
- Sara Peterson: the frequent straight person to Beans and Jane, Sara wants to be a Corrupt Corporate Executive.
- Jane Doe: the funny sociopath of the group, she's often the instigator of their "wacky schemes."
- Beans Mulroney: the resident angsty artist.
- Raoul Walker: their downstairs neighbor and the true straight man. He's very smart and snarky. Also, "he hates you very much."
- Biff: a meathead fratboy.
- Catface Sara/Jane/Bean's cat
- Fucking Julie: is Sara's workplace rival.
- Genghis Khan: works at as a copy editor in Sara's Office.
- Rafael: brings the fun.
- Skeleton Warrior: likes to shout "CREEEEEEE!" a lot.
- Summer: Granola Girl friend/acquaintance of the main cast
This comic provides examples of:
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Puckish Mr. Jack
, obviating the need for plot mechanics since 1957.
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Bites Jane here
. Bites everyone else there
.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: A plague of
Strawman Politicals.
- Artistic Licence: Anatomy: Neckbones don't work that way! But it looks hilarious.
- Artistic License: Physics: Gliese 581d
is 20.4 light years away, so a round trip of 1250 years would average 0.03c, slow enough that time dilation would only save about 8 months. On the other hand an average of 0.9c would take 45 years away (=2055) and 19.6 onboard.
- As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Shibamame
.
- Author Avatar: The most likely suspect is confirmed at the bottom of this page
. A more direct self-insertion appears here
, here
and there
. A blink and you'll miss it appearance here
.
- Bad Ass Boast: Upon being asked if she's entering an illegal martial arts death match
- Black Comedy: Almost every strip. The death of main characters is played for laughs on a regular basis.
- Blood Knight: Jane, gleeful agent of chaos
in a strip in which unusually nobody dies. This is a fairly consistent element in her characterization.
- The Caper: Perpetrated
successfully by the three mains.
- Casanova Wannabe: This guy
. It doesn't end well.
- Celebrity Paradox: Weirdly averted when the cast are surprised to discover evidence of the existance of Superman
.
Sara: So... We live in a universe where Superman exists?
That is stupid but kind of comforting. - Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Jane, again as always
. Or perhaps Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Sara sometimes achieves this
.
- Cosplay: Parodied here.
- Cowboy Cop: Parodied.
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Or perhaps just your autonomy
.
- Dada Comics: Falls into this because of many, many surreal moments, including a black box that ejects severed heads of celebrities
.
- Dead Baby Comedy: With a side order of I Am A Humanitarian here
.
- Die for Our Ship: In-Universe Parody: "Hermione loves Snape!" "Hermione loves me!"
- Driven to Suicide: I guess
?
- Drunken Master: Parodied
.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Uncharacteristically, Sara is uncomfortable with profiting by selling severed human heads on eBay.
- For Jane, child human trafficing
.
- For Jane, child human trafficing
- Extreme Omnivore: Jane Doe. Actually played about as realistically as you could expect, for a Negative Continuity Gag A Day strip: she apparently gets her stomach pumped a lot. By age eight, she has had at least fifteen pumpings, the latest (at the time) being a can opener
. This didn't
stop
in childhood, either. On occasion
, it even results in death.
- For Inconvenience, Press "1" - Seen here
.
- Funetik Aksent
- He Is Not My Boyfriend: Sara here
.
- Hidden Depths:
- Sara has a weakness for poetry that she attempts to repress by any means necessary
.
- Jane, generally an Idiot Hero, once drops the word syncretic
into her usual slacker babble.
- Beans, as a complete artiste, leaves no depths unrevealed if he can help it, being more likely to have Hidden Shallows. The whole concept is visited here
.
- Sara has a weakness for poetry that she attempts to repress by any means necessary
- Homage: To many things, including family comics and Homicide: Life on the Street.
- Hurl It into the Sun: ...or the next best thing
.
- Insane Troll Logic: Sara this time
.
- It's a Wonderful Plot: For Beans
.
- Jade-Colored Glasses: Sara as Evil Over Lord.
- Jaw Drop: Jane, for the first 5 panels here
.
- Kafka Komedy
- Kill 'em All: The end of each comic frequently sees one or more characters dead.
- Le Parkour: An interest of Jane's
. It goes badly.
- Local Hangout: Coffee Snout. Many appearances, central role in this tragedy
.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Jane. More like crazy insane girl though.
- In "Nobody Scores with Pixie Chicks
", Jane resents being a trophy quirky girlfriend and decides to adopt respectability as a quirk.
