History Webcomic / Oglaf

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Of course, [[http://oglaf.com/naturalcauses/ when your job is as a poison-screening taste tester]], such a quality may be good for your life but not your career.

** The adventurer Greir of [[http://www.oglaf.com/meltwater/ Meltwater]], Reward, Solstice and [[http://www.oglaf.com/ravine/ Ravine]].

* AesopAmnesia: [[http://oglaf.com/swordmaster/ Despite being told to do things piece by piece]], the Sword Master's apprentice doesn't learn his lesson even after winning a fight with it. '''[[DopeSlap SLAP!]]'''

* AllAreEqualInDeath: The god [[http://oglaf.com/sithrak/ Sithrak]] will supposedly treat everyone equally, by torturing them forever. [[spoiler:He was the equivalent of a MoodyTeen when he wrote that.]]
* AllPartOfTheShow: "[[http://oglaf.com/godoflies/ God of Lies]]" has the would-be convert ask this after things go ''really'' off-the-rails.

** The women in [[http://oglaf.com/glamazon-way/ The Glamazon Way]].

* AnimalNemesis: [[http://oglaf.com/ahoy/ This]] strip has an entire ship of obsessive hunters who are hunting the great white whale which took their legs.

** One character eventually seeks winter out to [[http://oglaf.com/retribution/ kill her for causing his parents to freeze to death]]. After failing to take her out ([[TooKinkyToTorture and her misunderstanding his intentions]]), he winds up having meeting with (and having sex with most of) the personifications of justice, enlightenment, hope, nostalgia, regret, inevitability, allegory itself, easy answers, and the [[OverlyLongGag birthday]] gibbon. Unsurprisingly, he's sick of the whole thing by the end of it.

* ArtEvolution: Compare the character art in [[http://www.oglaf.com/cumsprite/3/ one of the earliest strips]] to [[http://oglaf.com/rapunzel/3/ one not that much later]]. Notice the difference in both outlining and shading, as well as character proportions.
* ArmorIsUseless: Which is why the orc army is adopting new {{Stripperiffic}} [[http://oglaf.com/newmodelarmy/ uniform standards]].

* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler:[[CursedWithAwesome Remember that guy from]] [[http://oglaf.com/gifted/ Gifted]]? [[http://oglaf.com/gifted2/ He's that good.]]]]

** Especially if they're [[http://www.oglaf.com/ulric/ Devil Bears]] or [[http://www.oglaf.com/northerner/ Flatbears!]] (Though normal bears are [[http://www.oglaf.com/frog-3/ already]] [[http://www.oglaf.com/queenspring/ bad]] [[http://www.oglaf.com/brackenwife/ enough]].)
** [[http://oglaf.com/roughtrade/ Magical talking bear prostitutes]] ([[spoiler:They don't actually know what "prostitute" means]])

* BestHerToBedHer: [[{{Expy}} Tall Sonja]] has taken an oath not to fuck anyone who [[http://oglaf.com/savage-sleep/ has not defeated her in combat.]] Someone asks her if she has to beat herself up to masturbate. Unfortunately, her oath extends to pretty much ''everything''.

** "[[http://oglaf.com/husbandry Husbandry]]" treats this rather matter-of-factly.

** "[[http://oglaf.com/notches/ So I will seduce... the crocodile!]]"

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Just when you begin to think Mistress rules through nothing more than sexual deviance, odd devices, and a lot of willing retainers, [[http://www.oglaf.com/undercroft/1/ this happens]].

* BigNo: Believers in [[GodIsEvil Sithrak]] have good reason to [[http://oglaf.com/outreach/ take deaths especially hard]]. [[spoiler:Only not really.]]

* BlackComedy: [[http://oglaf.com/chirpnmutter/ What happens when a necromancer poses as a priest...]]

** Perhaps ''the'' most literal example [[http://oglaf.com/gifted/ we'll ever find]] -- a man "cursed" to be the world's best at blowjobs. The comic's world being what it is, his talent is exactly what's needed to defeat an enemy champion in single combat, repel the invading army, and become king.

* CannotKeepASecret: [[http://oglaf.com/undercroft/ Used]] as a SpoofAesop.

