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** You'd be shocked to learn that Krazy Kat was actually written to be gender-fluid (or at least what it qualifies as now), as confirmed by WordOfGod. Especially so when you consider that the strip was created in ''1913''. While they are presented as a bit of a [[TheKlutz klutz]] and their relationship with Ignatz [[RomanticizedAbuse isn't exactly healthy]], they're never shamed or mocked for their gender identity in any way.

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** You'd be shocked to learn that Krazy Kat was actually written to be gender-fluid (or at least what it qualifies as now), nowadays), as confirmed by WordOfGod. Especially so when you consider that the strip was created in ''1913''. While they are presented as a bit of a [[TheKlutz klutz]] and their relationship with Ignatz [[RomanticizedAbuse isn't exactly healthy]], they're never shamed or mocked for their gender identity in any way.

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* FairForItsDay: Yes, the Mock Duck speaks with a stereotypical Chinese accent and has a stereotypical job. However, in an era when YellowPeril was a common trope, he was an honest bird ''and'' a respected citizen in the community. In fact, the YellowPeril trope is subverted when Ignatz overhears the Mock Duck talking with other Chinese ducks, assumes they're up to no good, and wants in. Turns out it's all clean, honest, and above board.

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** You'd be shocked to learn that Krazy Kat was actually written to be gender-fluid (or at least what it qualifies as now), as confirmed by WordOfGod. Especially so when you consider that the strip was created in ''1913''. While they are presented as a bit of a [[TheKlutz klutz]] and their relationship with Ignatz [[RomanticizedAbuse isn't exactly healthy]], they're never shamed or mocked for their gender identity in any way.
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Yes, the Mock Duck speaks with a stereotypical Chinese accent and has a stereotypical job. However, in an era when YellowPeril was a common trope, he was an honest bird ''and'' a respected citizen in the community. In fact, the YellowPeril trope is subverted when Ignatz overhears the Mock Duck talking with other Chinese ducks, assumes they're up to no good, and wants in. Turns out it's all clean, honest, and above board.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: It can be hard for comic fans who aren't also art or history students to appreciate how formative the strip was to newspaper comics as a medium, by sheer dint of being one of the ''first''.

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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: OnceOriginalNowCommon: It can be hard for comic fans who aren't also art or history students to appreciate how formative the strip was to newspaper comics as a medium, by sheer dint of being one of the ''first''.
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True Art Is Incomprehensible is now an in-universe trope as per TRS.


* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Considering how alienating the strip is, and yet how art critics think this strip is one of the few to achieve an artistic aesthetic (others being ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', and ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'').
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Considering how alienating the strip is, and yet how art critics think this strip is one of the few to achieve an artistic aesthetic (others being ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', and ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Kalvin and Hobbes'').

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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Considering how alienating the strip is, and yet how art critics think this strip is one of the few to achieve an artistic aesthetic (others being ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', and ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Kalvin and Hobbes'').''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'').
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Considering how alienating the strip is, and yet how art critics think this strip is one of the few to achieve an artistic aesthetic (others being ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', and ''[[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Kalvin and Hobbes]]'').

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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Considering how alienating the strip is, and yet how art critics think this strip is one of the few to achieve an artistic aesthetic (others being ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', and ''[[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Kalvin and Hobbes]]'').Hobbes'').
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* CargoShip: Hints of Ignatz×Bricks are actually quite apparent in a few strips. Which only makes the TriangRelations that much more complicated and bizarre.

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* CargoShip: Hints of Ignatz×Bricks are actually quite apparent in a few strips. Which only makes the TriangRelations {{Love Triangle}}s that much more complicated and bizarre.
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Removing excessive K for C substitutions per ATT,


* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A mouse repeatedly hits a kat of AmbiguousGender in the head with thrown brikks and rokks, which the kat interprets as gestures of love and welkomes wholeheartedly, whilst a bulldog in love with the kat tries to keep the mouse in prison bekause of his brikk-throwing ways. All of it done with surrealistik artwork and heavy FunetikAksent dialogue. No wonder a lot of people panned it when it kame out, and many still do to this day.
* [[CargoShip Kargo Ship]]: Hints of Ignatz×Brikks are aktually quite apparent in a few strips. Which only makes the TriangRelations that much more komplikated and bizarre.
* FairForItsDay: Yes, the Mokk Dukk speaks with a stereotypikal Chinese akcent and has a stereotypikal job. However, in an era when YellowPeril was a kommon trope, he was an honest bird ''and'' a respekted citizen in the kommunity. In fakt, the YellowPeril trope is subverted when Ignatz overhears the Mokk Dukk talking with other Chinese dukks, assumes they're up to no good, and wants in. Turns out it's all klean, honest, and above board.

