dismay.
  Doctor: Good news: it's not a tumor. Ba— um... other news: you're pregnant.
• Black Comedy: Strip #663, "Course of Action", has a doctor refuse to treat a cancer patient on grounds that chemo might give him superpowers and would therefore open the hospital to lawsuits. An obvious satire of the American healthcare industry, especially for-profit hospitals, the comment section was somewhat divided on whether it was actually funny.
• Blessed with Suck:
  • Zig-Zagged by Lazer Pony: he did go blind the first time he fired a laser blast (they come from behind his eyes), but the Lazer Stallions, his counterparts from the rest of the multiverse, are the most powerful and effective superheroes of their respective worlds despite being blind (and one who's in a wheelchair).
  • Shark-Man died of suffocation because, like actual sharks, he couldn't move backward and had to be in constant motion in order to breathe.
  • A still unnamed superhero is a Flying Brick with a healing factor, unless he's near space rocks. Earth is a giant space rock (that's why he takes the bus).
  • During a court case, Good Girl gains an "Angelic Form." The downside? Her Halo runs out of juice faster when she uses it than normal.
  • There's the poor heavyworlder who was able to leap amazingly high in Earth's lower gravity. High enough, it turned out, to leave the atmosphere...
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Apparently, one team attempts to do it deliberately. Complete with a Token Minority for a Four-Girl Ensemble.
• Body Paint: Distracterella's suit isn't a suit...
• Brainwashed: According to her own bad girl personality, Good Girl is brainwashed by her halo.
• Breast Expansion: According to Mary-Sue she can eat all the junk food she wants and only her breasts will put on any weight.
  • In a meta sense, as the art style changed Eva was drawn to be bustier and bustier until she was about twice the size of every other heroine.
• Brick Joke:
  • Rectal itching, first of all Lazer Pony and subsequently Maroon Jackdaw.
  • Lazer Pony has insurance that covers accidentally shooting down blimps, although what else it covers in unspecified.
• Bring My Brown Pants:
  • After the usual joke villains become "Top Priority" targets...
    Cat-a-Pult: What smells like urine?
  • When Good Girl's lawyer defending her in the lawsuit by "Religion" overhears the judge's overtly biased comments regarding his case.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The Spank has been promoted to the Power Group.
  • The Banana is a highly competent hero as well, and very popular with the ladies. Despite being a guy in a banana suit.
• Burger Fool: Where Keith works; he actually seems to do a good job there, because eventually he becomes the manager.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday:
  • Buckaress finds the knowledge that she once stole Distracterella's boyfriend when they were in school together utterly useless in working out her civilian identity.
  • A typical day for Mary Sue.
  • Lazer Pony getting abducted by aliens he had to get used to it eventually.
• Call-Back: Several of the heroes are experiencing time slips, with various consequences. In comic #1172 they witness the events of comic #1 from a third-party perspective.
• Can't Get in Trouble for Nuthin': Bad Good Girl seethes at how great Good Girl's rep has gotten and decides to do something to ruin it. So she beats up some random happy-looking guy on the street.
  Good Girl: Turns out he was a wanted serial killer! The Mayor is giving me a medal tomorrow!
• Captain Ersatz: Too many to list. If there's a Marvel or DC character you can think of, there's a thinly-veiled parody of them living in Shitropolis.
• Captain Patriotic: Agent Double O Zero, a Tuxedo and Martini spy, is deemed no longer in touch with the current times, and thus is re-imagined as a British patriotic-themed superhero.
• Cardboard Prison: Par for the course, their prison system is mindbogglingly incompetent, to the degree that they even let prisoners keep their gadget-filled costumes, allowing for easy escape. LP eventually gets a job guarding one and is, surprisingly, pretty effective at it.
• Casanova Wannabe: Despite being one of Shitropolis's top superheroes, Asstronomous has a lot of trouble finding any women who are interested in him precisely because of this attitude. Even when Maroon Jackdaw spells it out for him, he refuses to take the hint.
• Catching Some Z's: When Lazer-Pony is inadvertently woken up by Good Girl, his speech balloon is:
  "ZZZZZ-*"
• Cat Folk:
  • Cat-a-pult gets a love letter from Catlady, complete with Incredibly Lame Pun.
  • Asstronomous later hooks up with her (while having the head of an ass), and a different one even later.
• Cat Up a Tree: Good Girl, being such a... good girl, regularly saves cats from trees. This becomes problematic when a villain with telekinetic control over cats starts wreaking havoc.
• Ceiling Cling: Surprisingly, Lazer Pony can do it... if properly motivated, like by a spider.
• Chekhov's Gag:
  • Good Girl's reaction to Buckaress in "Bump on the road" is a direct call-back to Buckaress's reaction to Defendress in "Wonderful Toys", including the same toy.
    Good Girl: Oooh, look at me! I'm Buckaress and I have all the fancy equipment.
    Buckaress: I feel like I've been on the other side of this conversation before...
  • Followed by yet another call-back in "Remorse": while Good Girl is bemoaning their inability to exit a villain's maze, both Buckaress and Defendress use their grapple guns to reach the top of the wall, giving them a clear view.
• Chekhov's Gun: "Chekhov's Grapple Guns" sells the Grappling-Hook Pistol variety, which are highly recommended...
• The Chosen One: Good Girl is the only one capable of destroying the demon lord, Hexagon.
• City of Adventure: Shitropolis is one. It's got several superhero teams and hardly a day goes by when they aren't called to action. Two-thirds of the city's population is either a superhero or a supervillain.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: A scientist figures out that this, coupled with the Willing Suspension of Disbelief, makes it possible to fly. He dies when he's explaining the theory to someone while hovering outside their apartment.
• Clark Kenting: Done literally with Asstronomous, and similarly with Phantom Ghost. Their coworkers aren't that perceptive.
• Cleavage Window:
  • Buckaress's new outfit is a LOT more covering than her old one, but still includes an opening around her cleavage.
  • Distracterella's original costume sported one.
• Clothing Damage: Buckaress complains about how often her already skimpy outfit is subject to disintegration, even though Lazer Pony orders hers from the same catalog as his own, sturdier costume.
  Ad: Heroes, suit up! The Mark Seven is here, and it's totally &#@& awesome!
  Ladies, the Theader Suit provides all the unencumbered mobility any heroine should demand! Yeah, that sounds believable. Print that!
• Comically Missing the Point: The league's reaction to Phantom Ghost's bashing their group on TV.
• Commander Contrarian: Gyrognome has problems with authority of any kind.
  Keith: Oh for— Just put your damn seatbelt on!
  Gyrognome: Never! I won't let a [blank] car tell me what to do!
• Complexity Addiction: Asstronomous gets cursed by Maroon Jackdaw to have the head of a donkey. Rather than apologize and promise to stop hitting on her and the other superheroines at the Bar of Justice, he goes back in time, finds an un-cursed version of himself, clones him, has his mind transferred to the clone and comes back to the present.
  Asstronomous: What? Maroon Jackdaw was being completely unreasonable!
• Composite Character: The "Bog Troll" combines the origin of Solomon Grundy (albeit a bog used as a chemical and medical waste dump in his case instead of Slaughter Swamp like Grundy was) with Gordon Ramsay, and he's seen hosting "America's Next Superchef!"
• Conscription: Kyle Jordan gets inducted into the Stellar Corps in this fashion.
• Counting Bullets: The trope-making scene from Dirty Harry comes up - except the thug reveals he has dyscalculia, making Harry feel bad for bringing it up to begin with.
• Continuity Nod: The bank robbed by Cat-A-Pult, Distracterella and the Evil Savant is called Humblebee Memorial, named after Lazer Pony's former teammate who died in a training accident (see Power Incontinence).
• Coordinated Clothes: In comic 340, Mary Sue makes herself and Lazer Pony matching sweaters.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot:
  • Buckaress and Keith have to find jobs due to Lazer Pony's disability grant not covering expenses. Turns out Good Girl is giving half of it away to charity.
  • After digging a cave for Lazer Pony to sleep in, Keith suggests the "Redundant Cave" as a name. LP points out that the name only works if they already had a cave they weren't using. As it turns out...
    [Lazer Pony and Keith are standing outside the entrance of a cave with the words, "Party Grotto" painted on top]
    Lazer Pony: We already had a cave that we weren't using!?
• Covert Group: The world is secretly ruled by a mask-wearing council. Their leader would like to focus on manipulating the economy, but to his frustration, many members prefer stirring up wars for fun.
  • A later strip has a member show up with a different mask - turns out there are several shadowy cabals out there, and the leader of this one is the only one who isn't part of another group as well.