** Ivan [[http://www.oglaf.com/cumsprite/5/ isn't even allowed to masturbate]], lest he get in trouble. He did find a way around it, though.

** Parodied in "[[http://oglaf.com/breastplate/ Breastplate]]." Note the chest armor of the scowling woman beside him averts this trope.
** Played straight in "[[http://oglaf.com/glamazon-way/ The Glamazon Way]]."

** Treated as the logical conclusion of ArmorIsUseless in "[[http://oglaf.com/newmodelarmy/ New Model Army]]"...[[FanDisservice by a tribe of orcs]].
** Shows up as a part of "[[http://oglaf.com/scroll-work/ Scroll Work]]" at the last panel. It's worn by a man, in a group implied to be others who [[TakeThat mistake "facile contrariness with no actual point to make" for irony]].

* ClusterFBomb: [[http://www.oglaf.com/stalker/2/ Fucking fuckers.]] (Safe aside from the bombs.) This and building ridiculous sex toys is pretty much all the dwarves in the strip do.

* CombatStilettos: Gender-inverted in "[[http://oglaf.com/plumes/ Plumes]]".

* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Played for laughs in "[[http://oglaf.com/goldensongbird/2/ The Golden Songbird]]"; the more idealistic brother Tristam runs off with the Talking Fox to find the Golden Songbird, while the cynical brother Thessaly sulks at the ridiculousness of it all. Naturally, Tristam comes back with the bird, is greeted as a hero and wins his father's favour. Thessaly, annoyed at the smug fox, goes out and buys a pack of hounds.

** In [[http://oglaf.com/exhale/ "Exhale"]] a man is tied to a torture rack... that contorts a person into yoga positions.

* CosmicPlaything: All of the soldiers of the Mistress's guard and the Mistress herself love torturing Ivan. One of the guards then starts to talk about how she finds him cute and decides to have sex with him. [[http://oglaf.com/shaft/epilogue/ She is killed by the Arrow of Regret shortly after she proclaims that.]]
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In "[[http://oglaf.com/godoflies/ God of Lies]]", after a puppet show by the Sithrak cultists gone OffTheRails that turns out to be a ScoobyDooHoax by the homeowner to avoid talking to them, one of the cultists points out he could have just pretended to not be home.

** [[http://www.oglaf.com/chasm/ This guy]], although he probably shouldn't have revealed it.

* CryingWolf: [[http://www.oglaf.com/wolf/ The wolf got him]].

** In "[[http://www.oglaf.com/gifted "Gifted,"]] a man is cursed to give the best fellatio in the world. If he uses his talent, he'll just be "the blowjob guy"; if he doesn't, [[MortonsFork he'll have to live with the knowledge that he has an awesome talent just going to waste]]. Come "Gifted 2" and it turns out that being "Blowjob Guy" isn't so bad when you're [[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning King Blowjob Guy]].

* CuteIsEvil: The theory behind this is [[TakeThat mocked ruthlessly]] in "[[http://oglaf.com/scroll-work/ Scroll Work]]".

* CuteLittleFangs: [[http://www.oglaf.com/nightfall/ Navaan]]. Her friends also have them, though "cute" may be stretching it a bit when paired with {{Slasher Smile}}s...

%%* TheCutie: The Snow Queen. Especially [[http://www.oglaf.com/justice here]].
%%* DeadlyDisc: [[http://oglaf.com/glamazon-way/ The Throwing Anus]] (SFW, as it's just [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Xena's]] chakram).

** Of CryingWolf, [[http://oglaf.com/wolf as seen]] on the trope page. If you prank someone with false danger then mock them to their faces, they may react worse than just not falling for it the next time.
** Of the AndroclesLion, [[http://www.oglaf.com/kindlyhunter specifically, the Kindly Hunter variation]]. You gotta eat sometime.

* DidntSeeThatComing: [[http://oglaf.com/failsafe Nobody expects the labyrinth's guardian to escape.]]

* DopeSlap: [[http://oglaf.com/swordmaster The Sword Master.]] [[AltText "He's also a bit of a slapmaster."]] He returns in the "Punching above Your Weight" story... and he, [[RunningGag of course]], {{Dope Slap}}s his apprentice again in it.

