History ComicBook / GoldDigger

* BigBad: Dreadwing

* HumanityEnsues: Fauntleroy is a dragon cursed to stay in human form. When he finally finds the {{MacGuffin}} he needs to return to dragon form, he decides to wait and [[HumansAreSpecial see if there's more he can learn from being human]]. [[spoiler:He's later sealed into a younger human form with an oversized collar-like device in an attempt by his father, who conscripted Gina -- the only human can read draconic writing (aka Ribbon) -- into helping, to erase the selfish dragon they'd known and essentially raise Faunty "the right way."]]

* CovertPervert: Vaphne presents herself as a scholarly maiden and claims to be saving herself for Mr. Right, but when she turns on her fertility goddess powers, several of her classmates ([[BiTheWay male AND female]]) find out she's been having naughty fantasies about them.
* CreepyTwins: Montara; they are also HalfIdenticalTwins.
* CuteMachines: The Peebos

* KiAttacks: Several of the martial artists, especially the ninjas, and Ryan Tabbot.
* [[spoiler:KidFromTheFuture: Tifanny's cousin, Roquette "Rocket" Diggers]]

* FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler:When she happens to be an Expy of [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Rick Sanchez]] that has decided to make you her personal Expy of Morty, then yeah, little Tiffany 'Gia has a good reason for that.]]

* HighOnHomicide: An eventual revelation of the Shun-Leep School of SupernaturalMartialArts (which is used by various heroes) is that it has a series of forbidden techniques called "The Killing Blows" -- they are so powerful that are a near-OneHitKill TouchOfDeath (and pretty violent, at that), but the side-effect in the user's body is a heroin-like euphoria that is incredibly addictive, which leads people who use the Killing Blows to eventually become hyper-violent BloodKnight types and even the occasional SerialKiller. This plot point overall is a double-barreled ShoutOut to the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' Satsu No Hado and ''Franchise/StarWars''' Dark Side of the Force (never let it be said that Fred Perry doesn't know how to apply his ReferenceOverdosed).

** More recent storylines have included prehistoric CaptainErsatz versions of the WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}, WesternAnimation/JayceAndTheWheeledWarriors, the WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}, Franchise/GIJoe's Cobra (earlier, one of Dark Bird's crew is a former member), and WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake and WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite as a psi-bard and prism battle priestess, respectively. Fred ''likes'' his Captain Ersatzes.

** One major historical event in the series is that there ''used to'' be a very big, government-sponsored superhero team. Following an enormously Pyrrhic victory, it was determined that such a high-profile team was actually the cause of a lot of the villains they fought, because having such prominent would-be rivals made a lot of people who otherwise would've led mundane (or at least less antagonistic) lives fashion themselves as evil geniuses. An influx of super-tech could probably do the same thing.

** More recent storylines have included prehistoric CaptainErsatz versions of the WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}, WesternAnimation/JayceAndTheWheeledWarriors, the WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}, GIJoe's Cobra (earlier, one of Dark Bird's crew is a former member), and WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake and WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite as a psi-bard and prism battle priestess, respectively. Fred ''likes'' his Captain Ersatzes.

* HeelFaceTurn: Redemption is a major running theme in this comic. Many of Gina and Britanny's enemies become their best friends and allies. Mesha, Tark, Brianna, Penny, Charlotte, Jetta...[[spoiler:Pee Wee, G'Nolga, Madrid, the Lich King, actually Patriarch Jonathan Diggers...]]
** Although it should be noted that of the above, plenty of them were either {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s or just a {{Jerkass}} (with Penny as one bitchy but not really that horrid rival), had outside influences compelling them to villainy (like Charlotte or [[spoiler: Jonathan, also called the Lich King]]), or did suffer extremely before turning around (Madrid) while still having to genuinely show such change.

