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  • Adorkable: the main appeal of Sabrina, R.C. and their relationship with each other. Its two adorkable characters falling head over heels with each other!
  • Alternative Character Interpretation:
    • Zig Zag is in heavy denial and hasn't recovered emotionally from her abuse. That's why she screws almost anyone. That's why Sabrina is her ONLY platonic friend. After getting forcibly rejected by Sabrina in Comic 138, Zig Zag told her "I've had to deal with abuse like this my whole life. I can't believe I almost fell into doing it myself." Zig Zag also told Sabrina "Calm down a bit, and I promise you'll love this" right before Sabrina gave her a black eye. That doesn't sound like someone who's over her past abuses. Let's face it, Zig Zag needs therapy. A LOT of therapy. However, she has been shown to open up...but to a point, and under her own terms. Then again, as she herself put it - "Honestly! Can't someone behave playful or slutty without there having to be some deeper meaning behind it!?!" Either way, one never truly recovers from that sort of abuse - the best that can be hoped for is a life in which it doesn't weigh on the mind or constantly interfere. Zig Zag arguably does that. Therapy might still help her, but the belief that one can just rollback their life and edit out the bad parts is something that has to be fixed in therapy. Zig at least seems to have understood this, and acts accordingly. (That said, Blackrabbit would know more than Schwartz on the matter.)
    • Adding to the above, Zig's generosity towards her workers: sharing her success with those who have helped her get (and stay) where she is, or a way to control them by making it so that they can't leave her? Darke Katt certainly resents her for making it impossible to leave a job she hates because of the financial cost involved in going elsewhere. Should we add control and abandonment issues to the laundry list of psychoses she's unknowingly suffering?
  • Archive Panic: Mostly avoided, considering the main series currently only clocks out long enough to fill four hardcover books (with enough material online for an eventual fifth someday). However the Archive Panic does begin to set in when realizing how much other material there is that ties into the series. The original Sabrina at See-CAD at least is included in print collections, but then there is the adults-only material with Fur After Dark and the ascended fanon series like Chris Yost's Sabrina the Story and Blackrabbit's Sabrina At Algonquin. Or how about Zig Zag's appearances on Blackrabbit's own website and also in Badly Drawn Kitties? This is of course without mentioning Schwartz's own animated short films from the 1980s to 2000s which featured the characters as well... and even the Amiga magazines which featured articles on Schwartz's home computer animation. Reading the main series is simple, finding all the supplemental material... not so much.
  • Awesome Art: the main style being so heavily reminiscent of Looney Tunes or even more-so mid-'90s TV series such as Animaniacs brings in readers who would otherwise scoff at the thought of reading a furry comic.
  • Base-Breaking Character: Zig Zag, extremely so. Fans are split on if she has hidden depth as a Hooker with a Heart of Gold and her gradual reveal of past trauma fueling her behavior, or if as an Creator's Pet she never has to face the consequences for some of her most heinous actions and is forever stuck in Status Quo Is God characterization. Adding to this is Zig Zag's appearances in other media as well from Blackrabbit's and Schwartz's adults-only Fur After Dark site to Badly Drawn Kitties (and plenty of now obscure stories and cameos elsewhere) which create an over exhaustive history for the character beyond her most famous appearance in Online. Plenty of fans point to Zig Zag as being what pushed them away from the series despite their interest in the rest of the cast, others just tolerate her antics at best, while some view her as the series Breakout Character.
  • Best Known for the Fanservice: Since this webcomic is about anthropomorphic animals working in a porn studio, this reaction was inevitable. It helps that Eric has drawn many sexy pictures of his characters.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Unless a modern day reader is somehow well versed in late '90s furry culture, a lot of random cameos and the frequent Shout-Out appear like this now with appearances from characters who have been kind of lost to time as the internet has aged. Particularly noticeable with Max Blackrabbit's pining for Sabrina which comes out of the blue without understanding it as a reference to Max's own fan series Sabrina at Algonquin. Get ready for a lot of trips to the Wayback Machine to try and make sense of all the cameos.
  • Catharsis Factor: Part of why Zig-Zag having sex with the mother of one of her cyber bullies just so she can say "I fucked your mom" and mean it Crosses the Line Twice the way it does. Who of us hasn't wanted to live out such a hilariously sadistic revenge fantasy?
  • Character Rerailment: When she was introduced, Zig Zag was a brash, but ultimately well-meaning pornstar who's not afraid to speak what's on her mind while helping Sabrina and her family get out of their comfort zones using her own backwards methods... then around 2010, she suddenly became a violent, vindictive jerk who engages in a lot of petty revenge against internet trolls (at least one reviewer theorized that her sudden change in behavior is possible due to the author using her as a thinly-veiled mouthpiece to vent his own frustrations against people criticizing his comic). Many saw Zig Zag getting arrested and going to court-mandated therapy sessions in 2013 to be a much needed change of pace for the character, since it allowed for the story to re-evaluate her actions and steer her back towards the more honorable incarnation she was at the beginning.