* EarWorm: {{Exploited|Trope}} in "[[http://www.oglaf.com/lute/ Lute]]". Vanka and a cohort encounter a bard who claims he possesses the "power of song" and sings a ditty to them before being killed. The last panel, at some point later on, has Vanka saying "I can't get that fucking song out of my head!" while her cohort has a pained expression on his face.

** [[http://oglaf.com/blanket It's only a nameless horror until you name it]].

* EmotionEater: "With Sympathy" introduces a wraith-thing that [[http://oglaf.com/withsympathy/ feeds on fear]]. [[spoiler:Notably because it ''actually eats their fear'', the victim is left a FearlessFool and he's eaten by a crocodile.]] The being notes it should feel bad about this, but doesn't, because another being feeds on regret.

* EnfantTerrible: That is one badass [[http://oglaf.com/son-of-kronar/2/ baby]].

* EpicFail: "[[http://oglaf.com/bilge/ Bilge]]": A village builds their own boat to take revenge on the Viking raiders who destroyed them before. Unfortunately, the [[OnlySaneMan leader of the village]] points out that they have no actual experience in shipbuilding, so the result is a comedically dismal failure. Taking the resulting "craft" in the water fails so badly that (somehow) the boat catches fire all on its own without the Vikings doing anything.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[http://oglaf.com/shark No, my powers work on good people too.]]
* EvilDetectingDog: [[http://oglaf.com/heel/ Parodied in "Heel".]] [[FaceHeelTurn Unfortunately, he started using his powers for evil.]]

** [[http://www.oglaf.com/rapunzel/3/ The Mistress doesn't specify what she's saying no to.]]
** [[http://oglaf.com/banthram/ The Banthram]] utilizes this expertly to get a curse lifted.

* ExtremeOmniGoat: [[http://oglaf.com/catsuit/ They'll even eat catsuits.]]

* EyeBeams: [[http://www.oglaf.com/badfalcon/ The Mistress's falcon.]]

** "The Cleansing" sees some [[FairySexy sexy pixies]] giving a guy an erotic facial cleansing. Unfortunately he has to be tied down for the safety of the pixies, so can't stop them when one of them squeezes soap suds directly into his eye, turning it painfully red.

** Played with in the strips dedicated to [[UsefulNotes/JuanPonceDeLeon Ponce de Leon]]'s search for said fountain with his dowdy assistant. They eventually do find a magical fountain, only to realize too late it's actually [[spoiler:[[http://www.oglaf.com/fountain-of-girl/1/ the Fountain of Girl]]. Well, at least they were young that way too..]].
** There might also be a [[http://www.oglaf.com/fountain-of-doubt/ Fountain of Doubt]], though they're not sure.
** Then there's the [[http://www.oglaf.com/fountain-of-death/ Fountain Of Death]]... er, I mean, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Fountain Of Water So Delicious, Even Dead People Want It]].
* FridgeBrilliance: An in-universe example from [[http://www.oglaf.com/deincarnation/5/ Greir in this strip]]. [[spoiler:"It Takes a Fake Death to kill a fake god. And you figured it out." ]] This moment is subverted soon afterward, however.

** The wizard in "Cornwalling", and also the effect of the [[http://www.oglaf.com/fountain-of-girl Fountain of Girl]].

* GeniusDitz: Navaan. She is perceptive enough to notice things such as [[http://www.oglaf.com/grill/2/ disguised statues]] and is even able to understand specifically how to deal with a severed immortal's head without lungs despite believing that the function of a doctor is to "solve mysteries."

* GetOut: [[http://www.oglaf.com/potion/ The potion seller]].

* {{Glamour}}: Deconstructed [[http://oglaf.com/unattainable here]].

* GoneHorriblyRight: Only for [[http://oglaf.com/chronotherapy/ the wizard]]--he went back in time to cure a plague, but because he'd done so, the reward he'd been offered was never in place to begin with.
** And an army besieges an elven castle, threatening to launch [[http://oglaf.com/siege/ barrels of cursed waste]] at them unless they surrender. It goes as well as one might expect.