- "Nerf
" ends with her date assuming her sudden inability to walk is also a quirk.
- In "Nobody Scores with Pixie Chicks
- Mary Sue: Raoul explains
the concept in-universe.
- Medium Awareness: Raoul comments on the title of the strip
.
- Monster Clown: The cast is too horribly jaded even for this
.
- Negative Continuity: Or, as the FAQ states, "There's no continuity in Nobody Scores! Unless specified by a handy sign that says "Part One" or "Part Two." So when the world gets overrun by wombats or Sara becomes a vampire or Beans dies of consumption, everything goes rewind before the next comic, exposing our beloved cast to more horrible, horrible fates. Imagine Groundhog Day without a victory condition."
- Nice Hat: Sara, who changes hats for nearly every comic. As the FAQ states, there's no continuity in Nobody Scores.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Not who you expect this time
.
- Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie: "Pirates vs. Ninjas: The Worsening
" and "Nobody Scores with Awesome
".
- Old Shame: In-universe in Open Mic Shame Night
.
- One of Us: Links to this very page
.
- Parallel Parking: Provides the page image
.
- Precision F-Strike: Sara and her nemesis Julie preface each other's names
with this.
- Rated M for Manly: A deconstruction
.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: The conclusion of this strip
.
- Retool: During one of the sporadic hiatuses he contemplated replacing the entire cast and setting. During the latest hiatus he's now just contemplating replacing the setting.
- Rhetorical Question Blunder:Sara: Do you feel safer with like Lex Luthor having a million dollars
or with that cool million resting in the bank account of this girl right here? - Rule 34: Name-checked
.
- Serious Business: Hula Hooping
.
- Sex Is Violence: Sara is enjoying this way too much
.
- Shout-Out - Several in-jokes based on Firefly and Serenity, such as in the margin notes on the bottom of these
two
comics, and the pilot's name in this comic
. Gee, I think he's a fan!
- Of course, there are other Shout Outs, such as the one here
to another cult movie, and here
to a less-cult, but still pulpy movie.
- Multiple Calvin and Hobbes references here
.
- To Lord of the Flies here
.
- To Jurassic Park for Beans
.
- To A Fish Called Wanda in the marginalia here
, and quite possibly another here
.
- To The Princess Bride here
.
- An arc referencing Street Fighter with a helping of Kill Bill starts here
.
- An homage to Pan's Labyrinth in this strip
.
- To Duck Amuck here
with a helping of TooKinkyToTorture.
- To Atlas Shrugged with a bonus of Watchmen here
.
- An homage to The Ring and Let the Right One In here
.
- To A New Hope here
with a generous side of Deconstruction.
- Jane's bookmark toolbar links to The Motley Fool
financial site and Ann Althouse
. Possibly a shared login with Sara and Beans?
- xkcd gets a shout out in the marginalia
.
- Of course, there are other Shout Outs, such as the one here
- Sinister Surveillance: The Panopticon arc
is one of the longest to date.
- Slap-Slap-Kiss: Both teased and consummated in this one
.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Observe the catastrophic results of external validation
!
- Snakes Are Sexy: Jane knows the score
. For Sara it's Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
- Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: Appear here
.
- Take That!: To FunkyWinkerbean with a helping of Medium Awareness.
- Tastes Like Diabetes: Referenced. It could happen to you
!
- Technician vs. Performer: Beans sees himself as a performer to Sara's technician in this
swordfight. It doesn't end well for him. Jane does better, through sheer insanity.
- The Fair Folk: Well, yes
.
- There Are No Therapists: Averted, but unheeded
.
- They Fight Crime!: By name
.
- This Is My Boomstick: Subverted.
- Tilt Text: Notes and doodles often appear in the margins of the strip, forcing the reader to turn their head.
- Too Dumb to Live: Everyone, it seems
.
- True Art: In-Universe Parody, most often with Beans. For example
.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Frequently, but a prize example
.
- The Vamp: Jane can quite effectively
solicit male interest. It usually ends badly for them. Sometimes she takes a more direct approach
. This also ends badly for them.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Sara and Jane. The horrors inflicted on Beans are more an afterthought.
- Woman Scorned: A two-for, for double the fun
.
- Would Hurt a Child: And that's terrible
. Realistic consequences follow.
- You Fail Logic Forever: "Trash those invalid views with classical panache!"
- Your Head Asplode: This guy
.
- Zombie Apocalypse: "She's now a newly viable member of the workforce!"