• Crapsack World: There are so many superheroes and supervillains in this world, that there is a crisis going on at practically any given moment. Lampshaded in that the town the LoSRH live in is called Shitropolis.
• Curse Escape Clause: One strip suggests that Good Girl is free to take the halo off if somebody asks her to do so. Presumably, her teammates aren't that stupid.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: One supervillain is creating an army of mindless, Flying Brick clone-drones... in order to insure faster package delivery to online shoppers.
  • Another Expy is constructing a super-weapon to hold the government hostage... and force them to lower his taxes. After that, he'll just sell them the weapon, so he figures it's a win-win.
• Cuteness Proximity: Maroon Jackdaw is neutralized by a kitten.
  Cat-A-Pult: If you move you'll wake him up, and that wouldn't be fair to the cuddly little guy, would it?
  Maroon Jackdaw: I... Well... Dammit! I'll get you next time!
• Dark Age of Supernames: Parodied with Captain '95, former member of Bloodsport, the Bloodletters, and Blood Blood Blood.
• Dartboard of Hate: In Comic 489, the bar has a dartboard with Astronomous's face on it.
• Deadpan Snarker: Sarcasmo.
  Sarcasmo: No! Don't say it Flying-Fox Man! Having no powers is what makes you special! You are perfect just the way you are.
  Flying-Fox Man: Sarcasmo, I will smack you.
• Deal with the Devil: Keith turns one down because he's a slacker, and remaking the world in his image would require a lot of work and responsibility.
  Keith: Now #$@& off, I'm watching Netflix.
• Death Is Cheap:
  • Naturally — it's a Superhero parody, after all.
  • And even more lampshaded further on.
    Captain Competence: No, I was dead, now I'm back from the dead.
    Purple-Costumed Hero: Huh... kinda takes away the significance of death, doesn't it?
    Captain Competence: But you were really upset for a second there, weren't you?
• Didn't Think This Through: Bolfman tries to escape after taking an embarrassing photo of Maroon Jackdaw. Through an airlock. On a space station.
  Maroon Jackdaw: Dude! This is a space station. We teleported you here.
• Dirty Old Man: Gyrognome seems to fit the type quite well.
• Disposable Superhero Maker: The President expresses a need for Super Soldiers, but the responding adviser states that this trope is largely in effect, with no predictable means of producing super-powered individuals... except the severely flawed process that created Lazer Pony. Desperate, the President reactivates the project.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • It would seem Bad Good Girl will hold a grudge for a very long time, even though she can't dish out retribution unless she isn't under the halo's influence. In "Retribution", Lazer Pony spills blueberry juice on Good Girl's shirt, and even apologizes for it; two weeks later, when she isn't wearing her halo, she slugs him in the stomach for it.
  • Josie's grudge against Buckaress stems from the fact that Buckaress has the life that "should be" hers. Even though Buckaress, by her own admission, is an "irresponsible, single waitress with no prospects", while Josie has a loving family and a profitable career.(Josie seems to envy Buckaress's lack of commitments.)
• Distracted by the Sexy:
  • Distracterella's whole superpower. Parodied in the very first comic: her powers are useless against the blind Lazer Pony. It's stated it only works on men, though this comic shows it probably also works on bi/lesbian women.
  • Buckaress manages to use it to stop a pair of fleeing criminals.
    Defendress: That's not exactly how I envisioned it...
    Buckaress: It worked, didn't it?
• Dog Walks You: Lazer Pony gets this treatment when his dog decided to chase a squirrel while out on a walk.
• The Dreaded:
  • The Spank helping the interrogation of a Joker expy. Later, the Spank manages to pull this off while just waiting for the bus. And it seems the poor guy just can't catch a break.
  • Lazer Pony becomes one when he is a prison guard later. He deals with "Spider", a super-prisoner who doesn't realize a hero afraid of spiders who can shoot Eye Beams is the LAST person you want to pick on.
    Prisoner: ...And that's why they're rebuilding the East Wing. They say he just walked away like nothing happened.
• Dressed Like a Dominatrix: In the strip "Assumptions", this is used to justify a Not What It Looks Like situation. A guy was unknowingly married to a female supervillain, so when he comes home and finds her in dominatrix clothes being tied up by her arch-nemesis, he immediately concludes that she's cheating on him. However, while it explains why she's dressed like a dominatrix, for some reason the superhero also dresses in bondage gear, averting the whole Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains angle.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: While Lazer Pony doesn't deserve much respect as a hero, the fact remains that his disability check is the team's primary source of income, and they force him to sleep in a cave in the backyard.
• Easily Elected: In an early strip, alien conquistador Kurgh arrives in Shitropolis and demands the mayor surrender the city to him. The mayor goes one step further and happily makes Kurgh the mayor before vamoosing from the city from not wanting to deal with superhero nonsense anymore. The real kicker? Despite never having stood for election, Kurgh turns out to actually be a pretty good mayor!
• Easily Forgiven:
  • Lazer Pony, Good Girl, and Keith never hold anything against Buckaress for having been a mole at first. (Not that she ever really harmed them by doing so.)
  • Keith doesn't hold a grudge against Cat-A-Pult and Distracterella for tying him up and locking him in a closet in his underwear for a week. Apparently, the fact that they did the same thing to Good Girl and Buckaress helped, to the point that he gives them a free meal as thanks.
• Eldritch Abomination: A family of them come to Earth to "experience the local culture", complete with a Bratty Teenage Daughter.
• Embarrassing Damp Sheets: Comic 486. Flying-Fox Man's butler uses Air Quotes for "Accident" when telling his master that:
  Butler: [Young Master Dodo] wet his bed and now he's locked himself in his room out of shame.
• Enfant Terrible: Josie's daughter picked up some of her magic. It was teased earlier, though, with the alias "Klarissa the Little Witch-Girl" when she was one year old, and even earlier when she turned their cat pink.
• Epic Fail:
  • Lazer Pony gets caught by the Cub-scouts for forgetting to pay for a snicker bar.
  • Buckaress trying to cook is sure to go up in flames. She's so bad at it that she doesn't even need to be the one cooking for it to go up in flames. Even mentioning cooking around her is Playing with Fire.
  • Buckaress trying to throw something usually ends this way, but only until she's pushed far enough.
• Equippable Ally: Lazer Pony. There's a reason his helmet includes handle-bars for his teammates to grab....
• Etiquette Nazi: Snob Goblin, a supervillain who attacks any offensive celebrities (extreme artist, trashy starlet, internet pornographer), objects to super-heroines wearing sexualized outfits, and scolds you for harsh language while rampaging around.
• Evil Lawyer Joke: These were all over the place during Good Girl's "trial", the prosecutor clearly a devil and the judge a ultra-conservative extremist.
  • When Josie and Stephen get invited to a party for Super-Villains he assumes it's because of her antics as the Desperate Housewitch. Turns out it's because he represented the host in court.
• Evil Gloating: Subverted; even supervillains can suffer low self-esteem.
• Exact Words: After becoming mayor, Kurgh concedes that his old battle axe has no place in politics. Guns, on the other hand...
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: "The troupe of superpowered opera singers cruise just arrived [...] a supertanker filled with sneezing powder capsized near the docks" Uh oh...
• Exposed to the Elements:
  • Buckaress orders a special costume so that she doesn't freeze in the winter. Unfortunately, while the shorts and gloves appear to have a warm lining, the outfit as a whole is almost as skimpy as her regular outfit.
  • Given that Distracterella's costume consists of pasties and Body Paint, she probably feels this in the winter.
• Expressive Mask: Many examples, prominently Lazer Pony and Distracterella (assuming that Distracterella is actually wearing a mask rather than more Body Paint).
• Expy: Plenty all over the place.
  • One particular example stands out when Lazer Pony is drinking with a Spider-Man and Batman expy:
  Arachnid Dude: My life suuuuucks! No job, no money, no apartment and the woman I love won't talk to me because I sold our marriage to the devil.
  Flying-Fox Man: My archnemesis beat my sidekick to death with a crowbar.
  • Murdoch is having trouble getting Sinclair to take his search for aliens seriously — in a city with at least 30 known aliens, including the mayor.
  • Parasol Corp, an obvious riff on Resident Evil's Umbrella Corp. They're even making zombies for no rational reason.
  • The "Time-Men" are a take on the Watchmen and one of them can literally go back in time to undo the evil scheme of a villain who claimed to have already won minutes earlier.
  • Paranormal specialists include Dr Odd, M.D., Zatan-Anne, Caligula and Janus de Sang.
  • And in a non-fiction version, this conspiracy theorist is an obvious Take That! at Alex Jones.
  • Hercule Poirot shows up in a murder mystery (aptly titled "Murder Mystery").