* TheGoodKing: King Blowjob. He rules over a "peaceful fellatiocracy," throws himself without hesitation on a sexually-frustrated man in the middle of a "cock rampage," and spares no effort to free the man from his condition when he realizes a curse is behind it.

* HatesEveryoneEqually: According to his followers, [[http://oglaf.com/sithrak/ Sithrak]], the god who tortures ''everyone'' forever after they die, regardless if they're good or evil. [[spoiler:He wrote that when he was very angry and is surprised to learn that anyone still reads it.]]

** The armorer in "Breastplate". He makes [[http://www.oglaf.com/breastplate/ really good armor]], though.

* AnIcePerson: The Snow Queen seems to be a personification of winter, or to be tied directly to the season itself, as satisfying her sexually is apparently necessary to bring winter to a close. The problem is that her body is so cold that trying to be intimate with her carries ''serious'' risks as if one was trying to be intimate with a block of actual ice. She is nonetheless an adorably kind and considerate person, always polite and genuinely terribly sorry when one of her pretendants gets wounded. Also, [[http://oglaf.com/justice/ her reaction to being assaulted and repeatedly stabbed]] is to assume it's foreplay and apologize for not getting into it.

* IKnowYourTrueName: Because I've just changed it. That's the power of appellomancers, name wizards: they change someone's name and consequently [[http://www.oglaf.com/branding/ their nature]].

** Eating the world's most beautiful woman does not [[http://www.oglaf.com/notches make a crocodile]] the world's most beautiful woman.

* IWasQuiteALooker: Subverted in "[[http://www.oglaf.com/fountain-of-girl Fountain of Girl]]."

** [[http://oglaf.com/sithrak/ If the sacred texts of the cult of Sithrak the Gibberer are to be believed,]] Sithrak is downright [[GodIsEvil Evil]]. Then one of them dies, and it turns out that [[spoiler:[[http://oglaf.com/outreach/2/ Sithrak was just going through a phase when he wrote that stuff.]] However, the fact that he left his sadistic adolescent {{wangst}} lying around with the status of holy writ does make him a bit of a jerkass, though in his defense, he didn't think anyone was still reading it. He even revives one of his followers, asking him to clear up the misunderstanding. Unfortunately [[ComicallyMissingThePoint it doesn't work]].]]

* JustLikeRobinHood: Parodied [[http://www.oglaf.com/relief/ here]]. He steals from the rich, all right, and he ''kinda'' gives it to the poor, but his methods of distribution are a bit... self-serving.
* JustSoStory: [[http://oglaf.com/justso/ This wide-eyed youth seems fond of telling them.]] Referenced by both the comic title, "Just So," and the AltText which gives his name as Rudyard.

* LeaveNoSurvivors: Kronar [[PlayingWithATrope plays with]] this [[http://www.oglaf.com/survivor here.]] Unfortunately, he cannot quite seem to get the terror of it right.
* LeotardOfPower: Shows up on occasion with [[http://oglaf.com/specialty-breeds/ Hysenforth]], in addition to the [[{{Stripperific}} skimpier version.]]
* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: There are two editions of "Book One": the regular edition, and a [[http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=OG-BOOK01&Category_Code=OG signed edition]] with a hand-drawn bookplate inside the front cover featuring the character of your choice. The signed edition costs $10 extra and actually is so popular that extra character options have been added over time and often end up sold out.

* LittleMissBadass: Kronar's [[http://www.oglaf.com/son-of-kronar/2/ "son"]].

** The strip [[http://oglaf.com/assorted-fruits/ "Assorted Fruits of Wrath"]] has a crusading army get blown away by its own god for violating a scriptural law about not opening the wrong end of a banana (no mention of which end that is).
** In the strip [[http://oglaf.com/dont/ "Don't"]], the town magistrate has to explain to the townsfolk that all the new signs forbidding things like "sex during thunderstorms" and "trimming your beard" aren't loony ''laws'', but loony ''curses''. The community spectre they're stuck with is a spiteful sort.

** The LoveAtFirstSight variety [[http://www.oglaf.com/potion/ at its most literal]].

* ALoveToDismember: [[http://oglaf.com/salome/1/ Salome]] is still at it apparently.