  • Crosses the Line Twice
    • Telling someone "I fucked your mom" to get under their skin? Juvenile. Zig-Zag smugly whispering it into the ear of a seventeen-year-old cyber bully after actually fucking his mom, who enjoyed it?? Hysterical!!
    • In another, R.C. stays to watch Sabrina change a dressing on her stab wound and drain out the fluid and pus. Despite his best efforts, he pukes at the sight of it. Sabrina's response? "When did you have pizza?"
  • Fanon:
    • Officially, Zig Zag doesn't have a real name other than "Zig Zag." (She even implies she had it changed legally.) The names "Zelda" or "Tonya Zumbrowski" have been applied to her in fan works featuring her.
    • Not to mention the shocking amount of smaller fan comics or stories that popped up over the series' long life. Schwartz has allowed (or at least tolerated) many fan series to continue as long as they don't monetize his characters, and has even given a few of them nods in the official series such as the eventual adoption of "Endora" as Sabrina's mother's name.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: See Wham Episode (Sabrina being stabbed) on the main page, then see Fridge Horror on the Fridge page.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: During the buzz for Transformers (2007), one of the girls in the studio calls the film Transmorfers instead. It's unknown if Schwartz deliberately put in the wrong word or not (though given Sabrina's reaction, it was probably intentional), but in any event...
  • Just Here for Godzilla: Some Transformers fans read it only for the side plots involving Sabrina's living Transformers toys.
  • Les Yay: Zig Zag wants this with Sabrina, and has this with several members of her staff, notably Sheila Vixen and Tina Lynx.
  • Like You Would Really Do It: "Shame on you who believed the worst".
  • Nightmare Fuel: The badger mugger, specially the second time he appears.
  • One-Scene Wonder: Helen Dish (the mom in the infamous "I fucked your mom" strip) has become a popular subject of fanart, (and EWS's porn comics).
  • Periphery Demographic:
    • The comic has also gotten some non-furry, non-Transformers fans thanks to YouTube Pooper Stuart K. Reilly's constant usage of Sabrina's animated shorts in his videos.
    • The Rail Enthusiast memepage The Memelord Foamer Shitpost Hype Train on Facebook has one admin who professes to having become a fan of the series after using one of the comics as a meme template, which has become a reoccuring joke on the page since. The joke is propped up by the real life California Western Railroad being called "The Skunk Train" with the memepage having commissioned art for their own Expy character Sally Skunk which eventually became the genesis of the webcomic Railroading Stinks.
  • Spiritual Successor: While not likely intended, due to both franchises having different audiences in mind, not to mention being published in different formats (comic book vs. web comic), Sabrina Online can be considered the succesor of Shanda The Panda, originally published by the now-defunct Shanda Fantasy Arts. Both stories began publication at the 1990s (Shanda at 1992, while Sabrina began at 1996), both feature a black and white critter (Sabrina, a skunk, with Shanda being a... panda), both having a raccoon named Richard for boyfriend and having a daughter with them (Danielle in Sabrina and Quinn in Shanda), both having a LBGT friend (Zig Zag in Sabrina and Terri in Shanda), both having a quirky cast of characters, both working in odd jobs (Sabrina working in a porn studio and Shanda working as a manager of a theater) and both stories being set in Northern U.S. (Sabrina take place in Columbus, Ohio, while Shanda took place in a furry version of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, named "Cedar Rabbits" in the comic) The main difference, however, is that, so far, Sabrina doesn't have anything resembling a nemesis, compared with Shanda, who have to deal with Wing and, finally, Sabrina being American, compared with Shanda, who is Chinese-American.
  • Squick: Studio janitor Darke Katt describes her job as more or less this...
    Richard: So what kind of stuff do you have to clean?
    Darke: If you haven't figured it out already, you really don't wanna know!
  • Tear Jerker:
    • The 1999 Christmas strip, with Sabrina alone with one of her Transformers, upset she's not with Richard.
    • Zig Zag's backstory.
  • Unintentional Period Piece:
    • The strip wears its '90s origins pretty proudly, with early strips making reference to another Sabrina and nods to then current Transformers lines, not to mention the title character's Amiga fanaticism and dated tech. An infamous later series of strips from 2010 involves Imageboards and a canine Trollface. On the other hand, Amiga computers do still have a dedicated fanbase of retro enthusiasts and demosceners and the Warner Bros.-esque style is of high-enough quality that it's barely a concern a decade on.
    • The mention of the COVID-19 pandemic, quarantines, and masking in the 2020 strips already seems to be ensuring the latest crop of entries in the series will eventually date themselves to being a product of its time as well. Although Sabrina retiring her authentic Amiga computer for a set of modern emulator boards feels like a major step into the present day as well.

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