• Extreme Doormat: A possible explanation for the Banana and the Spank. We're told that both are among the city's greatest heroes, but neither one has ever said or done anything on-panel. When the mayor attempts to introduce them to one another, they just stand and stare at one another motionless until the building closes.
• Eye Beams: Lazer Pony has them. Once an alien race uses him as their special anti-invasion weapon — and it works.
• Eyes Out of Sight: Lazer Pony has hair covering his eyes the very rare times we see him out of costume. As he's blind it's hardly a hindrance, though he would fit in the dumbass category anyway. And since his Eye Beams power had burned out his eyes five years ago, it's probably best they aren't visible.
• Face–Heel Turn: Distracterella started out as a crimefighter, using her charm to disable crooks. Unfortunately, she got tired of cops being equally turned into drooling idiots when arriving on site and allowing the crooks to flee. She eventually got fed up and turned villain instead. Later strips additionally reveal that she was a member of the LoSRHs but turned to villainy after Lazer Pony rejected her.
• Fan Disservice: Lazer Pony walks around naked thinking he's alone in the house.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • Toward the entire Milky Way Galaxy, at that. He later locks the doors of their ship when another alien offers help.
    Red Alien: Um... of course I don't think you all are a bunch of inferior, thieving life forms. Uh, I mean, some of my best friends are Milkys—
    Green Alien: Dude!
  • Conversely, Murdoch is convinced that the only real aliens are "all small and gray and conspire with the government".
  • Nobody will look twice if you got your powers from radiation, government experiments, or being natural to your species. But if you were born with them, you get the X-Men treatment.
• Fantastically Indifferent: LP as been abducted by aliens so many times that his only reaction to being beamed aboard a spaceship by a Captain Picard expy is "Go easy on the tentacles this time, please."
• Flock of Wolves: Inverted here, as a bank was filled with superheroes in their civilian identities who are unable to intervene in a bank robbery because of all the "normal" people in the bank with them.
• Flying Brick: Being a superhero parody, there are a lot of background supers with the classic generic powerset. The most notable ones are the Superman Captain Ersatzes Asstronomous and Sarcasmo, as well as Lazer Pony's girlfriend Mary Sue.
• Following in Relative's Footsteps: Nightwalker II, who's actually just being the legacy of his dad because it keeps him happy, and because it's a living while he's doing a paleontology doctorate.
• Forced Transformation: Maroon Jackdaw transforms Asstronomous's head into a donkey's to punish him for repeatedly annoying the superheroines at the Bar of Justice. (Eventually he reverses the condition by going back in time, getting a DNA sample from himself, cloning his body, and transferring his mind to the clone. Which to him, was less trouble than promising not to do it again, which would have convinced Jackdaw to undo it herself.)
• Framing the Guilty Party:
  • Gyrognome does it, multiple times, going overboard every single time.
  • He falls prey to some Advice Backfire when he encourages Lazer Pony to lie on the stand.
• Freudian Excuse: Turns out that Buckaress has one when it comes to throwing well.
• Frivolous Lawsuit: After Taking a Level in Badass, Good Girl is being sued by "religion" for trademark infringement and IP theft. Cue Nelson & Murdock Expy.
• Full-Frontal Assault: Distracterella's "costume" is actually nothing more than pasties and body paint.
• Fun with Acronyms:
  • The eponymous league is often shortened to "LoSRH", including in-universe. Which, naturally, sounds like "losers".
  • Also, the "Brotherhood of Adversaries and Deliciously Devious Intentionally Evil Supervillains", or B.A.D.D.I.E.S. for short.
  • Buckaress's new superhero outfit comes equipped with Personal Lightweight Omnidirectional Tactical armor. PLOT Armor for short.
• Gender Flip: This strip suggests there's an entire Alternate Universe where everyone's gender is flipped.
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: Keith certainly thinks so.
• Glamour Failure: An alien infiltrator attempts to blend in with a Perception Filter making it appear like an elementary school girl... but still leaves the tracks of a creature the size and weight of a bipedal rhino.
• Glass Cannon: Lazer Pony is skinny, accident-prone and a pushover, but his power overshadows the A-listers.
• Go-Karting with Bowser:
  • Bad Good Girl, Buckaress and Distracterella having drinks at a bar, talking about their love life problems.
  • Lazer Pony and Cat-A-Pult are good friends, having pizzas before Star Trek reruns and pranking Asstronomous.
  • Josie's not really that serious of a supervillain to begin with, getting into mostly out of boredom and jealously of Buckaress, but after her latest supervillain moment, she and Buckaress and Alex go out for drinks.
• Godzilla Threshold: When a Joker expy forces Flying-Fox Man's hand, he calls in The Dreaded last-resort option: The Spank. Last resort because Flying-Fox Man is also affected by The Spank's powers while the Joker expy spills the beans.
• Good-Guy Bar: The Bar of Justice, though it seems a few bad guys are patrons too.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol: Given the high super population of Shitropolis, you can find those in nearly every convenience store. The Chekhov's Grapple Guns are the highest recommended variety.
• Green-Eyed Monster:
  • Buckaress's best friend from high school took up magic and supervillainy because she's jealous of (what she imagines is) Buckaress's carefree lifestyle as a beloved superhero.
  • Distracterella, in spite of never getting Lazer Pony's attention, tries to ruin his budding relationship with Mary Sue.
• Groin Attack: Gyrognome has an habit of punching Lazer Pony there. Wearing cups only makes things worse.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: Subverted.
  Keith: You're not in a time loop. This job just reaaaally sucks.
• Hat of Flight: The Evil Savant's propeller beanie can fly, although he's only used it once so far.
• Have a Gay Old Time: They know it happens with cryogenically frozen heroes, and try to avoid it.
  The Gay Basher: Can I still throw around my trademark "Gaymakers"?
  Bureaucrat: This might take a while.
• Have You Tried Rebooting?: Well, you should. Even with Murderbots on a rampage.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power:
  • Cat-A-Pult's power to levitate cats starts becoming very handy once he duct-tapes cats to everything he owns. With enough duct tape and a few unusually docile cats, he's even pranked A-list superhero Asstronomous and held up a bank.
  • The one hero who received first a ring with the power of flight (except only the ring flies, which is extremely painful if worn on a finger) and then an helmet that turns invisible (the helmet, not the wearer) manages to catch bad guys by combining the two, and slug them with an invisible, flying helmet.
• Heel–Face Brainwashing: It seems that Good Girl is stuck with this, with the halo forcing her to be positive, friendly and cheerful all the time.
• Hero Insurance: Lazer Pony has one. Too bad it mostly covers damage to blimps.
• Hero with an F in Good: The main cast, who want to do good but are too lazy, self-centered, and/or incompetent to pull it off.
• Hilarity Sues:
  • In one Story Arc, Good Girl is sued for copyright infringement by "Religion" after developing an angel-like Super Mode.
  • Defied in a non-arc strip. A doctor uses this as part of Insane Troll Logic to get out of treating a cancer patient: chemo might give him superpowers, which he might not like, which he might sue the hospital over.
• Hillbilly Moonshiner: One dabbling in a bit of meth cooking too.
• Hoistby His Own Petard: Distracterella's gang manages to rob a bank, get away with the loot, and humiliate Asstronomous by causing him to crash into a building. Unfortunately for them, this gets them upgraded from the "Ignore List" to the "Top Priority List". Oops.
• Hollywood Law: The writer of the "GG gets sued" arc openly admitted that he knows nothing of real legal procedure, and it shows. Lampshaded in 537.
  Lawyer: Objection! This is not a criminal case! This is not how court works.
  Judge: Overruled! I'm the judge, I do what I want.
• Home-Early Surprise: In "Assumptions", a husband comes home early to find his wife in the bedroom wearing a kinky outfit and being tied up by a strange man also in a kinky outfit; despite her protests that it's Not What It Looks Like, he walks out on her. The final panel reveals that it really wasn't what it looked like: she's a supervillain, and her husband walked in on her being captured by her superhero archnemesis.
• Hugh Mann: Private Zoolkor Lizardface-Humankiller gets assigned a new name for their infiltration mission to Earth - Mary Lizardface-Humankiller.
• Hulking Out: Bulk, obviously.
• Hypocritical Humor: Buckaress ridicules Keith watching the news because it's nothing but "fear-mongering and fluff pieces", then sits next to him and starts reading celebrity gossip on her iPad.
• I Call It "Vera": Kurgh the Conqueror's battleaxe is called "Elza", as can attest the plaque above his mayoral desk. Not that he's using it any more — since Shitropolis politics require heavy firepower instead.