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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A mouse repeatedly hits a kat cat of AmbiguousGender in the head with thrown brikks bricks and rokks, rocks, which the kat cat interprets as gestures of love and welkomes welcomes wholeheartedly, whilst a bulldog in love with the kat cat tries to keep the mouse in prison bekause because of his brikk-throwing brick-throwing ways. All of it done with surrealistik surrealistic artwork and heavy FunetikAksent dialogue. No wonder a lot of people panned it when it kame came out, and many still do to this day.
* [[CargoShip Kargo Ship]]: CargoShip: Hints of Ignatz×Brikks Ignatz×Bricks are aktually actually quite apparent in a few strips. Which only makes the TriangRelations that much more komplikated complicated and bizarre.
* FairForItsDay: Yes, the Mokk Dukk Mock Duck speaks with a stereotypikal stereotypical Chinese akcent accent and has a stereotypikal stereotypical job. However, in an era when YellowPeril was a kommon common trope, he was an honest bird ''and'' a respekted respected citizen in the kommunity. community. In fakt, fact, the YellowPeril trope is subverted when Ignatz overhears the Mokk Dukk Mock Duck talking with other Chinese dukks, ducks, assumes they're up to no good, and wants in. Turns out it's all klean, clean, honest, and above board.



** The strip's konsistent replacement of the letter "c" with the letter "k" would later bekome a trademark of [[Franchise/MortalKombat a certain (in)famous video game franchise.]]

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** The strip's konsistent consistent replacement of the letter "c" with the letter "k" would later bekome become a trademark of [[Franchise/MortalKombat a certain (in)famous video game franchise.]]



* NightmareFuel: [[https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/06/25/first-and-last-krazy-kat/ The June 25, 1944 komik]] features Offisa Pup reskuing Krazy from drowning... or it seems to. Pup's and Ignatz's expressions, Krazy's silence, and the bottom panel imply that Krazy really did die. The kikker? [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding This is the final strip]].]]
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: It kan be hard for komik fans who aren't also art or history students to appreciate how formative the strip was to newspaper komiks as a medium, by sheer dint of being one of the ''first''.
* [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible True Art Is Inkomprehensible]]: Konsidering how alienating the strip is, and yet how art kritiks think this strip is one of the few to achieve an artistik aesthetik (others being ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', and ''[[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Kalvin and Hobbes]]'').
* [[VindicatedByHistory Vindikated By History]]: As noted above, the strip was not loved by the general publik. Today, it has gained a kult following and has been praised by intellektuals arguing that komiks kan be serious art.

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* NightmareFuel: [[https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/06/25/first-and-last-krazy-kat/ The June 25, 1944 komik]] comic]] features Offisa Pup reskuing rescuing Krazy from drowning... or it seems to. Pup's and Ignatz's expressions, Krazy's silence, and the bottom panel imply that Krazy really did die. The kikker? kicker? [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding This is the final strip]].]]
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: It kan can be hard for komik comic fans who aren't also art or history students to appreciate how formative the strip was to newspaper komiks comics as a medium, by sheer dint of being one of the ''first''.
* [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible True Art Is Inkomprehensible]]: Konsidering TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Considering how alienating the strip is, and yet how art kritiks critics think this strip is one of the few to achieve an artistik aesthetik artistic aesthetic (others being ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', and ''[[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Kalvin and Hobbes]]'').
* [[VindicatedByHistory Vindikated By History]]: VindicatedByHistory: As noted above, the strip was not loved by the general publik. public. Today, it has gained a kult cult following and has been praised by intellektuals intellectuals arguing that komiks kan comics can be serious art.
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* FoeYay: Quite a lot. One strip reveals that an ancestor of Ignatz was in love with Krazy's ancestor and showed his love by pelting her with brikks inskribed with romantik poetry. The kikker is when the narration explains: "[[GenerationXerox And true to his trust he has been faithful -- faithful through the ages - through the tide of dusty years]] -- and so ''today."'' [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight The Kukkoolander Was Right]].
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A mouse repeatedly hits a kat of AmbiguousGender in the head with thrown bricks and rocks, which the kat interprets as gestures of love and welkomes wholeheartedly, whilst a bulldog in love with the kat tries to keep the mouse in prison bekause of his brick-throwing ways. All of it done with surrealistic artwork and heavy FunetikAksent dialogue. No wonder a lot of people panned it when it kame out, and many still do to this day.
* [[CargoShip Kargo Ship]]: Hints of Ignatz×Bricks are aktually quite apparent in a few strips. Which only makes the TriangRelations that much more komplikated and bizarre.
* FairForItsDay: Yes, the Mokk Dukk speaks with a stereotypical Chinese accent and has a stereotypical job. However, in an era when YellowPeril was a kommon trope, he was an honest bird ''and'' a respekted citizen in the kommunity. In fakt, the YellowPeril trope is subverted when Ignatz overhears the Mokk Dukk talking with other Chinese dukks, assumes they're up to no good, and wants in. Turns out it's all klean, honest, and above board.
* FoeYay: Quite a lot. One strip reveals that an ancestor of Ignatz was in love with Krazy's ancestor and showed his love by pelting her with bricks inscribed with romantic poetry. The kicker is when the narration explains: "[[GenerationXerox And true to his trust he has been faithful -- faithful through the ages - through the tide of dusty years]] -- and so ''today."'' TheCuckoolanderWasRight.