*** [[spoiler:[[http://oglaf.com/salome/epilogue/ Oh really]]...?]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[http://oglaf.com/descent/ Weaponized,]] sort of.

* ManlyTears: Kronar, [[http://www.oglaf.com/son-of-kronar/2/ after seeing his "son" tear apart the wolves in the pit she was thrown into.]]
* TheManTheyCouldntHang: [[http://oglaf.com/fullthrottle/ "Full Throttle"]] provides the current page image.

** In "[[http://www.oglaf.com/gifted "Gifted,"]] a man is cursed to give the best fellatio in the world. If he uses his talent, he'll just be "the blowjob guy"; if he doesn't, he'll have to live with the knowledge that he has an awesome talent just going to waste. The spirit is proven right when the man tries to say he is now a world champion at something, only to remember what the spirit said and sadly say "nothing". [[spoiler:And later subverted when he finally uses it and becomes ''King'' Blowjob Guy.]]

* NoManOfWomanBorn: The leader of the Fun Cult says that the cult will prosper as long as their temple still stands. [[spoiler:[[http://oglaf.com/deincarnation/5/ Greir burns it down.]]]]

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Ivan throwing the [[spoiler:[[http://oglaf.com/shaft/3/ Lizard of Guilt out of the tower.]] [[http://oglaf.com/shaft/4/ Ivan blames gravity for the murder.]]]]

* ObliviouslyEvil: [[http://oglaf.com/gorek/ Gorek the Magnanimous]] goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, becomes an EvilOverlord ruling from a skull-shaped fortress, and declares a Reign of Blood, without at any point realising that he's not a good guy.
* ObsessiveLoveLetter: The Apprentice [[http://oglaf.com/secret-admirer/1/ started receiving odd love letters]] from anonymous sources, who in some cases weren't even sure of his gender. The notes quickly got [[http://oglaf.com/secret-admirer/2/ rather more ridiculous]].

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: [[http://oglaf.com/salome Salome]] and the severed head. She is distinctly unhappy about this.

* PerpSweating: With a [[CueTheSun sunbeam]]. Of course, when the "perp" has [[KryptoniteFactor dire reason to avoid]] sunlight, [[http://www.oglaf.com/grill this is more threatening than usual]].
* PerverseSexualLust: [[{{InUniverse}} He's using]] that potion [[http://www.oglaf.com/potion/ wrong.]]

* PlagueDoctor: [[http://oglaf.com/jarlampham Navaan.]]

* ThePollyanna: An adventurer named [[IronicName Umbra Wynterdarque]] becomes one thanks to a Ring of Optimism. [[http://oglaf.com/umbra/ Highlights]] include him thinking a wand that killed a fellow adventurer was just a "wand of faking your own death."

** Discussed in [[http://oglaf.com/fully-fleshed/ "Fully Fleshed"]] and "A Likely Story".

* PrecisionFStrike: Although the comic is loaded with swearing, one particularly precise example appears in the punchline of "[[http://oglaf.com/alsoelves/ Also, Elves]]."

* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: A young version in [[http://oglaf.com/princessparty/ "Princess Party"]]. She wants the same things many little girls want; playing with animals at petting zoos, candy, et cetera. She gets those things by leading troops into battle to take them by force of arms. [[spoiler:Her rival also qualifies.]]

** In addition to the hanging in "Full Throttle" above, a bard is [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] for a series of murders in "[[http://oglaf.com/noregrets/ No Regrets]]". He rematerializes behind his own headless corpse, much to the headsman's confusion.

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: It [[http://oglaf.com/throne-heaven/ works pretty well]] if [[spoiler:you arrange to be buried with terra cotta soldiers]].
* RageQuit: [[http://oglaf.com/automaton/ The Automaton]], a chess-playing golem.

** Happens in "[[http://oglaf.com/evensong/ Evensong]]", where a monk prays to God to answer this prayer by not answering this prayer.

** Vanka and Greir, [[http://www.oglaf.com/roguearsenal/ respectively]].

** [[http://oglaf.com/hoopla/3/ Greir assumes some jesters are part of a cult.]] [[spoiler:It turns out that they are, but it isn't revealed until later. [[http://oglaf.com/deincarnation/5/ It's even described as one at the end of the story.]]]]