• I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: The chicken recipe that was so impossibly delicious that the owners of the brand were able to effectively become the government. Downplayed, because while the secret ingredient isn't heroin, it is cocaine.
• Idiot Hero: Oh so many. Lazer Pony stands out among them with a licensed therapist confirming his lower-than-average intelligence as his greatest hurdle. A later strip where LP is the victim of an Alien Abduction confirms it.
• I Don't Like the Sound of That Place:
  • Shitropolis. There's a name that just screams "high standard of living." Ironically, there isn't much cussing in the strip otherwise.
  • And then they decided to take a bus to a place called Nowheresville...
• I Have Your Wife: Buckaress was Forced into Evil because Evil Savant's gang was holding her cat Missy hostage. After Buckaress rescued Missy because Cat-A-Pult brought the cat along while visiting Lazer-Pony, she quit spying on the League.
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Distracterella has an unrequited crush on Lazer Pony, because (being blind) he is unaffected by her power. Of course, the reason he never reciprocated her feelings was that Bad Good Girl told him that Distracterella was ugly back when she was part of the team.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Made even more improbable when it's Cat-A-Pult's cats doing the aiming.
• Impossible Hourglass Figure: After a few years of Art Evolution, the women in the strip have been upgraded to this. While not exactly skinny to begin with, mr.Sausage has been giving them more prominent hips. Eva is a particularly busty example, but Good Girl is quite curvy as well, and even the much slimmer Alex is nicely shaped. Examples here and here - compare this to Buckaress in an early strip. We're still seeing the art evolve; as of mid-2017, Buckaress is starting to spill over the top of her costume.
• I'm Standing Right Here:
  Snob Goblin: You two are aware I can hear you, right?
• I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Humble Bee gives Lazer Pony the perfect excuse to turn down Distracterella in "Best Pals".
• I Never Said It Was Poison: When Defendress points out to the prison warden how suspicious it is that every known supervillain to use narradium has successfully been imprisoned at the same time, he complains that the only thing he finds suspicious is Defendress for making accusations against him. When Defendress notes that she never accused him of anything, he suddenly becomes nervous.
• Inner Monologue: Rather common among supers, according to Arachnid Dude's psychiatrist.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Good Girl, although it could be her bad-girl persona leaking through.
• Innocently Insensitive: Buckaress falls afoul of this when asking if she's meeting Alex's sister or "sista".
  Alex: My actual sister. What's wrong with you?
  Buckaress: I'm white and need things explained to me. I thought we'd been over this.
• Insistent Terminology: Flying-Fox Man (a Batman Expy) insists he has no sidekick, only "crime-solving junior partners". Justified, since anyone mentioned to be his "sidekick" tends to immediately get hit with a crowbar.
• Instantly Proven Wrong:
  • Gyrognome is showing a couple around one of his rental properties, only for Lazer Pony to send a blast through the house.
  • Mayor Kurgh denies that he's "serving" Shitropolis, insisting that he rules it with an iron fist.
    Pamela: Mayor Kurgh? Excuse me, but I need your signature on this grant for the abandoned puppy help centre.
    Alien Invader: "Iron fist". Riiiight...
    Kurgh: Thanks a lot, Pamela!
• The Internet Is for Porn:
  • Bolfman_234 got his start in the "photomanipulated superhero trend". When the trend passed, he turned to villainy for better source material.
  • Protocol, an Infopath, can mentally access the Internet. Naturally, he gets distracted by porn mid-conversation.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: One of the laws of the setting. An assassin notes that he never misses unless the target is a famous superhero, in which case his shots mysteriously fall to the ground regardless of where he aims.
• I Want Grandkids: Good Girl's sister has multiple children, but Good Girl herself is still single and her mother is getting impatient with that.
• Just in Time: Mocked, as the hero saving the day is The Peeping Tom.
• Kangaroo Court: Good Girl is put on trial for allegedly stealing "Religion"'s intellectual property. The judge in charge of the case decides the outcome of the trial before it even takes place, and overrules the complaints of Good Girl's lawyers that said case doesn't have a legal basis. After Good Girl's lawyers give a long and detailed speech to the jury about why she is innocent, the opposing council's only comment was "Vote in favor of me, or ya'll might go to Hell. Just sayin'." And while the court technically has a jury, the judge attempts to give a verdict without so much as hearing their deliberation.
• Kavorka Man: Lazer Pony is likely the most incompetent hero in the world and a skinny, geeky-looking fellow, yet he and Mary Sue (the hottest babe in the city and the most competent hero) are dating. And Distracterella has a crush on him.
• Kirby Dots:
  • This graphical effect is used, appropriately enough, to illustrate the aura of a Galactus Captain Ersatz.
  • There're also Kirby Dots inside the Cosmic Dodecahedron.
• Kneel Before Zod: "Kneel before Kurgh the Conqueror, worm!"
• Ladyella: Distracterella, of course, spoofing the tendency for this naming convention in superhero stories.
• Legacy Character:
  • Exaggerated with Mosquito Man, of which there have been no fewer than 113!
  • The Nightwalker II, who's working on his thesis, is superheroing to keep his dad, The Nightwalker I, happy.
• Lethal Chef: Buckaress can set fire to water by trying to boil it. Manages to set a ham sandwich on fire. In the middle of the kitchen counter. By placing a slice of ham on bread. She does it to Lazer Pony's waffle mix bowl. Just by walking in the kitchen to get some coffee. And at a sub shop, by asking for a sandwich that wasn't on the menu (All she asked for was that they not give her olives). And again at the gym, by taking the pickles off her sub. It's gotten to the point where they use it for practical purposes like lighting a grill by asking her how she wants her steak prepared or fighting supervillains. The effect becomes so strong that even invoking her name becomes enough to set food on fire.
• Let's You and Him Fight (Marvel Misunderstanding): Parodied here, where two superheroes fight on their first meeting because, well, that's what superheroes do.
• Licked by the Dog: When Keith gets home from his boring desk job through bad weather, complaining about everything when Lazer Pony gives him a hug out of nowhere, thanking Keith for sharing the house with the League. Keith brightens considerably.
• Like Brother and Sister: Lazer Pony lets Good Girl (Distracterella in disguise) down gently after she kisses him, saying that his mental picture of her wouldn't let him pursue her romantically.
• Lipstick Lesbian: Eva and Alex, although ironically, Eva's sense of modesty comes after she "comes out" as bisexual.
• Literal Metaphor: In this strip we find that Cat-A-Pult's powers work on all cats — including "cougars".
• Locked Room Mystery: A one-off strip points out how poorly this genre would fit in a world with Supers sporting Intangibility, Telekinesis, and Teleportation.
• Lysistrata Gambit: A rare case of a lesbian couple playing this trope. With Eva implying she'll withhold sex if Alex doesn't let her have the last piece of pie.
• Mad Scientist: Mad science is considered a legitimate field of study, and there's even a college dedicated to it: Professor Vengeance's School for Misunderstood Geniuses and Thinkers.
• Magic Pants: Apparently Bulk has a pair, but he doesn't always wear it...
• Magic Versus Science: If something unexplainable happens during an experiment, it is interpreted as magic. A scientist using magic is considered heretical enough to get them banished from the scientific community, even if it was an accident.
• Male Gaze: Despite being blind, Lazer Pony still manages to get punished for staring at a woman's breasts.
• Mass Super-Empowering Event: With hundreds arguing who's the real deal.
• Mathematician's Answer: Good Girl's response to the question of whether she was good or bad before getting her powers is "Yes".
• Mayor Pain: When a supervillain broke into the Shitropolis mayor's office and demanded control of the city, the elected mayor gleefully agreed and ran off. On a positive note, the new supervillain mayor is pretty dedicated to making the city function smoothly.
• Mean Boss: Keith, who tazers anyone at his office who tries to sneak a few extra minutes to their break.
• Misery Poker:
  • Parodied when Lazer Pony once plays it with expies of Batman and Spider-Man.
    Arachnid Dude: My life suuuuuucks. No job, no money, no apartment and the woman I love won't talk to me because I sold our marriage to the devil.
    Flying-Fox Man: My archnemesis beat my sidekick to death with a crow-bar.
    Lazer Pony: Because of my blindness, I constantly stub my pinky-toes against chairs.
    Arachnid Dude: Oooouch.
    Flying-Fox Man: Those are the worst.
  • LP "loses" the next round when his girlfriend shows up, though.
• "Miss X" Pun: The minor supervillain Miss Stress not only has an appropriately stressful-sounding name for a villain, but she is also introduced in the comic "Assumptions", in which her husband assumes that she is involved in an affair, i.e. a mistress.
