History Characters / Bone

* ShroudedInMyth: Big Johnson's the reason the Rat Creatures cut off their tails because of how he swung them around. In the present, this has evolved into a myth about "The Jekk" who drags Rat Creatures away by their tails.

* ShroudedInMyth: Big Johnson's the reason the Rat Creatures cut off their tails because of how he swung them around. In the present, this has evolved into a myth about "The Jerk" who drags Rat Creatures away by their tails.

* OnlySaneMan

* AnticlimaxBoss: [[spoiler:He's talked up as a huge threat and a major obstacle for our heroes in the penultimate story arc... only to be [[WorfEffect killed with ease by the Hooded One]] at the beginning of the last story arc. It's a bit of an anticlimax, really]].

* BlatentLies: [[spoiler:Briar spent decades telling her sister that her dreaming eye was blind. Rose believed her whole-heartedly, despite the obvious magic she would cast more then once. It wasn't until Thorn spells it out for her that Rose finally realizes her sister was lying to her the entire time]].

Gran'ma Ben has the strength of ten elephants and can outrun any cow in the valley. She has lived peacefully with her granddaughter Thorn on a small farm for fifteen years, after the "big war".

* [[spoiler:SamusIsAGirl]]: After having been deliberately [[spoiler:referred to with male pronouns]] for two-thirds of the series, [[spoiler:the Hooded One is revealed to be Briar, Gran'ma Ben's sister]].

[[spoiler:In reality, she is Princess Briar Harvestar, Gran'ma Ben's older sister and Thorn's grand-aunt, and the most powerful Veni-Yan-Cari in millennia. She's a willing collaborator to the Locust, who she worships, and she desires nothing else but to get revenge on her family for perceived slights by ending the world]].

* CatsAreSnarkers: An an ''extremely'' [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]] style of snark at that.

* OurOrcsAreDifferent: Despite being just bestial RatMen on the surface, they're actually a melding of both Tolkien and Blizzard Orcs in practice, as they're a ProudWarriorRace who while NotAlwaysEvil none-the-less primarily serve as the main force of evil-aligned {{Mooks}} in their respective stories.

* RatMen: A more bestial example than most, as shown below, but they do appear to sapient people, having their own language, culture, art, and are shown sometimes using weapon. While they do not usually build their own houses, they are capable of building things, such as their temple and Queen Maud seeming living in a palace.

* AnticlimaxBoss: [[spoiler:He's talked up as a huge threat and a major obstacle for our heroes in the penultimate story arc... only to be killed with ease by the Hooded One at the beginning of the last story arc. It's a bit of an anticlimax, really]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Uniquely for this comic, and even more noticeable because they were pretty popular with the readers, the Possums vanish from the story after the ''Rock Jaw'' arc, and are never seen, or even referred to, again. It might be that they were [[spoiler:killed in the blast from the volcano or imprisoned in a Ghost Circle]] in Volume 7, but this is never confirmed or denied.

** In the ''Thorn'' comic strip her sexiness was a little more pronounced; there was even a NoFourthWall storyline revolving around Phoney trying to cash in on it by having her agree to pose naked in the strip that was printed on May 30th. Turns out that May 30th that year was Memorial Day, hence no strip for that day, [[http://i.imgur.com/H38lfsh.jpg which Phoney discovered a little too late]].

* AdaptationalBadass: In the ''Thorn'' comic strip, Kingdok was a normal-sized Rat Creature, and was only a captain in the Rat Creature army. The only thing that set him apart from the other Rat Creatures was that he had a name. In ''Bone'' he's a huge and powerful monster, and the king of the Rat Creatures.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: "Dragon? More like a ''mouse'' -- no -- a teeny tiny bug that's afraid of ''dirt.'' No, no, I'm lower than a bug. What's lower than a bug? Lower than a bug, lower than a bug... a ''germ!'' That's it! I'm lower than a germ!"

* BettyAndVeronica: In her youth, Rose was the kind and loving Betty to her sister, Briar's, frosty but more seductive Veronica, for Lucius's Archie.

* BettyAndVeronica: [[spoiler:She was the Veronica to her little sister Rose's Betty, and succeeded in seducing away the Archie, aka Lucius. It was only to further her plans, however, and she ended up leading him into an ambush of Rat Creatures]].

** A mild version compared to a lot of other examples out there, but she is noticeable as the one character in the comic prone to ClothingDamage; she likes short skirts and tight pants, and isn't shy about SkinnyDipping (albeit off-screen) with Fone Bone.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's the ruler of the Rat Creatures and the most dangerous of his kind, being a hulking monster that easily dwarfs any of his subjects.