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Webcomic: Sandra and Woo

A webcomic about friendship, life and the art of (not) eating squirrels.

Sandra and Woo is a English and German-language webcomic by Oliver Kn�rzer and Powree, about the adventures of middle-schooler Sandra North and her pet talking raccoon, Woo. It's drawn in an Animesque style with some western comic stylizations, and makes use of mostly unconnected story arcs. Basically, imagine Calvin And Hobbes aged up a few years and with some more serious plot threads.

Though the story most often focuses on Sandra and Woo's misadventures, the story will, at times, turn to focus on one of Sandra's two best friends, Cloud and Larisa, or Woo's adventures with his woodland friends, Shadow the fox and Sid the squirrel.

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Provides Examples Of:

Aerith and Bob: We have believable names like Sandra and Larisa, and then we have Woo and Cloud. Justified in that Woo is a pet and Cloud was named by Final Fantasy nerds and has a sister named Yuna.
An Aesop: Quite common. Occasionally border on Anvilicious Author Tracts, but so far the comic has never failed to return to lighthearted silliness very shortly afterward.
- Green Aesop: There's an arc of them.
- Spoof Aesop: Sandra theorizes where loot from a robbery is hidden, goes searching there with Larisa, Cloud and Woo, and after finding nothing, they go home having learned a lesson about fools' errands. It's then revealed that they only failed to find it because Cloud's mother already had.
  - Not exactly. It's fairly clear when you look closer at the strip where the mother finds it, that she went in after they left (the things they'd taken apart and moved around were where the kids had left them). The kids simply failed to look past the bag filled with dirt and bugs hidden in the vent to the panel that had been beneath the bag, which is where the treasure actually was.
  - Also crops up at the end of the insulin ban storyline, where Sandra's dad gives the Incredibly Lame Pun of "ducks are bad for you," with a beer bottle in his free hand and something hand-rolled in his mouth.
Alpha Bitch: Zoey and her best friend Michelle.
Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Ye Thuza. She even joins her son's friends in making fun of him on occasion.
Amusing Injuries: Common
Animal Talk: Woo and all other animals, including Woo's friends Shadow and Sid, speak the same language, but only Woo is able to communicate with humans. However, he's not talking to anyone but Sandra since he is afraid of ending up in a laboratory otherwise.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Sandra and Cloud's favorite political slogan: "Freedom! Justice! Cookies!".
Betty and Veronica: Sandra and Larisa, respectively, with Cloud as Archie.
The Bible: Subverted, Oh No! Not the apple. Oh, the snake is fine.
Big "NO!": Richard here.
A Boy and His X: A girl and her raccoon.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: The text below this comic should give you an idea about the arc it's part of.
- A strip in tribute to Andy Warhol not only breaks the Fourth Wall, it takes a bite out of it.
Carnivore Confusion: Both averted and played straight. Woo is friendly with Shadow, a fox, and Sid, a squirrel. They regularly try to eat each other, but as the tagline says, fail. This doesn't stop Woo and Shadow from eating other woodland creatures, successfully.
- While hungry, Woo found a sole apple guarded by a snake, he prefers to eat the snake, talk about Bad Ass.
Catchphrase: Woo's "Woo!" What Woo is named after, and his common reaction to pleasant surprises.
Character Blog: Sandra has a YouTube channel, also going by her alter ego Sandy the Third, empress and supreme ruler of Northia, there.
Children Are Innocent: Defied to the point of being a recurring Aesop. Larisa, in addition to being generally vindictive, is a pyromaniac, and one strip has her, confronted with sushi, casually pull out the lighter she carries to set fires and cook it. Cloud's mother is a former Shan Child Soldier in Burma, and he frequently deals with relatives being menaced or killed by the SPCD.
Cow Tools: Parodied with this.
Crush Blush: Landon
Deadpan Snarker: Sandra, sometimes.
Deal with the Devil: Parodied in this strip as Sandra accidentally sells her soul to the devil for a glass of lemonade.
Death by Origin Story: Sid's mother, Hazel. We hardly knew ye.
Deconstructive Parody: Of the eponymous duo.
Department of Redundancy Department: Pain is painful.
Digging Yourself Deeper: Larisa grumbling.
Sandra: "Some people just shouldn't defend themselves."
Don't Ask: "What the hell?"
Eats Puppies: Ruth claims to eat wolf pups. She's already proved surprisingly adept with a gun despite being a squirrel.
Engaging Conversation: Probably. And this.
Evil Poacher: "She makes Elmer Fudd look like an animal rights activist."
Face Palm: Digging Yourself Deeper