• Most Common Superpower:
  • Good Girl, Buckaress, and of course Distracterella. Buckaress and Distracterella getting extra points for that also being their only superpower (unless there's something super about the bizarre ways that Buckaress can set food on fire). As the art style changed, Buckaress was drawn to be the "most powerful" in this regard.
  • In Good Girl's case, this "power" seems enhanced when she becomes an actual angel.
  • This is literally one of Mary-Sue's powers. She can eat all she likes but she'll never gain any weight, aside from her boobs getting bigger.
• Mugged for Disguise: In one arc, while they are on the run, Cat-A-Pult, Distracterella and Evil Savant disguise themselves as the main characters (minus Lazer Pony) and lock the Bound and Gagged Good Girl, Keith, Gyrognome and Buckaress in their closet. Lazer Pony remains oblivious the whole time.
• Muggles Do It Better: Sure magic can do all kinds of cool things, but it takes longer to activate in combat than a good old-fashioned gun.
• Mundane Utility:
  • Cat-A-Pult straps common household items to the felines so he can just levitate them wherever he needs to.
  • A one-off has a Mad Scientist create a Freeze Ray... so he can keep the pillow cool at night.
  • Turns out Flying Bricks are a very cost-effective mean of putting satellites in orbit and cleaning orbital debris.
  • One guy looks like he's being set up as a super villain, creating an army of obedient Super Soldiers. But it turns out he's just using them to deliver packages at impressive speeds.
• Must Have Caffeine: Or "Latte" as the Pumpkin-Spice Zombies insist on.
• Narrator: The Narrator is an actual character, a crazy young woman who is typically locked in the asylum.
• Neck Lift: Snob Goblin lifts Alex by the neck during their fight, while flying above the ground to boot.
• Never Recycle Your Schemes: Not doing the same scheme twice whether or not it works is required by union rules apparently.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Be careful about gloating you already won — you never know when a time-based hero can turn that into your defeat.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Josie's army of Mummy-Ninjas.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • One strip directly references the trope in its title, using a parody of a Fox News Channel political pundit.
  • This tech billionaire, who is presumably a parody of Elon Musk.
• "No. Just… No" Reaction: Word-for-word from Asstronomous regarding the prospect that Banana Man join the Power Group.
• No Man Should Have This Power: After acquiring a set of Reality Warper gauntlets, the heroes decide that no one can handle this power and use the gauntlets one last time to destroy both the gauntlets and all knowledge of how to create them.
• No Name Given:
  • A variant. Alex's superhero name was not revealed until comic 586. She was first revealed to be a superhero in comic 323 (and first seen in costume in comic 325). Lampshaded when Buckaress forgets and defends herself by saying that Alex doesn't say it very often.
  • Good Girl's real name. The closest we get is in her origin, where it's revealed to be someone else.
• Non-Indicative Name: Flying-Fox Man's hero name can be misleading. No, he cannot actually fly.
• Noodle Implements: "Well... we were out of bendy straws, and it kinda escalated from there..."
• No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus: Keith lampshades the fact that gods from different myths are proven to exist and walk among mortals every day, except for the ones people actively worship.
• Not a Mask: After vanquishing Snob Goblin, Defendress assumes he's wearing a mask (since otherwise, all of his "superpowers" are revealed to be coming from technological gizmos) and tries a Dramatic Unmask, except his green-goblin face happens to be his real one.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: An odd side-effect of Lazer Pony's power rendering him blind — which is also why Distracterella is attracted to him.
• Nothing Can Stop Us Now!: The Demon Lord Hexagon proudly claims "And now nothing in the world can stop me..." just after having explained how he cut the power of Good Girl's halo in half. Too bad this gives her exactly the hint she needed to counter him.
• Not What It Looks Like: Miss-stress' husband leaves her when he catches The Spank tying her up.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: LP runs into one.
  Bureaucrat: All of our policies are terrible. It brings us joy.
• Obviously Evil: "Religion"'s lawyer at Good Girl's trial is a clear stand-in for Satan.
• Oh, Crap!: Cat-A-Pult is thrilled that the bank heist went off without a hitch. Then Asstronomous swears on television that he's coming after his gang.
  Cat-A-Pult: What smells like urine?
• Oh, No... Not Again!: Multiple:
  • Poor Distracterella... also a case of What Did I Do Last Night?.
  • "Oh dear, I see young master Dodo got frozen in ice... again."
• One-Steve Limit: Multiple:
  • Present after a Corrupt Corporate Executive dumps toxic waste in a swamp.
    Reporter: Today, court continues to struggle with the biggest legal case in Shitropolis history. Where literally, hundreds of citizens are competing to trademark the name "Mosquito-Man".
  • Apparently, mixing pantheons is a bad idea.
• One-Word Title: A few comics:
  • The ones called "Consequences":
    • Strip 149, about the consequences of Cat-A-Pult and his gang's bank robbery.
    • Strip 208, about using an untested Jet Pack, and shows the need for testing.
  • "Charging", where Good Girl is making a Charged Attack or something similar.
  • "Trust", where the rest of the protagonists are trusting that Good Girl is doing something helpful.
• Only Sane Man: Todd, though unfortunately, due to living in a place like Shitropolis, he gets in trouble for it:
  • When "Xander" states that he is under psychic attack, Todd points out that he just making stupid faces
  • He points out that the technology they have that lets them go into people's minds should be used more often, as there are a lot of dangerous people in the world and knowing their secrets would be good for security, he also asks why someone else's subconscious looks just like their office building, just "darker, with some general weirdness"
  • He wonders how pointing out how a phasing incident that let you walk through walls, but not have you fall through the floor doesn't make any sense classifies as "a ''negative attitude'' and ''unprofessional'' behavior." He is immediately fired
• Other Me Annoys Me: The Keith of the main universe is The Slacker and has no respect whatsoever for the slow-witted Laser Pony. The Keiths of the other parallel universe are loyal sidekicks to the Laser Stallions and put Keith prime down for not being cool enough to be Laser Pony's sidekick.
• Our Nudity Is Different: Buckaress has such a Stripperiffic costume that she "feels naked" wearing an ordinary sweater and jeans.
• Out of Focus: After mr.Sausage was left to continue the strip on his own with most of the strips forming long storylines, many of the recurring characters from the earlier years of the strips have practically disappeared (especially due to the lack of one-off strips amidst the stories): Gyrognome, Mayor Kurgh, Distracterella to name a few.
• Oxymoronic Being: Shitropolis has licensed vigilantes, Defendress being one of them. Vigilantes, by definition, have no legal authority, so if you started licensing them, they would no longer be vigilantes.
• Painting the Medium: The characters notice when the comic switches to full color... except Lazer Pony, of course.
• Palette Swap: A speedster hero complains that a villain is using a palette-swapped version of his costume, in a parody of The Flash and Reverse Flash.
  Quickie: Dude, I'm the Quickie; you're not. You can't make your suit exactly the same as mine and just change the colors around a little. You must be the laziest supervillain ever!
• Paper-Thin Disguise:
  • While hiding out at the Redundants' place from Asstronomous and his allies, Cat-A-Pult and his gang dress up as the Redundants when the heroes knock on the door, expecting the villains to hide there because it's the last place they'd look, so they looked there first. They don't even bother removing their villain suits which they keep under their awful hero disguises. Even Cat-A-Pult's cats are disguised. On the other hand, they have better aim than Buckaress...
  • The Spank is even worse.
• Parody Sue: Mary Sue the Flying Brick. She used to date Keith but he broke up when he grew bored with how absolutely perfect she is in every way. She has flaws. Not that you'd notice... Her clumsiness reappears when Asstronomus tries to hit on her, in a Cursed with Awesome way.
• Patchwork Map: Lampshaded when they end up in a fantasy world. A snowy plane, a desert, a rainforest and an ocean, all right next to each other. Makes no sense.
• The Peeping Tom: One hero was Just in Time... but only because he'd been peeping on the victim beforehand.
• Perpetual Frowner: Flying-Fox Man sure isn't the smiling type.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Lazer Pony's eye beams have displayed a level of power that eclipses anything shown in the comic, erasing entire prison blocks, city-destroying meteors and entire invading alien armies by accident. Fortunately for the villains of the city he lives in, he is too much of a ditz to use his full might intentionally.
• Pillar of Light: A jab is taken at this trope's overuse in recent Superhero films by having a handyman comment on how common the problem is.
• Pity the Kidnapper: In one arc, Distracterella's gang manages to capture most of the heroes and leave them Bound and Gagged in the closet of their own house, and take their place there. Distracterella hears a lot of things she doesn't like both from talking to him and overhearing his conversations with Mary Sue. (She becomes jealous after hearing he has been on three dates with her, and Bad Good Girl had told him she was ugly.) Eventually after hearing too much, she decides to untie the others and tells her gang they're leaving. (Unfortunately for Lazer Pony, the others do not accept his blindness as an excuse this time.)
