History Webcomic / NipAndTuck

%%* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Zelda calling Michael Moby out on his so-called status quo.
%%* Reality Ensues: The opening of ''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0674/ Rebel Cry]]''. Also Tuck on occasion.

* HillbillyIncest: Subverted with the "redneck rebuttals". Jeff Foxworthy jokes about inbreeding, and Tuck responds with a quip about European {{royal|Inbreeding}}ty.

* DistressedDamsel: Subverted when Thelma Possum, trapped in a lousy contract with a porn studio, becomes a professional wrestler to pay it off (surprising the heck out of poor Tuck's rescue party). Averted when Zelda Porcupine, confronted by a studio-barging Gilly Gopher, turns him into a pincushion. And lampshaded to a fare-thee-well when Tuck [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0762/ winds up rescuing overly aggressive, dyed-in-the-scales, capital-F Feminist Hortense from a guy she punched in the breadbasket]]! (She takes it with all the "grace" you'd expect, too, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0765/ something that Tuck calls her out on]].) See Values Dissonance; as noted, female characters in this strip aren't likely to be the fluttery, useless type.

** The videogame [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0602/ "Kung Fu Alien Showdown"]] is a nod to fighting games like ''VideoGame/StreetFighter''.

* FurryComic

* LoveTriangle: There '''was''' one between Zelda, Gilly, and Nip.
** TriangRelations: Either Type 4 or Type 5. Gilly has a crush on Zelda, while Zelda has a crush on Nip, and it's unsure at what point he starts to reciprocate. Ends when Nip proposes to Zelda.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: The author is more than willing to let a female character catch the brunt of a gag.

* PostNineElevenTerrorismMovie: Nip's first big break into movie business is as the star of an action movie with this motif. The director plans to cast it as a film opposing UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror; the actors learn this and shoot their own pro-war version instead.

** In strip [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0536/ 536]] Thelma beats the ever-loving tar out of a man for his sleazy attempt to trick women into starring in pornos. She destroyed multiple pieces of film equipment in the process and ends up in debt. There is also the implication she has to pay his medical bills.

* PervertRevengeMode: Deconstructed in two strips, where this proves a bad idea even if the man is a pervert.
** In strip [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0536/ 536]] Thelma beats the ever loving tar out of a man for his sleazy attempt to trick women into starring in pornos. She destroyed multiple pieces of film equipment in the process and ends up in debt. There is also the implication she has to pay his medical bills.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Ma and Pa Todd. [[PrimalScene Much to Tuck's displeasure.]]
** And then played completely straight when the boys are grown, especially between Nip and Thelma.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: A variant; in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0752/ strip #752]], Hortense apologizes for her wildly unusual behavior, in particular snatching Thelma's bathrobe away to force the possum into showing up her new bikini for Tuck, by explaining that the intense heat of the tropical Carribean sun is so different to what she's used to in Malarkey that she was effectively drunk.

* FreudianExcuse: Hortense gives one over strips #492 to #494; she's the only female lizard in all of Malarkey County, so she feels extremely insecure about her gender, because the only examples she has on what a "woman" is like comes from the mammals around her, which she's biologically incapable of emulating. She clings to an aggressively independent form of feminism in no small part to try and comfort herself in the face of this insecurity.

* HeelFaceTurn: After hearing Nip's explanation about the importance of movies presenting a realistic view of the world as much as possible, and the other actors commenting on how horribly it would hurt the people who have family in the Armed Forces, the script producer [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0599/ breaks confidentiality and reveals to them that the movie they're working on is a sleazy cashgrab of a picture hoping to cash in on the apparent market for anti-American Armed Forces sentiment]] -- [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0589/ something that made the original lead star of the movie walk out in protest]], which is how Nip got the position of star. She then works with them to help remake the movie in a more pro-military light, which helps them get off the ground as an indy movie company.

* StalkerWithACrush: When Gilly falls for Zelda after debating with her under her initially anoynmous identity as a local Malarkey county deejay (from [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0561/ strip #561 onwards]]), he becomes so obsessed with finding out who she is so he can ask her out that he breaks into the radio station to find her, unwittingly outting her identity to the whole of the county. Deconstructed in that this is an absolutely '''terrible''' idea on his part, which quite permanently torpedoes any chance he may have ever had of getting her to like him, even if they didn't have opposing political views. Most obviously, the first time he sees her after that in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0570/ strip #570]], she immediately maces him when he is foolish enough to approach her again, and [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0571/ in the next strip]] she gives him a quick TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and then ''deliberately'' jabs him with her quills, the first time she is ever seen acting that violently in the series.

*** All of that said, the writer hails from Ohio. Ohio has large lakes,swamps, tough winters, and a sizable population of proud rednecks.

* BaldWomen: Hortense, as a lizard, is naturally bald, but she sees a female poodle wig-seller who [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0580/ prefers to shave her head and wear a wig instead]]. She explains in the next strip that she does it due to the advantages in having hair styles one can literally put on and take off at will... plus, give that her options to make her gender clear to the mammals around her are wigs or breast implants, the wigs are a better bargain.

* NotSoDifferent: There was a period of comic strips early in the series' run, titled [[TakeThat Redneck Rebuttal]], that pointed out that many redneck stereotypes can also be applied to numerous Democrats, yuppies, city slickers, Hollywood elites....

* TurnTheOtherFist: Tuck gets in a Turn the Other Foot KICK [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0762/ here....]] with some rather [[RealityEnsues painful consequences]].
* UnderdogsNeverLose: Subverted during the commissioned Bandit story arc, where the plucky underdog goes up against a bully twice his height and four times his weight and [[RealityEnsues promptly gets creamed]].