First Kiss: After three attempts were broken up—the first by Cloud's sister and mother, the second by a soccer ball, and the third by Larisa—Sandra and Cloud got fed up and made sure nobody would interrupt them again.
- Humorously enough, both of their first kisses came from Larisa.
- Of course, Sandra doesn't count this one.
Genius Bonus: invoked Parodied mercilessly; in response to claims that the webcomic wasn't challenging enough, the two introduced a simple 4-panel strip that, to read, one would have to solve a crossword puzzle, speak a certain Malay language, carry out a series of word puzzles, and have a bit of knowledge regarding coding, ASCII, and RGB values.
Glomp: Sandra gives an epic one to Cloud after he gives her a love letter.
Go Look at the Distraction!: Look!! A talking raccoon!!! Said by a talking raccoon in front of the guy.
Goofy Print Underwear: The link for Bullying a Dragon.
Grammar Nazi: Sandra's grandma gets into trouble for correcting graffiti.
G-Rated Sex: Averted.
Happily Married:
- Cloud's parents.
- Shadow and Echo
Hypocrite/Double Standard: The principal gives Larisa an earful about drugs while smoking.
Innocent Innuendo: Subverted. After a recent adventure, Lily suggests Woo relax with "eating, sleeping and...cuddling". When they get to the "cuddling" strip, they show a tree and make it sound like Woo's having difficulty. The comic shows they're playing billiards. But then comes this:
Lily: Let�s mate once again instead. You�re infinitely better at that.
Woo: WOO!
Intellectual Animal: Shadow might be the most prominent example for this trope since he's for example able to come up with a rhyming carnivorous anthem.
Jesus Was Way Cool: Sandra thinks that Jesus was a swell guy, but she can't stand his fanboys.
Jumping the Shark: Inverted, and taken literally. invoked
Kids Prefer Boxes resp. Raccoons Prefer Bubble Wrap: Sandra gives Woo a cardboard box full of bubble wrap as a gift.
Kissing In A Tree: Yuna sings this while embarrassing Cloud and Sandra.
- Literal version implied with Woo and Lily.
  - They were doing more than kissing...
- also played with in First Kiss above: Sandra and Cloud are kissing, Larisa is in the tree.
Layman's Terms: Inverted in this strip. "These are management consultants. From IBM. They don't understand your "Technobabble"."
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: A brief gag with Cloud's parents
Limited Wardrobe: Averted: the characters obviously wear the same clothes when comics takes place sequentially, and change to hint a new day happens.
Loves Me Not: Played with here
Madness Mantra: Can't trap them, raccoon will shoot me! Can't trap them, raccoon will shoot me!
Major Injury Underreaction: The eagle here is only mildly annoyed that Woo is eating her offspring.
Matter of Life and Death: Food, necessary to maintain the art of not eating squirrels.
Medium Awareness: The characters apparently know the comic's update schedule.
Memetic Mutation: In universe, a video of Cloud taking down a thug was "more popular than free bacon." It turns out that this was all part of Larisa's Batman Gambit to help out her dad's website.
Missing Mom: Sandra's mother Julie died of an yet unknown cause two years before the comic began.
Mistaken for Junkie: Larisa, who is diabetic, is caught by a teacher when giving herself an insulin shot during recess. She's then sent to the principal who informs her that taking this "dangerous drug" violates the school's zero tolerance policy against drugs. The plot was inspired by a similar incident on a U.S. middle school in the 1990s. Start reading here.
Moment Killer:
- Soccer ball, apply directly to the forehead!
- Earlier than that with Yuna and Ye Thuza.
- Who else but Larisa?
Money Spider: Lampshaded.
Cloud: Seventeen dollars?
Mood Whiplash: Particularly where Ye Thuza is concerned. Also, this strip which reveals that Larisa's health problems may be more serious than she lets on to her friends.
Name and Name
Nerf Arm: Cloud has a wooden katana.
Never Live It Down: invoked One of Cloud's fears regarding a love letter.
Noir Episode: The Under A Killer Balloon Story Arc.
Noodle Incident: Do we really want to know how playing "Truth or Dare" with Larisa can cause psychological trauma?
Not Allowed to Grow Up: Surprisingly Averted. Granted, all the main characters have Vague Ages, but through a series of conscious Art Evolutions on the part of the author, the kids have progressively grown older. Compare the this strip from 2008 to one from 2011. Take special note of Sandra's size compared to Richard's.
P�do Hunt: Mercilessly parodied. Larisa comes to a terrifying conclusion after dressing as a pedophile for Halloween:
Larisa: Could it be that I am a pedo?
Sandra: What?
Larisa: Well, I�m totally into cute 12-year-old boys. 12-year-old boys, Sandy!!
Sandra: Totally disgusting� especially for a 12-year-old girl like you.
[...]
Larisa: You, on the other hand, seem to be solely interested in boys of your own age!
Sandra: I�m such a pervy perv.