* RippleEffectProofMemory: The "[[http://oglaf.com/chronotherapy/ Chronotherapist]]" goes back in time to cure a plague before it starts, and then tries to claim the StandardHeroReward. The queen, naturally, doesn't know what plague he's talking about. [[PitySex Out of pity]] he's offered a downgrade to "a handjob and a hot meal".

* ScheherezadeGambit: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. [[http://www.oglaf.com/scheherazade Apparently, if you leave the Sultan in suspense, he might do the same to you.]]

** Subverted in "[[http://www.oglaf.com/bluedoor/ Blue Door]]" and "Book of Love". Played straight and lampshaded in "Glove". It should be noted that the schmuck in all three examples is the same guy, although he only falls for it the third time, and even then, he was pretty sure it was a trap from the start.
** In "[[http://oglaf.com/trapmaster/ Lair of the Trapmaster"]], the explorers find themselves in [[EmptyRoomPsych an empty room]] with nothing but the word "Overthinking" painted on the wall. They stay there the rest of the strip wondering what it means. (Subverted? Played straight? Who knows.)
* ScienceIsBad: [[http://www.oglaf.com/tool/1/ Parodied]] by a now-overheating passerby due to dwarves inventing a cold-proof vibrator for the Snow Queen. "Yeah, spring used to mean something before technology ruined the world." This involves a BrickJoke: said passerby appears to be Ari, who had previously tried and failed to satisfy the Snow Queen in "Snowbound". Given that he [[spoiler:lost his cock to frostbite]] in the attempt, it's little wonder he'd be bitter about how easy it's become.
* ScoobyDooHoax: The two cultists of Sithrak [[http://oglaf.com/godoflies/ put on a puppet show]] while spreading the word about Sithrak, which goes OffTheRails when one of the puppets seemingly comes to life and attacks them. [[spoiler: Turns out it was the homeowner, who just wanted to avoid talking to them.]]

* ScrewDestiny: Apparently, you can't fight destiny... unless it's your destiny to fight destiny. When you try to fight fighting destiny by ''not'' fighting destiny... [[http://oglaf.com/sooth you get a knife in the throat from a pissed-off seer]].

* ScrubbingOffTheTrauma: In "[[https://www.oglaf.com/shaft/ Shaft]]", Ivan accidentally kills several guards and a monster the Mistress really liked with the Arrow of Regret. He gets the monster's blood on his hands throwing its corpse out the window, and can't get it to wash off no matter how much he tries, as the Lizard of Guilt reminds him.

* SeductiveMummy: Parodied in [[http://oglaf.com/yummymummies/ this]] strip, featuring a group of decaying, decrepit mummies posing provocatively and spouting bad pick-up lines.

* SerialEscalation: InUniverse in [[http://www.oglaf.com/beot this comic]]. Two warriors in a bar make {{Badass Boast}}s on how they will defeat a monster while handicapping themselves, each one more outrageous than the last. [[spoiler:It gets to the point that the monster arrives to terrorize the bar and finds everyone inside dead from cutting themselves and everyone else apart to fulfill their bravado.]]

* ShapeshifterBaggage: Examined in [[http://oglaf.com/weepingwoods/ "Weeping Woods"]].

* SingleTear: [[http://oglaf.com/goodbehavior/2/ A guard]], enduring Vanka and another woman (who is now a recurring character) in a cell crudely mocking him.

* SkullCups: {{Parodied}} in [[http://oglaf.com/skulls/ "Skulls!"]], which provides the page picture. A barbarian king demands wine in the skull of an enemy. The wine runs out the eye holes so he commands his men to find him an enemy with no eyes. [[spoiler:They find some kind of giant worm ... which turns out not to have a skull.]]

* SnakeTalk: The inhuman staff of the infirmary at the Mistress' castle [[http://www.oglaf.com/infffirmary/ speak]] [[http://www.oglaf.com/infffirmary/epilogue/ like]] [[http://www.oglaf.com/stalker/2/ this]].
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: A GaussianGirl finds [[{{Glamour}} her newfound beauty]] is [[BlessedWithSuck not all it's cracked up]] to be when [[http://www.oglaf.com/unattainable no suitor considers himself worthy of her beauty]].