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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A mouse repeatedly hits a kat of AmbiguousGender in the head with thrown bricks brikks and rocks, rokks, which the kat interprets as gestures of love and welkomes wholeheartedly, whilst a bulldog in love with the kat tries to keep the mouse in prison bekause of his brick-throwing brikk-throwing ways. All of it done with surrealistic surrealistik artwork and heavy FunetikAksent dialogue. No wonder a lot of people panned it when it kame out, and many still do to this day.
* [[CargoShip Kargo Ship]]: Hints of Ignatz×Bricks Ignatz×Brikks are aktually quite apparent in a few strips. Which only makes the TriangRelations that much more komplikated and bizarre.
* FairForItsDay: Yes, the Mokk Dukk speaks with a stereotypical stereotypikal Chinese accent akcent and has a stereotypical stereotypikal job. However, in an era when YellowPeril was a kommon trope, he was an honest bird ''and'' a respekted citizen in the kommunity. In fakt, the YellowPeril trope is subverted when Ignatz overhears the Mokk Dukk talking with other Chinese dukks, assumes they're up to no good, and wants in. Turns out it's all klean, honest, and above board.
* FoeYay: Quite a lot. One strip reveals that an ancestor of Ignatz was in love with Krazy's ancestor and showed his love by pelting her with bricks inscribed brikks inskribed with romantic romantik poetry. The kicker kikker is when the narration explains: "[[GenerationXerox And true to his trust he has been faithful -- faithful through the ages - through the tide of dusty years]] -- and so ''today."'' TheCuckoolanderWasRight.[[TheCuckoolanderWasRight The Kukkoolander Was Right]].



** The strip's konsistent replacement of the letter "c" with the letter "k" would later become a trademark of [[Franchise/MortalKombat a certain (in)famous video game franchise.]]

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** The strip's konsistent replacement of the letter "c" with the letter "k" would later become bekome a trademark of [[Franchise/MortalKombat a certain (in)famous video game franchise.]]



* NightmareFuel: [[https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/06/25/first-and-last-krazy-kat/ The June 25, 1944 komic]] features Offisa Pup rescuing Krazy from drowning... or it seems to. Pup's and Ignatz's expressions, Krazy's silence, and the bottom panel imply that Krazy really did die. The kicker? [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding This is the final strip]].]]
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: It kan be hard for komik fans who aren't also art or history students to appreciate how formative the strip was to newspaper komics as a medium, by sheer dint of being one of the ''first''.
* [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible True Art Is Inkomprehensible]]: Konsidering how alienating the strip is, and yet how art kritiks think this strip is one of the few to achieve an artistik aesthetik (others being ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', and ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'').
* [[VindicatedByHistory Vindikated By History]]: As noted above, the strip was not loved by the general publik. Today, it has gained a kult following and has been praised by intellektuals arguing that komiks can be serious art.