: Larisa winds up called out for it at the school psychologist's. She misses the point of her calling-out completely..

Pirate Girl: Sandra dresses up as one for Halloween in the aforementioned strip:
Sandra: Arr, Liz, didn't you want to dress up as something extra scary for the party today?
Precision F-Strike: Done by someone less than ten.
Product Placement: Oreos, saving squirrels from being eaten since 1912.
Raging Stiffie: Poor Cloud...
- It gets worse.
Read The Fine Print: On the payment contract of the North's internet provider.
Refuge in Audacity: Get snatched by an eagle? Eat its eggs!
Rousing Speech:
- Cloud to Sandra, followed by Holding Hands, squee.
- Woo has a dream.
Running Gag: Sid is friends with Woo and Shadow which does not stop them from trying to eat him on a constant basis. And when they're not trying to eat him, their mates or other predators are.
Scenery Censor: This one, censoring Woo's thoughts with shrubbery.
Shout Out:
- Frequently to Calvin And Hobbes, and many more to video games, namely Final Fantasy. A couple even named their two younger children Cloud and Yuna after the game.
- Probably not an intentional one, but Sandra could be a dead ringer for Roll.
- Often wearing Penny's shirt, no less.
- Several characters have been seen watching Wallace & Gromit and WALL-E as well.
- Many of the posters and filer strips give to an artist, movie, television series or other comics.
- This strip is a nod to this famous Penny Arcade strip.
- A racoon named Sly and a veeery familiar looking cane.
- I am better Than both The Bologna and the Salami combined is one to the Rocko's Modern Life episode, "Wacky Delly."
Shipper on Deck: Cloud's entire family.
Spaghetti Kiss: Subverted when Woo and Lily share an earthworm, but Lily sucks it out of Woo's mouth before they kiss.
Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Would be played straight, but is avoided by the fact that the writer decided to legally give the spotlight to Cloud and Larisa instead, officially elevating them to Woo's level of focus.
Stock Animal Name: Woo is initially christened 'Rascal'. He isn't pleased.
Stuffed Into A Trashcan:
- Done to Ralph by Cloud. It was a Shout Out to Ozy And Millie where the trope was commonly abused by Jerk Jock, Jeremy.
- A sufficiently angered Sandra does this to Larisa after one biting remark too many.
Take That:
- In regards to the Show Accuracy/Toy Accuracy of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic merchandise.
- And the Genius Bonus invoked comic that required programming knowledge, understanding of a foreign language, extensive knowledge of the comic's history and comments and solving several word puzzles to figure out? All for a zinger at newspaper comic Marvin.
Talking Animal:
- Woo, Shadow, Sid and all other animals. (see Animal Talk above)
- Might just be Woo, since he can understand talk to humans.
Theme Naming: The Williams family named him and his sister after Final Fantasy characters. One is Cloud and the other is Yuna.
They Fight Crime:
- Cloud's family spends one arc doing this in superhero garb.
- Subverted. They were making a fictional video.
Through a Face Full of Fur: Lily here
Too Dumb to Live: Yes, Tom the Talking Toast. Play yourself up in front of a girl who can't decide what she wants for breakfast.
Took a Level in Badass: Woo. One year he lets two of alpha raccoon Tibor's mooks have a girl he was courting uncontested. The next year, when he courts Lily (Tibor's daughter), he runs them out of the forest.
The Unreveal: We never find out what Cloud wrote that caused Sandra to pounce on him, remove half his clothes, and beg him to marry her.
True Art Is Incomprehensible:invoked Discussed in an arc in which Sandra and Larisa spend a day at the MOMA.
Vague Age: The implication, through Art Evolution, is that they are aging in real-time, but the only certainty is that Cloud, Larisa and Sandra are, as of 2012, 12 years old.
Viewers Are Geniuses: This page takes it as a given that the reader knows why running blindly through tall grass and bushes is an unsafe idea. Unfortunately, most of those readers don't seem to go outside very often, as it went over everyone's head.
Wise Beyond Their Years: In the vein of Calvin And Hobbes, albeit further away from the family-friendly end.
Write What You Know: The writer of Sandra and Woo is very interested in raccoons and wrote several Wikipedia articles about the species.
Logical Fallacies: How is taking food about to be given to a hungry fox not your fault when said fox angrily chases you?
- Videogame characters will soon be indistinguishable from real life, therefore, we are video game characters.
  - Somewhat justified, given that it was said by a little girl.
Your MP3 Player Hates You: See here.