* SpareAMessenger: Played with in "[[http://www.oglaf.com/survivor Survivor]]". First, Kronar murders everyone in a village except one guy and tells him to spread the word about his power. The guy proceeds to boast to the people in a bar that Kronar has gone soft since he let him live. When they laugh, Kronar bursts in menacingly. All of them hurriedly claim that they would make the best messenger because they'd write the greatest songs or so forth. Kronar decides that they will display their talents and he will choose the best. One of the guys snickers at the idea that Kronar is holding a talent contest. Kronar finally snaps. Cut to two men looking at the smoking and destroyed pub from outside:

* StartMyOwn: After Robin Hood refuses to rebrand the Merry Men as "the Pussy Gang", the pussy-obsessed woman he's attempting to rob declares she's going to start her own Pussy Gang and show him up. [[http://oglaf.com/merrymen/ She succeeds.]]

** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with the Chronoturge in "[[http://oglaf.com/erstwhile/ Erstwhile]]". Her outfit is quite modest above the waist, but her skirt has big slits in it, showing her thighs.

* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: The main character in "[[http://oglaf.com/double-blind/ Double Blind]]" is going from oracle to oracle, simply asking them what he has in a sealed envelope and rating the resulting answers so other wisdom-seekers can decide what oracle is right for them.

* TarotTroubles: Parodied in "[[http://oglaf.com/cartomancy/ Cartomancy]]", in which the reader has removed every card except 'Death' and 'The Lovers' in an effort to make her readings more dramatic. "In a portentous moment, you don't want to draw 'Three of Cups' or something." [[spoiler:Naturally, [[BeyondTheImpossible he draws the three of cups]]. So the reader gives him three cups, and pretty much says she more or less uses this minimalist deck to get laid.]]

** [[http://oglaf.com/mistertique/2/ Mistertique]] is a GenderFlip.

* ThereWasADoor: Mistress' guards [[http://oglaf.com/stealth-kill/ leave the gate open]] just to screw with assassins who are overly fond of LeParkour.

** In ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20171202163701/http://oglaf.com/abyss/1/ The Abyss]]''.
** Also, the [[http://oglaf.com/heel/ Evil-Detecting Dog]] blackmails criminals to look the other way.

** [[http://oglaf.com/skein The guy that slew the minotaur]] had some... odd ideas about how the ball of yarn would help him escape the labyrinth.

** The deer-girl in "[[http://oglaf.com/flanks/ Quivering Flanks]]" only has sex after running herself to exhaustion, and the hunter suggesting increasingly-serious injuries does nothing but turn her on more. It ends with [[spoiler:her falling off a cliff and breaking her leg, but wants to have sex over having her compound fracture treated]].

* TortureTechnician: [[http://www.oglaf.com/transgression A pair of them]], each [[InLoveWithYourCarnage In Love With Each Other's Transgression]].
* TotemPoleTrench: A tournament is won by a bunch of babies in a suit of armour in "[[http://oglaf.com/bascinet/ Bascinet]]".

* TrickingTheShapeshifter: [[http://www.oglaf.com/kingshaped/ Whoops.]]

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: [[invoked]]Mistertique and the Cougar Queen have an argument along these lines regarding "[[http://oglaf.com/trammels/ the secret of [his] man-pants!]]"

* UnflinchingWalk: Greir, Navaan, and [[ThoseTwoGuys the monks]] pull [[http://www.oglaf.com/deincarnation/5/ one of these]] off [[spoiler:after torching the temple of fun]].

* UnsoundEffect: [[http://oglaf.com/swordmaster The Sword Master's]] DopeSlap is appropriately sound effected with '''SLAP!'''

** What do you ''mean'' you don't get the joke in "[[http://oglaf.com/salome Salome]]?" How did you not know that the biblical Salome's dance convinced Herod to behead John the Baptist and that in Creator/OscarWilde's [[{{Theatre/Salome}} adaptation of the story]] she kisses his severed head?

