History ComicBook / TheMotherlessOven

* TheDeterminator: The police, led by Stour Provost, ''never'' stop hunting their target. Although they are old and slow moving, they will eventually catch up to their victims sooner or later, as they never seem to need rest.

* WeirdWeather: An understatement really. Knives fall from the sky at regular intervals, the wind laughs and Summer is controlled by a machine with floating mines that emanate heat.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The ''Book of Forks''concludes with Castro, who is incredibly weak and seems near death, leaving behind Scarper and Pike to stop the knife storm coming from Grave Acre, along with Poly and his mother. Scarper and Pike will likely never see him again. However, Castro leaves behind his "Book of Forks", which he hopes will finally bring peace (or an end) to the Death States once everyone reads it.]]

* ArtificialFamilyMember: All parents were created by their children in the Motherless Oven. Scarper's mum is a Bakelite hairdryer, whereas Castro's mum is a birdcage inhabited by budgies (who all seem to talk in her voice). Orson's father is depicted on the page image, resembling a gigantic sphere with a face and legs. His mother on the other hand, appears more animalistic in comparison.

* CliffHanger: The first book ends with [[spoiler: Scarper being caught by the police, while Vera and Castro look on in horror and shock.]] The second ends with [[spoiler: Castro's brain aid being pulled out by Vera's mother, leaving it unclear whether he will survive.]]

* CrapsackWorld: Where to begin? If you live in Bear Park, committing any crime or misdeed will get you locked inside a [[PeopleJars People Jar]] for eternity, knives can rain from the sky at any time, and everyone is told ''exactly'' when they are going to die (their Death Day).

* EvilOldFolks: All the older people in the books use and abuse their positions of authority. The police force is filled with old people who take sadistic pleasure in catching miscreants for even very minor crimes and locking them away forever.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: All the parents have personalities. Scarper's mum is afraid of the knife storms for example, and it is suggested that his dad [[spoiler: ran away because he could not cope with the thought of his son dying.]]

** The titular Motherless Oven is shown in more detail in the second book. [[spoiler: It appears as if each child is given a mixture of materials to work from and are only inhibited by their imagination in what they can create.]]

* CrapsackWorld: Where to begin? If you live in Bear Park, committing any crime or misdeed will get you locked inside a PeopleJar for eternity, knives can rain from the sky at any time, and everyone is told ''exactly'' when they are going to die (their Death Day).

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The endings of both ''The Motherless Oven'' and ''The Can Opener's Daughter'' leave the characters in less than desirable positions]].

* ArtificialFamilyMember: All parents were created by their children at some point out of different materials. Scarper's mum is a Bakelite hairdryer, whereas Castro's mum is a birdcage inhabited by budgies (who all seem to talk in her voice). Orson's father is depicted on the page image, resembling a gigantic sphere with a face and legs.

* CrapsackWorld: Where to begin?

''The Motherless Oven'' is a 2014 dark fantasy graphic novel created by Rob Davis. It is part of a trilogy that includes ''The Can Opener's Daughter'' and the yet unfinished ''The Book of Forks''.

The world of these books is surreal and imaginative: parents don't create children, children create parents, the sky rains knives and household appliances are viewed as Gods.

The first book centres on Scarper Lee, a normal teenager who is two weeks away from his 'Death Day' and is spending his last days on earth simply going to school and hanging around with his friends. All this changes when he meets Vera Pike, a strange and sly girl with a mysterious past, and Castro, a boy with an odd mechanical implant who likes to dissect egg timers. Pike and Castro encourage Scarper to run away with them in order to escape his death day and to find the mysterious ''Motherless Oven'', where it is believed all children make their parents.

The second book, ''The Can Opener's Daughter'', continued the story of the first while also providing a backstory for Vera Pike.

* DownerEnding: The endings of both books leave the characters in less than desirable positions.
* EvilMatriarch: See OneBadMother
* EvilOldFolks: All the older people in the books use and abuse their positions of authority. The police are all old people who take sadistic pleasure in catching miscreants and locking them away.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Being quite the little rebel, Vera Pike has a few, such as smacking [[spoiler: Stour Provost]] in the face with the blunt side of an axe, and using her can-opener Dad to stab her [[spoiler: mother after she had just hurt Castro.]]
** Scarper's mother has her own, which could overlap with [[spoiler: DyingMomentOfAwesome as she sacrifices herself to incinerate some of the police who were chasing Vera and Castro.]]

* EvilMatriarch: [[spoiler: Vera Pike's mother. She ignores and bullies her child, mainly out of her own insecurities and desire for control.]]

* CrowningMomentOfBadass: Being quite the little rebel, Vera Pike has a few, such as smacking [[spoiler: Stour Provost]] in the face with the blunt side of an axe, and using her can-opener Dad to stab her [[spoiler: mother after she had just hurt Castro.]]

* ArtificialFamilyMember: All parents were created by their children at some point out of different materials. Scarper's mum is a Bakelite hairdryer, whereas Castro's mum is a birdcage inhabited by budgies (who all seem to talk in her voice). Orson's mother seems very biological, as she has fur and what looks like a rat tail.

[[caption-width-right:350: Vera, Scarper and Castro [[MakesSenseIn Context sat on someones Dad]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Vera, Scarper and Castro sat on someones Dad]]

* Cliffhanger: The first book ends with [[spoiler: Scarper being caught by the police, while Vera and Castro look on in horror and shock.]]

!! ''TheMotherlessOven'' series provides examples of the following tropes:

* Dystopia

-> "Knife O'clock",

The first book centres on Scarper Lee, a normal teenager who is two weeks away from his 'Death Day' and is spending his last days on earth simply going to school and hanging around with his friends.
All this changes when he meets Vera Pike, a strange and sly girl with a mysterious past, and Castro, a boy with an odd mechanical implant who likes to dissect egg timers.
Pike and Castro encourage Scarper to run away with them in order to escape his death day and to find the mysterious ''Motherless Oven'', where it is believed all children make their parents.

The second book, ''The Can Opener's Daughter'' continued the story of the first while also providing a backstory for Vera Pike.

The world of these books is surreal and imaginative. All parents are created by their children from odds and ends.

The first book centres on Scarper, a normal teenager who is two weeks away from his 'Death Day' and is spending his last days on earth simply going to school and hanging around with his friends.

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!! ''TheMotherlessOven'' series provides examples for the following tropes:

TheDeterminator: The police, led by Stour Provost, ''never'' stop hunting their target. Although they are old and slow moving, they will eventually catch up to their victims sooner or later, as they never seem to need rest.