• Plot Armor:
  • It's an actual product, seen under Fun with Acronyms.
  • Flying-Fox Man seems to be using it as well.
• Poke the Poodle:
  • Bad Good Girl's idea of being bad is this. She's pretty rusty from lack of practice.
  • Her later efforts aren't that much better, falling under Accidental Hero for her efforts.
  • Josie, the Witch that fancies herself as Buckaress's nemesis starts the hostilities by... preventing her coffee from cooling. She then steps up the game with flying spatulas and inflicting athlete's foot.
• Police Code for Everything: After Good-Girl gets a twin (long story), she applies for a separate ID. As this is a City of Adventure, the clerk's only question was if she's the result of cloning, magic, or other.
  Good Girl: Whoa! Do you really have a form for that?
  Clerk: We are the Central Bureaucracy. We have a form for everything.
• The Pornomancer: Gyrognome gets a mother to exclaim that she's hated kids all along, just after she'd chewed him out for being a Bad Santa('s elf).
• Post-Kiss Catatonia: Distracterella's kiss is just as distracting as her looks.
• Power Incontinence: Lazer Pony sneezing, among other things.
• The Power of Friendship: Not something that exists in this setting, as discovered by a Wrong Genre Savvy would be hero.
• Power Perversion Potential: Not so much sexual perversion, but using FlashyTeleportation to make others think you've been sent to Set Right What Once Went Wrong is definitely an abuse of it.
• Powers via Possession: It is heavily implied that Good Girl's powers are drawn from angel possession.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: There's a support group for it.
• President Superhero: Mayor Kurgh is an alien warrior who actually conquered Shitropolis in an Alien Invasion, but has overall turned out to be a better mayor than the guy he replaced. One surmises a city with more supers per city block than Marvel's New York needs a super to run it properly.
• Properly Paranoid: Lazer Pony feels like Gyrognome is stalking him due to being late on his rent, saying as much to the psychiatrist, who reassures him that he's not going crazy.
• Puberty Superpower: Gyrognome's superpowers first arose at age 112. Apparently, gnomes live a long time.
• Public Domain Character: Legendary hero Achilles from The Iliad is reborn in modern times to uphold justice. To bad he's introducing himself as such, and that everybody knows about his Achilles' Heel.
• Pun: Done a lot. The Punishment tries to stop this, but his name...
• Punch Catch: Mary-Sue can catch Apocalizard's fist casually and without looking, despite the supervillain being three times her size.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Supervillainy is more of a hobby for Josie than anything. She antagonizes Buckaress out of jealousy, but isn't evil or even particularly malicious most of the time.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: OH. MY. GOD!, says Keith, after Alex cheek kisses Eva.
• Punny Name:
  • The acronym for the eponymous league: LoSRH.
  • Flying-Fox Man, the resident Batman expy. "Flying fox" is another name for a genus of bats.
• Rage Quit: When Bulk rage-quits, you can expect property damage.
• Reality Warper: Narradium is a special substance that allows its users to warp reality. The Censor, one of the supervillains that uses it, is able to erase people out of existence and create Pocket Dimensions.
• Really Gets Around: Buckaress when she was younger. "How many boyfriends have you stolen!?"
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Kurgh the Conqueror seems to be the only person able to somehow handle the awful mess that is Shitropolis.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When Good Girl's eyes turn red and her halo is removed, that means Bad Good Girl is in control.
• Reed Richards Is Useless:
  • What does the resident Doctor Strange expy do with his newly discovered Philosopher's Stone? He uses it to turn water into wine and get drunk.
  • Mister Doctor, whose powers can instantly heal anybody of anything, would rather be a superhero than a doctor.
  • At one point, a Weather Manipulation heroine is used to counter global warming.
• Relationship Sabotage: Back when Distracterella was part of the LoSRHs, Bad Good Girl told Lazer Pony that she was ugly just to screw her out of a date. Later on, Distracterella tries to ruin Mary Sue's date with LP out of jealousy, but it doesn't work.
• Religion of Evil: There is a group of cultists who worship the demon lord, Hexagon.
• Remembered Too Late: The heroes remember that they could have used the Reality Warper gauntlets to put Snob Goblin back in prison after they've already destroyed them because they thought that No Man Should Have This Power.
• Required Secondary Powers:
  • Most heroes seem to have them, with the exception of Bulk.
  • Lack of immunity to his own eye-lasers is also the reason Lazer Pony is blind.
• The Resenter: Buckaress feels like a screwup on learning that her best friend, Josie Perkins, is married to a successful man and having a baby, while Buckaress just lives off of Lazer Pony's rent money accomplishing nothing. And yet, Josie is the one who feels jealous, because Buckaress isn't weighed down by responsibilities. She proceeds to become a witch and start placing hexes on Buckaress to inconvenience and make her life miserable as "revenge".
• Right Behind Me: Being blind, Lazer Pony should be careful talking about Buckaress's boobs. Especially when she's right in front of him.
• Rouge Angles of Satin: Artwork is the forte of the strip's creators. Spelling... not so much.
• Rube Goldberg Machine: They were out of bendy straws, after all.
• Running Gag: Once in a while, a male who is not Lazer Pony claims to be immune to Distracterella's power, only to be proven wrong as soon as she actually tries to distract him. So far this has happened to:
  • Bolfman_234, who apparently created "anti-sexiness goggles" for himself and his minions, only to have them crack when he's informed of the nature of her suit.
  • And Asstronomous, who instead boasts about his willpower and manages to last one whole panel... until Distracterella removes two of her pasties.
  • Asstronomous does it twice. This time his willpower is augmented by anti-sexiness goggles. Then Distracterella leaves him catatonic with a kiss.
• Sarcasm-Blind: Exaggerated with Lazer Pony. You'd think he'd realize that a superhero named "Sarcasmo" is being sarcastic to him when he says he's a great hero solely because of Sarcasmo's name, but nope.
• Sarcasm Mode: It's a cell phone app on Alex's phone.
• Saying Too Much: The demon lord Hexagon explains that he split Good Girl in two to split her halo and make her unable to use her angelic form. The two Good Girls respond by having one give her halo to the other.
• Schizo Tech: Almost anyone can learn magic, and super advanced technology is readily available to anyone that specifically seeks it, but very few people actually understand them, and average tech levels outside of superheroing are equivelant to modern present day.
• The Scottish Trope: Flying-Fox Man is very adamant about always calling his "Crime-Solving Junior Partners" this and nothing else, and certainly never "sidekicks". Because that tends to get them killed.
• Self-Serving Memory: We get a peek into Lazer Pony's mental perception, where he imagines himself with flowing blond hair and a nice suit (while seeing Good Girl as a child).
• Semantic Superpower: Cat-a-pult can only levitate cats. It turns out this applies to any feline, including lions, tigers, cougars, and "cougars".
• Serious Business:
  • LP and a passerby get into a physical fight over whether or not there should be beans in chili.
  • In a one-off strip, a woman murdered her neighbor for stealing her pie recipe.
  • In a nearby magical world, an addictive chicken recipe somehow caused the entire world to revolve around it and nearly doom their world when a MegaCorp used it to takeover. Justified with the reveal that the batter contains coca leaves, meaning it was closer to a drug empire.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: The very first arc has Lazer Pony and Good Girl trying to stop Distracterella and Evil Savant from destroying a broadcast antenna. Lazer Pony ends up destroying it himself with his bad aim, and then it turns out that the antenna was no longer in use and was due to be taken down the following week anyway, so even if the heroes had thwarted the villains, it still wouldn't have accomplished anything.
• Ship Sinking: An In-Universe example as Bad Good Girl deliberately sabotaged Distracterella's attempts to get Lazer Pony's affection by telling him she's ugly.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: Lazer Pony and Mary Sue's relationship has hit this point at times; When Mary gets "Couples sweaters" for herself and LP, Keith, her ex-boyfriend, goes off to have a post-traumatic breakdown.
• Shout-Out: The webcomic is extremely rich in parodies and shout-outs, especially within the superhero genre. They have their own subpage.
• Show, Don't Tell: LP gets fed up with the trope after an extended conversation referencing a pamphlet he can't see.
• Sigil Spam: One minion from "Hydralisk" wonders if it's a good idea to plaster their brand all over their "secret" bases... including shaping the building itself like said symbol.
• Skirts and Ladders: In a Christmas strip, Gyrognome seems to enjoys watching Good Girl setting up the Christmas tree while climbing on a stool. Note that with his size, he probably doesn't need the ladders anyway.