** Also a BrickJoke from [[http://www.oglaf.com/infffirmary/ earlier in the arc]].

* WhatHaveIBecome: Used word-for-word as the punchline of "[[http://oglaf.com/abyss The Abyss]]."

** The second time [[http://oglaf.com/blanket Mistress deliberately invokes it]].

* YouCantFightFate: [[http://oglaf.com/sooth Or can you?]]
* YoungConqueror: Played for laughs in [[http://oglaf.com/princessparty/ "Princess Party"]] when a little princess is given an army for her birthday, which she then uses to go on a campaign of conquest against a candy factory. Then her army is besieged by the forces belonging to a different princess, and she starts wishing for an assassin on her next birthday.

** Inverted in "[[http://oglaf.com/ravine/ Ravine]]". Greir is not amused.

* YouWontFeelAThing: A [[http://oglaf.com/stalker/2/ favorite]] "[[BlatantLies promise]]" of the Nurses.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When the boy who cried wolf tells the angry crowd, that it was just a prank one of the villagers just shoots him dead and makes a shady agreement with the rest of the villagers that the boy was killed by a wolf.

* StraightMan: The King from "[[https://www.oglaf.com/chasm/ A Very Deep Canyon]]" reacts to the "blaggards," [[https://www.oglaf.com/delusionist/ hucksters]] and [[https://www.oglaf.com/labyrinth/ insane people]] who seem to populate his corner of the world in exactly the way a levelheaded person who happens to have monarchical powers would (i.e. with a lot of stinkeye and very little patience).

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The strip ''[[https://www.oglaf.com/better-angels/ Better Angels]]'' has a man being hit with the existential dread of his inevitable death. A shoulder angel shows up and points out that the world of oglaf has explicitly proven afterlives, so the dread is meaningless; no one dies, they just go somewhere else.

* InstantTurnOff: The Bard singing an ode to hot people, then asking the people in question, what is it like to be that hot. When one of them remarks it's a lot of work, the Bard's response is just "Fuck that then."

** In "This Could Happen," the disciples of Sithrak go proselytizing: "God hates us unreservedly!" "So why shouldn't a woman in a blonde wig fuck a door-to-door evangelist in front of his dorky friend?" (The comic's world being what it is, they actually get some takers!...not quite like how they imagined, but they rolled with it. Until some guy wanted them all to be tied to the post while watching two dogs have sex with the blonde wig on the bitch)

* UnusualEuphemism: The Immaculate City's inhabitants have curious notions of what sexual terms exist, and what the real ones actually mean.

* GenderBender: The wizard in "Cornwalling", and also the effect of the [[http://www.oglaf.com/fountain-of-girl Fountain of Girl]]. The nerds in "Babes of the Abyss" had this as the price they paid for getting to sleep with sexy devil girls -- [[DemonOfHumanOrigin becoming a sexy devil girl themselves]]. None of them seem that broken up about it, or maybe they just got used to it.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The strip ''[[https://www.oglaf.com/better-angels/ Better Angels]]'' has a man being hit with the existential dread of his inevitable death. A shoulder angel shows up and points out that the world of oglaf has explicitly proven afterlives, so the dread is meaningless.

** Of CryingWolf, [[http://oglaf.com/wolf as seen]] on the trope page.
** Of the AndroclesLion, [[http://www.oglaf.com/kindlyhunter specifically, the Kindly Hunter variation]].

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In [[http://oglaf.com/godoflies/ God of Lies]], after a puppet show by the Sithrak cultists gone OffTheRails that turns out to be a ScoobyDooHoax by the homeowner to avoid talking to them, one of the cultists points out he could have just pretended to not be home.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: Discussed in "[[https://www.oglaf.com/dancingblade/ Dancing Blade]]." The curse of the blade is that it will make the wielder useful, and a useful person will be asked by everyone to help them in their time of need.

* EpicFail: "[[http://oglaf.dreamhosters.com/bilge/ Bilge]]": A village builds their own boat to take revenge on the Viking raiders who destroyed them before. Unfortunately, the [[OnlySaneMan leader of the village]] points out that they have no actual experience in shipbuilding, so the result is a comedically dismal failure. Taking the resulting "craft" in the water fails so badly that (somehow) the boat catches fire all on its own without the Vikings doing anything.