** Array personifies this trope [[MesACrowd all by herself]], [[IHaveManyNames and herself]], [[MindHive and herself]], [[TheConspiracy and herself]], [[DoppelgangerAttack and herself]], [[LivingWeapon and herself]]...but they're all on the same side: ''her side!''

* RapeAsBackstory[=/=]ChildByRape: [[spoiler: Debra is a product of her mother T'mat's rape by Dreadwing.]]

* BestHerToBedHer: Brunhildegard (Gina's [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave grandmother]]) was cursed with this by a rebuffed suitor who happened to be a wizard. This put her in a really bad mood, so she started shoving people out of her way while walking through town. One of those people was a [[SupernaturalMartialArts Spirit Monk]] named Tsunami, who instinctively flipped her over with his martial arts. She then became fixated on figuring out how he beat her. After spending a long time following him and studying his every move, she beat him in a rematch with his own techniques, by which time she'd realized that she had fallen for him.

* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: A lot of elderly characters certainly age gracefully, despite all the action they go through[[spoiler:, including Gina herself]].

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Frequently averted. For instance, Brianna, the lab-accident composite clone trying to kill the Diggers sisters, now their gung-ho sister. Or Charlotte, the instant-grown harpy girl accidentally freed from the control of the time-travelling dog who fired her at our heroes, now co-headliner of a {{WAFF}}y spinoff. Or Array, the sentient spell-creature that creates other living spells with their own minds, bodies, and personalities, all of whom love the villain Tirant unreservedly and are currently working for Dreadwing [[spoiler:in the hope of resurrecting Tirant after his HeroicSacrifice to save all of her selves from a monstrous catastrophe]]. [[spoiler:Aljabra Gihom is another of Array's personalities, somehow left behind when the main body was conscripted by Dreadwing, and is now part of Gina's advanced archaeology class, [[PlayedForLaughs often mistaken for an end-table but never on purpose]] She just happens to fall asleep in crouched positions while researching or writing papers.]]

* InfantImmortality: Dr. Diggers tried his best to disarm the werewolf leader, but in the end the only werecheetah left to save was baby Britanny.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Natasha the Vampire Queen had her courtiers oiling each other up while she listed what she wanted from her new consort, any potential pick that was NotDistractedByTheSexy were instantly killed.
--> '''Natasha''': ''The Universe and My Consort should be focused on Me at ALL TIMES.''

** Although it should be noted that of the above, plenty of them were either {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s or just a {{Jerkass}} (with Penny as one bitchy but not really that horrid rival), had outside influences compelling them to villainy (like Charlotte or [[spoiler: Johnathan]], or did suffer extremely before turning around (Madrid).

* LeeroyJenkins: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Team Noob]], ridiculously over-armed leprechauns with no idea where they are, what they are doing, what their mission is, how to operate their equipment, or how to not blow themselves up in 5 seconds, but using binoculars and bazookas backwards hasn't slowed down their enthusiasm yet. The ''GD Tangent'' WebComic has a similar setup as the TropeNamer, with a ShoutOut as well.

** Brianna may have gained both of their sex drives combined, as [[CrowningMomentOfFunny she used to chain her panicked boyfriend to the bed to have her way with him]]. [[RuleOfFunny Xane is the most extreme of all, as she regularly drools while taking concealed clothes-removing x-ray photographs of any attractive male within sight]]. She is getting some LaserGuidedKarma from [[HoYay Crush]], though.

* SuperTeam: Agency Zero, a [[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]-styled team that shifted to TheMenInBlack paradigm, hoping that keeping up a [[TheMasquerade masquerade]] about their activities would keep {{SuperVillain}}s from having a focus to fight against.

* FakeCrossover: The series really skirts the line of this, such as when Gina mentions receiving a [[InspectorGadget computer book from a girl with a weird uncle]]. (Mind you, the girl in question eventually became a full-fledged character).

%%* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Monty's ghost girlfriend.

* Mr. Keldoor is obviously [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]], while Lynda is Evil-Lyn.