- Hollywood Homely: In the Zbeng! 1 story "God Zbeng! the Queen", we discover that Maya was once ugly and unpopular girl named Aya. Or well, she's *supposed* to be ugly - but even with her unkept hair, thicker eyebrows, slightly bigger nose and frumpier clothing she looks more average than anything (which is especially glaring as most ugly characters in Zbeng! avert this trope and then some). Aya's redesign in Maya's Personal Zbeng! makes her look a lot more genuinely ugly.
- Tear Jerker: The strip written after PM Rabin's assassination, in which Uri Fink tries to write a normal strip while dealing with his grief.
- Values Dissonance:
- Some of Jinji’s antics, considered amusingly annoying in the 90’s, will be viewed today as straight-up sexual harassment.
- Similarly, Asher beating the living shit out of fellow students, which is played for comedy.
- Yaron’s love life. One strip from the mid-90’s features him being serially Friendzoned by girls he crushes on; he finally succeeds with a girl he goes out with but doesn’t really care for (as part of one of Jinji’s schemes), since she’s attracted to the callous, “jerky” attitude he displays as a result. In another strip, Noga is berated for leading him on, since she treats him as a friend and a shoulder to cry on about other boys without realizing he’s romantically interested in her. From a modern feminist perspective, the whole thing seems like a blatant “Nice Guy” narrative and is quite uncomfortable to read.
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