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• Awesome Art: The facial expressions alone are oozing with creativity and personality.
• Crack Pairing: There's fanart of Racist Whale Frog/Hissin' Pete as well as Issac/Johnny.
• Epileptic Trees / Wild Mass Guessing: The fandom is especially prone to this thanks in no part whatsoever to Zack being quite the skilled writer and artist, who loves to leave little clues and hints that could easily be missed during first viewing and will 9.9 times out 10 will be revisited later.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Thanks to the cast of Paranatural having eccentric traits and quirks, a lot of characters are well-favored within the fandom. Notably, Johnny, Suzy, Ed, and even Issac, especially so as of Chapter 3 which serves to round him out as a character, even hinting that he may have a Dark and Troubled Past.
• Foe Yay: Bully edition between Max and Johnny.
  Johnny: Have you considered getting your kicks in the form of actual kicks? 'Cause I know a guy. It's me. I'm the kick guy. Let me kick you.
• Growing the Beard: Chapter 1 itself started off pretty entertaining but things didn't really pick up until Chapter 2 wherein Max faces off against the Racist Whale Frog. As of Chapter 3, the fanbase has increased even more so and now Discussion section will have at least 100 participants on average.
• Memetic Mutation: There are quite a few and they seem to be ever expanding:
  • "STOP BEING EVIL!" ^Explanation  Isabel tells a spirit to stop causing trouble by intimidating it
  • "Perfecshbluh..." ^Explanation  Said by a spirit after powering up, only to be hit by a floating left hand ghost. Now used by fans to give praise in general.
  • "Concur'd" ^Explanation  Fans often say this whenever voicing agreement. From this strip
  • "Hard to control." ^Explanation  Isaac explaining his powers to Max, Played for Laughs. As seen here
  • On a scale from Yes to No, Yes.
  • Issac is so anime. ^Explanation  Thanks to Issac displaying several tropes common to anime characters such as his spiky hair, tendency to sparkle, act akin to a brooding anti-hero completed by having, what is implied to be, a Dark and Troubled Past. All revealed in Chapter 3.
  • Calling Mr. Spender variations of his name such as Mr. Splendiferous, Mr. Spencer, etc. ^Explanation  This meme most likely arose due to Max mispronouncing Mr. Spender name, Mr. Splendid in Chapter 1.
  • [X attack] becomes [Y!] ^Explanation From this strip, where Isabel's grandfather demonstrates his INCREDIBLE ABILITY to... turn spectral fists into dolphins. Huh.
• The Woobie: PJ, the little ghost boy. His dialogue contains a number of hints that undeath is not exactly a bowl of cheerios.
  Max: So, PJ. Have you been, uh... dead for long?
  P.J. ...Too long.