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* NightmareFuel: [[https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/06/25/first-and-last-krazy-kat/ The June 25, 1944 komic]] komik]] features Offisa Pup rescuing reskuing Krazy from drowning... or it seems to. Pup's and Ignatz's expressions, Krazy's silence, and the bottom panel imply that Krazy really did die. The kicker? kikker? [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding This is the final strip]].]]
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: It kan be hard for komik fans who aren't also art or history students to appreciate how formative the strip was to newspaper komics komiks as a medium, by sheer dint of being one of the ''first''.
* [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible True Art Is Inkomprehensible]]: Konsidering how alienating the strip is, and yet how art kritiks think this strip is one of the few to achieve an artistik aesthetik (others being ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', and ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'').
''[[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Kalvin and Hobbes]]'').
* [[VindicatedByHistory Vindikated By History]]: As noted above, the strip was not loved by the general publik. Today, it has gained a kult following and has been praised by intellektuals arguing that komiks can kan be serious art.

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* MST3KMantra: You just kannot analyze this komic.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A mouse repeatedly hits a cat of AmbiguousGender in the head with thrown bricks and rocks, which the cat interprets as gestures of love and welcomes wholeheartedly, whilst a bulldog in love with the cat tries to keep the mouse in prison because of his brick-throwing ways. All of it done with surrealistic artwork and heavy FunetikAksent dialogue. No wonder a lot of people panned it when it came out, and many still do to this day.

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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A mouse repeatedly hits a cat kat of AmbiguousGender in the head with thrown bricks and rocks, which the cat kat interprets as gestures of love and welcomes welkomes wholeheartedly, whilst a bulldog in love with the cat kat tries to keep the mouse in prison because bekause of his brick-throwing ways. All of it done with surrealistic artwork and heavy FunetikAksent dialogue. No wonder a lot of people panned it when it came kame out, and many still do to this day.



** The strip's consistent replacement of the letter "c" with the letter "k" would later become a trademark of [[Franchise/MortalKombat a certain (in)famous video game franchise.]]

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** The strip's consistent konsistent replacement of the letter "c" with the letter "k" would later become a trademark of [[Franchise/MortalKombat a certain (in)famous video game franchise.]]



* NightmareFuel: [[http://images.tcj.com/2017/12/krazyfinal3-650x884.jpg This komic]] features Offisa Pup rescuing Krazy from drowning..or it seems to. Pup's and Ignatz's expressions, Krazy's silence, and the bottom panel imply that Krazy really did die. The kicker? [[spoiler: This is the final strip.]]

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* NightmareFuel: [[http://images.tcj.com/2017/12/krazyfinal3-650x884.jpg This [[https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/06/25/first-and-last-krazy-kat/ The June 25, 1944 komic]] features Offisa Pup rescuing Krazy from drowning..drowning... or it seems to. Pup's and Ignatz's expressions, Krazy's silence, and the bottom panel imply that Krazy really did die. The kicker? [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding This is the final strip.strip]].]]
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: It kan be hard for komik fans who aren't also art or history students to appreciate how formative the strip was to newspaper komics as a medium, by sheer dint of being one of the ''first''.
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* BigNameFan:
** Esteemed kartoonist and animator Creator/RalphBakshi is a '''huge''' fan of Krazy Kat and George Herriman, and even flawlessly homaged the artist and the series art style in the "Malkolm and the Kokkroakh" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Coonskin}}''. The skene even inkluded a kameo of Ignatz Mouse!
** The original Big Name was newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst. He kept the strip going in his papers even though it had a small fan base, refusing to kancel it. When Herriman died Hearst konsidered hiring someone to kontinue the strip but decided against it, both bekause no one seemed able to kontinue it and out of respekt to Herriman's legacy.
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** The strip's consistent replacement of the letter "c" with the letter "k" would later become a trademark of [[Franchise/MortalKombat a certain (in)famous video game franchise.]]
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* FairForItsDay: Yes, the Mokk Dukk speaks with a stereotypical Chinese accent and has a stereotypical job. However, in an era when YellowPeril was a kommon trope, he was an honest bird ''and'' a respekted citizen in the kommunity.

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* FairForItsDay: Yes, the Mokk Dukk speaks with a stereotypical Chinese accent and has a stereotypical job. However, in an era when YellowPeril was a kommon trope, he was an honest bird ''and'' a respekted citizen in the kommunity. In fakt, the YellowPeril trope is subverted when Ignatz overhears the Mokk Dukk talking with other Chinese dukks, assumes they're up to no good, and wants in. Turns out it's all klean, honest, and above board.
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* NightmareFuel: [[http://images.tcj.com/2017/12/krazyfinal3-650x884.jpg This komic]] features Offisa Pup rescuing Krazy from drowning..or it seems to. Pup's and Ignatz's expressions, Krazy's silence, and the bottom panel imply that Krazy really did die. The kicker? [[spoiler: This is the final strip.]]

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