• Skyward Scream:
  • Bolfman_234 makes a skyward Big "NO!" when Distracterella destroys the hard drive where he stored all the footage of Good Girl being an Innocent Fanservice Girl.
  • He lets out another one on finding out that Buckaress has switched costumes for a less revealing one.
• Smart People Play Chess: Subverted with expies of Charles Xavier and Magneto. In the midst of their discussion about humanity, "Xander" admits he has no idea how to actually play chess, while the Magneto expy doesn't even know the game's name.
• Sneeze of Doom:
  • Lazer Pony can lose control of his Eye Beams when he sneezes. The resulting property damage is impressive.
  • On the other hand, he once accidentally saved the city from a huge meteor by sneezing, so it evens out.
• Some of My Best Friends Are X:
  • Coupled with some Fantastic Racism by an alien regarding denizens of the Milky Way galaxy.
  • When Audrey is turned into a black woman temporarily, she tries to claim it's not offense because she has black friends.
• Something Only They Would Say: Played with. Lazer Pony asks Cat-a-pult (disguised as Keith) what his real name is to prove his identity. When Cat-a-pult says he doesn't know, he accepts it since that's probably what Keith would say.
• Soul-Crushing Desk Job: In one strip, a fellow Keith works with is convinced that he's stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop. Keith has to explain to him that it just feels that way because the job sucks so much.
• Spit Take: After Good Girl uses her Holy Halo on a supervillain, her mean personality takes over. When the halo suddenly comes back, she finds herself drinking alcohol and spits it all over Lazer Pony's face.
• Spit-Trail Kiss: Hard to see, but there is a spit trail after Distracterella (disguised as Good Girl) kisses Lazer Pony.
• Spot the Imposter: Done with Good Girl and an imposter in this strip. Unfortunately, the one doing the spotting]] is Lazer Pony, so when he chooses one to shoot he misses entirely and knocks a blimp out of the air.
• Springtime for Hitler: Bad Good Girl, mad at the good press her other side is getting, goes out and beats up a random happy-looking man. He turns out to be a Serial Killer, and thus, her other side is getting a medal.
• Stating the Simple Solution:
  • Hexagon splits Good Girl into two half-power Good Girls so that neither is strong enough to challenge him. Then Good Girl One gives her halo to Good Girl Two.
  • When Josie explains that she can't bring back her fantasy kingdom fortune with her because it's just fantasy fun money, Buckaress points out that it's still gold. She could just melt it down into bars and sell it easily.
• Straw Character: The authors are not fond of the American right.
  • The judge in charge of Good Girl's court trial is a conservative religious nut-case who hates liberals and holds a Kangaroo Court.
  • A far-right Conspiracy Theorist goes on an insane rant against the globalists, accusing them of being behind poor quality post-it notes and wanting to sacrifice children to inter-dimensional vampires. Said vampires have nothing to do with it.
  • Another Conspiracy Theorist suspects that all the news about superheroes and supervillians isn't real and is part of a globalist conspiracy to manipulate the public.
  • In a strip literally titled "Citizens United", a supervillain tries to take a patent out on breathing. When called on it by the patent officer, the supervillain gets him to sign on with a promise of $10 million for his super PAC.
• Strawman News Media: Cox "News", a parody of the Fox News Channel. They are implied to use Air Quotes on "News" to weasel out of the fact that they are not an actual news agency, but a partisan propaganda network used to manipulate conservatives with disinformation. When a future generation uses a time machine to call the current generation out on ruining the world, they belittle them as rude millennials and demonize liberals as jerks who want to take your money. They also suggest that corporations should have the right to vote and that poor people are not people. They are complete hypocrites who want to lower taxes but only for themselves and end free speech in the name of free speech by making themselves a monopoly. One of their political pundits even privately admits that his accusations about socialists planning to take away free speech and guns are absolute lies and expresses pride in being a liar.
• Stripperiffic:
  • Distracterella's outfit consists of three pasties and Body Paint.
  • Buckaress's original cowgirl outfit (which was actually a Halloween costume meant for a small child). She is eventually pushed into wearing something more practical.
• Super Hero Origin: Pretty much every variant happens in Shitropolis, which has the highest percentage of superheroes per capita in the country.
  • Shown for Distracterella, Good Girl, Lazer Pony, The Evil Savant, Bolfman_234, Keith, Gyrognome and Cat-A-Pult.
  • Subverted with The Cray-Crayfish Boy, who was merely driven insane from the toxins.
  • Subverted and deconstructed for this poor guy.
• Superhero Capital of the World: Shitropolis has the highest population of vigilantes in America, to the point of which every hardware store apparently sells grappling hook guns.
• Super Serum: Classified as an illegal substance.
• Super-Speed: One of Mary-Sue's numerous superpowers.
• Super Zeroes: The entire cast (save Keith, who's just The Slacker). Lazer Pony is a well-meaning but incompetent Cowardly Lion, Buckaress is a Badass Normal without the badass part (at least a first), and Good Girl is a legitimately great hero... until her halo runs out of battery, at which point she's a jerk. The other supers in town consider them D-List nobodies.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: A common form of humor from the strips. For example:
  • A Wolverine Expy once tries to cling to a wall with his claws. All that it accomplishes is deep scratch marks within the wall due to him being too heavy for his claws to support himself.
  • When the Hulk expy tries to lift something super heavy, he ends up in the ground, since it isn't strong enough to support all the weight.
  • When Lazer Pony brings in a contractor to see about getting the cave under the house turned into an official command center for the team, the contractor is horrified that there is a giant hole beneath the house and claims they are lucky their house hasn't collapsed without any foundations, before stating he'll have to call it in to get it fixed immediately.
  • When the team gets an alert about a crime in progress on their crime computer, by the time they turn up they find that the crime has long since been taken care of by one of the cities countless other heroes who got the same alert on their own crime computers.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: No, Lazer Pony, running through the living room yelling "There's no need to worry! Everything is alright!" is not reassuring.
• Swiss-Cheese Security: The Power Group's technological security is pathetic. If any of it was hooked up to the internet, some low skilled hacker would probably accidentally end the world messing with their tech.
• Take That!:
  • Oh so many. Arachnid Dude in particular lampoons some aspect of Spider-Man literally every time he appears, and Flying-Fox Man relentlessly mocks the fact that Batman has gone through multiple Robins.
  • A trio of them when Josie and her husband get pre-accepted to "fancy preschools".
    • First is Xander Charles' School for the Genetically Gifted, where Josie expresses concern over the fact that the school is targeted constantly by the "Brotherhood of Evil-Something".
    • Second is Hogsworth Academy, where not only do the students learn only magic to the exclusion of science and math, but there's an entire house filled with Wizard Nazis.
    • And last is Fancington's, a more traditional "fancy pre-school"... but with a tuition of $30,000 per year.
      Stephen: Wizard-Nazi school suddenly became more reasonable.
  • Pillars of light are so overused that they have handymen to take care of them.
• Talking to the Dead: Subverted with Flying-Fox Man. Despite being a Batman expy, his parents are not dead, and when seen talking to a grave under the rain, he is actually making a phone call with an unseen earpiece.
• Teleportation Misfire: A nutty scientist manages to use a device to teleport into the team's bathroom, when Buckaress is using it.
• Tempting Fate: Often.
  • A man claiming to be able to resist Distracterella's powers has reached the status of Running Gag.
  • Lazer Pony stating "Nothing in this universe is going to stop us from enjoying this!" about the concert he's been waiting for a whole year. Cue teleportation to another universe for a cosmic emergency.
  • One villain partakes in some Evil Gloating, prompting his assistant to call him out on this trope. Cue a superhero coming in and shutting down the device as they discussed it.
    Villain: I fail to see how that is in any way relevant to our discussion.
• Thanks for the Mammaries: One joke that happens due to LP's blindness involves this and Buckaress. (Given her expression, she wants to knock his teeth out for it, but...)
• There Are No Therapists:
  • Averted. Sarcasmo in his civilian identity is a therapist. He accurately diagnoses that Lazer Pony's biggest problem isn't his blindness but his stupidity.
  • Mayor Kurgh enacts a policy that every super should have yearly psych evaluations to determine if there are risks of them turning evil.
• They Called Me Mad!: The scientist who built a Freeze Ray to cool down his pillow.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After so long being a Butt-Monkey and getting martyred by Gyrognome, Lazer Pony gets a small, although completely involuntary, revenge on the grumpy landlord by having him slip on ice cream and land painfully.
• Title Drop: Thanks to editorial creativity from Keith.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Buckaress upgrades to a more practical outfit gets over her throwing issues and weaponizes her ability to set food on fire.
  • After performing enough good deeds, Good Girl literally levels up and acquires the ability to transform into an angel. Unfortunately, this causes her halo to run out of power faster.
  • The entire League took a level in competency over time, but especially after the fantasy world arc. They upgraded their base with an up-to-date crimefighting computer and had the fairy—elf from the fantasy world act as Mission Control. They even managed to stop a few major supervillains.
• Totally Radical: After Asstronomous' PR agent expresses his concern over his drop in popularity in the 14-25 demographic, Asstronomous uses this style and speech to try and get back their interest.
• Trade Snark: The punchline to this strip, in which hundreds of Shitropolis citizens bitten by radioactive mosquitoes were vying for the same alias.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: Played straight and joked about. Even though the lengthy transformation time isn't just artistic license, the bad guys will actually wait for such heroes to finish and won't question it.
• Trick Dialogue: With a subversion of Talking to the Dead. Flying-Fox Man being a Batman Expy, when seen talking to a grave under the rain, you'd expect his paying respect to his dead parents. Except his parents are not dead, and he is actually making a phone call to them with an unseen earpiece. (The tomb is the family dog's.)
• Tropaholics Anonymous: Good Girl joins a support group for heroes having a problem with their Pre-Asskicking One-Liner.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: While wanting to dress up as a Superhero is perfectly innocent, who the kid wants to dress as disturbs his mother. Even funnier when you realize that his dad is Phantom Ghost.
• Twisting the Words: The lawyer representing religion does this in regards to Good Girl's origin.
• Two Lines, No Waiting: Early on, the comic alternated between strips that advance a plot arc and ones that are one-shot jokes.
• Two-Timer Date: In a shot at Wolverine Publicity, the unseen "Badger Claw" is discovered to be working on two Super teams.
• Underling with an F in PR: As Mayor Kurgh is talking with a friend from his Galactic Conqueror days and claiming he's still the merciless dictator from back then, his secretary chooses that precise moment to get some paperwork signed.
  Kurgh: I rule this city with an iron fist! This place is trembling in fear under the heel of my spiked boot!
  Pamela: Mayor Kurgh? Excuse me, but I need your signature on this grant for the abandoned puppy help centre.
  Alien: "Iron fist". Riiiight...
  Kurgh: Thanks a lot, Pamela!
• Unnecessary Roughness: It's hard to have a normal football game where two thirds of the population have superpowers.
• The Unpronounceable: The news anchor, Paul Quascktranopopolisus. The one trying to introduce him quickly gives up and calls him "Paul Guy".
• Unskilled, but Strong: Lazer Pony is easily one of the most powerful supers in the comic. But his effectiveness as a hero is hamstrung by his stupidity (blindness is much less of an issue, as his parallel universe analogues show).
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Discussed by Lazer Pony, who notes that when everyone is notified of a plan, they never seem to work.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight:
  • An office building is staffed with superheroes, but Those Two Guys at the water cooler have no apparent idea despite the Paper-Thin Disguise they use.
  • Similarly, Josie's husband seems decidedly nonplussed by her decision to become a Supervillain.
    Stephen: How was your [day]?
    Josie: Interesting. I ran into an old friend from high school... and I vowed to become a powerful witch to destroy her!
    Stephen: Yeah, that sounds about right.
    • His logic later gets spelled out more clearly.
      Alex: No offense, but I think your wife might be a little insane.
      Stephen: Of course she is. She's home alone with a one-year-old every day. I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.
  • When Good Bad Girl gets duplicated and requests a separate ID for the twin, all the officials ask is for the type of incident which created the duplicate.
• Vapor Wear: Good Girl's angelic avatar apparently does not get to wear a bra.
• Verbed Title: Comic 281: "Haunted", named for ascribing flying spatulas to ghosts. Of pancakes.
• Villain Respect: Hexagon's cultists may be Good Girl's enemies, but one of them openly admires the beauty of her angel transformation and says there's no reason being on opposite sides means he can't.
• Visual Pun: Cat-a-pult's levitation powers also extend to large cats, such as lions, tigers, jaguars, and cougars.
• The Voiceless: In all his appearances, The Spank never has any dialogue. (Though having a ball-gag in your mouth helps too.)
• Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: Many strips (particularly early ones) demonstrate a limited grasp of the English language. Grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors abound.
• Well, This Is Not That Trope: Good Girl's backstory. It looks like the backstory of a villain or Anti-Hero until it abruptly switches focus to a different person entirely.
• What Did You Expect When You Named It ____?: Flying-Fox Man shouldn't be so surprised that he'd lost a lot of sidekicks... ahem... "crime-solving junior partners" when you consider that they were all named "Dodo"...
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Nearly every single power falls into this category, being either ridiculously overspecialized, extremely narrow in focus, coming with a crippling downside or just being plain stupid.
• When the Planets Align: Required for a good number of world-controlling rituals. Fortunately, there is always more than one guy who gets this kind of idea, and whenever they try it, the multiple competing rituals cancel each other out.
• Who Writes This Crap?!: Mayor Kurgh objects strongly to using the pun "Mayor Pain", asking who wrote this and demanding a new speech writer.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Lazer Pony is deathly afraid of spiders. Good thing he can't see them, because whenever clued in there is a spider around, he starts randomly firing his Eye Beams. Luckily for Arachnid Dude, he had no idea what the word "Arachnid" meant for a long while. LP as a prison guard dealt with "Spider," a super-prisoner who tried to throw his weight around, but didn't realize a hero afraid of spiders who can shoot Eye Beams you should NEVER threaten.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Done in back-to-back strips.
  • First we get Harry Potter learning the hard way that Talking Is a Free Action doesn't apply to criminals.
  • Then we get a criminal whose henchman is surprised he doesn't leave the room for the shooting.
• A Wizard Did It: Why Josie decided to specialize in magic.
  Josie: How does one successfully combine family with youthful freedom and lack of responsibilities? It would seem they are mutually exclusive. I've got it! Magic! Then it doesn't have to make sense!
• Wolverine Publicity: Wolverine-Expy "Badger Claw" is revealed as belonging to two different superhero teams, even though it shouldn't be possible as one of them operates in space, in Strip 593.
• World of Weirdness: Discussed when someone comments that the Bedlam House seemed to be housing fewer actual mental patients and more supercriminals.
  Doctor: It used to be a lot easier. Somebody comes in and claims to be Napoleon reincarnated... Diagnosis: Cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Medication and therapy. These days though, if somebody comes in and claims the same thing... I honestly couldn't tell you if they are or not. Things got real bad when the CIA accidentally leaked that tinfoil actually amplifies their mind-reading signals.
• Worth It: Buckaress beats up some douchebags◊ who slapped her ass while she was working at a Hooter-type restaurant. Their only response is "worth it".
• Worthless Yellow Rocks: When the gang is transported to another world and discover Josie created the link and deposed the legitimate ruler and installed herself queen (though she prefers to believe she created the world), she shows them a vault filled with gold coins, which she insists are worthless back home. Bucky points out it's still gold, which she could melt down into bars and sell.
  Josie: Oh. My. God. I'm rich! I mean, we weren't exactly starving, but this is yacht money.
• X-Ray Sparks: Mary Sue, with Lazer Pony in her arms, end up struck by lightning while flying. We get a very detailed picture of their skeletons as a result. Mary-Sue happens to be immune to electricity; Lazer Pony is not.
• X-Ray Vision:
  • Among a myriad of other things, X-Ray vision is one of Mary Sue's powers. It's how she met Lazer Pony, since she spotted Keith, who was hiding behind LP to get away from her.
  • Bolfman invents x-ray specs on behalf of perverts everywhere and gets a good glimpse... of a woman's skeleton. He still finds it sexy, of course.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Lazer Pony's vision (Destroyed by usage of his Eye Beams) was healed by Mr. Dr. once. LP then blinded himself trying to zap a spider.
  Mr. Dr.: That'll be fifteen thousand dollars.
• Yaoi Fangirl: Buckaress's fanfiction of the Flying-Fox Man and Heckler features them with Foe Romance Subtext and then a downright kiss.
• You Are Too Late: A villain brags that he already enacted his plan 35 minutes ago. Not much of a problem when you've got Time Travel.
• You Keep Using That Word: When it's suggested that their new team cave be called "Redundant", Lazer Pony objects that this would only make sense if they had another cave they weren't using right now. As it so happens, they do.
• Your Costume Needs Work: When the group are in a fantasy setting and Buckaress looks exactly like a stage production character in town.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: Bulk paraphrases the Trope Namer before predictably Hulking Out.
• Yuri Fan: Keith's reaction to learning that Buckaress is in a lesbian relationship is that dreams really can come true.

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